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Research

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+ CRA CIFellows 2021 + + (Accepted) + +
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+ Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for my work on Cornell’s Foundations of Robotics course +
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+ Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for my work on Cornell’s Introductory CS course +
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+ Louis T. Rader Outstanding Education Undergraduate Student Award for my work as a teaching assistant for the University of Virginia’s Computer Science department +
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I'm on the job market!
I'm interested in both tenure-track + academic positions and full-time researcher positions in industry.

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I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Kavraki Lab at Rice University. I work with Professor Lydia Kavraki on combining symbolic and geometric planning. Specifically, I’m interested in improving the efficiency, robustness, and utility of robot task and motion planning (TMP), with a particular focus on making TMP under uncertainty practically useful.

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Though I primarily research robot planning, I’m also interested in ML and formal methods for robotics, robotics research broadly, and programming languages. I am graciously funded by the CRA CIFellows 2021 postdoctoral fellowship.

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Research

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I work on combining symbolic and geometric planning, often referred to as “integrated task and motion planning”. My work explores approaches to task and motion planning that provide high performance and robustness to action failure with lightweight domain-specific assumptions. I also research approaches to improved planning effort reuse through abstract plan representation and fusions of classical planning with modern machine learning for more efficient, automatic planning and execution.

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For more about my research, please see my publication and presentation list.

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News

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Sep 2023
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I have a new preprint with
Zak Kingston
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Lydia Kavraki
+ on vector-accelerated sampling-based motion planning.
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I have a new preprint with
Carlos Quintero-Peña
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Zak Kingston
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Lydia Kavraki
+ on risk-minimizing motion planning under uncertainty using a learned implicit distance model.
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Jul 2023
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I’ve been invited to participate in the NSF-sponsored Workshop on Software Engineering for Robotic Systems at IROS 2023.
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Oct 2022
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I’m organizing and running the Workshop on Evaluating Motion Planning Performance at IROS 2022. Come by on Oct. 23!
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Jul 2022
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My paper with
Marlin Strub
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Jon Gammell
+, Task and Motion Informed Trees (TMIT*): Almost-Surely Asymptotically Optimal Integrated Task and Motion Planning, has been accepted to IEEE RA-L and IROS 2022
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Jan 2022
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I’ve started at the Kavraki Lab
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Aug 2021
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I successfully defended my PhD!
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Jul 2021
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I have been awarded the CRA CIFellows 2021 postdoctoral fellowship to conduct a 2-year postdoctoral appointment with
Professor Lydia Kavraki
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I helped to organize and run the RSS Pioneers 2021
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Jul 2020
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I will be helping to organize RSS Pioneers 2021 as a member of the Faculty Committee
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Apr 2020
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I was accepted to the 2020 RSS Pioneers workshop (33.7% acceptance rate)
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Jul 2019
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My paper with
Ross Knepper
+, “A Unified Sampling-Based Approach to Integrated Task and Motion Planning” was accepted to ISRR 2019
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My workshop paper with
Ross Knepper
+, “A Flexible Sampling-Based Approach to Task and Motion Planning”, will be presented at RSS 2019 in the Robust Task and Motion Planning workshop
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I passed my A Exam, presenting on “An Efficient, Flexible Sampling-Based Approach to Integrated Task and Motion Planning”. I’m now a PhD candidate
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Nov 2017
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My paper with
Christoforos Mavrogiannis
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Ross Knepper
+, “Social Momentum: A Framework for Legible Navigation in Dynamic Multi-Agent Environments”, was accepted to HRI 2018
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I presented my workshop paper “Exploiting Heterogeneity in Robot Teams Through a Formalism of Capabilities” at RSS 2017 in the workshop on Heterogeneity and Diversity for Resilience in Multi-Robot Systems
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I was awarded the NDSEG Fellowship
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Mar 2017
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I was awarded the NSF GRFP Fellowship
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Oct 2016
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I presented my paper “Zero-Shot Learning for Unfamiliar Gesture Recognition” at ISER 2016
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Jun 2016
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I presented my workshop paper “Recognizing Unfamiliar Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction through Zero-Shot Learning” at RSS 2016 in the 2nd Workshop on Model Learning for Human-Robot Communication
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My paper “Zero-Shot Learning for Unfamiliar Gesture Recognition” was accepted to ISER 2016
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Service and Outreach

