Sai Vemprala*, Rogerio Bonatti*, Arthur Bucker, Ashish Kapoor. “ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities”. [arxiv][blog]
Yue Meng, Sai Vemprala, Rogerio Bonatti, Chuchu Fan, Ashish Kapoor. “ConBaT: Control Barrier Transformer for Safe Policy Learning”. [arxiv]
Journal Papers
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli, “Collaborative Localization for Micro Aerial Vehicles”, IEEE Access, 2021. [arxiv]
Adrian Carrio, Jesus Tordesillas Torres, Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli, Pascual Campoy, “Onboard detection and localization of drones using depth maps”, IEEE Access, 2020. [pdf]
Alberto E. Behar, Daming D. Chen, et al. including Sai H. Vemprala. MSLED: The Micro Subglacial Lake Exploration Device. Underwater Technology Journal, 2015. [pdf]
Conference Papers
Yao Wei, Yanchao Sun, Ruijie Zheng, Sai Vemprala, Rogerio Bonatti, Shuhang Chen, Ratnesh Madaan, Zhongjie Ba, Ashish Kapoor, Shuang Ma. “Is Imitation All You Need? Generalized Decision-Making with Dual-Phase Training”, ICCV 2023. [arxiv]
Rogerio Bonatti, Sai Vemprala, Shuang Ma, Felipe Frujeri, Shuhang Chen, Ashish Kapoor. “PACT: Perception-Action Causal Transformer for Autoregressive Robotics Pretraining”, IROS 2023. [arxiv]
Arthur Bucker, Luis Figueredo, Sami Haddadin, Shuang Ma, Ashish Kapoor, Sai Vemprala, Rogerio Bonatti. “LaTTe: Language Trajectory TransformEr”, ICRA 2023. [arxiv]
Cheng Yao Wang, Eyal Ofek, Daniel McDuff, Oron Nir, Sai Vemprala, Ashish Kapoor, Mar Gonzalez-Franco. “CityLifeSim: A High-Fidelity Pedestrian and Vehicle Simulation with Complex Behaviors”, ICIR 2022.
Jayesh Gupta*, Sai Vemprala*, Ashish Kapoor. “Learning Modular Simulations for Homogeneous Systems”, NeurIPS 2022. [arxiv]
Guillaume Leclerc, Hadi Salman, Andrew Ilyas, Sai Vemprala, Logan Engstrom, Vibhav Vineet, Kai Xiao, Pengchuan Zhang, Shibani Santurkar, Greg Yang, Ashish Kapoor, Aleksander Madry, “3DB: A Framework for Debugging Computer Vision Models”, NeurIPS 2022. [arxiv][code]
Benoit Guillard, Sai Vemprala, Jayesh Gupta, Ondrej Miksik, Vibhav Vineet, Pascal Fua, Ashish Kapoor. “Learning to Simulate Realistic LiDARs”, IROS 2022. [arxiv]
Shuang Ma, Sai Vemprala, Wenshan Wang, Jayesh Gupta, Yale Song, Daniel McDuff, Ashish Kapoor. “COMPASS: Contrastive Multimodal Pretraining for Autonomous Systems”, IROS 2022. [arxiv][code]
Saachi Jain, Hadi Salman, Eric Wong, Pengchuan Zhang, Vibhav Vineet, Sai Vemprala, Aleksander Madry. “Missingness Bias in Model Debugging”, ICLR 2022. [arxiv]
Daniel McDuff, Yale Song, Jiyoung Lee, Vibhav Vineet, Sai Vemprala, Hadi Salman, Shuang Ma, Kwanghoon Sohn, Ashish Kapoor. “CausalCity: Complex Simulations with Agency for Causal Discovery and Reasoning”, CLeAR 2022. [arxiv][website]
Sai Vemprala, Sami Mian, Ashish Kapoor, “Representation Learning for Event-based Visuomotor Policies”, NeurIPS 2021 (Spotlight - <3% of all papers). [arxiv][code]
Hadi Salman, Andrew Ilyas, Logan Engstrom, Sai Vemprala, Aleksander Madry, Ashish Kapoor, “Unadversarial Examples: Designing Objects for Robust Vision”, NeurIPS 2021. [[arxiv]]
Sai Vemprala, Ashish Kapoor. “Adversarial Attacks on Optimization based Planners”, ICRA 2021. [arxiv]
Tom Hirshberg, Sai Vemprala, Ashish Kapoor. “Safety Considerations in Deep Control Policies with Safety Barrier Certificates Under Uncertainty”, IROS 2020. [arxiv]
