Marco Pavone
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
Develops planning, control and learning methods for autonomous vehicles and space robots.
Marco Pavone's lab at Stanford works on autonomous vehicles & drones, planning, control & multi-robot systems and embodied & active vision. 84 papers since 2023, 9 at top venues, mostly IJRR and RA-L. 11 PhD students. 49 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 22/ year
- at T1 venues
- 11%
- PhD students
- 11
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 49
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 19 papers2025 · T1 0
- 25 papers2024 · T1 3
- 34 papers2023 · T1 6
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IJRR, RA-L, Autonomous Robots, ACC, IFAC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems29 papers
- Autonomous vehicles & drones5 papers
- Embodied & active vision3 papers
- aeronautics0 papers
- astronautics0 papers
Paper list
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20266 papers
- IEEE Aerospace ConferenceAgile Tradespace Exploration for Space Rendezvous Mission Design via Transformers (opens in a new tab)
- Conf. on Robot LearningConstrained Whole-Body Tracking for Humanoid Robots(In Press) (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and Automation: Workshop on Frontiers of Optimization for Roboticsfrax: Fast Robot Kinematics and Dynamics in JAX (opens in a new tab)
- European Control ConferenceMulti-Timescale Model Predictive Control for Slow-Fast Systems (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and AutomationScan, Materialize, Simulate: A Generalizable Framework for Physically Grounded Robot Planning (opens in a new tab)
- AIAA Scitech ForumSemantic Trajectory Generation for Goal-Oriented Spacecraft Rendezvous (opens in a new tab)
202519 papers
- Conf. on Robot LearningCUPID: Curating Data your Robot Loves with Influence Functions(In Press) (opens in a new tab)
- Robotics: Science and Systems - Space Robotics WorkshopDeformable Cargo Transport in Microgravity with Astrobee (opens in a new tab)
- npj RoboticsDiscovering Dominant Dynamics for Nonlinear Continuum Robot Control (opens in a new tab)
- ACCGeneralizable Spacecraft Trajectory Generation via Multimodal Learning with Transformers (opens in a new tab)
- European Journal of Operational ResearchIt’s All in the Mix: Technology choice between driverless and human-driven vehicles in sharing systems (opens in a new tab)
- Conf. on Neural Information Processing SystemsMartian World Model: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions (opens in a new tab)
- Games and Economic BehaviorMatching with Transfers under Distributional Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- Int. Conf. on Learning RepresentationsOffline Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Inverse Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Applied EnergyOptimal Coordination of Electric Buses and Battery Storage for Achieving a 24/7 Carbon-Free Electrified Fleet (opens in a new tab)
- Conf. on Robot LearningReal-Time Out-of-Distribution Failure Prevention via Multi-Modal Reasoning (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and AutomationRealistic Extreme Behavior Generation for Improved AV Testing (opens in a new tab)
- Conf. on Robot LearningRoboMonkey: Scaling Test-Time Sampling and Verification for Vision-Language-Action Models(In Press) (opens in a new tab)
202425 papers
- SIAM Journal on OptimizationA Copositive Framework for Analysis of Hybrid Ising-Classical Algorithms (opens in a new tab)
- Int. Conf. on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations ResearchAccelerating Continuous Variable Coherent Ising Machines via Momentum (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Aerospace ConferenceContingency Planning Using Bi-level Markov Decision Processes for Space Missions
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and ControlCredit vs. Discount-Based Congestion Pricing: A Comparison Study(In Press) (opens in a new tab)
- Discrete & Computational GeometryEstimating the convex hull of the image of a set with smooth boundary: error bounds and applications (opens in a new tab)
- AIAA SCITECH ForumEvaluating a Reinforcement Learning Approach for Collision Avoidance with Heterogeneous Aircraft
- RA-LGradient Descent-Based Task-Orientation Robot Control Enhanced With Gaussian Process Predictions (opens in a new tab)
- Learning for Dynamics & Control ConferenceLearning for CasADi: Data-driven Models in Numerical Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Science Robotics (T1)Locomotion as manipulation with ReachBot (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and AutomationMapping High-level Semantic Regions in Indoor Environments without Object Recognition (opens in a new tab)
- Int. Conf. on Space RoboticsMartian Exploration of Lava Tubes (MELT) with ReachBot: Scientific Investigation and Concept of Operations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Aerospace ConferenceModeling Considerations for Developing Deep Space Autonomous Spacecraft and Simulators (opens in a new tab)
202334 papers
- TAC (T1)Analysis of Theoretical and Numerical Properties of Sequential Convex Programming for Continuous-Time Optimal Control (opens in a new tab)
- IJRR (T1)Backpropagation through signal temporal logic specifications: Infusing logical structure into gradient-based methods (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent SystemsBalancing Fairness and Efficiency in Traffic Routing via Interpolated Traffic Assignment
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and ControlClosing the Loop on Runtime Monitors with Fallback-Safe MPC (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsCo-Design of Communication and Machine Inference for Cloud Robotics
- IJRR (T1)Control-Oriented Meta-Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and ControlCredit-Based Congestion Pricing: Equilibrium Properties and Optimal Scheme Design (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Aerospace ConferenceData Lifecycle Management in Evolving Input Distributions for Learning-based Aerospace Applications (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Robotics and AutomationData-Driven Spectral Submanifold Reduction for Nonlinear Optimal Control of High-Dimensional Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Aerospace ConferenceDesigning ReachBot: System Design Process with a Case Study of a Martian Lava Tube Mission (opens in a new tab)
- Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and ControlDifferentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization for Network Routing Applications (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Power SystemsDynamic Locational Marginal Emissions via Implicit Differentiation (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went49 listed
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