Sonia Chernova

 
 

I am a postdoctoral associate in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab.  I also hold an adjunct assistant professor position in the Computer Science Department at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).  I will be joining WPI as a full time assistant professor in the fall of 2010.

 

Contact

Address 

M.I.T. Media Lab

20 Ames St, E15-468

Cambridge, MA 02139

Email  <lastname>@media.mit.edu

  Journal Articles

  1. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Interactive Policy Learning through Confidence-Based Autonomy. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. Vol. 34, 2009. [PDF]

  2. •Brenna Argall, Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. A Survey of Robot Learning from Demonstration. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. Vol. 57, No. 5, pages 469-483, 2009. [PDF]

  3. •Manuela Veloso, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford, Colin McMillen, Maayan Roth, Douglas Vail, and Stefan Zickler. A Team of Humanoid Game Commentators. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. Vol. 5, No. 3, pages 457-480, 2008. [PDF]

  4. •Sonia Chernova and Ronald C. Arkin. From Deliberative to Routine Behaviors: a Cognitively-inspired Action Selection Mechanism for Routine Behavior Capture. Adaptive Behavior Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, pages 199-216, 2007. [PDF]

  Conference Proceedings

  1. •Matthew Loper, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Nathan Koenig, Sonia Chernova, Chris Jones. Mobile Human-Robot Teaming with Environmental Tolerance. In the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'09), March 9-13 2008, La Jolla, USA.

  2. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Teaching Collaborative Multi-Robot Tasks through Demonstration. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Daejeon, Korea, December 2008. [PDF]

  3. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Learning Equivalent Action Choices from Demonstration. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008), Nice, France, September 2008. [PDF]

  4. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Teaching Multi-Robot Coordination using Demonstration of Communication and State Sharing (Short Paper). Proc. of 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, Muller and Parsons (eds.), May 12-16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal. [PDF]

  5. •N. Koenig, S. Chernova, C. Jones, M. Loper, and O. Jenkins. Hands-free interaction for human-robot teams. In ICRA 2008 Workshop on Social interaction with intelligent indoor robots, Pasadena, CA, USA, May 2008.

  6. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Multi-Thresholded Approach to Demonstration Selection for Interactive Robot Learning. In the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'08), March 12-15 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [PDF]

  7. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Multiagent Collaborative Task Learning through Imitation. In the 4th International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, April 2007.

  8. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Confidence-Based Policy Learning from Demonstration Using Gaussian Mixture Models. In Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), May 2007. [PDF]

  9. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Tree-Based Policy Learning in Continuous Domains through Teaching by Demonstration. In Modeling Others from Observations: Papers from the AAAI Workshop, ed. Gal Kaminka, David Pynadath, and Christopher Geib, 24-31. Technical Report WS-06-13. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, 2006. [PDF]

  10. •Manuela Veloso, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford, Colin McMillen, Maayan Roth and Douglas Vail. A Team of Humanoid Game Commentators. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Genova, Italy, 2006. [PDF]

  11. •Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford and Manuela Veloso. Acquiring Observation Models through Reverse Plan Monitoring, In Proceedings of 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005. [PDF]

  12. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. An Evolutionary Approach To Gait Learning For Four-Legged Robots. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'04), September 2004. [PDF]

  13. •Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Learning and Using Models of Kicking Motions for Legged Robots. In Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'04), May 2004. [PDF]

  14. •Manuela Veloso, Scott Lenser, Doug Vail, Paul Rybski, Nick Aiwazian, and Sonia Chernova. CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible, Hands-on AI and Robotics Education, Palo Alto, CA, 2004.

  Other Publications

  1. •N. Koenig, S. Chernova, C. Jones, M. Loper, and O. Jenkins. Hands-free human-robot interaction. In AAAI 2008 Video Program, Chicago, IL, USA, Jul 2008.

  2. •N. Koenig, S. Chernova, C. Jones, M. Loper, and O. Jenkins. Hands-free human-robot interaction. In HRI 2008 Video Program, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mar 2008.

  3. •Manuela Veloso, Scott Lenser, Douglas Vail, Maayan Roth, Ashley Stroupe, and Sonia Chernova. CMPack-02: CMU's Legged Robot Soccer Team, 2002. Technical Report.

Publications

My current work focuses on the development of social robots capable of interacting with people, learning from observations of human behavior, and acting as assistants in collaborative tasks.  Using the MDS robot pictured on the left, I am studying how observations of collaborative human behavior recorded in a simulated world can be used to generate autonomous robot behavior, and predict human responses, in a real-world domain.

Current Research Projects