@Article{sim07:_auton,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and J. J. Little},
  title = 	 {Autonomous vision-based robotic exploration and mapping using hybrid
maps and particle filters},
  journal = 	 {Image and Vision Computing},
  year = 	 2008,
  note =	 {Accepted April 2008. To appear.}
}

@InProceedings{sim06:_auton_rao_black,
author= {R. Sim and J. J. Little},
title={Autonomous vision-based exploration and mapping using hybrid maps and {Rao-Blackwellised} particle filters},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
year=2006,
address={Beijing},
organization={IEEE/RSJ},
publisher={IEEE Press},
pages = {2082--2089}
}

@Misc{sim07:_method,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {Method and apparatus for vision-based multiple object detection and position estimation},
  howpublished = {U.S. Patent Application},
  month =	 {July},
  year =	 2007
}

@Misc{li07:_intel_infor_displ,
  author =	 {L. Li and R. A. Sim and T. Najm and Y. Li and Y. Chen},
  title =	 {Intelligent Information Display},
  howpublished = {U.S. Patent Application},
  month =	 {April},
  year =	 2007
}


@InProceedings{sim06:_desig_slam_rao_black,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and P. Elinas and
           M. Griffin and A. Shyr and 
           J. J. Little},
  title = 	 {Design and analysis of a framework for real-time vision-based {SLAM}
using
{R}ao-{B}lackwellised particle filters},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 3rd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robotic Vision (CRV)},
  year =	 2006,
  address =	 {Qu\'{e}bec City, QC},
  month =	 {June},
  organization = {CIPPRS},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
note={9 pages, electronic proceedings. {\bf Best Robotics Paper}.},

}


@InProceedings{elinas06:_slam,
  author = 	 {P. Elinas and
           R. Sim and
           J. J. Little},
  title = 	 {$\sigma${SLAM}: Stereo Vision {SLAM} using the {R}ao-{B}lackwellised Particle Filter
and a Novel Mixture Proposal Distribution},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year =	 2006,
  address =	 {Orlando, FL},
  month =	 {May},
  organization = {IEEE},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
pages={1564--1570}
}

@Article{sim05:_rao_black_slam,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and P. Elinas and J. J. Little},
  title = 	 {A study of the {R}ao-{B}lackwellised particle filter for efficient and accurate vision-based {SLAM}},
  journal = 	 {International Journal of Computer Vision},
  year = 	 2007,
volume = 74,
number = 3,
month = "September",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = {303--318},
url = "http://www.springerlink.com/content/0534488064622135/",
  note =	 {Special Issue on Vision in Robotics. }
}



@InProceedings{sim05:_scalab_slam,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and M. Griffin and A. Shyr and J. J. Little},
  title = 	 {Scalable real-time vision-based {SLAM} for planetary rovers},
  booktitle =	 {IEEE IROS Workshop on Robot Vision for Space Applications},
  year =	 2005,
  pages={16--21},
  address =	 {Edmonton, AB},
  month =	 {August},
  organization = {IEEE},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press}
}
%  pages =	 6,

@InProceedings{sim05:_stabil_infor_driven_explor,
  author = 	 {R. Sim},
  title = 	 {Stabilizing Information-Driven Exploration for Bearings-Only {SLAM} Using Range Gating},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year =	 2005,
  pages = {2745--2750},
  address =	 {Edmonton, AB},
  organization = {IEEE/RSJ},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press}
}



@InProceedings{sim05:_vision_slam_rao_black,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and P. Elinas and M. Griffin and J. J. Little},
  title = 	 {Vision-based {SLAM} using the {R}ao-{B}lackwellised Particle Filter},
  pages={9--16},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IJCAI Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR)},
  year =	 2005,
  address =	 {Edinburgh, Scotland}
}

@InProceedings{sim05:_stabl_explor_bearin,
  author = 	 {R. Sim},
  title = 	 {Stable Exploration for Bearings-only {SLAM}},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
  year =	 2005,
  pages={2422--2427},
  address =	 {Barcelona, Spain},
  month =	 {April},
  organization = {IEEE},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press}
}

@InProceedings{sim_roy05:_a_opt_expl,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and N. Roy},
  title = 	 {Global {A}-Optimal Robot Exploration in {SLAM}},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
  year =	 2005,
  pages={673--678},
  address =	 {Barcelona, Spain},
  month =	 {April},
  organization = {IEEE},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press}
}


@Article{sim04:_ijrr,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title = 	 {Evaluating exploration trajectories for minimizing map error},
  journal = 	 {International Journal of Robotics Research},
  year = 	 2004,
  note =	 {Submitted December 13, 2004}
}

@InProceedings{sim04:_learn_gener,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title = 	 {Learning Generative Models of Invariant Features},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems },
  year =	 2004,
pages={3481--3488},
volume={3},
  address =	 {Sendai, Japan},
  month =	 {September},
  organization = {IEEE/RSJ},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press}
}

@Article{sala04:_tro,
  author = 	 {P. L. Sala and R. Sim and A. Shokoufandeh and S. J. Dickinson},
  title = 	 {Landmark Selection for Vision-Based Navigation},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  year =	 2006,
vol=22,
number=2,
month={April},
pages={334--349}

