Research Assistant, Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad

Jul 2023 – Dec 2024

I worked as a Research Assistant in AI Planning and Simulation from July 2023 to December 2024 at the Robotics Research Center, IIIT Hyderabad, advised by Prof. K Madhava Krishna.

Collaborators: Prof. Mohan Sridharan, Dr. Krishna Murthy Jatavallabhula, Dr. Brojeshwar Bhowmick

Worked on an integrated framework of LLMs, PDDL and a simulator that lets a robot anticipate future tasks, so it can assist and collaborate with humans more effectively.
Designed experiments to test the effectiveness of Human-Robot Collaboration and Task Anticipation in a household environment.
Built a custom household simulation environment in CoppeliaSim as a base environment for future research.

This work was published at ICRA 2024 (project page).

Built a mechanism to automatically generate a knowledge graph from objects and their properties.
Evaluated the framework with different open-source LLMs such as Llama 3.1 and Gemma 2.
Integrated it with the AI2-THOR simulator and showcased examples in cooking and cleaning domains.

This work was published at ICRA 2025 (project page).