Gokul Puthumanaillam

Lets see how high this rocket can fly

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Publications

- Puthumanaillam, G., Padrao, P., Fuentes, J., Thangeda, P., Schafer, W., Song, J.H., Jagdale, K., Bobadilla, L., and Ornik, M., 2025. TRACE: A Self-Improving Framework for Robot Behavior Forecasting with Vision-Language Models. Accepted @ IROS 2025
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  * Website (code, videos): https://trace-robotics.github.io

Bibtex entry
   @article{trace2025,
        title = {TRACE: A Self-Improving Framework for Robot Behavior Forecasting with Vision-
        Language Models},
        author = {Gokul Puthumanaillam and Paulo Padrao and 
        Jose Fuentes and Pranay Thangeda and William E. Schafer 
        and Jae Hyuk Song and Karan Jagdale and Leonardo Bobadilla 
        and Melkior Ornik},
        year = {2025},
        eprint = {2503.00761},
        archivePrefix = {arXiv},
        primaryClass = {cs.RO},
        url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00761}
    }

- Zhang, Z., Puthumanaillam, G., Vora, M., and Ornik, M., 2025. Motion Planning and Control with Unknown Nonlinear Dynamics through Predicted Reachability. Accepted @ IROS 2025
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  * Website and code: Coming soon!

Bibtex entry
   @article{zhang2025motion,
     title={Motion Planning and Control with Unknown Nonlinear Dynamics through 
     Predicted Reachability},
     author={Zhang, Zhiquan and Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Vora, Manav 
     and Ornik, Melkior},
     journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03633},
     year={2025}
   }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Padrao, P., Fuentes, J., Bobadilla, L., and Ornik, M., 2025. Enhancing Robot Navigation Policies with Task-Specific Uncertainty Management. In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2025)
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  * Website (code, videos): https://guided-agents.github.io

Bibtex entry
    @article{puthumanaillam2024enhancing,
      title={Enhancing Robot Navigation Policies with Task-Specific Uncertainty Management}, 
      author={Gokul Puthumanaillam and Paulo Padrao and Jose Fuentes 
      and Leonardo Bobadilla and Melkior Ornik},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15178},
      year={2024},
      note={Accepted at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
      (AAMAS 2025)}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Song, J.H., Yesmagambet, N., Park, S., and Ornik, M., 2025. TAB-Fields: A Maximum Entropy Framework for Mission-Aware Adversarial Planning. In Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC 2025)
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  * Website (code, videos): https://tab-fields.github.io

Bibtex entry
    @article{puthumanaillam2024tabfields,
      title={TAB-Fields: A Maximum Entropy Framework for Mission-Aware Adversarial Planning},
      author={Gokul Puthumanaillam and Jae Hyuk Song and Nurzhan Yesmagambet and 
      Shinkyu Park and Melkior Ornik},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.02570},
      year={2024},
      note={Accepted for presentation at L4DC 2025}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Bretl, T., & Ornik, M. (2025). The Lazy Student’s Dream: ChatGPT Passing an Engineering Course on Its Own. In 14th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education (ACE 2025)
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  * Website (code, videos): https://gradegpt.github.io

Bibtex entry
    @article{puthumanaillam2025lazy,
      title={The Lazy Student's Dream: ChatGPT Passing an Engineering Course on Its Own},
      author={Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Bretl, Thomas and Ornik, Melkior},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.05760},
      year={2025}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Vora, M., and Ornik, M., 2024. ComTraQ-MPC: Meta-Trained DQN-MPC Integration for Trajectory Tracking with Limited Active Localization Updates. In 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)
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  * Website (code, videos): https://github.com/gokulp01/ComTraq-MPC

Bibtex entry
    @article{puthumanaillam2024comtraq,
      title={ComTraQ-MPC: Meta-Trained DQN-MPC Integration for Trajectory Tracking with 
      Limited Active Localization Updates},
      author={Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Vora, Manav and Ornik, Melkior},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01564},
      year={2024},
      note={Accepted at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 
      (IROS 2024)}
    }

- Bullock, J. L., Song, L., Puthumanaillam, G., Li, Y., Cheng, S., Ornik, M., Mitra, S., and Hovakimyan, N. (2025). Modeling and Analysis of Collision Avoidance with ACAS Xu in Verse for the GUAM Lift+ Cruise Model. In AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum
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Bibtex entry
    
