arXiv AI

Mixed-Initiative Human-Robot Teaming under Suboptimality with Online Bayesian Adaptation

arXiv:2403. 16178v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: For effective human-agent teaming, robots and other artificial intelligence (AI) agents must infer their human partner's abilities and behavioral response patterns and adapt accordingly.

arXiv AI
Jun 17

Algorithmic Prompt Generation for Diverse Human-like Teaming and Communication with Large Language Models

arXiv:2504. 03991v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding how humans collaborate and communicate in teams is essential for improving human-agent teaming and AI-assisted decision-making.

By Siddharth Srikanth, Varun Bhatt, Boshen Zhang, Werner Hager, Charles Michael Lewis, Katia P. Sycara, Aaquib Tabrez, Stefanos Nikolaidis
arXiv AI
Sep 23

Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Unstructured Environments with Grounded Generative Intelligence

arXiv:2510.26915v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While heterogeneous teams have typically been designed for well-specified missions with known semantics, generative intelligence, i.e., large...

By Zachary Ravichandran, Fernando Cladera, Ankit Prabhu, Jason Hughes, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Varun Murali, Camillo Taylor, George J. Pappas, Vijay Kumar
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Rethinking the Implications of Human Feedback for Preference Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration

The paper critiques the standard fixed-rule approach for deriving labels from human feedback in human-robot collaboration, showing that human-provided implication labels often differ and improve reward learning. It introduces IMPLIED, a method that starts with fixed-rule implications but learns to infer and revise accepted/rejected action labels over time, outperforming both the fixed rule and LLM baselines on recorded trajectories and a physical pizza‑making study. As a result, IMPLIED reduces preference‑estimation error and yields robot actions that better align with combined reward objectives.

By Qiping Zhang, Kate Candon, Debasmita Ghose, Marynel V\'azquez
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Multi-Robot Open Adaptive Teaming Across Unseen Environments, Partners, and Scales

arXiv:2607. 04972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying robot teams in the real world requires simultaneous adaptation to unseen environments, unknown partners, and varying team sizes, yet existing approaches often address these challenges in isolation under the closed-world assumption of fixed teammates.

By Yang Li, Feng Xue, Fan Mo, Yunhao Liu, Jianhong Wang, Ying Wen, Qingrui Zhang, Shaoshuai Mou, Wei Pan
arXiv AI
2d ago

Probabilistic Plan Legibility with Off-the-shelf Planners

The paper introduces a method for generating legible plans in arbitrary PDDL domains by extending prior legibility research to classical planning without custom planners. It incorporates a second‑order theory of mind to estimate the observer’s perspective, enabling robots to implicitly communicate goals in human‑robot teaming. Benchmark results show that increasing legibility typically trades off with plan efficiency, and a regularizing factor is needed to balance the two.

By Michele Persiani, Thomas Hellstr\"om