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Welcome to request drafts for both the submissions and papers. Below list contains all publications for journals and conference; and workshops.
Welcome to request drafts for both the submissions and papers. Below list contains all publications for journals and conference; and workshops.
2024
NEW! Trust-Aware Reflective Control for Fault-Resilient Dynamic Task Response in Human-Swarm Cooperation
Yibei Guo, Yijiang Pang, Joseph Lyons, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, Rui Liu
Journal of Aritificial Intelligence, accepted 2024 Feb 13.
Yibei Guo, Yijiang Pang, Joseph Lyons, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, Rui Liu
Journal of Aritificial Intelligence, accepted 2024 Feb 13.
2023
Understanding the Application of Utility Theory in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence:A Survey [PDF]
Qin Yang, Rui Liu
arXiv:2306.09445 [cs.RO], 2023 June submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems.arXiv:2306.09445 [cs.RO]
Qin Yang, Rui Liu
arXiv:2306.09445 [cs.RO], 2023 June submitted to Robotics and Autonomous Systems.arXiv:2306.09445 [cs.RO]
Fairness-Sensitive Policy-Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Reducing Bias in Robotic Assistance [PDF]
Jie Zhu, Mengsha Hu, Xueyao Liang, Amy Zhang, Ruoming Jin, Rui Liu
arXiv:2306.04167 [cs.RO], 2023 June submitted to IEEE RAL.
Jie Zhu, Mengsha Hu, Xueyao Liang, Amy Zhang, Ruoming Jin, Rui Liu
arXiv:2306.04167 [cs.RO], 2023 June submitted to IEEE RAL.
Automated phase segmentation and quantification of high-resolution TEM image for alloy design [PDF]
Sen Liu, Behnam Amin-Ahmadi, Rui Liu, Qiaojie Zheng, Xiaoli Zhang
Materials Characterization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2023.112779, 2023 March. (IF=4.537)
Sen Liu, Behnam Amin-Ahmadi, Rui Liu, Qiaojie Zheng, Xiaoli Zhang
Materials Characterization, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchar.2023.112779, 2023 March. (IF=4.537)
2022
NEW! Bio-Inspired First Response Mechnism for a Safe Multi UAV Teaming
Z Zhao, B He, W Luo, Rui Liu*
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), accepted at June 2022.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022), accepted at June 2022. (RAL&IROS IP policy)
[arXivPDF]
Z Zhao, B He, W Luo, Rui Liu*
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), accepted at June 2022.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2022), accepted at June 2022. (RAL&IROS IP policy)
[arXivPDF]
NEW! Design Attention Awareness Among Robots for Uncertainty-Adaptive Heterogeneous Teaming
Chao Huang, Rui Liu*
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), accepted at 2022 March.
[PDF]
NEW! Cooperative-Competitive Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning for Attack Analysis in Multi-Robot Deployments- Under Review
R. Wang, S. Jiang, Rui Liu*
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), submitted 2022.
[arXivPDF]
Chao Huang, Rui Liu*
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), accepted at 2022 March.
[PDF]
NEW! Cooperative-Competitive Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning for Attack Analysis in Multi-Robot Deployments- Under Review
R. Wang, S. Jiang, Rui Liu*
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), submitted 2022.
[arXivPDF]
HRI & AI Transparency
NEW! Smart Power Supply for Agility Enhanced UAV Motion Planning - Under Review
Y. Liu, X. Chen, Y. Du, Rui Liu
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), submitted at June.
[arXivPDF]
NEW! Smart Power Supply for Agility Enhanced UAV Motion Planning - Under Review
Y. Liu, X. Chen, Y. Du, Rui Liu
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), submitted at June.
[arXivPDF]
Trust Aware Emergency Response for A Resilient Human-Swarm Cooperative System - Under Review
Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
Journal of Robotics & Intelligent System, 2022.
Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
Journal of Robotics & Intelligent System, 2022.
