Kostas Alexis

Orcid: 0000-0002-9989-298X

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  • University of Nevada, Reno, USA


According to our database1, Kostas Alexis authored at least 115 papers between 2010 and 2024.

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2024
Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Environments: The DARPA SubT Challenge.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2024

Degradation Resilient LiDAR-Radar-Inertial Odometry.
CoRR, 2024

N-MPC for Deep Neural Network-Based Collision Avoidance exploiting Depth Images.
CoRR, 2024

Reinforcement Learning for Collision-free Flight Exploiting Deep Collision Encoding.
CoRR, 2024

ROAMER: Robust Offroad Autonomy using Multimodal State Estimation with Radar Velocity Integration.
CoRR, 2024

Aerial Field Robotics.
CoRR, 2024

2023
RMS: Redundancy-Minimizing Point Cloud Sampling for Real-Time Pose Estimation in Degenerated Environments.
CoRR, 2023

An Online Self-calibrating Refractive Camera Model with Application to Underwater Odometry.
CoRR, 2023

Martian Lava Tube Exploration Using Jumping Legged Robots: A Concept Study.
CoRR, 2023

Aerial Gym - Isaac Gym Simulator for Aerial Robots.
CoRR, 2023

Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots.
Auton. Robots, 2023

Task-Driven Compression for Collision Encoding Based on Depth Images.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 18th International Symposium, 2023

Semantically-Enhanced Deep Collision Prediction for Autonomous Navigation Using Aerial Robots.
IROS, 2023

ResiPlan: Closing the Planning-Acting Loop for Safe Underwater Navigation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

Semantics-aware Exploration and Inspection Path Planning.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

Terrain Recognition and Contact Force Estimation Through a Sensorized Paw for Legged Robots.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2023

Design and Experimental Verification of a Jumping Legged Robot for Martian Lava Tube Exploration.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2023

Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks Using Aerial Robots.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2023

2022
CERBERUS: Autonomous Legged and Aerial Robotic Exploration in the Tunnel and Urban Circuits of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
Field Robotics, March, 2022

CERBERUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
Sci. Robotics, 2022

Collision-tolerant Aerial Robots: A Survey.
CoRR, 2022

Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Underground Environments.
CoRR, 2022

Team CERBERUS Wins the DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Technical Overview and Lessons Learned.
CoRR, 2022

RMF-Owl: A Collision-Tolerant Flying Robot for Autonomous Subterranean Exploration.
CoRR, 2022

Marsupial Walking-and-Flying Robotic Deployment for Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2022

Risk-aware Motion Planning for Collision-tolerant Aerial Robots subject to Localization Uncertainty.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

MIMOSA: A Multi-Modal SLAM Framework for Resilient Autonomy against Sensor Degradation.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

Autonomous Teamed Exploration of Subterranean Environments using Legged and Aerial Robots.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

Motion Primitives-based Navigation Planning using Deep Collision Prediction.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

2021
Forceful Aerial Manipulation Based on an Aerial Robotic Chain: Hybrid Modeling and Control.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2021

Field-hardened Resilient Robotic Autonomy.
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Robotics, 2021

Resilient Collision-tolerant Navigation in Confined Environments.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Autonomous Distributed 3D Radiation Field Estimation for Nuclear Environment Characterization.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Online Recommendation-based Convolutional Features for Scale-Aware Visual Tracking.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Hypergame-based Adaptive Behavior Path Planning for Combined Exploration and Visual Search.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Resource-aware Online Parameter Adaptation for Computationally -constrained Visual-Inertial Navigation Systems.
Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2021

Model Predictive Control for Micro Aerial Vehicles: A Survey.
Proceedings of the 2021 European Control Conference, 2021

2020
Keyframe-based thermal-inertial odometry.
J. Field Robotics, 2020

Graph-based subterranean exploration path planning using aerial and legged robots.
J. Field Robotics, 2020

Visual-Thermal Camera Dataset Release and Multi-Modal Alignment without Calibration Information.
CoRR, 2020

Appendix for the Motion Primitives-based Path Planning for Fast and Agile Exploration Method.
CoRR, 2020

Autonomous Aerial Robotic Surveying and Mapping with Application to Construction Operations.
CoRR, 2020

Towards a Science of Resilient Robotic Autonomy.
CoRR, 2020

Collision-tolerant Autonomous Navigation through Manhole-sized Confined Environments.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics, 2020

Optical Flow Based Background Subtraction with a Moving Camera: Application to Autonomous Driving.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 15th International Symposium, 2020

Learning-based Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Environments.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

Motion Primitives-based Path Planning for Fast and Agile Exploration using Aerial Robots.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

The Reconfigurable Aerial Robotic Chain: Modeling and Control.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

Anomalous Motion Detection On Highway Using Deep Learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2020

2019
The Reconfigurable Aerial Robotic Chain: Shape and Motion Planning.
CoRR, 2019

Are State-of-the-art Visual Place Recognition Techniques any Good for Aerial Robotics?
CoRR, 2019

Visual-Thermal Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments.
CoRR, 2019

Localization uncertainty-aware autonomous exploration and mapping with aerial robots using receding horizon path-planning.
Auton. Robots, 2019

Graph-based Path Planning for Autonomous Robotic Exploration in Subterranean Environments.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Distributed Radiation Field Estimation and Informative Path Planning for Nuclear Environment Characterization.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Contact-based Navigation Path Planning for Aerial Robots.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Keyframe-based Direct Thermal-Inertial Odometry.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Explore Locally, Plan Globally: A Path Planning Framework for Autonomous Robotic Exploration in Subterranean Environments.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2019

Resilient Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Underground Mines using Aerial Robots.
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Advanced Robotics, 2019

