Learning from My Partner’s Actions: Roles in Decentralized Robot Teams


When groups robots work together, their actions communicate valuable information. We introduce a collaborative learning and control strategy that enables robots to harness the information contained within their partner's actions.

Influencing Leading and Following in Human-Robot Teams


So much of our lives centers around coordinating in groups. As robots become increasingly integrated into society, they should be able to similarly coordinate well with human groups. However, influencing groups of people is challenging. Our goal is to develop a framework that enables robots to model and influence human groups that is scalable with the number of human agents.

Learning Reward Functions by Integrating Human Demonstrations and Preferences


When learning from humans, we typically use data from only one form of human feedback. In this work, we investigate whether we can leverage data from multiple modes of feedback to learn more effectively from humans.

Altruistic Autonomy: Beating Congestion on Shared Roads


We develop a mathematical model to analyze the effects of autonomous cars on traffic congestion. We present new notions of equilibria for shared roads where autonomous cars are present and are possibly altruistic. Our realistic simulations show that autonomous cars can half the latency, and altruism halves it again.