Nikolay A. Atanasov
Professor
Works on robot perception and planning, including probabilistic SLAM, active information gathering and learning-based navigation.
Nikolay A. Atanasov's lab at UCSD works on robot perception & SLAM, planning, control & multi-robot systems and embodied & active vision. 73 papers since 2023, 35 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 10 PhD students and 9 master's students. 175 alumni, most often to Brain Corp and Apple. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 19/ year
- at T1 venues
- 48%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 9
- alumni listed
- 175
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 19 papers2026 · T1 8 · collecting
- 26 papers2025 · T1 14
- 10 papers2024 · T1 5
- 18 papers2023 · T1 8
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, T-RO, RA-L, L4DC
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems40 papers
- Robot perception & SLAM19 papers
- Embodied & active vision5 papers
- active5 papers
- slam3 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202619 papers
- Workshop on Multi-Modal Spatial AI for Robust Navigation and Open-World Understanding and Workshop on Semantics for Reliable Robot Autonomy at IEEE ICRA4D Latent Mapping for Mobile Manipulation Policy Learning
- Workshop on Minds and Bodies: Co-Design for the Future of Soft Manipulation and Workshop on The Role of Control in Soft Robot Autonomy at IEEE RoboSoftContact-Aware Planning and Control of Soft Continuum Robots in Highly Constrained Environments
- ICRA (T1)Control Barrier Corridors: From Safety Functions to Safe Goal Sets (opens in a new tab)
- Annual Reviews in ControlControl-Oriented System Identification: Classical, Learning, and Physics-Informed Approaches (opens in a new tab)
- WACVDynaGSLAM: Real-Time Gaussian-Splatting SLAM for Online Rendering, Tracking, Motion Predictions of Moving Objects in Dynamic Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Expanding Safe Sets with Learning-Based Barrier Functions and Reachability
- Workshop on Aerial Inspection for Marine Infrastructures at IEEE ICRAFrom Distances to Trajectories: Real-Time Signed Distance Function Mapping and Distance-Accelerated Motion Planning for UAVs
- RA-LKernel-SDF: An Open-Source Library for Real-Time Signed Distance Function Estimation using Kernel Regression (opens in a new tab)
- TPAMI (T1)Learning Scene-Level Signed Directional Distance Function with Ellipsoidal Priors and Neural Residuals (opens in a new tab)
- L4DCMATT-Diff: Multimodal Active Target Tracking by Diffusion Policy (opens in a new tab)
- T-ASENeural Configuration-Space Barriers for Manipulation Planning and Control (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)OREN: Octree Residual Network for Real-Time Euclidean Signed Distance Mapping (opens in a new tab)
202526 papers
- Workshop on Future of Construction at IEEE ICRAA Shared-Autonomy Construction Robotic System for Overhead Works
- NeurIPS (T1)Certifying Stability of Reinforcement Learning Policies using Generalized Lyapunov Functions (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Control Systems LettersConstrained Variational Inference via Safe Particle Flow (opens in a new tab)
- TAC (T1)Continuity and Boundedness of Minimum-Norm CBF-Safe Controllers (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Control Strategies for Pursuit-Evasion Under Occlusion Using Visibility and Safety Barrier Functions (opens in a new tab)
- T-NSEDistributed Bayesian Estimation in Sensor Networks: Consensus on Marginal Densities (opens in a new tab)
- T-CNSDistributed Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with One-hop Neighbors and Compute Straggler Mitigation (opens in a new tab)
- T-CNSDistributed Variational Inference for Online Supervised Learning (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsEAST: Environment-Aware Safe Tracking for Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Generalizable Motion Planning via Operator Learning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)High Accuracy Aerial Maneuvers on Legged Robots using Variational Integrator Discretized Trajectory Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- SPLImportance Sampling With Stochastic Particle Flow and Diffusion Optimization (opens in a new tab)
202410 papers
- IROS (T1)A Deep Signed Directional Distance Function for Shape Representation (opens in a new tab)
- OJ-CSYSDistributionally Robust Policy and Lyapunov-Certificate Learning (opens in a new tab)
- L-CSSFeasibility Analysis and Regularity Characterization of Distributionally Robust Safe Stabilizing Controllers (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Hamiltonian Dynamics Learning from Point Cloud Observations for Nonholonomic Mobile Robot Control (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LMulti-Robot Object SLAM Using Distributed Variational Inference (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Optimal Scene Graph Planning with Large Language Model Guidance (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Port-Hamiltonian Neural ODE Networks on Lie Groups For Robot Dynamics Learning and Control (opens in a new tab)
- ACCSafe Stabilizing Control for Polygonal Robots in Dynamic Elliptical Environments (opens in a new tab)
- CDCStabilization of Nonlinear Systems through Control Barrier Functions (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)TerrainMesh: Metric-Semantic Terrain Reconstruction from Aerial Images Using Joint 2D-3D Learning (opens in a new tab)
202318 papers
- T-RO (T1)A Survey on Active Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: State of the Art and New Frontiers (opens in a new tab)
- TAC (T1)Control Barriers in Bayesian Learning of System Dynamics (opens in a new tab)
- L-CSSControl Synthesis for Stability and Safety by Differential Complementarity Problem (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Collaborative Perception and Learning at IEEE ICRADistributed Optimization with Consensus Constraint for Multi-Robot Semantic Octree Mapping
- L4DCDistributionally Robust Lyapunov Function Search Under Uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Dynamic Handover: Throw and Catch with Bimanual Hands (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Energy-Aware, Collision-Free Information Gathering for Heterogeneous Robot Teams (opens in a new tab)
- AutomaticaGovernor-Parameterized Barrier Function for Safe Output Tracking with Locally Sensed Constraints (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Integrated Perception, Planning, and Control for Physically and Contextually-Aware Robot Autonomy at IEEE/RSJ IROSHide and Seek with Visibility Constraints using Control Barrier Functions
- ICRA (T1)Information-Theoretic Abstraction of Semantic Octree Models for Integrated Perception and Planning (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsInverse Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Navigation via Differentiable Semantic Mapping and Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Learning Continuous Control Policies for Information-Theoretic Active Perception (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went175 listed, 71% to industry
Industry 20Academia 8
Most often to
- Brain Corp
- Apple
Also to
- Kobe University
- Kuwait University
- Rice University
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