Publications

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@article{biodiversityres-2025/12,
  title={Biodiversity research requires more motors in air, water and on land},
  author={Qi M, Gadd M, De Martini D, Davis KJ, Xiong B et al.},
  journal={Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
  number={2041-210x.70217},
  publisher={Wiley},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{recedinghorizon-2025/10,
  title={Receding Horizon Control for Signal Temporal Logic Using Robustness-Conserving Partial Formula Evaluation},
  author={Ilyes R, Brudermüller L, Hawes N & Lacerda B},
  journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
  volume={10},
  pages={10775-10782},
  publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{thecomplexitydy-2025/8,
  title={The complexity dynamics of grokking},
  author={DeMoss B, Sapora S, Foerster J, Hawes N & Posner I},
  journal={Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena},
  pages={134859},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2025"
}

@inproceedings{safemovemultimo-2025/6,
  title={SafeMove: multi-model navigation for fail-resistant autonomous nuclear material transport},
  author={Marquez-Gamez D, Harrison M, Pilon C, Marwood R, Stephens S et al.},
  booktitle={51st Annual Waste Management Symposia (WM2025)},
  year = "2025"
}

@misc{detmcvilifesize-2025/5,
  title={DetMCVI: Life-sized deterministic POMDPs can be solved quickly with high success rates and small policy sizes},
  author={Schutz A, You Y, Mattamala ME, Caliskanelli I, Lacerda B et al.},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{groupdecisionma-2025/3,
  title={Group decision-making in robot teleoperation: two heads are better than one},
  author={Nguyen A, Bhattacharyya R, Colombatto C, Fleming S, Posner H et al.},
  booktitle={IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025)},
  pages={489-500},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{groupdecisionma-2025/3,
  title={Group Decision-Making in Robot Teleoperation: Two Heads are Better Than One},
  author={Nguyen D-A, Bhattacharyya R, Colombatto C, Fleming S, Posner I et al.},
  booktitle={2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  pages={489-500},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{atransparencypa-2025/2,
  title={A transparency paradox? Investigating the impact of explanation specificity and autonomous vehicle imperfect detection capabilities on passengers},
  author={Omeiza D, Bhattacharyya R, Jirotka M, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  journal={Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour},
  volume={109},
  pages={1275-1292},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2025"
}

@inproceedings{noregretsinvest-2025/2,
  title={No regrets: investigating and improving regret approximations for curriculum discovery},
  author={Rutherford A, Beukman M, Willi T, Lacerda B, Hawes N et al.},
  booktitle={38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024)},
  pages={16071-16101},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{timeboundedplan-2025/1,
  title={Time-bounded planning with uncertain task duration distributions},
  author={Staniaszek M, Brudermüller L, You Y, Bhattacharyya R, Lacerda B et al.},
  journal={Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
  volume={186},
  number={104926},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{humanrobotinter-2025/1,
  title={Human-Robot Interaction in Extreme and Challenging Environments},
  author={Tian L, Carreno-Medrano P, Giuliani M, Hawes N, Bhattacharyya R et al.},
  pages={1988-1990},
  year = "2025"
}

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@article{iautoinspectito-2025/1,
  title={<i>AutoInspect</i>: Towards Long-Term Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring},
  author={Staniaszek M, Flatscher T, Rowell J, Niu H, Liu W et al.},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics},
  pages={1-1},
  publisher={Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{chipscomposingh-2025/1,
  title={CHiPS: Composing Hierarchical Pareto Solutions for Scalable Planning in Multi-Objective MDPs},
  author={Hentges C, Budd M, Platt A, Lacerda B, Parker D et al.},
  booktitle={2025 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},
  pages={1-6},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{planningforlong-2024/12,
  title={Planning for long-term monitoring missions in time-varying environments},
  author={Stephens R, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)},
  pages={3055-3061},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{hierarchicalpla-2024/10,
  title={Hierarchical planning for resource-constrained long-term monitoring missions in time-varying environments},
  author={Stephens R, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024)},
  pages={1214-1221},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{planningunderun-2024/8,
  title={Planning under uncertainty for safe robot exploration using Gaussian process prediction},
  author={Stephens A, Budd M, Staniaszek M, Casseau B, Duckworth P et al.},
  journal={Autonomous Robots},
  volume={48},
  number={18},
  publisher={Springer},
  year = "2024"
}

