Vanshil Shah

I am a graduate student at University of Pennsylvania specializing in Robotics. I completed my undergraduation from Nirma University, India where I majored in Mechanical Engineering.

My research interest lies within the areas of robot navigation, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), computer vision and machine learning.

Previously,I was a research associate at Robert Bosch Center,Indian Institute of Science working on the problem of SLAM in dynamic environments. I also had the privilege to work at Robotics Research Center, IIIT-H with Professor Madhav Krishna on Autonomous Navigation.

Feel free to check out my Resume and drop me an e-mail if you want to chat with me!

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Research
DSLR : Dynamic to Static LiDAR scan Reconstruction using adversarially trained autoencoder
Prashant Kumar*, Sabyasachi Sahoo*, Vanshil Shah, Vineetha Kondmeedi,Abhinav Jain, Akshaj Verma, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Vinay Viswanathan
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021

Project page / Pre-print / Results Video / Code / Poster

Reconstructing dynamic LiDAR scans to static for improved SLAM performance

Non Holonomic Collision Avoidance under Non-Parametric Uncertainty: A Hilbert Space Approach
Unni Krishnan R Nair*, Anish Gupta*, D. A. Sasi Kiran, Ajay Shrihari, Vanshil Shah, K. Madhava Krishna
Proceedings of European Control Conference, 2021

Project page

Collision avoidance framework accounting uncertaininty of agent states without explicit model

Experience
Data Augmentation using Neural Radiance Field
Perception Intern, Ford Motors (Autonomous vechicles Lab), Summer 2022

Slides / Report /

Created a neural radiance field based model for augmenting datasets for downstream CV tasks

Benchmarking visual SLAM algorithms for degraded environments
Research Associate, IISc

Video / Competition details

Worked on enabling drone autonomy in smoke occluded environments for MBZIRC 2020

Robot navigation in outdoor environments
Summer Intern, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, 2019

Deployed navigation stack on tracked robots used by Defence forces

Underwater Tank Cleaning Robot
Summer Intern, Atharva Robotics, 2018

Video

Pan and tilt module for uniform spraying of water disinfectants

Projects
MEAM 520 Pick and Place challenge 2021

Video / Report / Code

A complete library for Franka Panda arm was developed for manipulation

SLAM on Humanoid

Code

Implementation of Particle filter based SLAM algorithm for THOR humanoid robot

Multi view stereo reconstruction

Code

Implementation of stereo reconstruction and multi view stereo (plane sweep) algorithm from scratch

Remote Controlled Search and Rescue Snake Robot

Video / Report

RC Snake Robot with serpentine gait controller



Website adapted from Jon Barron .