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  • + I was a faculty chair for + RSS Pioneers 2021, helping to recruit invited speakers and design the program for the + workshop +
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  • + I served as a reviewer for AURO, Black in AI (2017-2020), ICRA + (2016, 2019-2023), IJCAI 2021, IJRR (2022), IROS (2017, 2022, 2023), MRS 2019, + RA-L (2021-2023), RSS (2019), SIMPAR (2018), T-ASE (2020), and WAFR (2018). +
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  • + I was a mentor for + Black in AI, providing assistance + and advice to my mentee on his Ph.D. program application process. (Fall 2019 + - Spring 2020) +
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  • + I helped review extended abstracts for the + Black in AI workshop. (Fall 2017, + 2018, 2019, and 2020) +
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  • + I taught 7th and 8th grade girls about state machines and programming + at Cornell’s + Expanding your Horizons + conference. (Spring 2016, 2017, and 2018) +
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2023
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+ “Motions in Microseconds via Vectorized Sampling-Based Planning” +
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+@online{thomason_motions_microseconds_2023,
+  title = {Motions in {{Microseconds}} via {{Vectorized Sampling-Based Planning}}},
+  author = {Thomason, Wil and Kingston, Zachary and Kavraki, Lydia E.},
+  date = {2023-09},
+  eprint = {2309.14545},
+  eprinttype = {arxiv},
+  eprintclass = {cs},
+  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2309.14545},
+  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14545},
+  addendum = {Submitted to ICRA 2024},
+  pubstate = {prepublished},
+  keywords = {Computer Science - Robotics,I.2.8,I.2.9},}
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+ “Stochastic Implicit Neural Signed Distance Functions for Safe Motion Planning under Sensing Uncertainty” +
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+@online{quintero-pena_stochastic_implicit_2023,
+  title = {Stochastic {{Implicit Neural Signed Distance Functions}} for {{Safe Motion Planning}} under {{Sensing Uncertainty}}},
+  author = {Quintero-Peña, Carlos and Thomason, Wil and Kingston, Zachary and Kyrillidis, Anastasios and Kavraki, Lydia E.},
+  date = {2023-09},
+  number = {2309.16862},
+  eprint = {2309.16862},
+  eprinttype = {arxiv},
+  eprintclass = {cs},
+  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2309.16862},
+  url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16862},
+  addendum = {Submitted to ICRA 2024},
+  pubstate = {prepublished},
+  keywords = {Computer Science - Robotics,I.2.8,I.2.9},}
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+ “Accelerating Long-Horizon Planning with Affordance-Directed Dynamic Grounding of Abstract Skills” +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Khen Elimelech, Zachary Kingston, Wil Thomason, Moshe Y. Vardi, and Lydia E. Kavraki. + + + + (under review) + + + +
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+@online{elimelech_accelerating_longhorizon_2023,
+  title = {Accelerating Long-Horizon Planning with Affordance-Directed Dynamic Grounding of Abstract Skills},
+  author = {Elimelech, Khen and Kingston, Zachary and Thomason, Wil and Vardi, Moshe Y. and Kavraki, Lydia E.},
+  date = {2023-09},
+  url = {http://khen.io/icra24appendix.pdf},
+  addendum = {Submitted to ICRA 2024},
+  pubstate = {prepublished},
+  keywords = {submitted}}
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+ “Object Reconfiguration with Simulation-Derived Feasible Actions” +
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+@inproceedings{lee_object_reconfiguration_2023,
+  title = {Object {{Reconfiguration}} with {{Simulation-Derived Feasible Actions}}},
+  booktitle = {{{IEEE International Conference}} on {{Robotics}} and {{Automation}} ({{ICRA}})},
+  author = {Lee, Yiyuan and Thomason, Wil and Kingston, Zachary and Kavraki, Lydia E.},
+  date = {2023-05},
+  pages = {8104--8111},
+  doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160377},
+  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10160377},
