Ph.D. Dissertation:
- Sinapov, J. "Behavior-grounded multi-sensory object perception and exploration by a humanoid robot,", Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science & Human-Computer Interaction Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, December 2013.
Refereed Journal / Conference / Workshop Papers:
2017:
- Narvekar, S., Sinapov, J., and Stone, P. (2017)
Autonomous Task Sequencing for Customized Curriculum Design in Reinforcement Learning
To appear in proceedings of the 2017 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Melbourne, Australia, August 19-25, 2017. [PDF] - Thomason, J., Sinapov, J., and Mooney, R. (2017)
Guiding Interaction Behaviors for Multi-modal Grounded Language Learning
To appear in proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Language Grounding for Robotics at ACL, Vancouver, Canada, August 3, 2017. [PDF] - Gonzalez, S., Chidambaram, V., Sinapov, J., and Stone, P. (2017)
CC-Log: Drastically Reducing Storage Requirements for Robots Using Classification and Compression
In proceedings of The 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '17), Santa Clara, CA, July 10-11, 2017. [PDF] - Zhang, S., Sinapov, J., Wei, S., and Stone, P. (2017)
Robot Behavioral Exploration and Multimodal Perception using POMDPs
In proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on "Interactive Multi-Sensory Object Perception for Embodied Agents", San Francisco, CA, March 27-29, 2017. [PDF]
- Svetlik, M., Leonetti, M., Sinapov, J., Shah, R., Walker, N., and Stone, P. (2017)
Automatic Curriculum Graph Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents
In proceedings of the 31st Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San Francisco, CA, Feb. 4-9, 2017. [PDF]
- Khandelwal, P., Zhang, S., Sinapov, J., Leonetti, M., Thomason, J., Yang, F., Gori, I., Svetlik, M., Khante, P., Lifschitz, V., Aggarwal, J.K., Mooney, R., and Stone, P. (2017) BWIBots: A platform for bridging the gap between AI and Human-Robot Interaction research
International Journal of Robotics Research (in press) [Link]
2016:
- Sinapov, J., Khante, P., Svetlik, M., and Stone, P. (2016).
Learning to Order Objects using Haptic and Proprioceptive Exploratory Behaviors
In proceedings of the 2016 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) [PDF] [Slides] - Thomason, J., Sinapov, J., Svetlik, M., Stone, P., and Mooney, R. (2016).
Learning Multi-Modal Grounded Linguistic Semantics by Playing I, Spy
In proceedings of the 2016 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) [PDF] - Narvekar, S., Sinapov, J., Leonetti, M. and Stone, P. (2016).
Source Task Creation for Curriculum Learning
In proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) [PDF]
2015:
- Sinapov, J., Narvekar, S., Leonetti, M. and Stone, P. (2015).
Learning Inter-Task Transferability in the Absence of Target Task Samples
In proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, May 4-8, 2015. [PDF] - Gori, I., Sinapov, J., Khante, P. and Stone, P. (2015).
Robot-Centric Activity Recognition 'in the Wild'
In proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Paris, France, Oct. 26-30, 2015. [PDF] [Slides] - Blessing, S.B., Devasani, S., Gilbert, S.B., and Sinapov, J. (2015)
Using ConceptGrid as an easy authoring technique to check natural language responses.
International Journal of Learning Technology, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 50-70, January, 2015. [Link]
2014:
- Schenck, C., Sinapov, J., Johnston, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2014)
Which Object Fits Best? Solving Matrix Completion Tasks with a Humanoid Robot IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol 6, No 3, pp. 226-240, September 2014.[Link][PDF] - Hoffmann, H., Chen, Z., Earl, D., Mitchell, D., Salemi, B., and Sinapov, J. (2014)
Adaptive Robotic Tool Use Under Variable Grasps.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 833-846, June 2014. [Link] - Sinapov, J., Schenck, C., Staley, K., Sukhoy, V., and Stoytchev, A. (2014)
Grounding Semantic Categories in Behavioral Interactions: Experiments with 100 Objects.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 632-645, May 2014. [Link] - Sinapov, J., Schenck, C., and Stoytchev, A. (2014).
Learning Relational Object Categories Using Behavioral Exploration and Multimodal Perception
In the Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA, Hong Kong, China, May 31-June 7, 2014. [PDF]
2013:
- Sinapov, J., Earl, D., Mitchell, D., and Hoffmann, H. (2013).
Interactive Audio-Tactile Annotation of 3D Point Clouds for Robotic Manipulation
Presented at the 2013 ICRA Workshop on Mobile Manipulation: Interactive Perception, Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6, 2013. [PDF] [Extended Version PDF] - Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2013).
Grounded Object Individuation by a Humanoid Robot
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 6-10, 2013. [PDF]
2012:
- Schenck, C., Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2012)
Which Object Comes Next? Grounded Order Completion by a Humanoid Robot.
