Publications
This list only includes publications since the lab was founded. For other relevant publications see Wolfgang Hönig's personal webpage.

Optimal Assignment for Multi-Robot Tracking Using Motion Capture Systems
1st German Robotics Conference, 2025

db-ECBS: Interaction-Aware Multi-Robot Kinodynamic Motion Planning
1st German Robotics Conference, 2025

Pc-dbCBS: Kinodynamic Motion Planning of Physically-Coupled Robot Teams
1st German Robotics Conference, 2025

Accelerating db-A* for Kinodynamic Motion Planning Using Diffusion
Under Review, 2025

Neural-Augmented Incremental Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion for Quadrotors with Payload Adaptation
Under Review, 2025

Advancing Reproducibility, Benchmarks, and Education With Remote Sim2real: Remote Simulation to Real Robot Hardware
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2025

Learning Approximated Maximal Safe Sets via Hypernetworks for MPC-Based Local Motion Planning
Under Review, 2024

Automatic Gain Tuning for Multirotors Using Differentiable Optimization
CoRL Workshop on Differentiable Optimization Everywhere: Simulation, Estimation, Learning, and Control, 2024

GSRM: Building Roadmaps for Query-Efficient and Near-Optimal Path Planning Using a Reaction Diffusion System
IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), 2024

iDb-RRT: Sampling-based Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Motion Primitives and Trajectory Optimization
IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), 2024

db-CBS: Discontinuity-Bounded Conflict-Based Search for Multi-Robot Kinodynamic Motion Planning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

Effort Level Search in Infinite Completion Trees with Application to Task-and-Motion Planning
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

Efficient Optimization-based Cable Force Allocation for Geometric Control of Multiple Quadrotors Transporting a Payload
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L); presentation at IROS, 2024

Model AI Assignment: Collective Intelligence from a Synthetic and Biological Perspective
Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), 2024

Enhancing Sampling-Based Kinodynamic Motion Planning with Reinforcement Learning Policies
MS Thesis (Computer Science), 2023
Examiners: Wolfgang Hönig, Marc Toussaint; Mentors: Joaquim Ortiz-Haro, Wolfgang Hönig

Learning-Based Relative State Estimation for Ultralow-Power Multirotor Teams
MS Thesis (Master of Science ICT Innovation), 2023
Examiners: Wolfgang Hönig, Oliver Brock; Mentors: Akmaral Moldagalieva, Pia Hanfeld

iDb-A*: Iterative Search and Optimization for Optimal Kinodynamic Motion Planning
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 2025

Survey of Simulators for Aerial Robots
IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2023

Kinodynamic Motion Planning for a Team of Multirotors Transporting a Cable-Suspended Payload in Cluttered Environments
IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), 2024

MRNAV: Multi-Robot Aware Planning and Control Stack for Collision and Deadlock-free Navigation in Cluttered Environments
arXiv, 2023

Kidnapping Deep Learning-based Multirotors using Optimized Flying Adversarial Patches
International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), 2023

RLSS: real-time, decentralized, cooperative, networkless multi-robot trajectory planning using linear spatial separations
Autonomous Robots (AuRo), Special Issue "Robot Swarms in the Real World: from Design to Deployment", 2023

Motion Planning for Cable-Suspended Payload Transportation with a Team of Multirotors in Cluttered Environments
Future of Construction Workshop at ICRA, 2023
Best Research Award at the workshop

Flying Adversarial Patches: Manipulating the Behavior of Deep Learning-based Autonomous Multirotors
Multi-Robot Learning Workshop at ICRA, 2023

Comparison of Optimization-Based Methods for Energy-Optimal Quadrotor Motion Planning
Energy Efficient Aerial Robotic Systems Workshop at ICRA, 2023

Learning-based Multirotor System Model Enhancements
BS Thesis (Computer Science), 2023
Examiners: Wolfgang Hönig, Marc Toussaint; Mentors: Akmaral Moldagalieva, Khaled Wahba

Virtual Omnidirectional Perception for Downwash Prediction within a Team of Nano Multirotors Flying in Close Proximity
International Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS), 2023

K-Order Markov Optimization and Sequential Convex Programming for Multirotor Motion Planning
MS Thesis (Computational Engineering Science), 2022
Examiners: Marc Toussaint, Oliver Brock; Mentors: Wolfgang Hönig, Joaquim Ortiz-Haro

Distributed Geometric and Optimization-based Control of Multiple Quadrotors for Cable-Suspended Payload Transport
Decision Making in Multi-Agent Systems Workshop at IROS, 2022

Benchmarking Sampling-, Search-, and Optimization-based Approaches for Time-Optimal Kinodynamic Mobile Robot Motion Planning
Evaluating Motion Planning Performance: Metrics, Tools, Datasets, and Experimental Design Workshop at IROS, 2022

Sequence-of-Constraints MPC: Reactive Timing-Optimal Control of Sequential Manipulation
IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), 2022

db-A*: Discontinuity-bounded Search for Kinodynamic Mobile Robot Motion Planning
IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS), 2022

Lighthouse Positioning System: Dataset, Accuracy, and Precision for UAV Research
Robot Swarms in the Real World Workshop at ICRA, 2021