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2026

  1. GATSBI: An Online GTSP-Based Algorithm for Targeted Surface Bridge Inspection and Defect Detection
    Dhami, Harnaik and Reddy, Charith and Sharma, Vishnu Dutt and Williams, Troi and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2026.
    @article{dhami2026gatsbi,
      author = {Dhami, Harnaik and Reddy, Charith and Sharma, Vishnu Dutt and Williams, Troi and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems},
      title = {{GATSBI}: An Online {GTSP}-Based Algorithm for Targeted Surface Bridge Inspection and Defect Detection},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  2. Autonomous Drone Performance During Maritime Integration for Gust Response: Lab Experiment
    Torshizi, Kasra and Shek, Chak Lam and Williams, Troi and Costello, Donald and Tokekar, Pratap
    AIAA SciTech, 2026.
    @inproceedings{torshizi2026autonomous,
      author = {Torshizi, Kasra and Shek, Chak Lam and Williams, Troi and Costello, Donald and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {AIAA SciTech},
      title = {Autonomous Drone Performance During Maritime Integration for Gust Response: Lab Experiment},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  3. PRISM: Performer RS-IMLE for Single-pass Multisensory Imitation Learning
    Bhaskar, Amisha and Tokekar, Pratap and Cairano, Stefano Di and Schperberg, Alexander
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026.
    @inproceedings{bhaskar2026prism,
      author = {Bhaskar, Amisha and Tokekar, Pratap and Cairano, Stefano Di and Schperberg, Alexander},
      booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
      title = {{PRISM}: Performer RS-IMLE for Single-pass Multisensory Imitation Learning},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  4. PolyFusion: Collision-Free Robot Learning using Bernstein Polynomials
    Bhaskar, Amisha and MacLin, Gage and Tabasso, Camilla and Lin, Leo and Tokekar, Pratap and Cichella, Venanzio and Migdal, Joshua and Brady, Tye and Padir, Taskin
    Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2026.
    @inproceedings{bhaskar2026polyfusion,
      author = {Bhaskar, Amisha and MacLin, Gage and Tabasso, Camilla and Lin, Leo and Tokekar, Pratap and Cichella, Venanzio and Migdal, Joshua and Brady, Tye and Padir, Taskin},
      booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
      title = {{PolyFusion}: Collision-Free Robot Learning using Bernstein Polynomials},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  5. Dual-Uncertainty Guided Policy Learning for Multimodal Reasoning
    Liu, Rui and Yu, Dian and Zheng, Tong and Dai, Runpeng and Li, Zongxia and Yu, Wenhao and Liang, Zhenwen and Song, Linfeng and Mi, Haitao and Tokekar, Pratap and Yu, Dong
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2026.
    @inproceedings{liu2026dupl,
      author = {Liu, Rui and Yu, Dian and Zheng, Tong and Dai, Runpeng and Li, Zongxia and Yu, Wenhao and Liang, Zhenwen and Song, Linfeng and Mi, Haitao and Tokekar, Pratap and Yu, Dong},
      booktitle = {Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
      title = {Dual-Uncertainty Guided Policy Learning for Multimodal Reasoning},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  6. WESPR: Wind-adaptive Energy-Efficient Safe Perception & Planning for Robust Flight with Quadrotors
    Habib, Khuzema and Manjunath, Pranav Deshakulkarni and Torshizi, Kasra and Tokekar, Pratap and Williams, Troi
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026.
    @inproceedings{habib2026wespr,
      author = {Habib, Khuzema and Manjunath, Pranav Deshakulkarni and Torshizi, Kasra and Tokekar, Pratap and Williams, Troi},
      booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {{WESPR}: Wind-adaptive Energy-Efficient Safe Perception \& Planning for Robust Flight with Quadrotors},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  7. Multi-Agent Trust Region Policy Optimisation: A Joint Constraint Approach
    Shek, Chak Lam and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap
    International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2026.
    @inproceedings{shek2026hatrpo,
      author = {Shek, Chak Lam and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)},
      title = {Multi-Agent Trust Region Policy Optimisation: A Joint Constraint Approach},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  8. Adaptive Conformal Guidance for Learning under Uncertainty
    Liu, Rui and Gao, Peng and Shen, Yu and Lin, Ming and Tokekar, Pratap
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026.
    @inproceedings{liu2026conformal,
      author = {Liu, Rui and Gao, Peng and Shen, Yu and Lin, Ming and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
      title = {Adaptive Conformal Guidance for Learning under Uncertainty},
      year = {2026}
    }
    
  9. Stable and Efficient Single-Rollout RL for Multimodal Reasoning
    Liu, Rui and Yu, Dian and Ke, Lei and Liu, Haolin and Zhou, Yujun and Liang, Zhenwen and Mi, Haitao and Tokekar, Pratap and Yu, Dong
    Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026.
    @inproceedings{liu2026mssr,
      author = {Liu, Rui and Yu, Dian and Ke, Lei and Liu, Haolin and Zhou, Yujun and Liang, Zhenwen and Mi, Haitao and Tokekar, Pratap and Yu, Dong},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
      title = {Stable and Efficient Single-Rollout {RL} for Multimodal Reasoning},
      year = {2026}
    }
    

