Sonia Chernova

Orcid: 0000-0001-6320-0825

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  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA


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2024
AI-CARING: National AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups.
AI Mag., 2024

2023
Learning instance-level N-ary semantic knowledge at scale for robots operating in everyday environments.
Auton. Robots, June, 2023

Explainable Activity Recognition for Smart Home Systems.
ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2023

A survey of Semantic Reasoning frameworks for robotic systems.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2023

D-ITAGS: A Dynamic Interleaved Approach to Resilient Task Allocation, Scheduling, and Motion Planning.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2023

IndoorSim-to-OutdoorReal: Learning to Navigate Outdoors without any Outdoor Experience.
CoRR, 2023

StructDiffusion: Language-Guided Creation of Physically-Valid Structures using Unseen Objects.
Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XIX, Daegu, 2023

Benefits of Multi-Objective Trajectory Adaptation in Close-Proximity Human-Robot Interaction.
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023

Extraction of Important Temporal Order for eXplainable AI on Time-series data.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, 2023

State2Explanation: Concept-Based Explanations to Benefit Agent Learning and User Understanding.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Subgoal-Based Explanations for Unreliable Intelligent Decision Support Systems.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2023

ConSOR: A Context-Aware Semantic Object Rearrangement Framework for Partially Arranged Scenes.
IROS, 2023

Sensor Event Sequence Prediction for Proactive Smart Home Support Using Autoregressive Language Model.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, 2023

Creative Problem Solving in Artificially Intelligent Agents: A Survey and Framework (Extended Abstract).
Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

ALLFA: Active Learning Through Label and Feature Augmentation.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2023

Semantic Scene Understanding for Human-Robot Interaction.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023

Predicting Routine Object Usage for Proactive Robot Assistance.
Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2023

2022
Creative Problem Solving in Artificially Intelligent Agents: A Survey and Framework.
J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2022

Bootstrapping Human Activity Recognition Systems for Smart Homes from Scratch.
Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol., 2022

GRSTAPS: Graphically Recursive Simultaneous Task Allocation, Planning, and Scheduling.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2022

StructDiffusion: Object-Centric Diffusion for Semantic Rearrangement of Novel Objects.
CoRR, 2022

Incremental Object Grounding Using Scene Graphs.
CoRR, 2022

Leveraging Cognitive States in Human-Robot Teaming.
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2022

Explainable Knowledge Graph Embedding: Inference Reconciliation for Knowledge Inferences Supporting Robot Actions.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

Rethinking Sim2Real: Lower Fidelity Simulation Leads to Higher Sim2Real Transfer in Navigation.
Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2022

Proactive Robot Assistance via Spatio-Temporal Object Modeling.
Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2022

2021
Bi-Directional Domain Adaptation for Sim2Real Transfer of Embodied Navigation Agents.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2021

Continual Learning of Knowledge Graph Embeddings.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2021

Predicting Individual Human Performance in Human-Robot Teaming.
Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021

Learning Navigation Skills for Legged Robots with Learned Robot Embeddings.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures: Towards Risk-Adaptive Task Allocation.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

Towards Coordinated Robot Motions: End-to-End Learning of Motion Policies on Transform Trees.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

An Interleaved Approach to Trait-Based Task Allocation and Scheduling.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

Semantic-Based Explainable AI: Leveraging Semantic Scene Graphs and Pairwise Ranking to Explain Robot Failures.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

Towards Robust One-shot Task Execution using Knowledge Graph Embeddings.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Toward a One-interaction Data-driven Guide: Putting Co-speech Gesture Evidence to Work for Ambiguous Route Instructions.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021

Explainable AI for Robot Failures: Generating Explanations that Improve User Assistance in Fault Recovery.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021

2020
Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2020

Leveraging depth data in remote robot teleoperation interfaces for general object manipulation.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2020

Feature Guided Search for Creative Problem Solving Through Tool Construction.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2020

Explainable AI for System Failures: Generating Explanations that Improve Human Assistance in Fault Recovery.
CoRR, 2020

Rearrangement: A Challenge for Embodied AI.
CoRR, 2020

Tool Macgyvering: A Novel Framework for Combining Tool Substitution and Construction.
CoRR, 2020

Anticipatory Human-Robot Collaboration via Multi-Objective Trajectory Optimization.
CoRR, 2020

Recent Advances in Robot Learning from Demonstration.
Annu. Rev. Control. Robotics Auton. Syst., 2020

STRATA: unified framework for task assignments in large teams of heterogeneous agents.
Auton. Agents Multi Agent Syst., 2020

A Tale of Two Suggestions: Action and Diagnosis Recommendations for Responding to Robot Failure.
Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2020

Leveraging rationales to improve human task performance.
Proceedings of the IUI '20: 25th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2020

Approximated Dynamic Trait Models for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

Anticipatory Human-Robot Collaboration via Multi-Objective Trajectory Optimization.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

Multimodal Material Classification for Robots using Spectroscopy and High Resolution Texture Imaging.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

