Yu ("Tony") Zhang

Journal Papers

• A. Sharma, P. Medikeri, and Y. Zhang
  Domain Concretization From Examples: Addressing Missing Domain Knowledge Via Robust Planning
  in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L/ICRA), 2022
  
  
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker
  IQ-ASyMTRe: Forming Executable Coalitions for Tightly Coupled Multirobot Tasks
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 29(2): 400-416, 2013.
  
  
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker
  Considering Inter-Task Resource Constraints in Task Allocation
  Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, vol. 26, pp. 389-419, 2013.

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Dissertation

• Y. Zhang
  Coalition Formation and Execution in Multi-robot Tasks
  Doctoral Dissertation, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2012.
  

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Conference Papers

• A. Hanni, A. Boateng and Y. Zhang
  Safe Explicable Planning
  in International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2024
  
  
• A. Boateng, W. Zhang and Y. Zhang
  Implicit Projection: Improving Team Situation Awareness for Tacit Human-Robot Interaction via Virtual Shadows
  in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
  
  
• Y. Zhang and M. Bucklew
  Max Markov Chain
  in Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023
  
  
• Y. Zhang
  From Abstractions to Grounded Languages for Robust Coordination of Task Planning Robots
  in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (Extended Abstract), 2023
  
  
• Z. Gong and Y. Zhang
  Explicable Policy Search
  in Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
  
  
• A. Sharma, P. Medikeri, and Y. Zhang
  Domain Concretization From Examples: Addressing Missing Domain Knowledge Via Robust Planning
  in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (RA-L/ICRA), 2022
  
  
• A. Hanni and Y. Zhang
  Generating Active Explicable Plans in Human-Robot Teaming
  in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021
  
  
• M. Zakershahrak, S. Marpally, A. Sharma, Z. Gong, Y. Zhang
  Order Matters: Generating Progressive Explanations for Planning Tasks in Human-Robot Teaming
  in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
  
  
• W. Smith, Y. Zhang
  Achieving Multi-Tasking Robots in Multi-Robot Tasks
  in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
  
  
• A. Hanni and Y. Zhang
  Active Explicable Planning for Human-Robot Teaming
  in ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) LBR, 2021
  
  
• A. Boateng and Y. Zhang
  Virtual Shadow Rendering for Maintaining Situation Awareness in Proximal Human-Robot Teaming
  in ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI) LBR (also in VAM-HRI workshop), 2021
  
  
• M. Zakershahrak, Z. Gong, N. Sadassivam, and Y. Zhang,
  Online Explanation Generation for Human-Robot Teaming
  in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
  
  
• Z. Gong and Y. Zhang
  What Is It You Really Want of Me? Generalized Reward Learning with Biased Beliefs about Domain Dynamics
  in AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) , 2020
  
  
• A. Kulkarni, Y. Zha, T. Chakrabarti, S. Vadlamudi, Y. Zhang and S. Kambhampati,
  Explicability as Minimizing Distance from Expected Behavior
  in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) (Extended Abstract), 2019
  
  
• M. Zakershahrak, A. Sonawane, Z. Gong and Y. Zhang
  Interactive Plan Explicability in Human-Robot Teaming
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2018.
  
  
• Z. Gong and Y. Zhang
  Behavior Explanation as Intention Signaling in Human-Robot Teaming
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2018.
  
  
• Z. Gong and Y. Zhang
  Temporal Spatial Inverse Semantics for Robots Communicating with Humans
  in Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
  Finalist for the Best Paper award in Cognitive Robotics!
  
  
• T. Chakraborti, S. Sreedharan, Y. Zhang, S. Kambhampati
  Plan Explanations as Model Reconciliation: Moving Beyond Explanation as Soliloquy
  in Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2017.
  
  
• Y. Zhang, S. Sreedharan, A. Kulkarni, T. Chakraborti, H. Zhuo, S. Kambhampati
  Plan Explicability and Predictability for Robot Task Planning
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.
  
  
• F. Han, X. Yang, C. Reardon, Y. Zhang, H. Zhang
  Simultaneous Feature and Body-Part Learning for Real-Time Robot Awareness of Human Behaviors
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.
  
  
• F. Han, X. Yang, Y. Zhang, H. Zhang
  Sequence-based Multimodal Apprenticeship Learning For Robot Perception and Decision Making
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.
  
  
• Y. Zhang, S. Sreedharan and S. Kambhampati
  A Formal Analysis of Required Cooperation in Multi-agent Planning
  in International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2016.
  
  
• T. Chakraborti, Y. Zhang, S. Kambhampati.
  Planning with Resource Conflicts in Human-Robot Cohabitation
  in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2016.
  
  
• Y. Zhang, V. Narayanan, T. Chakraborti and S. Kambhampati
  A Human Factors Analysis of Proactive Support in Human-robot Teaming
  in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.
  
