2023
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems [AAMAS]
London, Uk, May 28-June 02
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Ad Hoc Teaming [PDF] [BIB]
Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Miguel Aroca-Ouellette, Upasana Biswas, Katharina Kann, Alessandro Roncone
Extended abstract
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [HRI]
Stockholm, Sweden, March 13-16
Interactive Policy Shaping for Human-Robot Collaboration with Transparent Matrix Overlays [PDF] [BIB]
Jake Brawer, Debasmita Ghose, Kate Candon, Meiying Qin, Alessandro Roncone, Marynel Vázquez, and Brian Scassellati
Best Technical Paper Award!!
6th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI)
Stockholm, Sweden, March 13
Improving Human Legibility in Collaborative Robot Tasks through Augmented Reality and Workspace Preparation [PDF] [BIB]
Yi-Shiuan Tung, Matthew B. Luebbers, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes
Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children [AIAIC]
Los Angeles, USA, February 21
Designing an AI Partner for Jigsaw classrooms [PDF] [BIB]
Jie Cao, Rachel Dickler, Marie Grace, Jeffrey B. Bush, Alessandro Roncone, Leanne M. Hirshfield, Marilyn A. Walker, Martha S. Palmer
2022
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27
A Framework for the Systematic Evaluation of Obstacle Avoidance and Object-Aware Controllers [PDF] [BIB]
Caleb Escobedo, Nataliya Nechyporenko, Shreyas Kadekodi, Alessandro Roncone
IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
Naples, Italy, August 29
Bilevel Optimization for Just-in-Time Robotic Kitting and Delivery via Adaptive Task Segmentation and Scheduling [PDF] [BIB]
Yi-Shiuan Tung, Kayleigh Bishop, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Conversational AI @ ACL 2022
Dublin, Ireland, May 27
Open-Domain Dialogue Generation: What We Can Do, Cannot Do, And Should Do Next [PDF] [BIB]
Katharina Kann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Joewie J. Koh, Shiran Dudy, Alessandro Roncone
IEEE Robotics Automation and Letters [RA-L] + ICRA
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., May 23-27
PokeRRT: Poking as a Skill and Failure Recovery Tactic for Planar Non-Prehensile Manipulation [PDF] [BIB]
Anuj Pasricha, Yi-Shiuan Tung, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
How to be Helpful? Supportive Behaviors and Personalization for Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]
Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone, and Brian Scassellati
MIT Press
Introduction to Autonomous Robots: Mechanisms, Sensors, Actuators, and Algorithms
Nikolaus Correll, Bradley Hayes, Christoffer Heckman and Alessandro Roncone
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Elsevier
Real-Time Motion Control of Robotic Manipulators for Safe Human-Robot Coexistence [PDF] [BIB]
Kelly Merckaert, Bryan Convens, Chi-ju Wu, Alessandro Roncone, Marco M Nicotra, and Bram Vanderborght
2021
IROS 2021 Workshop on Impact-Aware Robotics
Prague, Czech Republic, October 1
PokeRRT: A Kinodynamic Planning Approach for Poking Manipulation [PDF] [BIB]
Anuj Pasricha, Yi-Shiuan Tung, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Prague, Czech Republic, September 27-October 1
Contact Anticipation for Physical Human-Robot Interaction with Robotic Manipulators using Onboard Proximity Sensors [PDF] [BIB]
Caleb Escobedo, Matthew Strong, Mary West, Ander Aramburu, Alessandro Roncone
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Prague, Czech Republic, September 27-October 1
Self-Contained Kinematic Calibration of a Novel Whole-Body Artificial Skin for Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]
Kandai Watanabe, Matthew Strong, Mary West, Caleb Escobedo, Ander Aramburu, Krishna Chaitanya, Alessandro Roncone
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, November 2021
The World of an Octopus: How Reporting Bias Influences a Language Model’s Perception of Color [PDF] [BIB]
Cory Paik, Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Alessandro Roncone, Katharina Kann
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Online, August 1-6
PROST: Physical Reasoning of Objects through Space and Time [PDF] [BIB]
Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Cory Paik, Alessandro Roncone, and Katharina Kann
4th Workshop on Proximity Perception in Robotics at IROS 2021
Prague, Czech Republic, September 27
Volumetric Data Fusion of External Depth and Onboard Proximity Data For Occluded Space Reduction [PDF] [BIB]
Matthew Strong, Caleb Escobedo, Alessandro Roncone
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning as Applied to Autonomous Systems
Guohui Ding
PhD dissertation
ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [HRI], Workshop on Robots for Learning
