Thesis
[pdf] Kollar, T. “Learning to Understand Spatial Language for Robotic Navigation and Mobile Manipulation.” Thesis, MIT 2011.
Journal Articles and Magazines
[pdf] Krishnamurthy, J. and Kollar, T., “Jointly Learning to Parse and Perceive: Connecting Natural Language to the Physical World.” Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013.
[pdf] Tellex, S., Kollar, T., Dickerson, S., Walter, M., Banerjee, A., Teller, S. and Roy, N., “Approaching the Symbol Grounding Problem with Probabilistic Graphical Models.” AI Magazine, 2011.
[pdf] Kollar, T. & Roy, N., “Trajectory optimization using reinforcement learning for map exploration.” The International Journal of Robotics Research 27, 175-196 (2008).
Conference Papers
[pdf] — Duvallet, F. Kollar, T. and T. Stentz, “Imitation Learning for Natural Language Direction Following Through Unknown Environments,” International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013.
[pdf] — Kollar, T., Perera, V., Nardi, D. and M. Veloso, “Learning Environmental Knowledge From Task-Based Human-Robot Dialog,” International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013.
[pdf] — Kollar, T., Vedantham, A., Sobel, C., Chang, C., Perera, V. and Veloso, M., “A Multi-Modal Approach for Natural Human-Robot Interaction.” International Conference on Social Robots, 2012.
[pdf] — Samadi, M., Kollar T. and M. Veloso, “Using the Web to Interactively Learn to Find Objects.” 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2012.
[pdf] — Kollar, T., Samadi, M. and M. Veloso, “Enabling Robots to Find and Fetch Objects by Querying the Web .” accepted to the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2012 (Extended Abstract).
[pdf] — Tellex, S., Thaker, P, Deits, R., Simeonov, D., Kollar, T and N. Roy, “Toward Information Theoretic Human-Robot Dialog,” Robotics: Science and Systems, 2012.
[pdf] — Tellex, S., Kollar, T., Dickerson, S., Walter, M., Banerjee, A., Teller, S., and Roy, N., “Understanding Natural Language Commands for Robotic Navigation and Mobile Manipulation”, AAAI 2011.
[pdf] — Hemachandra, S., Kollar, T., Roy, N. and Teller, S., “Following and Interpreting Narrated Guided Tours”, ICRA 2011.
[pdf] — Espinace, P., Kollar, T., Soto, A., and Roy, N., “Indoor Scene Recognition Through Object Detection”. ICRA 2010.
[pdf] — Huang, A., Tellex, S., Bachrach, A., Kollar, T., Roy, D. and Roy, N., “Natural Language Command of an Autonomous Micro-Air Vehicle”, IROS 2010
[pdf] — Kollar, T., Tellex, S., Roy, D., and Roy, N., “Toward Understanding Natural Language Directions”, HRI 2010.
[pdf] — Tellex, S., Kollar, T., Shaw, G., Roy, N. and Roy, D., “Grounding Spatial Language for Video Search,” ICMI 2010. *BEST STUDENT PAPER*
[pdf] — Kollar, T., Tellex, S., Roy, D., and Roy, N., “Grounding Verbs of Motion in Natural Language Commands to Robots”, ISER 2010.
[pdf] — Wei, Y., Brunskill, E., Kollar, T., and Roy, N., “Where to go: Interpreting natural directions using global inference,” in ICRA 2009.
[pdf] — Kollar, T. and Roy, N., “Utilizing object-object and object-scene context when planning to find things.” in ICRA 2009.
[pdf] — Kollar, T. & Roy, N. Efficient optimization of information-theoretic exploration in slam. In AAAI Physically Grounded AI track, 1369-1375 (2008).
[pdf] — Doshi, F, Brunskill E., Shkolnik A., Kollar T., Rohanimanesh K., Tedrake, R. and N. Roy. Collision Detection in Legged Locomotion using Supervised Learning. IROS 2007.
[pdf] — Kollar T., Brunskill E., and N. Roy. Topological Mapping Using Spectral Clustering and Classification. IROS 2007.
[pdf] — Kollar, T. and Roy, N. “Using Reinforcement Learning to Improve Exploration Trajectories for Error Minimization”, ICRA 2006
Other Papers
[pdf] Krishnamurthy, J. and Kollar, T., “Learning to Parse and Ground Natural Language Commands to Robots.” In Proceedings of the AAAI 2012 Workshop on Grounding Language for Physical Systems, 2012.
[pdf] — Kollar, T., Tellex, S., and Roy, N., “A Discriminative Model for Understanding Natural Language Route Directions,” AAAI Fall Symposium Series, 2010.
[pdf] — T. Kollar, “Fast Nearest Neighbors,” MIT Technical Report, 2006.
[pdf] — Kollar, T. et. al., “Mabel: Extending Human Interaction and Robot Rescue Designs”, Journal of Undergraduate Research, 2003.
[pdf] — Kollar, T. et. al. , “Mabel: Extending Human Interaction and Robot Rescue Designs”. Mobile Robot Competition 2003, TR WS-03-01, p.20-30.
[pdf] — Kollar, T. et. al, “Mabel: Building a Robot Designed for Human Interaction.” Mobile Robot Competition 2002, TR WS-02-18, p.24-32.