News: announcements and ongoing projects
Opened a blog 🥳 The idea is to reflect ongoing developments in the field of robotics, through my POV, in simple language.
Submitted several grant proposals. Further details will be released upon notification.
Physical integration of our group's motion planner with our prototype snake-like robot was successfully achieved.
Started work on extending our 2025 SoCS paper "From Agent Centric to Obstacle Centric Planning: A Makespan-Optimal Algorithm for the Multi-Agent Warehouse Rearrangement Problem" in a few natural sub-optimal directions.
Extension of our 2025 IJCAI paper "Bidirectional Search while Ensuring Meet-In-The-Middle via Effective and Efficient-to-Compute Termination Conditions" is almost done 😊. It extends both theory to provide better explanations to our results and empiric evaluation with additional domains, metrics and another ablation study.
Submitted a really cool paper to ICRA 2026! More details will be released soon 😀
Working on a high-performance motion planner that unifies many proven techniques: laziness, sampling-based, incremental computation, anytime search scheme (and more).
Our joint (cross-faculty collaboration between computer science, mechanical engineering and civil engineering) project on "Autonomous Multi-Stable Robot (MSR) for Search and Exploration" was renewed for another year 🥳. This project revolves around developing a physical MSR, which resembles a snake-like robot, and various capabilities for it -- actuation, sensing, state estimation, motion planning and more. It is challenging and brings a lot of fun!Â
Co-organizing HSDIP Workshop at ICAPS 2025 (November, Melbourne)
Co-organizing RDDPS Workshop at ICAPS 2024 (June, Banff)
Co-organizing RDDPS Workshop at ICAPS 2023 (July, Prague)