Thomas M. Howard

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2005-2023
Publications (10 Years): 36

Top Topics

Natural Language

Unknown Environments

Top Venues

Int. J. Robotics Res.

Publications

Siddharth Patki, Jacob Arkin, Nikola Raicevic, Thomas M. Howard
Language Guided Temporally Adaptive Perception for Efficient Natural Language Grounding in Cluttered Dynamic Worlds. IROS (2023)
Joshua D. Rosser, Jacob Arkin, Siddharth Patki, Thomas M. Howard
Resolving Ambiguity via Dialogue to Correct Unsynthesizable Controllers for Free-Flying Robots. CoRR (2023)
Eric R. Damm, Jason M. Gregory, Eli S. Lancaster, Felix A. Sanchez, Daniel M. Sahu, Thomas M. Howard
Terrain-Aware Kinodynamic Planning with Efficiently Adaptive State Lattices for Mobile Robot Navigation in Off-Road Environments. IROS (2023)
Jacob Arkin, Siddharth Patki, Joshua D. Rosser, Thomas M. Howard
An Efficient Algorithm for Visualization and Interpretation of Grounded Language Models. RO-MAN (2022)
Matthew R. Walter, Siddharth Patki, Andrea F. Daniele, Ethan Fahnestock, Felix Duvallet, Sachithra Hemachandra, Jean Oh, Anthony Stentz, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard
Language Understanding for Field and Service Robots in a Priori Unknown Environments. Field Robotics 2 (1) (2022)
Thomas M. Howard, Ethan Stump, Jonathan Fink, Jacob Arkin, Rohan Paul, Daehyung Park, Subhro Roy, Daniel Barber, Rhyse Bendell, Karl Schmeckpeper, Junjiao Tian, Jean Oh, Maggie B. Wigness, Long Quang, Brandon Rothrock, Jeremy Nash, Matthew R. Walter, Florian Jentsch, Nicholas Roy
An Intelligence Architecture for Grounded Language Communication with Field Robots. Field Robotics 2 (1) (2022)
Nathan D. Kent, David Neiman, Matthew Travers, Thomas M. Howard
Improved Performance of CPG Parameter Inference for Path-following Control of Legged Robots. IROS (2022)
Matthew R. Walter, Siddharth Patki, Andrea F. Daniele, Ethan Fahnestock, Felix Duvallet, Sachithra Hemachandra, Jean Oh, Anthony Stentz, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard
Language Understanding for Field and Service Robots in a Priori Unknown Environments. CoRR (2021)
Benned Hedegaard, Ethan Fahnestock, Jacob Arkin, Ashwin Menon, Thomas M. Howard
Discrete Optimization of Adaptive State Lattices for Iterative Motion Planning on Unmanned Ground Vehicles. IROS (2021)
Jacob Arkin, Daehyung Park, Subhro Roy, Matthew R. Walter, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard, Rohan Paul
Multimodal estimation and communication of latent semantic knowledge for robust execution of robot instructions. Int. J. Robotics Res. 39 (10-11) (2020)
Nathan D. Kent, Raunaq M. Bhirangi, Matthew J. Travers, Thomas M. Howard
Inferring Task-Space Central Pattern Generator Parameters for Closed-loop Control of Underactuated Robots. ICRA (2020)
Thomas M. Howard, Amanda Prorok, Hadas Kress-Gazit
Guest Editorial: Robotics: Science and Systems 2018 (RSS 2018). Auton. Robots 44 (7) (2020)
Michael E. Napoli, Soumya Goswami, Stephen A. McAleavey, Marvin M. Doyley, Thomas M. Howard
Probabilistic Mapping of Tissue Elasticity for Robot-Assisted Medical Ultrasound. ISRR (2019)
Raghu Aditya Chavali, Nathan Kent, Michael E. Napoli, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew J. Travers
Inferring Distributions of Parameterized Controllers for Efficient Sampling-Based Locomotion of Underactuated Robots. ACC (2019)
Siddharth Patki, Ethan Fahnestock, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter
Language-guided Semantic Mapping and Mobile Manipulation in Partially Observable Environments. CoRL (2019)
Siddharth Patki, Ethan Fahnestock, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter
Language-guided Semantic Mapping and Mobile Manipulation in Partially Observable Environments. CoRR (2019)
Ethan Fahnestock, Siddharth Patki, Thomas M. Howard
Language-guided Adaptive Perception with Hierarchical Symbolic Representations for Mobile Manipulators. CoRR (2019)
Siddharth Patki, Andrea F. Daniele, Matthew R. Walter, Thomas M. Howard
Inferring Compact Representations for Efficient Natural Language Understanding of Robot Instructions. CoRR (2019)
Siddharth Patki, Andrea F. Daniele, Matthew R. Walter, Thomas M. Howard