Journal of Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 5-16, September 2012. [PDF] - Griffith, S., Sinapov, J., Sukhoy, V., and Stoytchev, A. (2012)
A Behavior-Grounded Approach to Forming Object Categories: Separating Containers from Non-Containers
IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 54-69, March 2012. [Link] [PDF]
2011:
- Sinapov, J., Bergquist, T., Schenck, C., Ohiri, U., Griffith, S., and Stoytchev, A. (2011)
Interactive Object Recognition Using Proprioceptive and Auditory Feedback
International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 1250-1262, September 2011. [Link] [PDF] - Sinapov, J., Sukhoy, V., Sahai, R., and Stoytchev, A. (2011).
Vibrotactile Recognition and Categorization of Surfaces by a Humanoid Robot
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 488-497, June 2011. [Link] [PDF] - Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2011).
Object Category Recognition by a Humanoid Robot Using Behavior-Grounded Relational Learning
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 9-13, 2011. [PDF]
2010:
- Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
The Odd-One-Out Task: Towards an Intelligence Test for Robots
In proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL),Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 18-21, pp. 126-131, 2010.
(Best Student Paper Award) [PDF] [Link] - Sukhoy, V., Sinapov, J., Wu, L., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
Learning to Press Doorbell Buttons
In proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL),Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 18-21, pp. 132-138, 2010. [PDF] - Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
The Boosting Effect of Exploratory Behaviors
In Proceedings of the 24-th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Atlanta, GA, July 11-15, pp. 1613-1618, 2010. [PDF] [Link] - Griffith, S., Sinapov, J., Sukhoy, V., and Stoytchev, A. (2010).
How to Separate Containers from Non-Containers? A Behavior-Grounded Approached to Acoustic Object Categorization
In proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). [PDF]
2009:
- Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2009).
Mixture of experts models to exploit global sequence similarity on biomolecular sequence labeling
BMC Bioinformatics, 2009 10:S4 [Link] - Sinapov, J., Wiemer, M., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
Interactive Learning of the Acoustic Properties of Household Objects
In proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). [PDF] [Link] - Griffith, S., Sinapov, J., Miller, M., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
Toward Interactive Learning of Object Categories by a Robot: A case study with container and non-container objects
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2009) [PDF] [Link] - Sukhoy, V., Sahai, R., Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
Vibrotactile Recognition of Surface Textures by a Humanoid Robot
In proceedings of the 2009 Humanoids Workshop: Tactile Sensing in Humanoids Tactile Sensors and Beyond [PDF] - Bergquist, T., Schenck, C., Ohiri, U., Sinapov, J., Griffith, S., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
Interactive Object Recognition Using Proprioceptive Feedback
In proceedings of the 2009 IROS Workshop: Semantic Perception for Mobile Manipulation [PDF] - Sinapov, J., and Stoytchev, A. (2009).
From Acoustic Object Recognition to Object Categorization by a Humanoid Robot
In proceedings of the "Mobile Manipulation" workshop held at the Robotics Science and System Conference, 2009. [PDF]
2008:
- Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2008).
Detecting the Functional Similarities Between Tools Using a Hierarchical Representation of Outcomes
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2008) [PDF] [Link] - Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2008).
Toward Autonomous Learning of an Ontology of Tool Affordances by a Robot
In the proceedings of the Student Abstract/Poster Session at AAAI, 2008 [PDF] - Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2008).
Using Global Sequence Similarity to Enhance Biological Sequence Labeling
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2008) - Caragea, C., Terribilini, M., Sinapov, J., Lee, J. H., Towfic, F., Dobbs, D., and Honavar, V. (2008).
Predicting Protein-RNA Binding Sites Using Structural Information.
Presented at the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. [PDF] - Sinapov, J., Caragea, C., Dobbs, D., & Honavar, V. (2008).
Using Global Sequence Similarity Improves Biological Site-Specific Classifiers.
Presented at the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2008). [PDF] - Sinapov, J., Wiemer, M., and Stoytchev, A. (2008).
Interactive Learning of the Acoustic Properties of Objects by a Robot
In proceedings of the "Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments" workshop held at the Robotics Science and System Conference, 2008. [PDF]
2007:
- Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Silvescu, A., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2007).
Glycosylation Site Prediction Using Ensembles of Support Vector Machine Classifiers
BMC Bioinformatics, 2007 8:438 [Link] - Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2007).
Learning and Generalization of Behavior-Grounded Tool Affordances
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007) [PDF] [Link] - Sinapov, J., Stoytchev, A. (2007).
Learning Behavior-Grounded Tool Affordances with Generalization Accross Different Tools
In proceedings of the Workshop on Robot Manipulation at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference (RSS 2007). [PDF] [Poster] [WWW] - Caragea, C., Sinapov, J., Dobbs, D., Honavar, V. (2007).
Assessing the Performance of Biological Sequence-Based Predictors
In proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2007) [PDF]