Publications

2023

  • [1]
    Exploring the Most Sectors at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Finals.
    By Cao, C., Nogueira, L., Zhu, H., Keller, J., Best, G., Garg, R., Kohanbash, D., Maier, J., Zhao, S., Yang, F., Cujic, K., Darnley, R., DeBortoli, R., Drozd, B., Sun, B., Higgins, I., Willits, S., Armstrong, G., Zhang, J., Hollinger, G., Travers, M. and Scherer, S.
    In Field Robotics, no. 3, pp. 801–836, 2023.
  • [2]
    Automerge: A framework for map assembling and smoothing in city-scale environments.
    By Yin, P., Zhao, S., Lai, H., Ge, R., Zhang, J., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023.
  • [3]
    BioSLAM: A Bioinspired Lifelong Memory System for General Place Recognition.
    By Yin, P., Abuduweili, A., Zhao, S., Xu, L., Liu, C. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023.
  • [4]
    iSimLoc: Visual Global Localization for Previously Unseen Environments With Simulated Images.
    By Yin, P., Cisneros, I., Zhao, S., Zhang, J., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2023.
  • [5]
    DytanVO: Joint refinement of visual odometry and motion segmentation in dynamic environments.
    By Shen, S., Cai, Y., Wang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), , pp. 4048–4055, , 2023.
  • [6]
    How does it feel? self-supervised costmap learning for off-road vehicle traversability.
    By Castro, M.G., Triest, S., Wang, W., Gregory, J.M., Sanchez, F., Rogers, J.G. and Scherer, S.
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), , pp. 931–938, , 2023.
  • [7]
    Follow the rules: Online signal temporal logic tree search for guided imitation learning in stochastic domains.
    By Aloor, J.J., Patrikar, J., Kapoor, P., Oh, J. and Scherer, S.
    In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), , pp. 1320–1326, , 2023.
  • [8]
    PyPose: A library for robot learning with physics-based optimization.
    By Wang, C., Gao, D., Xu, K., Geng, J., Hu, Y., Qiu, Y., Li, B., Yang, F., Moon, B., Pandey, A. and others.
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, , pp. 22024–22034, , 2023.
  • [9]
    Learning Risk-Aware Costmaps via Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Off-Road Navigation.
    By Triest, S., Castro, M.G., Maheshwari, P., Sivaprakasam, M., Wang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.00134, 2023.
  • [10]
    AirLoc: Object-based Indoor Relocalization.
    By Li, B., Scherer, S., Lin, Y.-J., Wang, C. and others.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.00954, 2023.
  • [11]
    Learned Tree Search for Long-Horizon Social Robot Navigation in Shared Airspace.
    By Navarro, I., Patrikar, J., Dantas, J., Baijal, R., Higgins, I., Scherer, S. and Oh, J.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.01428, 2023.
  • [12]
    Off-Policy Evaluation With Online Adaptation for Robot Exploration in Challenging Environments.
    By Hu, Y., Geng, J., Wang, C., Keller, J. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.
  • [13]
    TartanDrive 1.5: Improving Large Multimodal Robotics Dataset Collection and Distribution.
    By Sivaprakasam, M., Triest, S., Castro, M.G., Nye, M., Maulimov, M., Ho, C., Maheshwari, P., Wang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In ICRA2023 Workshop on Pretraining for Robotics (PT4R), 2023.
  • [14]
    A Simulator for Fully-Actuated UAVs.
    By Keipour, A., Mousaei, M. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07228, 2023.
  • [15]
    VoxDet: Voxel Learning for Novel Instance Detection.
    By Li, B., Wang, J., Hu, Y., Wang, C. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17220, 2023.
  • [16]
    MUI-TARE: Cooperative Multi-Agent Exploration with Unknown Initial Position.
    By Yan, J., Lin, X., Ren, Z., Zhao, S., Yu, J., Cao, C., Yin, P., Zhang, J. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023.
  • [17]
    Time-Optimal Path Planning in a Constant Wind for Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles using Dubins Set Classification.
    By Sachdev, S., Moon, B., Yuan, J. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.11845, 2023.
  • [18]
    Learning-on-the-Drive: Self-supervised Adaptation of Visual Offroad Traversability Models.
    By Chen, E., Ho, C., Maulimov, M., Wang, C. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.15226, 2023.
  • [19]
    Image-based Visual Servo Control for Aerial Manipulation Using a Fully-Actuated UAV.
    By He, G., Jangir, Y., Geng, J., Mousaei, M., Bai, D. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.16530, 2023.
  • [20]
    Pegasus Simulator: An Isaac Sim Framework for Multiple Aerial Vehicles Simulation.
    By Jacinto, M., Pinto, J., Patrikar, J., Keller, J., Cunha, R., Scherer, S. and Pascoal, A.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05263, 2023.
  • [21]
    SubT-MRS: A Subterranean, Multi-Robot, Multi-Spectral and Multi-Degraded Dataset for Robust SLAM.
    By Zhao, S., Singh, D., Sun, H., Jiang, R., Gao, Y.J., Wu, T., Karhade, J., Whittaker, C., Higgins, I., Xu, J. and others.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.07607, 2023.
  • [22]
    Multi-Robot Multi-Room Exploration with Geometric Cue Extraction and Spherical Decomposition.
    By Kim, S., Corah, M., Keller, J., Best, G. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15202, 2023.
  • [23]
    AnyLoc: Towards Universal Visual Place Recognition.
    By Keetha, N., Mishra, A., Karhade, J., Jatavallabhula, K.M., Scherer, S., Krishna, M. and Garg, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00688, 2023.
  • [24]
    Attention-Enhanced Cross-modal Localization Between Spherical Images and Point Clouds.
    By Zhao, Z., Yu, H., Lyu, C., Yang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023.
  • [25]
    AirTrack: Onboard Deep Learning Framework for Long-Range Aircraft Detection and Tracking.
    By Ghosh, S., Patrikar, J., Moon, B., Hamidi, M.M. and Sebastian Scherer, and.
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
  • [26]
    Quantifying the Effect of Weather on Advanced Air Mobility Operations.
    By Sharma, A., Patrikar, J., Moon, B., Scherer, S. and Samaras, C.
    In Findings, 2023.
  • [27]
    UAS Simulator for Modeling, Analysis and Control in Free Flight and Physical Interaction.
    By Keipour, A., Mousaei, M., Geng, J., Bai, D. and Scherer, S.
    In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, , p. 1279, , 2023.