Boulder, CO, U.S.A., March 12
Teaching Grounded Reading Skills via an Interactive Robot Tutor [PDF] [BIB]
Kayleigh "Kaleb" Bishop, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
2020
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A. October 25-29
Cooperative Control of Mobile Robots with Stackelberg Learning [PDF] [BIB]
Joewie J. Koh*, Guohui Ding*, Christoffer Heckman, Lijun Chen, Alessandro Roncone
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems [AAMAS]
Auckland, New Zealand, May 9-13
Distributed Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Multi-Robot Object Manipulation [PDF] [BIB]
Guohui Ding*, Joewie J. Koh*, Kelly Merckaert, Bram Vanderborght, Marco M. Nicotra, Christoffer Heckman, Alessandro Roncone, Lijun Chen
2019
2nd ICRA International Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance in Robotics
Montreal, Canada, May 20-24
An Affordance-based Action Planner for On-line and Concurrent Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly
Francesca Stramandinoli, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, Francesco Nori, and Brian Scassellati
2018
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Madrid, Spain, October 1-5
Situated Human-Robot Collaboration: predicting intent from grounded natural language [PDF] [BIB]
Jake Brawer, Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone, and Brian Scassellati
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Madrid, Spain, October 1-5
Preference-Based Assistance Prediction for Human-Robot Collaboration Tasks [PDF] [BIB]
Elena Corina Grigore, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, and Brian Scassellati
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Madrid, Spain, October 1-5
The HRC Model set for Human-Robot Collaboration Research [PDF] [BIB]
Sofya Zeylikman, Sarah Widder, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, and Brian Scassellati
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems [AAMAS]
Stockholm, Sweden, July 11-13
Predicting Supportive Behaviors for Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]
Elena Corina Grigore, Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone, and Brian Scassellati
Extended abstract
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [HRI]
Chicago, IL, U.S.A., March 5-8
Compact Real-time avoidance on a Humanoid Robot for Human-Robot interaction [PDF] [BIB]
Dong Hai Phuong Nguyen, Matej Hoffmann, Alessandro Roncone, Ugo Pattacini, and Giorgio Metta
2017
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA]
Singapore, Singapore May 29-June 3
Transparent Role Assignment and Task Allocation in Human Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]
Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, and Brian Scassellati
AAAI Matters
Learning Peripersonal Space Representation in a Humanoid Robot with Artificial Skin [PDF] [BIB]
Alessandro Roncone
2016
International Conference on Social Robotics [ICSR]
Kansas City, MO, U.S.A., November 1-3
Physiologically Inspired Blinking Behavior for a Humanoid Robot [PDF] [BIB]
Hagen Lehmann, Alessandro Roncone, Ugo Pattacini, and Giorgio Metta
PLOS ONE
Peripersonal Space and Margin of Safety around the Body: Learning Visuo-tactile Associations in a Humanoid Robot with Artificial Skin [PDF] [BIB]
Alessandro Roncone, Matej Hoffmann, Ugo Pattacini, Luciano Fadiga, and Giorgio Metta
Robotics: Science and Systems [RSS]
Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A., June 18-22
A Cartesian 6-DoF Gaze Controller for Humanoid Robots [PDF] [BIB]
Alessandro Roncone, Ugo Pattacini, Giorgio Metta, and Lorenzo Natale
2015
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Hamburg, Germany, September 28-October 2
Learning peripersonal space representation through artificial skin for avoidance and reaching with whole body surface [PDF] [BIB]
Alessandro Roncone, Matej Hoffmann, Ugo Pattacini, and Giorgio Metta
Ph.D. Thesis
University of Genoa and Italian Institute of Technology
Expanding Sensorimotor capabilities of Humanoid Robots through Multisensory Integration - a study on the implementation of Peripersonal Space on the iCub [PDF] [BIB]
Alessandro Roncone
2014
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Madrid, Spain, November 18-20
Gaze Stabilization for Humanoid Robots: A Comprehensive Framework [PDF] [BIB]
Alessandro Roncone, Ugo Pattacini, Giorgio Metta, and Lorenzo Natale
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
Madrid, Spain, November 18-20
3D Stereo Estimation and Fully Automated Learning of Eye-Hand Coordination in Humanoid Robots [PDF] [BIB]
Sean Ryan Fanello, Ugo Pattacini, Ilaria Gori, Vadim Tikhanoff, Marco Randazzo, Alessandro Roncone, Francesca Odone, and Giorgio Metta
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA]
Hong Kong, China, May 31-June 7
