Roland Siegwart
Full Professor
Leads the Autonomous Systems Lab, developing mobile robots, drones and legged systems with perception and navigation for autonomous operation in complex environments.
Roland Siegwart's lab at ETH Zurich works on autonomous vehicles & drones, legged locomotion & humanoids and embodied & active vision. 53 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly Autonomous Robots and IJRR. 3 PhD students. 290 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 14/ year
- at T1 venues
- 6%
- PhD students
- 3
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 290
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 5 papers2025 · T1 2
- 21 papers2024 · T1 1
- 24 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Autonomous Robots, IJRR, RA-L, Science Robotics, T-RO
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Embodied & active vision6 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones4 papers
- autonomous1 paper
- Legged locomotion & humanoids0 papers
- drones0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20263 papers
- International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS ), Paphos, CyprusClone-Robust Weights in Metric Spaces: Handling Redundancy Bias in Benchmark Aggregation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV ), Tucson, AZ, USATowards Fast and Scalable Normal Integration using Continuous Components (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USAVision Beyond Earth: Synthetic Satellite Data for Neural Perception in Orbit (opens in a new tab)
20255 papers
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Hangzhou, ChinaCueLearner: Bootstrapping and local policy adaptation from relative feedback (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV ), Honolulu, HI, USADiscontinuity-aware Normal Integration for Generic Central Camera Models (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Nonsmooth Trajectory Optimization for Wheeled Balancing Robots With Contact Switches and Impacts (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous SystemsScene Representations for Robotic Spatial Perception (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Sight Guide demonstrates robotics-inspired vision assistance at the Cybathlon (opens in a new tab)
202421 papers
- IJRR (T1)A framework for collaborative multi-robot mapping using spectral graph wavelets (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI ), Pilsen, Czech RepublicA Robust Baro-Radar-Inertial Odometry M-Estimator for Multicopter Navigation in Cities and Forests (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), Yokohama, JapanCOIN-LIO: Complementary Intensity-Augmented LiDAR Inertial Odometry (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesEnergy-Optimized Planning in Non-Uniform Wind Fields with Fixed-Wing Aerial Vehicles (opens in a new tab)
- World Conference on Non-Destructive Testing (WCNDT ), Incheon, Korea, May 27-31, .Flying corrosion inspection robot for corrosion monitoring of bridges
- IEEE Robotics & Automation MagazineGeranos: a Novel Tilted-Rotors Aerial Robot for the Transportation of Poles (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV ), Milan, ItalyHyperion – A fast, versatile symbolic Gaussian Belief Propagation framework for Continuous-Time SLAM (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR ), Long Beach, CA, USA, December 8-12, .Learning Affordances from Interactive Exploration using an Object-level Map
- AIAA SCITECH Forum, Orlando, FL, USAMinimum Ground Risk Trajectory Planning Based On Time-Annotated Population Density Maps (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesNeuSurfEmb: A Complete Pipeline for Dense Correspondence-based 6D Object Pose Estimation without CAD Models (opens in a new tab)
- Automation in ConstructionNon-destructive corrosion inspection of reinforced concrete structures using an autonomous flying robot (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), Yokohama, Japannvblox: GPU-Accelerated Incremental Signed Distance Field Mapping (opens in a new tab)
202324 papers
- IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft ), SingaporeA Multi-Segment, Soft Growing Robot with Selective Steering (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Detroit, MI, USAA Perching and Tilting Aerial Robot for Precise and Versatile Power Tool Work on Vertical Walls (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics and Autonomous SystemsAutomatic extension of a symbolic mobile manipulation skill set (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Detroit, MI, USABaking in the Feature: Accelerating Volumetric Segmentation by Rendering Feature Maps (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsChasing millimeters: design, navigation and state estimation for precise in-flight marking on ceilings (opens in a new tab)
- Energy Efficient Aerial Robotic Systems Workshop, London, United Kingdom Zurich: ETH Zurich, Mai 29, .Circling Back: Dubins set Classification Revisited
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), London, United KingdomDesign and Control of a Micro Overactuated Aerial Robot with an Origami Delta Manipulator (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (ICUAS ), Warsaw, PolandDesign of PrisMAV: An Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulator based on a 3-PUU Parallel Mechanism (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), London, United KingdomFisher Information Based Active Planning for Aerial Photogrammetry (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA ), London, United KingdomLearning Agent-Aware Affordances for Closed-Loop Interaction with Articulated Objects (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER ), Chiang Mai, ThailandLearning to Fly Omnidirectional Micro Aerial Vehicles with an End-To-End Control Network (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS ), Detroit, MI, USALearning to Open Doors with an Aerial Manipulator (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went290 listed
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