    • 2022

  • [1]
    Towards Robust Visual-Inertial Odometry with Multiple Non-Overlapping Monocular Cameras.
    By He, Y., Yu, H., Yang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), , pp. 9452–9458, , 2022.
  • [2]
    Attention-Enhanced Cross-modal Localization Between 360 Images and Point Clouds.
    By Zhao, Z., Yu, H., Lyv, C., Yang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.02757, 2022.
  • [3]
    PVT++: A Simple End-to-End Latency-Aware Visual Tracking Framework.
    By Li, B., Huang, Z., Ye, J., Li, Y., Scherer, S., Zhao, H. and Fu, C.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11629, 2022.
  • [4]
    I2D-Loc: Camera localization via image to LiDAR depth flow.
    By Chen, K., Yu, H., Yang, W., Yu, L., Scherer, S. and Xia, G.-S.
    In ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 194, pp. 209–221, 2022.
  • [5]
    TartanCalib: Iterative Wide-Angle Lens Calibration using Adaptive SubPixel Refinement of AprilTags.
    By Duisterhof, B.P., Hu, Y., Teng, S.H., Kaess, M. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.02511, 2022.
  • [6]
    PyPose: A Library for Robot Learning with Physics-based Optimization.
    By Wang, C., Gao, D., Xu, K., Geng, J., Hu, Y., Qiu, Y., Li, B., Yang, F., Moon, B., Pandey, A. and others.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.15428, 2022.
  • [7]
    Follow The Rules: Online Signal Temporal Logic Tree Search for Guided Imitation Learning in Stochastic Domains.
    By Aloor, J.J., Patrikar, J., Kapoor, P., Oh, J. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.13737, 2022.
  • [8]
    360FusionNeRF: Panoramic Neural Radiance Fields with Joint Guidance.
    By Kulkarni, S., Yin, P. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.14265, 2022.
  • [9]
    MUI-TARE: Multi-Agent Cooperative Exploration with Unknown Initial Position.
    By Yan, J., Lin, X., Ren, Z., Zhao, S., Yu, J., Cao, C., Yin, P., Zhang, J. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.10775, 2022.
  • [10]
    How Does It Feel? Self-Supervised Costmap Learning for Off-Road Vehicle Traversability.
    By Castro, M.G., Triest, S., Wang, W., Gregory, J.M., Sanchez, F., Rogers III, J.G. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.10788, 2022.
  • [11]
    DytanVO: Joint Refinement of Visual Odometry and Motion Segmentation in Dynamic Environments.
    By Shen, S., Cai, Y., Wang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08430, 2022.
  • [12]
    iSimLoc: Visual Global Localization for Previously Unseen Environments with Simulated Images.
    By Yin, P., Cisneros, I., Zhang, J., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06376, 2022.
  • [13]
    General Place Recognition Survey: Towards the Real-world Autonomy Age.
    By Yin, P., Zhao, S., Cisneros, I., Abuduweili, A., Huang, G., Milford, M., Liu, C., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.04497, 2022.
  • [14]
    Targetless Extrinsic Calibration of Stereo, Thermal, and Laser Sensors in Structured Environments.
    By Fu, T., Yu, H., Yang, W., Hu, Y. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 71, pp. 1–11, 2022.
  • [15]
    BioSLAM: A Bio-inspired Lifelong Memory System for General Place Recognition.
    By Yin, P., Abuduweili, A., Zhao, S., Liu, C. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.14543, 2022.
  • [16]
    Drone flight data reveal energy and greenhouse gas emissions savings for very small package delivery.
    By Rodrigues, T.A., Patrikar, J., Oliveira, N.L., Matthews, H.S., Scherer, S. and Samaras, C.
    In Patterns, vol. 3, no. 8, p. 100569, 2022.
  • [17]
    Present and future of slam in extreme underground environments.
    By Ebadi, K., Bernreiter, L., Biggie, H., Catt, G., Chang, Y., Chatterjee, A., Denniston, C.E., Deschênes, S.-P., Harlow, K., Khattak, S. and others.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01787, 2022.
  • [18]
    ALTO: A Large-Scale Dataset for UAV Visual Place Recognition and Localization.
    By Cisneros, I., Yin, P., Zhang, J., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12317, 2022.
  • [19]
    Challenges in Close-Proximity Safe and Seamless Operation of Manned and Unmanned Aircraft in Shared Airspace.
    By Patrikar, J., Dantas, J.P.A., Ghosh, S., Kapoor, P., Higgins, I., Aloor, J.J., Navarro, I., Sun, J., Stoler, B., Hamidi, M., Baijal, R., Moon, B., Oh, J. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06932, 2022.
  • [20]
    On Performance Impacts of Coordination via Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Perception Planning and the Dynamics of Target Coverage and Cinematography.
    By Corah, M. and Scherer, S.
    In RSS 2022 Workshop on Envisioning an Infrastructure for Multi-Robot and Collaborative Autonomy Testing and Evaluation, 2022.
  • [21]
    Automerge: A framework for map assembling and smoothing in city-scale environments.
    By Yin, P., Lai, H., Zhao, S., Fu, R., Cisneros, I., Ge, R., Zhang, J., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06965, 2022.
  • [22]
    SphereVLAD++: Attention-Based and Signal-Enhanced Viewpoint Invariant Descriptor.
    By Zhao, S., Yin, P., Yi, G. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 256–263, 2022.
