Publications

Journal Papers

1. Parag Khanna, Nona Rajabi, Sumeyra U. Demir Kanik, Danica Kragic, Mårten Björkman, Christian Smith, "Early detection of human handover intentions in human–robot collaboration: Comparing EEG, gaze, and hand motion," in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 196, 2026, 105244, ISSN 0921-8890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2025.105244.
   Keywords: Human–robot collaboration (HRC); Human–robot handovers; EEG; Gaze; Motion analysis
2. Parag Khanna, J. Fredberg, M. Björkman, Christian Smith and A. Linard, "Hand It to Me Formally! Data-Driven Control for Human-Robot Handovers With Signal Temporal Logic," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 9039-9046, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3447476. keywords: {Handover;Robot kinematics;Behavioral sciences;Trajectory;Logistics;Robustness;Human-robot handovers;Signal Temporal Logic (STL)}

Conference Papers

1. Parag Khanna, Andreas Naoum, Elmira Yadollahi, Mårten Bjorkman, and Christian Smith, "REFLEX Dataset: A Multimodal Dataset of Human Reactions to Robot Failures and Explanations" in HRI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025
2. Parag Khanna, "Adapting Robotic Explanations for Robotic Failures in Human Robot Collaboration," in HRI 2025 - Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025, pp. 1863-1865. (HRI Pioneers Abstract)
3. Parag Khanna, Mårten Björkman, and Christian Smith, "A Multimodal Data Set of Human Handovers with Design Implications for Human-Robot Handovers," 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 1843-1850, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309537. keywords: {Visualization;Art;Tracking;Collaboration;Handover;Robot sensing systems;Task analysis}
4. Parag Khanna, Elmira Yadollahi, Mårten Björkman, Iolanda Leite, and Christian Smith, "Effects of Explanation Strategies to Resolve Failures in Human-Robot Collaboration," 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 1829-1836, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309394. keywords: {Collaboration;Handover;History;Task analysis;Robots}
5. Nona Rajabi, Parag Khanna, Sumeyra U. Demir Kanik, Elmira Yadollahi, Miguel Vasco, Mårten Björkman, Iolanda Leite, Christian Smith, and Danica Kragic, "Detecting the Intention of Object Handover in Human-Robot Collaborations: An EEG Study," 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 549-555, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309426. keywords: {Time-frequency analysis;Collaboration;Handover;Electroencephalography;Planning;Task analysis;Robots},
6. Parag Khanna et al.,"How do Humans take an Object from a Robot : Behavior changes observed in a User Study," in HAI 2023 - Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2023, pp. 372-374.
7. X. Weiss et al., "Safe Deep Reinforcement Learning for Power System Operation under Scheduled Unavailability," in 2023 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2023, 2023.
8. Parag Khanna, Mårten Björkman and Christian Smith, "Human Inspired Grip-Release Technique for Robot-Human Handovers" in 2022 IEEE-RAS 21st International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2022, pp. 694-701.

Workshop Papers

1. Andreas Naoum, Elmira Yadollahi, and Parag Khanna, "Failure Communication in Human-Robot Collaboration with Multimodal AI and Large Language Models," Workshop on Real World Physical and Social Human-Robot Interaction in 2024 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2024).