2025

  1. Beyond Joint Demonstrations: Personalized Expert Guidance for Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
    Yu, Peihong and Bedi, Amrit and Koppel, Alec and Busart, Carl and Narayan, Priya and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.
    @article{yu2025beyond,
      author = {Yu, Peihong and Bedi, Amrit and Koppel, Alec and Busart, Carl and Narayan, Priya and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)},
      title = {Beyond Joint Demonstrations: Personalized Expert Guidance for Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  2. Machine-Learning Based Classification of On-Bottom Oyster Farms using a Mechanical Scanning Sonar
    Xu, Michael and Karapetyan, Nare and Rajasekaran, Keshav and Williams, Alan and Patillo, Allen and Tokekar, Pratap and Gray, Matthew and Yu, Miao
    IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 2025.
    @article{xu2025machine,
      author = {Xu, Michael and Karapetyan, Nare and Rajasekaran, Keshav and Williams, Alan and Patillo, Allen and Tokekar, Pratap and Gray, Matthew and Yu, Miao},
      journal = {IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL},
      title = {Machine-Learning Based Classification of On-Bottom Oyster Farms using a Mechanical Scanning Sonar},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  3. Learning Multi-Robot Coordination through Locality-Based Factorized Multi-Agent Actor-Critic Algorithm
    Shek, Chak Lam and Bedi, Amrit Singh and Basak, Anjon and Novoseller, Ellen and Waytowich, Nicholas and Narayanan, Priya and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL), 2025.
    @article{shek2025learning,
      author = {Shek, Chak Lam and Bedi, Amrit Singh and Basak, Anjon and Novoseller, Ellen and Waytowich, Nicholas and Narayanan, Priya and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RAL)},
      title = {Learning Multi-Robot Coordination through Locality-Based Factorized Multi-Agent Actor-Critic Algorithm},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  4. Fast k-connectivity Restoration in Multi-Robot Systems for Robust Communication Maintenance: Algorithmic and Learning-based Solutions
    Shi, Guangyao and Rabban, Ishat and Bonner, Griffin and Tokekar, Pratap
    Autonomous Robots (AURO), 2025.
    @article{shi2025fast,
      author = {Shi, Guangyao and Rabban, Ishat and Bonner, Griffin and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {Autonomous Robots (AURO)},
      title = {Fast k-connectivity Restoration in Multi-Robot Systems for Robust Communication Maintenance: Algorithmic and Learning-based Solutions},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  5. MMCD: Multi-Modal Collaborative Decision-Making for Connected Autonomy with Knowledge Distillation
    Liu, Rui and Wang, Zikang and Gao, Peng and Shen, Yu and Tokekar, Pratap and Lin, Ming C.
    In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
    @inproceedings{liu2025mcd,
      author = {Liu, Rui and Wang, Zikang and Gao, Peng and Shen, Yu and Tokekar, Pratap and Lin, Ming C.},
      booktitle = {In Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {MMCD: Multi-Modal Collaborative Decision-Making for Connected Autonomy with Knowledge Distillation},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  6. PEnGUiN: Partially Equivariant Graph NeUral Networks for Sample Efficient MARL
    McClellan, Joshua and Brothers, Greyson and Huang, Furong and Tokekar, Pratap
    In Proceedings of Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2025.
    @inproceedings{mcclellan2025penguin,
      author = {McClellan, Joshua and Brothers, Greyson and Huang, Furong and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {In Proceedings of Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC)},
      title = {PEnGUiN: Partially Equivariant Graph NeUral Networks for Sample Efficient MARL},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  7. GenFlowRL: Shaping Rewards with Generative Object-Centric Flow in Visual Reinforcement Learning
    Yu, Kelin and Zhang, Sheng and Soora, Harshit and Huang, Furong and Huang, Heng and Tokekar, Pratap and Gao, Ruohan
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025.
    @inproceedings{yu2025genflowrl,
      author = {Yu, Kelin and Zhang, Sheng and Soora, Harshit and Huang, Furong and Huang, Heng and Tokekar, Pratap and Gao, Ruohan},
      booktitle = {In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
      title = {GenFlowRL: Shaping Rewards with Generative Object-Centric Flow in Visual Reinforcement Learning},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  8. When to Localize? A Risk-Constrained Reinforcement Learning Approach
    Shek, Chak Lam and Torshizi, Kasra and Williams, Troi and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 2025.
    @inproceedings{shek2025when,
      author = {Shek, Chak Lam and Torshizi, Kasra and Williams, Troi and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC)},
      title = {When to Localize? A Risk-Constrained Reinforcement Learning Approach},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  9. TACTIC: Task-Agnostic Contrastive pre-Training for Inter-Agent Communication
    Yu, Peihong and Mishra, Manav and Zaidi, Syed and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2025.
    @inproceedings{yu2025tactic,
      author = {Yu, Peihong and Mishra, Manav and Zaidi, Syed and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)},
      title = {TACTIC: Task-Agnostic Contrastive pre-Training for Inter-Agent Communication},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  10. Improving Zero-Shot ObjectNav with Generative Communication
    Dorbala, Vishnu Sashank and Sharma, Vishnu D. and Tokekar, Pratap and Manocha, Dinesh
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
    @inproceedings{dorbala2025improving,
      author = {Dorbala, Vishnu Sashank and Sharma, Vishnu D. and Tokekar, Pratap and Manocha, Dinesh},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {Improving Zero-Shot ObjectNav with Generative Communication},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  11. IMRL: Integrating Visual, Physical, Temporal, and Geometric Representations for Enhanced Food Acquisition
    Liu, Rui and Mahammad, Zahiruddin and Bhaskar, Amisha and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025.
    @inproceedings{liu2025imrl,
      author = {Liu, Rui and Mahammad, Zahiruddin and Bhaskar, Amisha and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {IMRL: Integrating Visual, Physical, Temporal, and Geometric Representations for Enhanced Food Acquisition},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  12. Sketch-to-Skill: Bootstrapping Robot Learning with Human Drawn Trajectory Sketches
    Yu, Peihong and Bhaskar, Amisha and Singh, Anukriti and Mahammad, Zahiruddin and Tokekar, Pratap
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025.
    @inproceedings{yu2025sketch,
      author = {Yu, Peihong and Bhaskar, Amisha and Singh, Anukriti and Mahammad, Zahiruddin and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)},
      title = {Sketch-to-Skill: Bootstrapping Robot Learning with Human Drawn Trajectory Sketches},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  13. On the Global Optimality of Policy Gradient Methods in General Utility Reinforcement Learning
    Barakat, Anas and Chakraborty, Souradip and Yu, Peihong and Tokekar, Pratap and Bedi, Amrit Singh
    The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
    @inproceedings{barakat2025on,
      author = {Barakat, Anas and Chakraborty, Souradip and Yu, Peihong and Tokekar, Pratap and Bedi, Amrit Singh},
      booktitle = {The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
      title = {On the Global Optimality of Policy Gradient Methods in General Utility Reinforcement Learning},
      year = {2025}
    }
    
  14. CAML: Collaborative Auxiliary Modality Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
    Liu, Rui and Shen, Yu and Gao, Peng and Tokekar, Pratap and Lin, Ming
    The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.
    @inproceedings{liu2025caml,
      author = {Liu, Rui and Shen, Yu and Gao, Peng and Tokekar, Pratap and Lin, Ming},
      booktitle = {The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
      title = {CAML: Collaborative Auxiliary Modality Learning for Multi-Agent Systems},
      year = {2025}
    }
    

2024

  1. Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning For Persistent Monitoring With Sensing, Communication, and Localization Constraints
    Mishra, Manav and Poddar, Prithvi and Agrawal, Rajat and Chen, Jingxi and Pratap, Tokekar and P. B., Sujit
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), 2024.
    @article{mishra2024multi,
      author = {Mishra, Manav and Poddar, Prithvi and Agrawal, Rajat and Chen, Jingxi and Pratap, Tokekar and {P. B.}, Sujit},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)},
      title = {Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning For Persistent Monitoring With Sensing, Communication, and Localization Constraints},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  2. When to Localize?: A POMDP Approach
    Williams, Troi and Torshizi, Kasra and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2024.
    @inproceedings{williams2024wheo,
      author = {Williams, Troi and Torshizi, Kasra and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)},
      title = {When to Localize?: A POMDP Approach},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  3. NAVINACT: Combining Navigation and Imitation Learning for Bootstrapping Reinforcement Learning
    Bhaskar, Amisha and Mahammad, Zahiruddin and Jadhav, Sachin and Tokekar, Pratap
    International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2024.
    @inproceedings{bhaskar2024navinact,
      author = {Bhaskar, Amisha and Mahammad, Zahiruddin and Jadhav, Sachin and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR)},
      title = {NAVINACT: Combining Navigation and Imitation Learning for Bootstrapping Reinforcement Learning},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  4. When to Localize?: A POMDP Approach
    Williams, Troi and Torshizi, Kasra and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), 2024.
    @inproceedings{williams2024when,
      author = {Williams, Troi and Torshizi, Kasra and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40)},
      title = {When to Localize?: A POMDP Approach},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  5. Fast k-connectivity Restoration in Multi-Robot Systems for Robust Communication Maintenance
    Rabban, Ishat and Shi, Guangyao and Bonner, Griffin and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS), 2024.
    @inproceedings{rabban2024fast,
      author = {Rabban, Ishat and Shi, Guangyao and Bonner, Griffin and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS)},
      title = {Fast k-connectivity Restoration in Multi-Robot Systems for Robust Communication Maintenance},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  6. Where to Drop Sensors from Aerial Robots to Monitor a Surface-Level Phenomenon
    Shek, Chak Lam and Shi, Guangyao and Asghar, Ahmad Bilal and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2024.
    @inproceedings{chak2024where,
      author = {Shek, Chak Lam and Shi, Guangyao and Asghar, Ahmad Bilal and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC)},
      title = {Where to Drop Sensors from Aerial Robots to Monitor a Surface-Level Phenomenon},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  7. AG-CVG: Coverage Planning with a Mobile Recharging UGV and an Energy-Constrained UAV
    Karapetyan, Nare and Asghar, Ahmad Bilal and Bhaskar, Amisha and Shi, Guangyao and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.
    @inproceedings{karapetyan2024agcvg,
      author = {Karapetyan, Nare and Asghar, Ahmad Bilal and Bhaskar, Amisha and Shi, Guangyao and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {{AG-CVG}: Coverage Planning with a Mobile Recharging {UGV} and an Energy-Constrained {UAV}},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  8. UIVNAV: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning
    Lin, Xiaomin and Karapetyan, Nare and Joshi, Kaustubh and Liu, Tianchen and Chopra, Nikhil and Yu, Miao and Tokekar, Pratap and Aloimonos, Yiannis
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.
    @inproceedings{lin2024uinav,
      author = {Lin, Xiaomin and Karapetyan, Nare and Joshi, Kaustubh and Liu, Tianchen and Chopra, Nikhil and Yu, Miao and Tokekar, Pratap and Aloimonos, Yiannis},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {UIVNAV: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  9. Pre-Trained Masked Image Model for Mobile Robot Navigation
    Sharma, Vishnu and Singh, Anukriti and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024.
    @inproceedings{sharma2024pretrained,
      author = {Sharma, Vishnu and Singh, Anukriti and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {Pre-Trained Masked Image Model for Mobile Robot Navigation},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  10. Long-horizon Visual Action based Food Acquisition
    Bhaskar, Amisha and Liu, Rui and Sharma, Vishnu D. and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.
    @inproceedings{bhaskar2024long,
      author = {Bhaskar, Amisha and Liu, Rui and Sharma, Vishnu D. and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Long-horizon Visual Action based Food Acquisition},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  11. MAP-NBV: Multi-agent Prediction-guided Next-Best-View Planning for Active 3D Object Reconstruction
    Dhami, Harnaik and Sharma, Vishnu and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.
    @inproceedings{dhami2024mapnbv,
      author = {Dhami, Harnaik and Sharma, Vishnu and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {MAP-NBV: Multi-agent Prediction-guided Next-Best-View Planning for Active 3D Object Reconstruction},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  12. LANCAR: Leveraging Language for Context-Aware Robot Locomotion in Unstructured Environments
    Shek, Chak Lam and Wu, Xiyang and Suttle, Wesley and Busart, Carl and Zaroukian, Erin and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap and Bedi, Amrit Singh
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.
    @inproceedings{shek2024lancar,
      author = {Shek, Chak Lam and Wu, Xiyang and Suttle, Wesley and Busart, Carl and Zaroukian, Erin and Manocha, Dinesh and Tokekar, Pratap and Bedi, Amrit Singh},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {LANCAR: Leveraging Language for Context-Aware Robot Locomotion in Unstructured Environments},
      year = {2024}
    }
    
