Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy

University of Maryland, College Park

Papers

23

Total Citations

628

H-Index

12

About

Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy is a robotics researcher whose work centers on autonomous robot navigation, terrain perception, and deep reinforcement learning, with particular emphasis on enabling robots to operate reliably in complex real-world environments. His most influential contribution, GA-Nav (2022, 145 citations), introduced a group-wise attention mechanism for terrain segmentation in unstructured outdoor settings, advancing how robots identify and classify navigable surfaces from RGB imagery. Complementing this, his TERP and GrASPE frameworks leverage deep reinforcement learning and multimodal sensor fusion to guide robots across uneven and vegetation-dense outdoor terrains, while ProNav and VERN extend these capabilities to legged robot platforms. Sathyamoorthy has also made notable contributions to crowd-aware navigation, developing DWA-RL for dynamically feasible motion among mobile obstacles and the CrowdSteer series of algorithms that bridge high-fidelity simulation and real-world deployment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he demonstrated the societal applicability of his research through a surveillance robot capable of monitoring social distancing in crowded indoor environments (76 citations). Collectively, his work has accumulated over 540 citations, reflecting its broad influence across autonomous navigation, human-robot interaction, and outdoor robotics research.

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H-Index
23
Papers
628
Total Citations
27
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
GA-Nav: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Robot Navigation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments
145 citations · 2022
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2024 (7 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 31
🏛 Institutions: University of Maryland, College Park

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