2021
2021
IROS2021 workshop series
Fast User Adaptation in Multi-Robot Deployments
Chao Huang, Wenhao Luo, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshop, accepted Sep 2021.
Trust Learning for Human-Load-Reduced Robot Deployments
Yijiang Pang, Chao Huang, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshp, accepted Sep 2021.
Correcting Robot Mistakes with Human-to-Robot Attention
Ruijiao Luo, Chao Huang, Yuntao Peng, Boyi Song, Xiaoli Zhang, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshop, accepted Sep 2021.
Environment-Driven Multi UAV-UGV Teaming
Qifei Yu, Zhexin Shen, Yijiang Pang, Ou Ma, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshop, accepted Sep 2021.
Fast User Adaptation in Multi-Robot Deployments
Chao Huang, Wenhao Luo, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshop, accepted Sep 2021.
Trust Learning for Human-Load-Reduced Robot Deployments
Yijiang Pang, Chao Huang, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshp, accepted Sep 2021.
Correcting Robot Mistakes with Human-to-Robot Attention
Ruijiao Luo, Chao Huang, Yuntao Peng, Boyi Song, Xiaoli Zhang, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshop, accepted Sep 2021.
Environment-Driven Multi UAV-UGV Teaming
Qifei Yu, Zhexin Shen, Yijiang Pang, Ou Ma, Rui Liu
IEEE IROS workshop, accepted Sep 2021.
Trust-Aware Emergency Response for A Resilient Human-Swarm Cooperative System #trust#multi-UAVs#
Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
IEEE SSRR, accepted at Aug 2021.
Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
IEEE SSRR, accepted at Aug 2021.
Meta Human Preference Learning for Adaptive Multi UAV Teaming #multi robot system#
Chao Huang, Wenhao Luo, Rui Liu*
IEEE IROS, accepted at July 2021. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 63)
Chao Huang, Wenhao Luo, Rui Liu*
IEEE IROS, accepted at July 2021. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 63)
Synthesized Trust Learning from Limited Human Feedback for Human-Load-Reduced Multi-Robot Deployments
Yijiang Pang, Chao Huang, Rui Liu*
IEEE RO-MAN, accepted at 2021 June. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 27)
Yijiang Pang, Chao Huang, Rui Liu*
IEEE RO-MAN, accepted at 2021 June. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 27)
Repairing Human Trust by Promptly Correcting Robot Mistakes
R. Luo, C. Huang, Y. Peng, B. Song, Rui Liu*
IEEE CASE, , accepted at 2021 May. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 24)
R. Luo, C. Huang, Y. Peng, B. Song, Rui Liu*
IEEE CASE, , accepted at 2021 May. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 24)
Environment-Adaptive Multi UAV-UGV Teaming
Q Yu, Rui Liu*
IEEE CASE, accepted at 2021 May. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 24)
Q Yu, Rui Liu*
IEEE CASE, accepted at 2021 May. [arXivPDF] (H-index: 24)
AI for Metal 3D Printing
A physics-informed machine learning model for porosity analysis in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing
R. Liu, S. Liu, X. Zhang
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-06640-3, 2021. (IF:2.633)
[arXivPDF]
A physics-informed machine learning model for porosity analysis in laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing
R. Liu, S. Liu, X. Zhang
International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-06640-3, 2021. (IF:2.633)
[arXivPDF]
Safe Robot Manipulation by Using a Novel Robot Attention Mechanism
Boyi Song, Yuntao Peng, Ruijiao Luo, Rui Liu*
IEEE CASE, accepted at 2021 May. [arXivPDF](H-index: 24)
[workshop call] Cognitive and Social Aspects in Human Multi Robot/Swarm Interaction
R. Liu, W. Luo, J Meng, C. Nam, A. Hussein, A. Pierson
IEEE IROS 2021, accepted.
Workshop will be hold at Sep. Please submit draft and participate. Link will be released soon.
2020
Proficiency Aware Mixed UAV-UGV Cooperation Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning #multi-robot system# - Under Review
Qi Fei, Zhexin Shen, Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
Autonomous Robots, submitted at 2020 Oct.
