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@article{nair2021imageanalysis,
  author = {Nair, Rajasree Padmakumari Hemachandran and Menon, Rohit and Kemkemer, Ralf},
  title = {Generalised Image Processing Method for Quantitative Analysis of Nucleus, Cell and Focal Adhesion Clusters},
  journal = {Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering},
  year = {2021},
  cvcategory = {Journal Articles},
  cvsort = {10-0001},
  volume = {7},
  number = {2},
  pages = {558--561},
  doi = {10.1515/cdbme-2021-2142},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2021-2142},
}

@article{balasubramanian2020emissions,
  author = {Balasubramanian, Srinidhi and McFarland, Donald Michael and Koloutsou-Vakakis, Sotiria and Fu, Kan and Menon, Rohit and Lehmann, Christopher and Rood, Mark J.},
  title = {Effect of Grid Resolution and Spatial Representation of {NH$_3$} Emissions from Fertilizer Application on Predictions of {NH$_3$} and {PM$_{2.5}$} Concentrations in the United States Corn Belt},
  journal = {Environmental Research Communications},
  year = {2020},
  cvcategory = {Journal Articles},
  cvsort = {10-0002},
  volume = {2},
  number = {2},
  eid = {025001},
  doi = {10.1088/2515-7620/ab6c01},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab6c01},
}

@inproceedings{menon2026sgdor,
  author = {Menon, Rohit and Mueller-Goldingen, Niklas and Pan, Sicong and Chenchani, Gokul Krishna and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{SG-DOR}: Learning Scene Graphs with Direction-Conditioned Occlusion Reasoning for Pepper Plants},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2026},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0001},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06512},
  eprint = {2603.06512},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  equalfirst = {2},
  %note = {Accepted; first two authors contributed equally.},
}

@inproceedings{wingender2026placeability,
  author = {Wingender, Benno and Dengler, Nils and Menon, Rohit and Pan, Sicong and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {A Robust Placeability Metric for Model-Free Unified Pick-and-Place Reasoning},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2026},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0002},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14584},
  eprint = {2510.14584},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  equalfirst = {2},
}

@inproceedings{menon2026ostargrc,
  author = {Menon, Rohit and Schmiede, Yasmin and Chenchani, Gokul Krishna and Blum, Hermann and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{O-STaR}: Open-Vocabulary Object Search through Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Dynamic Scene Graphs},
  booktitle = {German Robotics Conference (GRC)},
  year = {2026},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0003},
  url = {https://www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/publications/2026/menon26grc},
}

@inproceedings{menon2025evidmtl,
  author = {Menon, Rohit and Dengler, Nils and Pan, Sicong and Chenchani, Gokul Krishna and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{EvidMTL}: Evidential Multi-Task Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Semantic Surface Mapping from Monocular {RGB} Images},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2025},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0004},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04441},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11247528},
  eprint = {2503.04441},
}

@inproceedings{jose2025govmp,
  author = {Jose, Allen Isaac and Pan, Sicong and Zaenker, Tobias and Menon, Rohit and Houben, Sebastian and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{GO-VMP}: Global Optimization for View Motion Planning in Fruit Mapping},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2025},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0005},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03912},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11245899},
  eprint = {2503.03912},
  equalfirst = {2},
}

@inproceedings{shokry2025metarl,
  author = {Shokry, Ahmed and Gomaa, Walid and Zaenker, Tobias and Dawood, Murad and Menon, Rohit and Maged, Shady A. and Awad, Mohammed I. and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Context-Based Meta Reinforcement Learning for Robust and Adaptable Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2025},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0006},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16208},
  eprint = {2409.16208},
}

@inproceedings{dengler2025semanticmapping,
  author = {Dengler, Nils and M{\"u}cke, Jesper and Menon, Rohit and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Efficient Manipulation-Enhanced Semantic Mapping With Uncertainty-Informed Action Selection},
  booktitle = {IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)},
  year = {2025},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0007},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02286},
  eprint = {2506.02286},
}

