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104
Citations
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World Ranking
152
National Ranking
74

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) For significant contributions in developing novel techniques for designing and understanding large-scale, distributed, networked robotic systems.
  • 2011 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multi-robot systems

Overview

Gaurav S. Sukhatme is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science and engineering, with significant work in artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, control and systems engineering, computer networks and communications, and aerospace engineering.

Their recent publications include:

  • Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • A Roadmap for US Robotics - From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition, 2021, Foundations and Trends in Robotics
  • Bench-MR: A Motion Planning Benchmark for Wheeled Mobile Robots, 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Never Stop Learning: The Effectiveness of Fine-Tuning in Robotic Reinforcement Learning, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Beyond Robustness: A Taxonomy of Approaches towards Resilient Multi-Robot Systems, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Their co-authors with frequent collaborations consist of Govind Thattai, Christopher E. Denniston, Qiaozi Gao, Eric Heiden, and Ragesh K. Ramachandran.

Gaurav S. Sukhatme publishes extensively in venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • The International Journal of Robotics Research

Their main fields of study cover computer science and engineering, with subfields focusing on artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, control and systems engineering, computer networks and communications, and aerospace engineering.

Research topics primarily include:

  • Reinforcement Learning in Robotics
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

Recognitions awarded to Gaurav S. Sukhatme include being named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 2018 for developing novel techniques in large-scale distributed networked robotic systems, and IEEE Fellow in 2011 for contributions to multi-robot systems.

Best Publications

  • Mobile Sensor Network Deployment using Potential Fields: A Distributed, Scalable Solution to the Area Coverage Problem

    Andrew Howard;Maja J. Matarić;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks

    D. Estrin;D. Culler;K. Pister;G. Sukhatme

  • An Incremental Self-Deployment Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks

    Andrew Howard;Maja J. Matarić;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Robomote: Enabling mobility in sensor networks

    K. Dantu;M. Rahimi;H. Shah;S. Babel

  • Constrained coverage for mobile sensor networks

    S. Poduri;G.S. Sukhatme

  • Visually-Guided Landing of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    Srikanth Saripalli;James F. Montgomery;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Visual-Inertial Sensor Fusion: Localization, Mapping and Sensor-to-Sensor Self-calibration

    Jonathan Kelly;Gaurav S Sukhatme

  • Most valuable player: a robot device server for distributed control

    B.P. Gerkey;R.T. Vaughan;K. Stoy;A. Howard

  • Robomote: a tiny mobile robot platform for large-scale ad-hoc sensor networks

    G.T. Sibley;M.H. Rahimi;G.S. Sukhatme

  • Studying the feasibility of energy harvesting in a mobile sensor network

    M. Rahimi;H. Shah;G.S. Sukhatme;J. Heideman

  • Vision-based autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle

    S. Saripalli;J.F. Montgomery;G.S. Sukhatme

  • Multiple Mobile Robot Systems

    Lynne E. Parker;Daniela Rus;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Crazyswarm: A large nano-quadcopter swarm

    James A. Preiss;Wolfgang Honig;Gaurav S. Sukhatme;Nora Ayanian

  • Coverage, Exploration and Deployment by a Mobile Robot and Communication Network

    Maxim A. Batalin;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Interactive Perception: Leveraging Action in Perception and Perception in Action

    Jeannette Bohg;Karol Hausman;Bharath Sankaran;Oliver Brock

  • Experiments with a Large Heterogeneous Mobile Robot Team: Exploration, Mapping, Deployment and Detection

    Andrew Howard;Lynne E. Parker;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Sampling-based robotic information gathering algorithms

    Geoffrey A. Hollinger;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Mobile robot navigation using a sensor network

    M.A. Batalin;G.S. Sukhatme;M. Hattig

  • Mobile Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping in Dynamic Environments

    Denis F. Wolf;Gaurav S. Sukhatme

  • Autonomous Deployment and Repair of a Sensor Network Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    P. Corke;S. Hrabar;R. Peterson;D. Rus

  • Localization for mobile robot teams using maximum likelihood estimation

    A. Howard;M.J. Matark;G.S. Sukhatme

Frequent Co-Authors

Maja J. Matarić
Maja J. Matarić University of Southern California
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin Cornell University
Ramesh Govindan
Ramesh Govindan University of Southern California
Stefan Schaal
Stefan Schaal Google (United States)
Mani Srivastava
Mani Srivastava University of California, Los Angeles
Urbashi Mitra
Urbashi Mitra University of Southern California
George A. Bekey
George A. Bekey University of Southern California
Gregory J. Pottie
Gregory J. Pottie University of California, Los Angeles
Aristides A. G. Requicha
Aristides A. G. Requicha University of Southern California

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