| 2026 | AAAI | Schema-Guided Scene-Graph Reasoning Based on Multi-Agent Large Language Model System. | Yiye Chen, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Nicholas Gyde, Yanan Jian, Jack Saunders, Patricio A. Vela, Benjamin E. Lundell |
| 2025 | ICRA | Dynamic Gap: Safe Gap-based Navigation in Dynamic Environments. | Max Asselmeier, Dhruv Ahuja, Abdel Zaro, Ahmad Abuaish, Ye Zhao, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2025 | IROS | Task-driven SLAM Benchmarking for Robot Navigation. | Yanwei Du, Shiyu Feng, Carlton G. Cort, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2025 | IROS | OmniPose6D: Towards Short-Term Object Pose Tracking in Dynamic Scenes from Monocular RGB. | Yunzhi Lin, Yipu Zhao, Fu-Jen Chu, Xingyu Chen, Weiyao Wang, Hao Tang, Patricio A. Vela, Matt Feiszli, Kevin J. Liang |
| 2024 | ICRA | Hierarchical Experience-informed Navigation for Multi-modal Quadrupedal Rebar Grid Traversal. | Max Asselmeier, Jane Ivanova, Ziyi Zhou, Patricio A. Vela, Ye Zhao |
| 2023 | ICCV | WDiscOOD: Out-of-Distribution Detection via Whitened Linear Discriminant Analysis. | Yiye Chen, Yunzhi Lin, Ruinian Xu, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2023 | ICLR | Planning with Sequence Models through Iterative Energy Minimization. | Hongyi Chen, Yilun Du, Yiye Chen, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2023 | ICRA | Keypoint-GraspNet: Keypoint-based 6-DoF Grasp Generation from the Monocular RGB-D input. | Yiye Chen, Yunzhi Lin, Ruinian Xu, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2023 | ICRA | GPF-BG: A Hierarchical Vision-Based Planning Framework for Safe Quadrupedal Navigation. | Shiyu Feng, Ziyi Zhou, Justin S. Smith, Max Asselmeier, Ye Zhao, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2023 | ICRA | Parallel Inversion of Neural Radiance Fields for Robust Pose Estimation. | Yunzhi Lin, Thomas Mller, Jonathan Tremblay, Bowen Wen, Stephen Tyree, Alex Evans, Patricio A. Vela, Stan Birchfield |
| 2023 | IROS | KGNv2: Separating Scale and Pose Prediction for Keypoint-Based 6-DoF Grasp Synthesis on RGB-D Input. | Yiye Chen, Ruinian Xu, Yunzhi Lin, Hongyi Chen, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2023 | IROS | Multi-Gait Locomotion Planning and Tracking for Tendon-Actuated Terrestrial Soft Robot (TerreSoRo). | Arun Niddish Mahendran, Caitlin Freeman, Alexander H. Chang, Michael McDougall, Patricio A. Vela, Vishesh Vikas |
| 2023 | ICRA | AeriaLPiPS: A Local Planner for Aerial Vehicles with Geometric Collision Checking. | Justin S. Smith, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2022 | ICRA | Keypoint-Based Category-Level Object Pose Tracking from an RGB Sequence with Uncertainty Estimation. | Yunzhi Lin, Jonathan Tremblay, Stephen Tyree, Patricio A. Vela, Stan Birchfield |
| 2022 | ICRA | Single-Stage Keypoint- Based Category-Level Object Pose Estimation from an RGB Image. | Yunzhi Lin, Jonathan Tremblay, Stephen Tyree, Patricio A. Vela, Stan Birchfield |
| 2021 | ICRA | A Joint Network for Grasp Detection Conditioned on Natural Language Commands. | Yiye Chen, Ruinian Xu, Yunzhi Lin, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2021 | ICRA | Ego-centric Stereo Navigation Using Stixel World. | Shiyu Feng, Fanzhe Lyu, Jin Ha Hwang, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2021 | IROS | Shape-centric Modeling for Soft Robot Inchworm Locomotion. | Alexander H. Chang, Caitlin Freeman, Arun Niddish Mahendran, Vishesh Vikas, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2021 | IROS | Multi-view Fusion for Multi-level Robotic Scene Understanding. | Yunzhi Lin, Jonathan Tremblay, Stephen Tyree, Patricio A. Vela, Stan Birchfield |
| 2021 | IROS | NavTuner: Learning a Scene-Sensitive Family of Navigation Policies. | Haoxin Ma, Justin S. Smith, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2021 | ICRA | Simultaneous Multi-Level Descriptor Learning and Semantic Segmentation for Domain-Specific Relocalization. | Xiaolong Wu, Yiye Chen, Cdric Pradalier, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2020 | ICRA | Using Synthetic Data and Deep Networks to Recognize Primitive Shapes for Object Grasping. | Yunzhi Lin, Chao Tang, Fu-Jen Chu, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2020 | IROS | Synthesis of Control Barrier Functions Using a Supervised Machine Learning Approach. | Mohit Srinivasan, Amogh Dabholkar, Samuel Coogan, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2020 | IROS | Robust Monocular Edge Visual Odometry through Coarse-to-Fine Data Association. | Xiaolong Wu, Patricio A. Vela, Cdric Pradalier |
