2025


Deployment and Development of a Cognitive Teleoreactive Framework for Deep Sea Autonomy

Chris Thierauf
IEEE/MTS OCEANS


Design of a Depth Triggered Mechanical Fuse

Ethan Rowe, Chris Thierauf
IEEE/MTS OCEANS


Robots that Learn to Solve Symbolic Novelties with Self-Generated RL Simulations

Chris Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz
International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)


Interpret, Innovate, and Interact: Resilient Robot Strategies in Human Domains

Chris Thierauf
PhD Dissertation, Tufts University


FLEX: A Framework for Learning Robot-Agnostic Force-based Skills Involving Sustained Contact Object Manipulation

S Fang, W Gao, S Goel, C Thierauf, M Scheutz, J Sinapov
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)



2024


Self-Debugging Robots: Fault recovery through reasoning and planning

Chris Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz
IEEE Resilience Week (RW)


Robots That Perform Norm-Based Reference Resolution

Mitchell Abrams, Chris Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)


Fixing symbolic plans with reinforcement learning in object-based action spaces

Chris Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)


“Do This Instead”—Robots That Adequately Respond to Corrected Instructions

Chris Thierauf, Ravenna Thielstrom, Brad Oosterveld, Will Becker, Matthias Scheutz
ACM Transactions on Human Robot Interaction


Automating Dataset Production Using Generative Text and Image Models

Chris Thierauf, Mitchell Abrams, Matthias Scheutz
Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources, and Evaluation (LREC-COLING)


Toward Competent Robot Apprentices: Enabling Proactive Troubleshooting in Collaborative Robots

Chris Thierauf, Theresa Law, Tyler Frasca, Matthias Scheutz
MDPI Machines



2022


Acute: Automatic curriculum transfer from simple to complex environments

Yash Shukla, Chris Thierauf, Ramtin Hosseini, Gyan Tatiya, Jivko Sinapov
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)



2021


Robot development and path planning for indoor ultraviolet light disinfection

Johnathan Conroy, Chris Thierauf, Parker Rule, Evan Krause, Hugo Akitaya, Andrei Gonczi, Matias Korman, Matthias Scheutz.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)