Ronald C. Arkin

Orcid: 0000-0003-2798-1817

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  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA


According to our database1, Ronald C. Arkin authored at least 161 papers between 1987 and 2024.

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IEEE Fellow 2003, "For contributions to behavior-based robotic control, multi-robot systems, and hybrid deliberative/reactive software architectures.".

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2024
Heterogeneous Robot Teams with Unified Perception and Autonomy: How Team CSIRO Data61 Tied for the Top Score at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
Field Robotics, 2024

What Should a Robot Do? Comparing Human and Large Language Model Recommendations for Robot Deception.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

2023
Dynamic task allocation approaches for coordinated exploration of Subterranean environments.
Auton. Robots, December, 2023

Hybrid SUSD-Based Task Allocation for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

2022
Heterogeneous Ground and Air Platforms, Homogeneous Sensing: Team CSIRO Data61's Approach to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
Field Robotics, March, 2022

Toward Ethical Robotic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios.
CoRR, 2022

Multi-modal User Interface for Multi-robot Control in Underground Environments.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

A Metaethical Reflection: The Ethics of Embedding Ethics into Robots.
Proceedings of the International IEEE Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impactsm, 2022

Robots that Need to Mislead: Biologically-inspired Machine Deception.
Proceedings of the AIES '22: AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Oxford, United Kingdom, May 19, 2022

2021
Counter-Misdirection in Behavior-based Multi-robot Teams **Research supported by the National Science Foundation under CNS EAGER grant #1848653.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Safety for Robotics, 2021

2020
Adapting to environmental dynamics with an artificial circadian system.
Adapt. Behav., 2020

Online 3D Frontier-Based UGV and UAV Exploration Using Direct Point Cloud Visibility.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, 2020

2019
Identifying Opportunities for Relationship-Focused Robotic Interventions in Strained Hierarchical Relationships<sup>*</sup>.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Push and Pull: Shepherding Multi-Agent Robot Teams in Adversarial Situations.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, 2019

2018
Ethics of Robotic Deception [Opinion].
IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag., 2018

An Artificial Circadian System for a Slow and Persistent Robot.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 15, 2018

A Robot to Provide Support in Stigmatizing Patient-Caregiver Relationships.
Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2018

2017
Performance verification for robot missions in uncertain environments.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2017

Establishing A-Priori Performance Guarantees for Robot Missions that Include Localization Software.
Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res., 2017

Nudging for good: robots and the ethical appropriateness of nurturing empathy and charitable behavior.
AI Soc., 2017

Formal performance guarantees for an approach to human in the loop robot missions.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2017

Sloth and slow loris inspired behavioral controller for a robotic agent.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2017

An intervening ethical governor for a robot mediator in patient-caregiver relationship: Implementation and evaluation.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

Modeling Temporally Dynamic Environments for Persistent Autonomous Agents.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2017

2016
Ethics and Autonomous Systems: Perils and Promises [Point of View].
Proc. IEEE, 2016

Toward a Science of Autonomy for Physical Systems: Defense.
CoRR, 2016

Other-Oriented Robot Deception: How Can a Robot's Deceptive Feedback Help Humans in HRI?
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 8th International Conference, 2016

The influence of a peripheral social robot on self-disclosure.
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

Formal Performance Guarantees for Behavior-Based Localization Missions.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015
Performance Verification for Behavior-Based Robot Missions.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2015

The case for banning killer robots: counterpoint.
Commun. ACM, 2015

SLAM-Based Spatial Memory for Behavior-Based Robots.
Proceedings of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Robot Control, SyRoCo 2015, 2015

The benefits of robot deception in search and rescue: Computational approach for deceptive action selection via case-based reasoning.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, 2015

Towards a Robot Computational Model to Preserve Dignity in Stigmatizing Patient-Caregiver Relationships.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 7th International Conference, 2015

Mixed-Initiative Human-Robot Interaction: Definition, Taxonomy, and Survey.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2015

Temporal heterogeneity and the value of slowness in robotic systems.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2015

Primate-inspired autonomous navigation using mental rotation and advice-giving.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, 2015

Probabilistic Verification of Multi-robot Missions in Uncertain Environments.
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2015

Civilized collaboration: Ethical architectures for enforcing legal requirements and mediating social norms in HRI.
Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, 2015

2014
A Primate-Inspired Autonomous Navigation Algorithm Using the Cognitive Mechanism of Mental Rotation.
Proceedings of the Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2014

Automatic Verification of Autonomous Robot Missions.
Proceedings of the Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2014

Other-oriented robot deception: A computational approach for deceptive action generation to benefit the mark.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2014

Verifying and validating multirobot missions.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

2013
A Software Tool for the Design of Critical Robot Missions with Performance Guarantees.
Proceedings of the Conference on Systems Engineering Research, 2013

Performance guarantees for C-WMD robot missions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2013

A Taxonomy of Robot Deception and Its Benefits in HRI.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2013

Getting it right the first time: Robot mission guarantees in the presence of uncertainty.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