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@misc{atransparencypa-2024/8,
  title={A Transparency Paradox? Investigating the Impact of Explanation Specificity and Autonomous Vehicle Perceptual Inaccuracies on Passengers},
  author={Omeiza D, Bhattacharyya R, Jirotka M, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{multirobotalloc-2024/5,
  title={Multi-robot allocation of assistance from a shared uncertain operator},
  author={Costen C, Gautier A, Hawes N & Lacerda B},
  booktitle={23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024)},
  pages={400-408},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{aframeworkforsi-2024/5,
  title={A framework for simultaneous task allocation and planning under uncertainty},
  author={Faruq F, Lacerda B, Hawes N & Parker D},
  journal={ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems},
  volume={19},
  number={21},
  publisher={Association for Computing Machinery},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{jaxmarlmultiage-2024/5,
  title={JaxMARL: multi-agent RL environments and algorithms in JAX},
  author={Rutherford A, Ellis B, Gallici M, Cook J, Lupu A et al.},
  booktitle={23rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024)},
  pages={2444-2446},
  year = "2024"
}

@misc{watchinggrassgr-2024/5,
  title={Watching grass grow: long-term visual navigation and mission planning for autonomous biodiversity monitoring},
  author={Gadd M, De Martini D, Pitt L, Tubby W, Towlson M et al.},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{analysingtheeff-2024/4,
  title={Analysing the effects of congestion on hybrid order picking systems using a discrete-event simulator},
  author={Street C, Jujjavarapu SS, Nai-An Chen M, Paul S & Hawes N},
  booktitle={18th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS18).},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{onerisktoruleth-2024/2,
  title={One risk to rule them all: a risk-sensitive perspective on model-based offline reinforcement learning},
  author={Rigter M, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{experimentaldro-2024/2,
  title={Experimental drought reduces the productivity and stability of a calcareous grassland},
  author={Jackson J, Middleton S, Lawson C, Jardine E, Hawes N et al.},
  journal={Journal of Ecology},
  volume={112},
  pages={917-931},
  publisher={Wiley},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{experimentaldro-2024/2,
  title={Experimental drought reduces the productivity and stability of a calcareous grassland},
  author={Jackson J, Middleton S, Lawson C, Jardine E, Hawes N et al.},
  journal={Journal of Ecology},
  volume={112},
  pages={917-931},
  publisher={Wiley},
  year = "2024"
}

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@article{rightplaceright-2024/1,
  title={Right place, right time: proactive multi-robot task allocation under spatiotemporal uncertainty},
  author={Street C, Lacerda B, Mühlig M & Hawes N},
  journal={Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  volume={79},
  pages={137-171},
  publisher={AI Access Foundation},
  year = "2024"
}

@inproceedings{jaxmarlmultiage-2024/1,
  title={JaxMARL: Multi-Agent RL Environments and Algorithms in JAX},
  author={Rutherford A, Ellis B, Gallici M, Cook J, Lupu A et al.},
  year = "2024"
}

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@inproceedings{amarineautonomo-2023/11,
  title={A marine autonomous systems digital twin; bringing value to researchers, data users and vehicle operations},
  author={Buck JJH, Lopex AL, Hawes N, Allsup B, Dobra T et al.},
  booktitle={OCEANS Conference and Exposition 2024},
  pages={1-4},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{difficultyaware-2023/9,
  title={Difficulty-aware time-bounded planning under uncertainty for large-scale robot missions},
  author={Staniaszek M, Brudermüller L, Bhattacharyya R, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={11th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2023)},
  pages={1-7},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{reinforcementle-2023/9,
  title={Reinforcement learning for bandits with continuous actions and large context spaces},
  author={Duckworth P, Vallis KA, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023)},
  pages={590-597},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{vpstoviapointba-2023/7,
  title={VP-STO: via-point-based stochastic trajectory optimization for reactive robot behavior},
  author={Jankowski J, Brudermüller L, Hawes N & Calinon S},
  booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023)},
  pages={10125-10131},
  year = "2023"
}

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@misc{effectsofexplan-2023/7,
  title={Effects of Explanation Specificity on Passengers in Autonomous Driving},
  author={Omeiza D, Bhattacharyya R, Hawes N, Jirotka M & Kunze L},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{planningwithhid-2023/6,
  title={Planning with hidden parameter polynomial MDPs},
  author={Costen C, Rigter M, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23)},
  pages={11963-11971},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{multiunitauctio-2023/6,
  title={Multi-unit auctions for allocating chance-constrained resources},
  author={Gautier AL, Lacerda B, Hawes N & Wooldridge M},
  booktitle={37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023)},
  pages={11560-11568},
  year = "2023"
}

