Publications from the Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems Group at the Oxford Robotics Institute

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@misc{deeperstructure-2026/9,
  title={Deeper Structure of Marine Heatwaves: Glider-Detected Anomalies in the North Sea},
  author={Reed CZ, Darvariu V-A, Hawes N & Johnson HL},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{quantilecoupled-2026/5,
  title={Quantile-Coupled Flow Matching for Distributional Reinforcement Learning},
  author={Groom M, Darvariu V-A, Kunze L, Wilson J & Hawes N},
  year = "2026"
}

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@inproceedings{thinkfastlearni-2026/5,
  title={Think Fast! Learning to Control Online Reasoning in Stochastic Environments},
  author={Budd M, Lacerda B & Hawes N},
  pages={1583-1591},
  year = "2026"
}

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@inproceedings{failingforwardd-2026/3,
  title={Failing Forward: Design and Deployment Lessons from Real-World Human-Robot Interaction},
  author={Tian L, Kirschbaum A, Neef C, Foster ME, Cooper S et al.},
  booktitle={Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
  pages={1384-1386},
  year = "2026"
}

@misc{riskawarereinfo-2026/3,
  title={Risk-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Manipulation},
  author={Groom M, Wilson J, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  year = "2026"
}

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@article{ccvpstochanceco-2026/1,
  title={CC-VPSTO: Chance-Constrained Via-Point-Based Stochastic Trajectory Optimisation for Online Robot Motion Planning Under Uncertainty},
  author={Brudermüller L, Berger GO, Jankowski J, Bhattacharyya R, Calinon S et al.},
  journal={International Journal of Robotics Research},
  year = "2026"
}

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@article{biodiversityres-2025/12,
  title={Biodiversity research requires more motors in air, water and on land},
  author={QI MAN, Gadd M, DE MARTINI D, Davis K, Xiong B et al.},
  journal={Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
  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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@inproceedings{afinitestatecon-2025/10,
  title={A finite-state controller based offline solver for deterministic POMDPs},
  author={Schutz A, You Y, Mattamala M, Caliskanelli I, Lacerda B et al.},
  booktitle={34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2025)},
  pages={8617-8625},
  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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@inproceedings{multiagentpicku-2025/10,
  title={Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery with Mobile Pickups},
  author={Flammini B, Hawes N & Lacerda B},
  booktitle={2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages={10525-10531},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{decrementaldyna-2025/10,
  title={Decremental Dynamics Planning for Robot Navigation},
  author={Lu Y, Xu T, Wang L, Hawes N & Xiao X},
  booktitle={2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages={4559-4565},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{chipscomposingh-2025/9,
  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={12th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2025)},
  pages={1-6},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{generatingcausa-2025/9,
  title={Generating causal explanations of vehicular agent behavioural interactions with learnt reward profiles},
  author={Howard R, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)},
  pages={10416-10423},
  year = "2025"
}

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@inproceedings{lumoslanguageco-2025/9,
  title={LUMOS: language-conditioned imitation learning with world models},
  author={Demoss B, Hawes N & Posner H},
  booktitle={IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS 2025)},
  pages={8219-8225},
  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},
  volume={482},
  number={134859},
  pages={134859-134859},
  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"
}

@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"
}