2026

1. IROS

   

   Constant-Time Planning for Chaining Collision-Free Motion to Manipulation Behaviors

   Nayesha Gandotra, Itamar Mishani, and Maxim Likhachev

   In Search Algorithms for Robot Learning Workshop, IROS , 2026

   🏆 Best Paper Award arXiv

   Best Paper Award at the Search Algorithms for Robot Learning Workshop @ IROS 2026.

2. ICRA

   

   Think Fast: Real-Time Kinodynamic Belief-Space Planning for Projectile Interception

   Gabriel Olin, Lu Chen, Nayesha Gandotra, and 2 more authors

   Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026

   arXiv
3. HRI

   

   RBTLR: A Framework for Safe Social Robot Navigation in Novel Human-Centric Environments

   Nayesha Gandotra

   In Companion Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Late-Breaking Reports , 2026

   HTML

2025

1. AAAI

   

   Anytime Single-Step MAPF Planning with Anytime PIBT

   Nayesha Gandotra, Rishi Veerapaneni, Muhammad Suhail Saleem, and 3 more authors

   In Workshop on Multi-Agent Path Finding, AAAI , 2025

   arXiv