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@inproceedings{riskconstrained-2023/5,
  title={Risk-constrained planning for multi-agent systems with shared resources},
  author={Gautier AL, Rigter M, Lacerda B, Hawes N & Wooldridge M},
  booktitle={22nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2023)},
  pages={113-121},
  year = "2023"
}

@inproceedings{ramborlrobustad-2023/4,
  title={RAMBO-RL: robust adversarial model-based offline reinforcement learning},
  author={Rigter M, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022)},
  pages={16082-16097},
  year = "2023"
}

@misc{dittoofflineimi-2023/2,
  title={DITTO: Offline Imitation Learning with World Models},
  author={DeMoss B, Duckworth P, Foerster J, Hawes N & Posner I},
  year = "2023"
}

@inproceedings{montecarlotrees-2023/2,
  title={Monte Carlo tree search with Boltzmann exploration},
  author={Painter M, Baioumy M, Hawes N & Lacerda B},
  booktitle={37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)},
  year = "2023"
}

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@misc{experimentaldro-2023/,
  title={Experimental drought reduces the productivity and stability of a recovering calcareous grassland},
  author={Jackson J, Middleton SL, Lawson CS, Jardine E, Hawes N et al.},
  year = "2023"
}

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@article{shortrangemulti-2022/12,
  title={Short-range multispectral imaging is an inexpensive, fast, and accurate approach to estimate biodiversity in a temperate calcareous grassland},
  author={jackson J, Lawson C, Adelmant C, Huhtala E, Fernandes P et al.},
  journal={Ecology and Evolution},
  volume={12},
  publisher={Wiley},
  year = "2022"
}

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@inproceedings{probabilisticpl-2022/12,
  title={Probabilistic planning for AUV data harvesting from smart underwater sensor networks},
  author={Budd M, Salavasidis G, Karnarudzaman I, Harris C, Phillips A et al.},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022) },
  pages={12051-12057},
  year = "2022"
}

@inproceedings{bayesianreinfor-2022/10,
  title={Bayesian reinforcement learning for single-episode missions in partially unknown environments},
  author={Budd M, Duckworth P, Hawes N & Lacerda B},
  booktitle={6th Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2022)},
  year = "2022"
}

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@article{efficientlyexpl-2022/10,
  title={Efficiently exploring for human robot interaction: partially observable Poisson processes},
  author={Jovan F, Tomy M, Hawes N & Wyatt J},
  journal={Autonomous Robots},
  volume={47},
  number={121-138},
  publisher={Springer},
  year = "2022"
}

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@article{decisionmakingu-2022/9,
  title={Decision-making under uncertainty for multi-robot systems},
  author={Lacerda B, Gautier A, Rutherford A, Stephens A, Street C et al.},
  journal={AI Communications},
  volume={35},
  pages={433-441},
  publisher={IOS Press},
  year = "2022"
}

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@inproceedings{sharedautonomys-2022/7,
  title={Shared autonomy systems with stochastic operator models},
  author={Costen C, Rigter M, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={31st International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization (IJCAI 2022)},
  pages={4614-4620},
  year = "2022"
}

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@inproceedings{betaresidualsim-2022/7,
  title={Beta residuals: improving fault-tolerant control for sensory faults via bayesian inference and precision learning},
  author={Baioumy M, Hartemink W, Ferrari R & Hawes N},
  pages={285-291},
  year = "2022"
}

@inproceedings{timeboundedlarg-2022/6,
  title={Time-bounded large-scale mission planning under uncertainty for UV disinfection},
  author={Brudermüller L, Bhattacharyya R, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={PlanRob: ICAPS 2022 Workshop on Planning and Robotics},
  year = "2022"
}

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@inproceedings{planningforrisk-2022/6,
  title={Planning for risk-aversion and expected value in MDPs},
  author={Rigter M, Duckworth P, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  booktitle={32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2022) },
  pages={307-315},
  year = "2022"
}

@inproceedings{contextawaremod-2022/5,
  title={Context-aware modelling for multi-robot systems under uncertainty},
  author={Street C, Lacerda B, Staniaszek M, Mühlig M & Hawes N},
  booktitle={21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS) 2022},
  year = "2022"
}

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@inproceedings{riskawaremotion-2022/2,
  title={Risk-aware motion planning in partially known environments},
  author={Hawes N, Barbosa FS, Lacerda B, Duckworth P & Tumova J},
  booktitle={60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2021)},
  pages={5220-5226},
  year = "2022"
}