Publications
Agarwal, Krish, Jiang, Yuqian, Hu, Jiaheng, Liu, Bo, and Stone, Peter. 2025. “L3M+P: Lifelong Planning with Large Language Models.” https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.01917
Bajaj, Vaibhav, Sharon, Guni, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “Task Phasing: Automated Curriculum Learning from Demonstrations.” https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html/ICAPS23-bajaj.pdf
Baker, Samuel, Dick, Alexander, Gidal, Eric, McKeever, Gerard Lee, and Oliver, Susan. 2023. ““Better Lore” of the Romantic Coast: Maritime Ecologies and Cultural Infrastructure from England, Scotland, and Beyond.” European Romantic Review 34 (3) :303-315 https://doi.org/10.1080/10509585.2023.2205081
Baker, Samuel, Hauser, Elliott, and Hart, Justin. 2023. “Trustworthy Memory Practices for Better Living and Working with Robots.” :1-5 https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597516
Basich, Connor, Svegliato, Justin, Wray, Kyle H., Witwicki, Stefan, Biswas, Joydeep, and Zilberstein, Shlomo. 2023. “Competence-aware systems.” Artificial Intelligence 316 :103844 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2022.103844
Chan, Yao-Cheng, Hart, Justin, and Hauser, Elliott. 2023. “Understanding Human-Robot Encounters: Challenges for Industry and Science.”
Chan, Yao‐Cheng and Hauser, Elliott. 2023. “Understanding Reactions in <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Human‐Robot</span> Encounters with Autonomous Quadruped Robots.” Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60 (1) :86-97 https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.771
Chandra, Rohan, Maligi, Rahul, Anantula, Arya, and Biswas, Joydeep. 2023. “SocialMapf: Optimal and Efficient Multi-Agent Path Finding With Strategic Agents for Social Navigation.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8 (6) :3214-3221 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2023.3265169
Chandra, Rohan, Zinage, Vrushabh, Bakolas, Efstathios, Stone, Peter, and Biswas, Joydeep. 2025. “Deadlock-free, safe, and decentralized multi-robot navigation in social mini-games via discrete-time control barrier functions.” Autonomous Robots 49 (2) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-025-10194-8
Chonkar, Parth, Hemkumar, Geethika, Wang, Huihai, Dua, Daksh, Gupta, Shikhar, Chan, Yao-Cheng, Hart, Justin, Hauser, Elliott, Mirsky, Reuth, Biswas, Joydeep, Jiao, Junfeng, and Stone, Peter. 2022. “Look to my Lead: How Does a Leash Affect Perceptions of a Quadruped Robot?.” https://seanavbench.interactive-machines.com/papers/chonkar.pdf
Dass, Shivin, Hu, Jiaheng, Abbatematteo, Ben, Stone, Peter, and Martín-Martín, Roberto. 2024. “Learning to Look: Seeking Information for Decision Making via Policy Factorization.” https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2410.18964
Esteva, Maria and Zhou, Xingru. 2025. “A Data Curation, Interrogation and Access System for the Texas Robotics Dataverse.”
Esteva, Maria, Chan, Yao-Cheng, Deng, Zhiyun, Gupta, Ryan, Hatgis-Kessell, Stephanie, Karnan, Haresh, Modak Modak, Sadanand, Norman, Emily, and Zhang, Arthur. 2024. “Curation of Trustworthy Robotics Human Datasets.”
Francis, Anthony, Pérez-D’Arpino, Claudia, Li, Chengshu, Xia, Fei, Alahi, Alexandre, Alami, Rachid, Bera, Aniket, Biswas, Abhijat, Biswas, Joydeep, Chandra, Rohan, Chiang, Hao-Tien Lewis, Everett, Michael, Ha, Sehoon, Hart, Justin, How, Jonathan P., Karnan, Haresh, Lee, Tsang-Wei Edward, Manso, Luis J., Mirsky, Reuth, Pirk, Sören, Singamaneni, Phani Teja, Stone, Peter, Taylor, Ada V., Trautman, Peter, Tsoi, Nathan, Vázquez, Marynel, Xiao, Xuesu, Xu, Peng, Yokoyama, Naoki, Toshev, Alexander, and Martín-Martín, Roberto. 2025. “Principles and Guidelines for Evaluating Social Robot Navigation Algorithms.” ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction 14 (2) :1-65 https://doi.org/10.1145/3700599
Ghani, Saad Abdul, Wang, Zizhao, Stone, Peter, and Xiao, Xuesu. 2025. “Dyna-LfLH: Learning Agile Navigation in Dynamic Environments from Learned Hallucination.”
