<![CDATA[Dr. Kostas Alexis - News]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:07:05 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Our team participates at the RobotArt competition]]>Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:39:15 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/our-team-participates-at-the-robotart-competitionOur team participates in the RobotArt competition. Check out "Disconnect" drone painting here: https://robotart.org/projects/dsiconnect/ and if you like it... upvote it!
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​and instants of the process in the making...
]]><![CDATA[CSE Best Researcher Award ]]>Sun, 16 Apr 2017 12:09:47 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/cse-best-researcher-awardI gladly received the department's CSE Researcher Award for this year :)]]><![CDATA[Paper on Visually-degraded Exploration accepted at ICUAS 2017]]>Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:40:45 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/paper-on-visually-degraded-exploration-accepted-at-icuas-2017Our paper:
  • C. Papachristos, S. Khattak, K. Alexis, "Autonomous Exploration of Visually-Degraded Environments using Aerial Robots", International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2017 
​was just accepted. The video below presents the relevant key result:
]]><![CDATA[JFR paper on AtlantikSolar accepted]]>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:43:40 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/jfr-paper-on-atlantiksolar-acceptedOur Journal of Field Robotics paper on the AtlantikSolar solar-powered UAV is accepted. Details below while the publication will be available online soon:
  • P. Oettershagen, A. Melzer, T. Mantel, K. Rudin, T. Stastny, B. Wawrzacz, T. Hinzmann, S. Leutenegger, K. Alexis, and R. Siegwart, "Design of small hand-launched solar-powered UAVs: From concept study to a multi-day world endurance record flight", Journal of Field Robotics
]]><![CDATA[Robotics Day at UNR - March 31 2017]]>Mon, 27 Mar 2017 18:42:22 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/robotics-day-at-unr-march-31-2017The Autonomous Robots Lab celebrates its first year and welcomes you at the 1stlocal "Robotics Day" that will take place on March 31, 2017. During that day, our university campus will be full of robotics technology, relevant talks, live demonstrations and opportunities for peer-to-peer discussion. Within a full-day program a) Dr. Sebastian Scherer from the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, head of the AIR Lab is our honorable guest speaker, b) the Associate Vice President of Research Dr. Ana de Bettencourt-Dias opens and welcomes the event, c) Rodney Pickens from Sierra Nevada Corporation gives a seminar talk on the trending topic of LiDAR ranging, and d) Dr. Eelke Folmer talks about virtual reality technlogies. The research activities of the Autonomous Robots Lab will be presented, and several of our group members will give workshop talks on autonomous aerial robotic navigation (Dr. Christos Papachristos), multi-modal sensor fusion (PhD CandidatesShehryar Khattak, Tung Dang and Frank Mascarich), and GPU programming for robotics (ResearchAssistant Tyler Sorey). At the same time Dr. Susan Welsh will overview the Nevada Advanced Autonomous Systems Innovation Center. An autonomous aerial robotic exploration and mappingdemo will take place at our Autonomous Robots Arena. We welcome students to attend and get an opportunity to learn how they can conduct research in robotics. We invite the academic and overall community of UNR, as well as  the people of our area to participate in this event. 
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]]><![CDATA[Interview at Channel 2 "Face the State"]]>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:45:16 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/interview-at-channel-2-face-the-stateI recently had the opportunity to provide an overview of some of the lab activities at the "Face the State" of Channel 2 with Arianna Bennet. ​
]]><![CDATA[ICRA 2017 Workshop on Autonomous Structural Monitoring and Maintenance using Aerial Robots Schedule]]>Sun, 19 Feb 2017 22:44:09 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/icra-2017-workshop-on-autonomous-structural-monitoring-and-maintenance-using-aerial-robots-scheduleThe schedule of the IEEE ICRA 2017 Workshon on "Autonomous Structural Monitoring and Maintenance using Aerial Robots" is now available. Please check here: http://www.aerial-monitoring-maintenance-workshop.com/agenda.html

Join us in this full day event that includes talks from some of the most renowned researchers in the field. 
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]]><![CDATA[ICRA 2017 Results are out!]]>Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:01:23 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/icra-2017-results-are-outThe ICRA 2017 paper results were just announced. Our lab had submitted one paper and it just got accepted. Details:
  • Christos Papachristos, Shehryar Khattak, Kostas Alexis, "Uncertainty-aware Receding Horizon Exploration and Mapping using Aerial Robots", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 29-June 3, 2017, Singapore
In addition, one more paper accepted in collaboration with ASL of ETH Zurich: 
  • Sebastian Verling, Thomas Stastny, Gregory Bättig, Kostas Alexis, Roland Siegwart, "Model-based Transition Optimization for a VTOL Tailsitter", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 29-June 3, 2017, Singapore
Finally, as a lab we are co-organizing a full-day ICRA 2017 workshop entitled "Autonomous Structural Monitoring and Maintenance using Aerial Robots" - check all ICRA 2017 workshops here.

Below, watch our video on the topic of Uncertainty-aware Receding Horizon Exploration and Mapping. A relevant open source code release will take place before the ICRA 2017 final paper submission deadline. The code will be available at this link: https://github.com/unr-arl/rhem_planner​ 
]]><![CDATA[Featured at the German version of the MIT Technology Review]]>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:20:51 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/featured-at-the-german-version-of-the-mit-technology-reviewOur lab is featured at the German version of the MIT Technology Review. Check below. 
]]><![CDATA[Featured at NevadaToday]]>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:19:54 GMThttp://www.kostasalexis.com/news/featured-at-nevadatodayOur lab is featured at NevadaToday. Have a look!]]>