Nick Walker

Publications

2022

  1. 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), 2022
    Amal Nanavati*, Nick Walker*, Lee Taber, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Leila Takayama, Maya Cakmak and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

2021

  1. Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021
    Nick Walker, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Siddhartha Srinivasa and Maya Cakmak
  2. Learning Backchanneling Behaviors for a Social Robot via Data Augmentation from Human-Human Conversations
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021
    Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Amal Nanavati, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Nikita Filippov, Allison Sauppe, Bilge Mutlu and Maya Cakmak
  3. Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution
    2021 ICRA Workshop on Modern Approaches for Intrinsically-Motivated Intelligent Behavior, 2021
    Nick Walker, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Siddhartha Srinivasa 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), 2020
    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), 2020
    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), 2019
    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), 2019
    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, 2019
    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, 2019
    Nick Walker, Yu-Tang Peng and Maya Cakmak
  5. An Architecture for Person-Following using Active Target Search
    arXiv preprint, 2019
    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), 2018
    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, 2018
    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, 2018
    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), 2017
    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, 2017
    Eric D. Schroeder, Nicholas Walker and Amanda S. Danko