Roberto Tron

@bu.edu

Associate Professor, College of Engineering
Boston University

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Mechanical Engineering
5083

Scholar Citations

30

Scholar h-index

61

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Conformalized Signal Temporal Logic Inference under Covariate Shift
    Y Wang, D Li, M Cleaveland, R Tron, M Cai
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.27062 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Distributed Online Task Assignment via Inexact ADMM for unplanned online tasks and its Applications to Security
    Z Yang, R Tron
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • RRT : Sampling-based Motion Planning and Control from STL Specifications using Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Robustness
    A Ahmad, S Liu, R Tron, C Belta
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.16825 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Composable Model-Free RL for Navigation with Input-Affine Systems
    X Sang, A Abdelgawad, R Tron
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12492 , 2026
    2026
  • Gradient-Enhanced Partitioned Gaussian Processes for Real-Time Quadrotor Dynamics Modeling
    X Sang, A Rozman, S Grace, R Tron
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.12487 , 2026
    2026
  • Koopman Control Factorization: Data-Driven Convex Controller Design for a Class of Nonlinear Systems
    T Ondogan, R Jing, AP Sabelhaus, R Tron
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.05359 , 2025
    2025
  • Conformal Prediction for Signal Temporal Logic Inference
    D Li, Y Wang, M Cleaveland, M Cai, R Tron
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25473 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Certifiably Optimal Estimation and Calibration in Robotics via Trace-Constrained Semi-Definite Programming
    L Wu, R Tron
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23656 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Pose Averaging from Relative Translations using a Riemannian Staircase
    E Fontana, R Tron
    2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 1177-1184 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Visual inverse kinematics: Finding feasible robot poses under kinematic and vision constraints
    L Wu, R Tron
    2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 3751-3757 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • A control barrier function candidate for quadrotors with limited field of view
    B Trimarchi, F Schiano, R Tron
    2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 251-258 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • LQR-CBF-RRT*: Safe and optimal motion planning
    G Yang, M Cai, A Ahmad, A Prorok, R Tron, C Belta
    2025 American Control Conference (ACC), 3700-3705 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 26
  • Boxmap: Efficient structural mapping and navigation
    Z Wang, C Allum, SB Andersson, R Tron
    2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 6401-6407 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Real-Time Navigation for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Using Video
    K Anjum, P Pandey, V Sadhu, R Tron, D Pompili
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01996 , 2025
    2025
  • Safe and stable teleoperation of quadrotor UAVs under haptic shared autonomy
    D Zhang, R Tron
    Autonomous Robots 49 (1), 4 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Adaptive bi-level multi-robot task allocation and learning under uncertainty with temporal logic constraints
    X Lin, R Tron
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10062 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Designing Robust Linear Output Feedback Controller Based on CLF–CBF Framework via Linear-Programming (LP–CLF–CBF)
    M Bahreinian, M Kermanshah, R Tron
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 70 (4), 2683-2689 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Koopman in the Field: Feedback, Teaching, and Adaptation for Real World Mechanical Systems
    R Tron
    NSF Award Number 2432394. Directorate for Engineering 24 (2432394), 32394 , 2025
    2025
  • Navigating the Noise: A CBF Approach for Nonlinear Control with Integral Constraints
    I Seidu, R Tron
    2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 3625-3631 , 2024
    2024
  • Spline trajectory tracking and obstacle avoidance for mobile agents via convex optimization
    A Dickson, CG Cassandras, R Tron
    2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 6572-6577 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A benchmark for the comparison of 3-d motion segmentation algorithms
    R Tron, R Vidal
    2007 IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 1-8 , 2007
    2007
    Citations: 838
  • Motion segmentation in the presence of outlying, incomplete, or corrupted trajectories
    S Rao, R Tron, R Vidal, Y Ma
    IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 32 (10), 1832 … , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 407
  • Initialization techniques for 3D SLAM: A survey on rotation estimation and its use in pose graph optimization
    L Carlone, R Tron, K Daniilidis, F Dellaert
    2015 IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA), 4597-4604 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 344
  • Motion segmentation via robust subspace separation in the presence of outlying, incomplete, or corrupted trajectories
    SR Rao, R Tron, R Vidal, Y Ma
    2008 IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, 1-8 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 296
  • Multiframe motion segmentation with missing data using PowerFactorization and GPCA
    R Vidal, R Tron, R Hartley
    International Journal of Computer Vision 79 (1), 85-105 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 295
  • A distributed optimization framework for localization and formation control: Applications to vision-based measurements
    R Tron, J Thomas, G Loianno, K Daniilidis, V Kumar
    IEEE Control Systems Magazine 36 (4), 22-44 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 196
  • On the convergence of gradient descent for finding the Riemannian center of mass
    B Afsari, R Tron, R Vidal
    SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 51 (3), 2230-2260 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 174
  • Distributed 3-D localization of camera sensor networks from 2-D image measurements
    R Tron, R Vidal
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 59 (12), 3325-3340 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 150
  • Distributed image-based 3-d localization of camera sensor networks
    R Tron, R Vidal
    Proceedings of the 48h IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) held … , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 149
  • Riemannian consensus for manifolds with bounded curvature
    R Tron, B Afsari, R Vidal
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 58 (4), 921-934 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 146
  • Distributed pose averaging in camera networks via consensus on SE (3)
    R Tron, R Vidal, A Terzis
    2008 Second ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, 1-10 , 2008
    2008
    Citations: 124
  • Intrinsic consensus on SO (3) with almost-global convergence
    R Tron, B Afsari, R Vidal
    2012 IEEE 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2052-2058 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 123
  • Self-triggered control for safety critical systems using control barrier functions
    G Yang, C Belta, R Tron
    2019 American control conference (ACC), 4454-4459 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 87
  • Scalable and robust algorithms for task-based coordination from high-level specifications (scratches)
    K Leahy, Z Serlin, CI Vasile, A Schoer, AM Jones, R Tron, C Belta
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics 38 (4), 2516-2535 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 84
  • Distributed computer vision algorithms
    R Tron, R Vidal
    IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 28 (3), 32-45 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 72
  • Continuous-time signal temporal logic planning with control barrier functions
    G Yang, C Belta, R Tron
    2020 American Control Conference (ACC), 4612-4618 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 71
  • Fast multi-image matching via density-based clustering
    R Tron, X Zhou, C Esteves, K Daniilidis
    Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on computer vision, 4057-4066 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 68
  • Distributed computer vision algorithms through distributed averaging
    R Tron, R Vidal
    CVPR 2011, 57-63 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 64
  • Corrective consensus: Converging to the exact average
    Y Chen, R Tron, A Terzis, R Vidal
    49th ieee conference on decision and control (cdc), 1221-1228 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 64
  • Sampling-based motion planning via control barrier functions
    G Yang, B Vang, Z Serlin, C Belta, R Tron
    Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Automation, Control … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 63