  13. Boosting Sample Efficiency and Generalization in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Equivariance
    McClellan, Joshua and Haghani, Naveed and Winder, John and Huang, Furong and Tokekar, Pratap
    Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.
    @inproceedings{mcclellan2024boosting,
      author = {McClellan, Joshua and Haghani, Naveed and Winder, John and Huang, Furong and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
      title = {Boosting Sample Efficiency and Generalization in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Equivariance},
      year = {2024}
    }
    

2023

  1. Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks
    Shi, Guangyao and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2023.
    @article{shi2023robust,
      author = {Shi, Guangyao and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)},
      title = {Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks},
      year = {2023},
      doi = {10.1109/TRO.2022.3232268}
    }
    
  2. Posterior Coreset Construction with Kernelized Stein Discrepancy for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
    Chakraborty, Souradip and Bedi, Amrit Singh and Koppel, Alec and Sadler, Brian and Huang, Furong and Tokekar, Pratap and Manocha, Dinesh
    AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.
    @inproceedings{chakraborty2023posterior,
      author = {Chakraborty, Souradip and Bedi, Amrit Singh and Koppel, Alec and Sadler, Brian and Huang, Furong and Tokekar, Pratap and Manocha, Dinesh},
      booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
      title = {Posterior Coreset Construction with Kernelized Stein Discrepancy for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  3. Risk-aware Recharging Rendezvous for a Collaborative Team of UAVs and UGVs
    Bilal Asghar, Ahmad and Shi, Guangyao and Karapetyan, Nare and Humann, James and Reddinger, Jean-Paul and Dotterweich, James and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
    @inproceedings{asghar2023risk,
      author = {{Bilal Asghar}, Ahmad and Shi, Guangyao and Karapetyan, Nare and Humann, James and Reddinger, Jean-Paul and Dotterweich, James and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {Risk-aware Recharging Rendezvous for a Collaborative Team of UAVs and UGVs},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  4. Dealing with Sparse Rewards in Continuous Control Robotics via Heavy-Tailed Policy Optimization
    Chakraborty, Souradip and Bedi, Amrit and Mudiyanselage, Kasun Weerakoon Kulathun and Poddar, Prithvi and Koppel, Alec and Tokekar, Pratap and Manocha, Dinesh
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
    @inproceedings{chakraborty2023dealing,
      author = {Chakraborty, Souradip and Bedi, Amrit and Mudiyanselage, Kasun Weerakoon Kulathun and Poddar, Prithvi and Koppel, Alec and Tokekar, Pratap and Manocha, Dinesh},
      booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {Dealing with Sparse Rewards in Continuous Control Robotics via Heavy-Tailed Policy Optimization},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  5. D2CoPlan: A Differentiable Decentralized Planner for Multi-Robot Coverage
    Dutt Sharma, Vishnu and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
    @inproceedings{sharma2023sharma,
      author = {{Dutt Sharma}, Vishnu and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {D2CoPlan: A Differentiable Decentralized Planner for Multi-Robot Coverage},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  6. Pred-NBV: Prediction-guided Next-Best-View Planning for 3D Object Reconstruction
    Dhami, Harnaik and Dutt Sharma, Vishnu and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
    @inproceedings{dhami2023prednbv,
      author = {Dhami, Harnaik and {Dutt Sharma}, Vishnu and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Pred-NBV: Prediction-guided Next-Best-View Planning for 3D Object Reconstruction},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  7. Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimal Control with State-Dependent Noise
    Liu, Rui and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
    @inproceedings{liu2023data,
      author = {Liu, Rui and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Data-Driven Distributionally Robust Optimal Control with State-Dependent Noise},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  8. ProxMaP: Proximal Occupancy Map Prediction for Efficient Indoor Robot Navigation
    Dutt Sharma, Vishnu and Chen, Jingxi and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
    @inproceedings{sharma2023proxmap,
      author = {{Dutt Sharma}, Vishnu and Chen, Jingxi and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {ProxMaP: Proximal Occupancy Map Prediction for Efficient Indoor Robot Navigation},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  9. Decision-Oriented Learning with Differentiable Submodular Maximization for Vehicle Routing Problem
    Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023.
    @inproceedings{shi2023decision,
      author = {Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Decision-Oriented Learning with Differentiable Submodular Maximization for Vehicle Routing Problem},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  10. Approximation Algorithms for Robot Tours in Random Fields with Guaranteed Estimation Accuracy
    Dutta, Shamak and Wilde, Nils and Tokekar, Pratap and Smith, Stephen L.
    International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023.
    @inproceedings{dutta2023approximation,
      author = {Dutta, Shamak and Wilde, Nils and Tokekar, Pratap and Smith, Stephen L.},
      booktitle = {International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {Approximation Algorithms for Robot Tours in Random Fields with Guaranteed Estimation Accuracy},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  11. GATSBI: An online GTSP-based algorithm for targeted surface bridge inspection
    Dhami, Harnaik and Yu, Kevin and Williams, Troi and Vajipey, Vineeth and Tokekar, Pratap
    International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2023.
    @inproceedings{dhami2023gatsbi,
      author = {Dhami, Harnaik and Yu, Kevin and Williams, Troi and Vajipey, Vineeth and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)},
      title = {GATSBI: An online GTSP-based algorithm for targeted surface bridge inspection},
      year = {2023}
    }
    
  12. Where Am I Now? Dynamically Finding Optimal Sensor States to Minimize Localization Uncertainty for a Perception-Denied Rover
    Williams, Troi and Chen, Po-Lun and Bhogavilli, Sparsh and Sanjay, Vaibhav and Tokekar, Pratap
    The 4th International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), 2023.
    @inproceedings{williams2023where,
      author = {Williams, Troi and Chen, {Po-Lun} and Bhogavilli, Sparsh and Sanjay, Vaibhav and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {The 4th International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS)},
      title = {Where Am I Now? Dynamically Finding Optimal Sensor States to Minimize Localization Uncertainty for a Perception-Denied Rover},
      year = {2023}
    }
    