2012
Moral Decision Making in Autonomous Systems: Enforcement, Moral Emotions, Dignity, Trust, and Deception.
Proc. IEEE, 2012

Trends & Controversies.
IEEE Intell. Syst., 2012

The role of mental rotations in primate-inspired robot navigation.
Cogn. Process., 2012

Biologically-Inspired Deceptive Behavior for a Robot.
Proceedings of the From Animals to Animats 12, 2012

The human-robot merger.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2012

Primate-inspired mental rotations: Implications for robot control.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2012

Characterizing performance guarantees for multiagent, real-time systems operating in noisy and uncertain environments.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, College Park, MD, USA, March 20, 2012

Designing autonomous robot missions with performance guarantees.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

Mobbing Behavior and Deceit and Its Role in Bio-inspired Autonomous Robotic Agents.
Proceedings of the Swarm Intelligence - 8th International Conference, 2012

2011
Governing Lethal Behavior in Robots [T&S Interview].
IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag., 2011

Acting Deceptively: Providing Robots with the Capacity for Deception.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2011

TAME: Time-Varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2011

Modeling the effects of mass and age variation in wolves to explore the effects of heterogeneity in robot team composition.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2011

Recognizing situations that demand trust.
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2011

A Conceptual Space Architecture for Widely Heterogeneous Robotic Systems.
Proceedings of the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2011, 2011

2010
Multi-robot system based on model of wolf hunting behavior to emulate wolf and elk interactions.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2010

Mood as an affective component for robotic behavior with continuous adaptation via Learning Momentum.
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2010

2009
Ethical robots in warfare.
IEEE Technol. Soc. Mag., 2009

Lek behavior as a model for multi-robot systems.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2009

Time-Varying Affective Response for Humanoid Robots.
Proceedings of the Progress in Robotics, 2009

Robot deception: Recognizing when a robot should deceive.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2009

An ethical adaptor: Behavioral modification derived from moral emotions.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2009

2008
Biasing behavioral activation with intent for an entertainment robot.
Intell. Serv. Robotics, 2008

Lethality and autonomous systems: The roboticist demographic.
Proceedings of the Citizens, 2008

Behavioral Development for a Humanoid Robot - Towards Life-Long Human-Robot Partnerships.
Proceedings of the ICINCO 2008, 2008

Governing lethal behavior: embedding ethics in a hybrid deliberative/reactive robot architecture.
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction, 2008

Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture - Part 2: Formalization for Ethical Control.
Proceedings of the Artificial General Intelligence 2008, 2008

2007
Multi-method learning and assimilation.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2007

Adaptive teams of autonomous aerial and ground robots for situational awareness.
J. Field Robotics, 2007

Behavioral overlays for non-verbal communication expression on a humanoid robot.
Auton. Robots, 2007

From Deliberative to Routine Behaviors: A Cognitively Inspired Action-Selection Mechanism for Routine Behavior Capture.
Adapt. Behav., 2007

Lethality and Autonomous Robots: An Ethical Stance.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, 2007

Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams - Design and Implementation.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007

Applying Heuristic Evaluation to Human-Robot Interaction Systems.
Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2007

2006
A Framework for Situation-based Social Interaction.
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2006

Usability evaluation of an automated mission repair mechanism for mobile robot mission specification.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2006

Multi-robot User Interface Modeling.
Proceedings of the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems 7, 2006

2005
Human perspective on affective robotic behavior: a longitudinal study.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005

Reactive Speed Control System Based on Terrain Roughness Detection.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

Moving Up the Food Chain.
Proceedings of the Who Needs Emotions? - The brain meets the robot, 2005

2004
Usability evaluation of high-level user assistance for robot mission specification.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part C, 2004

Summer school on human-robot interaction.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag., 2004

Incorporating Motivation in a Hybrid Robot Architecture.
J. Adv. Comput. Intell. Intell. Informatics, 2004

Forgetting bad behavior: memory for case-based navigation.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28, 2004

Multi-robot Communication-sensitive Reconnaissance.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

When Good Communication Go Bad: Communications Recovery for Multi-robot Teams.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

Towards Performance Guarantees for Emergent Behavior.
Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2004

2003
Local navigation strategies for a team of robots.
Robotica, 2003

An ethological and emotional basis for human-robot interaction.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2003

On TAMEing robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2003

Internalized plans for communication-sensitive robot team behaviors.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

Adaptive multi-robot behavior via learning momentum.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

Mobile robots at your fingertip: Bezier curve on-line trajectory generation for supervisory control.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

Anticipatory robot navigation by simultaneously localizing and building a cognitive map.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

Proprioceptive Control for a Robotic Vehicle over Geometric Obstacles.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003

Learning to role-switch in multi-robot systems.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003

2002
Noise maps for acoustically sensitive navigation.
Proceedings of the Mobile Robots XVII, Philadelphia, PA, USA, October 25, 2004, 2002

Robot behavioral selection using q-learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 30, 2002

Learning Behavioral Parameterization using Spatio-Temporal Case-Based Reasoning.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

Selection of Behavioral Parameters: Integration of Discontinuous Switching via Case-Based Reasoning with Continuous Adaptation via Learning Momentum.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

