Publications
2027
9 - Bonilla, W., Poissant, D., Boisvert, M., Meger, D. & Petit, L. (2027). FLINT: Fast Lightweight Inference for Traversability. 2027 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). (under review)
8 - Bary, T., Macq, B. & Petit, L. (2027). No Need for Learning to Defer? A Training Free Deferral Framework to Multiple Experts through Conformal Prediction. 2027 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (under review) PDF
2026
7 - Poissant, D., Desbiens, A.L., Ferland, F. & Petit, L. (2026). ARENA: Adaptive Risk-aware Navigation for Autonomous Aerial Inspection. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). (under review) PDF
6 - Zhu, J., Bary, T., Petit, L. & Shangpeng, S. (2026). DDS-Mamba-YOLO: Improved adaptive state-space modeling for tomato fruit and leaf disease detection. Smart Agricultural Technology. Publisher
2025
5 - Tremblay, J., Alhosh, J., Petit, L., Lotfi, F., Landauro, L. & Meger, D. (2025). Topological mapping for traversability-aware long-range navigation in off-road terrain. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Publisher | PDF | Github
2024
4 - Petit, L. & Desbiens, A.L. (2024). MOAR Planner: Multi-Objective and Adaptive Risk-Aware Path Planning for Infrastructure Inspection with a UAV. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Publisher | PDF | Demo
2023
3 - Petit, L. (2023). Enabling Efficient Autonomous Exploration of Unknown Underground Mining Stopes using a Tethered Aerial Robot (PhD thesis). Université de Sherbrooke. PDF
2022
2 - Petit, L. & Desbiens, A.L. (2022). TAPE: Tether-Aware Path Planning for Autonomous Exploration of Unknown 3D Cavities Using a Tangle-Compatible Tethered Aerial Robot. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Publisher | PDF
2021
1 - Petit, L. & Desbiens, A.L. (2021). RRT-Rope: A Deterministic Shortening Approach for Fast Near-optimal Path Planning in Large-Scale Uncluttered 3D Environments. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). Publisher | PDF | Demo | Available in OMPL | Best Student Paper Award and Finalist for the Best Paper Award