Publications & Patents

PATENTS

Volumetric feature extraction in mesh representation of a cad model using random cutting planes and graph traversals

Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Chennai, India

Patent Pending: Indian Patent Office 201841008900

PUBLICATIONS

Under Review

Distributed Multi-robot Arbitrary Object Transportation with Pushing Surface Identification and Model-based Pushing Effort Regulation

Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems

T Mina, SS Kannan, W Jo, S Luo, G King, BC Min 

2024

SMART-LLM: Smart Multi-Agent Robot Task Planning using Large Language Models

2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

SS Kannan, VLN Venkatesh, BC Min 

PlaceFormer: Transformer-based Visual Place Recognition using Multi-Scale Patch Selection and Fusion

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

SS Kannan, BC Min 

2023

UPPLIED: UAV Path Planning for Inspection through Demonstration

2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

SS Kannan, VLN Venkatesh, RK Senthilkumaran, BC Min 

Beacon-based Distributed Structure Formation in Multi-agent Systems

2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

T Mina, W Jo, SS Kannan, BC Min 

2022

Autonomous Drone Delivery to Your Door and Yard

2022 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

SS Kannan, BC Min  

Control Challenges for High-Speed Autonomous Racing: Analysis and Simulated Experiments

SAE International Journal of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

RK Manna, DJ Gonzalez, V Chellapandi, M Mar, SS Kannan, S Wadekar, EJ Dietz, CM Korpela, AE Gamal

2021

Investigation on accepted package delivery location: A user study-based approach

2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

SS Kannan, BC Min 

A Predictive Application Offloading Algorithm using small datasets for Cloud Robotics

2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

M Penmetcha, SS Kannan, BC Min 

External Human-Machine Interface on Delivery Robots: Expression of Navigation Intent of the Robot

2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (Ro-MAN)

SS Kannan, A Lee, BC Min 

Towards end-to-end deep learning of autonomous racing: On data collection and  unified architecture for steering and throttle prediction

ICRA 2021 Workshop - Opportunities & Challenges with Autonomous Racing

SN Wadaker, BJ Schwartz, SS Kannan, M Mar, RK Manna, V Chellapandi, DJ Gonzalez, AE Gamal

Investigating the Effect of Deictic Movements of a Multi-robot

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 37 (3), 197-210

A Lee, W Jo, SS Kannan, BC Min

2020

ROSbag-based Multimodal Affective Dataset for Emotional and Cognitive States

2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

W Jo, SS Kannan, GE Cha, A Lee, BC Min 

SMART Cloud: Scalable cloud robotic architecture for Web-powered multi-robot applications

2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC)

M Penmetcha, SS Kannan, BC Min 

Material Mapping in Unknown Environments using Tapping Sound

2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

SS Kannan, W Jo, R Parasuraman, BC Min 

Adaptive Workload Allocation for Multi-human Multi-robot teams for Independent and Homogenous Tasks

IEEE Access 8, 152697-152712

T Mina, SS Kannan, W Jo, BC Min 

2019

Development of an unmanned surface vehicle for remote sediment sampling with a Van Veen grab sampler

OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE

JH Bae, S Luo, SS Kannan, Y Singh, B Lee, RM Voyles, M Malaga, EG Zenteno, LP Aguilar, BC Min 

Autoencoder-based part clustering for part-in-whole retrieval of CAD models

Computer & Graphics 81, 41-51

LP Muraleedharan, SS Kannan, R Muthuganapathy 

2018

Random cutting plane approach for identifying volumetric features in a CAD mesh model

Computer & Graphics 70, 51-61

LP Muraleedharan, SS Kannan, A Karve, R Muthuganapathy 

Part-based Segmentation of CAD mesh models: A non-parametric approach

Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) - Poster

LP Muraleedharan, SS Kannan, R Muthuganapathy 

2017

Reconstruction using a simple triangle removal approach

SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 - Technical Briefs

S Methirumangalath, A Dev Parakkat, SS Kannan, R Muthuganapathy 

Hole detection in a planar point set: An empty disk approach

Computer & Graphics 66, 124-134

S Methirumangalath, SS Kannan, AD Parakkat, R Muthuganapathy 

Preprints

A ROS-based framework for monitoring human and robot conditions in human-multi-robot team

arXiv preprint arXiv: 2006.03784

W Jo, SS Kannan, GE Cha, A Lee, BC Min