The Autonomous Robotics and Interactive Systems Experimental Laboratory at the University of Denver is directed by Dr. Christopher Reardon. 


In the ARISE Lab, we research methods to enable robust, intelligent robots that can operate alongside humans.  In particular, we seek to enable human-robot teaming in real-world and field environments using computational approaches such as artificial intelligence and multiple interactive modalities.

Recent News

Disruption of Connectivity Graphs in Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems" accepted to IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent systems (COINS)

2 June 2022

"Disruption of Connectivity Graphs in Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems", by Brian Reily, Caden Coniff, John G. Rogers, and Christopher Reardon has been accepted to the IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent systems (COINS), August 1-3 in Barcelona, Spain.

Caden Coniff successfully defended his undergraduate thesis "Understanding Structural Properties of Multi-Agent Graphs and the Ease of Disruption" for graduation with distinction.

13 May 2022

Caden Coniff successfully defended his undergraduate thesis "Understanding Structural Properties of Multi-Agent Graphs and the Ease of Disruption" for graduation with distinction.

MRS Best Paper Nomination for "Role Discovery in Observed Multi-Agent Systems Over Time through Matrix Factorization".

28 October 2021

"Role Discovery in Observed Multi-Agent Systems Over Time  through Matrix Factorization" has been nominated for the Best Paper award (top 3 papers / 30% conference acceptance rate) for the The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems

"Role Discovery in Observed Multi-Agent Systems Over Time through Matrix Factorization accepted to the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS).

16 September 2021
"Role Discovery in Observed Multi-Agent Systems Over Time  through Matrix Factorization" by Brian Reily, Michael Don, John G. Rogers, and Christopher Reardon will be presented at the The 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems November 4-5, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

"Balancing Mission and Comprehensibility in Multi-Robot Systems for Disaster Response" accepted to 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR).

16 September 2021
In collaboration with researchers at U.S. Army Research Lab, the paper "Balancing Mission and Comprehensibility in Multi-Robot Systems for Disaster Response" by Brian Reily, John G. Rogers, and Christopher Reardon will be presented at the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) in New York, NY October 25-27 .

"Evaluating Human Understanding of a Mixed Reality Interface for Autonomous Robot-Based Change Detection" accepted to 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR).

16 September 2021
In collaboration with researchers at U.S. Army Research Lab, the paper "Evaluating Human Understanding of a Mixed Reality Interface for Autonomous Robot-Based Change Detection" by Christopher Reardon, Kerstin Haring, Jason Gregory, and John G. Rogers will be presented at the 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR) in New York, NY October 25-27 .

"Designing a mixed reality interface for autonomous robot-based change detection" to be presented at Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (XR) Technology for Multi-Domain Operations II.

31 March 2021
In collaboration with researchers at U.S. Army Research Lab, the paper "Designing a Mixed Reality Interface for Autonomous Robot-Based Change Detection" by Christopher Reardon, Jason Gregory, Carlos Nieto-Granda, and John G. Rogers will be presented at the Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (XR) Technology for Multi-Domain Operations II conference, part of  SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing. 

"Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Selection for Enhanced Situational Awareness" to be presented at Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (XR) Technology for Multi-Domain Operations II.

31 March 2021
In collaboration with researchers at Colorado School of Mines, the paper "Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Selection for Enhanced Situational Awareness" by Brian Reily, Christopher Reardon, and Hao Zhang will be presented at the Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (XR) Technology for Multi-Domain Operations II conference, part of  SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing. 

"You Have Time to Explore Over Here!: Augmented Reality for Enhanced Situation Awareness in Human-Robot Collaborative Exploration" presented at VAM-HRI 2021.

8 March 2021
In collaboration with researchers at Colorado School of Mines, a workshop paper "You Have Time to Explore Over Here!: Augmented Reality for Enhanced Situation Awareness in Human-Robot Collaborative Exploration" by Terran Mott, Thomas Williams, Hao Zhang, & Christopher Reardon will be presented at International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed-Reality for Human-Robot Interactions, part of the Human-Robot Interaction 2021 conference. 

"Tracking and Relative Localization of Drone Swarms with a Vision-based Headset" accepted by Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) journal.

13 December 2020
In collaboration with researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and EPFL, the paper "Tracking and Relative Localization of Drone Swarms with a Vision-based Headset" by Maxim Pavliv, Fabrizio Schiano, Christopher M. Reardon, Dario Floreano, Giuseppe Loianno has been accepted to the Robotics and Automation (RA-L) Journal.  The paper will also be presented at the IEEE ICRA 2021 conference in Xi'an, China.