}


@TechReport{sala04:_techn,
  author = 	 {P. L. Sala and R. Sim and A. Shokoufandeh and S. J. Dickinson},
  title = 	 {Technical Report: Optimal Landmark Acquisition for Vision-Based Navigation},
  institution =  {Dept. Computer Science, University of Toronto},
  year = 	 2004,
  note =	 {http://www.cs.toronto.edu/$\sim$psala/Papers/MORDP-TR.pdf}
}

@InProceedings{sala04:_landm,
  author = 	 {P. L. Sala and R. Sim and A. Shokoufandeh and S. J. Dickinson},
  title = 	 {Landmark Selection for Vision-Based Navigation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems },
  year =	 2004,
pages={3131--3138},
volume={3},
  address =	 {Sendai, Japan},
  month =	 {September},
  organization = {IEEE/RSJ},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press}
}



@InProceedings{georgiades04:_aqua,
  author = 	 {C. Georgiades and A. German and A. Hogue and H. Liu and C. Prahacs and A. Ripsman and R. Sim and L. A. Torres and P. Zhang and M. Buehler and G. Dudek and M. Jenkin and E. Milios},
  title = 	 {{AQUA}: an aquatic walking robot},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems },
  year =	 2004,
pages={3525--3531},
volume={3},
  address =	 {Sendai, Japan},
  month =	 {September},
  organization = {IEEE/RSJ},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press}
}

@InProceedings{sim04:_aaai,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title = 	 {Self-Organizing Visual Maps},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year =	 2004,
  address =	 {San Jose, CA},
  month =	 {July},
  publisher =	 {AAAI Press},
pages={470--475},
url = "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/sim_aaai04.pdf"

}

@InProceedings{sim_roy04:_icra,
  author = 	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek and N. Roy},
  title = 	 {Online Control Policy Optimization for Minimizing Map Uncertainty
during Exploration},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation},
  year =	 2004,
volume={2},
pages={1758--1763},
  address =	 {New Orleans, LA},
  month =	 {April},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
url = "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/sim_icra04.pdf"

}
@InProceedings{sim03:_iros,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Effective Exploration Strategies for the Construction of Visual Maps},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots
                  and Systems (IROS)},
  pages =	 {3224--3231},
volume={3},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Las Vegas, NV},
  month =	 {October},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/sim_iros03.pdf",
}


@TechReport{sim03:_wamltr,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Self-Organizing Visual Maps},
  institution =	 {Mobile Robotics Lab, McGill University},
  number =	 {MRL-03-01},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  month =	 {October},
  year =	 2003,
  pages =	 {16},
  url =
                  "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/sim_waml_tr.pdf"
}


@InProceedings{Rekleitis2001a,
  author =	 {I. Rekleitis and R. Sim and G. Dudek and
                  E. Milios},
  title =	 {Collaborative Exploration for Map Construction},
  booktitle =	 {2001 IEEE International Symposium on Computational
                  Intelligence in Robotics and Automation},
  year =	 2001,
  pages =	 {296--301},
  month =	 {July},
address="Banff, AB",
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/cira01.ps.gz"
}

@InProceedings{Rekleitis2001b,
  author =	 {I. Rekleitis and R. Sim and G. Dudek and
                  E. Milios},
  title =	 {Collaborative Exploration for the Construction of Visual
                  Maps},
  booktitle =	 {2001 IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
                  (IROS)},
  year =	 2001,
  month =	 {October},
  address =	 "Hawaii",
  pages =	 {1269--1274},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/iros01.ps.gz"
}

@Article{Sim01Journal,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning environmental features for pose estimation},
  journal =	 {Image and Vision Computing, Elsevier Press},
  year =	 2001,
  volume =	 19,
  number =	 11,
  pages =	 {733--739}
}

@InProceedings{bolduc97:_auton_explor,
  author =	 {Marc Bolduc and Eric Bourque and G. Dudek and Nicholas
                  Roy and R. Sim},
  title =	 {Autonomous Exploration: An integrated Systems Approach},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the AAAI National Conference on Artificial
                  Intelligence},
  pages =	 {779--780},
  year =	 1997,
  month =	 {July},
  publisher =	 {AAAI Press}
}

@InProceedings{dudek03:_robod,
  author =	 {G. Dudek and R. Sim},
  title =	 {RoboDaemon - A device independent, network-oriented, modular
                  mobile robot controller},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
                  and Automation},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Taipei, Taiwan},
  month =	 {May},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  pages = {3434--3440},
volume={3}
}

@Article{rekleitis02:_collab_ra,
  author =	 {I. Rekleitis and R. Sim and G. Dudek and
                  E. Milios},
  title =	 {Collaborative Exploration for Visual Map Construction},
  journal =	 {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
  year =	 2004,
  note =	 {Submitted October, 2004}
}

