2025
2024
- Zhang, H., & Carlone, L. (2024). CHAMP: Conformalized 3D Human Multi-Hypothesis Pose Estimators. ArXiv Preprint: 2407.06141.
- Shaikewitz, L., Ubellacker, S., & Carlone, L. (2024). A Certifiable Algorithm for Simultaneous Shape Estimation and Object Tracking. ArXiv Preprint: 2406.16837.
- Gorlo, N., Schmid, L., & Carlone, L. (2024). Long-Term Human Trajectory Prediction using 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs. ArXiv Preprint: 2405.00552.
- Teng, S., Zhang, H., Jin, D., Jasour, A., Ghaffari, M., & Carlone, L. (2024). GMKF: Generalized Moment Kalman Filter for Polynomial Systems with Arbitrary Noise. ArXiv Preprint: 2403.04712v1.
- Ray, A., Bradley, C., Carlone, L., & Roy, N. (2024). Task and Motion Planning in Hierarchical 3D Scene Graphs. ArXiv Preprint: 2403.08094.
- Maggio, D., Chang, Y., Hughes, N., Trang, M., Griffith, D., Dougherty, C., Cristofalo, E., Schmid, L., & Carlone, L. (2024). Clio: Real-time Task-Driven Open-Set 3D Scene Graphs. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Ubellacker, S., Ray, A., Bern, J., Strader, J., & Carlone, L. (2024). High-speed aerial grasping using a soft drone with onboard perception. Nature Robotics.
- Strader, J., Hughes, N., Chen, W., Speranzon, A., & Carlone, L. (2024). Indoor and Outdoor 3D Scene Graph Generation via Language-Enabled Spatial Ontologies. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 9(6), 4886–4893.
- Hughes, N., Chang, Y., Hu, S., Talak, R., Abdulhai, R., Strader, J., & Carlone, L. (2024). Foundations of Spatial Perception for Robotics: Hierarchical Representations and Real-time Systems. Intl. J. of Robotics Research.
- Ebadi, K., Bernreiter, L., Biggie, H., Catt, G., Chang, Y., Chatterjee, A., Denniston, C. E., Deschênes, S.-P., Harlow, K., Khattak, S., Nogueira, L., Palieri, M., Petrác̆ek P., Petrlík, P., Reinke, A., Krátký, V., Zhao, S., Agha-mohammadi, A., Alexis, K., … Carlone, L. (2024). Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Underground Environments. IEEE Trans. Robotics, 40, 936–959.
- Jin, D., Karmalkar, S., Zhang, H., & Carlone, L. (2024). Multi-Model 3D Registration: Finding Multiple Moving Objects in Cluttered Point Clouds. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
2023
- Maggio, D., Mario, C., & Carlone, L. (2023). VERF: Runtime Monitoring of Pose Estimation with Neural Radiance Fields. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Chang, Y., Ballotta, L., & Carlone, L. (2023). D-Lite: Navigation-Oriented Compression of 3D Scene Graphs under Communication Constraints. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Antonante, P., Nilsen, H., & Carlone, L. (2023). Monitoring of Perception Systems: Deterministic, Probabilistic, and Learning-based Fault Detection and Identification. Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ), ArXiv Preprint: 2205.10906.
- Shi, J., Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2023). Optimal and Robust Category-level Perception: Object Pose and Shape Estimation from 2D and 3D Semantic Keypoints. IEEE Trans. Robotics, 39(5), 4131–4151.
- Talak, R., Peng, L., & Carlone, L. (2023). Certifiable 3D Object Pose Estimation: Foundations, Learning Models, and Self-Training. IEEE Trans. Robotics, 39(4), 2805–2824.
- Carlone, L. (2023). Estimation Contracts for Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception. Foundations and Trends (FnT) in Robotics, ArXiv Preprint: 2208.10521.
- Placed, J. A., Strader, J., Carrillo, H., Atanasov, N., Indelman, V., Carlone, L., & Castellanos, J. A. (2023). A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers. IEEE Trans. Robotics, 39(3), 1686–1705.
