Mission Planning using Sampling based Techniques
| Role |
Principle Investigator |
| Funded By |
Department of Science and Technology, Government of India |
| Total Sanction Amount: |
Rs. 39,28,766 |
| Duration: |
2016-continue |
Notable Students
- Venkat Beri (PhD pursuing)
- S.M. Haider Jafri (PhD pursuing)
- Gaurav Pandey (MTech 2017)
- Abeer Khan, Diksha, Shelly, Surabhi, Sonal Gupta (BTech 2016)
- Sugandha Dumka, Smiti Maheshwari (BTech 2017)
- Akanksha Bharadwaj, Bishnu Kishor Sahu, Heena Meena, Priyanshu, Shradha Sharma, Neha Kumari, Siddhartha Sonker (BTech 2018)
The priciest treasure is not to get a domestic help who knows how to do all the work, the priciest treasure is a domestic help who knows when to do what work, given pages of related work given by all the flat mates. Given that the world is too focused on the former, we solve the latter problem. We make a team of robots decide which flat mate should be served beer first, what to do if that flat mate is away, which refrigerator does that beer come from, how to spy on other flat mates in-between, etc. And if it all goes well, hopefully robotic teams will be qualified enough to execute the instructions given by women, which may not always be mathematically possible.
Selected Publications
- R. Kala (2019) Robot Mission Planning using Co-evolutionary Optimization, Robotica, DOI: 10.1017/S026357471900081X.
- R. Kala (2018) Routing-based navigation of dense mobile robots. Intelligent Service Robotics 11(1): 25–39. (Download Paper)
- R. Kala (2019) Evolutionary Planning for Multi-User Multi-Task Missions, In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Wellington, New Zealand, To Appear (2019)
- A. Bharadwaj, R. Kala (2019) Sensor based Evolutionary Mission Planning, In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Wellington, New Zealand, To Appear (2019)
- R. Kala (2018) Dynamic Programming Accelerated Evolutionary Planning for Constrained Robotic Missions, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Programming for Autonomous Robots, Brisbane, Australia, pp 81-86. (Download Paper) (Download PPT)
- R. Kala (2018) Increased Visibility Sampling for Probabilistic Roadmaps, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Programming for Autonomous Robots, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 87-92. (Download Paper) (Download PPT)
- R. Kala, A. Khan, D. Diksha, S. Shelly and S. Sinha (2018) Evolutionary Mission Planning, In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 1-8. (Download Paper) (Download PPT)
- S. Dumka, S. Maheshwari, R. Kala (2018) Decentralized Multi-Robot Mission Planning using Evolutionary Computation, In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 662-669. (Download Paper) (Download PPT)
- R. Kala (2016) Sampling based mission planning for multiple robots. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 662-669. (Download Paper)
Medical Cyber Physical System for lifestyle diseases using Big Data Analytics
Notable Students
- Rohit Yadav (MTech 2018)
- Shivam Dixit (MTech 2019)
- Ashutosh Chandra (MTech 2020)
Just because the medical doctors started charging significantly higher in comparison to the more superior PhD doctors, some IT-savvy PhD doctors promised to make machines do the same job for free. Here we make low-data intensive machine learning models for the specific diseases whose patients could be found in local hospitals, and engines to suggest diseases from the symptoms that subjects face. And, like any international project, we do get to roam around selected parts of the world, if the sponsor succeeds in processing the papers on time.
Selected Publications
- A. Chandra, R. Kala (2019) Regularised Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Anomaly Detection in ECG. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Information and Communication Technology, Allahabad, India.
Towards Socialistic Navigation of Robots and Virtual Robotic Agents
| Role |
Principle Investigator |
| Funded By |
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad |
| Total Sanction Amount: |
Rs. 10,00,000 |
| Duration: |
2017-continue |
Notable Students
- Abhinav Malviya (PhD Pursuing)
- S.M. Haider Jafri (PhD Pursuing)
- Sonaxi (Mtech 2017)
- Arun Kumar Reddy K (MTech 2019)
- Tara Prasad Tripathy (MTech 2019)
- Abhinav Khare, Ritika Motwani, S. Akash, Jayesh Patil (BTech 2019)
If you do not hang around with sane friends, how can you hang around with rational robots in the future? Here we make robots that can move around in the same workspace as humans. We first stare at everybody walking around (even the guy who got too high after getting too low grades); get a sense in their walking patterns (which they cannot find themselves); and formally track and study innovative behaviors. We also make robots imitate humans walking around, and innovate when necessary.
Selected Publications
- A. Khare, R. Motwani, S. Akash, J. Patil, R. Kala (2018) Learning the Goal Seeking Behaviour for Mobile Robots. In: Proceedings of the 2018 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems, IEEE, Singapore, pp. 56-60. (Download Paper)
Self-Learning Maps for Self-Driving Cars for Urban Scenarios
Notable Students
- Lhilo Kenye (PhD Pursuing)
- Rohit Yadav (PhD Pursuing)
- Prashant Rawat (MTech 2019)
- Nikhil Mundra, Bhanu Bhandari (BTech 2020)
- Mehul Arora (BTech 2021)
Looking at the lousy building in front of you, you know which place in the universe you are standing; a young lady tells you where you are standing, you happily marry the place location with the look with of the lousy building in front. The project solves this famous chicken-and-egg problem in robotics with a twist. What happens if the building owner re-decorates the building every year and a gang of visitors occlude your view? The project subtracts dynamic entities in traffic, looks at stronger semantic background entities, and notes the change in their positions/appearance with time.
SLAM for Extreme Weather Conditions
Notable Students
- Rohit Yadav (PhD Pursuing)
- Lhilo Kenye (PhD Pursuing)
- Mehul Arora (BTech 2021)
Getting lost in stunning nature is cool, getting lost driving in rains or at the darker times of the day back from those places is not. Here we ensure that the self-driving car always knows where it is, even when nature has other not so friendly plans. A self-driving car knows its location based on what it sees, and when God changes the display settings, the car must know what and how to adjust.
New Generation Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (NewGen IEDC)
| Role |
Coordinator |
| Funded By |
Department of Science and Technology and NSTEDB, Government of India |
| Total Sanction Amount: |
Rs. 2,87,50,000 |
| Duration: |
2018-continue |
| Parterning Institutions |
EDII Ahmedabad |
Understanding that the students of IIIT-Allahabad explode with ground-breaking ideas, which can be fatal to the sacred lands of Prayagraj; the project channelizes the innovative energies of the students towards the directions of innovative products with a commercial value, landing the student projects to the place they deserve. As students, one could get a recognition for those weird project ideas, handsome stipends to spend quality time at amazing places, personal conversation with strange-looking experts, and get an entry into cool events with cash prizes.
(Official Website)
Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE)
| Role |
Coordinator |
| Funded By |
Ministry of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology, Government of India |
| Total Sanction Amount: |
Rs. 1,55,00,000 |
| Duration: |
(of self and not the project) 2017-continue |
Because getting a white-collar job is too mainstream; the TIDE scheme washes away the inhibitions of entrepreneurship among youths, dresses the young youths as entrepreneurs, fuels in the pockets of the startups with seed funds, grooms and incubates them in-house as future recruiters. You can ask for degrees along with money; and (for students), get grades and credits along with space.
(Official Website)
