Publications

Google Scholar

2026

IMPACT: Intelligent Motion Planning with Acceptable Contact Trajectories via Vision-Language Models

Yiyang Ling∗, Karan Owalekar∗, Oluwatobiloba Adesanya, Erdem Bıyık, Daniel Seita (∗ equal contribution)

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · 2026

IMPACT uses Vision-Language Models to let robots plan contact-rich motions in cluttered environments by inferring which contacts are acceptable, improving task success while minimizing harmful collisions.

2023

Triplet-Loss Driven Optimization for Improved Methane Leak Detection

Karan Owalekar, Shailesh Deshpande, Arpan Pal

13th Workshop on Hyperspectral Imaging and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS) · 2023

Improves detection by employing triplet loss for better signature discrimination, achieving higher accuracy and speed than prior one-shot methods on the same dataset.