- Abate, M., Schwartz, A., Wong, X. I., Luo, W., Littman, R., Klinger, M., Kuhnert, L., Blue, D., & Carlone, L. (2023). Multi-Camera Visual-Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Valet Parking. Intl. Sym. on Experimental Robotics (ISER).
- Abate, M., Chang, Y., Hughes, N., & Carlone, L. (2023). Kimera2: Robust and Accurate Metric-Semantic SLAM in the Real World. Intl. Sym. on Experimental Robotics (ISER).
- Tian, Y., Chang, Y., Quang, L., Schang, A., Nieto-Granda, C., How, J. P., & Carlone, L. (2023). Resilient and Distributed Multi-Robot Visual SLAM: Datasets, Experiments, and Lessons Learned. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Chang, Y., Hughes, N., Ray, A., & Carlone, L. (2023). Hydra-Multi: Collaborative Online Construction of 3D Scene Graphs with Multi-Robot Teams. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Rosinol, A., Leonard, J. J., & Carlone, L. (2023). NeRF-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Shi, J., Talak, R., Maggio, D., & Carlone, L. (2023). A Correct-and-Certify Approach to Self-Supervise Object Pose Estimators via Ensemble Self-Training. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
- Antonante, P., Veer, S., Leung, K., Weng, X., Carlone, L., & Pavone, M. (2023). Task-Aware Risk Estimation of Perception Failures for Autonomous Vehicles. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
- Wang, C., Gao, D., Xu, K., Geng, J., Hu, Y., Qiu, Y., Li, B., Yang, F., Moon, B., Pandey, A., Aryan, A., Xu, J., Wu, T., He, H., Huang, D., Ren, Z., Zhao, S., Fu, T., Anthireddy, P. R., … Scherer, S. (2023). PyPose: A Library for Robot Learning with Physics-based Optimization. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
- Zhang, Y., Severinsen, O. A., Leonard, J. J., Carlone, L., & Khosoussi, K. (2023). Data-Association-Free Landmark-based SLAM. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Maggio, D. R., Mario, C., Streetman, B., Steiner, T. J., & Carlone, L. (2023). Vision-Based Terrain Relative Navigation on High Altitude Balloon and Sub-Orbital Rocket. AIAA SciTech Forum.
- Rosinol, A., Leonard, J. J., & Carlone, L. (2023). Uncertainty propagation for 3D Reconstruction with Deep Dense Monocular SLAM. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
2022
- Chen, W., Hu, S., Talak, R., & Carlone, L. (2022). Leveraging Large (Visual) Language Models for Robot 3D Scene Understanding. ArXiv Preprint: 2209.05629.
- Chen, W., Hu, S., Talak, R., & Carlone, L. (2022). Extracting Zero-shot Common Sense from Large Language Models for Robot 3D Scene Understanding. RSS Workshop on Scaling Robot Learning, ArXiv Preprint: 2206.04585.
- Shi, J., Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2022). Optimal and Robust Category-level Perception: Object Pose and Shape Estimation from 2D and 3D Semantic Keypoints. ArXiv Preprint: 2206.12498.
- Maggio, D., Abate, M., Shi, J., Mario, C., & Carlone, L. (2022). Loc-NeRF: Monte Carlo Localization using Neural Radiance Fields. ArXiv Preprint: 2209.09050.
- Yang, H., Liang, L., Carlone, L., & Toh, K. (2022). An Inexact Projected Gradient Method with Rounding and Lifting by Nonlinear Programming for Solving Rank-One Semidefinite Relaxation of Polynomial Optimization. Mathematical Programming (MAPR).
- Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2022). Certifiably Optimal Outlier-Robust Geometric Perception: Semidefinite Relaxations and Scalable Global Optimization. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Machine Intell.
