Journal papers

• Stavridis S, Droukas L, Doulgeri Z, Papageorgiou D, Dimeas F, Soriano Á, Molina S, Deiri AS, Hutchinson M, Pulido-Fentanes J,..., Polvara R, ... (2024). Robotic Grape Inspection and Selective Harvesting in Vineyards: A Multisensory Robotic System With Advanced Cognitive Capabilities IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine


• Polvara R, Molina S, Hroob I, Papadimitriou A, Tsiolis K, Giakoumis D, Likothanassis S, Tzovaras D, Cielniak G, Hanheide M (2023). Bacchus Long‐Term (BLT) data set: Acquisition of the agricultural multimodal BLT data set with automated robot deployment. Journal of Field Robotics


• Szyrowski T, Khan A, Pemberton R, Sharma SK, Singh Y, Polvara R (2022). Range extension for electromagnetic detection of subsea power and telecommunication cables. Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology


• Polvara R, Del Duchetto F, Neumann G, Hanheide M (2021). Navigate-and-Seek: a Robotics Framework for People Localization in Agricultural Environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (presented at IROS)


• Polvara R, Fernandez-Carmona M, Neumann G, Hanheide M (2020). Next-Best-Sense: a multi-criteria robotic exploration strategy for RFID tags discovery. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters(presented at IROS)


• Polvara R*, Patacchiola M*, Hanheide M, Neumann G (2020). Sim-to-Real Quadrotor Landing via Sequential Deep Q-Networks and Domain Randomization. Robotics*Co-first authors


• Szyrowski T, Khan A, Pemberton R, Sharma SK, Singh Y and Polvara, R(2019). Range extension for electromagnetic detection of subsea power and telecommunication cables. Journal of Marine Engineering & Technology


• Polvara R, Sharma S, Wan J, Manning A, Sutton R (2019). Autonomous Vehicular Landings on the Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle using Deep Reinforcement Learning Robotica.


• Polvara R, Sharma S, Wan J, Manning A, Sutton R (2018). Vision-based Autonomous Landing of a Quadrotor on the Perturbed Deck of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle. Drones.


• Polvara R, Sharma S, Wan J, Manning A, Sutton R (2017). Obstacle Avoidance Approaches for Autonomous Navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles. Journal of Navigation.

Conference Papers

• Cox J, Hanheide M, Polvara R (2024). AGRIDS: an Advanced Multi-Modal Mapping Architecture for Robotics and Agriculture 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), pp. 2531-2536


• Hroob I, Molina S, Polvara R, Cielniak G, Hanheide M (2024). Adaptive robot localization in dynamic environments through self-learnt long-term 3D stable points segmentation Robotics and Autonomous Systems, pp. 104786


• Hroob I, Molina S, Polvara R, Cielniak G, Hanheide M (2023). Learned Long-Term Stability Scan Filtering for Robust Robot Localisation in Continuously Changing Environments. European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)


• Hroob I, Molina S, Polvara R, Cielniak G, Hanheide M (2023). S-NET: End-To-End Unsupervised Learning of Long-Term 3D Stable Objects. 18th international conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS18)


• Constantinou M, Polvara R, Makridis E (2023). TS-Rep: Self-supervised time series representation learning from robot sensor data. 17th International Technology, Education and Development Conference


• Somaiya P, Pandya H, Polvara R, Hanheide M, Cielniak G (2022). TS-Rep: Self-supervised time series representation learning from robot sensor data. NeurIPS 2022 Workshop: Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice.


• Polvara R, Molina S, Hroob I, Cielniak G, Hanheide M (2022). Collection and Evaluation of a Long-Term 4D Agri-Robotic Dataset. Perception and Navigation for Autonomous Robotics in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments (PNARUDE) Workshop, IROS 2022.


• Hroob I, Polvara R, Molina S, Cielniak G, Hanheide M (2021). Benchmark of visual and 3D lidar SLAM systems in simulation environment for vineyards. The 22th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference


• Polvara R, Patacchiola M, Sharma S, Wan J, Manning A, Sutton R, Cangelosi A. (2018). Toward End-to-End Control for UAV Autonomous Landing via Deep Reinforcement Learning. International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System (ICUAS), Dallas, USA.


• T Szyrowski, Bogdan, P., Khan, A., Pemberton, R., Sharma, S.K., Singh, Y., Polvara, R (2017). Range Extension for Electromagnetic Detection of Subsea Power and Telecommunication Cables. International Conference on Marine Electromagnetics (MARELEC 2017) , Liverpool, UK.


• Polvara R, Sharma S, Wan J, Manning A, Sutton R (2017). Towards autonomous landing on a moving vessel through fiducial markers. IEEE European Conference on Mobile Robotics (ECMR), Paris, France.


• Abed W, Polvara R, Singh Y, Sharma S, Sutton R, Hatton D, Manning A, Wan Y (2016). Advanced feature extraction and dimensionality reduction for unmanned underwater vehicle fault diagnosis. UKACC 11th International Conference on Control (CONTROL), Belfast, UK


• Polvara R, Sharma S, Sutton R, Wan J, Manning A (2016). Toward a Multi-agent system for Marine Observation. Advances in Cooperative Robotics: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on (CLAWAR), London, UK


• Singh Y, Polvara R, Sharma S, Hatton D, Wan J, Sutton R (2016). Design of a Variable Buoyancy Engine for Small Scale Underwater Vehicle. International Conference on Advances in Subsea Engineering, Structures and Systems (ASESS-2016), Glasgow, UK.

Presentation and others

• Polvara R (2024). Navigate2See: Reactive Autonomy for Object Discovery and Tracking. Winter School on Robotics & AI for Materials Chemistry, University of Liverpool.


• Polvara R (2024). Cultivating the future: Mobile Robotics in Agriculture for long-term planning. Engineering Innovation: Unveiling the Future seminar series, Sheffield Hallam University.


• Terzakis G, Polvara R, Sharma S, Sutton R (2017).Monocular Visual Odometry for an Unmanned Sea-Surface Vehicle.


• Polvara R, Patacchiola M, Sharma S, Wan J, Manning A, Sutton R, Cangelosi A (2017). Autonomous Quadrotor Landing using Deep Reinforcement Learning.


• Polvara R, Sharma S, Sutton R, Wan J, Manning A (2016). Toward an Air-Sea Cooperation System for Marine Observation. UK Robotics Week, Plymouth, UK.


• Polvara R, Trabattoni M, Kucner T, Schaffernicht E, Amigoni F, Lilienthal A (2015). A next-best-smell approach for remote gas detection with a mobile robot.