  • [23]
    VTOL failure detection and recovery by utilizing redundancy.
    By Mousaei, M., Keipour, A., Geng, J. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.00588, 2022.
  • [24]
    Alita: A large-scale incremental dataset for long-term autonomy.
    By Yin, P., Zhao, S., Ge, R., Cisneros, I., Fu, R., Zhang, J., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.10737, 2022.
  • [25]
    Detection and Physical Interaction with Deformable Linear Objects.
    By Keipour, A., Mousaei, M., Bandari, M., Schaal, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08041, 2022.
  • [26]
    Design, Modeling and Control for a Tilt-rotor VTOL UAV in the Presence of Actuator Failure.
    By Mousaei, M., Geng, J., Keipour, A., Bai, D. and Scherer, S.
    In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), , pp. 4310–4317, , 2022.
  • [27]
    Resilient Multi-Sensor Exploration of Multifarious Environments with a Team of Aerial Robots.
    By Best, G., Garg, R., Keller, J., Hollinger, G.A. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, 2022.
  • [28]
    Learning and Transferring Value Function for Robot Exploration in Subterranean Environments.
    By Hu, Y., Wang, C., Keller, J. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.03140, 2022.
  • [29]
    Adafusion: Visual-lidar fusion with adaptive weights for place recognition.
    By Lai, H., Yin, P. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 12038–12045, 2022.
  • [30]
    Visual Servoing Approach to Autonomous UAV Landing on a Moving Vehicle.
    By Keipour, A., Pereira, G.A.S., Bonatti, R., Garg, R., Rastogi, P., Dubey, G. and Scherer, S.
    In Sensors, vol. 22, no. 17, p. 6549, 2022.
  • [31]
    Mission-level Robustness with Rapidly-deployed, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles by Carnegie Mellon Team Tartan at MBZIRC 2020.
    By Bhattacharya, A., Gandhi, A., Merkle, L., Tiwari, R., Warrior, K., Winata, S., Saba, A., Zhang, K., Kroemer, O. and Scherer, S.
    In Field Robotics Journal, pp. 172–200, May 2022.
  • [32]
    Robust Modeling and Controls for Racing on the Edge.
    By Spisak, J., Saba, A., Suvarna, N., Mao, B., Zhang, C.T., Chang, C., Scherer, S. and Ramanan, D.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.10841, 2022.
  • [33]
    Robotic Interestingness via Human-Informed Few-Shot Object Detection.
    By Kim, S., Wang, C., Li, B. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
  • [34]
    TIGRIS: An Informed Sampling-based Algorithm for Informative Path Planning.
    By Moon, B., Chatterjee, S. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
  • [35]
    Predicting Like A Pilot: Dataset and Method to Predict Socially-Aware Aircraft Trajectories in Non-Towered Terminal Airspace.
    By Patrikar, J., Moon, B., Oh, J. and Scherer, S.
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.
  • [36]
    TartanDrive: A Large-Scale Dataset for Learning Off-Road Dynamics Models.
    By Triest, S., Sivaprakasam, M., Wang, S.J., Wang, W., Johnson, A.M. and Scherer, S.
    In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.
  • [37]
    Unified Representation of Geometric Primitives for Graph-SLAM Optimization Using Decomposed Quadrics.
    By Zhen, W., Yu, H., Hu, Y. and Scherer, S.
    In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.
  • [38]
    AirDet: Few-Shot Detection without Fine-tuning for Autonomous Exploration.
    By Li, B., Wang, C., Reddy, P., Kim, S. and Scherer, S.
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2022.
  • [39]
    AirObject: A Temporally Evolving Graph Embedding for Object Identification.
    By Keetha, N.V., Wang, C., Qiu, Y., Xu, K. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.
  • [40]
    AirLoop: Lifelong Loop Closure Detection.
    By Gao, D., Wang, C. and Scherer, S.
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.
  • [41]
    AirDOS: Dynamic SLAM benefits from Articulated Objects.
    By Qiu, Y., Wang, C., Wang, W., Henein, M. and Scherer, S.
    In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.
  • [42]
    AirCode: A Robust Object Encoding Method.
    By Xu, K., Wang, C., Chen, C., Wu, W. and Sebastian, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022.
  • [43]
    Resilient and Modular Subterranean Exploration with a Team of Roving and Flying Robots.
    By Scherer, S., Agrawal, V., Best, G., Cao, C., Cujic, K., Darnley, R., DeBortoli, R., Dexheimer, E., Drozd, B., Garg, R., Higgins, I., Keller, J., Kohanbash, D., Nogueira, L., Pradhan, R., Tatum, M., K. Viswanathan, V., Willits, S., Zhao, S., Zhu, H., Abad, D., Angert, T., Armstrong, G., Boirum, R., Dongare, A., Dworman, M., Hu, S., Jaekel, J., Ji, R., Lai, A., Hsuan Lee, Y., Luong, A., Mangelson, J., Maier, J., Picard, J., Pluckter, K., Saba, A., Saroya, M., Scheide, E., Shoemaker-Trejo, N., Spisak, J., Teza, J., Yang, F., Wilson, A., Zhang, H., Choset, H., Kaess, M., Rowe, A., Singh, S., Zhang, J., A. Hollinger, G. and Travers, M.
    In Field Robotics Journal, pp. 678–734, May 2022.
  • [44]
    Lifelong graph learning.
    By Wang, C., Qiu, Y., Gao, D. and Scherer, S.
    In 2022 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2022.

