Research Papers

Smart Machine and Assistive Robotics Technology Lab, with Dr. Byung-Cheol Min

†: Equal Contribution; ‡: Corresponding Author


Journal Papers

  • [J2: 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 (RA-L), vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3451-3458, April 2024.

    [Website] [Paper] [Video]


  • [J1: IEEE T-CDS] Husformer: A Multimodal Transformer for Multimodal Human State Recognition

    Ruiqi Wang†, Wonse Jo†, Dezhong Zhao, Weizheng Wang, Arjun Gupte, Baijian Yang, Guohua Chen, and Byung-Cheol Min.
    IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (T-CDS), vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1374-1390, August 2024.

    [Paper] [Code]



Pre-Prints/Under Review

  • [P1: 2026 IEEE ICRA] REBEL: Rule-based and Experience-enhanced LLMs for Initial Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams

    Arjun Gupte†‡, Ruiqi Wang†, Ziqin Yuan, L. N. Vishnunandan Venkatesh, Taehyeon Kim, Dezhong Zhao, and Byung-Cheol Min‡.
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, 1-5 June, 2026., Under Review.

    [Website] [Paper] [Video] [Code]

Research Talks and Poster Presentations

Delivered at various Purdue Research Conferences

[Spring 2024 Polytechnic Institute Graduate Research Conference] Attention-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Initial Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams

Awarded Second Place

April 18, 2024

[Spring 2024 Polytechnic Institute Graduate Research Conference] Attention-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Initial Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams

Awarded Second Place

April 18, 2024

[Spring 2024 Polytechnic Institute Graduate Research Conference] Attention-enhanced Reinforcement Learning for Initial Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams

Awarded Second Place

April 18, 2024

[Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium] Self-Evolutionary LLMs for Team Design and Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams

April 9, 2024

[Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium] Self-Evolutionary LLMs for Team Design and Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams

April 9, 2024

[Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Symposium] Self-Evolutionary LLMs for Team Design and Task Allocation in Multi-Human Multi-Robot Teams

April 9, 2024

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