Dimitrios Kanoulas
Professor in Robotics and AI
Leads research on robot perception, cognition and learning for legged robots operating in unstructured environments.
Dimitrios Kanoulas's lab at UCL works on legged locomotion & humanoids and robot perception & SLAM. 71 papers since 2023, 8 at top venues, mostly IROS and ICRA. 15 PhD students. 82 alumni, most often to Huawei and ecoSUB Robotics Ltd.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 19/ year
- at T1 venues
- 11%
- PhD students
- 15
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 82
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 17 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 26 papers2025 · T1 0
- 19 papers2024 · T1 8
- 9 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: IROS, ICRA, RA-L, BMVC, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Legged locomotion & humanoids15 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM14 papers
- legged robots2 papers
- operating1 paper
- cognition0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202617 papers
- ICRA WorkshopAutonomous Vineyard Exploration using LiDAR Sensing: A Field Evaluation on Legged-Wheeled Quadruped Robot
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics T-ROCAD-SLAM: Consistency-Aware Dynamic SLAM with Dynamic-Static Decoupled Mapping (opens in a new tab)
- European Conference on Computer Vision ECCVCascadeProto: Cascaded Cross-Modal Prototype Purification via Entropy-Aware Learning for Few-Shot 3D Point Cloud Segmentation
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI, FrontiersDiscovery of Skill Switching Criteria for Learning Agile Quadruped locomotion (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics T-IIEfficient and Robust In-Cabin Depth Estimation from Near-Infrared Fisheye Stereo Cameras via Uncertainty-Aware Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRAFollow Everything: A Leader-Following and Obstacle Avoidance Framework with Goal-Aware Adaptation (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Machine Learning ICMLFrom Coarse to Fine: Deep Prototype Refinement Network for Few-Shot Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems IROSGraph-Lite ReMEmbR: Minimal Structure for Scalable Retrieval in Embodied Robot Memory
- RSS WorkshopGreen for Go, Red for No: Visual Grounding via Semantic Segmentation for VLA Navigation Policies (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics T-ROMobileROS: A Wireless-Native Robot Operating System for Mobile Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics T-ROOPENNAVMAP: Multi-Session Structure-Free Topometric Mapping for Scalable Visual Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LReactive Motion Generation via Phase-varying Neural Potential Functions (opens in a new tab)
202526 papers
- International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications RITAA framework for Deploying Learning-based Quadruped Loco-manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems TAROSAcquiring Tactile Skills on a Quadruped Robot using Vision-based Soft Tactile Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications RITAAdvantage-Weighted Teacher-Student Framework for Agile Quadruped Parkour (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRAAIR-HLoc: Adaptive Retrieved Images Selection for Efficient Visual Localisation (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI, FrontiersDreamerNav: Learning-Based Autonomous Navigation in Dynamic Indoor Environments Using World Models (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRADVN-SLAM: Dynamic Visual Neural SLAM Based on Local-Global Encoding (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications RITAE-SDS - Environment-aware See it, Do it, Sorted: Automated Environment-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Locomotion (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications RITAEarly Results on AI-Enhanced Autonomous Disassembly for WEEE Recycling
- International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications RITAEfficiency-Seeking, Robot-Specific Path Planning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, T-ASEeGAIT: Multi-Skilled Policy for Energy-efficient Gait Transitions (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ICRAExploring Adversarial Obstacle Attacks in Search-based Path Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering CASEImmersive Teleoperation Framework for Locomanipulation Tasks (opens in a new tab)
202419 papers
- IEEE Control Systems Letters, L-CSSActive Sensing for Data Quality Improvement in Model Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI, FrontiersAdvancing Teleoperation for Legged Manipulation with Wearable Motion Capture (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Analysing the Generalisation and Reliability of Steering Vectors (opens in a new tab)
- 24the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoids Robots, HumanoidsASFM: Augmented Social Force Model for Legged Robot Social Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- BMVCBalancing Calibration and Performance: Stochastic Depth in Segmentation BNNs (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA WorkshopDiffusion-based Global and Local Path Planning for Agile Robots
- ICRA (T1)DiPPeR: Diffusion-based 2D Path Planner applied on Legged Robots (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)DiPPeST: Diffusion-based Path Planner for Synergistic Trajectory Generation Applied on Quadrupedal Robots (opens in a new tab)
- Frontiers in Robotics and AIEditorial: Rising stars in field robotics: 2022 (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Evaluating a Movable Palm in Caging Inspired Grasping Using a Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach (opens in a new tab)
- Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROSLearning Bipedal Walking on a Quadruped Robot via Adversarial Motion Priors (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning Needle Pick-And-Place without Expert Demonstrations (opens in a new tab)
20239 papers
- Robotics and Autonomous Systems, RASA Survey on Control of Humanoid Fall Over (opens in a new tab)
- SPG Cyborg and Bionic Systems, CBSystemsBody Extension by Using Two Mobile Manipulators (opens in a new tab)
- L3H2End-to-End Stable Imitation Learning via Autonomous Neural Dynamic Policies (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE AccessNavigation Among Movable Obstacles via Multi-Object Pushing into Storage Zones (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, T-HMSPerformance and Usability Evaluation Scheme for Mobile Manipulator Teleoperation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASESafe Trajectory Sampling in Model-based Reinforcement Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, RAMTaking the First Step Toward Autonomous Quadruped Robots: The Quadruped Robot Challenge at ICRA 2023 in London (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, HumanoidsViT-A*: Legged Robot Path Planning using Vision Transformer A* (opens in a new tab)
- WFVMLYour Value Function is a Control Barrier Function (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went82 listed, 57% to industry
Industry 13Academia 10
Most often to
- Huawei
- ecoSUB Robotics Ltd
- Product Engineer Software
Also to
- UCL
- Italian Institute of Technology
- Oxford Robotics Institute
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