Publications

2025

  1. Making Robot Behaviors Automatically Transparent
    Doctoral dissertation, 2025thesis
    Nick Walker

2024

  1. I Can Tell What I Am Doing: Toward Real-World Natural Language Grounding of Robot Experiences
    The 8th Conference on Robot Learning, 2024conference
    Zihan Wang, Brian Liang, Varad Dhat, Zander Brumbaugh, Nick Walker, Ranjay Krishna and Maya Cakmak
  2. Can Large Language Models Help Developers with Robotic Finite State Machine Modification?
    LangRob Workshop at Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2024workshop
    Xiangyu Gan*, Yuxin Ray Song*, Nick Walker and Maya Cakmak
  3. Fast Explicit-Input Assistance for Teleoperation in Clutter
    2024 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024conference
    Nick Walker, Xuning Yang, Animesh Garg, Maya Cakmak, Dieter Fox and Claudia Pérez-D’Arpino
  4. Using 3D Mice to Control Robot Manipulators
    ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2024conference
    Varad Dhat, Nick Walker and Maya Cakmak

2023

  1. A Guide to Transit-Oriented Running in Seattle
    The Urbanist, 2023feature
    Nick Walker
  2. Towards robustly picking unseen objects from densely packed shelves
    RSS Workshop on Perception and Manipulation Challenges for Warehouse Automation, 2023workshop
    Markus Grotz, Jack Lowry, Soofiyan Atar, Yi Li, Paolo Torrado, Boling Yang, Nick Walker, Michael Murray, Dieter Fox, Maya Cakmak and Joshua R. Smith
  3. Transcription analysis platform
    US11837214, 2023patent
    Michael J. Szentes, Carlos Chavez, Robert E. Lewis and Nicholas S. Walker
    United Services Automobile Association (USAA)

2022

  1. Wandering Robots in the Wild
    IEEE Spectrum, 2022feature
    Nick Walker and Amal Nanavati
  2. Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Localization-Free System for In-the-Wild Mobile Robot Deployments
    2022 ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022conference
    Amal Nanavati*, Nick Walker*, Lee Taber, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Leila Takayama, Maya Cakmak and Siddhartha Srinivasa

2021

  1. Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution
    5th Conference on Robot Learning, 2021conference
    Nick Walker, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Siddhartha Srinivasa and Maya Cakmak
  2. Learning Backchanneling Behaviors for a Social Robot via Data Augmentation from Human-Human Conversations
    5th Conference on Robot Learning, 2021conference
    Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Amal Nanavati, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Nikita Filippov, Allison Sauppe, Bilge Mutlu and Maya Cakmak

2020

  1. Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions
    2020 ACM/IEEE Int. Conf. Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2020conference
    Nick Walker, Kevin Weatherwax, Julian Alchin, Leila Takayama and Maya Cakmak
  2. Jointly Improving Parsing and Perception for Natural Language Commands through Human-Robot Dialog
    The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), 2020journal
    Jesse Thomason, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jivko Sinapov, Nick Walker, Yuqian Jiang, Harel Yedidsion, Justin Hart, Peter Stone and Raymond J. Mooney

2019

  1. Open-World Reasoning for Service Robots
    29th Int. Conf. Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019), 2019conference
    Yuqian Jiang*, Nick Walker*, Justin Hart and Peter Stone
  2. Improving Grounded Natural Language Understanding through Human-Robot Dialog
    Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019conference
    Jesse Thomason, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jivko Sinapov, Nick Walker, Yuqian Jiang, Harel Yedidsion, Justin Hart, Peter Stone and Raymond J. Mooney
  3. Desiderata for Planning Systems in General-Purpose Service Robots
    2019 ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics, 2019workshop
    Nick Walker*, Yuqian Jiang*, Maya Cakmak and Peter Stone
  4. Neural Semantic Parsing with Anonymization for Command Understanding in General-Purpose Service Robots
    RoboCup 2019: Robot Soccer World Cup XXIII, 2019symposium
    Nick Walker, Yu-Tang Peng and Maya Cakmak
  5. An Architecture for Person-Following using Active Target Search
    arXiv (cs.RO) preprint, 2019working
    Minkyu Kim, Miguel Arduengo, Nick Walker, Yuqian Jiang, Justin W. Hart, Peter Stone and Luis Sentis

2018

  1. PRISM: Pose Registration for Integrated Semantic Mapping
    2018 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018conference
    Justin W. Hart, Rishi Shah, Sean Kirmani, Nick Walker, Kathryn Baldauf, Nathan John and Peter Stone
  2. LAAIR: A Layered Architecture for Autonomous Interactive Robots
    AAAI Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy, 2018symposium
    Yuqian Jiang*, Nick Walker*, Minkyu Kim, Nicolas Brissonneau, Daniel S. Brown, Justin W. Hart, Scott Niekum, Luis Sentis and Peter Stone
  3. Interaction and Autonomy in RoboCup@Home and Building-Wide Intelligence
    AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, 2018symposium
    Justin Hart, Harel Yedidsion, Yuqian Jiang, Nick Walker, Rishi Shah, Jesse Thomason, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Rolando Fernandez, Jivko Sinapov, Raymond Mooney and Peter Stone

2017

  1. Automatic Curriculum Graph Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17), 2017conference
    Maxwell Svetlik, Matteo Leonetti, Jivko Sinapov, Rishi Shah, Nick Walker and Peter Stone
  2. Wearable ear EEG for brain interfacing
    SPIE 10051, Neural Imaging and Sensing, 2017conference
    Eric D. Schroeder, Nicholas Walker and Amanda S. Danko