Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

  1. A Framework for Fast, Large-scale, Semi-Automatic Inference of Animal Behavior from Monocular Videos, Eric Price, Pranav Khandelwal, Daniel Rubenstein and Aamir Ahmad Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Wiley, 16, 1966–1982; July 2025.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.70124)

  2. GRADE: Generating Realistic and Dynamic Environments for Robotics Research with Isaac Sim, Elia Bonetto, Chenghao Xu and Aamir Ahmad, The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR); 0(0), April 2025.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1177/02783649251346211)

  3. Reinforcement Learning based Autonomous Multi-rotor Landing on Moving Platforms, Pascal Goldschmid and Aamir Ahmad, Autonomous Robot, Springer 48, 13 (2024), June 2024.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-024-10162-8)

  4. [Award Paper] Viewpoint-driven Formation Control of Airships for Cooperative Target Tracking, Eric Price, Michael J. Black and Aamir Ahmad, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE-RAL), 8(6):3653-3660, June 2023.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2023.3264727)
    Best Faculty Paper Award 2023, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy, University of Stuttgart
    Paper also presented at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023

  5. SmartMocap: Joint Estimation of Human and Camera Motion Using Uncalibrated RGB Cameras, Nitin Saini, Chun-Hao P. Huang, Michael J. Black and Aamir Ahmad, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE-RAL), 8(6):3206-3213, , June 2023.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2023.3264743)
    Paper also presented at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2023

  6. Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Integrated Updraft Mapping and Exploitation Stefan Notter, Christian Gall, Greg Müller, Aamir Ahmad and Walter Fichter (2023), Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (JGCD), vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 1997-2004, 2023.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.2514/1.G007572)

  7. AirPose: Multi-View Fusion Network for Aerial 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation, Nitin Saini, Elia Bonetto, Eric Price, Aamir Ahmad and Michael J. Black, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE-RAL), 7(2):4805 - 4812, IEEE, April 2022.
    (Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2022.3145494)
    Paper also presented at IEEE ICRA 2022

  8. iRotate: Active visual SLAM for omnidirectional robots, Elia Bonetto, Pascal Goldschmid, Michael Pabst, Michael J. Black, and Aamir Ahmad, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Elsevier, Volume 154, 104102, ISSN 0921-8890, 2022.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2022.104102)

  9. AirCapRL: Autonomous Aerial Human Motion Capture Using Deep Reinforcement Learning, Rahul Tallamraju, Nitin Saini, Elia Bonetto, Michael Pabst, Michael J. Black and Aamir Ahmad, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE-RAL), 5(4):6678 - 6685, IEEE, October 2020
    (Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2020.3013906)

  10. Active Perception based Formation Control for Multiple Aerial Vehicles. Rahul Tallamraju, Eric Price, Roman Ludwig, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Heinrich H. Buelthoff, Michael J. Black and Aamir Ahmad, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE-RAL), 4(4):4491-4498, October 2019.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2019.2932570)

  11. Deep Neural Network-based Cooperative Visual Tracking through Multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles. Eric Price, Guilherme Lawless, Roman Ludwig, Igor Martinovic, Heinrich H. Buelthoff, Michael J. Black and Aamir Ahmad, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE-RAL), 3(4):3193-3200, June 2018.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2018.2850224)
    Paper also presented at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018

  12. An Online Scalable Approach to Unified Multirobot Cooperative Localization and Object Tracking. Aamir Ahmad, Guilherme Lawless and Pedro Lima, IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), 33(5):1184-1199, 2017.
    (Available Online: https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2017.2715342)
    Also accepted for Journal Track at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia.

  13. Moving-horizon nonlinear least squares-based multirobot cooperative perception. Aamir Ahmad, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Journal, Elsevier, Vol 83, pp. 275 - 286. September 2016.
    (Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2016.06.002)

  14. Formation Control Driven by Cooperative Object Tracking. Pedro Lima, Aamir Ahmad, André Dias, A. G. S. Conceição, António Paulo Moreira, Eduardo Silva, Luís Almeida , Luís Oliveira, Tiago P. Nascimento, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Journal, Elsevier, Vol 63 Issue 1, pp. 68–79. 2015.
    (Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2014.08.018)

  15. 3D to 2D Bijection for Spherical Objects Under Equidistant Fisheye Projection, Aamir Ahmad, João Xavier, José Santos-Victor, Pedro Lima, Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Elsevier Vol. 125 pp. 72–183. 2014.
    (Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2014.04.004)

  16. Multi-Robot Cooperative Spherical-Object Tracking in 3D Space Based on Particle Filters, Aamir Ahmad and Pedro Lima, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) Journal, Elsevier, Vol. 61, Issue 10, pp. 1084-1093, 2013.
    (Available Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2012.12.008)