  
• T. Chakraborti, G. Briggs, K. Talamadupula, Y. Zhang, M. Scheutz, D. Smith and S. Kambhampati
  Planning for Serendipity
  in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.
  
  
• K. Kim, J. Campbel, W. Duong, Y. Zhang and G. Fainekos
  DisCoF+: Asynchronous DisCoF with Flexible Decoupling for Cooperative Pathfinding in Distributed Systems
  in IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2015.
  
  
• Y. Zhang, S. Sreedharan and S. Kambhampati
  Capability Models and Their Applications in Planning
  in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2015.
  Talk Slides (additional discussion and clarifications)
  
  
• Y. Zhang, K. Kim and G. Fainekos
  DisCoF: Cooperative Pathfinding in Distributed Systems with Limited Sensing and Communication Range
  in International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2014.
  
  
• Y. Zhang, L. E. Parker and S. Kambhampati
  Coalition Coordination for Tightly Coupled Multirobot Tasks with Sensor Constraints
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
  
  
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker
  Multi-Robot Task Scheduling
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.
  
  
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker
  Task Allocation with Executable Coalitions in Multirobot Tasks
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012.
  
  
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker
  Solution Space Reasoning to Improve IQ-ASyMTRe in Tightly-Coupled Multirobot Tasks
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
  
  
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker
  IQ-ASyMTRe: Synthesizing Coalition Formation and Execution for Tightly-Coupled Multirobot Tasks
  in Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010.
  
  
• Y. Zhang and L. E. Parker
  A General Information Quality Based Approach for Satisfying Sensor Constraints in Multirobot Tasks
  in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010.

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Workshop Papers

• Z. Gong and Y. Zhang
  Explicable Policy Search via Preference-Based Learning under Human Biases
  in ICML Workshop on Human in the Loop Learning, 2021.
  
  
• M. Zakershahrak, Z. Gong, N. Sadassivam, A. Hanni, Y. Zhang
  Online Explanation Generation for Human-Robot Teaming
  in ICAPS Workshop on Explainable AI Planning, 2019.
  
  
• Z. Chen and Y. Zhang
  Explain by Goal Augmentation: Explanation Generation as Inverse Planning
  in RSS Workshop on Adversarial Robotics, 2018.
  
  
• M. Zakershahrak, Y. Zhang
  Interactive Plan Explicability in Human-Robot Teaming
  in RSS Workshop on Towards a framework for Joint Action, 2018.
  
  
• A. Kulkarni, Y. Zha, T. Chakraborti, S. Vadlamudi, Y. Zhang, S. Kambhampati
  Explicability as Minimizing Distance from Expected Behavior
  in ICAPS Workshop on Explainable AI Planning, 2018.
  
  
• Ze Gong and Yu Zhang
  Robot Signaling its Intentions in Human-Robot Teaming
  in HRI Workshop on Explainable Robotic Systems, 2018.
  
  
• Yu Zhang, Sarath Sreedharan, Anagha Kulkarni, Tathagata Chakraborti, Hankz Hankui Zhuo and Subbarao Kambhampati
  Plan explicability for robot task planning
  in RSS Workshop on Planning for Human-Robot Interaction, 2016.
  
  
• Tathagata Chakraborti, Kartik Talamadupula, Yu Zhang and Subbarao Kambhampati
  A Formal Framework for Studying Interaction in Human-Robot Societies
  in AAAI Workshop on Symbiotic Cognitive Systems, 2016.
  
  
• V. Narayanan, Y. Zhang, N. Mendoza and S. Kambhampati
  Automated Planning for Peer-to-peer Teaming and its Evaluation in Remote Human-Robot Interaction
  Extended Abstract in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), 2015.
  
  
• Y. Zhang and S. Kambhampati
  A Formal Analysis of Required Cooperation in Multi-agent Planning
  in DMAP Workshop of International Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2014.

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Talks

• Minimality in Multi-robot Systems
  RSS Workshop on Planning for Human-Robot Interaction, Ann Arbor, 2016.
  
  
• A Formal Analysis of Required Cooperation in Multi-agent Planning
  DMAP Workshop of International Conference on Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2014.
  
  
• Coalition Coordination for Tightly Coupled Multirobot Tasks with Sensor Constraints
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014.
  
  
• Multi-Robot Task Scheduling
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
  
  
• Task Allocation with Executable Coalitions in Multirobot Tasks
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Saint Paul, Minnesota, 2012.
  
  
• Solution Space Reasoning to Improve IQ-ASyMTRe in Tightly-Coupled Multirobot Tasks
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, 2011.
  
  
• IQ-ASyMTRe: Synthesizing Coalition Formation and Execution for Tightly-Coupled Multirobot Tasks
  IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2010.
  
  
• A General Information Quality Based Approach for Satisfying Sensor Constraints in Multirobot Tasks
  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, 2010.