Dissertations:

Nikolas Trawny. Missionsszenarien fuer einen kontrollierten Mond-Impakt eines Kleinsatelliten. Diploma Thesis IRS-04-S-18, University of Stuttgart, 2004.

Nikolas Trawny. Optimized Motion Strategies for Cooperative Localization of Mobile Robots. Studienarbeit, University of Stuttgart, IFR, 2003.
 

Journal papers:

Guoquan P. Huang, Nikolas Trawny, Anastasios I. Mourikis, and Stergios I. Roumeliotis. Observability-based Consistent EKF Estimators for Multi-robot Cooperative Localization. Invited paper to appear in Autonomous Robots.

Refereed Conference Papers:

Guoquan P. Huang, Ke Zhou, Nikolas Trawny, and Stergios I. Roumeliotis. A Bank of Maximum A Posteriori Estimator for Single-Sensor Range-only Target Tracking. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), Baltimore, MD, Jun. 30 - Jul. 2, 2010, (to appear).

Nikolas Trawny and Stergios I. Roumeliotis. On the Global Optimum of Planar, Range-based Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Estimation. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, AK, May 3-8, 2010, (to appear).

Guoquan P. Huang, Nikolas Trawny, Anastasios I. Mourikis, and Stergios I. Roumeliotis. On the Consistency of Multi-robot Cooperative Localization. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Seattle, WA, Jun. 28 – Jul. 1, 2009. [best paper award finalist]

Nikolas Trawny, Xun S. Zhou, and Stergios I. Roumeliotis. 3D Relative Pose Estimation from Six Distances. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Seattle, WA, Jun. 28 – Jul. 1, 2009.

Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, and Georgios B. Giannakis. Cooperative Multi-Robot Localization under Communication Constraints. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009, pp. 4394 - 4400.

Nikolas Trawny, Xun S. Zhou, Ke X. Zhou, and Stergios I. Roumeliotis. 3D Relative Pose Estimation from Distance-Only Measurements. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, CA, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2007, pp. 1071 - 1078.

Anastasios I. Mourikis, Nikolas Trawny, Stergios I. Roumeliotis, Andrew E. Johnson, and Larry Matthies. Vision-Aided Inertial Navigation for Precise Planetary Landing: Analysis and Experiments. In Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, Atlanta, GA, June 26-30, 2007.

Nikolas Trawny and Stergios I. Roumeliotis. A unified framework for nearby and distant landmarks in bearing-only SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, FL, May 15-19, 2006, pp. 1923-1929.

Nikolas Trawny and Tim Barfoot. Optimized motion strategies for cooperative localization of mobile robots. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), vol. 1, New Orleans, LA, April 2004, pp. 1027-1032.

Conference Papers Accepted Based on Abstract:

N. Trawny, A.I. Mourikis, S.I. Roumeliotis, A. Johnson, J. Montgomery, A. Ansar, and L. Matthies. Coupled Vision and Inertial Navigation for Pin-Point Landing. In Proc. NASA Science Technology Conference (NSTC'07), College Park, MD, June 19-21, 2007.

A.E. Johnson, A. Ansar, L.H. Matthies, N. Trawny, A.I. Mourikis, S.I. Roumeliotis. A General Approach to Terrain-Relative Navigation for Planetary Landing. AIAA Infotech@Aerospace Conference, Rohnert Park, CA, May 7-10, 2007.

Poster Presentations:

Nikolas Trawny, Michael Gräßlin, René Laufer, and Hans-Peter Röser. Mission scenarios for a controlled lunar impact of a small satellite. In Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Vancouver, 2004.

Technical Reports:

N. Trawny and S. I. Roumeliotis. Indirect Kalman Filter for 3D Attitude Estimation. University of Minnesota, Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Tech. Rep. 2005-002, March 2005.

N. Trawny, Xun S. Zhou, and S. I. Roumeliotis. Solving systems of Polynomials using the Action Matrix. University of Minnesota, Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Tech. Rep. 2008-002, Oct. 2008.

N. Trawny and S. I. Roumeliotis. Cooperative Localization under Communication Constraints. University of Minnesota, Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Eng., Tech. Rep. 2008-001, May 2008.