    • 2021

  • [1]
    Rough Terrain Navigation Using Divergence Constrained Model-Based Reinforcement Learning.
    By Wang, S.J., Triest, S., Wang, W., Scherer, S. and Johnson, A.
    In 5th Annual Conference on Robot Learning, 2021.
  • [2]
    Unsupervised Online Learning for Robotic Interestingness with Visual Memory.
    By Wang, C., Qiu, Y., Wang, W., Hu, S., Yafei anad Kim and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2021.
  • [3]
    3D Human Reconstruction in the Wild with Collaborative Aerial Cameras.
    By Ho, C., Jong, A., Freeman, H., Rao, R., Bonatti, R. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
  • [4]
    3D Segmentation Learning from Sparse Annotations and Hierarchical Descriptors.
    By Yin, P., Xu, L., Ji, J., Scherer, S. and Choset, H.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, , , pp. 5953–5960, , 2021.
  • [5]
    i3dLoc: Image-to-range Cross-domain Localization Robust to Inconsistent Environmental Conditions.
    By Yin, P., Xu, L., Zhang, J., Choset, H. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS ’21), 2021.
  • [6]
    In-flight positional and energy use data set of a DJI Matrice 100 quadcopter for small package delivery.
    By Rodrigues, T.A., Patrikar, J., Choudhry, A., Feldgoise, J., Arcot, V., Gahlaut, A., Lau, S., Moon, B., Wagner, B., Matthews, H.S., Scherer, S. and Samaras, C.
    In Scientific Data, Jun. 2021.
  • [7]
    Graph-Based Topological Exploration Planning in Large-Scale 3D Environments.
    By Yang, F., Lee, D.-H., Keller, J. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi’an, China, 2021.
  • [8]
    Batteries, Camera, Action! Learning a Semantic Control Space for Expressive Robot Cinematography.
    By Bonatti, R., Bucker, A., Scherer, S., Mukadam, M. and Hodgins, J.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi’an, China, 2021.
  • [9]
    Do You See What I See? Coordinating Multiple Aerial Cameras for Robot Cinematography.
    By Bucker, A., Bonatti, R. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi’an, China, 2021.
  • [10]
    Improving Off-Road Planning Techniques with Learned Costs from Physical Interactions.
    By Sivaprakasam, M., Triest, S., Wang, W., Yin, P. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi’an, China, 2021.
  • [11]
    CVaR-Based Flight Energy Risk Assessment for Multirotor UAVs Using a Deep Energy Model.
    By Choudhry, A., Moon, B., Patrikar, J., Samaras, C. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Xi’an, China, 2021.
  • [12]
    Real-Time Ellipse Detection for Robotics Applications.
    By Keipour, A., Pereira, G.A.S. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 7009–7016, Oct. 2021.
  • [13]
    Integration of Fully-Actuated Multirotors into Real-World Applications.
    By Keipour, A., Mousaei, M., Ashley, A. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06666, 2021.
  • [14]
    ULSD: Unified Line Segment Detection across Pinhole, Fisheye, and Spherical Cameras.
    By Li, H., Yu, H., Yang, W., Yu, L. and Scherer, S.
    In ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 178, pp. 187–202, 2021.
  • [15]
    Model-based real-time robust controller for a small helicopter.
    By He, M., He, J. and Scherer, S.
    In Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, vol. 146, p. 107022, 2021.

    • 2020

  • [1]
    Aerial Field Robotics.
    By Kulkarni, M., Moon, B., Alexis, K. and Scherer, S.
    In Encyclopedia of Robotics,
    M. H. Ang, O. Khatib, and B. Siciliano, Eds.
    Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020, pp. pp. 1–15
  • [2]
    A Robust Laser-Inertial Odometry and Mapping Method for Large-Scale Highway Environments.
    By Zhao, S., Fang, Z., Li, H.L. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.02622, 2020.
  • [3]
    Feasibility of discriminating UAV propellers noise from distress signals to locate people in enclosed environments using MEMS microphone arrays.
    By Izquierdo, A., Val, L.D., Villacorta, J.J., Zhen, W., Scherer, S. and Fang, Z.
    In Sensors, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 597, 2020.
  • [4]
    Human-in-the-loop Planning and Monitoring of Swarm Search and Service Missions.
    By Chandarana, M., Lewis, M., Sycara, K. and Scherer, S.
    In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS’2020), 2020.
  • [5]
    RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments Using Point Correlations.
    By Dai, W., Zhang, Y., Li, P., Fang, Z. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020.
  • [6]
    Real-time Motion Planning of Curvature Continuous Trajectories for Urban UAV Operations in Wind.
    By Patrikar, J., Dugar, V., Arcot, V. and Scherer, S.
    In 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), , pp. 854–861, , 2020.
  • [7]
    3D-SiamRPN: An End-to-end Learning Method for Real-time 3D Single Object Tracking using Raw Point Cloud.
    By Fang, Z., Zhou, S., Cui, Y. and Scherer, S.
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    Do You See What I See? Coordinating Multiple Aerial Cameras for Robot Cinematography.
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    Batteries, camera, action! Learning a semantic control space for expressive robot cinematography.
    By Bonatti, R., Bucker, A., Scherer, S., Mukadam, M. and Hodgins, J.
    In arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10118, 2020.
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    TartanVO: A Generalizable Learning-based VO.
    By Wang, W., Hu, Y. and Scherer, S.
    In Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020.
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    ALFA: A dataset for UAV fault and anomaly detection.
    By Keipour, A., Mousaei, M. and Scherer, S.
    In The International Journal of Robotics Research, Oct. 2020.
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    A Robust Multi-Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry Pipeline.
    By Jaekel, J., Mangelson, J., Scherer, S. and Kaess, M.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
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    Efficient Multiresolution Scrolling Grid for Stereo Vision-based MAV Obstacle Avoidance.
    By Dexheimer, E., Mangelson, J., Scherer, S. and Kaess, M.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
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    Wind and the City: Utilizing UAV-Based In-Situ Measurements for Estimating Urban Wind Fields.
    By Patrikar, J., Moon, B. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
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    TP-TIO: A Robust Thermal-Inertial Odometry with Deep ThermalPoint.
    By Zhao, S., Wang, P., Zhang, H., Fang, Z. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
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    Efficient Trajectory Library Filtering for Quadrotor Flight in Unknown Environments.
    By Viswanathan, V., Dexheimer, E., Li, G., Loianno, G., Kaess, M. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
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    Visual Memorability for Robotic Interestingness via Unsupervised Online Learning.
    By Wang, C., Wang, W., Qiu, Y., Hu, Y. and Scherer, S.
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020.
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    Autonomous aerial cinematography in unstructured environments with learned artistic decision-making.
    By Bonatti, R., Wang, W., Ho, C., Ahuja, A., Gschwindt, M., Camci, E., Kayacan, E., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Journal of Field Robotics, Jan. 2020.
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    Autonomous Drone Cinematographer: Using Artistic Principles to Create Smooth, Safe, Occlusion-Free Trajectories for Aerial Filming.
    By Bonatti, R., Zhang, Y., Choudhury, S., Wang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, , pp. 119–129, , 2020.
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    Deep-Learning Assisted High-Resolution Binocular Stereo Depth Reconstruction.
    By Hu, Y., Zhen, W. and Scherer, S.
    In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), , pp. 8637–8643, , 2020.
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    LiDAR-enhanced Structure-from-Motion.
    By Zhen, W., Hu, Y., Yu, H. and Scherer, S.
    In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), , pp. 6773–6779, , 2020.
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    Line-Based 2D–3D Registration and Camera Localization in Structured Environments.
    By Yu, H., Zhen, W., Yang, W. and Scherer, S.
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    Monocular Camera Localization in Prior LiDAR Maps with 2D-3D Line Correspondences.
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    Precision UAV Landing in Unstructured Environments.
    By Pluckter, K. and Scherer, S.
    In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, , pp. 177–187, , 2020.
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    TartanAir: A Dataset to Push the Limits of Visual SLAM.
    By Wang, W., Zhu, D., Wang, X., Hu, Y., Qiu, Y., Wang, C., Hu, Y., Kapoor, A. and Scherer, S.
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    • 2019

