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Dr Andrew Coles is a Reader in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Informatics, King's College London, within the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences. His research focuses on temporal and numeric planning, explainable planning, and human-robot collaboration. He leads and co-investigates multiple research projects funded by EPSRC, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the European Commission.
His research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Temporal and Numeric Planning, Planning with Rich Domain Models, Explainable Planning, Human-Robot Interaction, Autonomous Systems, Heuristic Search, and Decision-Making. He has published extensively in top-tier AI and robotics conferences such as ICAPS, IROS, HRI, AAAI, and IJCAI.
His recent publications demonstrate a strong trend toward explainable AI in human-robot collaboration, with a focus on multimodal sensing (e.g., eye tracking), user needs for explanation, and adaptive planning. His work integrates planning algorithms with human-centered evaluation and real-world applications in robotics.
Scientific Awards:
- International award for PhD thesis on assistive robots (2020)
Advising and Grants:
Dr Coles has supervised multiple students, including Lara Wachowiak, Guillem Canal, and Petra Tisnikar. He has led or co-investigated several major research projects, including:
- COHERENT (EPSRC): Collaborative Hierarchical Robotic Explanations
- Plan and Goal Reasoning for Explainable Autonomous Robots (Royal Academy of Engineering)
- ADE (European Commission): Autonomous Decision Making in Very Long Traverses
- ERGO (European Commission): European Robotic Goal-Oriented autonomous controller
Labs and Teams:
He is affiliated with the Reasoning and Planning research group and the Trusted Autonomous Systems Hub at King's College London, focusing on developing trustable autonomous systems through robust planning and human-centered AI.