2022

  1. On the Hidden Biases of Policy Mirror Ascent in Continuous Action Spaces
    Bedi, Amrit Singh and Chakraborty, Souradip and Parayil, Anjaly and Sadler, Brian and Tokekar, Pratap and Koppel, Alec
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2022.
    @article{bedi2022on,
      author = {Bedi, Amrit Singh and Chakraborty, Souradip and Parayil, Anjaly and Sadler, Brian and Tokekar, Pratap and Koppel, Alec},
      journal = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
      title = {On the Hidden Biases of Policy Mirror Ascent in Continuous Action Spaces},
      year = {2022}
    }
    
  2. Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tzoumas, Vasileios and Pappas, George and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2022.
    @article{zhou2022distributed,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tzoumas, Vasileios and Pappas, George and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)},
      title = {Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning},
      year = {2022}
    }
    
  3. Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Multi-Robot Coordination
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2022.
    @article{zhou2022risk,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)},
      title = {Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Multi-Robot Coordination},
      year = {2022}
    }
    
  4. Intermittent Deployment for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Forage Perception: Data Synthesis, Prediction, and Planning
    Liu, Jun and Rangwala, Murtaza and Ahluwalia, Kulbir and Ghajar, Shayan and Dhami, Harnaik and Tokekar, Pratap and Tracy, Ben and Williams, Ryan
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), 2022.
    @article{liu2022intermittent,
      author = {Liu, Jun and Rangwala, Murtaza and Ahluwalia, Kulbir and Ghajar, Shayan and Dhami, Harnaik and Tokekar, Pratap and Tracy, Ben and Williams, Ryan},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE)},
      title = {Intermittent Deployment for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Forage Perception: Data Synthesis, Prediction, and Planning},
      year = {2022}
    }
    
  5. Risk-aware UAV-UGV Rendezvous with Chance-Constrained Markov Decision Process
    Shi, Guangyao and Karapetyan, Nare and Asghar, Ahmad Bilal and Reddinger, Jean-Paul and Dotterweich, James and Humann, James and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022.
    @inproceedings{shi2022risk,
      author = {Shi, Guangyao and Karapetyan, Nare and Asghar, {Ahmad Bilal} and Reddinger, {Jean-Paul} and Dotterweich, James and Humann, James and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
      title = {Risk-aware UAV-UGV Rendezvous with Chance-Constrained Markov Decision Process},
      year = {2022}
    }
    
  6. Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Multi-Robot Target Tracking
    Zhou, Lifeng and Sharma, Vishnu Dutt and Li, Qingbiao and Prorok, Amanda and Ribeiro, Alejandro and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay
    IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2022.
    @inproceedings{zhou2022graph,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Sharma, {Vishnu Dutt} and Li, Qingbiao and Prorok, Amanda and Ribeiro, Alejandro and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay},
      booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR)},
      title = {Graph Neural Networks for Decentralized Multi-Robot Target Tracking},
      year = {2022}
    }
    
  7. Interactive Multi-Robot Aerial Cinematographythrough Hemispherical Manifold Coverage
    Xu, Xiaotian and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap and Diaz-Mercado, Yancy
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022.
    @inproceedings{xu2022interactive,
      author = {Xu, Xiaotian and Shi, Guangyao and Tokekar, Pratap and {Diaz-Mercado}, Yancy},
      booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Interactive Multi-Robot Aerial Cinematographythrough Hemispherical Manifold Coverage},
      year = {2022}
    }
    
  8. Reinforcement Learning under a Multi-agent Predictive State Representation Model: Method and Theory
    Zhang, Zhi and Yang, Zhuoran and Liu, Han and Tokekar, Pratap and Huang, Furong
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022.
    @inproceedings{zhang2022reinforcement,
      author = {Zhang, Zhi and Yang, Zhuoran and Liu, Han and Tokekar, Pratap and Huang, Furong},
      booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
      title = {Reinforcement Learning under a Multi-agent Predictive State Representation Model: Method and Theory},
      year = {2022},
      url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=PLDOnFoVm4}
    }
    

2021

  1. DeepPaSTL: SpatioTemporal Deep Learning Methods for Predicting Long-Term Pasture Terrains using Synthetic Datasets
    Rangwala, Murtaza and Liu, Jun and Ahluwalia, Kulbir Singh and Ghajar, Shayan and Dhami, Harnaik Singh and Tracy, Benjamin F and Tokekar, Pratap and Williams, Ryan K
    MDPI Agronomy, 2021.
    @article{rangwala2021deeppastl,
      author = {Rangwala, Murtaza and Liu, Jun and Ahluwalia, Kulbir Singh and Ghajar, Shayan and Dhami, Harnaik Singh and Tracy, Benjamin F and Tokekar, Pratap and Williams, Ryan K},
      journal = {MDPI Agronomy},
      title = {DeepPaSTL: SpatioTemporal Deep Learning Methods for Predicting Long-Term Pasture Terrains using Synthetic Datasets},
      year = {2021},
      note = {Special Issue on AI and Agricultural Robots},
      doi = {10.3390/agronomy11112245}
    }
    
  2. Tree Search Techniques for Adversarial Target Tracking with State-Dependent Measurement Noise
    Zhang, Zhongshun and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2021.
    @article{zhang2021tree,
      author = {Zhang, Zhongshun and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
      title = {Tree Search Techniques for Adversarial Target Tracking with State-Dependent Measurement Noise},
      year = {2021},
      note = {accepted}
    }
    
  3. Visual Monitoring of Points of Interest on a 2.5D Terrain using a UAV with Limited Field-of-View Constraint
    Maini, Parikshit and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, P. B.
    IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2021.
    @article{maini2021visual,
      author = {Maini, Parikshit and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, {P. B.}},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems},
      title = {Visual Monitoring of Points of Interest on a 2.5D Terrain using a UAV with Limited Field-of-View Constraint},
      year = {2021}
    }
    
  4. Distributed Resilient Submodular Action Selection in Adversarial Environments.
    Liu, Jun and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap and Williams, Ryan
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.
    @article{liu2021distributed,
      author = {Liu, Jun and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap and Williams, Ryan},
      journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
      title = {Distributed Resilient Submodular Action Selection in Adversarial Environments.},
      year = {2021}
    }
    
  5. Failure-Resilient Coverage Maximization with Multiple Robots
    Ishat-E-Rabban, Md. and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021.
    @article{rabban2021failure,
      author = {{Ishat-E-Rabban}, Md. and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
      title = {Failure-Resilient Coverage Maximization with Multiple Robots},
      year = {2021},
      note = {Also presented at ICRA 2021},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.02204}
    }
    
  6. Multi-robot Symmetric Rendezvous Search on the Line
    Ozsoyeller, Deniz and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, 2021.
    @article{ozsoyeller2021multi,
      author = {Ozsoyeller, Deniz and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters},
      title = {Multi-robot Symmetric Rendezvous Search on the Line},
      year = {2021}
    }
    
  7. Multi-Robot Coordination and Planning: Recent Trends
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Current Robotics Reports, 2021.
    @article{zhou2021multi,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {Current Robotics Reports},
      title = {Multi-Robot Coordination and Planning: Recent Trends},
      year = {2021},
      note = {Invited}
    }
    
  8. Game Tree Search for Minimizing Detectability and Maximizing Visibility
    Zhang, Zhongshun and Smereka, Jonathon and Lee, Joseph and Zhou, Lifeng and Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap
    Autonomous Robots (AURO), 2021.
    @article{zhang2021game,
      author = {Zhang, Zhongshun and Smereka, Jonathon and Lee, Joseph and Zhou, Lifeng and Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {Autonomous Robots (AURO)},
      title = {Game Tree Search for Minimizing Detectability and Maximizing Visibility},
      year = {2021},
      month = feb,
      pages = {283--297},
      volume = {45},
      doi = {10.1007/s10514-020-09963-4},
      month_numeric = {2}
    }
    
  9. Communication-Aware Multi-robot Coordination with Submodular Maximization
    Shi, Guangyao and Ishat-E-Rabban, Md. and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
    @inproceedings{shi2021communication,
      author = {Shi, Guangyao and {Ishat-E-Rabban}, Md. and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {Communication-Aware Multi-robot Coordination with Submodular Maximization},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.01476}
    }
    
