Seminars, Lectures and Demonstrations
2016

Collaborative Diagnosis of Over-Subscribed Temporal Plans

PhD Thesis Defense, October 7th, 2016.

[SLIDES]
[THESIS]

An Amazon-Echo Skill for Urban Travel Planning

Planning Your Trip with Uhura through its new Echo Interface!

[LINK TO VIDEO (Boston)]
[LINK TO VIDEO (New York)]

Resolving Over-constrained Conditional Temporal Problems using Semantically Similar Alternatives

IJCAI 2016, July 2016.

[SLIDES]
2015

Resolving Over-subscribed Temporal Planning Problems through Fluent Human-Robot Collaboration

Guest seminar at Nuance NL/AI Research Lab, June 2015. It presents a summary of the research projects I have worked on, and discusses the open questions that will be addressed in my PhD thesis.

[SLIDES]

Diagnosing Over-constrained Temporal Problems

MIT 16.412 Lecture, February 2015. This is an updated version of the research presentation in IJCAI 2013, with more details and examples on the conflict learning and resolution procedures.

[SLIDES]

Resolving Over-constrained Probabilistic Temporal Problems through Chance Constraint Relaxation

AAAI 2015, January 2015.

[POSTER AD] [POSTER]

2014

Resolving Over-subscribed Temporal Planning Problems through Fluent Human-Robot Collaboration

PhD Proposal Defense, September 2014.

[PROPOSAL] [SLIDES]

Resolving Over-constrained Temporal Problems with Uncertain Durations

ICAPS 2014, June 2014.

[SLIDES] [RECORDING]

Resolving Over-constrained Temporal Problems with Uncertain Durations

Guest Seminar at NICTA Canberra Lab, March 2014. This is an extended version of my presentation at ICAPS 2014 with more details on the background and the procedures for extracting conflicts from uncontrollable problems.

[SLIDES]

Plan Advisory System for Scheduling Underwater Mission with Large Temporal Uncertainty [Video]

A short video that introduces the capabilities of our mission advisory system, which is developed for scheduling autonomous underwater vehicle activities. This is joint work with Richard Camilli (WHOI) and Scott Smith (Boeing).

[LINK TO VIDEO]

2013

Goal-directed Software Assistant for a Plan Advisory System

MAS.761 Final Project, December 2013.

[SLIDES] [REPORT]

Continuously Relaxing Over-constrained Conditional Temporal Problems

IJCAI 2013, August 2013.

[SLIDES] [POSTER]

Personal Transportation System: Adapting To User's Inputs During Negotiation [Video]

A video that demonstrates the collaborative plan diagnosis capability, which is enabled by the relaxation algorithm introduced in the IJCAI 2013 paper. This is joint work with Ronald Provine and Scott Smith (Boeing).

[LINK TO VIDEO]

Semantic Relaxation Applied to the Personal Transportation System [Video]

A video that demonstrates the semantic relaxation capability of the collaborative plan diagnosis system. This is joint work with Ronald Provine and Scott Smith (Boeing).

[LINK TO VIDEO]

Intelligent Manufacturing Testbed [Video]

A video that demonstrates the capabilities of an integrated system consists of collaborative plan diagnosis, generative planning and execution monitoring, using an robotic assembly testbed. This is joint work with Steve Levine, David Wang and Pedro Santana (MIT); Ronald Provine and Scott Smith (Boeing).

[LINK TO VIDEO]

2012

Planning T(r)ips for Hybrid Vehicles

16.S949 Student Lecture, May 2012. This is joint work with Andrew Wang.

[SLIDES]

MERS Quadcopter Testbed: An Introduction [Video]

A video that introduces the setup and capability of the MERS quadcopter testbed. This is joint work with Andrew Wang.

[LINK TO VIDEO]

Kinect and ARDrone Integration: Direct Gesture Control Mode [Video]

A video that demonstrates the gesture control mode of the MERS quadcopter testbed. This is joint work with Andrew Wang.

[LINK TO VIDEO]

Kinect and ARDrone Integration: Target Specification Mode [Video]

A video that demonstrates the target specification control mode of the MERS quadcopter testbed. This is joint work with Andrew Wang.

[LINK TO VIDEO]

Temporal Problem Relaxation Through Conflict-Directed Diagnosis

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics PhD Qualifying Exam, January 2012.

[SLIDES]

2011

Personal Transportation System: Resolving Over-constrained Travel Plans [Video]

A video that demonstrates the integration of the temporal constraint relaxation capability with the Personal Transportation System. This is joint work with Hiro Ono and David Wang (MIT); Stanley Peters (Stanford); Ronald Provine and Scott Smith (Boeing).

[LINK TO VIDEO]

Sequential Model-based Diagnosis

16.413 Lecture, December 2011.

[SLIDES]

Personal Transportation System

16.413 Case Study Lecture, October 2011.

[SLIDES]

Plan Diagnosis on AIDA Robot

16.412 Student Lecture, May 2011. This is joint work with Nancy Foen.

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