+  eventtitle = {{{IEEE International Conference}} on {{Robotics}} and {{Automation}} ({{ICRA}})},}
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2022
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+ “Task and Motion Informed Trees (TMIT*): Almost-Surely Asymptotically Optimal Integrated Task and Motion Planning” +
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+@article{thomason_task_motion_2022,
+  title = {Task and {{Motion Informed Trees}} ({{TMIT}}*): {{Almost-Surely Asymptotically Optimal Integrated Task}} and {{Motion Planning}}},
+  shorttitle = {Task and {{Motion Informed Trees}} ({{TMIT}}*)},
+  author = {Thomason, Wil and Strub, Marlin P. and Gammell, Jonathan D.},
+  date = {2022-10},
+  journaltitle = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
+  shortjournal = {IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett.},
+  volume = {7},
+  number = {4},
+  pages = {11370--11377},
+  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2022.3199676},
+  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9869707},}
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2019
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+ “A Unified Sampling-Based Approach to Integrated Task and Motion Planning” +
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+@inproceedings{thomason_unified_samplingbased_2019,
+  title = {A {{Unified Sampling-Based Approach}} to {{Integrated Task}} and {{Motion Planning}}},
+  booktitle = {International {{Symposium}} on {{Robotics Research}}},
+  author = {Thomason, Wil and Knepper, Ross A.},
+  editor = {Asfour, Tamim and Yoshida, Eiichi and Park, Jaeheung and Christensen, Henrik and Khatib, Oussama},
+  date = {2019},
+  series = {Springer {{Proceedings}} in {{Advanced Robotics}}},
+  pages = {773--788},
+  publisher = {{Springer International Publishing}},
+  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-95459-8_47},
+  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-95459-8_47},
+  langid = {english},}
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2018
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+ “Social Momentum: A Framework for Legible Navigation in Dynamic Multi-Agent Environments” +
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+ + pdf + / + + + publisher + / + + bibtex +
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+@inproceedings{mavrogiannis_social_momentum_2018,
+  title = {Social {{Momentum}}: {{A Framework}} for {{Legible Navigation}} in {{Dynamic Multi-Agent Environments}}},
+  shorttitle = {Social {{Momentum}}},
+  booktitle = {{{ACM}}/{{IEEE International Conference}} on {{Human-Robot Interaction}} ({{HRI}})},
+  author = {Mavrogiannis, Christoforos I. and Thomason, Wil B. and Knepper, Ross A.},
+  date = {2018-03},
+  pages = {361--369},
+  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9473631},
+  eventtitle = {{{ACM}}/{{IEEE International Conference}} on {{Human-Robot Interaction}} ({{HRI}})},}
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2016
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+ “Recognizing Unfamiliar Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction Through Zero-Shot Learning” +
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+@inproceedings{thomason_recognizing_unfamiliar_2016,
+  title = {Recognizing {{Unfamiliar Gestures}} for {{Human-Robot Interaction Through Zero-Shot Learning}}},
+  booktitle = {International {{Symposium}} on {{Experimental Robotics}}},
+  author = {Thomason, Wil and Knepper, Ross A.},
+  editor = {Kulić, Dana and Nakamura, Yoshihiko and Khatib, Oussama and Venture, Gentiane},
+  date = {2016},
+  series = {Springer {{Proceedings}} in {{Advanced Robotics}}},
+  pages = {841--852},
+  publisher = {{Springer International Publishing}},
+  doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-50115-4_73},
+  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-50115-4_73},
+  eventtitle = {International {{Symposium}} on {{Experimental Robotics}}},
+  langid = {english},
+  keywords = {Human Teammates,Understandable Gesture,Unfamiliar Gestures,Word Embedding Space,Zero-shot Learning},}
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Journal Publications

