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Publications

Please refer to my Google scholar profile for a list of updated publications.

  1. F. Cladera, K. Chaney, M. A. Hsieh, C. J. Taylor, V. Kumar. EvMAPPER: High‑Altitude Orthomapping with Event Cameras. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2025, pp. 310‑316, 2025.
  2. F. Cladera, Z. Ravichandran, J. Hughes, V. Murali, C. Nieto‑Granda, M. A. Hsieh, G. J. Pappas, C. J. Taylor, V. Kumar. Air‑ground collaboration for language‑specified missions in unknown environments. Transactions on Field Robotics, 2025.
  3. Z. Ravichandran, F. Cladera, J. Hughes, V. Murali, M. A. Hsieh, G. J. Pappas, V. Kumar. Deploying Foundation Model‑Enabled Air and Ground Robots in the Field: Challenges and Opportunities. Workshop on Field Robotics, 2025.
  4. Z. Ravichandran, I. Hounie, F. Cladera, A. Ribeiro, G. J. Pappas, V. Kumar. Distilling On‑device Language Models for Robot Planning with Minimal Human Intervention. CoRL, 2025.
  5. S. He, Z. Osman, F. Cladera, D. Ong, N. Rai, P. C. Green, V. Kumar, P. Chaudhari. Estimating the Diameter at Breast Height of Trees in a Forest With a Single 360 Camera. arXiv preprint, 2025.
  6. F. Cladera, K. Chaney, C. Pritchard, M. A. Hsieh, V. Kumar, C. J. Taylor, …. Looking into the Shadow: Recording a Total Solar Eclipse with High‑resolution Event Cameras. Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2025, pp. 4979‑4983, 2025.
  7. Z. Ravichandran, F. Cladera, A. Prabhu, J. Hughes, V. Murali, C. Taylor, …. Heterogeneous Robot Collaboration in Unstructured Environments with Grounded Generative Intelligence. arXiv preprint, 2025.
  8. J. Lei, A. Prabhu, X. Liu, F. Cladera, M. Mortazavi, R. Ehsani, P. Chaudhari, …. Spatio‑Temporal Metric‑Semantic Mapping for Persistent Orchard Monitoring: Method and Dataset. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025.
  9. A. Abedi, F. Cladera, M. Farajijalal, R. Ehsani. Adaptive Per‑Tree Canopy Volume Estimation Using Mobile LiDAR in Structured and Unstructured Orchards. arXiv preprint, 2025.
  10. Z. Wang, F. C. Ojeda, A. R. Bisulco, D. W. Lee, C. J. Taylor, K. Daniilidis, …. Systems and methods for real‑time state estimation of fast‑moving objects. US Patent 12,299,899, 2025.
  11. A. Bhattacharya, R. Madaan, F. Cladera, S. Vemprala, R. Bonatti, K. Daniilidis, …. Evdnerf: Reconstructing event data with dynamic neural radiance fields. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2024, 2024.
  12. D. Cheng, F. Cladera, A. Prabhu, X. Liu, A. Zhu, P. C. Green, R. Ehsani, …. Treescope: An agricultural robotics dataset for lidar‑based mapping of trees in forests and orchards. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, pp. 14860‑…, 2024.
  13. F. Cladera, Z. Ravichandran, I. D. Miller, M. A. Hsieh, C. J. Taylor, V. Kumar. Enabling large‑scale heterogeneous collaboration with opportunistic communications. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024, pp. 2610‑2616, 2024.
  14. S. Chopra, F. Cladera, V. Murali, V. Kumar. Agrinerf: Neural radiance fields for agriculture in challenging lighting conditions. arXiv preprint, 2024.
  15. I. D. Miller, F. Cladera, T. Smith, C. J. Taylor, V. Kumar. Air‑ground collaboration with SPOMP: Semantic panoramic online mapping and planning. IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics 1, pp. 93‑112, 2024.
  16. F. Cladera, I. D. Miller, Z. Ravichandran, V. Murali, J. Hughes, M. A. Hsieh, …. Challenges and opportunities for large‑scale exploration with air‑ground teams using semantics. arXiv preprint, 2024.
