Nicholas R. J. Lawrance

46 papers A* 13A 3C 1Misc 1Journal 26Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
Online Adaptive Traversability Estimation through Interaction for Unstructured, Densely Vegetated Environments.
CoRR
Fabio Ruetz, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Emili Hernández, Paulo V. K. Borges, Thierry Peynot
2025 J jnl
Robust Optimization-based Autonomous Dynamic Soaring with a Fixed-Wing UAV.
CoRR
Marvin Harms, Jaeyoung Lim, David Rohr, Friedrich M. Rockenbauer, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart
2025 J jnl
Unified Guidance and Jerk-Level Dynamic Inversion for Accurate Position Control of Hybrid UAVs.
IEEE Trans. Robotics
David Rohr, Olov Andersson, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Thomas Stastny, Roland Siegwart
2024 J jnl
Autonomous Active Mapping in Steep Alpine Environments with Fixed-wing Aerial Vehicles.
CoRR
Jaeyoung Lim, Florian Achermann, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart
2024 J jnl
ForestTrav: 3D LiDAR-Only Forest Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles.
IEEE Access
Fabio Ruetz, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Emili Hernández, Paulo V. K. Borges, Thierry Peynot
2024 J jnl
Reinforcement Learning for Outdoor Balloon Navigation: A Successful Controller for an Autonomous Balloon.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Mag.
Simon L. Jeger, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Florian Achermann, Oscar Pang, Mirko Kovac, Roland Yves Siegwart
2024 J jnl
Safe Low-Altitude Navigation in Steep Terrain With Fixed-Wing Aerial Vehicles.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Jaeyoung Lim, Florian Achermann, Rik Girod, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart
2024 J jnl
Safe Low-Altitude Navigation in Steep Terrain with Fixed-Wing Aerial Vehicles.
CoRR
Jaeyoung Lim, Florian Achermann, Rik Girod, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart
2024 J jnl
Under-Canopy Navigation Using Aerial Lidar Maps.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Lucas Carvalho de Lima, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Kasra Khosoussi, Paulo V. K. Borges, Michael Brünig
2024 J jnl
Under-Canopy Navigation using Aerial Lidar Maps.
CoRR
Lucas Carvalho de Lima, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Kasra Khosoussi, Paulo V. K. Borges, Michael Bruenig
2024 A* conf
Watching the Air Rise: Learning-Based Single-Frame Schlieren Detection.
ICRA
Florian Achermann, Julian Andreas Haug, Tobias Zumsteg, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Jen Jen Chung, Andrey Kolobov, Roland Siegwart
2024 J jnl
WindSeer: Real-time volumetric wind prediction over complex terrain aboard a small UAV.
CoRR
Florian Achermann, Thomas Stastny, Bogdan Danciu, Andrey Kolobov, Jen Jen Chung, Roland Siegwart, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance
2023 J jnl
Automatic extension of a symbolic mobile manipulation skill set.
Robotics Auton. Syst.
Julian Förster, Lionel Ott, Juan I. Nieto, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart, Jen Jen Chung
2023 A* conf
Credible Online Dynamics Learning for Hybrid UAVs.
ICRA
David Rohr, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Olov Andersson, Roland Siegwart
2023 A* conf
Fisher Information Based Active Planning for Aerial Photogrammetry.
ICRA
Jaeyoung Lim, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Florian Achermann, Thomas Stastny, Rik Bähnemann, Roland Siegwart
2023 J jnl
ForestTrav: Accurate, Efficient and Deployable Forest Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Ground Vehicles.
CoRR
Fabio Ruetz, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Emili Hernández, Paulo V. K. Borges, Thierry Peynot
2022 A conf
FlowBot: Flow-based Modeling for Robot Navigation.
IROS
Daniel Dugas, Kuanqi Cai, Olov Andersson, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart, Jen Jen Chung
2022 C conf
It's Just Semantics: How to Get Robots to Understand the World the Way We Do.
ISRR
Jen Jen Chung, Julian Förster, Paula Wulkop, Lionel Ott, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart
2022 J jnl
Power-Based Safety Layer for Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interaction Using Lyapunov Exponents.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Eugenio Cuniato, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Marco Tognon, Roland Siegwart
2022 J jnl
Power-based Safety Layer for Aerial Vehicles in Physical Interaction using Lyapunov Exponents.
CoRR
Eugenio Cuniato, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Marco Tognon, Roland Siegwart
2022 A* conf
Towards 6DoF Bilateral Teleoperation of an Omnidirectional Aerial Vehicle for Aerial Physical Interaction.
ICRA
Mike Allenspach, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Marco Tognon, Roland Siegwart
2022 J jnl
Towards 6DoF Bilateral Teleoperation of an Omnidirectional Aerial Vehicle for Aerial Physical Interaction.
CoRR
Mike Allenspach, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Marco Tognon, Roland Siegwart
2022 J jnl
Under the Sand: Navigation and Localization of a Micro Aerial Vehicle for Landmine Detection with Ground-Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar.