  10. Environmental Hotspot Identification in Limited Time with a UAV Equipped with a Downward-Facing Camera
    Sung, Yoonchang and Dixit, Deeksha and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.
    @inproceedings{sung2021environmental,
      author = {Sung, Yoonchang and Dixit, Deeksha and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      title = {Environmental Hotspot Identification in Limited Time with a UAV Equipped with a Downward-Facing Camera},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08483}
    }
    
  11. Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Stochastic Travelling Salesperson Problem
    Balasubramanian, Rishab and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, P. B.
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
    @inproceedings{balasubramanian2021risk,
      author = {Balasubramanian, Rishab and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, {P. B.}},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Risk-Aware Submodular Optimization for Stochastic Travelling Salesperson Problem},
      year = {2021}
    }
    
  12. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Persistent Monitoring
    Chen, Jingxi and Baskaran, Amrish and Zhang, Zhongshun and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021.
    @inproceedings{chen2021multi,
      author = {Chen, Jingxi and Baskaran, Amrish and Zhang, Zhongshun and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Persistent Monitoring},
      year = {2021}
    }
    

2020

  1. A simulation framework for bio-inspired sonar sensing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    Tanveer, M. Hassan and Wu, Xiaowei and Thomas, Antony and Ming, Chen and Mueller, Rolf and Tokekar, Pratap and Zhu, Hongxiao
    PLOS One, 2020.
    @article{tanveer2020simulation,
      author = {Tanveer, M. Hassan and Wu, Xiaowei and Thomas, Antony and Ming, Chen and Mueller, Rolf and Tokekar, Pratap and Zhu, Hongxiao},
      journal = {PLOS One},
      title = {A simulation framework for bio-inspired sonar sensing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles},
      year = {2020}
    }
    
  2. Learning a Spatial Field in Minimum Time with a Team of Robots
    Suryan, Varun and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2020.
    @article{suryan2020learning,
      author = {Suryan, Varun and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO)},
      title = {Learning a Spatial Field in Minimum Time with a Team of Robots},
      year = {2020},
      month = oct,
      number = {5},
      pages = {1562--1576},
      volume = {36},
      doi = {10.1109/TRO.2020.2994003},
      month_numeric = {10}
    }
    
  3. Visibility-based Persistent Monitoring of Piece-wise Linear Features on a Terrain using Multiple Aerial and Ground Robots
    Maini, Parikshit and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, P. B.
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2020.
    @article{maini2020visibility,
      author = {Maini, Parikshit and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, P. B.},
      journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
      title = {Visibility-based Persistent Monitoring of Piece-wise Linear Features on a Terrain using Multiple Aerial and Ground Robots},
      year = {2020},
      note = {conditionally accepted},
      pages = {1--13},
      doi = {10.1109/tase.2020.3014949},
      publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})}
    }
    
  4. GM-PHD Filter for Searching and Tracking an Unknown Number of Targets with a Mobile Sensor with Limited FoV
    Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engineering (TASE), 2020.
    @article{sung2020gmphd,
      author = {Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science \& Engineering (TASE)},
      title = {GM-PHD Filter for Searching and Tracking an Unknown Number of Targets with a Mobile Sensor with Limited FoV},
      year = {2020},
      note = {conditionally accepted}
    }
    
  5. Multi-Fidelity Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes: Model-Based and Model-Free Algorithms
    Suryan, Varun and Gondhalekar, Nahush and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2020.
    @article{suryan2020multifidelity,
      author = {Suryan, Varun and Gondhalekar, Nahush and Tokekar, Pratap},
      journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine},
      title = {Multi-Fidelity Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes: Model-Based and Model-Free Algorithms},
      year = {2020},
      note = {Special issue on Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Robotics}
    }
    
  6. COCO-Bridge: Structural Detail Dataset for Bridge Inspection
    Bianchi, Eric and Abbott, A. Lynn and Tokekar, Pratap and Hebdon, Matthew
    ASCE’s Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2020.
    @article{bianchi2020coco,
      author = {Bianchi, Eric and Abbott, {A. Lynn} and Tokekar, Pratap and Hebdon, Matthew},
      journal = {ASCE's Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering},
      title = {COCO-Bridge: Structural Detail Dataset for Bridge Inspection},
      year = {2020}
    }
    
  7. Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tzoumas, Vasileios and Pappas, George J. and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.
    @article{zhou2020distributed,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tzoumas, Vasileios and Pappas, George J. and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Distributed Attack-Robust Submodular Maximization for Multi-Robot Planning},
      year = {2020},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      eprint = {To appear}
    }
    
  8. Crop Height and Plot Estimation for Phenotyping from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using 3D LiDAR
    Dhami, Harnaik and Yu, Kevin and Xu, Tianshu and Zhu, Qian and Dhakal, Kshitiz and Friel, James and Li, Song and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
    @inproceedings{dhami2020crop,
      author = {Dhami, Harnaik and Yu, Kevin and Xu, Tianshu and Zhu, Qian and Dhakal, Kshitiz and Friel, James and Li, Song and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Crop Height and Plot Estimation for Phenotyping from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using 3D LiDAR},
      year = {2020}
    }
    
  9. Multi-Robot Coordinated Planning in Confined Environments under Kinematic Constraints
    Mangette, Clayton and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
    @inproceedings{mangette2020multi,
      author = {Mangette, Clayton and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Multi-Robot Coordinated Planning in Confined Environments under Kinematic Constraints},
      year = {2020}
    }
    
  10. Risk-Aware Planning and Assignment for Ground Vehicles using Uncertain Perception from Aerial Vehicles
    Sharma, Vishnu and Toubeh, Maymoonah and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020.
    @inproceedings{sharma2020risk,
      author = {Sharma, Vishnu and Toubeh, Maymoonah and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      title = {Risk-Aware Planning and Assignment for Ground Vehicles using Uncertain Perception from Aerial Vehicles},
      year = {2020}
    }
    
  11. Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks
    Shi, Guangyao and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2020.
    @inproceedings{shi2020robust,
      author = {Shi, Guangyao and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)},
      title = {Robust Multiple-Path Orienteering Problem: Securing Against Adversarial Attacks},
      year = {2020}
    }
    

2019

  1. Sensor Assignment Algorithms to Improve Observability While Tracking Targets
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2019.
    @article{zhou2019sensor,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Sensor Assignment Algorithms to Improve Observability While Tracking Targets},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
      year = {2019},
      pages = {1--14},
      doi = {10.1109/tro.2019.2920749},
      publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})}
    }
    
  2. Active Target Tracking with Self-Triggered Communications in Multi-Robot Teams
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2019.
    @article{zhou2019active,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Active Target Tracking with Self-Triggered Communications in Multi-Robot Teams},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering},
      year = {2019},
      volume = {16},
      number = {3},
      pages = {1085--1096},
      month = jul,
      doi = {10.1109/TASE.2018.2867189},
      month_numeric = {7}
    }
    
  3. Resilient Active Target Tracking with Multiple Robots
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tzoumas, Vasileios and Pappas, George and Tokekar, Pratap
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, 2019.
    @article{zhou2019resilient,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tzoumas, Vasileios and Pappas, George and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Resilient Active Target Tracking with Multiple Robots},
      journal = {IEEE Robotics \& Automation Letters},
      year = {2019},
      volume = {4},
      pages = {129--136},
      month = jan,
      note = {Also selected for presentation at ICRA 2019.},
      doi = {10.1109/LRA.2018.2881296},
      issue = {1},
      month_numeric = {1}
    }
    
  4. Distributed Assignment with Limited Communication for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking
    Sung, Yoonchang and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Williams, Ryan K. and Tokekar, Pratap
    Autonomous Robots, 2019.
    @article{sung2019distributed,
      author = {Sung, Yoonchang and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Williams, Ryan K. and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Distributed Assignment with Limited Communication for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking},
      journal = {Autonomous Robots},
      year = {2019},
      month = may,
      note = {Special Issue on Robot Communication Challenges},
      doi = {10.1007/s10514-019-09856-1},
      publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}},
      month_numeric = {5}
    }
    
