Gayane Kazhoyan

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Mail: kazhoyan(at)cs[dot]uni-bremen[dot]de

Gayane (shortly Gaya) is a PhD student at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the University of Bremen. Her main research interests are concentrated in the area of cognition-enabled robot executives. She is currently actively and passionately involved in the development of CRAM.

Before joining Michael Beetz's group in November 2013, she worked for one year as a research assistant at Kastanienbaum GmbH with Sami Haddadin, in tight collaboration with the Robotics and Mechatronics Center of DLR. There she was programming and maintaining software for a wide range of robotic applications: from embedded software up to high-level robot executives, and from system identification and control up to web interfaces. Before that she has acquired her M.Sc. degree in Informatics with a major in AI and Robotics at the Technical University of Munich. Her Master's thesis consisted of extending CRAM with the notion of spatial relations. Before coming to Germany, she had a number of short-term jobs in the fields of iPhone game development and web development in different types of companies in her homeland. She's got her B.Eng. degree in Informatics with a major in Technology and Organisation of Information Security from the State Engineering University of Armenia.

Gaya tries to spend at least some of her free time on reading programming books, and when she needs a break from computers she usually plays around with her poi or gets involved in common metalhead activities.

Projects

Software projects

Current main developer and maintainer of cognition-enabled plan executive CRAM.

Teaching

Supervised Thesis

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Supervised Student Projects

Publications

Books
[1]Cavallo, Alberto, Costanzo, Marco, De Maria, Giuseppe, Natale, Ciro, Pirozzi, Salvatore, Stelter, Simon, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Koralewski, Sebastian and Beetz, Michael, "Robotic Clerks: Autonomous Shelf Refilling", Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 137–170, 2022. [bibtex] [url] [doi]
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
[2]Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki, "The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics", In Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1072-1079, 2018. [bibtex] [doi]
[3]Koralewski, Sebastian, Kazhoyan, Gayane and Beetz, Michael, "Self-specialization of General Robot Plans Based on Experience", In Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE, 2019. [bibtex]
[4]Richter-Klug, Jesse, Mania, Patrick, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Beetz, Michael and Frese, Udo, "Improving Object Pose Estimation by Fusion With a Multimodal Prior – Utilizing Uncertainty-Based CNN Pipelines for Robotics", In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 2282-2288, 2022. [bibtex] [doi]
Conference Papers
[5]Gayane Kazhoyan and Michael Beetz, "Programming Robotic Agents with Action Descriptions", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, pp. 103-108, 2017. [bibtex] [doi]
[6]Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Furuta, Yuki, Stelter, Simon, Beetz, Michael, Okada, Kei and Inaba, Masayuki, "The Exchange of Knowledge using Cloud Robotics", In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 2018. Finalist for the Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award, Finalist for the Best Service Robotics Paper Award. [bibtex]
[7]Yazdani, Fereshta, Kazhoyan, Gayane, Bozcuoglu, Asil Kaan, Haidu, Andrei, Balint-Benczedi, Ferenc, Beßler, Daniel, Pomarlan, Mihai and Beetz, Michael, "Cognition-enabled Framework for Mixed Human-Robot Rescue Team", In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018. [bibtex]
[8]Gayane Kazhoyan and Michael Beetz, "Accomplishing Variations of Mobile Manipulation Actions through Generalized Robot Plans", In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, 2019. [bibtex]
[9]Gayane Kazhoyan and Michael Beetz, "Executing Underspecified Actions in Real World Based on Online Projection", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019. [bibtex] [doi]
[10]Gayane Kazhoyan, Arthur Niedzwiecki and Michael Beetz, "Towards Plan Transformations for Real-World Mobile Fetch and Place", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020. [bibtex] [doi]
[11]Gayane Kazhoyan, Alina Hawkin, Sebastian Koralewski, Andrei Haidu and Michael Beetz, "Learning Motion Parameterizations of Mobile Pick and Place Actions from Observing Humans in Virtual Environments", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. [bibtex] [doi]
[12]Gayane Kazhoyan, Simon Stelter, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Sebastian Koralewski and Michael Beetz, "The Robot Household Marathon Experiment", In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021. Accepted for publication. [bibtex] [url]
[13]Mania, Patrick, Stelter, Simon, Kazhoyan, Gayane and Beetz, Michael, "An Open and Flexible Robot Perception Framework for Mobile Manipulation Tasks", In 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024. [bibtex]
Workshop Papers
[14]Michael Beetz, Daniel Beßler and Gayane Kazhoyan, "Robotic Agents that Know What They are Doing", In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, 2017. [bibtex]
Other Publications
[15]Gayane Kazhoyan, Simon Stelter, Franklin Kenghagho Kenfack, Sebastian Koralewski and Michael Beetz, "The Robot Household Marathon Experiment", 2020. [bibtex] [url]
[16]Michael Beetz, Gayane Kazhoyan and David Vernon, "The CRAM Cognitive Architecture for Robot Manipulation in Everyday Activities", 2023. [bibtex]