Sudarshan S Harithas

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

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Sudarshan S Harithas is a robotics researcher whose work focuses on advancing autonomous navigation and motion planning for mobile robots. His key research areas include simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), loop detection and closure, and inverse kinematics optimization. Harithas made a notable contribution with **GenNav**, a generic indoor navigation system that modularizes mapping, localization, and path-planning tasks, earning 3 citations for its practical, generalizable framework. He further advanced the field with **FinderNet**, a data-augmentation-free technique for LiDAR point cloud loop detection that is robust to 6-degree-of-freedom viewpoint variations, demonstrating a clever approach to a persistent SLAM challenge. His work **GENERIK** reformulates inverse kinematics as an objective function optimization problem, offering a novel solver with potential applications in robotic manipulation. Collectively, Harithas’s research emphasizes algorithmic efficiency and real-world applicability, with his 2024 FinderNet paper signaling a continued trajectory toward more robust, less data-intensive robotic perception systems.