VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Anway Shirgaonkar
dblp:393/2247
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Motion planning and robot control · 50% Robot navigation and mapping · 50% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
mobile robot navigation |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Data-Driven Sampling Based Stochastic MPC for Skid-Steer Mobile Robot Navigation · ICRA 2025 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control › robot control
model predictive control |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Data-Driven Sampling Based Stochastic MPC for Skid-Steer Mobile Robot Navigation · ICRA 2025 |
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
obstacle avoidance |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Data-Driven Sampling Based Stochastic MPC for Skid-Steer Mobile Robot Navigation · ICRA 2025 |
Robotics › Motion planning and robot control
robot control |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Data-Driven Sampling Based Stochastic MPC for Skid-Steer Mobile Robot Navigation · ICRA 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
model predictive path integral · 0.9gaussian process regression · 0.9chance constraints · 0.9GPU acceleration · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Data-Driven Sampling Based Stochastic MPC for Skid-Steer Mobile Robot NavigationabstractTraditional approaches to motion modeling for skid-steer robots struggle to capture nonlinear tire-terrain dynamics, especially during high-speed maneuvers. In this paper, we tackle such nonlinearities by enhancing a dynamic unicycle model with Gaussian Process (GP) regression outputs. This enables us to develop an adaptive, uncertainty-informed navigation formulation. We solve the resultant stochastic optimal control problem using a chance-constrained Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI) control method. This approach formulates obstacle avoidance and path-following as chance constraints, accounting for residual uncertainties from the GP to ensure safety and reliability in control. Leveraging GPU acceleration, we efficiently manage the non-convex nature of the problem, ensuring real-time performance. Our approach unifies path-following and obstacle avoidance across different terrains, unlike prior works which typically focus on one or the other. We compare our GP-MPPI method against unicycle and data-driven kinematic models within the MPPI framework. In simulations, our approach shows superior tracking accuracy and obstacle avoidance. We further validate our approach through hardware experiments on a skid-steer robot platform, demonstrating its effectiveness in high-speed navigation. The GPU implementation of the proposed method and supplementary video footage are available at https://stochasticmppi.github.io. Ananya Trivedi, Sarvesh Prajapati, Anway Shirgaonkar, Mark Zolotas, Taskin Padir |
ICRA | 3 |