Benchmark for Skill Learning from Demonstration: Impact of User Experience, Task Complexity, and Start Configuration on Performance.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

CAGE: Context-Aware Grasping Engine.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

Human-Centric Active Perception for Autonomous Observation.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

From Computational Creativity to Creative Problem Solving Agents.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020

Same Object, Different Grasps: Data and Semantic Knowledge for Task-Oriented Grasping.
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Robot Learning, 2020

Learning Hierarchical Task Networks with Preferences from Unannotated Demonstrations.
Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Robot Learning, 2020

Path Ranking with Attention to Type Hierarchies.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019
Classification of Household Materials via Spectroscopy.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2019

Are We Making Real Progress in Simulated Environments? Measuring the Sim2Real Gap in Embodied Visual Navigation.
CoRR, 2019

Tool Substitution with Shape and Material Reasoning Using Dual Neural Networks.
CoRR, 2019

Leveraging Semantics for Incremental Learning in Multi-Relational Embeddings.
CoRR, 2019

STRATA: A Unified Framework for Task Assignments in Large Teams of Heterogeneous Robots.
CoRR, 2019

Simultaneous learning of hierarchy and primitives for complex robot tasks.
Auton. Robots, 2019

Autonomous Tool Construction Using Part Shape and Attachment Prediction.
Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XV, 2019

Human Trust After Robot Mistakes: Study of the Effects of Different Forms of Robot Communication.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2019

Effectiveness of Robot Communication Level on Likeability, Understandability and Comfortability.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2019

Taking Recoveries to Task: Recovery-Driven Development for Recipe-Based Robot Tasks.
Proceedings of the Robotics Research, 2019

Active Learning within Constrained Environments through Imitation of an Expert Questioner.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019

Skill Acquisition via Automated Multi-Coordinate Cost Balancing.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Tool Macgyvering: Tool Construction Using Geometric Reasoning.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

RoboCSE: Robot Common Sense Embedding.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Real-time Multisensory Affordance-based Control for Adaptive Object Manipulation.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Learning Reactive Motion Policies in Multiple Task Spaces from Human Demonstrations.
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2019

Unsupervised Role Discovery Using Temporal Observations of Agents.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2019

2018
Trajectory-Based Skill Learning Using Generalized Cylinders.
Frontiers Robotics AI, 2018

Unbiasing Semantic Segmentation For Robot Perception using Synthetic Data Feature Transfer.
CoRR, 2018

Action Categorization for Computationally Improved Task Learning and Planning.
CoRR, 2018

Effects of Interruptibility-Aware Robot Behavior.
CoRR, 2018

Learning Generalizable Robot Skills from Demonstrations in Cluttered Environments.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Towards Intelligent Arbitration of Diverse Active Learning Queries.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Human-Driven Feature Selection for a Robotic Agent Learning Classification Tasks from Demonstration.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

Learning Sequential Decision Tasks for Robot Manipulation with Abstract Markov Decision Processes and Demonstration-Guided Exploration.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2018

Efficient Human-Robot Interaction for Robust Autonomy in Task Execution.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2018

Action Categorization for Computationally Improved Task Learning and Planning: Extended Abstract.
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2018

SiRoK: Situated Robot Knowledge - Understanding the Balance Between Situated Knowledge and Variability.
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Spring Symposia, 2018

2017
Generalized Cylinders for Learning, Reproduction, Generalization, and Refinement of Robot Skills.
Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems XIII, 2017

Situated Bayesian Reasoning Framework for Robots Operating in Diverse Everyday Environments.
Proceedings of the Robotics Research, The 18th International Symposium, 2017

Temporal persistence modeling for object search.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

SLHAP: Simultaneous Learning of Hierarchy and Primitives.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2017

A Comparison of Remote Robot Teleoperation Interfaces for General Object Manipulation.
Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2017

Towards Robust Skill Generalization: Unifying Learning from Demonstration and Motion Planning.
Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning, CoRL 2017, Mountain View, 2017

Semi-Supervised Haptic Material Recognition for Robots using Generative Adversarial Networks.
Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Robot Learning, CoRL 2017, Mountain View, 2017

Temporal Models for Robot Classification of Human Interruptibility.
Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2017

2016
Fostering parent-child dialog through automated discussion suggestions.
User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 2016

From Autonomy to Cooperative Traded Control of Humanoid Manipulation Tasks with Unreliable Communication - Applications to the Valve-turning Task of the DARPA Robotics Challenge and Lessons Learned.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2016

Situated Structure Learning of a Bayesian Logic Network for Commonsense Reasoning.
CoRR, 2016

Leveraging Large-Scale Semantic Networks for Adaptive Robot Task Learning and Execution.
Big Data, 2016

Construction of a 3D object recognition and manipulation database from grasp demonstrations.
Auton. Robots, 2016

What's in a primitive? Identifying reusable motion trajectories in narrated demonstrations.
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

Grounding action parameters from demonstration.
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

