PRAISe Lab

Research Output

Publications

Selected journal articles, conference papers, and thesis work in robotics, perception, and autonomous systems.

Fold-to-Fit: Propeller Interaction and Control of a Coaxial-Bicopter Quadrotor

Fold-to-Fit: Propeller Interaction and Control of a Coaxial-Bicopter Quadrotor

IROS Workshop · Oct 2026

IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-scale Autonomy

Pravesh Rana Vadapalli, Chahat Deep Singh

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TinyFlow: Breaking the Warping Bottleneck for Edge Optical Flow

TinyFlow: Breaking the Warping Bottleneck for Edge Optical Flow

IROS Workshop · Oct 2026

IROS 2026 Workshop on Insect-scale Autonomy | Best Poster Award

Xiao'ao Song, Chahat Deep Singh

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Safety-Bounded Space Robot Navigation via Vision-Language Model Integration

Safety-Bounded Space Robot Navigation via Vision-Language Model Integration

ICRA Workshop · Jun 2026

ICRA 2026 SpaRo Workshop

Jimmy Tran, Chahat Deep Singh

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Minimal perception: enabling autonomy in resource-constrained robots

Minimal perception: enabling autonomy in resource-constrained robots

Frontier Robotics · Sep 2024

Frontier Robotics AI, 17 September 2024 | Robot Vision and Artificial Perception

Chahat Deep Singh, Botao He, Cornelia Fermüller, Christopher Metzler, Yiannis Aloimonos

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Active Human Pose Estimation via an Autonomous UAV Agent

Active Human Pose Estimation via an Autonomous UAV Agent

IROS 2024

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Jingxi Chen, Botao He, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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CodedVO: Coded Visual Odometry

CodedVO: Coded Visual Odometry

RA-L 2024

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Sachin Shah*, Naitri Rajyaguru*, Chahat Deep Singh, Christopher Metzler†, Yiannis Aloimonos†

* Equal contribution; † Equal contribution.

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CodedEvents: Optimal Point Spread Function Engineering for 3D-Tracking with Event Cameras

CodedEvents: Optimal Point Spread Function Engineering for 3D-Tracking with Event Cameras

CVPR 2024

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Sachin Shah, Matthew A. Chan, Haoming Cai, Jingxi Chen, Sakshum Kulshrestha, Chahat Deep Singh, Yiannis Aloimonos, Christopher A. Metzler

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Microsaccade-inspired event camera for robotics

Microsaccade-inspired event camera for robotics

Science Robotics · Jun 2024

Science Robotics | AAAS Volume 9, 2024

Botao He, Ze Wang, Yuan Zhou, Jingxi Chen, Chahat Deep Singh, Haojia Li, Yuman Gao, Shaojie Shen, Kaiwei Wang, Yanjun Cao, Chao Xu, Yiannis Aloimonos, Fei Gao, and Cornelia Fermüller

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AcTExplore: Active Tactile Exploration on Unknown Objects

AcTExplore: Active Tactile Exploration on Unknown Objects

ICRA 2024

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Amir-Hossein Shahidzadeh, Seong Jong Yoo, Pavan Mantripragada, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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Ajna: Generalized Deep Uncertainty for Minimal Perception On Parsimonious Robots

Ajna: Generalized Deep Uncertainty for Minimal Perception On Parsimonious Robots

Science Robotics (Cover) · Aug 2024

Science Robotics | AAAS Volume 8, Issue 81, 2023

Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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Minimal Perception: Enabling Robot Autonomy on Resource-Constrained Robots

Minimal Perception: Enabling Robot Autonomy on Resource-Constrained Robots

UMD Thesis · Jun 2023

University of Maryland, College Park

Chahat Deep Singh

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WorldGen: A Large Scale Generative Simulator

WorldGen: A Large Scale Generative Simulator

ICRA 2023

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Chahat Deep Singh, Riya Kumari, Cornelia Fermüller, Nitin J. Sanket, Yiannis Aloimonos

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NudgeSeg: Zero-Shot Object Segmentation by Repeated Physical Interaction

NudgeSeg: Zero-Shot Object Segmentation by Repeated Physical Interaction

IROS 2021

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Chahat Deep Singh*, Nitin J. Sanket*, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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EVPropNet: Detecting Drones By Finding Propellers For Mid-Air Landing And Following

EVPropNet: Detecting Drones By Finding Propellers For Mid-Air Landing And Following

RSS 2021

Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)

Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Chethan M. Parameshwara, Cornelia Fermüller, Guido C.H.E. de Croon, Yiannis Aloimonos

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PRGFlow: Benchmarking SWAP-Aware Unified Deep Visual Inertial Odometry

PRGFlow: Benchmarking SWAP-Aware Unified Deep Visual Inertial Odometry

IET Electronics Letters · 2021

Electronics Letters 57, no. 16 (2021): 614–617

Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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0-MMS: Zero-Shot Multi-Motion Segmentation With A Monocular Event Camera

0-MMS: Zero-Shot Multi-Motion Segmentation With A Monocular Event Camera

ICRA 2021

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Chethan M. Parameshwara, Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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MorphEyes: Variable Baseline Stereo For Quadrotor Navigation

MorphEyes: Variable Baseline Stereo For Quadrotor Navigation

ICRA 2021

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Nitin J. Sanket, Chahat Deep Singh, Varun Asthana, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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EVDodgeNet: Deep Dynamic Obstacle Dodging with Event Cameras

EVDodgeNet: Deep Dynamic Obstacle Dodging with Event Cameras

ICRA 2020

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Nitin J. Sanket*, Chethan M. Parameshwara*, Chahat Deep Singh, Cornelia Fermüller, Davide Scaramuzza, Yiannis Aloimonos

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GapFlyt: Active Vision Based Minimalist Structure-less Gap Detection For Quadrotor Flight

RA-L 2018

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Chahat Deep Singh*, Nitin J. Sanket*, Kanishka Ganguly, Cornelia Fermüller, Yiannis Aloimonos

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