Vincent Montreuil

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Vincent Montreuil is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and autonomous decision-making. His research has centered on equipping robots with the cognitive and planning capabilities necessary to collaborate meaningfully alongside human partners, addressing challenges in task planning, shared knowledge representation, and supervisory control. Montreuil's most significant contribution is his development and refinement of HATP (Human-Aware Task Planner), a planning framework designed to incorporate human-centered constraints into robot decision-making — work that has accumulated nearly 100 citations across multiple publications. His early foundational paper on task planning for human-robot interaction (2005, 83 citations) established a decisional architecture enabling robots to reason explicitly about human environments and intentions. His work on the Rackham interactive robot-guide (54 citations) demonstrated these principles in real-world deployment within public exhibitions, bridging theory and practice. The supervision system SHARY (50 citations) further extended his contributions to adaptive human-robot coordination. Across his body of work, Montreuil has consistently tackled how robots can maintain shared beliefs with human partners, synchronize dialogue with decision-making, and plan socially appropriate actions. With over 375 total citations, his research has meaningfully shaped the field of socially aware and collaborative autonomous robotics.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Task planning for human-robot interaction

   83 citations · 2005
2. 2
   Rackham: An Interactive Robot-Guide

   54 citations · 2006
3. 3
   SHARY: A Supervision System Adapted to Human-Robot Interaction

   50 citations · 2009
4. 4
   Planning human centered robot activities

   48 citations · 2007
5. 5
   Toward human-aware robot task planning

   47 citations · 2014
6. 6
   A Task Planner for an Autonomous Social Robot

   32 citations · 2009
7. 7
   A study of interaction between dialog and decision for human-robot collaborative task achievement

   26 citations · 2007
8. 8
   A decisional framework for autonomous robots interacting with humans

   20 citations · 2006
9. 9
   A management of mutual belief for human-robot interaction

   14 citations · 2007
10. 10
    A collective moving algorithm in modular robotics: contribution of communication capacities

    4 citations · 2005

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