Brian Williams
Professor
Builds cognitive robots using model-based techniques, including chance-constrained planning and human-robot teaming for space exploration and healthcare.
Brian Williams's lab at MIT works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots, autonomous vehicles & drones and computational neuroscience & cognition. 11 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly ICAPS and CoRL. 6 PhD students and 1 master's student. 10 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 27%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 10
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 2
- 3 papers2024 · T1 1
- 2 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICAPS, CoRL, ICRA, IROS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots1 paper
- human-robot teaming1 paper
- Autonomous vehicles & drones0 papers
- Computational neuroscience & cognition0 papers
- cognitive robots0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- ICAPSJaneway: A Temporally Flexible Plan Executive
- ICAPSRisk-Bounded Multi-Agent Visual Navigation via Iterative Risk Allocation
- PHM Society European ConferenceScalable Model-Based Discrete Mode Estimation for a Lunar Rover Power System
- ROSETanagra: A Risk-Bounded Non-Deterministic Temporal Program Executive
20252 papers
- CoRL (T1)Diffusion-Guided Multi-Arm Motion Planning
- ICRA (T1)Safe Multi-Agent Navigation Guided by Goal-Conditioned Safe Reinforcement Learning
20243 papers
- OCEANS - SingaporeA Distributed “Any-Communication” Task Allocation Approach to Information-Based Planning Underwater
- IROS (T1)Multi-Agent Vulcan: An Information-Driven Multi-Agent Path Finding Approach
- AAAI Spring SymposiaTask-driven Risk-bounded Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Based on Iterative Refinement
20232 papers
- ICAPSAdaptation and Communication in Human-Robot Teaming to Handle Discrepancies in Agents' Beliefs about Plans
- —Motion Planning Under Uncertainty with Complex Agents and Environments via Hybrid Search
Where alumni went10 listed
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