Thesis/Book
Journal Article
Conference Paper
Workshop Paper
2025
International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 25-29
Employing Laban Shape for Generating Emotionally and Functionally Expressive Trajectories in Robotic Manipulators [PDF] [BIB]
Srikrishna Bangalore Raghu, Clare Lohrmann, Akshay Bakshi, Jennifer Kim, Jose Caraveo Herrera, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [IJCAI]
Montreal, Canada, August 16-22
Implicitly Aligning Humans and Autonomous Agents through Shared Task Abstractions [PDF] [BIB]
Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Miguel Aroca-Ouellette, Katharina von der Wense, Alessandro Roncone
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA]
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 19-23
GenTact Toolbox: A Computational Design Pipeline to Procedurally Generate Context-Driven 3D Printed Whole-Body Artificial Skins [PDF] [BIB]
Carson Kohlbrenner, Caleb Escobedo, S. Sandra Bae, Alexander Dickhans, Alessandro Roncone
RSS Workshop on Human-in-the-Loop Robot Learning: Teaching, Correcting, and Adapting
Los Angeles, California, USA, June 25
CRED: Counterfactual Reasoning and Environment Design for Active Preference Learning [PDF] [BIB]
Yi-Shiuan Tung, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
2024
IEEE Transactions on Robotics [T-RO]
HARMONIOUS – Human-Like Reactive Motion Control and Multimodal Perception for Humanoid Robots [PDF] [BIB]
Jakub Rozlivek, Alessandro Roncone, Ugo Pattacini, and Matej Hoffmann
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction [THRI]
Generating Pattern-Based Conventions for Predictable Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]
Clare Lohrmann, Maria Stull, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 14-18
Exploring How Non-Prehensile Manipulation Expands Capability in Robots Experiencing Multi-Joint Failure [PDF] [BIB]
Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez, Anuj Pasricha, Ava Abderezaei, Santosh Chaganti, Sarath Chandra Vajrala, Sri Kanth Popuri, and Alessandro Roncone
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 14-18
Clutter-Aware Spill-Free Liquid Transport via Learned Dynamics [PDF] [BIB]
Ava Abderezaei, Anuj Pasricha, Alex Klausenstock, Alessandro Roncone
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication [RO-MAN]
Pasadena, CA, USA, August 26-30
Eyes on the Game: Deciphering Implicit Human Signals to Infer Human Proficiency, Trust, and Intent [PDF] [BIB]
Nikhil Hulle, Stéphane Aroca-Ouellette, Anthony J. Ries, Jake Brawer, Katharina von der Wense, Alessandro Roncone
American Control Conference [ACC]
Toronto, Canada, July 10-12
ROMA-iQSS: An Objective Alignment Approach via State-Based Value Learning and ROund-Robin Multi-Agent Scheduling [PDF] [BIB]
Chi-Hui Lin, Joewie J. Koh, Alessandro Roncone, Lijun Chen
Oral presentation
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA]
Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17
The Virtues of Laziness: Multi-Query Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Lazy Methods [PDF] [BIB]
Anuj Pasricha, Alessandro Roncone
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction [HRI]
Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14
Workspace Optimization Techniques to Improve Prediction of Human Motion During Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF] [BIB]
Yi-Shiuan Tung, Matthew B. Luebbers, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes
Best Technical Paper Nominee!!
2nd NeurIPS Workshop on Touch Processing: From Data to Knowledge
Vancouver, Canada, December 15
A Machine Learning Approach to Contact Localization in Variable Density Three-Dimensional Tactile Artificial Skin [PDF] [BIB]
Carson Kohlbrenner, Mitchell Murray, Yutong Zhang, Caleb Escobedo, Thomas Dunnington, Nolan Stevenson, Nikolaus Correll, Alessandro Roncone
40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation [ICRA@40]
Rotterdam, Netherlands, September 23-26
Towards Super-Nominal Payload Handling: Inverse Dynamics Analysis for Multi-Skill Robotic Manipulation [PDF] [BIB]
Anuj Pasricha and Alessandro Roncone
7th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality at HRI '24 [VAM-HRI]
Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14
Improving Robot Predictability via Trajectory Optimization Using a Virtual Reality Testbed [PDF] [BIB]
Clare Lohrmann, Ethan Berg, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
HRI'24 Workshop on Causal Learning for Human-Robot Interaction
Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14
Causal Influence Detection for Human Robot Interaction [PDF] [BIB]
Yi-Shiuan Tung, Himanshu Gupta, Wei Jiang, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
7th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality at HRI '24 [VAM-HRI]
Boulder, CO, USA, March 11-14
Stereoscopic Virtual Reality Teleoperation for Human Robot Collaborative Dataset Collection [PDF] [BIB]
Yi-Shiuan Tung, Matthew B. Luebbers, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes
2023
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems [IROS]
Detroit, MI, USA, Oct 1-5
CAT-RRT: Motion Planning that Admits Contact One Linke at a Time [PDF] [BIB]
Nataliya Nechyporenko, Caleb Escobedo, Shreyas Kadekodi, Alessandro Roncone
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!!
AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction [AI-HRI]
Arlington, VA, USA, Oct 25-27
Towards A Natural Language Interface For Flexible Multi-Agent Task Assignment [PDF] [BIB]
Jake Brawer, Kayleigh Bishop, Bradley Hayes, Alessandro Roncone
6th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality at HRI '23 [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
MIT Press
Introduction to Autonomous Robots: Mechanisms, Sensors, Actuators, and Algorithms
Nikolaus Correll, Bradley Hayes, Christoffer Heckman and 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
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
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 [RO-MAN]
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
2021
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning as Applied to Autonomous Systems
Guohui Ding
PhD dissertation
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
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 Kodur, Alessandro Roncone
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
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
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
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
Extended abstract
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
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
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
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
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
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
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