Research:

My research lies in modeling human-like behavior in human-robot interaction. I work with concepts of intermittency, primitive, and transfer which are human-like behaviors but have a strong control and mathematical background to them. My most recent work focuses on autonomous vehicles. Representative papers are highlighted.

News:

• I successfully defended my dissertation on 22nd Oct 2024!!
• Our paper, “Research Needs in Human-Autonomy Teaming: Thematic Analysis of Priority Features for Testbed Development,” has been selected as a Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award in RO-MAN 2024.

Publications

• Mutual Adaptation and Influence: Survey of Latent Dynamics Models in Human-Robot Interaction
  Sunny Amatya, Mason Smith, Yousef Soltanian, Johnathan Bush and Wenlong Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS, 2024) (Submitted)

• Research Needs in Human-Autonomy Teaming: Thematic Analysis of Priority Features for Testbed Development.
  Sunny Amatya, Mason Smith, Ashish Amiresh, Jamie Gornan, Matthew Johnson, Nancy Cooke and Wenlong Zhang, IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN, 2024)

• Bounded Rational Game-theoretical Modeling of Human Cooperation under Incomplete Information.
  Yiwei Wang, Pallavi Shintre, Sunny Amatya and Wenlong Zhang, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS, 2022)

• When Shall I Estimate Your Intent? Costs and Benefits of Intent Inference in Multi-Agent Interactions.
  Sunny Amatya, Mukesh Ghimire, Yi Ren, Zhe Xu and Wenlong Zhang, American Control Conference (ACC, 2022)

• When shall I be empathetic? the utility of empathetic parameter estimation in multi-agent interactions.
  Yi Chen, Lei Zhang, Tanner Merry, Sunny Amatya, Wenlong Zhang, and Yi Ren, IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021)

• Human Learning and Coordination in Lower-limb Physical Interactions
  Sunny Amatya, Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi, and Wenlong Zhang, American Control Conference (ACC, 2020)

• Towards an Untethered Knit Fabric Soft Continuum Robotic Module with Embedded Fabric Sensing
  Pham H Nguyen, Zhi Qiao, Sam Seidel, Sunny Amatya, Imran IB Mohd, and Wenlong Zhang, IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft, 2020)

• Task-assisted Motion Planning in Partially Observable Domains
  Anthony Thomas, Sunny Amatya, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, and Marco Baglietto, Italian Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Machine (I-RIM, 2019)

• Design, Development, and Control of a Fabric-Based Soft Ankle Module to Mimic Human Ankle Stiffness
  Sunny Amatya, Amir Salimi Lafmejani, Souvik Poddar, Saivimal Sridar, Thomas Sugar, and Panagiotis Polygerinos, IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR, 2019)

• Fabric Soft Grippers Grippers Capable of Selective Distributed Bending for Assistance of Daily Living Tasks
  Pham H. Nguyen, Saivimal Sridar, Sunny Amatya, Carly M. Thalman, and Panagiotis Polygerinos, IEEE International Conference of Soft Robotics (RoboSoft, 2019)

• Towards Perception Aware Task and Motion Planning
  Antony Thomas, Sunny Amatya, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, and Marco Baglietto, AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium

• Task-Motion Planning in Belief Space
  Antony Thomas, Sunny Amatya, Fulvio Mastrogiovanni, and Marco Baglietto, RSS 2018 TMP Workshop

• Real time kinect based robotic arm manipulation with five degree of freedom
  Sunny Amatya, and Somrak Petchartee, Asian Conference on Defense Technology (ACDT, 2015)

Workshop

• Scalable and Customizable Intent Inference and Motion Planning for Socially-Adept Autonomous Vehicles
  at ACC 2022 Workshop on Human-Autonomy Interaction and Integration

Thesis

Master’s Thesis: External Advisor for Combined Task and Motion Planning in Belief Space
Code

Outreach

• I was at the ASU Day at the Capitol showcasing some of the work from RISE Lab
• I was at Open Door 2019 at Poly campus showing some of our work