Research papers
IvLabs members have published papers at renowned Journals. We have also presented papers/poster at reputed International Robotics and AI conferences like ICRA, IROS, ROBIO, NeurIPS, etc. This page has sorted all papers in year wise fashion. Click on the year below to know more.
2021
- Enhancing Context Through Contrast [Paper]
Ksitij Ambilduke, Aneesh Shetye, Diksha Bagade, Rishika Bhagwatkar, Khurshed Fitter, Prasad Vagdargi, Dr. Shital Chiddarwar.
Neural information Processing Systems, 2021
- ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป-๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐๐น๐๐ถ-๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐น๐๐ถ-๐ง๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป [Paper]
Aadhithya Iyer, Arihant Gaur, Muhammed Abdullah Shaikh, Ritik Agrawal, Rohit Lal, and Dr. Shital Chiddarwar.
Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
- Sahayak- A COVID Aid Bot [Paper][Code]
Karthik Raman, Prathamesh Ringe, Kushagra Srivastava, Sushlok Shah, Yagnesh Devada, Sania Subhedhar, Varad Vaidya, Aayush Fadia, Anshul Paigwar, Ajinkya Kamat, Harshad Zade, Dr. Shital Chiddarwar.
International Symposium Of Medical Robotics, 2021.
- ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฆ๐๐ง: ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฝ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐น๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ ๐ง๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐๐บ [Paper][Code]
Himanshu Patil, Rohit Lal, Khush Agrawal, Dr. Deep Gupta and Prof. K. Surender.
โNational Conference of Communication, IIT Kanpur, 2021
2020
- Paying Attention to Video Generation [Paper]
Rishika Bhagwatkar; Saketh Bachu; Khurshed Fitter; Akshay Kulkarni; Shital Chiddarwar
โNeural Information Processing System, 2020
- Suntracker on Rocker-Bogie Mechanism [Paper] [Video]
Shruti Murarka, Aditya Wadichar, Shravar Tanawde, Abhijit Rehpade, Dhruv Agrawal, Mohammad Saad and Sharan Bajjuri,
International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME), VNIT, India, 2020
- Person Following Mobile Robot using Multiplexed Detection and Trackingโ [Paper] [Video]
Khush Agrawal and Rohit Lal
International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME), VNIT, India, 2020
- IoT Based Ambiance Monitoring Systemโ [Paper] [Video]
Hritwik Singh Parihar, Rajesh Nagula, Mayank Bumb, Danish Gada, Sharan Bajjuri, Rishesh Agarwal and Simran Chauhan
International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME), VNIT, India, 2020
- Open-source Library for Swarm Algorithms and Communicationโ [Paper]
Harshad Zade, Mayuresh Bhoyar, Mayuresh Sarode, Neha Marne, Unmesh Patil, Vedant Ranade and Ajinkya Kamat
International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME), VNIT, India, 2020
- โHand Gesture Control of Computer Features [Paper] [Video]โ
Rishabh Runwal, Shivraj Dhonde, Jatin Pardhi, Suraj Kumar, Aadesh Varude, Mayuresh Sarode, Mayuresh Bhoyar, Simran Chauhan, and Neha Marne
International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering (ICAME), VNIT, India, 2020โ
2019
- Real Time Human Computer Interaction using Facial Gestures [Paper] [BibTex]
Rohit Lal, and Shital Chiddarwar
10th International Conference on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)
- Cursor Control Using Face Gestures [Paper] [Video]
Arihant Gaur, Akshata Kinage, Nilakshi Rekhawar, Shubhan Rukmangad, Rohit Lal, and Shital Chiddarwar International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, Hyderabad
- โDeep Learning based Stair Segmentation and Behavioral Cloning for Autonomous Stair Climbing [Paper] [BibTex] [Code]
โNavid Panchi, Khush Agrawal, Unmesh Patil, Aniket Gujarathi, Aman Jain, Harsha Namdeo and Shital Chiddarwar,
โInternational Journal of Semantic Computing, IJSC 13(4)
- โStagewise Knowledge Distillationโโ [Paper] [BibTex] [Code] โโโ
โAkshay Kulkarni, Navid Panchi and Shital Chiddarwar. In Arxiv:1911.06786
- โDeep Learning based Stair Detection and Statistical Image Filtering for Autonomous Stair Climbingโ [Paper] [BibTex] [Code] โโโ
Unmesh Patil, Aniket Gujarathi, Akshay Kulkarni, Aman Jain, Lokeshkumar Malke, Radhika Tekade, Kartik Paigwar and Pradyumn Chaturvedi
IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italyโ, 2019
- Standardization of the Shape of Ground Control Point (GCP) and the Methodology for Its Detection in Images for UAV-Based Mapping Applications [Paper] [BibTex] โโโ[Code]
Aman Jain, Milind Mahajan, Radha Saraf
Science and Information Conference, 2019
2018
- Explicit Sequence Proximity Models for Hidden State Identification [Paper] [Code]
Anil Kota, Sharath Chandra, Parag Khanna, Torbjorn Dahl
32nd Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Workshop on Reinforcement Learning Under Partial Observability,
- โDesign for Self Reconfigurable Transformer Robot [Poster]
Sapan Agrawal, Shalini Addepalli, Vinit Sarode, Yogesh Phalak, Rajeshree Deotalu, Rohan Thakker, Shital Chiddarwar.
โICRA-2018, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia
- Design for surveillance bot named OSWalT – Omnidirectional Spherical Wall Traversing Robot [Paper]
โYogesh Phalak, Sagar Swami, Rajeshree Deotalu, Onkar, Sapan Agrawal, Shital Chiddarwar.
ICRA-2018, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia
- Omnidirectional Visual Navigation System for TurtleBot Using Paraboloid Catadioptric Cameras [Paper]
Yogesh Phalak, Gaurav Charpe, Kartik Paigwar
International Conference on Robotics and Smart Manufacturing (RoSMa2018)
2017
2016
- Design Analysis and Development of Low Cost Underactuated Robotic Hand [Paper] [Video]
Parag Khanna, Khushdeep Singh, K. M. Bhurchandi and S. Chiddarwar
ROBIO-2016, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Qingdao, China.
- Design of low cost easy to assemble tele-operated robot manipulator that has wide variety of application [Website]
โKhushdeep Singh
2015
- Optimal velocity trajectory generation for Spray painting robot in offline mode [Paper]
M. V. Andulkar, S. S. Chiddarwar and A. Paigwar.
Advances in robotics (AIR โ15), 2nd International Conference of Robotics Society of India, 2-4 Aug 2015, Goa, India.
2014
2013
- Face localization and its implementation on embedded platform [Paper]
H. Patil, S. Bharambe, A. G. Kothari and K. M. Bhurchandi
โAdvance Computing Conference (IACC), 2013 IEEE 3rd International , vol., no., pp.741-745, 22-23 Feb. 2013
โPatents
Navigation System For A Vehicle And Method for Navigation

