Selected Publications
†: Equal contribution; ‡: Corresponding author; #: Student I mentored
Journal Papers
- [IEEE RA-L] Initial Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams: An Attention-enhanced Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Approach
Ruiqi Wang†‡, Dezhong Zhao†, Arjun Gupte#, and Byung-Cheol Min.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3451-3458, April 2024, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3366414.
[Paper] [Website] [Video]
- [IEEE TCDS] Husformer: A Multi-Modal Transformer for Multi-Modal Human State Recognition
Ruiqi Wang†‡, Wonse Jo†, Dezhong Zhao, Weizheng Wang, Baijian Yang, Guohua Chen, and Byung-Cheol Min‡.
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Early Access, 2024.
[Paper] [Code]
- [IEEE TAFFC] MOCAS: A Multimodal Dataset for Objective Cognitive Workload Assessment on Simultaneous Tasks
Wonse Jo†, Ruiqi Wang†, Go-Eum Cha, Su Sun, Revanth Senthilkumaran#, Daniel Foti, and Byung-Cheol Min‡.
IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Early Access, 2024.
[Paper] [Video] [Dataset]
Conference Papers
- [ICRA 2024] Multi-Robot Cooperative Socially-Aware Navigation using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Weizheng Wang, Le Mao, Ruiqi Wang, and Byung-Cheol Min.
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17, 2024.
[Paper]
- [IROS 2023] Initial Task Allocation for Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams with Attention-based Deep Reinforcement Learning
Ruiqi Wang, Dezhong Zhao, and Byung-Cheol Min.
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Detroit, USA, October 1-5, 2023.
[Paper] [Website] [Video]
- [IROS 2023] NaviSTAR: Socially Aware Robot Navigation with Hybrid Spatio-Temporal Graph Transformer and Preference Learning
Weizheng Wang, Ruiqi Wang, Le Mao, and Byung-Cheol Min.
2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Detroit, USA, October 1-5, 2023.
[Paper] [Code]
- [IROS 2022] Feedback-efficient Active Preference Learning for Socially Aware Robot Navigation
Ruiqi Wang, Weizheng Wang, and Byung-Cheol Min.
2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2022), Kyoto, Japan, October 23-27, 2022.
[Paper] [Website] [Video]
Pre-prints/Under Review
- PrefCLM: Enhancing Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Crowdsourced Large Language Models
Ruiqi Wang†‡, Dezhong Zhao†, Ziqin Yuan, Ike Obi, and Byung-Cheol Min.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Under Review.
[ArXiv] [Website] [Video]
- Affective Workload Allocation for Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams
Wonse Jo, Ruiqi Wang, Baijian Yang, Dan Foti, Mo Rastgaar, and Byung-Cheol Min.
IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Under Review.
[ArXiv] [Video]
- AuD-Former: A Hierarchical Transformer Network for Multimodal Audio-Based Disease Prediction
Jinjin Cai†, Ruiqi Wang†‡, Dezhong Zhao, Ziqin Yuan, Victoria McKenna, Aaron Friedman, Rachel Foot, Susan Storey, Ryan Boente, Sudip Vhaduri, and Byung-Cheol Min.
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Under Review.
- PrefMMT: Modeling Human Preferences in Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal Transformers
Dezhong Zhao†, Ruiqi Wang†‡, Dayoon Suh#, Taehyeon Kim, Ziqin Yuan, Byung-Cheol Min, and Guohua Chen.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 19-23 May, 2025., Under Review.
[Website] [ArXiv] [Video] [Code]
- Personalization in Human-Robot Interaction through Preference-based Action Representation Learning
Ruiqi Wang†‡, Dezhong Zhao†, Dayoon Suh#, Ziqin Yuan, Guohua Chen, and Byung-Cheol Min.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 19-23 May, 2025., Under Review.
[Website] [ArXiv] [Video]
- Adaptive Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams under Team Heterogeneity and Dynamic Information Uncertainty
Ziqin Yuan†, Ruiqi Wang†‡, Taehyeon Kim, Dezhong Zhao, Ike Obi, and Byung-Cheol Min.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 19-23 May, 2025., Under Review.
[Website] [ArXiv] [Video]
- REBEL: Rule-based and Experience-enhanced Learning with LLMs for Initial Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams
Arjun Gupte†#, Ruiqi Wang†, L. N. Vishnunandan Venkatesh, Taehyeon Kim, Dezhong Zhao, and Byung-Cheol Min.
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, USA, 19-23 May, 2025., Under Review.
[Website] [ArXiv] [Video]