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    A Joint Optimization Approach of LiDAR-Camera Fusion for Accurate Dense 3-D Reconstructions.
    By Zhen, W., Hu, Y., Liu, J. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3585–3592, Oct. 2019.
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    A Stereo Algorithm for Thin Obstacles and Reflective Objects.
    By Keller, J. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Oct. 2019.
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    Automatic Real-time Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles.
    By Keipour, A., Mousaei, M. and Scherer, S.
    In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, Canada, , pp. 5679–5685, , 2019.
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    CubeSLAM: Monocular 3-D Object SLAM.
    By Yang, S. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 925–938, Jun. 2019.
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    Decentralized Method for Sub-Swarm Deployment and Rejoining.
    By Chandarana, M., Luo, W., Lewis, M., Sycara, K. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2018, , pp. 1209–1214, , 2019.
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    Estimating the localizability in tunnel-like environments using LiDAR and UWB.
    By Zhen, W. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, , pp. 4903–4908, , 2019.
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    High performance and safe flight of full-scale helicopters from takeoff to landing with an ensemble of planners.
    By Choudhury, S., Dugar, V., Maeta, S., MacAllister, B., Arora, S., Althoff, D. and Scherer, S.
    In Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1275–1332, Dec. 2019.
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    Improved generalization of heading direction estimation for aerial filming using semi-supervised regression.
    By Wang, W., Ahuja, A., Zhang, Y., Bonatti, R. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, , pp. 5901–5907, , 2019.
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    Hybrid Model for A Priori Performance Prediction of Multi-Job Type Swarm Search and Service Missions.
    By Chandarana, M., Hughes, D., Lewis, M., Sycara, K. and Scherer, S.
    In 2019 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), , pp. 714–719, , 2019.
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    Learning Visuomotor Policies for Aerial Navigation Using Cross-Modal Representations.
    By Bonatti, R., Madaan, R., Vineet, V., Scherer, S. and Kapoor, A.
    In arXiv:1909.06993v1 [cs.CV], Sep. 2019.
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    Monocular object and plane slam in structured environments.
    By Yang, S. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 3145–3152, 2019.
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    Multi-view reconstruction of wires using a catenary model.
    By Madaan, R., Kaess, M. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, , pp. 5657–5664, , 2019.
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    LiDAR Enhanced Structure-from-Motion.
    By Zhen, W., Hu, Y., Yu, H. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Nov. 2019.
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    Learning Controls Using Cross-Modal Representations: Bridging Simulation and Reality for Drone Racing.
    By Bonatti, R., Madaan, R., Vineet, V., Scherer, S. and Kapoor, A.
    In arXiv.org, Sep. 2019.
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    Autonomous Aerial Cinematography In Unstructured Environments With Learned Artistic Decision-Making.
    By Bonatti, R., Wang, W., Ho, C., Ahuja, A., Gschwindt, M., Camci, E., Kayacan, E., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Oct. 2019.

