Robot Teaching and Learning from Human Demonstration Publication List

[12] A. Tyshka and W.-Y. G. Louie, “Effects of Interpretability Methods for Understanding Failures in Social Robot Learning ,” in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2025. Under Review.

[11] A. Tyshka and W.-Y. G. Louie, “Interactive Task Learning for Social Robots: A Pilot Study,” in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2023, pp. 1-7, Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341713. [Accepted PDF Pre-Print]

[10] P. Shahverdi, A. Tyshka, M. Trombly, and W.-Y. G. Louie, “Learning Turn-Taking Behavior from Human Demonstrations for Social Human-Robot Interactions,” IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022, pp. 7643-7649, Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981243 [Accepted PDF Pre-Print]

[9] A. Tyshka and W.-Y. G. Louie, "Transparent Learning from Demonstration for Robot-Mediated Therapy," IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2022, pp. 891-897, Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900854 [Accepted PDF Pre-Print]

[8] Q. Chen, E. Dallas, P. Shahverdi, J. Korneder, O. A. Rawashdeh, and W.-Y. G. Louie, “A Sample Efficiency Improved Method via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2022, pp. 1498-1505, Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900738

[7] T. Zhang, K. Zhang; J. Lin, W.-Y. G. Louie, and H. Huang, “Sim2Real Learning of Obstacle Avoidance for Robotic Manipulators in Uncertain Environments,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 65-72, 2021, Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2021.3116700.

[6] A. Hijaz, J. Korneder, and W.-Y. G. Louie, “In-the-Wild Learning from Demonstration for Therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder,” IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021, pp. 1224-1229, Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515439. [Accepted PDF Pre-Print]

[5] R. Kulikovskiy, M. Sochanski, A. Hijaz, M. Eaton, J. Korneder, and W.-Y. G. Louie, “Can Therapists Design Robot-Mediated Interventions and Teleoperate Robots Using VR to Deliver Interventions for ASD?,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021, pp. 3669-3676, Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICRA48506.2021.9561112 [Accepted PDF Pre-Print]

 [4] W.-Y. G. Louie and G. Nejat, “A Social Robot Learning to Facilitate an Assistive Group-Based Activity from Non-expert Caregivers,” International Journal of Social Robotics, 2020, Available: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00621-4

[3] T. Zhang, W.-Y. G. Louie, G. Nejat, and B. Benhabib, “Robot Imitation Learning of Social Gestures with Self-Collision Avoidance Using a 3D Sensor,” Sensors, vol. 18, no. 7, pp. 1-17, 2018, Available: https://doi.org/10.3390/s18072355.

[2] W.-Y. G. Louie and G. Nejat, “A learning from demonstration system architecture for robots learning social group recreational activities,” in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016, pp. 808–814, Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2016.7759144.

[1] W.-Y. G. Louie, F. Despond, and G. Nejat, “Social robot learning from demonstration to facilitate a group activity for older adults,” in IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems Workshop on Bridging User Needs to Deployed Applications of Service Robots, 2015, pp. 1–6.