Kartikeya Singh

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University at Buffalo, working in the Distributed Robotics and Networked Embedded Sensing (DRONES) Lab under Prof. Karthik Dantu. I am currently a Research Scientist Intern at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, working with Dr. Stefano Di Cairano.

My research focuses on enabling legged robots to navigate complex and unseen terrains using uncertainty-aware perception and planning. I develop learning-based methods for predicting future footholds, modeling epistemic uncertainty, and generating feasibility-aware costmaps for robust navigation.

More broadly, I am interested in bridging perception, control, and planning to build autonomous robotic systems that can reliably operate in real-world environments — with an emphasis on generalization and safety in out-of-distribution scenarios.

News

Publications

RaL 2025 · Under Review

CART: Context-Aware Terrain Adaptation for Stable Locomotion

K Singh, Y Kim, Y Turkar, K Dantu

[Paper] [Video] [Code]

ICRA 2025 · Workshop on Field Robotics

Autonomous Culvert Inspection on the Erie Canal using Legged Robots

K Singh, Y Turkar, Y Kim, M Lengel, K Dantu

[Paper] [Project] [Video]

NERC 2024

PANOS: Payload-Aware Navigation in Offroad Scenarios

K Singh, Y Turkar, C Alukal, K Dantu

[Paper] [Project]

ICRA 2025

L-DYNO: Framework to Learn Consistent Visual Features Using Robot's Motion

K Singh, C Adhivarahan, K Dantu

[Paper] [Code]

CASE 2021

OFFSEG: A Semantic Segmentation Framework for Off-Road Driving

K Viswanath*, K Singh*, P Jiang, PB Sujit, S Saripalli

[Paper] [Code]

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