Patrick Naughton

I'm a 5th year PhD student in the Computer Science Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I work with Professor Kris Hauser in the Intelligent Motion Lab (IML) on open-world robotic manipulation and teleoperation.

I'm interested in how we can design algorithms and systems that enable robots to reliably operate in unstructured environments. How can we design interfaces that enable seamless teleoperation for tasks beyond pick-and-place? How can we use data collected from these systems to automate tasks? What is the right level of control for a truly general purpose robot?

Before starting my PhD, I graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, where I worked on hardware security with Professor Xuan Zhang.

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Publications

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Integrating Open-World Shared Control in Immersive Avatars


Patrick Naughton*, James Seungbum Nam*, Andrew Stratton, Kris Hauser
ICRA, 2024
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Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar


Patrick Naughton*, Joao Marcos Correia Marques*, Jing-Chen Peng*, Yifan Zhu*, James Seungbum Nam, Qianxi Kong, Xuanpu Zhang, Aman Penmetcha, Ruifan Ji, Nairen Fu, Vignesh Ravibaskar, Ryan Yan, Neil Malhotra and Kris Hauser
International Journal of Social Robotics, Special Issue on Robot Avatars for Telepresence and Social Interaction, 2024
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Related workshop papers:
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Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition


Kris Hauser, Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson, Joonbum Bae, Josh Bankston, Sven Behnke, Bill Borgia, Manuel G. Catalano, Stefano Dafarra, Jan B.F. van Erp, Thomas Ferris, Jeremy Fishel, Guy Hoffman, Serena Ivaldi, Fumio Kanehiro, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Ga ̈elle Lannuzel, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Patrick Naughton, Steve NGuyen, Paul Oh, Taskin Padir, Jim Pippine, Jaeheung Park, Jean Vaz, Daniele Pucci, Peter Whitney, Peggy Wu and David Locke
International Journal of Social Robotics, Special Issue on Robot Avatars for Telepresence and Social Interaction, 2024
arxiv / website / youtube /

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Structured Action Prediction for Teleoperation in Open Worlds


Patrick Naughton, Kris Hauser
RAL, 2022
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Design and source code from Jon Barron's website