Karthik Narayanan
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About
Karthik Narayanan is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on enabling autonomous multi-robot systems to operate efficiently in complex, unknown environments. His key research areas include path planning, multi-robot coordination, and energy-efficient communication for swarm robotics. Narayanan's most impactful contribution is the development of the Kinematic Constraints Based Bi-directional RRT (KB-RRT) with Parameterized Trajectories, a path planning algorithm that generates smooth, optimal trajectories for mobile robots navigating cluttered spaces—a foundational paper with 45 citations. He also led the design of a distributed, autonomous multi-robot system featuring a custom low-power robot System-on-Chip fabricated in 22nm CMOS, enabling integrated battery-powered minibots for collaborative missions like search-and-rescue and precision agriculture. His work on lossless data encoding for swarm robot communication and dynamic noise covariance adaptation for indoor localization further demonstrates his commitment to practical, real-world deployment. With over 80 total citations, Narayanan's research bridges theoretical algorithms and hardware implementation, making significant strides toward scalable, robust multi-robot systems that can operate autonomously at the edge.
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