Shafeef Omar
PhD Student @ Applied and Theoretical Aspects of Robot Intelligence (ATARI) Lab. Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI). Technical University of Munich (TUM).
I am a PhD student with ATARI Lab, supervised by Prof. Majid Khadiv.
Previously, I was a research fellow with the Dynamic Legged Systems (DLS) Group, headed by Claudio Semini at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where I worked on quadrupeds for safe vision-aided locomotion. Before that, I was a Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Science, where I worked on Continual Learning for mitigating catastrophic forgetting in neural networks at the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory. I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) with an Engineering Dual Degree, Bachelor and Master of Technology.
My current research focuses on inducing biases using model-based priors to learn safe and robust vision-aided loco-manipulation policies for legged robots, including long-term task and motion planning.
news
Jul 12, 2024 | Presented our recent work on Learning to Climb Vertical Ladders with Quadrupeds using Carpal-Claw Design at the TC Poster Session and Networking Event 2024 [presentation] [video]. |
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Apr 15, 2024 | I have officially started my PhD with the ATARI Lab at the Technical University of Munich. |
Sep 30, 2023 | SafeSteps has been accepted to the IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots 2023. |
Jul 24, 2023 | The preprint of our latest paper on Safe Foothold Adaptations for Legged Robots, SafeSteps, is now available. See the publications section. |
May 22, 2022 | Joined the Dynamic Legged Systems Lab (DLS@IIT). |