| 2020 | ICRA | egoTEB: Egocentric, Perception Space Navigation Using Timed-Elastic-Bands. | Justin S. Smith, Ruoyang Xu, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2020 | ICRA | Closed-Loop Benchmarking of Stereo Visual-Inertial SLAM Systems: Understanding the Impact of Drift and Latency on Tracking Accuracy. | Yipu Zhao, Justin S. Smith, Sambhu H. Karumanchi, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2019 | ICRA | Every Hop is an Opportunity: Quickly Classifying and Adapting to Terrain During Targeted Hopping. | Alexander H. Chang, Christian Hubicki, Aaron D. Ames, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2019 | ICRA | Low-latency Visual SLAM with Appearance-Enhanced Local Map Building. | Yipu Zhao, Wenkai Ye, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2018 | ECCV | Good Line Cutting: Towards Accurate Pose Tracking of Line-Assisted VO/VSLAM. | Yipu Zhao, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2018 | IROS | Hands-Free Assistive Manipulator Using Augmented Reality and Tongue Drive System. | Fu-Jen Chu, Ruinian Xu, Zhenxuan Zhang, Patricio A. Vela, Maysam Ghovanloo |
| 2018 | IROS | Good Feature Selection for Least Squares Pose Optimization in VO/VSLAM. | Yipu Zhao, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2017 | ICRA | Learning to jump in granular media: Unifying optimal control synthesis with Gaussian process-based regression. | Alexander H. Chang, Christian M. Hubicki, Jeff J. Aguilar, Daniel I. Goldman, Aaron D. Ames, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2017 | ICRA | Closed-loop path following of traveling wave rectilinear motion through obstacle-strewn terrain. | Alexander H. Chang, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2017 | ICRA | PiPS: Planning in perception space. | Justin S. Smith, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2016 | ICRA | Learning binary features online from motion dynamics for incremental loop-closure detection and place recognition. | Guangcong Zhang, Mason J. Lilly, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2015 | CVPR | Good features to track for visual SLAM. | Guangcong Zhang, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2015 | ICRA | Incorporating frictional anisotropy in the design of a robotic snake through the exploitation of scales. | Miguel Moises Serrano, Alexander H. Chang, Guangcong Zhang, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2015 | ICRA | Optimally observable and minimal cardinality monocular SLAM. | Guangcong Zhang, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2014 | ICRA | Forage RRT - An efficient approach to task-space goal planning for high dimensional systems. | Leo Keselman, Erik I. Verriest, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2013 | IPAS | A stochastic approach for non-rigid image registration. | Ivan Kolesov, Jehoon Lee, Patricio A. Vela, Allen R. Tannenbaum |
| 2013 | SDM | Reduced Set KPCA for Improving the Training and Execution Speed of Kernel Machines. | Alexander G. Gray, Hassan A. Kingravi, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2012 | ICPR | A modified KLT multiple objects tracking framework based on global segmentation and adaptive template. | Kang Xue, Patricio A. Vela, Yue Liu, Yongtian Wang |
| 2012 | ICRA | Information propagation applied to robot-assisted evacuation. | Paul Robinette, Patricio A. Vela, Ayanna M. Howard |
| 2011 | ICIP | PTZ camera-based adaptive panoramic and multi-layered background model. | Kang Xue, Gbolabo Ogunmakin, Yue Liu, Patricio A. Vela, Yongtian Wang |
| 2011 | WSC | Generating the sparse point cloud of a civil infrastructure scene using a single video camera under practical constraints. | Fei Dai, Abbas Rashidi, Ioannis K. Brilakis, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2010 | ICIP | Visual tracking and segmentation using Time-of-Flight sensor. | Omar Arif, Wayne Daley, Patricio A. Vela, Jochen Teizer, John M. Stewart |
| 2010 | ICMLA | Pre-image Problem in Manifold Learning and Dimensional Reduction Methods. | Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela, Wayne Daley |
| 2009 | BMVC | Robust Density Comparison for Visual Tracking. | Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2009 | ICCV | Non-rigid object localization and segmentation using eigenspace representation. | Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2009 | ICCV | Kernel map compression using generalized radial basis functions. | Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2009 | ICIP | Kernel covariance image region description for object tracking. | Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2009 | ICIP | A probabilistic shape filter for online contour tracking. | Ibrahima J. Ndiour, Omar Arif, Jochen Teizer, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2009 | ICIP | Noise estimation and adaptive filtering during visual tracking. | Ibrahima J. Ndiour, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2009 | ICMLA | Robust Target Localization and Segmentation Using Graph Cut, KPCA and Mean-Shift. | Omar Arif, Patricio A. Vela |
| 2007 | BMVC | Layered Active Contours for Tracking. | Gallagher Pryor, Patricio A. Vela, Tauseef ur Rehman, Allen R. Tannenbaum |
| 2003 | ICRA | Control of biomimetic locomotion via averaging theory. | Patricio A. Vela, Joel W. Burdick |
| 2002 | ICRA | Trajectory Stabilization for a Planar Carangiform Robot Fish. | Kristi A. Morgansen, Patricio A. Vela, Joel W. Burdick |