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Nikhil Vijay Khedekar

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Nikhil Vijay Khedekar

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Department of Engineering Cybernetics

nikhil.v.khedekar@ntnu.no
Elektro D+B2 Gløshaugen, Trondheim
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Publications

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  • All publications registered in NVA

2025

  • Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nissov, Morten; Mohit Singh; Weiss, Philipp; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2025) UniPilot: Enabling GPS-Denied Autonomy Across Embodiments.
    Academic chapter
  • Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2025) PG-LIO: Photometric-Geometric fusion for Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry. arXiv
    Academic article

2024

  • Nissov, Morten Christian; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Degradation Resilient LiDAR-Radar-Inertial Odometry. 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

2023

  • Dharmadhikari, Mihir; de Petris, Paolo; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Stene, Arnt Erik; Sjøvold, Eivind; Solheim, Kristian; Gussiaas, Bente; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2023) Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks using Aerial Robots.
    Academic chapter
  • Dharmadhikari, Mihir; de Petris, Paolo; 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

2022

  • de Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Mascarich, Frank; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2022) RMF-Owl: A Collision-Tolerant Flying Robot for Autonomous Subterranean Exploration.
    Academic chapter
  • de Petris, Paolo; Khattak, Shehryar; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Waibel, Gabriel; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Montenegro, Markus; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos; Hutter, Marco. (2022) Marsupial Walking-and-Flying Robotic Deployment for Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments.
    Academic chapter
  • Tranzatto, Marco; Mascarich, Frank; Bernreiter, Lukas; Godinho, Carolina; Camurri, Marco; Khattak, Shehryar; Dang, Tung; Reijgwart, Victor; Loeje, Johannes; Wisth, David. (2022) CERBERUS: Autonomous Legged and Aerial Robotic Exploration in the Tunnel and Urban Circuits of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Field Robotics
    Academic article
  • Kulkarni, Mihir; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Tranzatto, Marco; Zimmermann, Samuel; Reijgwart, Victor; de Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Papachristos, Christos; Ott, Lionel. (2022) Autonomous teamed exploration of subterranean environments using legged and aerial robots.
    Academic chapter
  • Khedekar, Nikhil; Kulkarni, Mihir; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2022) MIMOSA: A Multi-Modal SLAM Framework for Resilient Autonomy against Sensor Degradation.
    Academic chapter

2021

  • Mathur, Pranay; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2021) Resource-aware Online Parameter Adaptation for Computationally-constrained Visual-Inertial Navigation Systems.
    Academic chapter
  • Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Mascarich, Frank; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2021) Autonomous Cave Exploration using Aerial Robots.
    Academic chapter
  • Mascarich, Frank; de Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2021) Autonomous Distributed 3D Radiation Field Estimation for Nuclear Environment Characterization.
    Academic chapter

Journal publications

  • Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2025) PG-LIO: Photometric-Geometric fusion for Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry. arXiv
    Academic article
  • Nissov, Morten Christian; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Degradation Resilient LiDAR-Radar-Inertial Odometry. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
    Academic article
  • Dharmadhikari, Mihir; de Petris, Paolo; 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
  • 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
  • Tranzatto, Marco; Mascarich, Frank; Bernreiter, Lukas; Godinho, Carolina; Camurri, Marco; Khattak, Shehryar; Dang, Tung; Reijgwart, Victor; Loeje, Johannes; Wisth, David. (2022) CERBERUS: Autonomous Legged and Aerial Robotic Exploration in the Tunnel and Urban Circuits of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge. Field Robotics
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nissov, Morten; Mohit Singh; Weiss, Philipp; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2025) UniPilot: Enabling GPS-Denied Autonomy Across Embodiments.
    Academic chapter
  • de Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Mascarich, Frank; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2022) RMF-Owl: A Collision-Tolerant Flying Robot for Autonomous Subterranean Exploration.
    Academic chapter
  • Dharmadhikari, Mihir; de Petris, Paolo; Kulkarni, Mihir; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Stene, Arnt Erik; Sjøvold, Eivind; Solheim, Kristian; Gussiaas, Bente; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2023) Autonomous Exploration and General Visual Inspection of Ship Ballast Water Tanks using Aerial Robots.
    Academic chapter
  • Mathur, Pranay; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2021) Resource-aware Online Parameter Adaptation for Computationally-constrained Visual-Inertial Navigation Systems.
    Academic chapter
  • de Petris, Paolo; Khattak, Shehryar; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Waibel, Gabriel; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Montenegro, Markus; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos; Hutter, Marco. (2022) Marsupial Walking-and-Flying Robotic Deployment for Collaborative Exploration of Unknown Environments.
    Academic chapter
  • Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Mascarich, Frank; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2021) Autonomous Cave Exploration using Aerial Robots.
    Academic chapter
  • Mascarich, Frank; de Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2021) Autonomous Distributed 3D Radiation Field Estimation for Nuclear Environment Characterization.
    Academic chapter
  • Kulkarni, Mihir; Dharmadhikari, Mihir; Tranzatto, Marco; Zimmermann, Samuel; Reijgwart, Victor; de Petris, Paolo; Nguyen, Dinh Huan; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Papachristos, Christos; Ott, Lionel. (2022) Autonomous teamed exploration of subterranean environments using legged and aerial robots.
    Academic chapter
  • Khedekar, Nikhil; Kulkarni, Mihir; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2022) MIMOSA: A Multi-Modal SLAM Framework for Resilient Autonomy against Sensor Degradation.
    Academic chapter

Outreach

2026

  • Conference poster
    Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2026) Semantic Segmentation of Cargo Tank Point Clouds Using Structural Priors. ICRA 2026: Workshop on Aerial inspection for marine infrastructures

2024

  • Conference lecture
    Harms, Marvin Chayton; Jacquet, Martin Pierre Francois; Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Neural Control Barrier Functions for Safe Navigation. IROS 2024
  • Conference poster
    Harms, Marvin Chayton; Jacquet, Martin Pierre Francois; Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Neural Control Barrier Functions for Safe Navigation. IROS 2024
  • Conference lecture
    Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Tightly-coupled Radar-LiDAR fusion for Robust Odometry. Radar in Robotics: Resilience from Signal to Navigation
  • Conference poster
    Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; de Petris, Paolo; Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Nissov, Morten Christian; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Maritime Vessel Tank Inspection using Aerial Robots: Experience from the field and dataset release. Workshop on Field Robotics
  • Conference poster
    Nissov, Morten; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Simultaneous Triggering and Synchronization of Sensors and Onboard Computers. ICRA@40
  • Conference lecture
    Dharmadhikari, Mihir Rahul; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; de Petris, Paolo; Kulkarni, Mihir Vinay; Nissov, Morten; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Maritime Vessel Tank Inspection using Aerial Robots: Experience from the field and dataset release. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
  • Conference lecture
    Nissov, Morten; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Degradation Resilient LiDAR-Radar-Inertial Odometry. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
  • Conference poster
    Nissov, Morten; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Alexis, Konstantinos. (2024) Degradation Resilient LiDAR-Radar-Inertial Odometry. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

2023

  • Conference poster
    Petráček, Pavel; Khedekar, Nikhil Vijay; Nissov, Morten; Alexis, Konstantinos; Saska, Martin. (2023) Degradation-Aware Point Cloud Sampling in Robot Ego-Motion Estimation. Integrated Perception, Planning, and Control for Physically and Contextually-Aware Robot Autonomy

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