2018
Modeling, Control, State Estimation and Path Planning Methods for Autonomous Multirotor Aerial Robots.
Found. Trends Robotics, 2018

Lévy Flight Foraging Hypothesis-based Autonomous Memoryless Search Under Sparse Rewards.
CoRR, 2018

Design and Control of an Aerial Manipulator for Contact-based Inspection.
CoRR, 2018

Visual-Inertial Odometry-enhanced Geometrically Stable ICP for Mapping Applications using Aerial Robots.
CoRR, 2018

Receding horizon path planning for 3D exploration and surface inspection.
Auton. Robots, 2018

Marker Based Thermal-Inertial Localization for Aerial Robots in Obscurant Filled Environments.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 13th International Symposium, 2018

Vision-Depth Landmarks and Inertial Fusion for Navigation in Degraded Visual Environments.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 13th International Symposium, 2018

Radiation Source Localization in GPS-Denied Environments Using Aerial Robots.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

Visual Saliency-Aware Receding Horizon Autonomous Exploration with Application to Aerial Robotics.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

2017
An incremental sampling-based approach to inspection planning: the rapidly exploring random tree of trees.
Robotica, 2017

Design of small hand-launched solar-powered UAVs: From concept study to a multi-day world endurance record flight.
J. Field Robotics, 2017

Integrated Data Management for a Fleet of Search-and-rescue Robots.
J. Field Robotics, 2017

Aerial Drop of Robots and Sensors for Optimal Area Coverage.
CoRR, 2017

Towards Robotically Supported Decommissioning of Nuclear Sites.
CoRR, 2017

Realizing the Aerial Robotic Worker for Inspection Operations.
CoRR, 2017

Technical Report: Optimal Surveillance of Dynamic Parades using Teams of Aerial Robots.
CoRR, 2017

Model-based transition optimization for a VTOL tailsitter.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

Uncertainty-aware receding horizon exploration and mapping using aerial robots.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

2016

Dual-Authority Thrust-Vectoring of a Tri-TiltRotor employing Model Predictive Control.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2016

Robust Model Predictive Flight Control of Unmanned Rotorcrafts.
J. Intell. Robotic Syst., 2016

Distributed Infrastructure Inspection Path Planning subject to Time Constraints.
CoRR, 2016

Three-dimensional coverage path planning via viewpoint resampling and tour optimization for aerial robots.
Auton. Robots, 2016

Aerial robotic contact-based inspection: planning and control.
Auton. Robots, 2016

Adaptive high order sliding mode control for relative positioning and trajectory tracking of spacecraft formation flying.
Proceedings of the 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2016

Change Detection and Object Recognition Using Aerial Robots.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 12th International Symposium, 2016

Design and modeling of dexterous aerial manipulator.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Full Attitude Control of a VTOL tailsitter UAV.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

Receding horizon "next-best-view" planner for 3D exploration.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

Augmented reality-enhanced structural inspection using aerial robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control, 2016

2015
Sampling-based receding horizon collision-free control for a class of Micro Aerial Vehicles.
Proceedings of the 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2015

Inspection Operations Using an Aerial Robot Powered-over-Tether by a Ground Vehicle.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 11th International Symposium, 2015

Autonomous Robotic Aerial Tracking, Avoidance, and Seeking of a Mobile Human Subject.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 11th International Symposium, 2015

A solar-powered hand-launchable UAV for low-altitude multi-day continuous flight.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Structural inspection path planning via iterative viewpoint resampling with application to aerial robotics.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Long-Endurance Sensing and Mapping Using a Hand-Launchable Solar-Powered UAV.
Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2015

Fast nonlinear model predictive control for multicopter attitude tracking on SO(3).
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, 2015

2014
Explicit model predictive control and L1-navigation strategies for fixed-wing UAV path tracking.
Proceedings of the 22nd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2014

Efficient force exertion for aerial robotic manipulation: Exploiting the thrust-vectoring authority of a tri-tiltrotor UAV.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Hybrid predictive control for aerial robotic physical interaction towards inspection operations.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Robust explicit model predictive flight control of unmanned rotorcrafts: Design and experimental evaluation.
Proceedings of the 13th European Control Conference, 2014

Robust state estimation for small unmanned airplanes.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Control Applications, 2014

2013
Trajectory control of an unmanned Tri-TiltRotor in hover flight via direct longitudinal actuation.
Proceedings of the 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2013

Explicit constrained optimal trajectory control of an unmanned coaxial rotorcraft.
Proceedings of the 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2013

Unmanned coaxial rotorcraft force and position control for physical interaction through contact.
Proceedings of the 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 2013

AIRobots: Innovative aerial service robots for remote inspection by contact.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Linear quadratic optimal trajectory-tracking control of a longitudinal thrust vectoring-enabled unmanned Tri-TiltRotor.
Proceedings of the IECON 2013, 2013

Model predictive hovering-translation control of an unmanned Tri-TiltRotor.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Configurable real-time simulation suite for coaxial rotor UAVs.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Hybrid modeling and control of a coaxial unmanned rotorcraft interacting with its environment through contact.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Hybrid model predictive flight mode conversion control of unmanned Quad-TiltRotors.
Proceedings of the 12th European Control Conference, 2013

2012
Revisited Dos Samara Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: Design and control.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

2011
Design and experimental attitude control of an unmanned Tilt-Rotor aerial vehicle.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Robotics: New Boundaries for Robotics, 2011

2010
Design and experimental verification of a Constrained Finite Time Optimal control scheme for the attitude control of a Quadrotor Helicopter subject to wind gusts.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

A Constrained Finite Time Optimal Controller for the Diving and Steering Problem of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.
Proceedings of the ICINCO 2010, 2010

Constrained optimal attitude control of a quadrotor helicopter subject to wind-gusts: Experimental studies.
Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 2010


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