  5. Crop Height Estimation with LiDAR Equipped Robots
    Dhami, Harnaik and Xu, Tianshu and Zhu, Qian and Li, Song and Tokekar, Pratap
    Do Good Robotics Symposium, 2019.
    @misc{dhami2019crop,
      author = {Dhami, Harnaik and Xu, Tianshu and Zhu, Qian and Li, Song and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Crop Height Estimation with LiDAR Equipped Robots},
      howpublished = {Do Good Robotics Symposium},
      month = oct,
      year = {2019},
      note = {To appear},
      month_numeric = {10}
    }
    
  6. A Competitive Algorithm for Online Multi-Robot Exploration of a Translating Plume
    Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.
    @inproceedings{sung2019competitive,
      author = {Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {A Competitive Algorithm for Online Multi-Robot Exploration of a Translating Plume},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2019},
      month = may,
      publisher = {{IEEE}},
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793850},
      month_numeric = {5}
    }
    
  7. Coverage of an Environment Using Energy-Constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
    Yu, Kevin and M. O’Kane, Jason and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.
    @inproceedings{yu2019coverage,
      author = {Yu, Kevin and {M. O'Kane}, Jason and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Coverage of an Environment Using Energy-Constrained Unmanned Aerial Vehicles},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2019},
      note = {to appear}
    }
    
  8. Tree Search Techniques for Minimizing Detectability and Maximizing Visibility
    Zhang, Zhongshun and Lee, Joseph and Smereka, Jonathon and Sung, Yoonchang and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019.
    @inproceedings{zhang2019tree,
      author = {Zhang, Zhongshun and Lee, Joseph and Smereka, Jonathon and Sung, Yoonchang and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Tree Search Techniques for Minimizing Detectability and Maximizing Visibility},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2019},
      note = {to appear}
    }
    

2018

  1. Algorithms and Experiments on Routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Mobile Recharging Stations
    Yu, Kevin and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Buebel, Spencer and Tokekar, Pratap
    Journal of Field Robotics, 2018.
    @article{yu2018algorithmsb,
      author = {Yu, Kevin and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Buebel, Spencer and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Algorithms and Experiments on Routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Mobile Recharging Stations},
      journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
      year = {2018},
      volume = {36},
      number = {3},
      pages = {602--616},
      month = dec,
      doi = {10.1002/rob.21856},
      publisher = {Wiley},
      month_numeric = {12}
    }
    
  2. Guest editorial: Special issue on active perception
    Fitch, Robert and Isler, Volkan and Tokekar, Pratap and Scaramuzza, Davide
    Autonomous Robots, 2018.
    @article{fitch2018guest,
      author = {Fitch, Robert and Isler, Volkan and Tokekar, Pratap and Scaramuzza, Davide},
      title = {Guest editorial: Special issue on active perception},
      journal = {Autonomous Robots},
      year = {2018},
      month = jan,
      issn = {1573-7527},
      day = {31},
      doi = {10.1007/s10514-018-9695-8},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-018-9695-8},
      month_numeric = {1}
    }
    
  3. Multi-Fidelity Model-Free Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes
    Suryan, Varun and Gondhalekar, Nahush and Tokekar, Pratap
    AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy, 2018.
    @inproceedings{suryan2018multifidelity,
      author = {Suryan, Varun and Gondhalekar, Nahush and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Multi-Fidelity Model-Free Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes},
      booktitle = {AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy},
      year = {2018},
      pages = {82--87}
    }
    
  4. Risk-Aware Planning by Extracting Uncertainty from Deep Learning-Based Perception
    Toubeh, Maymoonah and Tokekar, Pratap
    AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy, 2018.
    @inproceedings{toubeh2018risk,
      author = {Toubeh, Maymoonah and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Risk-Aware Planning by Extracting Uncertainty from Deep Learning-Based Perception},
      booktitle = {AAAI 2018 Fall Symposium on Reasoning and Learning in Real-World Systems for Long-Term Autonomy},
      year = {2018},
      pages = {96--102}
    }
    
  5. View Planning and Navigation Algorithms for Autonomous Bridge Inspection with UAVs
    Shanthakumar, Prajwal and Yu, Kevin and Singh, Mandeep and Orevillo, Jonah and Bianchi, Eric and Hebdon, Matthew and Tokekar, Pratap
    International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2018.
    @inproceedings{shanthakumar2018view,
      author = {Shanthakumar, Prajwal and Yu, Kevin and Singh, Mandeep and Orevillo, Jonah and Bianchi, Eric and Hebdon, Matthew and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {View Planning and Navigation Algorithms for Autonomous Bridge Inspection with UAVs},
      booktitle = {International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)},
      year = {2018},
      note = {Accepted}
    }
    
  6. Strategies to Design Signals to Spoof Kalman Filter
    Zhang, Zhongshun and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), 2018.
    @inproceedings{zhang2018strategies,
      author = {Zhang, Zhongshun and Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Strategies to Design Signals to Spoof Kalman Filter},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC)},
      year = {2018},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02442}
    }
    
  7. Distributed Simultaneous Action and Target Assignment for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking
    Sung, Yoonchang and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Williams, Ryan and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
    @inproceedings{sung2018distributed,
      author = {Sung, Yoonchang and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Williams, Ryan and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Distributed Simultaneous Action and Target Assignment for Multi-Robot Multi-Target Tracking},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2018},
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2018.8460974},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.02245}
    }
    
  8. Constrained-Action POMDPs for Multi-Agent Intelligent Knowledge Distribution
    Fowler, Michael and Tokekar, Pratap and Clancy, Thomas and Williams, Ryan
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
    @inproceedings{fowler2018constrained,
      author = {Fowler, Michael and Tokekar, Pratap and Clancy, Thomas and Williams, Ryan},
      title = {Constrained-Action POMDPs for Multi-Agent Intelligent Knowledge Distribution},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2018}
    }
    
  9. Algorithms for Routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Mobile Recharging Stations
    Yu, Kevin and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018.
    @inproceedings{yu2018algorithms,
      author = {Yu, Kevin and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Algorithms for Routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Mobile Recharging Stations},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2018},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00079}
    }
    
  10. Persistent Monitoring with Refueling on a Terrain using a Team of Aerial and Ground Robots
    Maini, Parikshit and Yu, Kevin and Sujit, P.B. and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018.
    @inproceedings{maini2018persistent,
      author = {Maini, Parikshit and Yu, Kevin and Sujit, P.B. and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Persistent Monitoring with Refueling on a Terrain using a Team of Aerial and Ground Robots},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      year = {2018},
      doi = {10.1109/iros.2018.8593508}
    }
    
  11. Visibility-based Persistent Monitoring in a 1.5 D Terrain using a Heterogenous Robot Team
    Maini, Parikshit and Gupta, Gautam and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, P.B.
    Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018.
    @inproceedings{maini2018visibility,
      author = {Maini, Parikshit and Gupta, Gautam and Tokekar, Pratap and Sujit, P.B.},
      title = {Visibility-based Persistent Monitoring in a 1.5 D Terrain using a Heterogenous Robot Team},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      year = {2018},
      note = {To appear}
    }
    
  12. Detecting, localizing, and tracking an unknown number of moving targets using a team of mobile robots
    Dames, Philip and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay
    Robotics Research, 2018.
    @incollection{dames2018detecting,
      author = {Dames, Philip and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay},
      title = {Detecting, localizing, and tracking an unknown number of moving targets using a team of mobile robots},
      booktitle = {Robotics Research},
      publisher = {Springer},
      year = {2018},
      pages = {513--529},
      note = {Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2015}
    }
    
  13. An Approximation Algorithm for Risk-averse Submodular Optimization
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR). Proceedings of the Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2018.
    @inproceedings{zhou2018approximation,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {An Approximation Algorithm for Risk-averse Submodular Optimization},
      booktitle = {Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics (SPAR). Proceedings of the Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)},
      year = {2018}
    }
    