Ratnesh Madaan, Nicholas Gyde, Sai Vemprala, Matthew Brown, Keiko Nagami, Tim Taubner, Eric Cristofalo, Davide Scaramuzza, Mac Schwager, Ashish Kapoor, “AirSim Drone Racing Lab”, NeurIPS 2019 Competition Track. [arxiv]
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli, Carlos Vargas, Martin Bues, Yanle Hu, Jiajian Shen. “Real-time Tumor Tracking for Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy”, IROS 2018. [[pub]]
Adrian Carrio, Sai Vemprala, Andres Ripoll, Srikanth Saripalli, Pascual Campoy. “Drone Detection using Depth Maps”, IROS 2018. [arxiv]
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli. “Monocular Vision based Collaborative Localization for Micro Aerial Vehicle Swarms”, ICUAS 2018. [arxiv]
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli. “Collaborative Uncertainty-aware Planning for Vision Based Multirotor Swarms”, AHS Forum 74, 2018. [pdf]
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli. “Vision based Collaborative Path Planning for Micro Aerial Vehicles”, ICRA 2018. [pub]
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli. “Vision Based Collaborative Localization for Swarms of Aerial Vehicles”, AHS Forum 73, 2017. [pub]
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli. “Vision Based Collaborative Localization of Multirotor Vehicles”, IROS 2016. [pub]
Andres Mora, Sai Vemprala, Adrian Carrio, Srikanth Saripalli, “Flight performance assessment of land surveying trajectories for multiple UAV platforms”, RED-UAS 2015. [pub]
Posters
Sai Vemprala, Ian Shelanskey, Matthew Ragan, Lance Gharavi, Srikanth Saripalli. Ars Robotica: A Movement Framework for Robots in Theater. Workshop on Artistically Skilled Robots. Daejeon, Korea, 2016. [[pdf]]
Sai Vemprala, Srikanth Saripalli. Autonomous Exploration using UAVs. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2016. Phoenix, AZ, February 2016.
Patents
“Event Camera based Navigation Control”. Sai Vemprala, Sami Mian, Ashish Kapoor. (Filed, pending)
“System and method for data transmission and power supply capability over an audio jack for mobile devices”. Indira Negi, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Brian K. Vogel, Darren S. Crews, Sai H. Vemprala, Xiaochao Yang, Howard D. Millett, Alexander Essaian, Alanson P. Sample. US Patent 10,165,355
“System and method for device action and configuration based on user context detection from sensors in peripheral devices”. Indira Negi, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Fuad Al-Amin, Xiaochao Yang, Brian K. Vogel, Jun Li, Alexander Essaian, Sai H. Vemprala, Donnie H. Kim, Lama Nachman, Haibin Liu. US Patent 10,117,005
Misc. Talks
“Sampling based Path Planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, IROS Workshop on Complex Collaborative Systems, 2017.
“Vision based MAV Swarms in a Photorealistic Simulation Framework”, 1st International Symposium on Aerial Robotics, 2017.
“Ars Robotica: Bridging Theater and Robotics”, a2ru (Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities) National Conference, 2015.
“Autonomous exploration and navigation strategies for MAVs”, AHS Meeting on Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems, 2015.
“BENTO: Sensor Fusion for Volcanic Monitoring”, Deep Carbon Observatory Sandpit Workshop on Gas Instrumentation, 2013.