Courtney McBeth

I am currently a 5th year PhD student focusing on multi-agent planning and extended reality for robotics. Before I started my PhD, I studied Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. For more details, see my personal website.

Papers with Parasol Lab:

• Scalable Multi-robot Motion Planning via Hierarchical Subproblem Expansion and Workspace Decomposition Refinement

  by Isaac Ngui, Courtney McBeth, James D. Motes, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato
  May 2026

• ERUPT: An Open Toolkit for Interfacing with Robot Motion Planners in Extended Reality

  by Isaac Ngui, Courtney McBeth, André Santos, Grace He, Katherine J. Mimnaugh, James D. Motes, Luciano Soares, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato
  ArXiv Preprint, October 2025

• Extended Reality System for Robotic Learning from Human Demonstration

  by Isaac Ngui, Courtney McBeth, Grace He, Andre Correa Santos, Luciano Soares, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato
  ArXiv Preprint, September 2024

• Scalable Multi-Robot Motion Planning Using Guidance-Informed Hypergraphs

  by Courtney McBeth, James Motes, Isaac Ngui, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato
  ArXiv Preprint, June 2024

• Scalable Multi-robot Motion Planning for Congested Environments With Topological Guidance

  by Courtney McBeth, James Motes, Diane Uwacu, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato
  In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, August 2023

• Evaluating Guiding Spaces for Motion Planning

  by Amnon Attali, Stav Ashur, Isaac Burton Love, Courtney McBeth, James Motes, Diane Uwacu, Marco Morales, Nancy M. Amato
  IROS 2022, Workshop for Evaluating Motion Planning Performance, October 2022