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Adarsh Salagame

11 accepted papers

2025

Dynamic Quadrupedal Legged and Aerial Locomotion via Structure Repurposing

IROS 2025

Multi-modal ground-aerial robots have been extensively studied, with a significant challenge lying in the integration of conflicting requirements across different modes of operation. The Husky robot family, developed at North-eastern University, and specifically the Husky v.2 discussed in this study

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Optimal Trajectory Planning in a Vertically Undulating Snake Locomotion using Contact-implicit Optimization

IROS 2025

Contact-rich problems, such as snake robot locomotion, offer unexplored yet rich opportunities for optimization-based trajectory and acyclic contact planning. So far, a substantial body of control research has focused on emulating snake locomotion and replicating its distinctive movement patterns us

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Reduced-Order Model-Based Gait Generation for Snake Robot Locomotion Using NMPC

ICRA 2025

This paper presents an optimization-based motion planning methodology for snake robots operating in constrained environments. By using a reduced-order model, the proposed approach simplifies the planning process, enabling the optimizer to autonomously generate gaits while constraining the robot's fo

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Self-Supervised Cost of Transport Estimation for Multimodal Path Planning

RA-L 2025

Autonomous robots operating in real environments are often faced with decisions on how best to navigate their surroundings. In this work, we address a particular instance of this problem: how can a robot autonomously decide on the energetically optimal path to follow given a high-level objective and

Cited by 3SourcecodeScholar
2025

Vision-Guided Loco-Manipulation with a Snake Robot

IROS 2025

This paper presents the development and integration of a vision-guided loco-manipulation pipeline for Northeastern University’s snake robot, COBRA. The system leverages a YOLOv8-based object detection model and depth data from an onboard stereo camera to estimate the 6-DOF pose of target objects in

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Heading Control for Obstacle Avoidance using Dynamic Posture Manipulation during Tumbling Locomotion

IROS 2024

Passive tumbling structures are energy efficient, but often sacrifice control authority due to their under actuated nature. Unlike many passive tumbling robots, Northeastern University’s COBRA is a snake robot with eleven articulated joints that transforms into a wheel-like structure with a high deg

Cited by 3SourceScholar
2024

Loco-Manipulation with Nonimpulsive Contact-Implicit Planning in a Slithering Robot

IROS 2024poster

Object manipulation has been extensively studied in the context of fixed base and mobile manipulators. However, the overactuated locomotion modality employed by snake robots allows for a unique blend of object manipulation through locomotion, referred to as loco-manipulation. The following work pres…

Cited by 2SourceScholar
2024

Snake Robot with Tactile Perception Navigates on Large-scale Challenging Terrain

ICRA 2024poster

Along with the advancement of robot skin technology, there has been notable progress in the development of snake robots featuring body-surface tactile perception. In this study, we proposed a locomotion control framework for snake robots that integrates tactile perception to augment their adaptabili…

Cited by 7SourceScholar
2023

Demonstrating Autonomous 3D Path Planning on a Novel Scalable UGV-UAV Morphing Robot

IROS 2023poster

Some animals exhibit multi-modal locomotion capability to traverse a wide range of terrains and environments, such as amphibians that can swim and walk or birds that can fly and walk. This capability is extremely beneficial for expanding the animal's habitat range and they can choose the most energy…

Cited by 13SourceScholar
2023

Hovering Control of Flapping Wings in Tandem with Multi-Rotors

IROS 2023poster

This work briefly covers our efforts to stabilize the flight dynamics of Northeatern's tailless bat-inspired micro aerial vehicle, Aerobat. Flapping robots are not new. A plethora of examples is mainly dominated by insect-style design paradigms that are passively stable. However, Aerobat, in additio…

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2022

Unsteady aerodynamic modeling of Aerobat using lifting line theory and Wagner's function

IROS 2022poster

Flying animals possess highly complex physical characteristics and are capable of performing agile maneuvers using their wings. The flapping wings generate complex wake structures that influence the aerodynamic forces, which can be difficult to model. While it is possible to model these forces using…

Cited by 27SourceScholar