My

Research

Safe Robot Learning & Control, Legged Robots, Control Barrier Functions
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Research Statement

Safety Critical Controls Using Control Barrier Functions

Work Done So Far

My recent works include developing a novel CBF formulation called Collision Cone Control Barrier Function (C3BF) which combines the concepts of Collision cone and CBFs to come up with a real-time safe controller, using on-board computing.

Currently, I am interested in extending my work in the stochatic world and generation of an optimal barrier function using Neural networks.

Publications

* - The authors have contributed equally and † - Project Lead


The entire list of publications can be seen on Google Scholar

Journal Articles

Submitted Papers

Synthesising Neural Control Barrier Functions using Conformal Prediction
Manan Tayal*, Aditya Singh* and Shishir Kolathaya
Submitted to Robotics and Automation Letters.
A Collision Cone Approach for Control Barrier Functions
Manan Tayal Bhavya Giri Goswami, Karthik Rajgopal, Rajpal Singh, Tejas Rao, Jishnu Keshavan, Pushpak Jagtap and Shishir Kolathaya
Submitted to Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
[Paper]
A Theoretical and Empirical Study on the Convergence of Adam with an Exact Constant Step Size in Non-Convex Settings
Alookendum Mazumder, Manan Tayal*, Rishabh Sabharwal*, Bhartendu Kumar and Punit Rathore
Submitted to Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
[Paper]

Conference Papers

Submitted Papers

Semi-Supervised Safe Visuomotor Policy Synthesis using Barrier Certificates
Manan Tayal*, Aditya Singh*, Pushpak Jagtap and Shishir Kolathaya
Submitted to Internation Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, USA, 2025
IROS 2024: Workshop on Formal Methods & Techniques in Robotic Systems
[Project page] [Paper]
Learning uncertainty in Stochastic Dynamics using Control Barrier Functions
Manan Tayal Pushpak Jagtap and Shishir Kolathaya
Submitted to Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC), Michigan, USA, 2024

2024

Learning a Formally Verified Control Barrier Function in Stochastic Environment
Manan Tayal, Hongchao Zhang, Pushpak Jagtap, Andrew Clark, Shishir Kolathaya
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) , Milan, Italy, 2024
[Paper] [Code]
BiRoDiff: Diffusion policies for bipedal robot locomotion on unseen terrains
GVS Mothish, Manan Tayal, Shishir Kolathaya
Indian Control Conference (ICC), Bhopal, India, 2024
[Project page] [Video] [Paper]
Control Barrier Functions in Dynamic UAVs for Kinematic Obstacle Avoidance: A Collision Cone Approach
Manan Tayal, Rajpal Singh, Jishnu Keshavan, Shishir Kolathaya
American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, Canada, 2024
[Project page] [Paper]
Collision Cone Control Barrier Functions: Experimental Validation on UGVs for Kinematic Obstacle Avoidance
Bhavya Giri Goswami *, Manan Tayal *, Karthik Rajgopal, Pushpak Jagtap, Shishir Kolathaya
American Control Conference (ACC), Toronto, Canada, 2024
[Project page] [Paper]
Polygonal Cone Control Barrier Functions for safe navigation in cluttered environments
Manan Tayal, Shishir Kolathaya
European Control Conference(ECC), Stockholm, Sweden, 2024
[Project page] [Paper]
Stoch BiRo: Design and Control of a Bipedal Robot
GVS Mothish*, Kathik Rajgopal*, Ravi Kola*, Manan Tayal†, Shishir Kolathaya
IEEE International Conference on Controls, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), Singapore, 2024
[Project page] [Video] [Paper]

2023

Collision Cone Control Barrier Functions for Kinematic Obstacle Avoidance in UGVs
Phani Thontepu *, Bhavya Giri Goswami *, Manan Tayal, Neelaksh Singh, Shyam Sundar PI, Shyam Sundar MG, Suresh Sundaram, Vaibhav Katewa, Shishir Kolathaya
Indian Control Conference (ICC), Vizag, India, 2023
[Project page] [Video] [Paper]

Pre-Prints/Workshops/Short Papers

2024

Real Time Safety of Fixed-wing UAVs using Collision Cone CBFs
Aryan Agarwal*, Ravi Agrawal*, Manan Tayal*, Pushpak Jagtap and Shishir Kolathaya
Cyber Physical Systems Symposium (CyPhySS) , Bangalore, India, 2024
[Paper]

2023

Safe Legged Locomotion using Collision Cone Control Barrier Functions (C3BFs)
Manan Tayal, Shishir Kolathaya
Arxiv Pre-print
[Project page] [Paper]

2022

Realising the role of arms in improving the stability of bipedal robots
Manan Tayal and Shishir Kolathaya
Cyber Physical Systems Symposium (CyPhySS) , Bangalore, India, 2022
[Paper]

2021

Travelling Salesman Problem: Parallel Implementations & Analysis
Amey Gohil*, Manan Tayal*, Tezan Sahu*, Venkatesh Sawalpurkar*
HPSC workshop em>, IIT Bombay, 2021
[Paper]