A. A. Nippun Kumaar

About

A. A. Nippun Kumaar is a robotics researcher whose work spans mobile robot navigation, path planning, and machine learning-based robot programming. With a career tracing back to 2011, he has made sustained contributions to making robots smarter, more autonomous, and easier to program. Kumaar's most influential work centers on applying deep reinforcement learning to mobile service robot navigation in dynamic, real-world environments. His 2023 paper on this topic has garnered 46 citations, reflecting its strong uptake in the robotics community. Complementing this, his 2024 research on federated deep reinforcement learning introduces privacy-aware, distributed training strategies for robot navigation — a forward-looking contribution to multi-robot systems. Beyond learning-based navigation, Kumaar has pioneered practical path planning solutions, including QR code-guided warehouse robots and GPS-based algorithms for agricultural drones, demonstrating a talent for bridging theoretical methods with real-world applications. His early work on Programming by Demonstration and Learning from Demonstration (18 and 6 citations respectively) highlights a consistent interest in making robots teachable by non-experts — a critical concern for service robotics. Across more than a decade of research, Kumaar has built a coherent body of work that advances autonomous, adaptive, and user-friendly robotics — earning over 145 citations in total.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Mobile Service Robot Path Planning Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

   46 citations · 2023
2. 2
   Mobile Robot Programming by Demonstration

   18 citations · 2011
3. 3
   QR Code based Path Planning for Warehouse Management Robot

   16 citations · 2018
4. 4
   Federated deep reinforcement learning for mobile robot navigation

   13 citations · 2024
5. 5
   GPS-Based Path Planning Algorithm for Agriculture Drones

   12 citations · 2021
6. 6
   Reinforcement learning based path planning using a topological map for mobile service robot

   12 citations · 2023
7. 7
   3 axis SCARA robot with universal gripper

   9 citations · 2015
8. 8
   Learning from demonstration algorithm for cloth folding manipulator

   8 citations · 2017
9. 9
   Learning from Demonstration with State Based Obstacle Avoidance for Mobile Service Robots

   6 citations · 2013
10. 10
    Indoor Mobile Robot Path Planning Using QR Code

    5 citations · 2020

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