@InProceedings{sim00:_aaai,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Landmarks for Robot Localization},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium},
  pages =	 {1110--1111},
  year =	 2000,
  address =	 {Austin, TX},
  month =	 {July},
  organization = {SIGART/AAAI},
  publisher =	 {AAAI Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/aaai00.ps.gz",
}

@Unpublished{sim00:_proposal,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {To Boldly Go: Bayesian Exploration for Mobile Robots},
  note =	 {Ph.D. Proposal},
  month =	 {June},
  year =	 2000,
  url =
                  "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/sim_proposal.ps.gz"
}

@TechReport{sim00:_techrep,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {Bayesian Exploration for Mobile Robots},
  institution =	 {Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University},
  number =	 {CIM-03-02},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  month =	 {June},
  year =	 2000,
  pages =	 {23},
  url =
                  "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/sim_bayes_expl00.pdf"
}

@TechReport{sim01:_techrep,
  author =	 {R. Sim and S. Polifroni and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Comparing Attention Operators for Learning Landmarks},
  institution =	 {Mobile Robotics Lab, McGill University},
  number =	 {MRL-03-02},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  month =	 {October},
  year =	 2001,
  pages =	 {16},
  url =
                  "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/sim_polifroni_comparing.pdf"
}

@InProceedings{sim01:_cvpr,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Generative Models of Scene Features},
  booktitle =	 {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year =	 2001,
  pages =	 {406--412},
  address =	 {Hawaii},
  month =	 {December},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/cvpr01.ps.gz",
}

@InProceedings{sim03:_rur,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Examining Exploratory Trajectories for Minimizing Map Uncertainty},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the International Joint Conference
                  on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR)},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Acapulco, Mexico},
  month =	 {August},
  publisher =	 {Morgan Kaufmann},
  pages =	 {69--76}
}


@InProceedings{sim03:_compar,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Comparing image-based localization methods},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference
                  on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)},
  year =	 2003,
  address =	 {Acapulco, Mexico},
  month =	 {August},
  publisher =	 {Morgan Kaufmann},
  pages =	 {1560--1562}
}

@Article{sim03:_ijcv,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Generative Models of Scene Features},
  journal =	 {International Journal of Computer Vision},
  year =	 2004,
  volume =	 {60},
  number =	 {1},
  pages =	 {45--61},
  month = {October},
  publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}
}

@InProceedings{sim03:_iris,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {On Visual Maps and their Automatic Construction},
  booktitle =	 {Precarn/IRIS Proceedings},
  year =	 2003,
  pages =	 {1},
  month =	 {June}
}


@InProceedings{sim97:_iris,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Navigating by the Stars: A landmark-based method for Mobile
                  Robot Localization},
  booktitle =	 {Precarn/IRIS Proceedings},
  year =	 1997,
  pages =	 {1},
  month =	 {June}
}

@InProceedings{sim98:_iris,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Position Estimation from Learned Landmarks},
  booktitle =	 {Precarn/IRIS Proceedings},
  year =	 1998,
  pages =	 {1},
  month =	 {June}
}

@InProceedings{sim98:_mobil,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Mobile Robot Localization from Learned Landmarks},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots
                  and Systems (IROS)},
  pages =	 {1060--1065},
  year =	 1998,
  address =	 {Victoria, Canada},
  month =	 {October},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/iros98.ps.gz",
}

@TechReport{sim98:_techrep,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {Mobile Robot Localization from Learned Landmarks},
  institution =	 {Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University},
  year =	 1998,
  number =	 {CIM-98-03},
  address =	 {Montreal, QC},
  pages =	 {66},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/mobile-tr.ps.gz"
}

@MastersThesis{sim98:_thesis,
  author =	 {R. Sim},
  title =	 {Mobile Robot Localization from Learned Landmarks},
  school =	 {McGill University},
  year =	 1998,
  address =	 {Montreal, Canada},
  month =	 {July}
}

@InProceedings{sim99:_iccv,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning and Evaluating Visual Features for Pose Estimation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on
                  Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year =	 1999,
  pages =	 {1217--1222},
  address =	 {Kerkyra, Greece},
  month =	 {Sept},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/iccv99.ps.gz",
}

@InProceedings{sim99:_mobil,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Visual Landmarks for Pose Estimation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics
                  and Automation (ICRA)},
  year =	 1999,
  pages =	 {1972--1978},
  address =	 {Detroit, MI},
  month =	 {May},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/icra99.ps.gz",
}

@Article{sim99:_visual_landm,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Visual Landmarks for Pose Estimation},
  journal =	 {Canadian Artificial Intelligence},
  year =	 1999,
  number =	 43,
  pages =	 {13--17},
  month =	 {Spring}
}


@InProceedings{sim99:_wpma,
  author =	 {R. Sim and G. Dudek},
  title =	 {Learning Environmental Features for Pose Estimation},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Perception for Mobile
                  Agents},
  year =	 1999,
  address =	 {Ft. Collins, CO},
  month =	 {June},
  publisher =	 {IEEE Press},
  url =		 "http://www.cs.ubc.ca/\~{}simra/publications/workshop.ps.gz",
  pages =	 {7--14}
}