Journal publications

• Malczyk, Grzegorz Dariusz; Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2025) Semantically-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning for Inspection Path Planning. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  Academic article
• Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Rehberg, Welf Peter; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2025) Aerial Gym Simulator: A Framework for Highly Parallelized Simulation of Aerial Robots. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  Academic article
• Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Reinforcement Learning for Collision-free Flight Exploiting Deep Collision Encoding. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
  Academic article
• Harms, Marvin Chayton; Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Jacquet, Martin Pierre Francois; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Neural Control Barrier Functions for Safe Navigation. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  Academic article
• Kulkarni, Mihir; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2023) Task-driven Compression for Collision Encoding based on Depth Images. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
  Academic article
• Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Petris, Paolo de; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2023) Manhole Detection and Traversal for Exploration of Ballast Water Tanks using Micro Aerial Vehicles. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)
  Academic article
• Kulkarni, Mihir; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2023) Semantically-enhanced Deep Collision Prediction for Autonomous Navigation using Aerial Robots. Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  Academic article
• Mascarich, Frank; Kulkarni, Mihir; Petris, Paolo De; Wilson, Taylor; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2022) Autonomous mapping and spectroscopic analysis of distributed radiation fields using aerial robots. Autonomous Robots
  Academic article
• Tranzatto, Marco; Miki, Takahiro; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Bernreiter, Lukas; Kulkarni, Mihir; Mascarich, Frank. (2022) CERBERUS in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Science robotics
  Academic article

Part of book/report

• Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nissov, Morten; Singh, Mohit; Weiss, Philipp. (2025) UniPilot: Enabling GPS-Denied Autonomy Across Embodiments.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Petris, Paolo De; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Stene, Arnt Erik. (2023) Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks using Aerial Robots.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Petris, Paolo De; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Mascarich, Frank. (2022) RMF-Owl: A Collision-Tolerant Flying Robot for Autonomous Subterranean Exploration.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Kulkarni, Mihir; Moon, Brady; Alexis, Konstantinos; Scherer, Sebastian. (2022) Aerial Field Robotics.
  Chapter
• Kulkarni, Mihir; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Tranzatto, Marco; Zimmermann, Samuel; Reijgwart, Victor; Petris, Paolo De. (2022) Autonomous teamed exploration of subterranean environments using legged and aerial robots.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
• Khedekar, Nikhil; Kulkarni, Mihir; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2022) MIMOSA: A Multi-Modal SLAM Framework for Resilient Autonomy against Sensor Degradation.
  Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

• Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Alexis, Konstantinos; Scaramuzza, David. (2025) Vision-based Navigation for Aerial Robots: From Parallelized Simulation to Resilient Flight in Cluttered Environments. NTNU Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet NTNU Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
  Doctoral dissertation

UTSTILLING

• Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Rehberg, Welf Peter; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2025) Aerial Gym Simulator: A Framework for Highly Parallelized Simulation of Aerial Robots.
  Other presentation