@article{frey2025boxi,title={Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics},author={Frey, Jonas and Tuna, Turcan and Fu, Lanke Frank Tarimo and Weibel, Cedric and Patterson, Katharine and Krummenacher, Benjamin and M{\"u}ller, Matthias and Nubert, Julian and Fallon, Maurice and Cadena, Cesar and others},year={2025},journal={Robotics: Science and Systems 2025},}
Learned Perceptive Forward Dynamics Model for Safe and Platform-aware Robotic Navigation
Pascal Roth, Jonas Frey, Cesar Cadena, and 1 more author
@article{roth2025learned,title={Learned Perceptive Forward Dynamics Model for Safe and Platform-aware Robotic Navigation},author={Roth, Pascal and Frey, Jonas and Cadena, Cesar and Hutter, Marco},year={2025},journal={Robotics: Science and Systems 2025},}
@article{patel2024roadrunner,author={Patel, Manthan and Frey, Jonas and Atha, Deegan and Spieler, Patrick and Hutter, Marco and Khattak, Shehryar},journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},title={RoadRunner M&M - Learning Multi-Range Multi-Resolution Traversability Maps for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation},year={2024},volume={9},number={12},pages={11425-11432},doi={10.1109/LRA.2024.3490404},webpage={https://leggedrobotics.github.io/roadrunner_mm/},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10940},}
Wild Visual Navigation: Fast Traversability Learning via Pre-Trained Models and Online Self-Supervision
Matías Mattamala, Jonas Frey, Piotr Libera, and 5 more authors
@inproceedings{mattamala24wild,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07110},author={Mattamala, Matías and Frey, Jonas and Libera, Piotr and Chebrolu, Nived and Martius, Georg and Cadena, Cesar and Hutter, Marco and Fallon, Maurice},title={Wild Visual Navigation: Fast Traversability Learning via Pre-Trained Models and Online Self-Supervision},booktitle={Autonomous Robots},year={2024},eprint={2404.07110},archiveprefix={arXiv},primaryclass={cs.RO},}
RoadRunner - Learning Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Off-road Driving
Jonas Frey, Shehryar Khattak, Manthan Patel, and 5 more authors
@article{frey2024roadrunner,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19341},title={RoadRunner - Learning Traversability Estimation for Autonomous Off-road Driving},author={Frey, Jonas and Khattak, Shehryar and Patel, Manthan and Atha, Deegan and Nubert, Julian and Padgett, Curtis and Hutter, Marco and Spieler, Patrick},booktitle={IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics 2024},year={2024}}
Resilient Legged Local Navigation: Learning to Traverse with Compromised Perception End-to-End
Jin Jin, Chong Zhang, Jonas Frey, and 4 more authors
In 41st IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17, 2024, 2023
@inproceedings{jin2023resilient,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03581},title={Resilient Legged Local Navigation: Learning to Traverse with Compromised Perception End-to-End},author={Jin, Jin and Zhang, Chong and Frey, Jonas and Rudin, Nikita and Mattamala, Matias and Cadena, Cesar and Hutter, Marco},booktitle={41st IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17, 2024},year={2023}}
Fast Traversability Estimation for Wild Visual Navigation
Jonas Frey, Matias Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, and 3 more authors
@inproceedings{frey2023fast,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08510},title={Fast Traversability Estimation for Wild Visual Navigation},author={Frey, Jonas and Mattamala, Matias and Chebrolu, Nived and Cadena, Cesar and Fallon, Maurice and Hutter, Marco},booktitle={Robotics: Science and Systems 2023},year={2023}}
MEM: Multi-Modal Elevation Mapping for Robotics and Learning
Gian Erni, Jonas Frey, Takahiro Miki, and 2 more authors
In 36th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Detroit, MI, USA, October 1-5, 2023, 2023
@inproceedings{erni2023mem,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.16818v1},title={MEM: Multi-Modal Elevation Mapping for Robotics and Learning},author={Erni, Gian and Frey, Jonas and Miki, Takahiro and Mattamala, Matias and Hutter, Marco},booktitle={36th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023), Detroit, MI, USA, October 1-5, 2023},year={2023}}
SMUG Planner: A Safe Multi-Goal Planner for Mobile Robots in Challenging Environments
Changan Chen, Jonas Frey, Philip Arm, and 1 more author
@article{chen2023smug,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05309},title={SMUG Planner: A Safe Multi-Goal Planner for Mobile Robots in Challenging Environments},author={Chen, Changan and Frey, Jonas and Arm, Philip and Hutter, Marco},journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},volume={8},number={11},pages={7170--7177},year={2023},publisher={IEEE}}