[arXiv PDF]
Trust-Aware Reflective Control for Fault-Resilient Task Response in Human-Swarm Cooperation #trust#multi-UAVs# - -- Under Review (in first round revision)
Yijiang Pang, Zekun Cai, Joseph Lyons, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, Rui Liu*
Inner Attention Modeling for Flexible Teaming of Heterogeneous Multi Robots #Attention#multi-UAVs##MARL# -- Under Review
Chao Huang, Michael W. Oppenheimer, Rui Liu*
A Review: robotic systems based on natural language instructions -- Under Review
R. Liu, X. Zhang
[arXiv PDF]
AI for Metal 3D Printing
Semantics based part similarity measurement for experiment simplification in additive manufacturing -- Under Review
R. Liu, S. Liu, X. Zhang
Trustworhty Human-UAV-Team Cooperation
Attentive Multi-Agent Actor Critics for Flexible Teaming of Heterogeneous Multi Robots
Chao Huang, Rui Liu*
Robotics Science and Systems(RSS), Workshop on "Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination", accepted at 2020 June.
[PDF] [spotlight talk]
Trust-Understanding for Swarm Emergency Response #intelligent control#
Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
Robotics Science and Systems(RSS), Workshop on "Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination", accepted at 2020 June.
[PDF] [spotlight talk]
2019
Trustworhty Human-UAV-Team Cooperation
Trust Repairing in Human-Swarm Teams #trust on UAV# #US Airforce Research Lab# [PDF]
R. Liu*, Z. Cai, Joseph Lyons, M Lewis, K Sycara
IEEE RO-MAN, accepted at July 05 2019.
Final list for Best Conference Paper
Trust-Aware Behavior Reflection for Robot Swarm Self-Healing #trust on UAV##US Airforce Research Lab# [PDF]
R. Liu, F Jia, W Luo, M Chandarana, C Nam, M Lewis, K Sycara
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems(AAMAS), accepted at Jan 2019. (acceptance rate: 24%)
Methodologies for natural-language-facilitated human-robot cooperation: A review [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 16(3):1729881419851402, 2019.
2018
Ph.D. Thesis: A Cognitive Comprehension Framework for Human-Centered Situation Learning and Adaptation in Robotics [PDF]
R. Liu
Colorado School of Mines, USA, 2018.
Modeling process–structure–property relationships in additively manufactured alloys with machine learning
B. Kappes, S. Moorthy, H. Geerlings, N. Johnson, T. Gallmeyer, B. Amin-Ahmadi, R. Liu, Xiaoli Zhang, B. Meredig, A. Stebner
Additive Manufacturing and Welding: Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy of Rapidly Solidified Metals, 2018 July.
2017
Considerations for additive manufacturing process optimization [invited by editor]
N. Johnson, R. Liu, D. Drake, B. Meredig, J. Ling, X. Zhang, H. Wang, C. Brice, B. Kappes, A. Stebner
Applied Physics Reviews, 2017. (IF: 13.667.)
Generating machine-executable plan from end-user’s natural language instructions [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
Knowledge-based Systems, DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2017.10.023, 2017.
Intelligent knowledge-sharing networks of 3D metals printers
R. Liu, X. Zhang, B. Kappes, A. Stebner
Recent advances in integrated computational and experimental methods for additive manufacturing, 2017.
Stabilization and trajectory of a quadrotor with uncertain suspended load [PDF] #control#
Xu Zhou, X. Zhang, J. Zhang, R. Liu
2016
Web-video-mining-supported workflow modeling for robotic surgeries [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang, H. Zhang
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 74, pp. 9-20, 2016.
Context-specific grounding of web natural descriptions to human-centered situations [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
Knowledge-based Systems, vol. 111, pp. 1-16, 2016.
Fuzzy-context-specific intention inference for robotic caregiving [PDF]
R Liu, X. Zhang
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol.13(5), 2016.