- Chang, Y., Ebadi, K., Denniston, C., Ginting, M. F., Rosinol, A., Reinke, A., Palieri, M., Shi, J., A, C., Morrell, B., Agha-mohammadi, A., & Carlone, L. (2022). LAMP 2.0: A Robust Multi-Robot SLAM System for Operation in Challenging Large-Scale Underground Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 7(4), 9175–9182.
- Denniston, C., Chang, Y., Reinke, A., Ebadi, K., Sukhatme, G., Carlone, L., Morrell, B., & Agha-mohammadi, A. (2022). Loop Closure Prioritization for Efficient and Scalable Multi-Robot SLAM. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Reinke, A., Palieri, M., Morrell, B., Chang, Y., Ebadi, K., Carlone, L., & Agha-mohammadi, A. (2022). LOCUS 2.0: Robust and Computationally Efficient LiDAR Odometry for Real-Time Underground 3D Mapping. 7(4), 9043–9050.
- A. Agha et al. (2022). NeBula: TEAM CoSTAR’s Robotic Autonomy Solution that Won Phase II of DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Field Robotics, 2, 1432–1506.
- Tian, Y., Chang, Y., Arias, F. H., Nieto-Granda, C., How, J. P., & Carlone, L. (2022). Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems. IEEE Trans. Robotics.
- Maggio, D., Abate, M., Shi, J., Mario, C., & Carlone, L. (2022). Loc-NeRF: Monte Carlo Localization using Neural Radiance Fields. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Antonante, P., & Carlone, L. (2022). Monitoring of Perception Systems: Deterministic, Probabilistic, and Learning-based Fault Detection and Identification. NeurIPS 2022 Machine Learning for Autonomous Driving Workshop.
- Hughes, N., Chang, Y., & Carlone, L. (2022). Hydra: A Real-time Spatial Perception Engine for 3D Scene Graph Construction and Optimization. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
- Ravichandran, Z., Peng, L., Hughes, N., Griffith, J. D., & Carlone, L. (2022). Hierarchical Representations and Explicit Memory: Learning Effective Navigation Policies on 3D Scene Graphs using Graph Neural Networks. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Carlone, L., Khosoussi, K., Tzoumas, V., Habibi, G., Ryll, M., Talak, R., Shi, J., & Antonante, P. (2022). Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles: An Open-source Hands-on Robotics Course at MIT. IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC).
2021
- Prorok, A., Malencia, M., Carlone, L., Sukhatme, G. S., Sadler, B. M., & Kumar, V. (2021). Beyond Robustness: A Taxonomy of Approaches towards Resilient Multi-Robot Systems. ArXiv Preprint: 2109.12343.
- Talak, R., Hu, S., Peng, L., & Carlone, L. (2021). Neural Trees for Learning on Graphs. ArXiv Preprint: 2105.07264.
- Fishman, J., Ubellacker, S., Hughes, N., & Carlone, L. (2021). Dynamic Grasping with a “Soft” Drone: From Theory to Practice. ArXiv Preprint: 2103.06465.
- Rosinol, A., Violette, A., Abate, M., Hughes, N., Chang, Y., Shi, J., Gupta, A., & Carlone, L. (2021). Kimera: from SLAM to Spatial Perception with 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs. Intl. J. of Robotics Research, 40(12–14), 1510–1546.
- Antonante, P., Tzoumas, V., Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2021). Outlier-Robust Estimation: Hardness, Minimally Tuned Algorithms, and Applications. IEEE Trans. Robotics, 38(1), 281–301.
- Palieri, M., Morrell, B., Thakur, A., Ebadi, K., Nash, J., Chatterjee, A., Kanellakis, C., Carlone, L., Guaragnella, C., & Agha-mohammadi, A. (2021). LOCUS: A Multi-Sensor Lidar-Centric Solution for High-Precision Odometry and 3D Mapping in Real-Time. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 6(2), 421–428.
