Anurag Sai Vempati
Papers
6
Total Citations
137
H-Index
5
About
Anurag Sai Vempati is a pioneering roboticist whose work sits at the intersection of aerial robotics, autonomous manufacturing, and human-robot interaction. His primary research focuses on developing intelligent UAV systems for industrial applications, most notably autonomous spray painting on three-dimensional surfaces. Vempati's landmark contribution is the "PaintCopter" system—a custom quadrotor capable of autonomously painting complex 3D structures with precision and speed. This work, published in *IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters* (2018), has garnered 60 citations and represents a significant leap in automating large-scale industrial painting tasks. To bridge the gap between human operators and autonomous systems, Vempati also developed a virtual reality interface for the PaintCopter (2019, 32 citations), enabling intuitive human-robot collaboration. Beyond painting, his research extends to real-time dense 3D reconstruction for UAVs using GPU-accelerated SLAM (2017, 16 citations) and ground-plane mapping for mobile robots (2018, 21 citations). Vempati's work not only advances the state of the art in aerial manipulation but also addresses critical challenges in safety, as evidenced by his survey on pain thresholds in robotics standards. His contributions are shaping the future of autonomous manufacturing and human-robot teamwork.
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- 2A Virtual Reality Interface for an Autonomous Spray Painting UAV32 citations · 2019
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- 4Onboard real-time dense reconstruction of large-scale environments for UAV16 citations · 2017
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- 6A Survey on the Pain Threshold and Its Use in Robotics Safety Standards3 citations · 2019