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I am a fifth year graduate student in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon Univesity, and a member of the CORAL research group under my advisor Manuela Veloso.   My research interests are in AI and Robotics.  In particular I am interested in learning and adaptation, and the ways in which humans can teach robots through demonstration.


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Publications

  • Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Teaching Multi-Robot Coordination using Demonstration of Communication and State Sharing (Short Paper). Proc. of 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2008), Padgham, Parkes, Muller and Parsons (eds.), May 12-16, 2008, Estoril, Portugal. [PDF]
  • Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Multi-Thresholded Approach to Demonstration Selection for Interactive Robot Learning. In the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'08), March 12-15 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [PDF]
  • Sonia Chernova and Ronald C. Arkin. From Deliberative to Routine Behaviors: a Cognitively-inspired Action Selection Mechanism for Routine Behavior Capture. Adaptive Behavior Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, pages 199-216, 2007. [PDF]
  • Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Multiagent Collaborative Task Learning through Imitation. In the 4th International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, April 2007.
  • Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Confidence-Based Policy Learning from Demonstration Using Gaussian Mixture Models. In Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'07), May 2007. [PDF]
  •  Manuela Veloso, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford, Colin McMillen, Maayan Roth and Douglas Vail. A Team of Humanoid Game Commentators. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Genova, Italy, 2006. [PDF]
  • Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Tree-Based Policy Learning in Continuous Domains through Teaching by Demonstration. In Modeling Others from Observations: Papers from the AAAI Workshop, ed. Gal Kaminka, David Pynadath, and Christopher Geib, 24-31. Technical Report WS-06-13. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, 2006. [PDF]
  • Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford and Manuela Veloso. Acquiring Observation Models through Reverse Plan Monitoring, In Proceedings of 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2005. [PDF]
  • Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. An Evolutionary Approach To Gait Learning For Four-Legged Robots. In Proceedings of IROS'04, September 2004. [PDF]
  • Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Learning and Using Models of Kicking Motions for Legged Robots. In Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'04), May 2004. [PDF]
  • Manuela Veloso, Scott Lenser, Doug Vail, Paul Rybski, Nick Aiwazian, and Sonia Chernova. CMRoboBits: Creating an Intelligent AIBO Robot. In AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible, Hands-on AI and RoboticsEducation, Palo Alto, CA, 2004. [PDF]
  • Manuela Veloso, Scott Lenser, Douglas Vail, Maayan Roth, Ashley Stroupe, and Sonia Chernova. CMPack-02: CMU's Legged Robot Soccer Team, 2002. Technical Report. [PDF]

 
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Contact Info

Lab (try here first)
Wean Hall 1302
Phone: 412-268-2601		 Office
Wean Hall 1313
Phone: 412-268-5940

Email: son...@cs.cmu.edu

Address:
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213