Kshitij Goel Robotics Researcher

Resilient Multi-Robot Autonomy

Enabling robot teams to explore and search in unknown, hazardous, and communication-denied environments.

This thread focuses on how team coordination, active search strategies, and decentralized mapping allow micro aerial vehicle fleets to explore underground voids.

Our work has evolved from GMM-based occupancy modeling and motion-primitives planning on a single vehicle to decentralized active search systems biased toward resolving target location uncertainty. We have field-tested these systems in wild caverns and deep subterranean settings.

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Work in this area

Decentralized Uncertainty-Aware Active Search with a Team of Aerial Robots

Decentralized Uncertainty-Aware Active Search with a Team of Aerial Robots

Wennie Tabib, John Stecklein, Caleb McDowell, Kshitij Goel, Felix Jonathan, Abhishek Rathod, Meghan Kokoski, Edsel Burkholder, Brian Wallace, Luis Ernesto-Navarro-Serment, Nikhil Angad Bakshi, Tejus Gupta, Norman Papernick, David Guttendorf, Erik E. Kahn, Jessica Kasemer, Jesse Holdaway, and Jeff Schneider

ISER 2025