Publications and Accomplishments

Manish Saroya, Graeme Best, and Geoffrey A. Hollinger. “Roadmap Learning for Probabilistic Occupancy Maps with Topology-Informed Growing Neural Gas”. Under Review, 2021 IEEE RA-L and ICRA.

Manish Saroya, Graeme Best, and Geoffrey A. Hollinger. “Online Exploration of Tunnel Networks Leveraging Topological CNN-based World Predictions”. In2020 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). (pdf)

Manish Saroya. “Topological Learning for Robotic Exploration and Navigation in Uncertain Environments”. In2020, Master’s thesis, Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems (CoRIS) Institute, Oregon State University. (pdf)

"Optimizing position estimates of an industrial vehicle for indoor localization." Patent application number: 201911001443

Singh, Akash, Anshul Paigwar, Sai Teja Manchukanti, Manish Saroya, and Shital Chiddarwar. "Design and motion analysis of Compliant Omnidirectional Spherical Modular Snake Robot (COSMOS)." In 2018 International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (ReMAR), pp. 1-10. IEEE, 2018. (pdf)

Singh, Akash, Anshul Paigwar, Sai Teja Manchukanti, Manish Saroya, Manish Maurya, and Shital Chiddarwar. "Design and implementation of Omni-directional spherical modular snake robot (OSMOS)." In Mechatronics (ICM), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 79-84. IEEE, 2017. (pdf)

"Design of Low Cost Kid sized Humanoid Robot for Educational Purpose." Patent number: 201721015920, applied: May 2017, India.

Co-Founded IVlabs at VNIT Nagpur | www.ivlabs.in (robotics lab). Raised a fund of $20,000 for IVlabs. (2015)

Paper Talk (for OSMOS project) at IEEE ICM-2017 Australia. (2017)

Technical Advisor of IEEE student Chapter VNIT. Took several workshops on robotic fundamentals, ROS, microcontrollers. (2015-2016)

Demonstrated automated forklifts at 3 factories and 1 exhibition. (2017)

Service: Core Values Judge at Intel Oregon FIRST LEGO League (2019)

Successfully commissioned India’s first 2D laser based autonomous ground vehicle (1.5 ton material tugging capacity) at Schneider Electric plant, Hyderabad.

Selected for 2nd round of Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest 2014, amongst 400 + teams.

Among the top 1% out of 1.2 million candidates who appeared in All India Engineering Entrance Examination, 2012