Fully-Refereed Publications
[C22] Jordan Kennedy, Federico Oliva, Amir Degani, Karen Lee Bar-Sinai, Nare Karapetyan; Multi-Agent Coordination Through Stigmergy for Canal Network Formation on Real Terrain; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026
[C21] Yisheng Zhang, Michael Xu, Nare Karapetyan*, Miao Yu*; Seabed Mapping in Turbid Shallow Waters with Sonar–GPS Fusion on ASVs; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026 (*equal contributors)
[C20] Eric Chen, Travis Manderson, Nare Karapetyan, Nicholas Roy, Yogesh Girdhar, Autonomous Search for Sparsely Distributed Visual Phenomena through Environmental Context Modeling; IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
[C19] Zhenqi Wu*, Abhinav Modi*, Angelos Mavrogiannis, Kaustubh Joshi,Nikhil Chopra, Yiannis Aloimonous, Nare Karapetyan, Ioannis Rekleitis, Xiaomin Lin; UIVNav: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (ICRA), 2026 (*equal contributors)
[J3] Michael Xu, Nare Karapetyan, Keshav Rajasekaran, Alan Williams, Allen Patillo, Matthew Gray, Pratap Tokekar and Miao Yu; macine-Learning Based Seabed Classification of On-Bottom Oyster Farms using Mechanical Scanning Sonar; IEEE Sensors Journal, 2025
[C18] Salman, Ibrahim, Nare Karapetyan, Jason M. O'Kane, and Ioannis Rekleitis. "Multi-ASV Trajectory Planning for Enhanced Water Quality Sampling." In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 1299-1304. IEEE, 2024.
[C17] Nare Karapetyan, Ahmad Bilal Asghar, Amisha Bhaskar, Guangyao Shi, Dinesh Manocha and Pratap Tokekar; AG-Cvg: Coverage Planning with a Mobile Recharging UGV and an Energy-Constrained UAV; IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (ICRA), 2024.
[C16] Xiaomin Lin*, Nare Karapetyan*, Kaustubh Joshi, Tianchen Liu, Miao Yu, Pratap Tokekar and Ioannis Aloimonous; UIVNav: Underwater Information-driven Vision-based Navigation via Imitation Learning; EEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (ICRA), 2024 [*equal contributors].
[C15] Ahmad Asghar, Guangyao Shi, Nare Karapetyan, Jean-Paul Reddinger, James Dotterweich, James Humann, and Pratap Tokekar; Risk-aware Recharging Rendezvous for a Collaborative Team of UAVs and UGVs. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023.
[C14] Xiaomin Lin, Nitin J. Sanket, Nare Karapetyan, Yiannis Aloimonos; Oyster Simulation Augmented Oyster Segmentation, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK, 2023.
[J2] Jing Liang, Kasun Weerakoon, Tianrui Guan, Nare Karapetyan and Dinesh Manocha, AdaptiveON: Adaptive Outdoor Navigation Method For Stable and Reliable Motions; Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2022
[C13] Kasun Weerakoon, Souradip Chakraborty, Nare Karapetyan, Amrit Singh Bedi and Dinesh Manocha; HTRON: Efficient Outdoor Navigation with Sparse Rewards via Heavy Tailed Adaptive Reinforce Algorithm, Conference of Robot Learning (CoRL), Auckland, NZ, 2022
[C12] Guangyao Shi, Nare Karapetyan, Ahmad Bilal Asghar, Jean-Paul Reddinger, James Dotterweich, James Humann and Pratap Tokekar; Risk-aware UAV-UGV Rendezvous with Chance-Constrained Markov Decision Process, Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, 2022
[C11] Ibrahim Salman*, Jason Raiti*, Nare Karapetyan*, Annie Bourbonnais, Jason M. O’Kane, and Ioannis Rekleitis; Confined Water Body Coverage under Resource Constraints, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 2022 [*equal contributors]
[J1] Nare Karapetyan, James Johnson, and Ioannis Rekleitis, Human Diver Inspired Visual Navigation for Coverage Path Planning of Shipwrecks, Marine Technology Society Journal, "Best of OCEANS 2020" July/August issue 2021
[C10] Marios Xanthidis, Michail Kalaitzakis, Nare Karapetyan, Alex Johnson, Nikolaos Vitzilaios, Jason M. O’Kane, and Ioannis Rekleitis; AquaVis: A Perception-Aware Autonomous Navigation Framework for Underwater Vehicles, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2021
[C9] Marios Xanthidis, Nare Karapetyan, Hunter Damron, Sharmin Rahman, James Johnson, Allison O’Connell, Jason M. O’Kane, and Ioannis Rekleitis; Navigation in the Presence of Obstacles for an Agile Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020
[C8] Nare Karapetyan, Adam Braude, Jason Moulton, Joshua A. Burstein, Scott White, Jason M. O'Kane, and Ioannis Rekleitis, Riverine Coverage with an Autonomous Surface Vehicle over Known Environments, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019
[C7] Bharat Joshi, Sharmin Rahman, Michail Kalaitzakis, Brennan Cain, James Johnson, Marios Xanthidis, Nare Karapetyan, Alan Hernandez, Alberto Quattrini Li, Nikolaos Vitzilaios, Ioannis Rekleitis, Experimental Comparison of Open Source Visual-Inertial-Based State Estimation Algorithms in the Underwater Domain, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Macau, China, 2019
[C6] Nare Karapetyan, Jason Moulton and Ioannis Rekleitis, Meander Based River Coverage by an Autonomous Surface Vehicle, Field and Service Robotics: Recent Advances in Research and Applications (FSR). Springer, Tokyo, Japan, 2019
[C5] Jason Moulton, Nare Karapetyan, Michail Kalaitzakis, Alberto Quattrini Li, Nikolaos Vitzilaios, Ioannis Rekleitis, Effects Modeling – Dynamic Autonomous Surface Vehicle Controls Under Changing Environmental Forces, Field and Service Robotics: Recent Advances in Research and Applications (FSR). Springer, Tokyo, Japan, 2019
[C4] Nare Karapetyan, Jason Moulton, Jeremy Lewis, Alberto Quattrini Li, Jason O'Kane, Ioannis Rekleitis, Multi-robot Dubins Coverage with Autonomous Surface Vehicles, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, 2018
[C3] Jason Moulton, Nare Karapetyan, Alberto Quattrini Li, Ioannis Rekleitis, External Force Field Modeling for Autonomous Surface Vehicles, In International Symposium of Experimental Robotics (ISER), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2018
[C2] Nare Karapetyan, Kelly Benson, Chris McKinney, Perouz Taslakian, Ioannis Rekleitis, Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage of a Known Environment, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, 2017
[C1] Nelson Baloian, Wolfram Luther, Daniel Biella, Nare Karapetyan, Jose A. Pino, Tobias Schreck, Nancy Hitschfeld, Exploring Collaboration in the Realm of Virtual Museums, 23rd International Conference on Collaboration and Technology (CRIWG), Saskatoon, Canada, 2017