    • 2018

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    A Unified 3D Mapping Framework Using a 3D or 2D LiDAR.
    By Zhen, W. and Scherer, S.
    In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, , pp. 702–711, , 2018.
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    Achieving Robust Localization in Geometrically Degenerated Tunnels.
    By Zhen, W. and Scherer, S.
    In Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities for Resilient Collective Intelligence in Subterranean Environments, Pittsburgh, Pa, 2018.
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    An efficient global energy optimization approach for robust 3D plane segmentation of point clouds.
    By Dong, Z., Yang, B., Hu, P. and Scherer, S.
    In ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 137, pp. 112–133, Mar. 2018.
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    Bayesian active edge evaluation on expensive graphs.
    By Choudhury, S., Srinivasa, S. and Scherer, S.
    In IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 4890–4897, Nov. 2018.
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    Data-driven planning via imitation learning.
    By Choudhury, S., Bhardwaj, M., Arora, S., Kapoor, A., Ranade, G., Scherer, S. and Dey, D.
    In International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 37, no. 13-14, pp. 1632–1672, Dec. 2018.
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    Determining Effective Swarm Sizes for Multi-Job Type Missions.
    By Chandarana, M., Lewis, M., Sycara, K. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, , pp. 4848–4853, , 2018.
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    DROAN - Disparity-Space Representation for Obstacle Avoidance: Enabling Wire Mapping Avoidance.
    By Dubey, G., Madaan, R. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, , pp. 6311–6318, , 2018.
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    Hierarchical registration of unordered TLS point clouds based on binary shape context descriptor.
    By Dong, Z., Yang, B., Liang, F., Huang, R. and Scherer, S.
    In ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, vol. 144, pp. 61–79, Oct. 2018.
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    Hindsight is Only 50/50: Unsuitability of MDP based Approximate POMDP Solvers for Multi-resolution Information Gathering.
    By Arora, S., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Apr. 2018.
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    Integrating kinematics and environment context into deep inverse reinforcement learning for predicting off-road vehicle trajectories.
    By Zhang, Y., Wang, W., Bonatti, R., Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    In Conference on Robot Learning, 2018.
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    Joint Point Cloud and Image Based Localization for Efficient Inspection in Mixed Reality.
    By Das, M.P., Dong, Z. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 6357–6363, Nov. 2018.
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    Monocular and Stereo Cues for Landing Zone Evaluation for Micro UAVs.
    By Garg, R., Yang, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Dec. 2018.
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    Open Problems in Robotic Anomaly Detection.
    By Gupta, R., Kurtz, Z.T., Scherer, S. and Smereka, J.M.
    In arXiv.org, Sep. 2018.
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    Path Planning for Unmanned Fixed-Wing Aircraft in Uncertain Wind Conditions Using Trochoids.
    By Schopferer, S., Lorenz, J.S., Keipour, A. and Scherer, S.
    In 2018 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2018, Dallas, TX, , pp. 503–512, , 2018.
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    Positioning error analysis of least squares method for wireless sensor networks.
    By Tian, X., Zhen, W., Scherer, S. and Lu, X.
    In 50th International Symposium on Robotics, ISR 2018, , pp. 143–146, , 2018.
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    Real-Time Semantic Mapping for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation.
    By Maturana, D., Chou, P.-W., Uenoyama, M. and Scherer, S.
    In Field and Service Robotics,
    Springer, Cham, 2018, pp. pp. 335–350
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    Robust image-based crack detection in concrete structure using multi-scale enhancement and visual features.
    By Liu, X., Ai, Y. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, , pp. 2304–2308, , 2018.
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    Season-Invariant Semantic Segmentation with a Deep Multimodal Network.
    By Kim, D.-K., Maturana, D., Uenoyama, M. and Scherer, S.
    In Field and Service Robotics,
    Springer, Cham, 2018, pp. pp. 255–270
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    Swarm size planning tool for multi-job type missions.
    By Chandarana, M., Lewis, M., Allen, B.D., Sycara, K. and Scherer, S.
    In 2018 Aviation Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference, 2018.
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    Toward delay-tolerant multiple-unmanned aerial vehicle scheduling system using Multi-strategy Coevolution algorithm.
    By Khosiawan, Y., Scherer, S. and Nielsen, I.
    In Advances in Mechanical Engineering, vol. 10, no. 12, p. 168781401881523, Dec. 2018.
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    Visual Place Recognition in Long-term and Large-scale Environment based on CNN Feature.
    By Zhu, J., Ai, Y., Tian, B., Cao, D. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings, , pp. 1679–1685, , 2018.
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    Autonomous drone cinematographer: Using artistic principles to create smooth, safe, occlusion-free trajectories for aerial filming.
    By Bonatti, R., Zhang, Y., Choudhury, S., Wang, W. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Aug. 2018.

    • 2017

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    A multi-sensor fusion MAV state estimation from long-range stereo, IMU, GPS and barometric sensors.
    By Song, Y., Nuske, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Sensors, vol. 17, no. 1, p. 11, Dec. 2017.
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    A KITE in the wind: Smooth trajectory optimization in a moving reference frame.
    By Dugar, V., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, Singapore, , pp. 109–116, , 2017.
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    Adaptive information gathering via imitation learning.
    By Choudhury, S., Kapoor, A., Ranade, G., Scherer, S. and Dey, D.
    In Robotics: Science and Systems, vol. 13, May 2017.
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    Direct monocular odometry using points and lines.
    By Yang, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3871–3877, Mar. 2017.
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    DROAN - Disparity-space representation for obstacle Avoidance.
    By Dubey, G., Arora, S. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, , pp. 1324–1330, , 2017.
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    Improving stochastic policy gradients in continuous control with deep reinforcement learning using the beta distribution.
    By Chou, P.W., Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    In 34th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2017, Sydney, vol. 2, , , pp. 1386–1396, , 2017.
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    Learning Heuristic Search via Imitation.
    By Bhardwaj, M., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In CoRL, 2017.
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    Looking forward: A semantic mapping system for scouting with micro-aerial vehicles.
    By Maturana, D., Arora, S. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, , pp. 6691–6698, , 2017.
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    Near-optimal edge evaluation in explicit generalized binomial graphs.
    By Choudhury, S., Javdani, S., Srinivasa, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 4632–4642, Jun. 2017.
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    Obstacle Avoidance through Deep Networks based Intermediate Perception.
    By Yang, S., Konam, S., Ma, C., Rosenthal, S., Veloso, M. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Apr. 2017.
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    Randomized algorithm for informative path planning with budget constraints.
    By Arora, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, Singapore, , pp. 4997–5004, , 2017.
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    Robust Autonomous Flight in Constrained and Visually Degraded Shipboard Environments.
    By Fang, Z., Yang, S., Jain, S., Dubey, G., Roth, S., Maeta, S., Nuske, S., Zhang, Y. and Scherer, S.
    In Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 25–52, Jan. 2017.
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    Robust localization and localizability estimation with a rotating laser scanner.
    By Zhen, W., Zeng, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Singapore, Singapore, , pp. 6240–6245, , 2017.
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    Robust Localization of an Arbitrary Distribution of Radioactive Sources for Aerial Inspection.
    By Shah, D. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Oct. 2017.
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    Semantic 3D occupancy mapping through efficient high order CRFs.
    By Yang, S., Huang, Y. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, , pp. 590–597, , 2017.
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    Smooth trajectory optimization in Wind: First results on a full-scale helicopter.
    By Dugar, V., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International, Fort Worth, TX, , pp. 2924–2932, , 2017.
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    Wire detection using synthetic data and dilated convolutional networks for unmanned aerial vehicles.
    By Madaan, R., Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Vancouver, , pp. 3487–3494, , 2017.
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    Direct Monocular Odometry Using Points and Lines.
    By Yang, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Mar. 2017.
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    Bayesian Active Edge Evaluation on Expensive Graphs.
    By Choudhury, S., Srinivasa, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Nov. 2017.
  • [20]
    Near-Optimal Edge Evaluation in Explicit Generalized Binomial Graphs.
    By Choudhury, S., Javdani, S., Srinivasa, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Jun. 2017.
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    Learning Heuristic Search via Imitation.
    By Bhardwaj, M., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In arXiv.org, Jul. 2017.

