Papers
3
Total Citations
12
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2
About
Yash Oza is a robotics researcher focused on field-deployable mobile manipulation and autonomous systems for hazardous environments. His work centers on enabling robots to perform human-level tasks in unstructured, dangerous settings where human presence is risky. Oza’s most cited paper, “Toward fieldable human-scale mobile manipulation using RoMan” (2020, 6 citations), advances the goal of creating robotic teammates that can autonomously operate in dull, dirty, or dangerous scenarios, bridging the gap between lab prototypes and real-world deployment. He also contributed to “RBFF: Rocker Bogie Fire-Fighter” (2022, 4 citations), addressing critical challenges in firefighting and evacuation in high-risk sites like petroleum refineries and nuclear plants. In “Planning and Execution using Inaccurate Models with Provable Guarantees” (2020, 2 citations), Oza tackles the fundamental problem of robots operating under model uncertainty, offering theoretical guarantees for planning despite imperfect simulations. His research integrates practical design, robust planning, and safety-critical applications, making him a notable figure in mobile manipulation and disaster response robotics.
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- 1Toward fieldable human-scale mobile manipulation using RoMan6 citations · 2020
- 2RBFF: Rocker Bogie Fire-Fighter4 citations · 2022
- 3Planning and Execution using Inaccurate Models with Provable Guarantees2 citations · 2020