Selected Publications

E. Remolina and B. Kuipers. 2004. Towards a general theory of topological maps. Artificial Intelligence 152: 47-104, 2004.

B. J. Kuipers. 2001. Qualitative simulation. In Robert A. Meyers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Third Edition. NY: Academic Press.

E. Remolina and B. J. Kuipers. 2001. A logical account of causal and topological maps. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001), Seattle, Washington.

B. J. Kuipers. 2000. The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy. Artificial Intelligence 119: 191--233.

S. Thrun, S. Gutmann, D. Fox, W. Burgard, and B. J. Kuipers. 1998. Integrating topological and metric maps for mobile robot navigation: A statistical approach. Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-98), AAAI/MIT Press, pages 989--995.

D. Berleant and B. J. Kuipers. 1997. Qualitative and quantitative simulation: bridging the gap. Artificial Intelligence 95(2): 215--255.

D. M. Pierce and B. J. Kuipers. 1997. Map learning with uninterpreted sensors and effectors. Artificial Intelligence 92: 169--227.

B. Shults and B. J. Kuipers. 1997. Proving properties of continuous systems: qualitative simulation and temporal logic. Artificial Intelligence 92: 91--129.

B. J. Kuipers. 1994. Qualitative Reasoning: Modeling and Simulation with Incomplete Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

D. Pierce & B. Kuipers. 1994. Learning to explore and build maps. Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), AAAI/MIT Press.

B. J. Kuipers and K. Astrom. 1994. The composition and validation of heterogeneous control laws. Automatica 30(2): 233--249.

B. J. Kuipers & Y.-T. Byun. 1991. A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations. Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems 8: 47--63.

B. J. Kuipers & Y.-T. Byun. 1988. A robust qualitative method for spatial learning in unknown environments. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88). Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufman, 1988.

B. J. Kuipers and T. Levitt. 1988. Navigation and mapping in large scale space. AI Magazine 9(2): 25--43. B. J. Kuipers. 1986. Qualitative simulation. Artificial Intelligence 29: 289--338.

B. J. Kuipers. 1982. The `Map in the Head' metaphor. Environment and Behavior 14: 202-220. B. J. Kuipers. 1978. Modeling spatial knowledge. Cognitive Science 2: 129-153.