Ghonasgi, Keya, Mirsky, Reuth, Bhargava, Nisha, Haith, Adrian, Stone, Peter, and Deshpande, Ashish. “Kinematic coordinations capture learning during human–exoskeleton interaction.” Scientific Reports 13 (10322) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35231-3
Ghonasgi, Keya, Mirsky, Reuth, Haith, Adrian M., Stone, Peter, and Deshpande, Ashish D.. 2023. “A Novel Control Law for Multi-Joint Human-Robot Interaction Tasks While Maintaining Postural Coordination.” :6110-6116 https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342501
Gupta, Ryan, Shin, Hyonyoung, Norman, Emily, Stephens, Keri K., Lu, Nanshu, and Sentis, Luis. 2024. “Human Stress Response and Perceived Safety during Encounters with Quadruped Robots.” :783-790 https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731445
Hart, Justin, Mirsky, Reuth, Xiao, Xuesu, and Stone, Peter. 2021. “Incorporating Gaze into Social Navigation.” https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2107.04001
Hauser, Elliott. 2023. “Facts in the machine: Systems of record and the performance of sociotechnical truth.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology :asi.24820 https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24820
Hauser, Elliott, Chan, Yao-Cheng, Bhalani, Ruchi, Kuchimanchi, Alekhya, Siddiqui, Hanaa, and Hart, Justin. 2024. “Influencing Incidental Human-Robot Encounters: Expressive Movement Improves Pedestrians’ Impressions of a Quadruped Service Robot.” https://hdl.handle.net/10125/106464
Hauser, Elliott, Chan, Yao-Cheng, Chonkar, Parth, Hemkumar, Geethika, Wang, Huihai, Dua, Daksh, Gupta, Shikhar, Enriquez, Efren Mendoza, Kao, Tiffany, Hart, Justin, Mirsky, Reuth, Biswas, Joydeep, Jiao, Junfeng, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “"What’s That Robot Doing Here?": Perceptions Of Incidental Encounters With Autonomous Quadruped Robots.” :1-15 https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599707
Hauser, Elliott, Chan, Yao-Cheng, Modak, Sadanand, Biswas, Joydeep, and Hart, Justin. 2024. “Vid2Real HRI: Align video-based HRI study designs with real-world settings.” :542-548 https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731413
Hsiao, Wei-Jie and Shorey, Samantha. 2023. “Machine visions: A corporate imaginary of artificial sight.” New Media & Society :14614448231176765 https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231176765
Hu, Jiaheng, Hendrix, Rose, Farhadi, Ali, Kembhavi, Aniruddha, Martin-Martin, Roberto, Stone, Peter, Zeng, Kuo-Hao, and Ehsani, Kiana. 2025. “FLaRe: Achieving Masterful and Adaptive Robot Policies with Large-Scale Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning.” https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.16578
Joshi, Viraj, Xu, Zifan, Liu, Bo, Stone, Peter, and Zhang, Amy. 2025. “Benchmarking Massively Parallelized Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning for Robotics Tasks.” Reinforcement Learning Journal 2025 https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html-links/viraj_joshi_rlc2025.pdf
Karnan, Haresh, Nair, Anirudh, Xiao, Xuesu, Warnell, Garrett, Pirk, Soeren, Toshev, Alexander, Hart, Justin, Biswas, Joydeep, and Stone, Peter. 2022. “Socially Compliant Navigation Dataset (SCAND): A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigation.” https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2203.15041
Karnan, Haresh, Yang, Elvin, Warnell, Garrett, Biswas, Joydeep, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “Wait, That Feels Familiar: Learning to Extrapolate Human Preferences for Preference Aligned Path Planning.” https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2309.09912
Labiosa, Adam, Wang, Zhihan, Agarwal, Siddhant, Cong, William, Hemkumar, Geethika, Harish, Abhinav Narayan, Hong, Benjamin, Kelle, Josh, Li, Chen, Li, Yuhao, Shao, Zisen, Stone, Peter, and Hanna, Josiah P.. 2025. “Reinforcement Learning Within the Classical Robotics Stack: A Case Study in Robot Soccer.” https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2412.09417
