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Anna Nickelson
dblp:324/6631
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3ranked-venue papers
3as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0002-8664-4116ORCID · corroborated
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 3 · 3 first-author · 3 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Motion planning and robot control · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › path planning
multi-objective path planning |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Contextual Multi-Objective Path Planning · ICRA 2023 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
path planning |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Contextual Multi-Objective Path Planning · ICRA 2023 |
Mathematical optimization
multi-objective optimization |
0.2 | 1 | 2023 | Contextual Multi-Objective Path Planning · ICRA 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
path cost estimation · 1.3pareto front · 1.3multi-objective optimization · 1.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Multi-objective reinforcement learning framework for beneficent artificial intelligence
Anna Nickelson, Russell Perkins, Alex John London, Paul Robinette, Kagan Tumer |
Neural Comput. Appl. | 1 |
| 2023 | Contextual Multi-Objective Path PlanningabstractMany critical robot environments, such as healthcare and security, require robots to account for contextdependent criteria when performing their functions (e.g., navigation). Such domains require decisions that balance multiple factors, making it difficult for robots to make contextually appropriate decisions. Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) methods offer a potential solution by trading off between objectives; however concepts like Pareto fronts are not only expensive to compute but struggle with differentiating among solutions on the Pareto front. This work introduces the Contextual Multi-Objective Path Planning (CMOPP) algorithm, which enables the robot to trade off different complex costs dependent on context. The key insight of this work is to separate the path planning and path cost estimation into two independent steps, thus significantly reducing computation cost without impacting the quality of the resulting path. As a result, CMOPP is able to accurately model path costs, which provide meaningful trade-offs when choosing a path that best fits the context. We show the benefits of CMOPP on case studies that demonstrate its contextual path planning capabilities. CMOPP finds contextually appropriate paths by first reducing the search space up to 99.9% to a near-optimal set of paths. This reduction enables the generation of accurate path cost models, using up to 90% less computation than similar methods. Anna Nickelson, Kagan Tumer, William D. Smart |
ICRA | 1 |
| 2023 | Shaping the Behavior Space with Counterfactual Agents in Multi-Objective Map Elites
Anna Nickelson, Nicholas Zerbel, Kagan Tumer |
IJCCI | 1 |