Publications, people & progress
Lab notes.
Research milestones and updates from the DRONES Lab.
2026
September 26, 2026
DRONES Lab at IROS 2026
DRONES Lab is headed to Pittsburgh for IROS 2026 with one invited workshop talk, two main-conference papers, and 11 workshop appearances across seven workshops.
Attending: Karthik Dantu, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Yash Turkar, Pranay Meshram, Pavan Pothuri, and Ji-Hyeon Yoo.
View the full presentation schedule and projects (Google Doc).
DRONES Lab is headed to Pittsburgh for IROS 2026 with one invited workshop talk, two main-conference papers, and 11 workshop appearances across seven workshops.
Attending: Karthik Dantu, Charuvahan Adhivarahan, Yash Turkar, Pranay Meshram, Pavan Pothuri, and Ji-Hyeon Yoo.
View the full presentation schedule and projects (Google Doc).
August 26, 2026
Charu co-led work on sensing and machine learning to measure recycled plastic content in commercial products.
The technology won a 2026 R&D 100 Award and a Corporate Social Responsibility Special Recognition Award. Read the UB news article.
The technology won a 2026 R&D 100 Award and a Corporate Social Responsibility Special Recognition Award. Read the UB news article.
August 2026
Kartikeya Singh's paper, CART: Context-Aware Terrain Adaptation using Temporal Sequence Selection for Legged Robots, has been accepted to ISRR 2026.
Spring/Summer 2026
Internships
Kartikeya Singh spent six months during Spring/Summer 2026 with the Controls group at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL).
Yash Turkar and Yashom Dighe spent Spring 2026 at Skydio.
Kartikeya Singh spent six months during Spring/Summer 2026 with the Controls group at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL).
Yash Turkar and Yashom Dighe spent Spring 2026 at Skydio.
June 2026
Kartikeya Singh's paper, Task-Conditioned Uncertainty Costmaps for Legged Locomotion, has been accepted to CLAWAR 2026.
March 23, 2026
Measuring recycled plastic content
Our new paper in Communications Engineering, co-authored by Charuvahan Adhivarahan and Karthik Dantu, combines four sensing techniques with machine learning to measure recycled plastic content.
The method achieved over 97% classification accuracy on PET samples containing 0–50% recycled material, offering a way to verify recycled-content claims.
News: University at Buffalo | Tech Xplore | Technology Networks | Packaging Insights | EurekAlert!.
Our new paper in Communications Engineering, co-authored by Charuvahan Adhivarahan and Karthik Dantu, combines four sensing techniques with machine learning to measure recycled plastic content.
The method achieved over 97% classification accuracy on PET samples containing 0–50% recycled material, offering a way to verify recycled-content claims.
News: University at Buffalo | Tech Xplore | Technology Networks | Packaging Insights | EurekAlert!.
February 5, 2026
Comparative Analysis of Feature Tracking Challenges in Unstructured Space Environments
Accepted into IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
Timothy (TJ) Chase led this work, with co-authors Andrew Balotin and Karthik Dantu.
Accepted into IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
Timothy (TJ) Chase led this work, with co-authors Andrew Balotin and Karthik Dantu.
2022
November, 2 2022
Classification model submission ranked at Fifth place (UBPercept) in ACM/IEEE TinyML Design Contest at the 2022 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
October, 29 2022
'Piezo-cantilever Sensor for Real-time Monitoring of 8 Greenhouse Gasses with LoRa Communication' finished at 2nd place in The Keysight Innovation Challenge 2022
August, 13 2022
Paper Accepted in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems: 'Edge-SLAM: Edge-Assisted Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping'
July, 14 2022
Object detection model submission ranked at Fourth place (UBPercept) in Design Automation Conference - System Design Contest 2022
August, 1 2022
Lab website is out!