- Talak, R., Hu, S., Peng, L., & Carlone, L. (2021). Neural Trees for Learning on Graphs. Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
- Rosinol, A., & Carlone, L. (2021). Smooth Mesh Estimation from Depth Data using Non-Smooth Convex Optimization. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Fishman, J., Ubellacker, S., Hughes, N., & Carlone, L. (2021). Dynamic Grasping with a “Soft” Drone: From Theory to Practice. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Antonante, P., Spivak, D. I., & Carlone, L. (2021). Monitoring and Diagnosability of Perception Systems. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Tripathi, V., Ballotta, L., Carlone, L., & Modiano, E. (2021). Computation and Communication Co-Design for Real-Time Monitoring and Control in Multi-Agent Systems. Intl. Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt).
- Shi, J., Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2021). Optimal Pose and Shape Estimation for Category-level 3D Object Perception. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS).
- Yang, H., Dong, W., Carlone, L., & Koltun, V. (2021). Self-supervised Geometric Perception. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
- Chang, Y., Tian, Y., How, J. P., & Carlone, L. (2021). Kimera-Multi: a System for Distributed Multi-Robot Metric-Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Shi, J., Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2021). ROBIN: a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Reject Outliers in Robust Estimation using Invariants. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Fishman, J., & Carlone, L. (2021). Control and Trajectory Optimization for Soft Aerial Manipulation. IEEE Aerospace Conference.
2020
- Shi, J., Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2020). ROBIN: a Graph-Theoretic Approach to Reject Outliers in Robust Estimation using Invariants. ArXiv Preprint: 2011.03659.
- Antonante, P., Spivak, D. I., & Carlone, L. (2020). Monitoring and Diagnosability of Perception Systems. ArXiv Preprint: 2011.07010.
- Antonante, P., Spivak, D. I., & Carlone, L. (2020). Monitoring and Diagnosability of Perception Systems. ArXiv Preprint: 2005.11816.
- Fishman, J., & Carlone, L. (2020). Control and Trajectory Optimization for Soft Aerial Manipulation. ArXiv Preprint: 2004.04238.
- Ballotta, L., Schenato, L., & Carlone, L. (2020). Computation-Communication Trade-offs and Sensor Selection in Real-time Estimation for Processing Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 7(4), 2952–2965.
- Tzoumas, V., Carlone, L., Pappas, G. J., & Jadbabaie, A. (2020). LQG Control and Sensing Co-Design. IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control.
- Yang, H., Antonante, P., Tzoumas, V., & Carlone, L. (2020). Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 5(2), 1127–1134.
- Lajoie, P., Ramtoula, B., Chang, Y., Carlone, L., & Beltrame, G. (2020). DOOR-SLAM: Distributed, Online, and Outlier Resilient SLAM for Robotic Teams. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 5(2), 1656–1663.
- Tagliabue, A., Torres, J. T., Cai, X., Santamaria-Navarro, A., How, J. P., Carlone, L., & Agha-mohammadi, A. (2020). LION: Lidar-Inertial Observability-Aware Navigator for Vision-Denied Environments. Intl. Sym. on Experimental Robotics (ISER).
- Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2020). One Ring to Rule Them All: Certifiably Robust Geometric Perception with Outliers. Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 33, 18846–18859. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/da6ea77475918a3d83c7e49223d453cc-Paper.pdf
- Milano, F., Loquercio, A., Rosinol, A., Scaramuzza, D., & Carlone, L. (2020). Primal-Dual Mesh Convolutional Neural Networks. Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). https://doi.org/arxiv-2010.12455
- Dellaert, F., Rosen, D. M., Wu, J., Mahony, R., & Carlone, L. (2020). Shonan Rotation Averaging: Global Optimality by Surfing SO(p)^n. European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV).
- Gupta, A., & Carlone, L. (2020). Online Monitoring for Neural Network Based Monocular Pedestrian Pose Estimation. Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
- Ballotta, L., Schenato, L., & Carlone, L. (2020). From Sensor to Processing Networks: Optimal Estimation with Computation and Communication Latency. IFAC World Congress.