Trajectory learning from demonstration with canal surfaces: A parameter-free approach.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2016

Identifying Reusable Primitives in Narrated Demonstrations.
Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interation, 2016

Learning from Demonstration for Shaping through Inverse Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

An HRI Approach to Feature Selection.
Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 17-19, 2016, 2016

2015
Reports on the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series.
AI Mag., 2015

Robot Web Tools: Efficient messaging for cloud robotics.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015

Reinforcement Learning from Demonstration through Shaping.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

Unsupervised learning of multi-hypothesized pick-and-place task templates via crowdsourcing.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Interactive Hierarchical Task Learning from a Single Demonstration.
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2015

Human-centered design of a cyber-physical system for advanced response to Ebola (CARE).
Proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2015

Towards Robot Adaptability in New Situations.
Proceedings of the 2015 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 12-14, 2015, 2015

Solving and Explaining Analogy Questions Using Semantic Networks.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

2014
Robot Learning from Human Teachers
Synthesis Lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-031-01570-0, 2014

Toward a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots with limited communication.
Intell. Serv. Robotics, 2014

Message authentication codes for secure remote non-native client connections to ROS enabled robots.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, 2014

From autonomy to cooperative traded control of humanoid manipulation tasks with unreliable communication: System design and lessons learned.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Construction of an object manipulation database from grasp demonstrations.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Crowdsourcing the construction of a 3D object recognition database for robotic grasping.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

DARPA Robotics Challenge: Towards a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Learning partial ordering constraints from a single demonstration.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2014

Workshop on algorithmic human-robot interaction.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2014

Collaborative Learning of Hierarchical Task Networks from Demonstration and Instruction.
Proceedings of the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 13-15, 2014, 2014

2013
Guest Editorial Special Issue on Robotics Education.
IEEE Trans. Educ., 2013

Toward a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots with limited communication.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, 2013

Modeling discussion topics in interactions with a tablet reading primer.
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2013

Unsupervised Rating Prediction based on Local and Global Semantic Models.
Proceedings of the 2013 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 15-17, 2013, 2013

2012
A Practical Comparison of Three Robot Learning from Demonstration Algorithm.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2012

Special Issue on Robot Learning from Demonstration.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2012

The AAAI 2011 Robot Exhibition.
AI Mag., 2012

A practical comparison of three robot learning from demonstration algorithms.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2012

Policy transformation for learning from demonstration.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2012

Preface.
Proceedings of the Wisdom of the Crowd, 2012

Using Causal Models for Learning from Demonstration.
Proceedings of the Robots Learning Interactively from Human Teachers, 2012

2011
A Unified and Integrated Approach to Teaching a Two-Course Sequence in Robotics Engineering.
J. Robotics Mechatronics, 2011

Crowdsourcing Real World Human-Robot Dialog and Teamwork through Online Multiplayer Games.
AI Mag., 2011

Report on the AAAI 2010 Robot Exhibition.
AI Mag., 2011

A comparison of two algorithms for robot learning from demonstration.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2011

Effect of human guidance and state space size on Interactive Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2011

Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: Application from virtual to physical worlds.
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2011

Humanoid robot control using depth camera.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2011

Integrating reinforcement learning with human demonstrations of varying ability.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2011), 2011

Using Human Demonstrations to Improve Reinforcement Learning.
Proceedings of the Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration, 2011

2010
Confidence-Based Multi-Robot Learning from Demonstration.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2010

Learning Temporal Plans from Observation of Human Collaborative Behavior.
Proceedings of the It's All in the Timing, 2010

Crowdsourcing HRI through Online Multiplayer Games.
Proceedings of the Dialog with Robots, 2010

2009
A survey of robot learning from demonstration.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2009

Interactive Policy Learning through Confidence-Based Autonomy.
J. Artif. Intell. Res., 2009

Mobile human-robot teaming with environmental tolerance.
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2009

A Confidence-Based Approach to Multi-Robot Learning from Demonstration.
Proceedings of the Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, 2009

2008
A Team of Humanoid Game commentators.
Int. J. Humanoid Robotics, 2008

Learning equivalent action choices from demonstration.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

Teaching collaborative multi-robot tasks through demonstration.
Proceedings of the 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2008

Multi-thresholded approach to demonstration selection for interactive robot learning.
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction, 2008

Teaching multi-robot coordination using demonstration of communication and state sharing.
Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), 2008

2007
From Deliberative to Routine Behaviors: A Cognitively Inspired Action-Selection Mechanism for Routine Behavior Capture.
Adapt. Behav., 2007

Confidence-based policy learning from demonstration using Gaussian mixture models.
Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2007), 2007

2006
CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot.
AI Mag., 2006

A Team of Humanoid Game Commentators.
Proceedings of the 2006 6th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2006

2005
Acquiring Observation Models Through Reverse Plan Monitoring.
Proceedings of the Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 2005

2004
An evolutionary approach to gait learning for four-legged robots.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28, 2004

Learning and using Models of Kicking Motions for Legged Robots.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004


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