Marlin P. Strub
Roboticist and C++ enthusiast

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Publications

Journal articles

  • T. S. Vaquero, G. Daddi, R. Thakker, M. Paton, A. Jasour, M. P. Strub, R. M. Swan, R. Royce et al. (2024) EELS: Autonomous snake-like robot with task and motion planning capabilities for ice world exploration. Science Robotics, 9(88): pages 1—11. (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@Article{vaquero_sr2024,
  author = {Vaquero, Tiago S. and Daddi, Guglielmo and Thakker, Rohan and Paton, Michael and Jasour, Akash and Strub, Marlin P. and Swan, R. Michael and Royce, Rob and Gildner, Matthew and Tosi, Phillipe and Veismann, Marcel and Gavrilov, Peter and Marteau, Elo\"{i}se and Bowkett, Joseph and Loret de Mola Lemus, Daniel and Nakka, Yashwanth and Hockman, Ben and Orekhov, Andrew and Hasseler, Tristan D. and Leake, Carl and Nuernberger, Benjamin and Proen\c{c}a, Pedro and Reid, William and Talbot, William and Georgiev, Nikola and Pailevanian, Torkom and Archanian, Avak and Ambrose, Eric and Jasper, Jay and Etheredge, Rachel and Roman, Christian and Levine, Dan and Otsu, Kyon and Yearicks, Sarah and Melikyan, Hovhannes and Rieber, Richard R. and Carpenter, Kalind and Nash, Jeremy and Jain, Abhinandan and Shiraishi, Lori and Robinson, Matt and Travers, Matthew and Choset, Howie and Burdick, Joel W. and Gardner, Alex and Cable, Morgan L. and Ingham, Mitch and Ono, Hiro},
  title = {{EELS}: {Autonomous} snake-like robot with task and motion planning capabilities for ice world exploration},
  journal = {Science Robotics},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {9},
  number = {88},
  pages = {1--11},
  doi = {10.1126/scirobotics.adh8332}
}
  • W. Thomason, M. P. Strub, J. D. Gammell (2022) Task and Motion Informed Trees (TMIT*): Almost-surely asymptotically optimal integrated task and motion planning. Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 7(4): pages 11370—11377. (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@Article{thomason_ral2022,
  author = {Thomason, Wil and Strub, Marlin P. and Gammell, Jonathan D.},
  title = {{Task} and {Motion} {Informed} {Trees} ({TMIT*}): Almost-surely asymptotically optimal integrated task and motion planning},
  journal = {{IEEE} Robotics and Automation Letters ({RA-L})},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {7},
  number = {4},
  pages = {11370--11377},
  doi = {10.1109/LRA.2022.3199676}
}
  • M. P. Strub, J. D. Gammell (2022) AIT​* and EIT*: Asymmetric bidirectional sampling-based path planning. The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 41(4): pages 390—417. (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@Article{strub_ijrr2021,
  author = {Strub, Marlin P. and Gammell, Jonathan D.}
  title = {{AIT*} and {EIT*}: {Asymmetric} bidirectional sampling-based path planning},
  journal = {The International Journal of Robotics Research ({IJRR})},
  year = {2022},
  volume = {41},
  number = {4},
  pages = {351--457},
  doi = {10.1177/02783649211069572}
}
  • J. D. Gammell, M. P. Strub (2021) Asymptotically optimal sampling-based motion planning methods. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (ARCRAS), 4(1): pages 295—318. Invited. (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@Article{gammell_arcras2021,
  author = {Gammell, Jonathan D. and Strub, Marlin P.},
  title = {Asymptotically optimal sampling-based motion planning methods},
  journal = {Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {4},
  number = {1},
  pages = {295--318},
  doi = {10.1146/annurev-control-061920-093753}
}

