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School of Interactive Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email varunagrawal @ gatech.edu
I am a PhD candidate in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, where I am gratefully advised by Prof. Frank Dellaert.
My areas of research are Robotics, Perception, and Autonomy. I am particularly interested in mobile robot autonomy and the mathematical tools and techniques to enable this.
Currently, I am focused on proprioceptive state estimation of legged robots using concepts from machine learning and nonlinear control. Robot dynamics are intuitive constraints since they obey nature's laws, thus being able to model the observable and the latent processes underlying legged locomotion, we can extract useful information about the robot's state without the need for exterioceptive sensors such as cameras.
I am also a maintainer of GTSAM, an industrial-strength factor graph library for robotics, as well as its sister projects (e.g. GTDynamics).
Latest Updates
- Defended my PhD dissertation on 17th September 2025.
- Presented a poster on RepoAuditor at US-RSE 2025, my summer project with the Georgia Tech Center for Scientific Software Engineering.
- Our paper on a new state estimation metric has been accepted to ICRA 2024.
- 2 papers accepted to ICRA 2023!
- Paper on Legged Robot State Estimation accepted to Humanoids 2022.
Teaching
- OMSCS 6475 Computational Photography, TA with Prof. Irfan Essa
- CS 4476/6476 Fall 2017 Computer Vision, TA with Prof. James Hays
- CS 4476/6476 Fall 2016 Computer Vision, TA with Prof. James Hays