Locomotion policy guided traversability learning using volumetric representations of complex environments
Jonas Frey, David Hoeller, Shehryar Khattak, and 1 more author
In 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
@inproceedings{frey2022locomotion,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15854},title={Locomotion policy guided traversability learning using volumetric representations of complex environments},author={Frey, Jonas and Hoeller, David and Khattak, Shehryar and Hutter, Marco},booktitle={2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},pages={5722--5729},year={2022},organization={IEEE}}
Learning
Zero-Shot Offline Imitation Learning via Optimal Transport
Thomas Rupf, Marco Bagatella, Nico Gürtler, and 2 more authors
@inproceedings{rupf2024zeroshot,title={Zero-Shot Offline Imitation Learning via Optimal Transport},author={Rupf, Thomas and Bagatella, Marco and Gürtler, Nico and Frey, Jonas and Martius, Georg},year={2025},journal={International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},eprint={2410.08751},archiveprefix={arXiv},primaryclass={cs.LG},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08751},learning={true}}
Learning with 3D rotations, a hitchhiker’s guide to SO(3)
A. René Geist, Jonas Frey, Mikel Zobro, and 2 more authors
@article{geist2024position,learning={true},title={Learning with 3D rotations, a hitchhiker's guide to SO(3)},author={Geist, A. René and Frey, Jonas and Zobro, Mikel and Levina, Anna and Martius, Georg},booktitle={International Conference on Machine Learning},year={2024},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11735},eprint={2404.11735},archiveprefix={arXiv},primaryclass={cs.LG},}
Locomotion
Learning agile skills via adversarial imitation of rough partial demonstrations
Chenhao Li, Marin Vlastelica, Sebastian Blaes, and 3 more authors
@inproceedings{li2023learning,loc={true},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11693},title={Learning agile skills via adversarial imitation of rough partial demonstrations},author={Li, Chenhao and Vlastelica, Marin and Blaes, Sebastian and Frey, Jonas and Grimminger, Felix and Martius, Georg},booktitle={Conference on Robot Learning},pages={342--352},year={2023},organization={PMLR}}
Versatile skill control via self-supervised adversarial imitation of unlabeled mixed motions
Chenhao Li, Sebastian Blaes, Pavel Kolev, and 3 more authors
In 2023 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA), 2023
@inproceedings{li2023versatile,loc={true},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07899},title={Versatile skill control via self-supervised adversarial imitation of unlabeled mixed motions},author={Li, Chenhao and Blaes, Sebastian and Kolev, Pavel and Vlastelica, Marin and Frey, Jonas and Martius, Georg},booktitle={2023 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA)},pages={2944--2950},year={2023},organization={IEEE}}
Learning risk-aware quadrupedal locomotion using distributional reinforcement learning
Lukas Schneider, Jonas Frey, Takahiro Miki, and 1 more author
In 41st IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17, 2024, 2023
@inproceedings{schneider2023learning,loc={true},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14246},title={Learning risk-aware quadrupedal locomotion using distributional reinforcement learning},author={Schneider, Lukas and Frey, Jonas and Miki, Takahiro and Hutter, Marco},booktitle={41st IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024), Yokohama, Japan, May 13-17, 2024},year={2023}}
Perception
Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics
Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna, Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu, and 8 more authors
@article{frey2025boxi,title={Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics},author={Frey, Jonas and Tuna, Turcan and Fu, Lanke Frank Tarimo and Weibel, Cedric and Patterson, Katharine and Krummenacher, Benjamin and M{\"u}ller, Matthias and Nubert, Julian and Fallon, Maurice and Cadena, Cesar and others},year={2025},journal={Robotics: Science and Systems 2025},}
Holistic fusion: Task-and setup-agnostic robot localization and state estimation with factor graphs
Julian Nubert, Turcan Tuna, Jonas Frey, and 4 more authors
@article{nubert2025holistic,title={Holistic fusion: Task-and setup-agnostic robot localization and state estimation with factor graphs},author={Nubert, Julian and Tuna, Turcan and Frey, Jonas and Cadena, Cesar and Kuchenbecker, Katherine J and Khattak, Shehryar and Hutter, Marco},comment={This paper is under review for IEEE Transactions on Robotics},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.06479},year={2025},}
Diffusion Based Robust LiDAR Place Recognition