    • 2016

  • [1]
    A framework for optimal repairing of vector field-based motion plans.
    By Pereira, G.A.S., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2016, Washington, D.C., , pp. 261–266, , 2016.
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    Constrained CHOMP using Dual Projected Newton Method.
    By Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-16-17, Apr-2016
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    Detecting cars in aerial photographs with a hierarchy of deconvolution nets.
    By Chakraborty, S., Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-16-60, 2016
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    Kinodynamic Motion Planning on Vector Fields using RRT *.
    By Pereira, G.A.S., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-16-17, 2016
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    List prediction applied to motion planning.
    By Tallavajhula, A., Choudhury, S., Scherer, S. and Kelly, A.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, , pp. 213–220, , 2016.
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    Modeling and Control of Coaxial UAV with Swashplate Controlled Lower Propeller.
    By Lee, R., Sreenath, K. and Scherer, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-16-33, Jun-2016
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    Nonholonomic Motion Planning in Partially Unknown Environments Using Vector Fields and Optimal Planners.
    By Pereira, G.A.S., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Congresso Brasileiro de Automatica (CBA), Vitoria, Brazil, 2016.
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    Pop-up SLAM: Semantic monocular plane SLAM for low-texture environments.
    By Yang, S., Song, Y., Kaess, M. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea, , pp. 1222–1229, , 2016.
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    Real-time 3D scene layout from a single image using Convolutional Neural Networks.
    By Yang, S., Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, , pp. 2183–2189, , 2016.
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    Regionally accelerated batch informed trees (RABIT∗): A framework to integrate local information into optimal path planning.
    By Choudhury, S., Gammell, J.D., Barfoot, T.D., Srinivasa, S.S.D. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden, , pp. 4207–4214, , 2016.

    • 2015

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    3D Convolutional Neural Networks for landing zone detection from LiDAR.
    By Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, USA, , pp. 3471–3478, , 2015.
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    Autonomous exploration and motion planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle navigating rivers.
    By Nuske, S., Choudhury, S., Jain, S., Chambers, A., Yoder, L., Scherer, S., Chamberlain, L., Cover, H. and Singh, S.
    In Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 1141–1162, 2015.
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    Autonomous river exploration.
    By Jain, S., Nuske, S., Chambers, A., Yoder, L., Cover, H., Chamberlain, L., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Brisbanne, Australia, vol. 105, , , pp. 93–106, , 2015.
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    Autonomous Semantic Exploration Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
    By Arora, S., Dubey, G., Jain, S., Maturana, D., Song, Y., Nuske, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Workshop on Vision-based Control and Navigation of Small Lightweight UAVs, IROS 2015, 2015.
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    Connected invariant sets for high-speed motion planning in partially-known environments.
    By Althoff, D. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, USA, , pp. 3279–3285, , 2015.
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    Emergency maneuver library - Ensuring safe navigation in partially known environments.
    By Arora, S., Choudhury, S., Althoff, D. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, USA, , pp. 6431–6438, , 2015.
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    High-precision Autonomous Flight in Constrained Shipboard Environments.
    By Yang, S., Fang, Z., Jain, S., Dubey, G., Maeta, S., Roth, S., Scherer, S., Zhang, Y. and Nuske, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-16-17, Feb-2015
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    Mixed-Initiative Control of a Roadable Air Vehicle for Non-Pilots.
    By Dorneich, M.C., Letsu-Dake, E., Singh, S., Scherer, S., Chamberlain, L. and Bergerman, M.
    In Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 38, Jan. 2015.
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    Multi-Scale Convolutional Architecture for Semantic Segmentation.
    By Raj, A., Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-15-21, Oct-2015
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    Online safety verification of trajectories for unmanned flight with offline computed robust invariant sets.
    By Althoff, D., Althoff, M. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, , pp. 3470–3477, , 2015.
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    PASP: Policy based approach for sensor planning.
    By Arora, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, no. June, , , pp. 3479–3486, , 2015.
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    Real-time onboard 6DoF localization of an indoor MAV in degraded visual environments using a RGB-D camera.
    By Fang, Z. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, USA, , pp. 5253–5259, , 2015.
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    Recognition of human group activity for video analytics.
    By Ju, J., Yang, C., Scherer, S. and Ko, H.
    In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9315
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    Cham: , 2015, pp. pp. 161–169
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    The Dynamics Projection Filter (DPF) - Real-time nonlinear trajectory optimization using projection operators.
    By Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, USA, , pp. 644–649, , 2015.
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    The planner ensemble: Motion planning by executing diverse algorithms.
    By Choudhury, S., Arora, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, WA, USA, , pp. 2389–2395, , 2015.
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    Theoretical limits of speed and resolution for kinodynamic planning in a poisson forest.
    By Choudhury, S., Scherer, S. and Bagnell, J.A.
    In Robotics: Science and Systems, vol. 11, 2015.
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    VoxNet: A 3D Convolutional Neural Network for real-time object recognition.
    By Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, , pp. 922–928, , 2015.

