Publications

DARPA Subterranean Challenge

Winning team (Team CERBERUS) of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.

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Unified Autonomy Stack

A field-tested autonomy architecture commanding a diverse set of robots.

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Neural Control Barrier Functions for Safe Navigation

Safe navigation using Neural Control Barrier Functions (NCBFs) for aerial robots.

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Manhole Detection and Traversal for Exploration of Ballast Water Tanks using Micro Aerial Vehicles

Enabling micro aerial vehicles to detect and traverse manholes for ballast water tank exploration.

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    Task-driven Compression for Collision Encoding

    Task-driven compression method for collision encoding based on depth images.

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    Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots

    Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots.

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    Semantically-enhanced Deep Collision Prediction

    Autonomous navigation using aerial robots with semantic awareness for collision prediction.

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    The Reconfigurable Aerial Robotic Chain: Shape and Motion Planning

    Shape and motion planning for a reconfigurable aerial robotic system.

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    UniPilot: Enabling GPS-Denied Autonomy Across Embodiments

    A unified pilot for enabling GPS-denied autonomy across different robotic embodiments.

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    Autonomous Teamed Exploration (DARPA SubT)

    Teamed exploration of subterranean environments using legged and aerial robots.

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    Semantically-Driven Deep RL for Inspection Path Planning

    Deep reinforcement learning approach for inspection path planning with semantic awareness.

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      Open Source Contributions

      Various open-source tools and frameworks for robotics and simulation.

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      Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks using Aerial Robots

      General visual inspection of ship ballast water tanks using aerial robots.

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      Reinforcement Learning for Collision-free Flight

      Exploiting Deep Collision Encoding for autonomous flight in dense environments.

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      Aerial Gym Simulator

      A framework for highly parallelized simulation of aerial robots based on NVIDIA Isaac Gym.

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      MIMOSA: A Multi-Modal SLAM Framework for Resilient Autonomy against Sensor Degradation

      A Multi-Modal SLAM Framework for resilience against sensor degradation.

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      RMF-Owl: A Collision-Tolerant Flying Robot for Autonomous Subterranean Exploration

      A collision-tolerant flying robot for autonomous subterranean exploration.

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