We are a team of legged robot enthusiasts based out of Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru. We are mainly interested in advanced mobility in extremely challenging terrains. The team consists of technical staff members, students, interns and faculty with varying backgrounds and interests.
News
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September 25, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that 3 of our papers have been accepted to Indian Control Conference (ICC) 2024, Bhopal, India. Congratulations to all the authors!
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August 29, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that our Patent 📝 “Low-cost sandwiched robotic leg design for legged locomotion” by Aman Singh and Shishir Kolathaya has been granted by the Indian patent office ✨.
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July 20, 2024
Our recent work titled “Learning a Formally Verified Control Barrier Function in Stochastic Environment” has been accepted to IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2024, Milan, Italy.
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June 02, 2024
We are thrilled to announce that our paper, “Revisit Anything: Visual Place Recognition via Image Segment Retrieval,” has been accepted at the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024, Milan, Italy.
Research
Learning a formally verified CBF in stochastic environment
Neural Network Based CBF with completeness guarantees
Dynamic Manipulator
A highly dynamic, torque controllable manipulator for quadruped robots.
Force control for Robust Quadruped Locomotion: A Linear Policy Approach
A framework for designing controllers to achieve robust blind quadrupedal walking using force control thorugh learnt linear policies.
Energy Based Control Barrier Functions
A new class of CBFs for robotic systems that augment kinetic energy with the traditional forms.
People
Faculty
Shishir Kolathaya
Assistant Professor, CSA & CPS, IISc
Collaborators
Pushpak Jagtap
Assistant Professor, CPS, IISc
Jishnu Keshavan
Assistant Professor, ME, IISc
Ayonga Hereid
Assistant Professor, ME & AE, OSU
Andrew Clark
Associate Professor, ESE, WUSTL
Debasish Ghose
Professor, AE & CPS, IISc
Bharadwaj Amrutur
Professor, ECE & CPS, IISc
Shalabh Bhatnagar
Professor, CSA, IISc
Aaron Ames
Bren Professor, ME & CDS, Caltech
Ashitava Ghosal
Prof. Satish Dhavan Chair Professor, ME, IISc (Retd.)
PhD Students
Pramod Pal
Design of Legged Robots
Vamshi Kumar Kurva
Learning Based Control
Manan Tayal
Safe Robot Learning and Control
Aman Singh
Design and Control Co-Optimization
Aditya Shirwatkar
Model Based RL
Masters Students
Aastha Mishra
M Tech (Res)
Prakrut Kotecha
M Tech (Res)
Tirth Shiyala
M Tech (Res)
Shreyansh Sharma​
M.Tech. RAS
Vaishnav B​
M.Tech. RAS
Teja Sai Ganesh (SAGA)
M.Tech. AI
Sudharsan
M.Tech. RAS
Ishita Ganjoo
M.Tech. RAS (Sponsered student from ISRO)
Alumni
Kumar Ankit
Ph.D., 2024
GVS Mothish
M.Tech. RAS, 2024
Abhishek Ranjan
M.Tech. Research, 2024
Naman Saxena
M.Tech. Research, 2023
Sangeet M
M.Tech. AI, 2023
Subhojyoti Khastagir
M.Tech. CSA, 2023
Phani M Thontepu
M.Tech. AI, 2022
Ankit Pandita
M.Tech. AI, 2022
Palaparthi Govindu
M.Tech. CSA, 2022
Devaraju Vinoda
M.Tech. CSA,2022
Soumya Rani
M.Tech. CSA, 2021