Benjamin Krummenacher, Jonas Frey, Turcan Tuna, and 2 more authors
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
@article{krummenacher2025diffusion,title={Diffusion Based Robust LiDAR Place Recognition},author={Krummenacher, Benjamin and Frey, Jonas and Tuna, Turcan and Vysotska, Olga and Hutter, Marco},journal={IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},year={2025},}
Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters From Vision - Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation
Jiaqi Chen, Jonas Frey, Ruyi Zhou, and 3 more authors
@article{chen2024identifying,author={Chen, Jiaqi and Frey, Jonas and Zhou, Ruyi and Miki, Takahiro and Martius, Georg and Hutter, Marco},journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},title={Identifying Terrain Physical Parameters From Vision - Towards Physical-Parameter-Aware Locomotion and Navigation},year={2024},volume={9},number={11},pages={9279-9286},keywords={Decoding;Friction;Visualization;Training;Robot sensing systems;Navigation;Legged locomotion;Deep learning;Visual perception;Terrain mapping;Legged Robots;deep learning for visual perception;field robots},doi={10.1109/LRA.2024.3455788},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16567},}
Continual Adaptation of Semantic Segmentation using Complementary 2D-3D Data Representations
Jonas Frey, Hermann Blum, Francesco Milano, and 2 more authors
@article{frey2022continual,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02156},title={Continual Adaptation of Semantic Segmentation using Complementary 2D-3D Data Representations},author={Frey, Jonas and Blum, Hermann and Milano, Francesco and Siegwart, Roland and Cadena, Cesar},journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},volume={7},number={4},pages={11665--11672},year={2022},publisher={IEEE}}
Unsupervised Continual Semantic Adaptation through Neural Rendering
Zhizheng Liu, Francesco Milano, Jonas Frey, and 3 more authors
In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2023
@inproceedings{liu2023unsupervised,url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.13969},title={Unsupervised Continual Semantic Adaptation through Neural Rendering},author={Liu, Zhizheng and Milano, Francesco and Frey, Jonas and Siegwart, Roland and Blum, Hermann and Cadena, Cesar},booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},pages={3031--3040},year={2023}}
Seeing Through the Grass: Semantic Pointcloud Filter for Support Surface Learning
Anqiao Li, Chenyu Yang, Jonas Frey, and 3 more authors
@article{li2023seeing,publisher={IEEE},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07995},title={Seeing Through the Grass: Semantic Pointcloud Filter for Support Surface Learning},author={Li, Anqiao and Yang, Chenyu and Frey, Jonas and Lee, Joonho and Cadena, Cesar and Hutter, Marco},journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},volume={8},number={11},pages={7687--7694},year={2023}}
Workshops
Autonomous Forest Inventory with Legged Robots: System Design and Field Deployment
Matı́as Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, Benoit Casseau, and 5 more authors
@article{mattamala2024autonomous,workshop={true},title={Autonomous Forest Inventory with Legged Robots: System Design and Field Deployment},author={Mattamala, Mat{\'\i}as and Chebrolu, Nived and Casseau, Benoit and Frei{\ss}muth, Leonard and Frey, Jonas and Tuna, Turcan and Hutter, Marco and Fallon, Maurice},journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14157},year={2024},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14157},}
Fast Traversability Estimation for Wild Visual Navigation
Jonas Frey, Matias Mattamala, Nived Chebrolu, and 3 more authors
In ICRA 2023 - Pretraining for Robotics (PT4R), 2023
@inproceedings{frey2023fast_workshop,workshop={true},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.08510},year={2023},title={Fast Traversability Estimation for Wild Visual Navigation},author={Frey, Jonas and Mattamala, Matias and Chebrolu, Nived and Cadena, Cesar and Fallon, Maurice and Hutter, Marco},booktitle={ICRA 2023 - Pretraining for Robotics (PT4R)}}
Continual Learning of Semantic Segmentation using Complementary 2D-3D Data Representations
Jonas Frey, Hermann Blum, Francesco Milano, and 2 more authors
In NeurIPS - 2021 4th Robot Learning Workshop Self-Supervised and Lifelong Learning, 2021
@inproceedings{frey2022continual_workshop,workshop={true},url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02156},year={2021},title={Continual Learning of Semantic Segmentation using Complementary 2D-3D Data Representations},author={Frey, Jonas and Blum, Hermann and Milano, Francesco and Siegwart, Roland and Cadena, Cesar},booktitle={NeurIPS - 2021 4th Robot Learning Workshop Self-Supervised and Lifelong Learning}}