Personal profile
Research interests
My research is centred around artificial intelligence, in particular the areas of automated planning, knowledge representation and reasoning, and cognitive robotics. I am interested in the problem of reasoning about knowledge and action, especially under conditions of incomplete information and uncertainty, with a focus on formal modelling and the development of tractable reasoning mechanisms for planning and high-level robot control. My research is also concerned with the construction of practical planning systems, with deployments on robot platforms and applications to human-robot interaction, natural language dialogue, and social robotics.
External positions
University of Edinburgh
1 Mar 2016 → 28 Feb 2027
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 14 Life Below Water
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Bridging the Human-Agent Representation Gap for Decision-Making Explanations in Autonomous Robots
Lindsay, A., Ramírez-Duque, A. A., Craenen, B., Robb, D. A., De Pellegrin, E., Boé, L., Munafò, A. & Petrick, R. P. A., 3 Nov 2025, 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE, p. 791-796 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Bringing a socially assistive robot to the paediatric emergency department: design, development, and usability testing
Foster, M. E., Stinson, J. N., Harris, L., Kim, K. K., Litwin, S., Candelaria, P., Hudson, S., Leung, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Lindsay, A., Ramírez-Duque, A., Smith, D. H., Zeller, F. & Ali, S., 30 Oct 2025, In: Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 12, 1614444.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling in the LLM Era
Vallati, M., Barták, R., Chrpa, L., McCluskey, T. L. & Petrick, R. P. A., 16 Sept 2025, Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. AAAI Press, p. 391-395 5 p. (Proceedings International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling; vol. 35, no. 1).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Supporting Explainable Planning and Human-Aware Mission Specification for Underwater Robots
Lindsay, A., Ramírez-Duque, A. A., Craenen, B., Munafò, A., Boé, L., Campbell, A. & Petrick, R. P. A., 2025, Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2024. Huda, M. N., Wang, M. & Kalganova, T. (eds.). Springer, p. 28-40 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15051).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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A Lightweight Artificial Cognition Model for Socio-Affective Human-Robot Interaction
Ramírez-Duque, A. A., Lindsay, A., Foster, M. E. & Petrick, R. P. A., 11 Mar 2024, HRI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, p. 929-933 5 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Prizes
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Best Presentation Award
Ardon, P. (Recipient), Cabrera, M. E. (Recipient), Petrick, R. (Recipient), Ramamoorthy, S. (Recipient), Lohan, K. S. (Recipient) & Cakmak, M. (Recipient), 31 May 2021
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Research Team of the Year
McConnell, A. (Recipient), Lane, D. M. (Recipient), Wang, S. (Recipient), Hastie, H. (Recipient), Erden, M. S. (Recipient), Chantler, M. J. (Recipient), Dragone, M. (Recipient), Petrick, R. (Recipient), Lim, T. (Recipient), Roe, J. (Recipient), Katagiri, S. (Recipient), Rayssiguie, E. (Recipient), Wilson, L. (Recipient), Wavell, D. (Recipient), Judzentyte, K. (Recipient), Scharff Willners, J. (Recipient), Robb, D. (Recipient) & Petillot, Y. (Recipient), 14 Jun 2022
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