Supervised projects

The following is a list of student projects I have (co-)supervised over the years.

Master’s theses

• Vivek Mannava: On using conversational AI for autonomous planning goal specification
• Anirudh Narasimamurthy: Visuomotor policy learning for predictive manipulation
• Hamsa Datta Perur: Coupled active perception for mobile manipulation in unknown environments
• Natalia Quiroga: Experience-based path planning framework for real-time learning from demonstration
• Malika Helapita Ralalage: Outdoor navigation in uneven terrain using learning methods
• Bharath Santhanam: Robust robot task execution using monitoring and recovery in anomalous conditions
• Ekansh Sharma: Model-based optimal estimation of articulated object configuration using proprioceptive interaction
• Ritwik Sinha: Towards socially acceptable robot-to-human object handover through a human-in-the-loop context-aware approach
• Michal Stolarz: Multimodal deep learning-based adaptation of robot behaviour for assistive robotics
• Hashem Talaat: Robust environment sound classification and anomaly detection using deep learning
• Artem Vinokurov: Towards improvements on RoboCup@Home robot’s architecture, capabilities and development process
• Hasnainali Walli: Lifelong action learning for socially assistive robots

Research and development projects

• Ahmed Faisal Abdelrahman: Incorporating contextual knowledge into human-robot collaborative task execution [technical report]
• Swaroop Bhandary: Learning corrective models for multistep actions by analysing videos
• Yashika Garg: Integrating anomaly detection with fault diagnosis for long-horizon tasks
• Alan Orlando Gomez Torres: Registering and visualizing point cloud data with existing 3D CityGML Models
• Sogol Haghighat: A comparative analysis of fault detection approaches in mobile robots (joint project with Roberto Mendieta)
• Erick Romero Kramer: Tell your robot what to do: Evaluation of natural language models for robot command processing
• Vivek Mannava: Safe and fault-aware child-robot natural language interaction
• Roberto Mendieta: A comparative analysis of fault detection approaches in mobile robots (joint project with Sogol Haghighat)
• Anirudh Narasimamurthy: Manipulating handles in domestic environments
• Minh Nguyen: Learning grasp evaluation models using synthetic 3D object-grasp representations
• Abhishek Padalkar: Dynamic motion primitives
• Jasmine Padhye: Ontology-based robot fault diagnosis
• Natalia Quiroga: Learning human gestures by imitation for robots
• Malika Helapita Ralalage: Benchmarking object placement algorithms for mobile robotic manipulators
• Nigitha Selvaraj: Learning-Based Indoor Robot Navigation
• Ekansh Sharma: Development and implementation of a self-learning control approach for contact-rich object manipulation
• Salman Omar Sohail: Automated test generation for robot self-examination
• Khatina Sari: Explainability analysis for skill execution
• Kishan Ravindra Sawant: Learning efficient knife handling skills in semi-structured environments on a dual-arm robot
• Michal Stolarz: Personalised behaviour models for child-robot interaction
• Hashem Talaat: Semantic information by acoustic clues: Towards anomaly detection for service robots