  17. J. Lei, A. Prabhu, X. Liu, F. Cladera, M. Mortazavi, R. Ehsani, P. Chaudhari, …. 4d metric‑semantic mapping for persistent orchard monitoring: Method and dataset. arXiv e‑prints, 2024.
  18. A. R. Bisulco, F. C. Ojeda, I. V. Isler, D. D. Lee. Dynamic vision filtering for event detection. US Patent 11,871,156, 2024.
  19. A. R. Bisulco, F. C. Ojeda, I. V. Isler, D. D. Lee. Dynamic vision sensors for fast motion understanding. US Patent Application 17/328,518, 2024.
  20. K. Chaney, F. Cladera, Z. Wang, A. Bisulco, M. A. Hsieh, C. Korpela, V. Kumar, …. M3ed: Multi‑robot, multi‑sensor, multi‑environment event dataset. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023, 2023.
  21. X. Liu, G. V. Nardari, F. Cladera, Y. Tao, A. Zhou, T. Donnelly, C. Qu, S. W. Chen, …. Large‑scale autonomous flight with real‑time semantic SLAM under dense forest canopy. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7(2), pp. 5512‑5519, 2022.
  22. I. D. Miller, F. Cladera, T. Smith, C. J. Taylor, V. Kumar. Stronger together: Air‑ground robotic collaboration using semantics. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7(4), pp. 9643‑9650, 2022.
  23. Y. Tao, Y. Wu, B. Li, F. Cladera, A. Zhou, D. Thakur, V. Kumar. SEER: Safe efficient exploration for aerial robots using learning to predict information gain. arXiv preprint, 2022.
  24. X. Liu, S. W. Chen, G. V. Nardari, C. Qu, F. Cladera, C. J. Taylor, V. Kumar. Challenges and opportunities for autonomous micro‑UAVs in precision agriculture. IEEE Micro 42(1), pp. 61‑68, 2022.
  25. Z. Wang, F. Cladera, A. Bisulco, D. Lee, C. J. Taylor, K. Daniilidis, M. A. Hsieh, …. Ev‑catcher: High‑speed object catching using low‑latency event‑based neural networks. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7(4), pp. 8737‑8744, 2022.
  26. X. Liu, A. Prabhu, F. Cladera, I. D. Miller, L. Zhou, C. J. Taylor, V. Kumar. Active metric‑semantic mapping by multiple aerial robots. arXiv preprint, 2022.
  27. A. Bisulco, F. Cladera, V. Isler, D. D. Lee. Near‑chip dynamic vision filtering for low‑bandwidth pedestrian detection. US Patent Application 17/328,518, 2022.
  28. A. K. Li, Y. Mao, S. Manjanna, S. Liu, J. Dhanoa, B. Mehta, V. M. Edwards, …. Towards understanding underwater weather events in rivers using autonomous surface vehicles. OCEANS 2022, Hampton Roads, pp. 1‑8, 2022.
  29. A. Bisulco, F. Cladera, V. Isler, D. D. Lee. Fast motion understanding with spatiotemporal neural networks and dynamic vision sensors. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021, pp. 14098‑…, 2021.
  30. F. Cladera, A. Bisulco, D. Kepple, V. Isler, D. D. Lee. On‑device event filtering with binary neural networks for pedestrian detection using neuromorphic vision sensors. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2020, pp. 3084‑3088, 2020.
  31. I. D. Miller, F. Cladera, A. Cowley, S. S. Shivakumar, E. S. Lee, L. Jarin‑Lipschitz, …. Mine tunnel exploration using multiple quadrupedal robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5(2), pp. 2840‑2847, 2020.
  32. F. Cladera, M. Gautier, O. Sentieys. Energy‑aware computing via adaptive precision under performance constraints in OFDM wireless receivers. IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) 2015, pp. 591‑596, 2015.
  33. F. Cladera, M. Gautier, O. Sentieys. Channel‑aware energy optimization of OFDM receivers using dynamic precision scaling in FPGAs. 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2015, pp. 1571‑1575, 2015.