Publications

2024

PECAN: Personalizing Robot Behaviors through a Learned Canonical Space
H. Nemlekar, R. R. Sanchez, and D. P. Losey
In submission to ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (T-HRI)
[PDF]

Proactive Contingency-Aware Task Allocation and Scheduling in Multi-Robot Multi-Human Cells Via Hindsight Optimization
N. Dhanaraj, H. Nemlekar, S. Nikolaidis, and S. K. Gupta
In submission to IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

Kiri-Spoon: A Soft Shape-Changing Utensil for Robot-Assisted Feeding
M. N. Keely, H. Nemlekar, and D. P. Losey
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[PDF]

Accelerating Interface Adaptation with User-Friendly Priors
B. A. Christie, H. Nemlekar, and D. P. Losey
In preparation for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[PDF]

Selecting Source Tasks for Transfer Learning of Human Preferences
H. Nemlekar, N. Dasan, S. Banga, N. Dhanaraj, S. K. Gupta, and S. Nikolaidis
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
[Paper]

Multi-Robot Task Allocation Under Uncertainty Via Hindsight Optimization
N. Dhanaraj, J. H. Kang, A. Mukherjee, H. Nemlekar, S. Nikolaidis, and S. K. Gupta
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
[Paper]

2023

Surrogate Assisted Generation of Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios
V. Bhatt, H. Nemlekar, M. C. Fontaine, B. Tjanaka, H. Zhang, Y. C. Hsu, and S. Nikolaidis
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
[Paper] [PDF]

Transfer Learning of Human Preferences for Proactive Robot Assistance in Assembly Tasks
H. Nemlekar, N. Dhanaraj, A. Guan, S. K. Gupta, and S. Nikolaidis
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
(Best Systems Paper Finalist)
[Paper] [PDF]


2022

Towards Transferring Human Preferences from Canonical to Actual Assembly Tasks
H. Nemlekar, R. Guan, G. Luo, S. K. Gupta, and S. Nikolaidis
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
[Paper] [PDF]

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

2021

Robotic Lime Picking by Considering Leaves as Permeable Obstacles
H. Nemlekar*, Z. Liu*, S. Kothawade, S. Niyaz, B. Raghavan, and S. Nikolaidis (*equal contribution)
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
[Paper] [PDF]


Two-Stage Clustering of Human Preferences for Action Prediction in Assembly Tasks
H. Nemlekar, J. Modi, S. K. Gupta, and S. Nikolaidis
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2021.
[Paper] [PDF]


2020

Fair Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits: Theory and Experiments
Y. Chen*, A. Cuellar, H. Luo, J. Modi, H. Nemlekar, and S. Nikolaidis (*all authors contributed equally)
Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
[Extended Abstract] [Paper] [PDF]

2019

Inferring the Level of Collaboration in Object Handover Tasks: From 1-to-1 to 1-to-Many
H. Nemlekar, Z. Li
ICRA 2019 Workshop on Robot Teammates Operating in Dynamic, Unstructured Environments (RT-DUNE)
[PDF]

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

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

2018

Prompt Human to Robot Handovers by Estimation of Object Transfer Point based on Human Partner’s Motion
Heramb Nemlekar, Dharini Dutia, Zhi Li
IROS 2018 Workshop on Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manipulation
[PDF]

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

2016

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