Mikko Lauri

Tampere University, Universität Hamburg

Papers

8

Total Citations

351

H-Index

6

About

Mikko Lauri is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, decision-making under uncertainty, and autonomous information gathering. His work is unified by a focus on Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs), which provide a principled framework for robots operating with noisy sensors and imperfect control. His landmark survey, "Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes in Robotics: A Survey" (2022, 150 citations), has become a foundational reference for the field, systematically mapping how POMDPs can address real-world challenges in robot autonomy. Lauri has made significant contributions to active perception and multi-robot coordination. His work on "Planning for robotic exploration based on forward simulation" (2016, 101 citations) introduced efficient simulation-based methods for autonomous exploration. He has also advanced multi-sensor planning, formulating the next-best-view problem for robot teams as matroid-constrained submodular maximization (2020, 36 citations), and developed strategies for multi-robot information gathering under periodic communication constraints (2017). His research on occlusion-resistant object rotation regression from point clouds (2019, 23 citations) and deep reinforcement learning for active visual object search (2019) further demonstrates his impact on practical robotic perception and manipulation.

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H-Index
8
Papers
351
Total Citations
44
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes in Robotics: A Survey
150 citations · 2022
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2016 (2 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 11
🏛 Institutions: Tampere University, Universität Hamburg

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