Sethu Vijayakumar
Professor
Researches robot learning and motor control, including shared autonomy, optimal control and assistive and humanoid robotics.
Sethu Vijayakumar's lab at Edinburgh works on planning, control & multi-robot systems and manipulation & robot learning. 46 papers since 2023. 5 PhD students. 30 alumni.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 12/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 30
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 8 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 11 papers2025 · T1 0
- 13 papers2024 · T1 0
- 14 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning25 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems21 papers
- shared autonomy1 paper
- researches robot0 papers
- motor control0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20268 papers
- 15[J68] Russell Buchanan, Adrian Röfer, Joao Moura, Abhinav Valada and Sethu Vijayakumar, Online Estimation and Manipulation of Articulated Objects, Autonomous Robots, vol
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROSAttentive ContactFusion: Stochastic Poisson Surface Maps from Visual and Contact Sensing
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROSAttentive Feature Aggregation or: How Policies Learn to Stop Worrying about Robustness and Attend to Task-Relevant Visual Cues
- 442-449Efficient Learning of Object Placement with Intra-Category Transfer
- xxEfficient Whole-body Model Predictive Control for Online Compliant Dual-arm Mobile Manipulation
- xxx-xxxExecution-Level Correction for Surgical Robot Automation via Residual Policy Learning from Human Interventions
- Proc. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRLOptimal Transport Q-Learning for Flow Policy Steering and Acceleration
- 11REALIGN Toolkit: Reflexivity, Adaptability, Leadership, and Inclusion as Pillars of Responsible Research and Innovation
202511 papers
- —Assist-as-needed control for FES in foot drop management
- Proc. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPSEnhancing Tactile-based Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Control
- Proc. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRLFast Flow-based Visuomotor Policies via Conditional Optimal Transport Couplings
- 9024-9031Few-shot Transfer of Tool-use Skills using Human Demonstrations with Proximity and Tactile Sensing
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROSHuman-in-the-Loop Optimisation in Robot-Assisted Gait Training
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROSLearning Goal-Directed Object Pushing in Cluttered Scenes With Location-Based Attention
- Proc. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCVLearning Precise Affordances from Egocentric Videos for Robotic Manipulation
- 642-654Model-based Optimisation for the Personalisation of Robot-Assisted Gait Training
- 69062 - 69080Perceptive Locomotion through Whole-Body MPC and Optimal Region Selection
- Proc. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRLPoke and Strike: Learning Task-Informed Exploration Policies
- Proc. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HumanoidsScaling Whole-body Multi-contact Manipulation with Contact Optimization
202413 papers
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRAAdaptive Control for Triadic Human-Robot-FES Collaboration in Gait Rehabilitation: A Pilot Study
- Proc. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HumanoidsExplicit Contact Optimization in Whole-Body Contact-Rich Manipulation
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRAFew-Shot Learning of Force-Based Motions From Demonstration Through Pre-training of Haptic Representation
- 2543-2563 (Presented at: Anniversary of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), Rotterdam, Netherlands)Impact-Aware Bimanual Catching of Large-Momentum Objects
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROSLatent Object Characteristics Recognition with Visual to Haptic-Audio Cross-modal Transfer Learning
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROSLearning Deep Dynamical Systems using Stable Neural ODEs
- Proc. The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRLLearning Visuotactile Estimation and Control for Non-prehensile Manipulation under Occlusions
- Proc. Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), Rotterdam, NetherlandsLong-horizon Manipulation through Hierarchical Motion Planning with Subgoal Prediction
- Proc. IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (HumanoidsNAS: N-step computation of All Solutions to the footstep planning problem
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRAOnline Estimation of Articulated Objects with Factor Graphs using Vision and Proprioceptive Sensing
- 2791-2810Online Multi-Contact Receding Horizon Planning via Value Function Approximation
- Proc. Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA@40), Rotterdam, NetherlandsOptimal Shared Autonomy for Contact-rich Robotic Manipulation
202314 papers
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MANA Behavioural Transformer for Effective Collaboration between a Robot and a Non-stationary Human
- —A Control System Framework for Robust Deployability of Teleoperation Devices in Shared Workspaces
- 95: 103040A unified model with inertia shaping for highly dynamic jumps of legged robots
- 10: 221617Adaptive Assistive Robotics: A Framework for Triadic Collaboration Between Humans and Robots
- 1281-1300Choosing Stiffness and Damping for Optimal Impedance Planning
- —Geometric Evaluation of Balance Regions for Multi-Contact Humanoids Using Contact Stability Criteria
- 3222-3241Inverse-Dynamics MPC via Nullspace Resolution
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRALearning Personalised Human Sit-to-Stand Motion Strategies via Inverse Musculoskeletal Optimal Control
- Proc. IEEE/RSJ IntlNonprehensile Planar Manipulation through Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal Categorical Exploration
- Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRAOpTaS: An Optimization-based Task Specification Library for Trajectory Optimization and Model Predictive Control
- 1463-1481RoLoMa: Robust Loco-Manipulation for Quadruped Robots with Arms
- 1023-1038Safe and compliant control of redundant robots using superimposition of passive task-space controllers
Where alumni went30 listed
Apply to EdinburghFall 2027
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Informatics PhD
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- Rolling (funding consideration)
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- GRE
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- English
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- Fee
- none
Not yet confirmed for this intake.
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