Faculty: Bharadwaj Amrutur (amrutur@iisc.ac.in)
Professor in Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and ECE Dept, Indian Institute of Science
Program Director, ARTPARK@IISc
Teaching:
Research threads:
Multi-Modal fusion for Real-time Perception:
Real-Time Perception by fusing Information streams from sensors from all robots and infrastructure sensors (like security cameras). Explore
Techniques like 3DGaussian Splatting for information representation
Applications like Collaborative SLAM, Digital Twins, Navigation, Safety Alerts etc.
New sensing modalities like RF sensing based on OFDM Radar, RF Radiance fields etc.
Semantic Interactions for Robots:
Learn semantic maps and navigate to semantic goals (e.g. "Go to Kitchen")R
Active Object Detection/Search (e.g. "Where is Asimov's book?", "Find out where the student has left their backpack in the library")
Use LLM for robust task planning and Sematic Interactions
Bi-Arm robot manipulation:
Data driven learning for coordinated bi-arm manipulation (e.g. manipulating test tubes, beakers, instruments etc for a chemistry lab experiment)
Hiring:
I am looking for research/project assistants (minimum duration 6 months)
Needed skills: (required) Python with exposure to ML, (additional) Computer Vision, Optimization, C/C++, exposure to latest research in SLAM, LLM, Optimization
Projects
IISc-UPenn, Meity-NSF Project on 5G Enabled Real-time Digital Twins for Construction Sites 2024-27
Center of Excellence in Wired and Wireless Technology, Dept of IT-BT, GoK 2024-2029
Real-time factory digital twins
Democratizing ADAS
5G-enabled Drone Corridors
Qualcomm Faculty Award 2024-25
Nokia funding for 6G Sensing Data Architecture 2024-25
OFDM/OTFS Radar Sensing
IISc Hub for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Innovation Foundation *ARTPARK* (2020-25), Funded by DST, Govt of India and Dept of IT-BT, GoK
Mathematical Programming Library (2020-25), Funded by Meity, Govt of India