Publications

Socially Intelligent Robotics Lab

Scientific Publications and Press

Context-Aware Generation and Modulation of Expressive Motion Behavior using Multimodal Foundation Models

Till Hielscher, Fabio Scaparro, Kai O. Arras
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2026

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KeySG: Hierarchical Keyframe-Based 3D Scene Graphs

Abdelrhman Werby, Dennis Rotondi, Fabio Scaparro, Kai O. Arras
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
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Social 3D Scene Graphs: Modeling Human Actions and Relations for Interactive Service Robots

Ermanno Bartoli*, Dennis Rotondi*, Buwei He, Patric Jensfelt, Kai Arras, Iolanda Leite, ArXiv 2025

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FunGraph: Functionality Aware 3D Scene Graphs for Language-Prompted Scene Interaction

Dennis Rotondi, Fabio Scaparro, Hermann Blum, Kai O. Arras
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

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Interactive Expressive Motion Generation Using Dynamic Movement Primitives

Till Hielscher, Andreas Bulling, Kai O. Arras
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

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Snuggle-Pack: Speeding Up Multi-Heuristic Packing Planning of Complex Objects

Tim Nickel, Richard Bormann, Kai O. Arras
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025


Incremental and Interactive Exploration of Robot Appearance Designs Using GenAI

Till Hielscher, Arne Bartenbach, Wolf Leonhardt, Kai O. Arras
IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2025


Long-Term Planning Around Humans in Domestic Environments with 3D Scene Graphs

Ermanno Bartoli, Dennis Rotondi, Kai O. Arras, Iolanda Leite
Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction
Workshop at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025


Multi-Heuristic Robotic Bin Packing of Regular and Irregular Objects

Tim Nickel, Richard Bormann, Kai O. Arras
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

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