Yash P. Talwekar
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About
Yash P. Talwekar is an emerging robotics researcher whose work centers on micro-aerial vehicles, autonomous flight control, and bio-inspired robotics — particularly at the extreme frontier of sub-gram flying insect robots (FIRs). His most influential contribution, "A Gyroscope-Free Visual-Inertial Flight Control and Wind Sensing System for 10-mg Robots" (2022, 32 citations), tackles one of robotics' longest-standing open problems: how to stabilize a milligram-scale hovering robot first theorized in the 1980s. By eliminating traditional rate gyroscopes — too heavy and slow for such platforms — Talwekar's approach demonstrates that lightweight, high-bandwidth sensing is achievable even at nearly imperceptible scales. His complementary work on avionics miniaturization, including the TinySense system, further advances power-efficient autonomy for FIRs, while his research on bio-inspired source seeking on palm-sized drones bridges insect-scale principles with practical UAV applications. With over 58 cumulative citations across publications spanning 2021–2025, Talwekar is making meaningful strides in pushing autonomous robotics to scales once considered purely theoretical, opening doors for scalable, low-cost swarm deployment in complex environments.
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- 3Bio-inspired source seeking and obstacle avoidance on a palm-sized drone10 citations · 2022
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