Li, Hongbian, Shin, Hyonyoung, Sentis, Luis, Siu, Ka-Chun, Millán, José Del R., and Lu, Nanshu. 2024. “Combining VR with electroencephalography as a frontier of brain-computer interfaces.” Device 2 (6) :100425 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.device.2024.100425
Li, Hongbian, Shin, Hyonyoung, Zhang, Minsu, Yu, Andrew, Huh, Heeyong, Kwon, Gubeum, Riveira, Nicholas, Kim, Sangjun, Gangopadahyay, Susmita, Peng, Jessie, Li, Zhengjie, Rao, Yifan, Sentis, Luis, Millán, Jośe Del R., and Lu, Nanshu. 2023. “Hair-compatible sponge electrodes integrated on VR headset for electroencephalography.” Soft Science 3 (3) :21 https://doi.org/10.20517/ss.2023.11
Liu, Bo, Zhu, Yifeng, Gao, Chongkai, Feng, Yihao, Liu, Qiang, Zhu, Yuke, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “LIBERO: Benchmarking Knowledge Transfer for Lifelong Robot Learning.” https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/8c3c666820ea055a77726d66fc7d447f-Abstract-Datasets_and_Benchmarks.html
Mannem, Swathi, Macke, William, Stone, Peter, and Mirsky, Reuth. 2023. “Exploring the Cost of Interruptions in Human-Robot Teaming.” :1-8 https://doi.org/10.1109/Humanoids57100.2023.10375236
Mao, Luisa, Warnell, Garrett, Stone, Peter, and Biswas, Joydeep. 2025. “pacer: Preference-Conditioned All-Terrain Costmap Generation.” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10 (5) :4572-4579 https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3549645
Munje, Michael J., Tang, Chen, Liu, Shuijing, Hu, Zichao, Zhu, Yifeng, Cui, Jiaxun, Warnell, Garrett, Biswas, Joydeep, and Stone, Peter. 2025. “SocialNav-SUB: Benchmarking VLMs for Scene Understanding in Social Robot Navigation.” https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.08757
Norman, Emily, Gupta, Ryan, Stephens, Keri, and Sentis, Luis. 2024. “Utilizing Organizational Communication Theory for Community Embedded Robotics.” https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3906/paper3_SCRITA.pdf
Norman, Emily, Stephens, Keri, Shorey, Samantha, Biswas, Joydeep, Hart, Justin, Hauser, Elliott, and Sentis, Luis. 2023. “Bringing training, learning, and development into team science: Effectively freeing team members from disciplinary barriers in research.”
Park, Jin-Soo, Xiao, Xuesu, Warnell, Garrett, Yedidsion, Harel, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “Learning Perceptual Hallucination for Multi-Robot Navigation in Narrow Hallways.” :10033-10039 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161327
Rabiee, Sadegh and Biswas, Joydeep. 2023. “Introspective perception for mobile robots.” Artificial Intelligence 324 :103999 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2023.103999
Raj, Amir Hossain, Hu, Zichao, Karnan, Haresh, Chandra, Rohan, Payandeh, Amirreza, Mao, Luisa, Stone, Peter, Biswas, Joydeep, and Xiao, Xuesu. 2024. “Targeted Learning: A Hybrid Approach to Social Robot Navigation.” https://cs.gmu.edu/~xiao/papers/hybrid_social_nav.pdf
Romanow, Jacob. 2024. “Kipling’s Administrative Imaginary: Imperial Ignorance as Information Management.” Victorian Studies 66 (4) :585-608 https://doi.org/10.2979/vic.00194
Seo, Mingyo, Cho, Yoonyoung, Sung, Yoonchang, Stone, Peter, Zhu, Yuke, and Kim, Beomjoon. 2025. “PRESTO: Fast Motion Planning Using Diffusion Models Based on Key-Configuration Environment Representation.” https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2409.16012
Stark, Carson, Chun, Bohkyung, Charleston, Casey, Ravi, Varsha, Pabon, Luis, Sunkari, Surya, Mohan, Tarun, Stone, Peter, and Hart, Justin. 2024. “An Overview of Dobby, A Conversational Service Robot.”
Stark, Carson, Chun, Bohkyung, Charleston, Casey, Ravi, Varsha, Pabon, Luis, Sunkari, Surya, Mohan, Tarun, Stone, Peter, and Hart, Justin. 2024. “Dobby: A Conversational Service Robot Driven by GPT-4.” :1362-1369 https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731375
Stephens, Keri. 2023. “Using facilitated collaboration agreements in interdisciplinary teams: Overcoming the “we all know how to communicate” attitude!.”