Natural-language-assisted industrial task execution [PDF]
R. Liu, J. Webb and X. Zhang
International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Comuters & Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC), Aug 2016.
Stabilization of a quadrotor with uncertain suspended load using sliding mode control [PDF] #control#
Xu Zhou, R. Liu, J. Zhang, X. Zhang
International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers & Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC), Aug 2016.
2015
Context-specific intention awareness through web query in robotic caregiving [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015. (H-index:105. Acceptance rate: 34.7%, Robotics: 1%)
Final list for Best Conference Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Cognitive Robotics Paper: awarding rate 1.7%
Understanding human behaviors with an object functional role perspective for robotics [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 115-127, 2015.
2014
Use context to understand user's implicit intentions in activities of daily living [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), Aug. 2014.
An active control method of suppressing the actuator mutual interference [PDF] #control#
R. Liu, Zhiyi Zhang, Xinghong Hua
Noise and Vibration Control, 33(5), pp. 158-160, 2013.
Synchronous double-moving-body moving device #control#
R. Liu
C.N. Patent 102767418.
Volume cavity device internally provided with spring #control#
R. Liu
C.N. Patent 102767419.
Exhaust device with spring and moving body #control#
R. Liu
C.N. Patent 202718736.
Master Thesis: Research on multi-channel adaptive control of vibration [PDF]
R. Liu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2013.
* denotes the corresponding author.
All the jorunal ranking data (Impact Factor. Category: rank in total, quartile.) comes from Web of Science Journal Citation Reports (JCR) at the years papers published.
Boyi Song, Yuntao Peng, Ruijiao Luo, Rui Liu*
IEEE CASE, accepted at 2021 May. [arXivPDF](H-index: 24)
[workshop call] Cognitive and Social Aspects in Human Multi Robot/Swarm Interaction
R. Liu, W. Luo, J Meng, C. Nam, A. Hussein, A. Pierson
IEEE IROS 2021, accepted.
Workshop will be hold at Sep. Please submit draft and participate. Link will be released soon.
2020
Proficiency Aware Mixed UAV-UGV Cooperation Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning #multi-robot system# - Under Review
Qi Fei, Zhexin Shen, Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
Autonomous Robots, submitted at 2020 Oct.
[arXiv PDF]
Trust-Aware Reflective Control for Fault-Resilient Task Response in Human-Swarm Cooperation #trust#multi-UAVs# - -- Under Review (in first round revision)
Yijiang Pang, Zekun Cai, Joseph Lyons, Michael Lewis, Katia Sycara, Rui Liu*
Inner Attention Modeling for Flexible Teaming of Heterogeneous Multi Robots #Attention#multi-UAVs##MARL# -- Under Review
Chao Huang, Michael W. Oppenheimer, Rui Liu*
A Review: robotic systems based on natural language instructions -- Under Review
R. Liu, X. Zhang
[arXiv PDF]
AI for Metal 3D Printing
Semantics based part similarity measurement for experiment simplification in additive manufacturing -- Under Review
R. Liu, S. Liu, X. Zhang
Trustworhty Human-UAV-Team Cooperation
Attentive Multi-Agent Actor Critics for Flexible Teaming of Heterogeneous Multi Robots
Chao Huang, Rui Liu*
Robotics Science and Systems(RSS), Workshop on "Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination", accepted at 2020 June.
[PDF] [spotlight talk]
Trust-Understanding for Swarm Emergency Response #intelligent control#
Yijiang Pang, Rui Liu*
Robotics Science and Systems(RSS), Workshop on "Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination", accepted at 2020 June.
[PDF] [spotlight talk]
2019
Trustworhty Human-UAV-Team Cooperation
Trust Repairing in Human-Swarm Teams #trust on UAV# #US Airforce Research Lab# [PDF]
R. Liu*, Z. Cai, Joseph Lyons, M Lewis, K Sycara
IEEE RO-MAN, accepted at July 05 2019.