  14. Learning a Spatial Field with Gaussian Process Regression in Minimum Time
    Suryan, Varun and Tokekar, Pratap
    Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2018.
    @inproceedings{suryan2018learning,
      author = {Suryan, Varun and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Learning a Spatial Field with Gaussian Process Regression in Minimum Time},
      booktitle = {Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)},
      year = {2018},
      note = {to appear}
    }
    

2017

  1. JFR Special Issue on Agricultural Robotics
    Ball, David and Upcroft, Ben and Henten, Eldert and den Hengel, Anton and Tokekar, Pratap and Das, Jnaneshwar
    Journal of Field Robotics, 2017.
    @article{ball2017jfr,
      author = {Ball, David and Upcroft, Ben and Henten, Eldert and den Hengel, Anton and Tokekar, Pratap and Das, Jnaneshwar},
      title = {JFR Special Issue on Agricultural Robotics},
      journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
      year = {2017},
      volume = {34},
      number = {6},
      pages = {1037--1038}
    }
    
  2. Radiation Search Operations using Scene Understanding with Autonomous UAV and UGV
    Christie, Gordon and Shoemaker, Adam and Kochersberger, Kevin and Tokekar, Pratap and McLean, Lance and Leonessa, Alexander
    Journal of Field Robotics, 2017.
    @article{christie2017radiation,
      author = {Christie, Gordon and Shoemaker, Adam and Kochersberger, Kevin and Tokekar, Pratap and McLean, Lance and Leonessa, Alexander},
      title = {Radiation Search Operations using Scene Understanding with Autonomous UAV and UGV},
      journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
      year = {2017},
      note = {To appear},
      doi = {10.1002/rob.21723},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.00017}
    }
    
  3. Detecting, Localizing, and Tracking an Unknown Number of Moving Targets Using a Team of Mobile Robots
    Dames, Philip and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay
    International Journal of Robotics Research, 2017.
    @article{dames2017detecting,
      author = {Dames, Philip and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay},
      title = {Detecting, Localizing, and Tracking an Unknown Number of Moving Targets Using a Team of Mobile Robots},
      journal = {International Journal of Robotics Research},
      year = {2017},
      note = {To appear}
    }
    
  4. Rapid Deployment of Mobile Robots under Temporal, Perfomance, Perception, and Resource Constraints
    Rincon, J.L. Susa and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay and Carpin, Stefano
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters, 2017.
    @article{rincon2017rapid,
      author = {Rincon, J.L. Susa and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay and Carpin, Stefano},
      title = {Rapid Deployment of Mobile Robots under Temporal, Perfomance, Perception, and Resource Constraints},
      journal = {IEEE Robotics \& Automation Letters},
      year = {2017},
      volume = {2},
      number = {4},
      pages = {2016--2023},
      month = oct,
      doi = {10.1109/LRA.2017.2717080},
      month_numeric = {10}
    }
    
  5. Algorithms for Routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Mobile Recharging Stations and for Package Delivery
    Yu, Kevin and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Tokekar, Pratap
    International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, 2017.
    @misc{yu2017algorithms,
      author = {Yu, Kevin and Budhiraja, Ashish Kumar and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Algorithms for Routing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Mobile Recharging Stations and for Package Delivery},
      howpublished = {International Symposium on Aerial Robotics},
      month = jun,
      year = {2017},
      note = {Unrefereed},
      url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.00079},
      month_numeric = {6}
    }
    
  6. Algorithm for Searching and Tracking an Unknown and Varying Number of Mobile Targets using a Limited FoV Sensor
    Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.
    @inproceedings{sung2017algorithm,
      author = {Sung, Yoonchang and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Algorithm for Searching and Tracking an Unknown and Varying Number of Mobile Targets using a Limited FoV Sensor},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2017},
      pages = {6246--6252},
      month = may,
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989740},
      month_numeric = {5}
    }
    
  7. Active Target Tracking with Self-Triggered Communications
    Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017.
    @inproceedings{zhou2017active,
      author = {Zhou, Lifeng and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Active Target Tracking with Self-Triggered Communications},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2017},
      pages = {2117 -- 2123},
      month = may,
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989244},
      month_numeric = {5}
    }
    

2016

  1. Sensor Planning for a Symbiotic UAV and UGV System for Precision Agriculture
    Tokekar, Pratap and Vander Hook, Joshua and Mulla, David and Isler, Volkan
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2016.
    @article{tokekar2016sensor,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and {Vander Hook}, Joshua and Mulla, David and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Sensor Planning for a Symbiotic {UAV} and {UGV} System for Precision Agriculture},
      journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Robotics},
      year = {2016},
      volume = {32},
      number = {6},
      pages = {1498--1511},
      doi = {10.1109/TRO.2016.2603528}
    }
    
  2. Polygon Guarding with Orientation
    Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 2016.
    @article{tokekar2016polygon,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Polygon Guarding with Orientation},
      journal = {Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications},
      year = {2016},
      volume = {58},
      pages = {97--109},
      month = oct,
      doi = {10.1016/j.comgeo.2016.07.004},
      publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
      month_numeric = {10}
    }
    
  3. Non-Myopic Target Tracking Strategies for Non-Linear Systems
    Zhang, Zhongshun and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2016.
    @inproceedings{zhang2016nonmyopic,
      author = {Zhang, Zhongshun and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {Non-Myopic Target Tracking Strategies for Non-Linear Systems},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
      year = {2016},
      pages = {5591--5596},
      publisher = {IEEE},
      doi = {10.1109/cdc.2016.7799128}
    }
    
  4. A Geometric Approach for Multi-Robot Exploration in Orthogonal Polygons
    Preshant, Aravind and Yu, Kevin and Tokekar, Pratap
    Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), 2016.
    @inproceedings{preshant2016geometric,
      author = {Preshant, Aravind and Yu, Kevin and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {A Geometric Approach for Multi-Robot Exploration in Orthogonal Polygons},
      booktitle = {Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR)},
      year = {2016},
      url = {http://www.wafr.org/papers/WAFR_2016_paper_25.pdf}
    }
    

2015

  1. Algorithms for Cooperative Active Localization of Static Targets With Mobile Bearing Sensors Under Communication Constraints
    Vander Hook, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2015.
    @article{vanderhook2015algorithms,
      author = {{Vander Hook}, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Algorithms for Cooperative Active Localization of Static Targets With Mobile Bearing Sensors Under Communication Constraints},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Robotics},
      year = {2015},
      volume = {31},
      number = {4},
      pages = {864--876},
      month = aug,
      doi = {10.1109/TRO.2015.2432612},
      month_numeric = {8}
    }
    
  2. Detecting, Localizing, and Tracking an Unknown Number of Moving Targets Using a Team of Mobile Robots
    Dames, Philip and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay
    International Symposium on Robotics Research, 2015.
    @inproceedings{dames2015detecting,
      title = {Detecting, Localizing, and Tracking an Unknown Number of Moving Targets Using a Team of Mobile Robots},
      author = {Dames, Philip and Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay},
      booktitle = {International Symposium on Robotics Research},
      year = {2015}
    }
    
  3. Devices, Systems, and Methods for Automated Monitoring enabling Precision Agriculture
    Das, Jnaneshwar and Cross, Gareth and Qu, Chao and Makineni, Anurag and Tokekar, Pratap and Mulgaonkar, Yash and Kumar, Vijay
    Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2015.
    @inproceedings{das2015devices,
      author = {Das, Jnaneshwar and Cross, Gareth and Qu, Chao and Makineni, Anurag and Tokekar, Pratap and Mulgaonkar, Yash and Kumar, Vijay},
      title = {Devices, Systems, and Methods for Automated Monitoring enabling Precision Agriculture},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)},
      year = {2015},
      pages = {462--469},
      month = aug,
      publisher = {IEEE},
      doi = {10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294123},
      month_numeric = {8}
    }
    
  4. Visibility-Based Persistent Monitoring with Robot Teams
    Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay
    Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2015visibility,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Kumar, Vijay},
      title = {Visibility-Based Persistent Monitoring with Robot Teams},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      year = {2015},
      pages = {3387--3394},
      publisher = {IEEE},
      doi = {10.1109/IROS.2015.7353849}
    }
    
