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
CV
Education
- Ph. D. in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2022
- Advisor: Henny Admoni
- M. S. in Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2018
- Advisor: Henny Admoni
- B. S. in Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
Publications
Thesis work
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.
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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
Skills
- Programming languages: C++, Python, LaTeX, MATLAB
- Software: ROS, MATLAB, Solidworks, Linux
- Fabrication equipment: Mill (manual and CNC), lathe, laserjet, waterjet, 3D printer
Service
- Reviewer for AURO 2018, HRI 2018-2022, HUMANOIDS 2016-2017, 2019, IEEE VR 2019, IROS 2018, RA-L 2021, RO-MAN 2021, RSS 2019, THRI 2020-2021, UIST 2019
- Co-founder and organizer, Tufts HRI Colloquium (weekly series), 2022-present
- Organizer, All Things Attention workshop at NeurIPS 2022
- Co-founder and organizer of the CMU HRI Reading Group, 2018-2022
- Founding member of CMU Tech4Society, 2016-2019
- Founding member of the SCS4All PhD Initiative, which advocates for and supports PhD students at the CMU School of Computer Science, 2017-2019