Harish Ravichandar
Assistant Professor
Directs the STAR Lab on robot learning, human-robot interaction and multi-agent robot teams.
Harish Ravichandar's lab at Georgia Tech works on manipulation & robot learning, human-robot interaction & assistive robots and reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI. 27 papers since 2023, mostly RA-L. 6 PhD students and 5 master's students. 27 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 6
- MS students
- 5
- alumni listed
- 27
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 7 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 0
- 4 papers2024 · T1 0
- 10 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RA-L
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning15 papers
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots10 papers
- robot8 papers
- teams1 paper
- Reasoning & neuro-symbolic AI0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20267 papers
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)Distributionally Robust Control via Stein Variational Inference for Contact-Rich Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Going with the Flow: Koopman Behavioral Models as Pseudo Planners for Visuo-Motor Dexterity (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR Embodied AI Workshop (Oral Spotlight)Improving VLA Workspace Randomization Robustness for Industrial Pick-and-Place via Lightweight Residual RL: A Case Study (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) - OralModeling and Optimizing the Provisioning of Exhaustible Capabilities for Simultaneous Task Allocation and Scheduling (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), . Workshop on Tactile Sensing for Robotic Foundation Models, Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)OmniTacTune: Policy-Agnostic Real-World RL for Tactile Residual Adaptation of Visual Policies (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Safe Navigation of Bipedal Robots via Koopman Operator-Based Model Predictive Control (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)Towards Automated Chicken Deboning via Learning-based Dynamically-Adaptive 6-DoF Multi-Material Cutting (opens in a new tab)
20256 papers
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Capability-Aware Shared Hypernetworks for Flexible Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Coordination (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)CIMER: Combining Imitation and Emulation to Learn Prehensile Dexterity from State-only Observations (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) - Extended AbstractEvaluating and Improving Graph-based Explanation Methods for Multi-Agent Coordination (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) - OralImMimic: Cross-Domain Imitation from Human Videos via Mapping and Interpolation (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)JaxRobotarium: Training and Deploying Multi-Robot Policies in 10 Minutes (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) - Extended AbstractLearning Flexible Heterogeneous Coordination With Capability-Aware Shared Hypernetworks (opens in a new tab)
20244 papers
- Workshop on Whole-body Control and Bimanual Manipulation: Applications in Humanoids and Beyond, Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)AsymDex: Leveraging Asymmetry and Relative Motion in Learning Bimanual Dexterity (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)KOROL: Learning Visualizable Object Feature with Koopman Operator Rollout for Manipulation (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LLearning Prehensile Dexterity by Imitating and Emulating State-only Observations (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR)Q-ITAGS: Quality-Optimized Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneous Task Allocation with a Time Budget (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)A Sampling-based Approach for Heterogeneous Coalition Scheduling with Temporal Uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)Benefits of Multi-Objective Trajectory Adaptation in Close-Proximity Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
- Workshop on Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS), Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS)Concurrent Constrained Optimization of Unknown Rewards for Multi-Robot Task Allocation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)D-ITAGS: A Dynamic Interleaved Approach to Resilient Task Allocation, Scheduling, and Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)Generalization of Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Policies via Awareness and Communication of Capabilities (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS) - Extended AbstractInferring Implicit Trait Preferences from Demonstrations of Task Allocation in Heterogenous Teams (opens in a new tab)
- International Symposium on Multi-Robot & Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) - Best Paper AwardMARBLER: An Open Platform for Standardized Evaluation of Multi-Robot Reinforcement Learning Algorithms (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) - OralOn the Utility of Koopman Operator Theory in Learning Dexterous Manipulation Skills (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)Risk-Tolerant Task Allocation and Scheduling in Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Team (opens in a new tab)
- International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)The Effects of Robot Motion on Comfort Dynamics of Novice Users in Close-Proximity Human-Robot Interaction (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went27 listed
Apply to Georgia TechFall 2027
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