Final list for Best Conference Paper
Trust-Aware Behavior Reflection for Robot Swarm Self-Healing #trust on UAV##US Airforce Research Lab# [PDF]
R. Liu, F Jia, W Luo, M Chandarana, C Nam, M Lewis, K Sycara
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems(AAMAS), accepted at Jan 2019. (acceptance rate: 24%)
Methodologies for natural-language-facilitated human-robot cooperation: A review [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 16(3):1729881419851402, 2019.
2018
Ph.D. Thesis: A Cognitive Comprehension Framework for Human-Centered Situation Learning and Adaptation in Robotics [PDF]
R. Liu
Colorado School of Mines, USA, 2018.
Modeling process–structure–property relationships in additively manufactured alloys with machine learning
B. Kappes, S. Moorthy, H. Geerlings, N. Johnson, T. Gallmeyer, B. Amin-Ahmadi, R. Liu, Xiaoli Zhang, B. Meredig, A. Stebner
Additive Manufacturing and Welding: Physical and Mechanical Metallurgy of Rapidly Solidified Metals, 2018 July.
2017
Considerations for additive manufacturing process optimization [invited by editor]
N. Johnson, R. Liu, D. Drake, B. Meredig, J. Ling, X. Zhang, H. Wang, C. Brice, B. Kappes, A. Stebner
Applied Physics Reviews, 2017. (IF: 13.667.)
Generating machine-executable plan from end-user’s natural language instructions [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
Knowledge-based Systems, DOI:10.1016/j.knosys.2017.10.023, 2017.
Intelligent knowledge-sharing networks of 3D metals printers
R. Liu, X. Zhang, B. Kappes, A. Stebner
Recent advances in integrated computational and experimental methods for additive manufacturing, 2017.
Stabilization and trajectory of a quadrotor with uncertain suspended load [PDF] #control#
Xu Zhou, X. Zhang, J. Zhang, R. Liu
2016
Web-video-mining-supported workflow modeling for robotic surgeries [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang, H. Zhang
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, vol. 74, pp. 9-20, 2016.
Context-specific grounding of web natural descriptions to human-centered situations [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
Knowledge-based Systems, vol. 111, pp. 1-16, 2016.
Fuzzy-context-specific intention inference for robotic caregiving [PDF]
R Liu, X. Zhang
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol.13(5), 2016.
Natural-language-assisted industrial task execution [PDF]
R. Liu, J. Webb and X. Zhang
International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Comuters & Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC), Aug 2016.
Stabilization of a quadrotor with uncertain suspended load using sliding mode control [PDF] #control#
Xu Zhou, R. Liu, J. Zhang, X. Zhang
International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers & Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC), Aug 2016.
2015
Context-specific intention awareness through web query in robotic caregiving [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2015. (H-index:105. Acceptance rate: 34.7%, Robotics: 1%)
Final list for Best Conference Paper, Best Student Paper, Best Cognitive Robotics Paper: awarding rate 1.7%
Understanding human behaviors with an object functional role perspective for robotics [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 115-127, 2015.
2014
Use context to understand user's implicit intentions in activities of daily living [PDF]
R. Liu, X. Zhang
IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation (ICMA), Aug. 2014.
An active control method of suppressing the actuator mutual interference [PDF] #control#
R. Liu, Zhiyi Zhang, Xinghong Hua
Noise and Vibration Control, 33(5), pp. 158-160, 2013.
Synchronous double-moving-body moving device #control#
R. Liu
C.N. Patent 102767418.
Volume cavity device internally provided with spring #control#
R. Liu
C.N. Patent 102767419.
Exhaust device with spring and moving body #control#
R. Liu
C.N. Patent 202718736.
Master Thesis: Research on multi-channel adaptive control of vibration [PDF]
R. Liu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2013.
* denotes the corresponding author.
All the jorunal ranking data (Impact Factor. Category: rank in total, quartile.) comes from Web of Science Journal Citation Reports (JCR) at the years papers published.