publications | Tony Alarcon

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2025

ICRA

Coverage Path Planning for Holonomic UAVs via Uniaxial-Feasible, Gap-Severity Guided Decomposition

Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno and Jane Cleland-Huang

Accepted at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025

Vienna, Austria, 2026 (to appear)

arXiv Bib Code

@article{aa2025coverage,
  title = {Coverage Path Planning for Holonomic UAVs via Uniaxial-Feasible, Gap-Severity Guided Decomposition},
  author = {Granadeno, Pedro Antonio Alarcon and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  journal = {Accepted at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_01},
  note = {Vienna, Austria, 2026 (to appear)},
}

CAIN

Cognition Envelopes for Bounded AI Reasoning in Autonomous UAS Operations

Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno, Arturo Miguel Bernal Russell, Sofia Nelson, and 5 more authors

Accepted at IEEE/ACM International Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN), 2025

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026 (to appear)

arXiv Bib

@article{ab2025cognition,
  title = {Cognition Envelopes for Bounded AI Reasoning in Autonomous UAS Operations},
  author = {Granadeno, Pedro Antonio Alarcon and Russell, Arturo Miguel Bernal and Nelson, Sofia and Hernandez, Demetrius and Petterson, Maureen and Murphy, Michael and Scheirer, Walter J and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  journal = {Accepted at IEEE/ACM International Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN)},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_02},
  note = {Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026 (to appear)}
}

MLWA

Multi-source plume tracing via multi-agent reinforcement learning under Common UAV-faults

Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno, Theodore Chambers, and Jane Cleland-Huang

Machine Learning with Applications, 2025

DOI arXiv Bib Code

@article{ac2025plume,
  title = {Multi-source plume tracing via multi-agent reinforcement learning under Common UAV-faults},
  author = {Granadeno, Pedro Antonio Alarcon and Chambers, Theodore and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  journal = {Machine Learning with Applications},
  pages = {100737},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_03},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.mlwa.2025.100737},
}

CAIN

Evaluating Reinforcement Learning Safety and Trustworthiness in Cyber-Physical Systems

Katherine Dearstyne, Pedro Tony Alarcon Granadeno, Theodore Chambers, and 1 more author

In 2025 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on AI Engineering–Software Engineering for AI (CAIN), 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{dearstyne2025evaluating,
  title = {Evaluating Reinforcement Learning Safety and Trustworthiness in Cyber-Physical Systems},
  author = {Dearstyne, Katherine and Granadeno, Pedro Tony Alarcon and Chambers, Theodore and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE/ACM 4th International Conference on AI Engineering--Software Engineering for AI (CAIN)},
  pages = {283--284},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_07},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/CAIN66642.2025.00051}
}

QUESTRL: A Q&A Framework for Designing Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning Systems

Katherine R Dearstyne, Pedro Tony Alarcon Granadeno, Theodore Chambers, and 1 more author

In 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{dearstyne2025questrl,
  title = {QUESTRL: A Q\&A Framework for Designing Trustworthy Reinforcement Learning Systems},
  author = {Dearstyne, Katherine R and Granadeno, Pedro Tony Alarcon and Chambers, Theodore and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  booktitle = {2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)},
  pages = {80--91},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_08},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/RE63999.2025.00018}
}

MODELS-C

Validating Terrain Models in Digital Twins for Trustworthy sUAS Operations

Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal, Maureen Petterson, Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno, and 3 more authors

In 2025 ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C), 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{bernal2025validating,
  title = {Validating Terrain Models in Digital Twins for Trustworthy sUAS Operations},
  author = {Bernal, Arturo Miguel Russell and Petterson, Maureen and Granadeno, Pedro Antonio Alarcon and Murphy, Michael and Mason, James and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  booktitle = {2025 ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C)},
  pages = {289--299},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_04},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/MODELS-C68889.2025.00047}
}

AIAA

Automated On-Entry Decision-Making for UTM Zones Based on Reputations and Certifications

Theodore P Chambers, Pedro Granadeno, Usman Gohar, and 8 more authors

In AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025, 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{chambers2025automated,
  title = {Automated On-Entry Decision-Making for UTM Zones Based on Reputations and Certifications},
  author = {Chambers, Theodore P and Granadeno, Pedro and Gohar, Usman and Hunter, Michael C and Miguel Russell Bernal, Arturo and Tang, Wenyi and Nafee Al Islam, Md and Cohen, Myra and Jung, Taeho and Lutz, Robyn and others},
  booktitle = {AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025},
  pages = {3567},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_05},
  doi = {10.2514/6.2025-3567}
}

arXiv

Cognitive guardrails for open-world decision making in autonomous drone swarms

Jane Cleland-Huang, Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno, Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal, and 4 more authors

arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.23576, 2025

arXiv Bib

@article{cleland2025cognitive,
  title = {Cognitive guardrails for open-world decision making in autonomous drone swarms},
  author = {Cleland-Huang, Jane and Granadeno, Pedro Antonio Alarcon and Bernal, Arturo Miguel Russell and Hernandez, Demetrius and Murphy, Michael and Petterson, Maureen and Scheirer, Walter},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.23576},
  year = {2025},
  list_order = {y2025_06},
}

2024

REW

An environmentally complex requirement for safe separation distance between uavs

Pedro Antonio Alarcon Granadeno, Arturo Miguel Russell Bernal, Md Nafee Al Islam, and 1 more author

In 2024 IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{granadeno2024environmentally,
  title = {An environmentally complex requirement for safe separation distance between uavs},
  author = {Granadeno, Pedro Antonio Alarcon and Bernal, Arturo Miguel Russell and Al Islam, Md Nafee and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE 32nd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)},
  pages = {166--175},
  year = {2024},
  list_order = {y2024_01},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/REW61692.2024.00028}
}

2023

AIAA

Towards an Annotated All-Weather Dataset of Flight Logs for Small Uncrewed Aerial System

Md Nafee Al Islam, Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, Pedro Alarcon, and 2 more authors

In AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum, 2023

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{islam2023towards,
  title = {Towards an Annotated All-Weather Dataset of Flight Logs for Small Uncrewed Aerial System},
  author = {Islam, Md Nafee Al and Chowdhury, Muhammed Tawfiq and Alarcon, Pedro and Cleland-Huang, Jane and Spirkovska, Lilly},
  booktitle = {AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum},
  pages = {3856},
  year = {2023},
  list_order = {y2023_01},
  doi = {10.2514/6.2023-3856}
}

2022

RESAM: Requirements elicitation and specification for deep-learning anomaly models with applications to UAV flight controllers

Md Nafee Al Islam, Yihong Ma, Pedro Alarcon, and 2 more authors

In 2022 IEEE 30th international requirements engineering conference (RE), 2022

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{al2022resam,
  title = {RESAM: Requirements elicitation and specification for deep-learning anomaly models with applications to UAV flight controllers},
  author = {Al Islam, Md Nafee and Ma, Yihong and Alarcon, Pedro and Chawla, Nitesh and Cleland-Huang, Jane},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE 30th international requirements engineering conference (RE)},
  pages = {153--165},
  year = {2022},
  list_order = {y2022_01},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/RE54965.2022.00020}
}