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2023
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+ “Counterexample-Guided Repair for Symbolic-Geometric Action Abstractions” +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Wil Thomason and Hadas Kress-Gazit. + + IEEE Transactions on Robotics. + + +
+ + pdf + / + + publisher + / + bibtex +
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+@article{thomason_counterexampleguided_repair_2023,
+  title = {Counterexample-{{Guided Repair}} for {{Symbolic-Geometric Action Abstractions}}},
+  author = {Thomason, Wil and Kress-Gazit, Hadas},
+  date = {2023},
+  journaltitle = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
+  shortjournal = {IEEE Trans. Robot.},
+  pages = {1--14},
+  doi = {10.1109/TRO.2023.3294918},
+  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10214189},}
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2022
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+ “Task and Motion Informed Trees (TMIT*): Almost-Surely Asymptotically Optimal Integrated Task and Motion Planning” +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Wil Thomason, Marlin P. Strub, and Jonathan D. Gammell. + + IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. + + +
+ + pdf + / + + publisher + / + bibtex +
+ 
+@article{thomason_task_motion_2022,
+  title = {Task and {{Motion Informed Trees}} ({{TMIT}}*): {{Almost-Surely Asymptotically Optimal Integrated Task}} and {{Motion Planning}}},
+  shorttitle = {Task and {{Motion Informed Trees}} ({{TMIT}}*)},
+  author = {Thomason, Wil and Strub, Marlin P. and Gammell, Jonathan D.},
+  date = {2022-10},
+  journaltitle = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
+  shortjournal = {IEEE Robot. Autom. Lett.},
+  volume = {7},
+  number = {4},
+  pages = {11370--11377},
+  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2022.3199676},
+  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9869707},}
+}
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+ “Social Momentum: Design and Evaluation of a Framework for Socially Competent Robot Navigation” +
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+ + pdf + / + + publisher + / + bibtex +
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+@article{mavrogiannis_social_momentum_2022,
+  title = {Social {{Momentum}}: {{Design}} and {{Evaluation}} of a {{Framework}} for {{Socially Competent Robot Navigation}}},
+  shorttitle = {Social {{Momentum}}},
+  author = {Mavrogiannis, Christoforos and Alves-Oliveira, Patrícia and Thomason, Wil and Knepper, Ross A.},
+  date = {2022-02-08},
+  journaltitle = {ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction},
+  shortjournal = {J. Hum.-Robot Interact.},
+  volume = {11},
+  number = {2},
+  pages = {14:1--14:37},
+  doi = {10.1145/3495244},
+  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3495244},
+  keywords = {benchmarking,multiagent systems,Social navigation,social robotics},}
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+ “An Accurate Real-Time RFID-based Location System” +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Kirti Chawla, Christopher McFarland, Gabriel Robins, and Wil Thomason. + + International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications. + + +
+ Authors ordered alphabetically. + +
+ + publisher + / + bibtex +
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+@article{chawla_accurate_realtime_2018,
+  title = {An Accurate Real-Time {{RFID-based}} Location System},
+  author = {Chawla, Kirti and McFarland, Christopher and Robins, Gabriel and Thomason, Wil},
+  date = {2018-01},
+  journaltitle = {International Journal of Radio Frequency Identification Technology and Applications},
+  shortjournal = {Int. J. Radio Freq. Identif. Technol. Appl.},
+  volume = {5},
+  number = {1},
+  pages = {48--76},
+  publisher = {{Inderscience Publishers}},
+  doi = {10.1504/IJRFITA.2018.091306},
+  url = {https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJRFITA.2018.091306},
+  keywords = {empirical power-distance relationship,localisation,RFID,RSS,tag-reader pairs},}
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Workshop Presentations

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2017
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+ “Toward Contextual Grounding of Unfamiliar Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction” +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Wil Thomason and Ross A. Knepper. + + Presented at the + + first International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production + + at the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) + +
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+ “Exploiting Heterogeneity in Robot Teams Through a Formalism of Capabilities” +
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +Wil Thomason and Ross A. Knepper. + + Presented at the + + Workshop on Heterogeneity and Diversity for Resilience in Multi-Robot Systems + + at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) + +
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+ “Recognizing Unfamiliar Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction through Zero-Shot Learning” +
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+ “Coordinated Action Among Independent Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems” +
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