I’ll be presenting on my recent work at Bard College in late March. If you’re here from that presentation, you may find these links interesting for follow-on reading or reference
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Mariana Trench 2026
We’ve boarded the Thomas G. Thompson for Sentry fieldwork deployments to the Mariana Trench. If successful, we will collect data about the oldest possible geologic features on our planet, which the science party hopes to use in understanding the early stages of earth.
We depart and return to Guam.
Also on board is an experimental new sensor (details not yet public), and a potential opportunity to revisit updated deployments of the DYNOS architecture.
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A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Planning and Reasoning
Symbolic planning, decision making, and logics made simple(r).
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Deployment and Development of a Cognitive Teleoreactive Framework for Deep Sea Autonomy.
Deployment and Development of a Cognitive Teleoreactive Framework for Deep Sea Autonomy.
Christopher Thierauf, IEEE/MTS OCEANS 2025.
Can we make deep-sea robots smart enough to act on their own?
(more…)Christopher Thierauf, IEEE/MTS OCEANS 2025.
Can we make deep-sea robots smart enough to act on their own?
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Design of a Depth Triggered Mechanical Fuse.
Tags: MechanicalDesign of a Depth Triggered Mechanical Fuse.
Ethan Rowe, Christopher Thierauf. IEEE/MTS OCEANS 2025.
How can we make sure our deep-sea assets return to the surface, even under the most catastrophic failure conditions?
(more…)Ethan Rowe, Christopher Thierauf. IEEE/MTS OCEANS 2025.
How can we make sure our deep-sea assets return to the surface, even under the most catastrophic failure conditions?
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Robots that Learn to Solve Symbolic Novelties with Self-Generated RL Simulations.
Christopher Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz. International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2025.
We solve hard problems by imagining different outcomes in our head. How can robots do the same?
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Self-Debugging Robots: Fault recovery through reasoning and planning.
Christopher Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz. IEEE Resilience Week 2025.
Can robots reason about what actions to take to better understand failure? I show a technique and demonstrate how this is possible.
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“Do This Instead”—Robots That Adequately Respond to Corrected Instructions.
Christopher Thierauf, Ravenna Thielstrom, Bradley Oosterveld, Will Becker, Matthias Scheutz. ACM Transactions on HRI.
How can robots handle self-corrections in human commands?
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