| 2025 | RO-MAN | Grounding Language with Numeric Quantities for Human-Robot Interaction with Collaborative Robots. | Tabib Wasit Rahman, Katelyn Shakir, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | Improving the Efficiency of Grounding Language Instructions that Refer to the Future State of Objects for Human-Robot Interaction. | Katelyn Shakir, Tabib Wasit Rahman, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2024 | RO-MAN | Grounding Language Instructions that Refer to the Past, Present, and/or Future State of Objects for Human-Robot Interaction. | Tabib Wasit Rahman, Katelyn Shakir, Nikola Raicevic, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2023 | IROS | Terrain-Aware Kinodynamic Planning with Efficiently Adaptive State Lattices for Mobile Robot Navigation in Off-Road Environments. | Eric R. Damm, Jason M. Gregory, Eli S. Lancaster, Felix A. Sanchez, Daniel M. Sahu, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2023 | IROS | Language Guided Temporally Adaptive Perception for Efficient Natural Language Grounding in Cluttered Dynamic Worlds. | Siddharth Patki, Jacob Arkin, Nikola Raicevic, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2022 | IROS | Improved Performance of CPG Parameter Inference for Path-following Control of Legged Robots. | Nathan D. Kent, David Neiman, Matthew Travers, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2022 | RO-MAN | An Efficient Algorithm for Visualization and Interpretation of Grounded Language Models. | Jacob Arkin, Siddharth Patki, Joshua D. Rosser, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2021 | IROS | Discrete Optimization of Adaptive State Lattices for Iterative Motion Planning on Unmanned Ground Vehicles. | Benned Hedegaard, Ethan Fahnestock, Jacob Arkin, Ashwin Menon, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2020 | ICRA | Inferring Task-Space Central Pattern Generator Parameters for Closed-loop Control of Underactuated Robots. | Nathan D. Kent, Raunaq M. Bhirangi, Matthew J. Travers, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2019 | CoRL | Language-guided Semantic Mapping and Mobile Manipulation in Partially Observable Environments. | Siddharth Patki, Ethan Fahnestock, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter |
| 2019 | ICRA | Inferring Compact Representations for Efficient Natural Language Understanding of Robot Instructions. | Siddharth Patki, Andrea F. Daniele, Matthew R. Walter, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2019 | ISRR | Probabilistic Mapping of Tissue Elasticity for Robot-Assisted Medical Ultrasound. | Michael E. Napoli, Soumya Goswami, Stephen A. McAleavey, Marvin M. Doyley, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2018 | SIGdial | Language-Guided Adaptive Perception for Efficient Grounded Communication with Robotic Manipulators in Cluttered Environments. | Siddharth Patki, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2017 | IJCAI | Grounding Abstract Spatial Concepts for Language Interaction with Robots. | Rohan Paul, Jacob Arkin, Nicholas Roy, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2017 | IROS | On the performance of selective adaptation in state lattices for mobile robot motion planning in cluttered environments. | Michael E. Napoli, Harel Biggie, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2017 | ISRR | A Multiview Approach to Learning Articulated Motion Models. | Andrea F. Daniele, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter |
| 2017 | SMC | Topology-aware RRT∗ for parallel optimal sampling in topologies. | Daqing Yi, Michael A. Goodrich, Thomas M. Howard, Kevin D. Seppi |
| 2017 | RO-MAN | Contextual awareness: Understanding monologic natural language instructions for autonomous robots. | Jacob Arkin, Matthew R. Walter, Adrian Boteanu, Michael E. Napoli, Harel Biggie, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2016 | IROS | A model for verifiable grounding and execution of complex natural language instructions. | Adrian Boteanu, Thomas M. Howard, Jacob Arkin, Hadas Kress-Gazit |
| 2016 | IROS | Expressing homotopic requirements for mobile robot navigation through natural language instructions. | Daqing Yi, Thomas M. Howard, Michael A. Goodrich, Kevin D. Seppi |
| 2015 | ICRA | Learning models for following natural language directions in unknown environments. | Sachithra Hemachandra, Felix Duvallet, Thomas M. Howard, Nicholas Roy, Anthony Stentz, Matthew R. Walter |
| 2015 | IROS | On the performance of hierarchical distributed correspondence graphs for efficient symbol grounding of robot instructions. | Istvan Chung, Oron Propp, Matthew R. Walter, Thomas M. Howard |
| 2014 | ICRA | A natural language planner interface for mobile manipulators. | Thomas M. Howard, Stefanie Tellex, Nicholas Roy |
| 2014 | ICRA | A summary of team MIT's approach to the virtual robotics challenge. | Russ Tedrake, Maurice F. Fallon, Sisir Karumanchi, Scott Kuindersma, Matthew E. Antone, Toby Schneider, Thomas M. Howard, Matthew R. Walter, Hongkai Dai, Robin Deits, Michael Fleder, Dehann Fourie, Riad I. Hammoud, Sachithra Hemachandra, P. Ilardi, Claudia Prez-D'Arpino, Sudeep Pillai, Andres Valenzuela, Cecilia Cantu, C. Dolan, I. Evans, S. Jorgensen, J. Kristeller, Julie A. Shah, Karl Iagnemma, Seth J. Teller |
| 2008 | IROS | Motion planning in urban environments: Part I. | Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev |
| 2008 | IROS | Motion planning in urban environments: Part II. | Dave Ferguson, Thomas M. Howard, Maxim Likhachev |
| 2006 | IROS | Trajectory and Spline Generation for All-Wheel Steering Mobile Robots. | Thomas M. Howard, Alonzo Kelly |