Current Work
My current work centers around the broad problem of human-robot teaming; that is, considering the issues involved when supporting the execution of a robot in scenarios involving humans in a commanding role. In specific, we are trying to solve the problem of having a high-level task-planner control and plan for a robot that has to act in a constantly changing world. The robot that we currently plan for is a rescue robot that goes into buildings that are deemed unsafe for human actors and reports the locations of valuable assets (e.g. injured humans).
Here is a link to my CV
Publications
Tell Me When and Why to Do It!: Run-time Planner Model Updates via Natural Language Instruction [pdf]
R. Cantrell, K. Talamadupula, P. Schermerhorn, J.Benton, S. Kambhampati, M. Scheutz.
To Appear in HRI 2012.
Integrating a Closed World Planner with an Open World Robot [pdf]
K. Talamadupula, J. Benton, P. Schermerhorn, S. Kambhampati, M. Scheutz.
Proceedings of AAAI 2010; Atlanta GA.
G-value Plateaus: A Challenge for Planning [pdf]
J. Benton, K. Talamadupula, P. Eyerich, R. Mattmüller, S. Kambhampati.
In Proceedings of ICAPS 2010; Toronto, Canada.
Finding and Exploiting Goal Opportunities in Real-time during Plan Execution [pdf]
P. Schermerhorn, J. Benton, M. Scheutz, K. Talamadupula, S. Kambhampati.
In the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Presented by Paul Schermerhorn.
Evaluating Temporal Planning Domains [pdf]
William Cushing, Daniel S. Weld, Mausam, Subbarao Kambhampati, Kartik Talamadupula.
In Proceedings of ICAPS 2007
Presented by William Cushing.
Also in the ICAPS 2007 Workshop on the International Planning Competition.
Planning for Human-Robot Teaming in Open Worlds [pdf]
K. Talamadupula, J. Benton, S. Kambhampati, P. Schermerhorn, M. Scheutz
ACM
Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
Special Issue on Applications of Automated
Planning
Accepted: Jun 2010; Published: Nov 2010.
Planning for Agents with Changing Goals
K. Talamadupula, P. Schermerhorn, J. Benton, S. Kambhampati, M. Scheutz
ICAPS 2011 Systems Demos and Exhibits
Placed 3rd for the "Best Demo" Award
Planning for Human-Robot Teaming [pdf]
K. Talamadupula, S. Kambhampati, P. Schermerhorn, J. Benton, M. Scheutz
ICAPS 2011 Scheduling and Planning Applications Workshop (SPARK)
Integrating a Closed World Planner
with an Open World Robot: A Case Study
[pdf] [slideshow] (MS Office 2007+
only)
K. Talamadupula, J. Benton, P. Schermerhorn, S. Kambhampati, M. Scheutz.
ICAPS 2009 Workshop on Bridging the Gap Between Task and Motion Planning.
Also accepted to the ICAPS 2009 Doctoral Consortium [pdf]
A Heuristic for Soft Deadline Goals
J. Benton, Kartik Talamadupula, Subbarao Kambhampati.
In the ICAPS 2008 Doctoral Consortium. Presented by J. Benton.
Here is an exhaustive list of the Yochan research group's publications, maintained by Rao.
- TAMPRA 2012: Program Committee
- AAAI 2011: Auxiliary Reviewer
- ICAPS 2009: Auxiliary Reviewer
Erdös Number
My Erdös Number is 3. I arrived at this number in the following manner:
William Cushing -> Henry Kierstead -> Paul Erdös