Publications

Journal

A. L. Diaz, A. Ortega, H. Tingle, A. Pulido, O. Cordero, M. Nelson, N. Cocoves, J. Shin, R. Carthy, B. Wilkinson, and P. Ifju, “The Bathy-Drone: An Autonomous Uncrewed Drone-Tethered Sonar System,” Drones, vol. 6, no. 10, p. 294, Oct. 2022, doi: 10.3390/drones6100294. [Paper]

D. Jung, A. Pulido, J. Shin and S. -W. Kim, “Point Cloud Structural Similarity-Based Underwater Sonar Loop Detection,” in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2025.3547304 [Paper]

Andres Pulido, Joseph Sforza, Jack Parker, Antonio Diaz, Nicholas Sardinia, Blake Sanders, Sayeed Ali, Alex Baker, Alex Theophanis, Daniel Minogue, Thomas Chase, Arthur Baker, Peter Ifju, Jane Shin, “Autonomous Bathy-drone: An Autonomous Aerial-Aquatic Robotic System for Bathymetric Mapping with Input-Driven Path Planning and Surface Navigation and Control”, IEEE Access (Submitted)

Conference

Zhang, Zi-Hao and Herrin, E. Baker and Guo, Jia and Penumarti, Aditya and He, Zilong and, Pulido, Andres and Shin, Jane, “Action Recognition for Underwater Gesture Communication in Human Diver and Robot Teaming,” 2025 IEEERSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), Hangzhou, China. [Confference Paper]

A. Pulido and J. Shin, “Uncertainty-Driven Online Path Planning for Autonomous Bathymetry Mapping Using a Tethered System” AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum [Conference Paper]

A. Pulido, K. Volle, Z. I. Bell and J. Shin, “Transformer-based Motion Model for Robust Target Tracking under Intermittent and Noisy Measurements” 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025), Hangzhou, China. [Confference Paper]

A. Pulido, K. Volle, K. Waters, Z. I. Bell, P. Ganesh and J. Shin, “Uncertainty-Aware Guidance for Target Tracking subject to Intermittent Measurements using Motion Model Learning,” 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, USA, 2025, pp. 3140-3145, doi: 10.23919/ACC63710.2025.11107429. [Conference Paper]

E. Baker Herrin, Aditya Penumarti, Andres Pulido, Nikhil Iyer, You-Long Wu, Kaleb Lewellen, Tyler Fitzsimmons and Jane Shin, “Lessons from RAITE: real-world evaluation of robust multimodal target detection and tracking under adversarial attacks”, SPIE 2025, [Conference Paper]

Andres Pulido, Blake Sanders, Nicholas Sardinia, Antonio Diaz, Henry Tingle, Peter Ifju and Jane Shin, “Coverage path planning for a robotics platform equipped with a side-scan sonar sensor for underwater bathymetry mapping” AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum [Conference Paper]

Andres Pulido, Ruoyao Qin, Antonio Diaz, Andrew Ortega, Peter Ifju, Jane Shin, “Time and Cost-Efficient Bathymetric Mapping System using Sparse Point Cloud Generation and Automatic Object Detection” , OCEANS 2022 Conference [Preprint] [Conference Paper]

Andres Pulido, Antonio Diaz, Andrew Ortega, Peter Ifju, Jane Shin, “Trajectory Planning and Control of Bathy-drone: A Drone Towing a Boat equipped with Sonar for Bathymetry Mapping” , AIAA SciTech 2023 Forum [Conference paper]