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).

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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].
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).

selected publications

2023

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    SafeSteps: Learning Safer Footstep Planning Policies for Legged Robots via Model-Based Priors
    In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2023