Inferring Compact Representations for Efficient Natural Language Understanding of Robot Instructions. ICRA (2019)
Michael E. Napoli, Christian Freitas, Soumya Goswami, Stephen A. McAleavey, Marvin M. Doyley, Thomas M. Howard
Hybrid Force/Velocity Control "With Compliance Estimation via Strain Elastography for Robot Assisted Ultrasound Screening. BioRob (2018)
Jacob Arkin, Rohan Paul, Daehyung Park, Subhro Roy, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard
Real-Time Human-Robot Communication for Manipulation Tasks in Partially Observed Environments. ISER (2018)
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Derya Aksaray, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard
Efficient grounding of abstract spatial concepts for natural language interaction with robot platforms. Int. J. Robotics Res. 37 (10) (2018)
Michelle Esponda, Thomas M. Howard
Adaptive Grasp Control through Multi-Modal Interactions for Assistive Prosthetic Devices. CoRR (2018)
Siddharth Patki, Thomas M. Howard
Language-Guided Adaptive Perception for Efficient Grounded Communication with Robotic Manipulators in Cluttered Environments. SIGDIAL Conference (2018)
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard
Grounding Abstract Spatial Concepts for Language Interaction with Robots. IJCAI (2017)
Daqing Yi, Michael A. Goodrich, Thomas M. Howard, Kevin D. Seppi
Topology-aware RRT∗ for parallel optimal sampling in topologies. SMC (2017)
Adrian Boteanu, Jacob Arkin, Siddharth Patki, Thomas M. Howard, Hadas Kress-Gazit
Robot-Initiated Specification Repair through Grounded Language Interaction. CoRR (2017)
Jacob Arkin, Matthew R. Walter, Adrian Boteanu, Michael E. Napoli, Harel Biggie, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Thomas M. Howard
Contextual awareness: Understanding monologic natural language instructions for autonomous robots. RO-MAN (2017)
Michael E. Napoli, Harel Biggie, Thomas M. Howard
Learning Models for Predictive Adaptation in State Lattices. FSR (2017)
Michael E. Napoli, Harel Biggie, Thomas M. Howard
On the performance of selective adaptation in state lattices for mobile robot motion planning in cluttered environments. IROS (2017)
Andrea F. Daniele, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter
A Multiview Approach to Learning Articulated Motion Models. ISRR (2017)
Alexander Broad, Jacob Arkin, Nathan D. Ratliff, Thomas M. Howard, Brenna D. Argall
Real-time natural language corrections for assistive robotic manipulators. Int. J. Robotics Res. 36 (5-7) (2017)
Adrian Boteanu, Thomas M. Howard, Jacob Arkin, Hadas Kress-Gazit
A model for verifiable grounding and execution of complex natural language instructions. IROS (2016)
Daqing Yi, Thomas M. Howard, Michael A. Goodrich, Kevin D. Seppi
Expressing homotopic requirements for mobile robot navigation through natural language instructions. IROS (2016)
Jean Oh, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter, Daniel Barber, Menglong Zhu, Sangdon Park, Arne Suppé, Luis E. Navarro-Serment, Felix Duvallet, Abdeslam Boularias, Oscar J. Romero, Jerry Vinokurov, Terence Keegan, Robert Dean, Craig Lennon, Barry A. Bodt, Marshal Childers, Jianbo Shi, Kostas Daniilidis, Nicholas Roy, Christian Lebiere, Martial Hebert, Anthony Stentz
Integrated Intelligence for Human-Robot Teams. ISER (2016)
Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard
Efficient Grounding of Abstract Spatial Concepts for Natural Language Interaction with Robot Manipulators. Robotics: Science and Systems (2016)
Istvan Chung, Oron Propp, Matthew R. Walter, Thomas M. Howard
On the performance of hierarchical distributed correspondence graphs for efficient symbol grounding of robot instructions. IROS (2015)
Sachithra Hemachandra, Felix Duvallet, Thomas M. Howard, Nicholas Roy, Anthony Stentz, Matthew R. Walter
Learning Models for Following Natural Language Directions in Unknown Environments. CoRR (2015)
Sachithra Hemachandra, Felix Duvallet, Thomas M. Howard, Nicholas Roy, Anthony Stentz, Matthew R. Walter
Learning models for following natural language directions in unknown environments. ICRA (2015)