This project aims at developing a navigation system for a vehicle and method for receiving navigation indications during moving condition of a vehicle.
SWAYAT

Swayat is India’s second 3D printed humanoid. It is made for research and to execute human like actions. It participated in FIRA’16 at Beijing
Reconfigurable Bipedal Snake Robot

This paper introduces ReBiS (Reconfigurable Bipedal Snake) robot, a novel modular design mechanism which can quickly transform between various configurations without rearrangement of modules.
Ductor Bot

Air quality inside closed structures, , is generally not questioned. However, researches have shown that the dust inside AC ducts has the potential to cause as much harm as the air pollution outside.
Posters

๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป-๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐๐น๐๐ถ-๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ ๐๐น๐๐ถ-๐ง๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
Aadhithya Iyer, Arihant Gaur, Muhammed Abdullah Shaikh, Ritik Agrawal, Rohit Lal, and Dr. Shital Chiddarwar
โAims to provide a generic domain adaptation setting named Open Set Multi-Source Multi-Target Domain Adaptation.
NeurIPS-2021, Neural Information Processing Systems, John Hopkins, USA

Enhancing Context Through Contrast
Ksitij Ambilduke, Aneesh Shetye, Diksha Bagade, Rishika Bhagwatkar, Khurshed Fitter, Prasad Vagdargi, Dr. Shital Chiddarwar.
Neural Machine Translation by reducing language specific component redundant information.
NeurIPS-2021, Neural Information Processing Systems, John Hopkins, USA
Aims to improve neural machine translation performance by inducing language agnosticism in sentence, and thereby word embeddings.

Sahayak – A COVID Aid BOT
Karthik Raman, Prathamesh Ringe, Kushagra Srivastava, Sushlok Shah, Yagnesh Devada, Sania Subhedhar, Varad Vaidya, Aayush Fadia, Anshul Paigwar, Ajinkya Kamat, Harshad Zade, Dr. Shital Chiddarwar.
An autonomous robot capable of assisting frontline workers.
ISMR-2021, International Symposium of Medical Robotics Conference, Georgia, USA.
Aims to provide a platform for autonomous robot to aid medical practitioners.

COSMOS โ Compliant Omnidirectioal Spherical Modular Snake Robot
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Akash Singh, Anshul Paigwar, Sai Teja Manchukanti, Manish Saroya, Shital Chiddarwar
โDesign for Self Reconfigurable Transformer Robot
ReMAR-2018, IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms & Robots, Delft, Netherlands
โAims to develop a Snake Robot capable of traversing omni-direction for rescue and search operations.

Modeling and Path planning of Snake Robot in Cluttered Environment
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Akash Singh, Chaohui Gong, Anshul Paigwar, Howie Choset
โPath planning for snake robots
ReMAR-2018, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia
โAims to model a Snake Robot for path planning in cluttered environment..

ReBiS โ Reconfigurable Bipedal Snake Robot
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Sapan Agrawal, Shalini Addepalli, Vinit Sarode, Yogesh Phalak, Rajeshree Deotalu, Rohan Thakker, Shital Chiddarwar.
โDesign for Self Reconfigurable Transformer Robot
โICRA-2018, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia
โAims to develop a Snake Robot capable of reconfiguring by self analysis of surroundings for rescue operations.

OSWalT – Omnidirectional Spherical Wall Traversing Robotโ
Yogesh Phalak, Sagar Swami, Rajeshree Deotalu, Onkar, Sapan Agrawal, Shital Chiddarwar.
Design for surveillance bot named OSWalT – Omnidirectional Spherical Wall Traversing Robot
ICRA-2018, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia
Aims to develop a wall climbing Robot which could balance the gravitational force and move close to the surface.



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