Vijay Kumar

Employment

• University of Pennsylvania Dean
  2015 - Present
• University of Pennsylvania Professor
• University of Pennsylvania PI

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Publications (777)

• Micro Aerial Vehicles in the Age of Physical AI: From GPS-Denied Mapping to Intent-Driven Field Autonomy
  2026 DOI: 10.52843/cassyni.fpvtb3
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• MIGHTY: Hermite Spline-Based Efficient Trajectory Planning
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3681187
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• Beyond alignment: Why robotic foundation models need context-aware safety
  Science Robotics 2026 DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aef2191
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• Safety Guardrails for LLM-Enabled Robots
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3667488
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• HALO: Language-Conditioned Overhead Monocular Aerial Exploration and Navigation
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2026.3692052
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• RT-GuIDE: Real-Time Gaussian Splatting for Information-Driven Exploration
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3615039
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• Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic Mapping for Persistent Orchard Monitoring: Method and Dataset
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3588037
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• EV-TTC: Event-Based Time to Collision Under Low Light Conditions
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025 DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3565150
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• Air-Ground Collaboration for Language-Specified Missions in Unknown Environments
  IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TFR.2025.3584019
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• LPAC: Learnable Perception-Action-Communication Loops With Applications to Coverage Control
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2025 DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2025.3619047
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