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Thesis work

Reuben M. Aronson. (2022) Control Input and Natural Gaze for Goal Prediction in Shared Control. PhD Dissertation. Tech. Rep. CMU-RI-TR-22-30. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. PDF

Thesis proposal PDF

Journal papers

Newman, Benjamin A.; Aronson, Reuben M.; Kitani, Kris; and Admoni, Henny. In press. Helping People Through Space and Time: Assistance as a Perspective on Human-Robot Interaction. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Link PDF

Newman, Benjamin A.* Aronson, Reuben M.*; Srinivasa, Siddhartha S.; Kitani, Kris; and Admoni, Henny. 2021. HARMONIC: A Multimodal Dataset of Assistive Human-Robot Collaboration. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR). Link PDF

Jia, Zhenzhong; Bhatia, Ankit; Aronson, Reuben M.; Bourne, David; and Mason, Matthew T. (2018) "A Survey of Automated Threaded Fastening." IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. doi: 10.1109/TASE.2018.2835382 Link PDF

Conference papers

Katherine H. Allen, Audrey K. Balaska, Reuben M. Aronson, Chris Rogers, and Elaine Schaertl Short. 2023. Barriers and Benefits: The Path to Accessible Makerspaces. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 7, 1–14. Link
Best Student Paper Award nominee

Hang Yu, Reuben Aronson, Katherine Allen, and Elaine Short. 2023. From ”Thumbs Up“ to ”10 Out of 10“: Reconsidering Scalar Feedback in Interactive Reinforcement Learning. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Reuben M. Aronson and Henny Admoni. (2022) Gaze Complements Control Input for Goal Prediction During Assisted Teleoperation. In Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '22). PDF Supplement

Reuben M. Aronson, Nadia Almutlak, and Henny Admoni. (2021) Inferring Goals with Gaze during Teleoperated Manipulation. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '21). PDF

Michal Luria, Juliet Pusateri, Judeth Oden Choi, Reuben Aronson, Nur Yildirim, and Molly Wright Steenson. (2020) Medieval Robots: The Role of Historical Automata in the Design of Future Robots. In Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 191–195 Link

Reuben M. Aronson and Henny Admoni. (2019) Semantic gaze labeling for human-robot shared manipulation. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 2, 1–9. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3314111.3319840 PDF

Cheng, Xianyi; Jia, Zhenzhong; Bhatia, Ankit; Aronson, Reuben M., and Mason, Matthew T. (2018) "Sensor Selection and Stage & Result Classifications for Automated Miniature Screwdriving." International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS) PDF

Aronson, Reuben M.; Santini, Thiago; Kübler, Thomas C.; Kasneci, Enkelejda; Srinivasa, Siddhartha; and Admoni, Henny. (2018) "Eye-Hand Behavior in Human-Robot Shared Manipulation." Human-Robot Interaction, IEEE/ACM Conference on Link PDF

Aronson, Reuben M.; Bhatia, Ankit; Jia, Zhenzhong; Guillame-Bert, Mathieu; Bourne, David; Dubrawski, Artur; and Mason, Matthew T. (2017) Data-Driven Classification of Screwdriving Operations. In: Kulić D., Nakamura Y., Khatib O., Venture G. (eds) 2016 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, vol 1. Springer, Cham Link PDF

Workshop papers

Isaac Sheidlower, Reuben Aronson, and Elaine Short. 2023. Modifying RL Policies with Imagined Actions: How Predictable Policies can Enable Users to Perform Novel Tasks. AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI) Link

Reuben M. Aronson and Henny Admoni. (2020) Eye Gaze for Assistive Manipulation. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20 Companion), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA. Link PDF

Aronson, Reuben M. and Admoni, Henny. (2018) "Gaze for Error Detection During Human-Robot Shared Manipulation." RSS Workshop: Towards a Framework for Joint Action PDF

Aronson, Reuben M.; Bhatia, Ankit; Jia, Zhenzhong; and Mason, Matthew T. (2017) "Data Collection for Screwdriving." RSS Workshop on (Empirically) Data-Driven Manipulation Link PDF

Work experience

Mechanical Engineer, Naval Research Laboratory (Contractor with Exelis, Inc.)
Washington, DC — July 2012 to June 2015

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