Featured Publications
This page shows selected journal articles and conference papers. For a complete list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar profile or see my CV.
Journal Articles
 | Spectral Sparsification for Communication-Efficient Collaborative Rotation and Translation Estimation Yulun Tian, Jonathan How IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2023 (To Appear) |
 | Kimera-Multi: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semanti SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems Yulun Tian, Yun Chang, Fernando Herrera Arias, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Jonathan How, Luca Carlone IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2022 2022 IEEE T-RO King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award. |
 | Distributed Certifiably Correct Pose-Graph Optimization Yulun Tian, Kasra Khosoussi, David M Rosen, Jonathan P How IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2021 Honorable Mention for 2021 IEEE T-RO King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award. |
 | A Resource-Aware Approach to Collaborative Loop-Closure Detection with Provable Performance Guarantees Yulun Tian, Kasra Khosoussi, Jonathan P How International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2021 Invited Paper. |
 | Asynchronous and Parallel Distributed Pose Graph Optimization Yulun Tian, Alec Koppel, Amrit Singh Bedi, Jonathan P How IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2020 Honorable Mention for 2020 IEEE RA-L Best Paper Award. |
 | Search and Rescue under the Forest Canopy using Multiple UAVs Yulun Tian, Katherine Liu, Kyel Ok, Loc Tran, Danette Allen, Nicholas Roy, Jonathan P. How International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2020 Invited Paper. |
Conference Papers
 | Resilient and Distributed Multi-Robot Visual SLAM: Datasets, Experiments, and Lessons Learned Yulun Tian, Yun Chang, Long Quang, Arthur Schang, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Jonathan P How, Luca Carlone IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023 Honorable Mention for 2023 MIT Open Data Prize |
 | Distributed Riemannian Optimization with Lazy Communication for Collaborative Geometric Estimation Yulun Tian, Amrit Singh Bedi, Alec Koppel, Miguel Calvo-Fullana, David M Rosen, Jonathan P How IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022 |
 | Kimera-Multi: a System for Distributed Multi-Robot Metric-Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Yun Chang, Yulun Tian, Jonathan P. How, Luca Carlone IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021 |
