S. Macenski, M. Booker, J. Wallace, “Open-Source, Cost-Aware Kinematically Feasible Planning for Mobile and Surface Robotics”, 2024. [LINK]

S. Macenski, “On Use of Nav2 MPPI Controller” ROSCon 2023. [LINK]

S. Macenski, T. Moore, DV Lu, A. Merzlyakov, M. Ferguson, “From the desks of ROS maintainers: A survey of modern & capable mobile robotics algorithms in the robot operating system 2“, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2023. [LINK]

S. Macenski, S. Singh, F. Martin, J. Gines, “Regulated Pure Pursuit for Robot Path Tracking”, Autonomous Robots, 2023. [LINK]

S. Macenski, A. Soragna, M. Carroll, Z. Ge, “Impact of ROS 2 Node Composition in Robotic Systems“, RAL 2023. [LINK]

S. Macenski, “On Use of Nav2 Smac Planners“, ROSCon 2022. [LINK]

S. Macenski, T. Foote, B. Gerkey, C. Lalancette, W. Woodall, “Robot Operating System 2: Design, architecture, and uses in the wild,” Science Robotics vol. 7, May 2022. [LINK]

S. Macenski, “ROS 2 and Nav2 with Your Friendly Neighborhood Navigator”, University of Illinois Department of Aerospace Engineering, 2022.

S Macenski, “The Past, Present, and Future of Navigation“, ROSCon Japan, 2021. Invited Headline Keynote. [LINK]

A Merzlyakov, S Macenski, “A Comparison of Modern General-Purpose Visual SLAM Approaches“, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2021. [LINK]

S Macenski, I Jambrecic, “SLAM Toolbox: SLAM for the dynamic world“, Journal of Open Source Software 6 (61), 2783, 2021. [LINK]

S Macenski, F Martín, R White, JG Clavero, “The Marathon 2: A Navigation System“, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020. Finalist RoboCup Best Paper Award. [LINK]

S Macenski, D Tsai, M Feinberg, “Spatio-temporal voxel layer: A view on robot perception for the dynamic world”, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 17 (2), 2020. Top 20 Read Articles of Journal. [LINK]

A Sintov, S Macenski, A Borum, T Bretl, “Motion planning for dual-arm manipulation of elastic rods“, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 5 (4), 6065-6072, 2020. [LINK]

S Macenski. “Overview of ROS 2 for Mobile Robot Users“, Oregon State University Lecture Rob599, 2020.

S Macenski, “Navigation2: The Next Generation Navigation System”, ROS World, 2020. Invited Keynote. [LINK]

S Macenski, “On Use of SLAM Toolbox“, ROSCon, 2019. [LINK]

S Macenski, “On Use of the Spatio-Temporal Voxel Layer”, ROSCon, 2018. [LINK]

S Macenski, “Robotic Software Architecture and Experimental Elastic Rod Manipulation For Helix Model Validation“, University of Illinois Aerospace Engineering Department Thesis, 2017.

S Macenski, “An open source tele-operation application for arbitrary N-DOF manipulators“, Technical Report University of Illinois Ideals, 2017. [LINK]

AW Case, PA DeTrempe, S Macenski, “In-Situ Sample Collection Tool Design and Analysis“, 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2017. [LINK]

C Lorenz, A Bacula, A Case, B Collins, Z Fester, B Hardy, Y Kathuria, A Koehler, S Macenski, J Miceli, J Murphy, J Pekosh, K Ponnapalli, L Suzuki, K White, “MOSAIC: Mars Orbiting Satellites for Advanced Interplanetary Communication“, Society of Satellite Professionals International, 2016. [LINK]

S Macenski, “Ep. 13: Steve Macenski Open Source Robot Navigation“, Sense Think Act Podcast, 2022. [LINK]

S Macenski, “Newest ROS2 Distribution "Galactic Geochelone" Released!“, Samsung Research Blog, 2021. [LINK]

S Macenski, “Practical Demonstration of New User-Requested Nav2 Features“, ROS Developer’s Day, 2021. Invited Headline Keynote. [EVENT LINK] [TALK LINK]

S Macenski, “#9: Coffee with Steve Macenski“, Weekly Robotics Meetup, 2021. [LINK]

S Macenski, “ROS2 Navigation Stack with Steve Macenski”, ROS Developer’s Podcast #76, 2020. [LINK]

S Macenski, “The Life and Times of ROS2: A Look at the Future of Robotics Infrastructure“, RoboBusiness, 2020. [LINK]

S Macenski, C Delaunay, “Building Robotics Platforms“, TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics and AI, 2020. [LINK]

J Whitley, S Macenski, Y Caliskan, “Autoware Course Lecture 10: State Estimation for Localization“, Autoware Academy, 2020. [LINK]

V Kamber, S Macenski, P Patel, “Illini Aero Connections -- Unknown Trajectories: Landing in an aerospace-related job“, 2020. [LINK]

S Macenski, “SLAM Toolbox: The New Default SLAM in ROS“, ROSCon Rewind, Silicon Valley Robotics, 2019. [LINK]

S Macenski, “The ROS SLAM Toolbox by Steve Macenski“, ROS Developer’s Podcast #56, 2019. Top 3 Listened Podcast of 2019. [LINK]

Press About Me

“Samsung Electronics Publishes Paper in Science Robotics on Robot Operating System 2”, Samsung Electronics Newsroom, 2022. [LINK]

“Engineering Lead at Samsung Research Wins Multiple Top Awards in Robotics Community“, Samsung Research Press, 2021. [LINK]

“What the new artificial intelligence initiative does—and doesn't—mean“, National Geographic, 2019. [LINK]

“From Midwest To Maryland: Students Take Annual Road Trip To Goddard Symposium”, NASA Goddard View, 2016. [LINK]