Pratik Agarwal
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg |
About me
- 08/2006 - 06/2010: Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science, Manipal University, India
- 08/2010 - 04/2012: Master of Science and Engineering in Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- 08/2012 - up to now: Working at the Autonomous Intelligent Systems lab.
Full resume can be downloaded from here.
Research Interests
- Robust localization and mapping
- Sparse linear algebra
- Multi sensor multi object tracking
Current Research Projects
- IVIEW:Intelligente vibrotaktil induzierte erweiterte Wahrnehmung.
- AAL: Applied Research on Ambient Assisted Living.
Students (co-)supervised
- Using Dual-Quaternions For Computing Maximum Likelihood Maps With Gradient Descent", 2014, Master Thesis, Mohammad Chit
- Autonomous Landing of Multi-Rotors, 2014, Bachelor Thesis, Michael Rudolph
- Terrain Classification based on Traffic Participants, 2014, Bachelor Thesis, Lukas Gemein
Talks
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Global Metrical Localization using Google Street View
October 2014, Field Robotics Center Seminar, CMU, Pittsburgh. -
Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Map Optimization Under Bad Initial Estimates [ .pdf ]
ICRA, June 2014, Hong Kong. -
Helmert's and Bowie's Geodetic Mapping Methods and Their Relationship to Graph-Based SLAM [ .pdf ]
ICRA, June 2014, Hong Kong. -
Robust Map Optimization using Dynamic Covariance Scaling [ .pdf ][ .pptx ]
ICRA, May 2013. Karlruhe, Germany. -
Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Robot Mapping [ .pdf ][ .pptx ]
ICRA, Workshop on Factor Graphs, May 2013. Karlruhe, Germany. -
Variable reordering strategies for SLAM [ .pdf ][ .pptx ]
IROS, November 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal.
Updates
- 10 April 2015: Successfully defended my PhD.
- March 2015: Submitted my PhD thesis.
- October 2014 to January 2015: Interning again at Google [X], self driving car team.
- September 2014: Survey of really old geodetic mapping methods and their relationship to graph SLAM is published in the September issueof IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.
- June 2014: Our navigation aid for mobility impaired blind people gets some press coverage ingenieur and here.
- March 2014: "A Survey of Geodetic Approaches to Mapping and the Relationship to Graph-Based SLAM" has been accepted for Robotics and Automation Magazine.
- January 2014: 2 out of 2 papers accepted at ICRA'14.
- August 2013 to November 2013: Intern at Google [X], self driving car team.
- April 2013: I will co-organize Introduction to Mobile Robotics with Wolfram, Cyrill, Maren, Diego and Luciano.
- April 2013: DCS has been nominated for the "Best Student Paper Award" at ICRA'13.
- March 2013: DCS accepted for Workshop on Robust and Multimodal Inference in Factor Graphs, ICRA'13
- January 2013: Max-Mixture added to openslam.org
- January 2013: DCS implemented within g2o, (github - g2o/master branch).
- January 2013: DCS has been accepted for ICRA'13
- November 2012: Open source release of Max-Mixture with g2o is available here
- October 2012: I presented Variable reordering strategies for SLAM at IROS'12 held at Vilamoura, Portugal.