Research Interests: Human­robot interaction, autonomous navigation,interaction shaping, robot soccer (and cooking)
Research Description:

My work is focussed on fast and scalable interactive robot motion planning that is intention­aware. In particular, I am interested in real­time distributed navigation, constructing interactive motion models of other agents for counterfactual reasoning over their possible goals and intentions. This involves a variety of subproblems ranging from light­weight iterative planners for fluid pedestrian avoidance to intention prediction in dense multi­agent setups. A particularly unique aspect of my approach is that I consider issues such as agent awareness or share­of­effort in navigation I also hope to get involved with causal structure learning and use of natural language.
Publications:

S. Penkov, A. Bordallo, S. Ramamoorthy, Physical symbol grounding and instance learning through demonstration and eye tracking, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017.
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F. Previtali, A. Bordallo, L. Iocchi, S. Ramamoorthy, Predicting Future Agent Motions for Dynamic Environments, IEEE/AMLA International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2016.
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J. Cano Reyes, D. White, A. Bordallo, C. McCreesh, P. Prosser, J. Singer, V. Nagarajan, Task variant allocation in distributed robotics, Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2016.
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J. Cano Reyes, A. Bordallo, V. Nagarajan, S. Ramamoorthy, S. Vijayakumar, Automatic configuration of ROS applications for near-optimal performance, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016.
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S. Penkov, A. Bordallo, S. Ramamoorthy, Inverse eye tracking for intention inference and symbol grounding in human-robot collaboration, Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Planning for Human-Robot Interaction, 2016.
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A. Bordallo, F. Previtali, N. Nardelli, S. Ramamoorthy, Counterfactual reasoning about intent for interactive navigation in dynamic environments, In Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.
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F. Previtali, A. Bordallo, S. Ramamoorthy, IRL-based prediction of goals for dynamic environments, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2015, Workshop on Machine Learning for Social Robotics.
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