2001
Spatio-Temporal Case-Based Reasoning for Behavioral Selection.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Learning Momentum: Integration and Experimentation.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Implementing Tolman's Schematic Sowbug: Behavior-Based Robotics in the 1930's.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Ethological Modeling and Architecture for an Entertainment Robot.
Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2001

Exploring Unknown Structured Environments.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2001

Combining deliberation, reactivity, and motivation in the context of a behavior-based robot architecture.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation: Integrating Intelligent Machines with Humans for a Better Tomorrow, 2001

2000
Behavioral models of the praying mantis as a basis for robotic behavior.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2000

1999
Tactical mobile robot mission specification and execution.
Proceedings of the Mobile Robots XIV, Boston, 1999

1998
Behavior-based formation control for multirobot teams.
IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom., 1998

Evaluating the Usability of Robot Programming Toolsets.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 1998

The 1997 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition.
AI Mag., 1998

1997
Case-based reactive navigation: a method for on-line selection and adaptation of reactive robotic control parameters.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B, 1997

AuRA: principles and practice in review.
J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell., 1997

Multiagent Mission Specification and Execution.
Auton. Robots, 1997

Guest Editors' Introduction.
Auton. Robots, 1997

Design and implementation of a teleautonomous hummer.
Proceedings of the Mobile Robots XII, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 14, 1997, 1997

The AAAI-97 Mobile Robot Competion: Martians, Remotes, Hors d'oeuvres and Cleaning up the Mess Afterwards (Abstract).
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Ninth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, 1997

1996
Behavior-based mobile manipulation for drum sampling.
Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1996

Ecological Robotics: A Schema-Theoretic Approach.
Proceedings of the Intelligent Robots: Sensing, 1996

1995
Intelligent Robotic Systems.
IEEE Expert, 1995

Structured light systems for dent recognition: Lessons learned.
Proceedings of the Mobile Robots X, Philadephia, PA, USA, October 23, 1995, Proceedings, 1995

Development of visual tracking algorithms for an autonomous helicopter.
Proceedings of the Mobile Robots X, Philadephia, PA, USA, October 23, 1995, Proceedings, 1995

Specification and execution of multiagent missions.
Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1995

Motor Schema-Based Formation Control for Multiagent Robot Teams.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Multiagent Systems, 1995

1994
Temporal coordination of perceptual algorithms for mobile robot navigation.
IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom., 1994

Communication in reactive multiagent robotic systems.
Auton. Robots, 1994

Using Genetic Algorithms to Learn Reactive Control Parameters for Autonomous Robotic Navigation.
Adapt. Behav., 1994

Model-based echolocation of environmental objects.
Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1994

1993
Active Avoidance: Escape and Dodging Behaviors for Reactive Control.
Int. J. Pattern Recognit. Artif. Intell., 1993

Communication of Behavioral State in Multi-agent Retrieval Tasks.
Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1993

Integration of Reactive Navigation with a flexible Parallel Hardware Architecture.
Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1993

Reactive Control for Mobile Manipulation.
Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1993

Avoiding the Past: A Simple but Effective Strategy for Reactive Navigation.
Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1993

1992
Cooperation without communication: Multiagent schema-based robot navigation.
J. Field Robotics, 1992

Homeostatic control for a mobile robot: Dynamic replanning in hazardous environments.
J. Field Robotics, 1992

Behavior-Based Robot Navigation for Extended Domains.
Adapt. Behav., 1992

The Learning Of Reactive Control Parameters Through Genetic Algorithms.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1992

Sfx: An Architecture For Action-oriented Sensor Fusion.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1992

Learning momentum: online performance enhancement for reactive systems.
Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1992

1991
Spatial uncertainty management for a mobile robot.
Int. J. Approx. Reason., 1991

Basic Artificial Intelligence Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
AI Mag., 1991

Visual interaction in diagnostic radiology.
Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS'91), 1991

1990
The impact of cybernetics on the design of a mobile robot system: a case study.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1990

Autonomous navigation in a manufacturing environment.
IEEE Trans. Robotics Autom., 1990

3D Navigational Path Planning.
Robotica, 1990

Integrating behavioral, perceptual, and world knowledge in reactive navigation.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 1990

Qualitative spatial understanding and reactive control for autonomous robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems '90, 1990

Reactive inclinometer-based mobile robot navigation.
Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1990

1989
Navigational path planning for a vision-based mobile robot.
Robotica, 1989

Motor Schema-Based Mobile Robot Navigation.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 1989

Mobile Robot Docking Operations in a Manufacturing Environment: Progress in Visual Perceptual Strategies.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems '89, 1989

Dynamic replanning for a mobile robot based on internal sensing.
Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1989

1988
Intelligent Mobile Robots in the Workplace: Leaving the Guide Behind.
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Industrial & Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Expert Systems, IEA/AIE 1988, June 1-3, 1988, Tullahoma, TN, USA. ACM, 1988, 1988

1987
Motor schema based navigation for a mobile robot: An approach to programming by behavior.
Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, March 31, 1987


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