Conference Articles (peer-reviewed)

  1. Bonetto, E.,  Xu, C., Ahmad, A. (2024) DynaPix SLAM: A Pixel-Based Dynamic Visual SLAM Approach, In The German Conference on Pattern Recognition 2024 (GCPR 2024) [Accepted]
  2. Liu, Y. T. & Ahmad, A. (2024) Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control, In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2024 (IROS 2024) [Accepted]
  3. Liu, Y. T. & Ahmad, A. (2024) Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control with Successor Feature-Based Concurrent Composition, In European Control Conference (ECC) 2024, Stockholm, Sweden. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13935
  4. [Award Paper] Price, E. & Ahmad, A. (2024) Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behavior Analysis,  In 2nd International Conference on Design and Engineering of Lighter-Than-Air systems (DELTAs 2024), Mumbai, India. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08986 (Awarded the 'Best Paper Award' for papers presented on Day 2 of the conference).
  5. Gall, C., Fichter, W.  & Ahmad, A. (2024) End-to-End Thermal Updraft Detection and Estimation for Autonomous Soaring Using Temporal Convolutional Networks, In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan.
  6. Bonetto, E. & Ahmad, A. (2023) Synthetic Data-based Detection of Zebras in Drone Imagery, IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2023), 1-8 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMR59166.2023.10256293
  7. Price, E. & Ahmad, A. (2023) Accelerated Video Annotation driven by Deep Detector and Tracker, 18th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS 18). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-44981-9_12
  8. Zuo, Y., Liu, Y. T. and Ahmad A. (2023), Autonomous Blimp Control Via H∞ Robust Deep Residual Reinforcement Learning, 19th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Auckland, New Zealand. Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13929.
  9. Liu, Y. T., Price, E., Black, M.J., Ahmad, A. (2022) Deep Residual Reinforcement Learning based Autonomous Blimp Control, 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022, pp. 12566-12573, 2022.
  10. Patel, M., Bandopadhyay, A., & Ahmad, A. (2022). Collaborative Mapping of Archaeological Sites Using Multiple UAVs,  In: Ang Jr, M.H., Asama, H., Lin, W., Foong, S. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 16. IAS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 412. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95892-3_5
  11. Price, E., Liu, Y. T., Black, M. J., & Ahmad, A. (2022). Simulation and Control of Deformable Autonomous Airships in Turbulent Wind. In: Ang Jr, M.H., Asama, H., Lin, W., Foong, S. (eds) Intelligent Autonomous Systems 16. IAS 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 412. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95892-3_46
  12. Bonetto, E., Goldschmid, P., Black, M. J., & Ahmad, A. (2021). Active Visual SLAM with Independently Rotating Camera. 2021 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMR50962.2021.9568791
  13. Tallamraju, R., Salunkhe, D., Rajappa, S., Ahmad, A., Karlapalem, K., & Shah, S. V. (2019). Motion Planning for Multi-Mobile-Manipulator Payload Transport Systems. 15th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 1469--1474. https://doi.org/10.1109/COASE.2019.8842840
  14. Saini, N., Price, E., Tallamraju, R., Enficiaud, R., Ludwig, R., Martinović, I., Ahmad, A., & Black, M. (2019). Markerless Outdoor Human Motion Capture Using Multiple Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles. 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 823--832. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2019.00091
  15. Tallamraju, R., Rajappa, S., Black, M. J., Karlapalem, K., & Ahmad, A. (2018). Decentralized MPC based Obstacle Avoidance for Multi-Robot Target Tracking Scenarios, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/SSRR.2018.8468655
  16. Ahmad, A., Ruff, E., & Bülthoff, H. (2016). Dynamic baseline stereo vision-based cooperative target tracking, 19th International Conference on Information Fusion, 1728–1734.
  17. Ahmad, A., & Bülthoff, H. (2015). Moving-horizon Nonlinear Least Squares-based Multirobot Cooperative Perception, 7th European Conference on Mobile Robots, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECMR.2015.7324197
  18. Sanz, D., Ahmad, A., & Lima, P. (2015). Onboard robust person detection and tracking for domestic service robots, Robot 2015: Second Iberian Robotics Conference, 547–559. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27149-1_42
  19. Odelga, M., Stegagno, P., Bülthoff, H., & Ahmad, A. (2015). A Setup for multi-UAV hardware-in-the-loop simulations. 2015 Workshop on Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems (RED-UAS), Cancun, Mexico, 2015, pp. 204-210, https://doi.org/10.1109/RED-UAS.2015.7441008
  20.  Ventura, R., & Ahmad, A. (2015). Towards Optimal Robot Navigation in Urban Homes, RoboCup Symposium 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII, 318–331. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18615-3_26
  21. Dwiputra, R., Berghofer, J., Amigoni, F., Bischoff, R., Bonarini, A., Iocchi, L., Kraetzschmar, G., Lima, P., Matteucci, M., Nardi, D., Ahmad, A., Awaad, I., Fontana, G., Hegger, F., Hochgeschwender, N., Schiaffonati, V., & Schneider, S. (2014). Overview on the RoCKIn@Work Challenge. 45th International Symposium on Robotics and the 8th German Conference on Robotics (ISR/ROBOTIK 2014).
  22. Schneider, S., Hegger, F., Kraetzschmar, G., Amigoni, F., Berghofer, J., Bischoff, R., Bonarini, A., Dwiputra, R., Iocchi, L., Lima, P., Matteucci, M., Nardi, D., Awaad, I., Ahmad, A., Fontana, G., Hochgeschwender, N., & Schiaffonati, V. (2014). The RoCKIn@Home User Story. 45th International Symposium on Robotics and the 8th German Conference on Robotics (ISR/ROBOTIK 2014).
  23. Troppan, A., Guerreiro, E., Celiberti, F., Santos, G., Ahmad, A., & Lima, P. (2013). Unknown-color spherical object detection and tracking. 2013 13th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013, pp. 1-4, https://doi.org/10.1109/Robotica.2013.6623533
  24. Ahmad, A., Tipaldi, G., Lima, P., & Burgard, W. (2013). Cooperative Robot Localization and Target Tracking based on Least Squares Minimization, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013, pp. 5696-5701. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6631396
  25. Ahmad, A., Nascimento, T., Conceicao, A., Moreira, A., & Lima, P. (2013). Perception-driven multi-robot formation control, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013, pp. 1851–1856. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630821
  26. Ahmad, A., & Lima, P. (2011). Multi-Robot Cooperative Object Tracking Based on Particle Filters, 5th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2011), Örebro, Sweden, pp. 37-42.
  27. Lima, P., Santos, P., Oliveira, R., Ahmad, A., & Santos, J. (2011). Cooperative Localization Based on Visually Shared Objects, RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV, 350–361. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20217-9_30
  28. Ahmad, A., Del Bue, A., & Lima, P. (2009). Background Subtraction Based on Rank Constraint for Point  Trajectories, 15th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RecPad 2009), pp. 1–3.
  29. Ahmad, A., & Dhang, N. (2008). Probabilistic Roadmap Method and Real Time Gait Changing Technique Implementation for Travel Time Optimization on a Designed Six-legged Robot. 39th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR 2008), pp. 1–5.