  5. Finding and Tracking Targets in the Wild: Algorithms and Field Deployments
    Isler, Volkan and Noori, Narges and Plonski, Patrick and Renzaglia, Alessandro and Tokekar, Pratap and Vander Hook, Joshua
    IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 2015.
    @inproceedings{isler2015finding,
      author = {Isler, Volkan and Noori, Narges and Plonski, Patrick and Renzaglia, Alessandro and Tokekar, Pratap and {Vander Hook}, Joshua},
      title = {Finding and Tracking Targets in the Wild: Algorithms and Field Deployments},
      booktitle = {{IEEE} International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics ({SSRR})},
      year = {2015},
      month = oct,
      publisher = {IEEE},
      doi = {10.1109/SSRR.2015.7442996},
      month_numeric = {10}
    }
    

2014

  1. Cautious Greedy Strategy for Bearing-Only Active Localization: Analysis and Field Experiments
    Vander Hook, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    Journal of Field Robotics, 2014.
    @article{vanderhook2014cautious,
      author = {{Vander Hook}, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Cautious Greedy Strategy for Bearing-Only Active Localization: Analysis and Field Experiments},
      journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
      year = {2014},
      volume = {31},
      number = {2},
      pages = {296--318},
      month = jan,
      doi = {10.1002/rob.21499},
      publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
      month_numeric = {1}
    }
    
  2. Energy-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Car-Like Robots
    Tokekar, P. and Karnad, N. and Isler, V.
    Autonomous Robots, 2014.
    @article{tokekar2014energy,
      author = {Tokekar, P. and Karnad, N. and Isler, V.},
      title = {Energy-Optimal Trajectory Planning for Car-Like Robots},
      journal = {Autonomous Robots},
      year = {2014},
      volume = {37},
      number = {3},
      pages = {279--300},
      month = apr,
      doi = {10.1007/s10514-014-9390-3},
      publisher = {Springer},
      month_numeric = {4}
    }
    
  3. Polygon Guarding with Orientation
    Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2014polygon,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Polygon Guarding with Orientation},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2014},
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2014.6906978}
    }
    
  4. Multi-Target Visual Tracking with Aerial Robots
    Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan and Franchi, Antonio
    Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2014multi,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan and Franchi, Antonio},
      title = {Multi-Target Visual Tracking with Aerial Robots},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      year = {2014},
      doi = {10.1109/IROS.2014.6942986}
    }
    

2013

  1. Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Solar-Powered Mobile Robots
    Plonski, Patrick and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    Journal of Field Robotics, 2013.
    @article{plonski2013energy,
      author = {Plonski, Patrick and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Solar-Powered Mobile Robots},
      journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
      year = {2013},
      volume = {30},
      number = {4},
      pages = {583--601},
      month = may,
      doi = {10.1002/rob.21459},
      publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
      month_numeric = {5}
    }
    
  2. Tracking Aquatic Invaders: Autonomous Robots for Invasive Fish
    Tokekar, Pratap and Branson, Elliot and Vander Hook, Joshua and Isler, Volkan
    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2013.
    @article{tokekar2013tracking,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Branson, Elliot and {Vander Hook}, Joshua and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Tracking Aquatic Invaders: Autonomous Robots for Invasive Fish},
      journal = {{IEEE} Robotics {\&} Automation Magazine},
      year = {2013},
      volume = {20},
      number = {3},
      pages = {33--41},
      month = sep,
      doi = {10.1109/MRA.2012.2220506},
      publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})},
      month_numeric = {9}
    }
    
  3. Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Solar-Powered Mobile Robots
    Plonski, Patrick and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    Experimental Robotics, 2013.
    @incollection{plonski2013aenergy,
      author = {Plonski, Patrick and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Energy-Efficient Path Planning for Solar-Powered Mobile Robots},
      booktitle = {Experimental Robotics},
      publisher = {Springer},
      year = {2013},
      pages = {717--731},
      note = {The 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-00065-7_48}
    }
    
  4. Local-Search Strategy for Active Localization of Multiple Invasive Fish
    Vander Hook, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Branson, Elliot and Bajer, Przemyslaw and Sorensen, Peter and Isler, Volkan
    Experimental Robotics, 2013.
    @inbook{vanderhook2013local,
      pages = {859--873},
      title = {Local-Search Strategy for Active Localization of Multiple Invasive Fish},
      publisher = {Springer},
      year = {2013},
      author = {{Vander Hook}, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Branson, Elliot and Bajer, Przemyslaw and Sorensen, Peter and Isler, Volkan},
      note = {The 13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics},
      booktitle = {Experimental Robotics},
      doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-00065-7_57}
    }
    
  5. Sensor Placement and Selection for Bearing Sensors with Bounded Uncertainty
    Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2013asensor,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Sensor Placement and Selection for Bearing Sensors with Bounded Uncertainty},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2013},
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630920}
    }
    
  6. Sensor Planning for a Symbiotic UAV and UGV System for Precision Agriculture
    Tokekar, Pratap and Vander Hook, Joshua and Mulla, David and Isler, Volkan
    Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2013sensor,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and {Vander Hook}, Joshua and Mulla, David and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Sensor Planning for a Symbiotic {UAV} and {UGV} System for Precision Agriculture},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      year = {2013},
      doi = {10.1109/IROS.2013.6697126}
    }
    

2012

  1. Cautious Greedy Strategy for Bearing-based Active Localization: Experiments and Theoretical Analysis
    Vander Hook, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2012.
    @inproceedings{vanderhook2012cautious,
      author = {{Vander Hook}, Joshua and Tokekar, Pratap and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Cautious Greedy Strategy for Bearing-based Active Localization: Experiments and Theoretical Analysis},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2012},
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225244}
    }
    

2011

  1. Energy-Optimal Velocity Profiles for Car-Like Robots
    Tokekar, Pratap and Karnad, Nikhil and Isler, Volkan
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2011energy,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Karnad, Nikhil and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Energy-Optimal Velocity Profiles for Car-Like Robots},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2011},
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2011.5980374}
    }
    
  2. Active Target Localization for Bearing Based Robotic Telemetry
    Tokekar, Pratap and Vander Hook, Joshua and Isler, Volkan
    Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2011active,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and {Vander Hook}, Joshua and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {Active Target Localization for Bearing Based Robotic Telemetry},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
      year = {2011},
      doi = {10.1109/IROS.2011.6095177}
    }
    

2010

  1. A Robotic System for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes
    Tokekar, Pratap and Bhadauria, Deepak and Studenski, Andrew and Isler, Volkan
    Journal of Field Robotics, 2010.
    @article{tokekar2010robotic,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Bhadauria, Deepak and Studenski, Andrew and Isler, Volkan},
      title = {A Robotic System for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes},
      journal = {Journal of Field Robotics},
      year = {2010},
      volume = {27},
      number = {6},
      pages = {779--789},
      month = sep,
      doi = {10.1002/rob.20364},
      month_numeric = {9}
    }
    
  2. A Robotic Sensor Network for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes
    Bhadauria, Deepak and Isler, Volkan and Studenski, Andrew and Tokekar, Pratap
    Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010.
    @inproceedings{bhadauria2010robotic,
      author = {Bhadauria, Deepak and Isler, Volkan and Studenski, Andrew and Tokekar, Pratap},
      title = {A Robotic Sensor Network for Monitoring Carp in Minnesota Lakes},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
      year = {2010},
      doi = {10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509499}
    }
    

2009

  1. Experiments in Object Reconstruction using a Robot-mounted Laser Range-finder
    Tokekar, Pratap and Bhatawadekar, Vineet and Fehr, Duc and Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos
    Proceedings of 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2009.
    @inproceedings{tokekar2009experiments,
      author = {Tokekar, Pratap and Bhatawadekar, Vineet and Fehr, Duc and Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos},
      title = {Experiments in Object Reconstruction using a Robot-mounted Laser Range-finder},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of 17th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation},
      year = {2009},
      month = jun,
      publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})},
      doi = {10.1109/MED.2009.5164667},
      month_numeric = {6}
    }