Conference papers

  • R. Thakker, M. Paton, M. P. Strub, M. Swan, G. Daddi, R. Royce, et al. (2023) EELS: Towards autonomous mobility in extreme terrain with a versatile snake robot with resilience to exteroception failures. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@InProceedings{thakker_iros23,
  author = {Thakker, Rohan and Paton, Michael and Strub, Marlin P. and Swan, Michael and Daddi, Guglielmo and Royce, Rob and Tosi, Phillipe and Gildner, Matthew and Vaquero, Tiago and Veismann, Marcel and Gavrilov, Peter and Marteau, Eloise Bowkett, Joseph and Loret, Daniel and Nakka, Yashwanth and Hockman, Benjamin and Orekhov, Andrew and Hasseler, Tristan and Leake, Carl and Nuernberger, Benjamin and Proen\c{c}a, Pedro and Reid, William and Talbot, William and Georgiev, Nikola and Pailevanian, Torkom and Archanian, Avak and Ambrose, Eric and Jasper, Jay and Etheredge, Rachel and Roman, Christiahn and Levine, Dan and Otsu, Kyohei and Melikyan, Hovhannes and Nash, Jeremy and Rieber, Richard and Carpenter, Kalind and Jain, Abhinandan and Shiraishi, Lori and Pastor, Daniel and Yearicks, Sarah and Ingham, Michel and Robinson, Matthew and Agha, Ali and Travers, Matthew and Choset, Howie and Burdick, Joel and Ono Masahiro},
  title = {{EELS}: {Towards} autonomous mobility in extreme terrain with a versatile snake robot with resilience to exteroception failures},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE}/{RSJ} International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ({IROS})},
  year = {2023},
  note = {to appear}
}
  • V. N. Hartmann, M. P. Strub, M. Toussaint, J. D. Gammell (2022) Effort Informed Roadmaps (EIRM*): Efficient asymptotically optimal multiquery planning by actively reusing validation effort. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR). (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@InProceedings{hartmann_isrr22,
  author = {Hartmann, Valentin N. and Strub, Marlin P. and Toussaint, Marc and Gammell, Jonathan D.},
  title = {{Effort} {Informed} {Roadmaps} ({EIRM*}): {Efficient} asymptotically optimal multiquery planning by actively reusing validation effort},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research ({ISRR})},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-25555-7_37}
}
  • M. Paton, M. P. Strub, T. Brown, R. J. Greene, J. Lizewski, V. Patel, J. D. Gammell, I. A. D. Nesnas (2020) Navigation on the line: Traversability analysis and path planning for extreme-terrain rappelling rovers. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pages 7034—7041. (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@InProceedings{paton_iros2020,
  author = {Paton, Michael and Strub, Marlin P. and Brown, Travis and Greene, Rebecca J. and Lizewski, Jacob and Patel, Vandan and Gammell, Jonathan D. and Nesnas, Issa A.D.},
  title = {Navigation on the line: {Traversability} analysis and path planning for extreme-terrain rappelling rovers},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE}/{RSJ} International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ({IROS})},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {7034--7041},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341409}
}
  • M. P. Strub, J. D. Gammell (2020) Adaptively Informed Trees (AIT*): Fast asymptotically optimal path planning through adaptive heuristics. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). pages 3191—3198. (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@InProceedings{strub_icra2020b,
  author = {Strub, Marlin P. and Gammell, Jonathan D.},
  title = {{Adaptively} {Informed} {Trees} ({AIT*}): {Fast} asymptotically optimal path planning through adaptive heuristics},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation ({ICRA})},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {3191--3198},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9197338}
}
  • M. P. Strub, J. D. Gammell (2020) Advanced BIT* (ABIT*): Sampling-based planning with advanced graph-search techniques. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). pages 130—136. (open-access, doi)
Bibtex entry
@InProceedings{strub_icra2020a,
  author = {Strub, Marlin P. and Gammell, Jonathan D.},
  title = {{Advanced} {BIT*} ({ABIT*}): {Sampling}-based planning with advanced graph-search techniques},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation ({ICRA})},
  year = 2020,
  pages = {130--136},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196580},
}

Theses

  • M. P. Strub (2022) Leveraging multiple sources of information to search continuous spaces. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Oxford (open-access)
Bibtex entry
@PhDThesis{strub_phd2022,
  author = {Strub, Marlin P.},
  title = {Leveraging multiple sources of information to search continuous spaces},
  school = {University of Oxford},
  year = {2022}
}

Workshop papers and technical reports

  • J. D. Gammell, M. P. Strub, V. N. Hartmann (2022) Planner Developer Tools (PDT): Reproducible experiments and statistical analysis for developing and testing motion planners. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluating Motion Planning Performance (EMPP), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (open-access)
Bibtex entry
@InProceedings{gammell_empp22,
  author = {Gammell, Jonathan D. and Strub, Marlin P. and Hartmann, Valentin N.},
  title = {Planner {Developer} {Tools} ({PDT}): Reproducible experiments and statistical analysis for developing and testing motion planners},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Evaluating Motion Planning Performance ({EMPP}), {IEEE/RSJ} International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems ({IROS})},
  year = {2022}
}
  • M. P. Strub, J. D. Gammell (2021) Admissible heuristics for obstacle clearance optimization objectives. (open-access)
Bibtex entry
@TechReport{strub_tr2021,
  author = {Strub, Marlin P. and Gammell, Jonathan D.},
  title = {Admissible heuristics for obstacle clearance optimization objectives},
  institution = {Estimation, Search, and Planning (ESP) Research Group, University of Oxford},
  number = {TR-2021-MPS001},
	note = {arXiv:2104.02298 [cs.RO]},
	year = {2021}
}