@inproceedings{lenz2024hortibot,
  author = {Lenz, Christian and Menon, Rohit and Schreiber, Michael and Jacob, Melvin Paul and Behnke, Sven and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{HortiBot}: An Adaptive Multi-Arm System for Robotic Horticulture of Sweet Peppers},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2024},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0008},
  url = {https://www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/publications/2024/lenz24iros},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802082},
  equalfirst = {2},
}

@inproceedings{kreis2024compactplacement,
  author = {Kreis, Benedikt and Dengler, Nils and de Heuvel, Jorge and Menon, Rohit and Perur, Hamsa and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Compact Multi-Object Placement Using Adjacency-Aware Reinforcement Learning},
  booktitle = {IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)},
  year = {2024},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0009},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10632},
  doi = {10.1109/Humanoids58906.2024.10769899},
  eprint = {2404.10632},
}

@inproceedings{marangoz2023dawnik,
  author = {Marangoz, Salih and Menon, Rohit and Dengler, Nils and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{DawnIK}: Decentralized Collision-Aware Inverse Kinematics Solver for Heterogeneous Multi-Arm Systems},
  booktitle = {IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)},
  year = {2023},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0010},
  url = {https://www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/publications/2023/marangoz23humanoids},
  doi = {10.1109/Humanoids57100.2023.10375189},
  equalfirst = {2},
}

@inproceedings{menon2023nbvsc,
  author = {Menon, Rohit and Zaenker, Tobias and Dengler, Nils and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{NBV-SC}: Next Best View Planning Based on Shape Completion for Fruit Mapping and Reconstruction},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2023},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0011},
  url = {https://www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/publications/2023/menon23iros},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341855},
}

@inproceedings{zaenker2023graphvmp,
  author = {Zaenker, Tobias and R{\"u}ckin, Julius and Menon, Rohit and Popovi{\'c}, Marija and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Graph-based View Motion Planning for Fruit Detection},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2023},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0012},
  url = {https://www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/publications/2023/graph-based-view-motion-planning-for-fruit-detection},
}

@inproceedings{dengler2023viewpointpush,
  author = {Dengler, Nils and Pan, Sicong and Kalagaturu, Vamsi and Menon, Rohit and Dawood, Murad and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Viewpoint Push Planning for Mapping of Unknown Confined Spaces},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2023},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0013},
  url = {https://www.hrl.uni-bonn.de/publications/2023/dengler23iros},
}

@inproceedings{kreis2023placementcorrection,
  author = {Kreis, Benedikt and Menon, Rohit and Adinarayan, Bharath Kumar and de Heuvel, Jorge and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Reactive Correction of Object Placement Errors for Robotic Arrangement Tasks},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-18)},
  year = {2023},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0014},
  pages = {257--270},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-44981-9_23},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44981-9_23},
}

@inproceedings{marangoz2022fruitmapping,
  author = {Marangoz, Salih and Zaenker, Tobias and Menon, Rohit and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Fruit Mapping with Shape Completion for Autonomous Crop Monitoring},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)},
  year = {2022},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0015},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15489},
  eprint = {2203.15489},
}

@inproceedings{vogel2016assistivegrasping,
  author = {Vogel, J{\"o}rn and Hertkorn, Katharina and Menon, Rohit U. and Roa, M{\'a}ximo A.},
  title = {Flexible, Semi-Autonomous Grasping for Assistive Robotics},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2016},
  cvcategory = {Conference Publications},
  cvsort = {20-0016},
  pages = {4872--4879},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7487692},
}

@inproceedings{wingender2026robustplaceabilityworkshop,
  author = {Wingender, Benno and Dengler, Nils and Menon, Rohit and Pan, Sicong and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Robust Placeability Estimation for Model-Free Unified Pick-and-Place Reasoning},
  booktitle = {ICRA Workshop on Manipulation Robustness: Towards Human-Level Robustness under Real-World Challenges},
  year = {2026},
  cvcategory = {Workshop Papers and Posters},
  cvsort = {30-0001},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=fcr2ug3kTh},
}

