Ram Vasudevan
Professor, Robotics; Associate Chair of Graduate Studies, Robotics
Studies optimization and control of nonlinear and hybrid systems, including provably safe motion planning for legged robots and autonomous vehicles.
Ram Vasudevan's lab at Michigan works on planning, control & multi-robot systems, legged locomotion & humanoids and embodied & active vision. 32 papers since 2023, 12 at top venues, mostly RSS and ICRA. 7 PhD students and 6 master's students. 57 alumni, most often to Argo AI and Torc Robotics. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 38%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 6
- alumni listed
- 57
Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 3 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 11 papers2025 · T1 3
- 12 papers2024 · T1 4
- 6 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: RSS, ICRA, ACC, CoRL, CVPR
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems11 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids0 papers
- Embodied & active vision0 papers
- nonlinear0 papers
- hybrid0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20263 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Imaginative World Modeling With Scene Graphs via VLM for Object Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.SLIM-VDB: A Real-Time 3D Probabilistic Semantic Mapping Framework (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)These Magic Moments: Differentiable Uncertainty Quantification of Radiance Field Models (opens in a new tab)
202511 papers
- ACCA Generalized Metriplectic System via Free Energy and System Identification via Bilevel Convex Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- SIAM J. Appl. Dyn. Syst.An Invariant Preserving Sparse Spectral Discretization of the Continuum Equation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Bring the Heat: Rapid Trajectory Optimization With Pseudospectral Techniques and the Affine Geometric Heat Flow Equation (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsCan Not Touch This: Real-Time, Safe Motion Planning and Control for Manipulators Under Uncertainty (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Conformalized Reachable Sets for Obstacle Avoidance with Spheres (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Robotics Res.Convex geometric motion planning of multi-body systems on lie groups via variational integrators and sparse moment relaxation (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Robotics Res.Dataset and Benchmark: Novel Sensors for Autonomous Vehicle Perception (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsLet us Make a Splan: Risk-Aware Trajectory Optimization in a Normalized Gaussian Splat (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Max Entropy Moment Kalman Filter for Polynomial Systems with Arbitrary Noise (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)RadarSplat: Radar Gaussian Splatting for High-Fidelity Data Synthesis and 3D Reconstruction of Autonomous Driving Scenes (opens in a new tab)
- WACVTRNeRF: Restoring Blurry, Rolling Shutter, and Noisy Thermal Images with Neural Radiance Fields (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.A Regret-Informed Evolutionary Approach for Generating Adversarial Scenarios for Black-Box Off-Road Autonomy Systems (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Control. Syst. Lett.Controllability and Observability of Temporal Hypergraphs (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)Differentiable Discrete Elastic Rods for Real-Time Modeling of Deformable Linear Objects (opens in a new tab)
- Int. J. Robotics Res.Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging (opens in a new tab)
- RoboSoftHASEL Actuator Design for Out-of-Plane Bending: A Parametric Study of Planar Geometry (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Control. Syst. Lett.Reachable Sets of Homogeneous Polynomial Dynamical Systems Using Exact Solutions (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. RoboticsREFINE: Reachability-Based Trajectory Design Using Robust Feedback Linearization and Zonotopes (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR WorkshopSAD-GS: Shape-aligned Depth-supervised Gaussian Splatting (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Safe Planning for Articulated Robots Using Reachability-based Obstacle Avoidance With Spheres (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.Serving Time: Real-Time, Safe Motion Planning and Control for Manipulation of Unsecured Objects (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SPOT: Point Cloud Based Stereo Visual Place Recognition for Similar and Opposing Viewpoints (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)You've Got to Feel It To Believe It: Multi-Modal Bayesian Inference for Semantic and Property Prediction (opens in a new tab)
20236 papers
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.CLONeR: Camera-Lidar Fusion for Occupancy Grid-Aided Neural Representations (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Convex Geometric Motion Planning on Lie Groups via Moment Relaxation (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Hyperspherical Embedding for Point Cloud Completion (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett.LONER: LiDAR Only Neural Representations for Real-Time SLAM (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)RADIUS: Risk-Aware, Real-Time, Reachability-Based Motion Planning (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Reachability-based Trajectory Design with Neural Implicit Safety Constraints (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went57 listed, 44% to industry
Industry 16Academia 20
Most often to
- Argo AI
- Torc Robotics
- Agility Robotics
Also to
- University of Michigan
- University of Pennsylvania
- Carnegie Mellon University
Apply to MichiganFall 2027
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