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Object guided autonomous exploration for mobile robots in indoor environments

Published in Unmanned Systems Technology XVI 9084, 207-212, 2014, 2014

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Recommended citation: Carlos Nieto-Granda and Siddarth Choudhary and John G Rogers III and Jeff Twigg and Varun Murali and Henrik I Christensen "Object guided autonomous exploration for mobile robots in indoor environments." Unmanned Systems Technology XVI 9084, 207-212, 2014, 2014.

Active planning based extrinsic calibration of exteroceptive sensors in unknown environments

Published in In the proceedings of 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016

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Recommended citation: Varun Murali, Carlos Nieto, Siddharth Choudhary, Henrik Christensen, "Active planning based extrinsic calibration of exteroceptive sensors in unknown environments." In the proceedings of 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016.

User oriented assessment of vibration suppression by command shaping in a supernumerary wearable robotic arm

Published in In the proceedings of 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2016

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Recommended citation: Roozbeh Khodambashi, Gil Weinberg, William Singhose, Shima Rishmawi, Varun Murali, Euisun Kim, "User oriented assessment of vibration suppression by command shaping in a supernumerary wearable robotic arm." In the proceedings of 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2016.

Active planning based extrinsic calibration of exteroceptive sensors in unknown environments

Published in 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2016, 2016

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Recommended citation: Varun Murali and Carlos Nieto and Siddharth Choudhary and Henrik I Christensen "Active planning based extrinsic calibration of exteroceptive sensors in unknown environments." 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2016, 2016.

User oriented assessment of vibration suppression by command shaping in a supernumerary wearable robotic arm

Published in 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids …, 2016, 2016

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Recommended citation: Roozbeh Khodambashi and Gil Weinberg and William Singhose and Shima Rishmawi and Varun Murali and Euisun Kim "User oriented assessment of vibration suppression by command shaping in a supernumerary wearable robotic arm." 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids …, 2016, 2016.

Utilizing semantic visual landmarks for precise vehicle navigation

Published in In the proceedings of 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2017

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Recommended citation: Varun Murali, Han-Pang Chiu, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar, "Utilizing semantic visual landmarks for precise vehicle navigation." In the proceedings of 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), 2017.

Utilizing semantic visual landmarks for precise vehicle navigation

Published in 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation …, 2017, 2017

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Recommended citation: Varun Murali and Han-Pang Chiu and Supun Samarasekera and Rakesh Teddy Kumar "Utilizing semantic visual landmarks for precise vehicle navigation." 2017 IEEE 20th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation …, 2017, 2017.

Augmented reality driving using semantic geo-registration

Published in In the proceedings of 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 2018

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Recommended citation: Han-Pang Chiu, Varun Murali, Ryan Villamil, G Kessler, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar, "Augmented reality driving using semantic geo-registration." In the proceedings of 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 2018.

Augmented reality driving using semantic geo-registration

Published in 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 423-430, 2018, 2018

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Recommended citation: Han-Pang Chiu and Varun Murali and Ryan Villamil and G Drew Kessler and Supun Samarasekera and Rakesh Kumar "Augmented reality driving using semantic geo-registration." 2018 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), 423-430, 2018, 2018.

Joint Feature Selection and Time Optimal Path Parametrization for High Speed Vision-Aided Navigation

Published in In the proceedings of 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

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Recommended citation: Igor Spasojevic, Varun Murali, Sertac Karaman, "Joint Feature Selection and Time Optimal Path Parametrization for High Speed Vision-Aided Navigation." In the proceedings of 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020.

Perception-aware time optimal path parameterization for quadrotors

Published in In the proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020

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Recommended citation: Igor Spasojevic, Varun Murali, Sertac Karaman, "Perception-aware time optimal path parameterization for quadrotors." In the proceedings of 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020.

The blackbird uav dataset

Published in The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2020

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Recommended citation: Amado Antonini, Winter Guerra, Varun Murali, Thomas Sayre-McCord, Sertac Karaman, "The blackbird uav dataset." The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2020.

Perception-aware time optimal path parameterization for quadrotors

Published in 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3213-3219, 2020, 2020

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Recommended citation: Igor Spasojevic and Varun Murali and Sertac Karaman "Perception-aware time optimal path parameterization for quadrotors." 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 3213-3219, 2020, 2020.

The blackbird uav dataset

Published in The International Journal of Robotics Research 39 (10-11), 1346-1364, 2020, 2020

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Recommended citation: Amado Antonini and Winter Guerra and Varun Murali and Thomas Sayre-McCord and Sertac Karaman "The blackbird uav dataset." The International Journal of Robotics Research 39 (10-11), 1346-1364, 2020, 2020.

6D object pose estimation with pairwise compatible geometric features

Published in In the proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021

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Recommended citation: Muyuan Lin, Varun Murali, Sertac Karaman, "6D object pose estimation with pairwise compatible geometric features." In the proceedings of 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021.

6D object pose estimation with pairwise compatible geometric features

Published in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 10966 …, 2021, 2021

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Recommended citation: Muyuan Lin and Varun Murali and Sertac Karaman "6D object pose estimation with pairwise compatible geometric features." 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 10966 …, 2021, 2021.

Semantic visual landmarks for navigation

Published in US Patent 10,929,713, 2021, 2021

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Recommended citation: Han-Pang Chiu and Supun Samarasekera and Rakesh Kumar and Varun Murali "Semantic visual landmarks for navigation." US Patent 10,929,713, 2021, 2021.

A planted clique perspective on hypothesis pruning

Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (2), 5167-5174, 2022, 2022

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Recommended citation: Muyuan Lin and Varun Murali and Sertac Karaman "A planted clique perspective on hypothesis pruning." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (2), 5167-5174, 2022, 2022.

Augmenting reality using semantic segmentation

Published in US Patent 11,676,296, 2023, 2023

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Recommended citation: Han-Pang Chiu and Supun Samarasekera and Rakesh Kumar and Ryan Villamil and Varun Murali and Gregory Drew Kessler "Augmenting reality using semantic segmentation." US Patent 11,676,296, 2023, 2023.

Learning autonomous driving from aerial imagery

Published in 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2024, 2024

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Recommended citation: Varun Murali and Guy Rosman and Sertac Karaman and Daniela Rus "Learning autonomous driving from aerial imagery." 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems …, 2024, 2024.

Air-ground collaboration for language-specified missions in unknown environments

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09108, 2025, 2025

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Recommended citation: Fernando Cladera and Zachary Ravichandran and Jason Hughes and Varun Murali and Carlos Nieto-Granda and M Ani Hsieh and George J Pappas and Camillo J Taylor and Vijay Kumar "Air-ground collaboration for language-specified missions in unknown environments." arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09108, 2025, 2025.

Deploying foundation model-enabled air and ground robots in the field: challenges and opportunities

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09477, 2025, 2025

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Recommended citation: Zachary Ravichandran and Fernando Cladera and Jason Hughes and Varun Murali and M Ani Hsieh and George J Pappas and Camillo J Taylor and Vijay Kumar "Deploying foundation model-enabled air and ground robots in the field: challenges and opportunities." arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.09477, 2025, 2025.

Robotic monitoring of colorimetric leaf sensors for precision agriculture

Published in arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13916, 2025, 2025

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Recommended citation: Malakhi Hopkins and Alice Kate Li and Shobhita Kramadhati and Jackson Arnold and Akhila Mallavarapu and Chavez Lawrence and Varun Murali and Sanjeev J Koppal and Cherie Kagan and Vijay Kumar "Robotic monitoring of colorimetric leaf sensors for precision agriculture." arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.13916, 2025, 2025.

talks

Robotics Seminar

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Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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