Vijay Kumar

Joined

February 2019

Names

Vijay Kumar (Preferred)

Emails

****@seas.upenn.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Full Professor

University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania (upenn.edu)

1987 – 2024

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

Kostas Daniilidis

Present

Postdoc Advisee

Roberto Tron

Present

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Krithika Venkataramani

2015 – 2015

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C.v. Jawahar

2013 – 2015

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Robert Mahony

2011 – 2014

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Justin Thomas

2011 – 2014

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James Keller

2011 – 2014

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Davide Scaramuzza

2011 – 2014

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Giuseppe Loianno

2011 – 2014

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George Pappas

2011 – 2014

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Ben Taskar

2011 – 2014

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Carlos Guestrin

2011 – 2014

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Daniela Rus

2011 – 2014

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Anoop Namboodiri

2011 – 2014

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Gregory Dudek

2011 – 2014

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Peter Corke

2011 – 2014

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Anthony Cowley

2011 – 2014

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Shaojie Shen

2011 – 2014

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Tahsin Kurc

2005 – 2010

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Joel Saltz

2005 – 2010

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Rahul Garg

2001 – 2003

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Almost Global Asymptotic Trajectory Tracking for Fully-Actuated Mechanical Systems on Homogeneous Riemannian Manifolds
Jake Welde, Vijay Kumar
- IEEE Control Systems Letters
- Readers: Everyone
Leveling the Playing Field: Carefully Comparing Classical and Learned Controllers for Quadrotor Trajectory Tracking
Pratik Kunapuli, Jake Welde, Dinesh Jayaraman, Vijay Kumar
- Robotics: Science and Systems
- Readers: Everyone
Leveraging Symmetry to Accelerate Learning of Trajectory Tracking Controllers for Free-Flying Robotic Systems
Jake Welde, Nishanth Rao, Pratik Kunapuli, Dinesh Jayaraman, Vijay Kumar
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Dynamically Feasible Task Space Planning for Underactuated Aerial Manipulators
Jake Welde, James Paulos, Vijay Kumar
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Readers: Everyone
SPINE: Online Semantic Planning for Missions with Incomplete Natural Language Specifications in Unstructured Environments
Zachary Ravichandran, Varun Murali, Mariliza Tzes, George J. Pappas, Vijay Kumar
- Greeks in AI 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Safety Guardrails for LLM-Enabled Robots
Zachary Ravichandran, Alexander Robey, Vijay Kumar, George J. Pappas, Hamed Hassani
- RSS 2025 Workshop ReliableRobotics
- Readers: Everyone
Sequence Modeling for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Sampling-based Robustness Analysis
Katherine Mao, Hongzhan Yu, Ruipeng Zhang, Igor Spasojevic, Sicun Gao, Vijay Kumar
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
KoopMotion: Learning Almost Divergence Free Koopman Flow Fields for Motion Planning
Alice Kate Li, Thales C. Silva, Victoria Edwards, Vijay Kumar, M. Ani Hsieh
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Distilling On-device Language Models for Robot Planning with Minimal Human Intervention
Zachary Ravichandran, Ignacio Hounie, Fernando Cladera, Alejandro Ribeiro, George J. Pappas, Vijay Kumar
- CoRL 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-Robot Localization and Target Tracking with Connectivity Maintenance and Collision Avoidance
Rahul Zahroof, Jiazhen Liu, Lifeng Zhou, Vijay Kumar
- 2023 American Control Conference (ACC)
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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