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Andrew Coles

4 accepted papers

2025

Concurrent Planning and Execution Using Dispatch-Dependent Values

IJCAI 2025

Agents operating in the real world must cope with the fact that time passes while they plan. In some cases, such as under tight deadlines, the only way for such an agent to achieve its goal is to execute an action before a complete plan has been found. This problem is called Concurrent Planning and

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2024

Are Large Language Models Aligned with People’s Social Intuitions for Human–Robot Interactions?

IROS 2024poster

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in robotics, especially for high-level action planning. Meanwhile, many robotics applications involve human supervisors or collaborators. Hence, it is crucial for LLMs to generate socially acceptable actions that align with people’s preferences and…

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2022

PlanVerb: Domain-Independent Verbalization and Summary of Task Plans

AAAI 2022technical

For users to trust planning algorithms, they must be able to understand the planner's outputs and the reasons for each action selection. This output does not tend to be user-friendly, often consisting of sequences of parametrised actions or task networks. And these may not be practical for non-exper…

2020

Trading Plan Cost for Timeliness in Situated Temporal Planning

IJCAI 2020poster

If a planning agent is considering taking a bus, for example, the time that passes during its planning can affect the feasibility of its plans, as the bus may depart before the agent has found a complete plan. Previous work on this situated temporal planning setting proposed an abstract deliberation…

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