- Rosinol, A., Gupta, A., Abate, M., Shi, J., & Carlone, L. (2020). 3D Dynamic Scene Graphs: Actionable Spatial Perception with Places, Objects, and Humans. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS). https://doi.org/10.15607/RSS.2020.XVI.079
- Rosinol, A., Abate, M., Chang, Y., & Carlone, L. (2020). Kimera: an Open-Source Library for Real-Time Metric-Semantic Localization and Mapping. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196885
- Ebadi, K., Chang, Y., Palieri, M., Stephens, A., Hatteland, A., Heiden, E., Thakur, A., Morrell, B., Carlone, L., & Aghamohammadi, A. (2020). LAMP: Large-Scale Autonomous Mapping and Positioning for Exploration of Perceptually-Degraded Subterranean Environments. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
- Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2020). In Perfect Shape: Certifiably Optimal 3D Shape Reconstruction from 2D Landmarks. IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
2019
- Lajoie, P., Hu, S., Beltrame, G., & Carlone, L. (2019). Modeling Perceptual Aliasing in SLAM via Discrete-Continuous Graphical Models. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Hu, S., & Carlone, L. (2019). Accelerated Inference in Markov Random Fields via Smooth Riemannian Optimization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Rosinol, A., Sattler, T., Pollefeys, M., & Carlone, L. (2019). Incremental Visual-Inertial 3D Mesh Generation with Structural Regularities. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794456
- Yang, H., & Carlone, L. (2019). A Quaternion-based Certifiably Optimal Solution to the Wahba Problem with Outliers. Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV).
- Tzoumas, V., Antonante, P., & Carlone, L. (2019). Outlier-Robust Spatial Perception: Hardness, General-Purpose Algorithms, and Guarantees. IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
- Carlone, L., & Pinciroli, C. (2019). Robot Co-design: Beyond the Monotone Case. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
2018
- Tzoumas, V., Carlone, L., Pappas, G. J., & Jadbabaie, A. (2018). Sensing-Constrained LQG Control. American Control Conference, 197–202.
- Ma, F., Carlone, L., Ayaz, U., & Karaman, S. (2018). Sparse Depth Sensing for Resource-Constrained Robot Perception. Intl. J. of Robotics Research.
- Carlone, L., & Karaman, S. (2018). Attention and Anticipation in Fast Visual-Inertial Navigation. IEEE Trans. Robotics.
- Rosen, D. M., Carlone, L., Bandeira, A. S., & Leonard, J. J. (2018). SE-Sync: a certifiably correct algorithm for synchronization over the Special Euclidean group. Intl. J. of Robotics Research.
- Carlone, L., & Calafiore, G. (2018). Convex Relaxations for Pose Graph Optimization with Outliers. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 3(2), 1160–1167.
- Carlone, L., Axelrod, A., Karaman, S., & Chowdhary, G. (2018). Aided Optimal Search: Data-Driven Target Pursuit from On-Demand Delayed Binary Observations. In A. A. Erik Blasch Sai Ravela (Ed.), Handbook of Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems. Springer International Publishing.
- Axelrod, A. M., Carlone, L., Chowdhary, G., & Karaman, S. (2018). Prediction of EVaR-based Upper Bound in Time-based Datasets. In A. A. Erik Blasch Sai Ravela (Ed.), Handbook of Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems. Springer International Publishing.
- Rosinol, A. (2018). Densifying Sparse VIO: a mesh-based approach using Structural Regularities [Master's thesis, ETH Zurich]. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000297645
- Rosinol, A., Rebecq, H., Horstschaefer, T., & Scaramuzza, D. (2018). Ultimate SLAM? Combining events, images, and IMU for robust visual SLAM in HDR and high-speed scenarios. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(2), 994–1001. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2018.2793357
- Sayre-McCord, R. T., Guerra, W., Antonini, A., Arneberg, J., Brown, A., Cavalheiro, G., Fang, Y., Gorodetsky, A., McCoy, D., Quilter, S., Riether, F., Tal, E., Terzioglu, Y., Carlone, L., & Karaman, S. (2018). Visual-inertial navigation algorithm development using photorealistic camera simulation in the loop. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).