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.
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: MechanicalEthan 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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ACuTE: Automatic Curriculum Transfer from Simple to Complex Environments
Tags: Reinforcement LearningY Shukla, C Thierauf, R Hosseini, G Tatiya, J Sinapov. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022).
Reinforcement Learning problems can be reduced into simpler steps that improve learning. Can we automate that process?
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