Sui, Peiqi, Rodriguez, Juan Diego, Laban, Philippe, Murphy, Dean, Dexter, Joseph P., So, Richard Jean, Baker, Samuel, and Chaudhuri, Pramit. 2025. “KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning.” https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.09825
Tang, Chen, Abbatematteo, Ben, Hu, Jiaheng, Chandra, Rohan, Martín-Martín, Roberto, and Stone, Peter. 2025. “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotics: A Survey of Real-World Successes.” Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 8 (1) :153-188 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-control-030323-022510
Trainum, Katie, Tunis, Rachel, Xie, Bo, and Hauser, Elliott. 2023. “Robots in Assisted Living Facilities: Scoping Review.” JMIR Aging 6 :e42652 https://doi.org/10.2196/42652
Vekhter, Joshua and Biswas, Joydeep. 2023. “Responsible Robotics: A Socio-Ethical Addition to Robotics Courses.” Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 37 (13) :15877-15885 https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i13.26885
Verzic, Nicholas, Chadaga, Abhinav, and Hart, Justin. 2024. “Recovering Missed Detections in an Elevator Button Segmentation Task.” :13355-13362 https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10801499
Wang, Caroline, Warnell, Garrett, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “D-Shape: Demonstration-Shaped Reinforcement Learning via Goal Conditioning.” https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2210.14428
Wang, Zizhao, Hu, Jiaheng, Stone, Peter, and Martin-Martin, Roberto. 2023. “ELDEN: Exploration via Local Dependencies.” https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html/b2hd-jiaheng_hu_neurips2023.html
Wang, Zizhao, Wang, Caroline, Xiao, Xuesu, Zhu, Yuke, and Stone, Peter. 2024. “Building Minimal and Reusable Causal State Abstractions for Reinforcement Learning.” https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html/b2hd-cbm-wang-aaai24.html
Xu, Yifan. 2024. “Accomplishing Robotic Autonomy: The Complexities of Situated Practices and Agency in The Laboratory.” :163-165 https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3638355
Xu, Yifan. 2023. “Envisioning a better world of human and technology: theoretical and empirical considerations to connect communication scholarship to ethical technology design.” Annals of the International Communication Association :1-16 https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2023.2255586
Xu, Zifan, Liu, Bo, Xiao, Xuesu, Nair, Anirudh, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Autonomous Navigation.” :9224-9230 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160583
Xu, Zifan, Raj, Amir Hossain, Xiao, Xuesu, and Stone, Peter. 2024. “Dexterous Legged Locomotion in Confined 3D Spaces with Reinforcement Learning.” http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03848
Xu, Ziping, Xu, Zifan, Jiang, Runxuan, Stone, Peter, and Tewari, Ambuj. 2024. “Sample Efficient Myopic Exploration Through Multitask Reinforcement Learning with Diverse Tasks.” https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html-links/ziping_xu_ICLR2024.pdf
Zhang, Arthur, Eranki, Chaitanya, Zhang, Christina, Park, Ji-Hwan, Hong, Raymond, Kalyani, Pranav, Kalyanaraman, Lochana, Gamare, Arsh, Bagad, Arnav, Esteva, Maria, and Biswas, Joydeep. 2024. “Toward Robust Robot 3-D Perception in Urban Environments: The UT Campus Object Dataset.” IEEE Transactions on Robotics 40 :3322-3340 https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2024.3400831
Zhang, Xiaohan, Amiri, Saeid, Sinapov, Jivko, Thomason, Jesse, Stone, Peter, and Zhang, Shiqi. 2023. “Multimodal embodied attribute learning by robots for object-centric action policies.” Autonomous Robots https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-023-10098-5
Zhou, Xingru, Modak, Sadanand, Chan, Yao-Cheng, Deng, Zhiyun, Sentis, Luis, and Esteva, Maria. 2025. “Curate, Connect, Inquire: A System for Findable Accessible Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) Human-Robot Centered Datasets.” https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2506.00220
Zifan, Xu, Zhang, Yulin, Shperberg, Shahaf, Mirsky, Reuth, Jiang, Yuqian, Liu, Bo, and Stone, Peter. 2023. “Model-Based Meta Automatic Curriculum Learning.” https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/Papers/bib2html-links/CoLLAs2023-ZIFAN.pdf