Papers
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Total Citations
94
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About
Neel Dhanaraj is a robotics researcher whose work spans human-robot collaboration, mobile manipulation, multi-robot systems, and swarm robotics — with a unifying focus on making robots more capable, adaptive, and effective partners for humans in complex real-world settings. His most-cited work (17 citations) introduced a mobile manipulator system for large-surface spraying, addressing critical ergonomic and operational limitations of fixed industrial robots. Dhanaraj has made significant contributions to human-robot teaming in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing, developing frameworks for task allocation, contingency handling, and proactive robot assistance that adapt intelligently to human preferences without requiring burdensome demonstrations. His 2019 APIS testbed (12 citations) established a foundational research platform for human-swarm interaction, demonstrating his interest in scalable multi-agent coordination. More recently, he has explored the integration of large language models for generating contingency procedures in collaborative assembly and advanced hindsight optimization techniques for multi-robot task allocation under uncertainty. Collectively, his publications — spanning prestigious venues and accumulating over 80 citations — reflect a researcher dedicated to bridging theoretical robotics with practical industrial deployment, pushing toward robots that are genuinely resilient, collaborative, and human-aware.
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- 4Contingency-Aware Task Assignment and Scheduling for Human-Robot Teams11 citations · 2023
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- 7Multi-Robot Task Allocation Under Uncertainty Via Hindsight Optimization5 citations · 2024
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