    • 2014

  • [1]
    A principled approach to enable safe and high performance maneuvers for autonomous rotorcraft.
    By Arora, S., Choudhury, S., Althoff, D. and Scherer, S.
    In Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International, Montreal, CAN, vol. 4, , , pp. 3228–3236, , 2014.
  • [2]
    Experimental study of odometry estimation methods using RGB-D cameras.
    By Fang, Z. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, IL, , pp. 680–687, , 2014.
  • [3]
    Learning Motion Planning Assumptions.
    By Vemula, A., Choudhury, S. and Scherer, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-14-14, Aug-2014
  • [4]
    Robust multi-sensor fusion for micro aerial vehicle navigation in GPS-degraded/denied environments.
    By Chambers, A., Scherer, S., Yoder, L., Jain, S., Nuske, S. and Singh, S.
    In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, OR, , pp. 1892–1899, , 2014.
  • [5]
    The planner ensemble and trajectory executive: A high performance motion planning system with guaranteed safety.
    By Choudhury, S., Arora, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International, Montreal, CAN, vol. 4, , , pp. 2872–2891, , 2014.
  • [6]
    Visual Odometry in Smoke Occluded Environments.
    By Agarwal, A., Maturana, D. and Scherer, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-15-07, Jul-2014

    • 2013

  • [1]
    Autonomous emergency landing of a helicopter: Motion planning with hard time-constraints.
    By Choudhury, S., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International, Phoenix, AZ, vol. 3, , , pp. 2236–2249, , 2013.
  • [2]
    First results in detecting and avoiding frontal obstacles from a monocular camera for micro unmanned aerial vehicles.
    By Mori, T. and Scherer, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, , pp. 1750–1757, , 2013.
  • [3]
    Infrastructure-free shipdeck tracking for autonomous landing.
    By Arora, S., Jain, S., Scherer, S., Nuske, S., Chamberlain, L. and Singh, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, , pp. 323–330, , 2013.
  • [4]
    Robocopters to the rescue.
    By Chamberlain, L. and Scherer, S.
    In IEEE Spectrum, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 28–33, 2013.
  • [5]
    RRT*-AR: Sampling-based alternate routes planning with applications to autonomous emergency landing of a helicopter.
    By Choudhury, S., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, , pp. 3947–3952, , 2013.
  • [6]
    Sparse Tangential Network (SPARTAN): Motion planning for micro aerial vehicles.
    By Cover, H., Choudhury, S., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, , pp. 2820–2825, , 2013.

    • 2012

  • [1]
    Autonomous landing at unprepared sites by a full-scale helicopter.
    By Scherer, S., Chamberlain, L. and Singh, S.
    In Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 1545–1562, Dec. 2012.
  • [2]
    First results in autonomous landing and obstacle avoidance by a full-scale helicopter.
    By Scherer, S., Chamberlain, L. and Singh, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, MN, , pp. 951–956, , 2012.
  • [3]
    Realtime alternate routes planning: the RRT*-AR algorithm.
    By Choudhury, S., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-12-2, 2012
  • [4]
    River mapping from a flying robot: State estimation, river detection, and obstacle mapping.
    By Scherer, S., Rehder, J., Achar, S., Cover, H., Chambers, A., Nuske, S. and Singh, S.
    In Autonomous Robots, vol. 33, no. 1-2, pp. 189–214, 2012.

    • 2011

  • [1]
    Low-Altitude Operation of Unmanned Rotorcraft
    PhD thesis The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2011
  • [2]
    Multiple-objective motion planning for unmanned aerial vehicles.
    By Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, , pp. 2207–2214, , 2011.
  • [3]
    Navigation and Control for Micro Aerial Vehicles in GPS-Denied Environments.
    By Molero, R., Scherer, S. and Chamberlain, L.J.
    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Technical Report #CMU-RI-TR-10-08, Jun-2011
  • [4]
    Perception for a river mapping robot.
    By Chambers, A., Achar, S., Nuske, S., Rehder, J., Kitt, B., Chamberlain, L., Haines, J., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, CA, , pp. 227–234, , 2011.
  • [5]
    Self-aware helicopters: Full-scale automated landing and obstacle avoidance in unmapped environments.
    By Chamberlain, L., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In Annual Forum Proceedings - AHS International, Virginia Beach, vol. 4, , , pp. 3210–3219, , 2011.
  • [6]
    Self-supervised segmentation of river scenes.
    By Achar, S., Sankaran, B., Nuske, S., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, , pp. 6227–6232, , 2011.
  • [7]
    Perception for a River Mapping Robot.
    By Chambers, A., Achar, S., Nuske, S., Rehder, J., Kitt, B., Chamberlain, L., Haines, J., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In Workshop on 3D Exploration, Mapping, and Surveillance with Aerial Robots, RSS, 2011.

    • 2010

  • [1]
    Online assessment of landing sites.
    By Scherer, S., Chamberlain, L. and Singh, S.
    In AIAA Infotech at Aerospace 2010, Atlanta, 2010.

    • 2009

  • [1]
    Efficient C-space and cost function updates in 3D for unmanned aerial vehicles.
    By Scherer, S., Ferguson, D. and Singh, S.
    In Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, , pp. 2049–2054, , 2009.

    • 2008

  • [1]
    Flying fast and low among obstacles: Methodology and experiments.
    By Scherer, S., Singh, S., Chamberlain, L. and Elgersma, M.
    In International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 549–574, 2008.

    • 2007

  • [1]
    Flying Fast and Low Among Obstacles.
    By Scherer, S., Singh, S., Chamberlain, L. and Saripalli, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRA, Rome, Italy, , pp. 2023–2029, , 2007.
  • [2]
    Tartan Racing: A Multi-Modal Approach to the DARPA Urban Challenge.
    By Urmson, C., Anhalt, J., Bagnell, D., Baker, C., Bittner, R., Dolan, J., Duggins, D., Ferguson, D., Galatali, T., Geyer, H., Gittleman, M., Harbaugh, S., Hebert, M., Howard, T.M., Kelly, A., Kohanbash, D., Likhachev, M., Miller, N., Peterson, K., Rajkumar, R., Rybski, P., Salesky, B., Scherer, S., Seo, Y.-W., Simmons, R., Singh, S., Snider, J., Stentz, A., Whittaker, W.R. and Ziglar, J.
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Apr-2007

    • 2006

  • [1]
    Learning obstacle avoidance parameters from operator behavior.
    By Hamner, B., Singh, S. and Scherer, S.
    In Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 23, no. 11-12, pp. 1037–1058, 2006.
  • [2]
    Learning to drive among obstacles.
    By Hamner, B., Scherer, S. and Singh, S.
    In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Beijing, China, , pp. 2663–2669, , 2006.

    • 2005

  • [1]
    Model checking of robotic control systems.
    By Scherer, S., Lerda, F. and Clarke, E.M.
    In European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP, Munich, Germany, no. 603, , , pp. 371–378, , 2005.