Field Robotics
Rik Bähnemann, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Lucas Streichenberg, Jen Jen Chung, Michael Pantic, Alexander Grathwohl, Christian Waldschmidt, Roland Siegwart
2021 — conf
Dipper: A Dynamically Transitioning Aerial-Aquatic Unmanned Vehicle.
Robotics: Science and Systems
Friedrich M. Rockenbauer, Simon L. Jeger, Liberto Beltran, Maximilian Berger, Marvin Harms, Noah Kaufmann, Marc Rauch, Moritz Reinders, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Thomas Stastny, Roland Siegwart
2021 A* conf
Learn to Path: Using neural networks to predict Dubins path characteristics for aerial vehicles in wind.
ICRA
Trevor Phillips, Maximilian Stölzle, Erick Turricelli, Florian Achermann, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart, Jen Jen Chung
2021 J jnl
Nonlinear Model Predictive Velocity Control of a VTOL Tiltwing UAV.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
David Rohr, Matthias Studiger, Thomas Stastny, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart
2021 A* conf
Online Informative Path Planning for Active Information Gathering of a 3D Surface.
ICRA
Hai Zhu, Jen Jen Chung, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart, Javier Alonso-Mora
2021 J jnl
Online Informative Path Planning for Active Information Gathering of a 3D Surface.
CoRR
Hai Zhu, Jen Jen Chung, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Roland Siegwart, Javier Alonso-Mora
2021 J jnl
Under the Sand: Navigation and Localization of a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Landmine Detection with Ground Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar.
CoRR
Rik Bähnemann, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Lucas Streichenberg, Jen Jen Chung, Michael Pantic, Alexander Grathwohl, Christian Waldschmidt, Roland Siegwart
2020 Misc conf
MultiPoint: Cross-spectral registration of thermal and optical aerial imagery.
CoRL
Florian Achermann, Andrey Kolobov, Debadeepta Dey, Timo Hinzmann, Jen Jen Chung, Roland Siegwart, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance
2019 J jnl
Deep learning of structured environments for robot search.
Auton. Robots
Jeffrey A. Caley, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Geoffrey A. Hollinger
2019 A* conf
Learning to Predict the Wind for Safe Aerial Vehicle Planning.
ICRA
Florian Achermann, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, René Ranftl, Alexey Dosovitskiy, Jen Jen Chung, Roland Siegwart
2019 — conf
Revisiting Boustrophedon Coverage Path Planning as a Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem.
FSR
Rik Bähnemann, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Jen Jen Chung, Michael Pantic, Roland Siegwart, Juan I. Nieto
2019 J jnl
Revisiting Boustrophedon Coverage Path Planning as a Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem.
CoRR
Rik Bähnemann, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Jen Jen Chung, Michael Pantic, Roland Siegwart, Juan I. Nieto
2019 J jnl
Shared autonomy for low-cost underwater vehicles.
J. Field Robotics
Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Robert DeBortoli, Dylan Jones, Seth McCammon, Lauren Milliken, Austin Nicolai, Thane Somers, Geoffrey A. Hollinger
2017 J jnl
Fast Marching Adaptive Sampling.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.
Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Jen Jen Chung, Geoffrey A. Hollinger
2016 A conf
Deep learning of structured environments for robot search.
IROS
Jeffrey A. Caley, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Geoffrey A. Hollinger
2016 A* conf
Informative soaring with drifting thermals.
ICRA
Joseph L. Nguyen, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Robert Fitch, Salah Sukkarieh
2016 J jnl
Real-time path planning for long-term information gathering with an aerial glider.
Auton. Robots
Joseph L. Nguyen, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Robert Fitch, Salah Sukkarieh
2015 J jnl
Learning to soar: Resource-constrained exploration in reinforcement learning.
Int. J. Robotics Res.
Jen Jen Chung, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Salah Sukkarieh
2014 A* conf
Nonmyopic planning for long-term information gathering with an aerial glider.
ICRA
Joseph L. Nguyen, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Salah Sukkarieh
2014 A conf
Persistent monitoring with a team of autonomous gliders using static soaring.
IROS
José Joaquín Acevedo, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Begoña C. Arrue, Salah Sukkarieh, Aníbal Ollero
2013 A* conf
Energy-constrained motion planning for information gathering with autonomous aerial soaring.
ICRA
Joseph L. Nguyen, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Robert Fitch, Salah Sukkarieh
2013 A* conf
Gaussian processes for informative exploration in reinforcement learning.
ICRA
Jen Jen Chung, Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Salah Sukkarieh
2011 A* conf
Path planning for autonomous soaring flight in dynamic wind fields.
ICRA
Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Salah Sukkarieh
2009 A* conf
A guidance and control strategy for dynamic soaring with a gliding UAV.
ICRA
Nicholas R. J. Lawrance, Salah Sukkarieh