Maurice Fallon
Professor of Robotics
Leads the Dynamic Robot Systems Group on navigation and motion planning for legged robots such as quadrupeds.
Maurice Fallon's lab at Oxford works on legged locomotion & humanoids, planning, control & multi-robot systems and embodied & active vision. 40 papers since 2023, 16 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 8 PhD students. 12 alumni, most often to Amazon and Systems Engineer. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 40%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 12
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 5
- 12 papers2024 · T1 7
- 10 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, RA-L, RSS, CoRL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems7 papers
- Embodied & active vision5 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids3 papers
- robot systems0 papers
- dynamic0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
202516 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Field RoboticsAutoInspect: Toward Long-Term Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Field RoboticsBuilding Forest Inventories With Autonomous Legged Robots—System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead (opens in a new tab)
- Recent Advances in Robotic Perception for ForestryDigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry (opens in a new tab)
- —Exosense: A Vision-Centric Scene Understanding System For Safe Exoskeleton Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)ImLPR: Image-based LiDAR Place Recognition using Vision Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- The SLAM Handbook: From Localization and Mapping to Spatial IntelligenceLiDAR SLAM (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPSOpenLex3D: A Tiered Evaluation Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE AccessPerceptive Locomotion Through Whole-Body MPC and Optimal Region Selection (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)PlanarMesh: Building Compact 3D Meshes from LiDAR using Incremental Adaptive Resolution Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Waste Management ConferenceSafeMove: Multi-Model Navigation for Fail-Resistant Autonomous Nuclear Material Transport (opens in a new tab)
- —Sapling-NeRF: Geo-Localised Sapling Reconstruction in Forests for Ecological Monitoring (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- IEEE Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications3D Bone Surface Image Reconstruction from Freehand Ultrasound using Visual-Inertial Odometry and Deep Inertial Odometry (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Evaluation and Deployment of LiDAR-based Place Recognition in Dense Forests (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles SymposiumIMU-based Online Multi-lidar Calibration (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Language-EXtended Indoor SLAM (LEXIS): A Versatile System for Real-time Visual Scene Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)LiSTA: Geometric Object-Based Change Detection in Cluttered Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Markerless Aerial-Terrestrial Co-Registration of Forest Point Cloudsusing a Deformable Pose Graph (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Online Tree Reconstruction and Forest Inventory on a Mobile Robotic System (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Field RoboticsOsprey: Multi-Session Autonomous Aerial Mapping with LiDAR-based SLAM and Next Best View Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SiLVR: Scalable Lidar-Visual Reconstruction with Neural Radiance Fields for Robotic Inspection (opens in a new tab)
- Field Robotics JournalTeam Cerberus wins the DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Technical overview and lessons learned (opens in a new tab)
- —The Bare Necessities: Designing Simple, Effective Open-Vocabulary Scene Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Tree Instance Segmentation and Traits Estimation for Forestry Environments Exploiting LiDAR Data Collected by Mobile Robots (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- ICRA WorkshopAutonomous Aerial Mapping for Construction (opens in a new tab)
- —Batch Differentiable Pose Refinement for In-The-Wild Camera/LiDAR Extrinsic Calibration (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LDeep IMU Bias Inference for Robust Visual-Inertial Odometry with Factor Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Extrinsic Calibration of Camera to LIDAR using a Differentiable Checkerboard Model (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Factor Graph Fusion of Raw GNSS Sensing with IMU and Lidar for Precise Robot Localization without a Base Station (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Fast Traversability Estimation for Wild Visual Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LHilti-Oxford Dataset: A Millimetre-Accurate Benchmark for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)InstaLoc: One-shot Global Lidar Localisation in Indoor Environments through Instance Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles SymposiumM-LIO: Multi-lidar, multi-IMU odometry with sensor dropout tolerance (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LObservability-aware online multi-lidar extrinsic calibration (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went12 listed, 22% to industry
Industry 2Academia 7
Most often to
- Amazon
- Systems Engineer
Also to
- Honk Kong Polytechnic University
- Imperial College London
Apply to Oxford2027-28
DPhil in Computer Science
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- 2027-28 entry (January round)
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