Russ Tedrake, Maurice F. Fallon, Sisir Karumanchi, Scott Kuindersma, Matthew E. Antone, Toby Schneider, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter, Hongkai Dai, Robin Deits, Michael Fleder, Dehann Fourie, Riad I. Hammoud, Sachithra Hemachandra, P. Ilardi, Claudia Pérez-D'Arpino, Sudeep Pillai, Andres Valenzuela, Cecilia Cantu, C. Dolan, I. Evans, S. Jorgensen, J. Kristeller, Julie A. Shah, Karl Iagnemma, Seth J. Teller
A summary of team MIT's approach to the virtual robotics challenge. ICRA (2014)
Felix Duvallet, Matthew R. Walter, Thomas M. Howard, Sachithra Hemachandra, Jean Oh, Seth J. Teller, Nicholas Roy, Anthony Stentz
Inferring Maps and Behaviors from Natural Language Instructions. ISER (2014)
Thomas M. Howard, Stefanie Tellex, Nicholas Roy
A natural language planner interface for mobile manipulators. ICRA (2014)
Thomas M. Howard, Mihail Pivtoraiko, Ross A. Knepper, Alonzo Kelly
Model-Predictive Motion Planning: Several Key Developments for Autonomous Mobile Robots. IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag. 21 (1) (2014)
Chris Urmson, Joshua Anhalt, Drew Bagnell, Christopher R. Baker, Robert Bittner, M. N. Clark, John M. Dolan, Dave Duggins, Tugrul Galatali, Christopher Geyer, Michele Gittleman, Sam Harbaugh, Martial Hebert, Thomas M. Howard, Sascha Kolski, Alonzo Kelly, Maxim Likhachev, Matthew McNaughton, Nick Miller, Kevin M. Peterson, Brian Pilnick, Raj Rajkumar, Paul E. Rybski, Bryan Salesky, Young-Woo Seo, Sanjiv Singh, Jarrod M. Snider, Anthony Stentz, William Whittaker, Ziv Wolkowicki, Jason Ziglar, Hong Bae, Thomas Brown, Daniel Demitrish, Bakhtiar Litkouhi, Jim Nickolaou, Varsha Sadekar, Wende Zhang, Joshua Struble, Michael Taylor, Michael Darms, Dave Ferguson
Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge. The DARPA Urban Challenge (2009)
Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev
Motion Planning in Urban Environments. The DARPA Urban Challenge (2009)
Thomas M. Howard, Colin J. Green, Alonzo Kelly
Receding Horizon Model-Predictive Control for Mobile Robot Navigation of Intricate Paths. FSR (2009)
P. Michael Furlong, Thomas M. Howard, David Wettergreen
Model Predictive Control for Mobile Robots with Actively Reconfigurable Chassis. FSR (2009)
Thomas M. Howard, Colin J. Green, Alonzo Kelly, Dave Ferguson
State space sampling of feasible motions for high-performance mobile robot navigation in complex environments. J. Field Robotics 25 (6-7) (2008)
Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev
Motion planning in urban environments. J. Field Robotics 25 (11-12) (2008)
Dean M. Anderson, Thomas M. Howard, David Apfelbaum, Herman Herman, Alonzo Kelly
Coordinated Control and Range Imaging for Mobile Manipulation. ISER (2008)
Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev
Motion planning in urban environments: Part II. IROS (2008)
Chris Urmson, Joshua Anhalt, Drew Bagnell, Christopher R. Baker, Robert Bittner, M. N. Clark, John M. Dolan, Dave Duggins, Tugrul Galatali, Christopher Geyer, Michele Gittleman, Sam Harbaugh, Martial Hebert, Thomas M. Howard, Sascha Kolski, Alonzo Kelly, Maxim Likhachev, Matthew McNaughton, Nick Miller, Kevin M. Peterson, Brian Pilnick, Raj Rajkumar, Paul E. Rybski, Bryan Salesky, Young-Woo Seo, Sanjiv Singh, Jarrod M. Snider, Anthony Stentz, William Whittaker, Ziv Wolkowicki, Jason Ziglar, Hong Bae, Thomas Brown, Daniel Demitrish, Bakhtiar Litkouhi, Jim Nickolaou, Varsha Sadekar, Wende Zhang, Joshua Struble, Michael Taylor, Michael Darms, Dave Ferguson
Autonomous driving in urban environments: Boss and the Urban Challenge. J. Field Robotics 25 (8) (2008)
Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev
Motion planning in urban environments: Part I. IROS (2008)
Thomas M. Howard, Alonzo Kelly
Optimal Rough Terrain Trajectory Generation for Wheeled Mobile Robots. Int. J. Robotics Res. 26 (2) (2007)
Thomas M. Howard, Colin J. Green, Alonzo Kelly
State Space Sampling of Feasible Motions for High Performance Mobile Robot Navigation in Highly Constrained Environments. FSR (2007)
Thomas M. Howard, Ross A. Knepper, Alonzo Kelly
Constrained Optimization Path Following of Wheeled Robots in Natural Terrain. ISER (2006)
Thomas M. Howard, Alonzo Kelly
Trajectory and Spline Generation for All-Wheel Steering Mobile Robots. IROS (2006)
Thomas M. Howard, Alonzo Kelly
Trajectory Generation on Rough Terrain Considering Actuator Dynamics. FSR (2005)