@inproceedings{menon2025openvocabularyworkshop,
  author = {Menon, Rohit and Schmiede, Yasmin and Bennewitz, Maren and Blum, Hermann},
  title = {Open-Vocabulary and Semantic-Aware Reasoning for Search and Retrieval of Objects in Dynamic and Concealed Spaces},
  booktitle = {IROS Workshop on Perception and Planning for Mobile Manipulation in Changing Environments},
  year = {2025},
  cvcategory = {Workshop Papers and Posters},
  cvsort = {30-0002},
  url = {https://autonomousrobots.nl/assets/images/workshops/2025_iros/accepted_papers/paper_8_Open.pdf},
  note = {Best Poster Award.},
}

@inproceedings{dengler2024interactiveviewpoint,
  author = {Dengler, Nils and Pan, Sicong and Kalagaturu, Vamsi and Menon, Rohit and Dawood, Murad and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Learning Interactive Viewpoint Planning for Foresighted Object Discovery Considering Human Preferences},
  booktitle = {ICRA Workshop on Human-Aligned Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Agents and Robots},
  year = {2024},
  cvcategory = {Workshop Papers and Posters},
  cvsort = {30-0003},
  url = {https://harlworkshop.github.io/2024/submission_7.pdf},
}

@inproceedings{degeafernandez2018contextualrobots,
  author = {de Gea Fern{\'a}ndez, Jos{\'e} and Mronga, Dennis and G{\"u}nther, Martin and Stock, Sebastian and Niemann, Nils and Wiese, Hendrik and Menon, Rohit and Kirchner, Elsa Andrea and Stiene, Stefan},
  title = {Towards Contextual Robots for Collaborative Manufacturing},
  booktitle = {IROS Workshop on Human-Robot Cooperation and Collaboration in Manipulation: Advancements and Challenges},
  year = {2018},
  cvcategory = {Workshop Papers and Posters},
  cvsort = {30-0004},
  url = {https://robotik.dfki-bremen.de/de/forschung/publikationen/10027},
  note = {Poster.},
}

@misc{menon2026sgamp,
  author = {Menon, Rohit and Lolla, Shiva Rudra and Mueller-Goldingen, Niklas and Chenchani, Gokul and Roscher, Ribana and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{SG-AMP}: Scene-Graph-Guided Active Perception and Semantics-Aware Motion Planning for Pepper Plants},
  howpublished = {arXiv:2609.01579},
  year = {2026},
  cvcategory = {Preprints and Manuscripts under Review},
  cvsort = {40-0001},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01579},
  eprint = {2609.01579},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  note = {Preprint.},
}

@unpublished{menon2026ostaricra,
  author = {Menon, Rohit and Schmiede, Yasmin and Chenchani, Gokul Krishna and Blum, Hermann and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {{O-STaR}: Effective Object Search through Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Dynamic Scene Graphs},
  howpublished = {Manuscript},
  year = {2026},
  cvcategory = {Preprints and Manuscripts under Review},
  cvsort = {40-0002},
  note = {Extended version submitted to ICRA 2027; under review.},
}

@misc{pan2025repeatedmonitoring,
  author = {Pan, Sicong and Lobefaro, Luca and Taherkhani, Moein and Huang, Xuying and Menon, Rohit and Stachniss, Cyrill and Bennewitz, Maren},
  title = {Efficient View Planning Guided by Previous-Session Reconstruction for Repeated Plant Monitoring},
  howpublished = {arXiv:2510.07028},
  year = {2025},
  cvcategory = {Preprints and Manuscripts under Review},
  cvsort = {40-0003},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07028},
  eprint = {2510.07028},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  note = {Preprint; revised in 2026; submitted for review.},
}