Publications

Conferences

  1. H. Nemlekar, N. Dhanaraj, A. Guan, S. K. Gupta and S. Nikolaidis, "Transfer Learning of Human Preferences for Proactive Robot Assistance in Assembly Tasks", ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), March 2023. (Best Systems Paper Finalist). [Paper] [PDF] [Presentation]
  2. H. Nemlekar, R. Guan, G. Luo, S. K. Gupta and S. Nikolaidis, "Towards Transferring Human Preferences from Canonical to Actual Assembly Tasks", IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), August 2022. [Paper] [PDF]

  3. N. Dhanaraj, R. Malhan, H. Nemlekar, S. Nikolaidis and S. K. Gupta, "Human-Guided Goal Assignment to Effectively Manage Workload for a Smart Robotic Assistant", IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, August 2022. [Paper]

  4. H. Nemlekar*, Z. Liu*, S. Kothawade, S. Niyaz, B. Raghavan and S. Nikolaidis, "Robotic Lime Picking by Considering Leaves as Permeable Obstacles", in the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). *equal contribution. [Paper] [PDF]
  5. H. Nemlekar, J. Modi, S. Gupta and S. Nikolaidis, "Two-Stage Clustering of Human Preferences for Action Prediction in Assembly Tasks", in the 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2021. [Paper] [PDF]
  6. Y. Chen*, A. Cuellar, H. Luo, J. Modi, H. Nemlekar and S. Nikolaidis, "Fair Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Experiments", in the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), Aug 2020. *all authors contributed equally. [Paper] [PDF]

  7. Heramb Nemlekar, Dharini Dutia, Zhi Li, “Object Transfer Point Estimation for Fluent Human-Robot Handovers”, in the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). [Paper] [PDF]

Preprints

  1. V. Bhatt, H. Nemlekar, M. Fontaine, B. Tjanaka, H. Zhang, Y.C. Hsu and S. Nikolaidis, "Surrogate Assisted Generation of Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios", arXiv preprint and Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) Workshop on Environment Generation for Generalizable Robots (EGG), July 2023. [PDF]

Journals

  1. A. Deshpande, H. Nemlekar, R. D. Patil, and R. R. Patil, "Theoretical Design and Analysis of Gravity Assisted Heat Pipes", International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol. 5 Issue 2, February 2016. [PDF]

Abstracts / Workshops

  1. H. Nemlekar, R. Guan, G. Luo, S. K. Gupta and S. Nikolaidis, "Towards Transferring Human Preferences from Canonical to Actual Assembly Tasks", ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Workshop on Machine Learning in Human-Robot Collaboration (MLHRC): Bridging the Gap, March 2022.

  2. H. Nemlekar, J. Modi, S. K. Gupta, and S. Nikolaidis, “Two-Stage Clustering of Human Preferences for Action Prediction in Assembly Tasks,” ICRA Workshop on Social Intelligence in Humans and Robots (SIHR), June 2021.

  3. Y. Chen*, A. Cuellar, H. Luo, J. Modi, H. Nemlekar and S. Nikolaidis, "Fair Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Experiments", as Extended Abstract in Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), May 2020. *all authors contributed equally. [PDF]

  4. H. Nemlekar and Z. Li, "Inferring the Level of Collaboration in Object Handover Tasks: From One-to-One to One-to-Many", ICRA 2019 Workshop on Robot Teammates Operating in Dynamic, Unstructured Environments (RT-DUNE), May 2019. [PDF]

  5. A. Valiton, H. Nemlekar, and Z. Li, "Modeling Human Perception-Action Coordination in VR Telepresence", ICRA 2019 Workshop on Robot Teammates Operating in Dynamic, Unstructured Environments (RT-DUNE), May 2019. [PDF]

  6. Heramb Nemlekar, Dharini Dutia and Zhi Li, “Prompt Human to Robot Handovers by Estimation of Object Transfer Point based on Human Partner’s Motion”, IROS 2018 Workshop on Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manipulation: Advancements and Challenges, Madrid, Spain, October, 2018. [PDF]

  7. H. Nemlekar, M. Merlin, J. Chiodini and Zhi Li, High Level Representation of Kinesthetically Learned Motions for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks", RSS 2018 Workshop on Learning from Demonstrations for High Level Robotic Tasks, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2018. [PDF]