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

@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{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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@book{wythamwoods-2026/2,
  title={Wytham Woods},
  author={},
  publisher={Oxford University PressNew York},
  year = "2026"
}

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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{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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@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"
}

@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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@misc{generatingcausa-2025/3,
  title={Generating Causal Explanations of Vehicular Agent Behavioural Interactions with Learnt Reward Profiles},
  author={Howard R, Hawes N & Kunze L},
  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{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"
}