Rohit Menon

M.Sc.

Rohit Menon

Ph.D. Student

Contact:

Room:Room 2.024Tel.:0228-734143Email:<lastname>[at]cs[dot]uni[minus]bonn[dot]de

Research Interest:

  • Active Mapping
  • Active Perception for Mobile Manipulation
  • Scene and Shape Completion

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About:

I am a Phd student in the Humanoid Robots Lab headed by Maren Bennewitz at the University of Bonn. I received my master's degree in Automation and Robotics from the Technical University of Dortmund in 2015. I investigate active perception for mapping and manipulation in unstructured environments.

I am currently offering thesis opportunities for motivated students within the research areas mentioned above. If you are interested in a Bachelor or Master thesis, feel free to get in touch with me.


Attention all students!

Please use https://cal.com/rohitmenon to book appointments

Research Areas:

My Publications:

O-STaR: Open-Vocabulary Object Search through Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Dynamic Scene Graphs

O-STaR: Open-Vocabulary Object Search through Spatio-Temporal Reasoning on Dynamic Scene Graphs

R. Menon, Y. Schmiede, G.K.G. Chenchani, H. Blum, M. Bennewitz

Proceedings of 2nd German Robotics Conference (GRC), 2026

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A Robust Placeability Metric for Model-Free Unified Pick-and-Place Reasoning

A Robust Placeability Metric for Model-Free Unified Pick-and-Place Reasoning

B. Wingender, N. Dengler, R. Menon, S. Pan, M. Bennewitz

Arxiv Pre-print, 2026

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SG-DOR: Learning Scene Graphs with Direction-Conditioned Occlusion Reasoning for Pepper Plants

SG-DOR: Learning Scene Graphs with Direction-Conditioned Occlusion Reasoning for Pepper Plants

R. Menon, N. Mueller-Goldingen, S. Pan, G.K.G. Chenchani, M. Bennewitz

Arxiv Pre-print, 2026

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Efficient View Planning Guided by Previous-Session Reconstruction for Repeated Plant Monitoring

Efficient View Planning Guided by Previous-Session Reconstruction for Repeated Plant Monitoring

S. Pan, L. Lobefaro, M. Taherkhani, X. Huang, R. Menon, C. Stachniss, M. Bennewitz

Arxiv Pre-print, 2026

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Efficient Manipulation-Enhanced Semantic Mapping With Uncertainty-Informed Action Selection

Efficient Manipulation-Enhanced Semantic Mapping With Uncertainty-Informed Action Selection

N. Dengler, J. Mücke, R. Menon, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2025

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EvidMTL: Evidential Multi-Task Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Semantic Surface Mapping from Monocular RGB Images

EvidMTL: Evidential Multi-Task Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Semantic Surface Mapping from Monocular RGB Images

R. Menon, N. Dengler, S. Pan, G.K.G. Chenchani, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

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GO-VMP: Global Optimization for View Motion Planning in Fruit Mapping

GO-VMP: Global Optimization for View Motion Planning in Fruit Mapping

A. Isaac Jose, S. Pan, T. Zaenker, R. Menon, S. Houben, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

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Context-Based Meta Reinforcement Learning for Robust and Adaptable Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks

Context-Based Meta Reinforcement Learning for Robust and Adaptable Peg-in-Hole Assembly Tasks

A. Shokry, W. Gomaa, T. Zaenker, M. Dawood, R. Menon, S. Maged, M. Awad, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025

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Compact Multi-Object Placement Using Adjacency-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Compact Multi-Object Placement Using Adjacency-Aware Reinforcement Learning

B. Kreis, N. Dengler, J. de Heuvel, R. Menon, Hamsa Datta Perur, M. Bennewitz

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2024

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HortiBot: An Adaptive Multi-Arm System for Robotic Horticulture of Sweet Peppers

HortiBot: An Adaptive Multi-Arm System for Robotic Horticulture of Sweet Peppers

C. Lenz, R. Menon, M. Schreiber, M. Paul Jacob, S. Behnke, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024

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DawnIK: Decentralized Collision-Aware Inverse Kinematics Solver for Heterogeneous Multi-Arm Systems

DawnIK: Decentralized Collision-Aware Inverse Kinematics Solver for Heterogeneous Multi-Arm Systems

S. Marangoz, R. Menon, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz

IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2023

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Viewpoint Push Planning for Mapping of Unknown Confined Spaces

Viewpoint Push Planning for Mapping of Unknown Confined Spaces

N. Dengler, S. Pan, V. Kalagaturu, R. Menon, M. Dawood, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023

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NBV-SC: Next Best View Planning based on Shape Completion for Fruit Mapping and Reconstruction

NBV-SC: Next Best View Planning based on Shape Completion for Fruit Mapping and Reconstruction

R. Menon, T. Zaenker, N. Dengler, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023

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Graph-based View Motion Planning for Fruit Detection

Graph-based View Motion Planning for Fruit Detection

T. Zaenker, J. Rückin, R. Menon, M. Popovic, M. Bennewitz

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023

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Reactive Correction of Object Placement Errors for Robotic Arrangement Tasks

Reactive Correction of Object Placement Errors for Robotic Arrangement Tasks

B. Kreis, R. Menon, B. K. Adinarayan, J. de Heuvel, M. Bennewitz

International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-18), 2023

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Fruit Mapping with Shape Completion for Autonomous Crop Monitoring

Fruit Mapping with Shape Completion for Autonomous Crop Monitoring

S. Marangoz, T. Zaenker, R. Menon, M. Bennewitz

IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2022

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