Research

Citations: 162
h-index: 7
i10-index: 7

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Bonn, supervised by Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz. My research focuses on Active Perception and Mobile Manipulation. I develop algorithms that enable robots to intelligently perceive their environment, specifically for agricultural and domestic applications.

Selected Publications

Open-Vocabulary Reasoning Figure
Open-Vocabulary and Semantic-Aware Reasoning for Search and Retrieval of Objects in Dynamic and Concealed Spaces
Rohit Menon, Yasmin Schmiede, Maren Bennewitz, Hermann Blum
IROS Workshop on Perception and Planning for Mobile Manipulation (2025) (Best Poster Award)
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EvidMTL Figure
EvidMTL: Evidential Multi-Task Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Semantic Surface Mapping from Monocular RGB Images
Rohit Menon, Nils Dengler, Sicong Pan, Gokul Krishna Chenchani, Maren Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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GO-VMP Figure
GO-VMP: Global Optimization for View Motion Planning in Fruit Mapping
Allen Isaac Jose*, Sicong Pan*, Tobias Zaenker, Rohit Menon, Sebastian Houben, Maren Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025
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Hortibot Figure
Hortibot: An Adaptive Multi-Arm System for Robotic Horticulture of Sweet Peppers
Christian Lenz*, Rohit Menon*, Michael Schreiber, Melvin Paul Jacob, Sven Behnke, Maren Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024
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DawnIK Figure
DawnIK: Decentralized Collision-Aware Inverse Kinematics Solver for Heterogeneous Multi-Arm Systems
Salih Marangoz*, Rohit Menon*, Nils Dengler, Maren Bennewitz
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2023
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NBV-SC Figure
NBV-SC: Next Best View Planning Based on Shape Completion for Fruit Mapping and Reconstruction
Rohit Menon, Tobias Zaenker, Nils Dengler, Maren Bennewitz
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
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Fruit Mapping Figure
Fruit Mapping with Shape Completion for Autonomous Crop Monitoring
Salih Marangoz, Tobias Zaenker, Rohit Menon, Maren Bennewitz
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2022
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Flexible Grasping Figure
Flexible, Semi-Autonomous Grasping for Assistive Robotics
Jörn Vogel, Katharina Hertkorn, Rohit U. Menon, Máximo A. Roa
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016
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Professional Service

I serve as a reviewer for several top-tier journals and conferences in robotics:

  • Journals: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
  • Conferences: ICRA, IROS, CASE, Humanoids, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2026