    @inproceedings{bullock2025modeling,
      title={Modeling and Analysis of Collision Avoidance with ACAS Xu in Verse for the GUAM Lift+ Cruise Model},
      author={Bullock, JL and Song, L and Puthumanaillam, G and Li, Y and Cheng, S and Ornik, M and Hovakimyan, N},
      booktitle={AIAA SCITECH 2025 Forum},
      pages={1323},
      year={2025}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Liu, X., Mehr, N., and Ornik, M., 2024. Weathering ongoing uncertainty: learning and planning in a time-varying partially observable environment. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2024)
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Bibtex entry
    @article{puthumanaillam2023weathering,
      title={Weathering ongoing uncertainty: learning and planning in a 
      time-varying partially observable environment},
      author={Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Liu, Xiangyu 
      and Mehr, Negar and Ornik, Melkior},
      journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03263},
      year={2023},
      note={accepted at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 
      (ICRA) 2024}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Vora, M.K., Shafa, T., Li, Y., Ornik, M. and Mitra, S., 2024. Assured Collision Avoidance for Learned Controllers: A Case Study of ACAS Xu. In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum (p. 1168).

Bibtex entry
    @inproceedings{puthumanaillam2024assured,
      title={Assured Collision Avoidance for Learned Controllers: A Case Study 
      of ACAS Xu},
      author={Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Vora, Manav Ketan and Shafa, 
      Taha and Li, Yangge and Ornik, Melkior and Mitra, Sayan},
      booktitle={AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum},
      pages={1168},
      year={2024}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Mamik, Y. and Ornik, M., 2024. Online Learning and Planning in Time-Varying Environments: An Aircraft Case Study. In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum (p. 0109).

Bibtex entry
    @inproceedings{puthumanaillam2024online,
      title={Online Learning and Planning in Time-Varying Environments: An Aircraft Case Study},
      author={Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Mamik, Yuvraj and Ornik, Melkior},
      booktitle={AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum},
      pages={0109},
      year={2024}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Kandath, H, Sentilnath, J. A dynamic area prioritization based adaptive multi-robot target search. In 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS) (pp. 718-723).

Bibtex entry
    @inproceedings{gokul2024dynamic,
      title={A Dynamic Area Approximation-Based Stochastic Multi-UAV Target Search with Noisy 
      Measurements},
      author={Gokul, P and Harikumar, K and Senthilnath, J},
      booktitle={2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)},
      pages={718--723},
      year={2024},
      organization={IEEE}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G. and Verma, U., 2023. Texture based prototypical network for few-shot semantic segmentation of forest cover: generalizing for different geographical regions. Neurocomputing, 538, p.126201. (Best Paper Award at IEEE GRSS)

Bibtex entry
    @article{puthumanaillam2023texture,
      title={Texture based prototypical network for few-shot semantic segmentation of 
      forest cover: Generalizing for different geographical regions},
      author={Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Verma, Ujjwal},
      journal={Neurocomputing},
      volume={538},
      pages={126201},
      year={2023},
      publisher={Elsevier},
      note={Best Paper Award at IEEE GRSS}
    }

- Verma, U, and Puthumanaillam, G. Improved semantic segmentation for identification of flooded regions in UAV aerial images: a transformer-based approach. In 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2023)

Bibtex entry
    @inproceedings{verma2023improved,
      title={Improved Semantic Segmentation for Identification of Flooded Regions 
      in UAV Aerial Images: A Transformer-Based Approach},
      author={Verma, Ujjwal and Puthumanaillam, Gokul},
      booktitle={IGARSS 2023-2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium},
      pages={4800--4803},
      year={2023},
      organization={IEEE}
    }

- Ramakrishnan, K., Puthumanaillam, G. and Nigam, R., 2021, December. Pandora: an IOT based intrusion detection honeypot with real-time monitoring. In 2021 International Conference on Forensics, Analytics, Big Data, Security (FABS) (Vol. 1, pp. 1-7). IEEE.

Bibtex entry
    @inproceedings{ramakrishnan2021pandora,
      title={Pandora: An IOT based Intrusion Detection Honeypot with Real-time Monitoring},
      author={Ramakrishnan, Karthik and Gokul, P and Nigam, Rohan},
      booktitle={2021 International Conference on Forensics, Analytics, Big Data, Security (FABS)},
      volume={1},
      pages={1--7},
      year={2021},
      organization={IEEE}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., 2023, August. Bluff: A multi-robot dispersion based on hybrid reciprocal velocity obstacles to solve the blind man’s buff problem. In 6th EAI International Conference on Robotic Sensor Networks (p. 41). Springer Nature.

Bibtex entry
    @inproceedings{gokul2023bluff,
      title={Bluff: A Multi-Robot Dispersion Based on Hybrid Reciprocal Velocity 
      Obstacles to Solve the Blind Man's Buff Problem},
      author={Gokul, P},
      booktitle={6th EAI International Conference on Robotic Sensor Networks},
      pages={41},
      year={2023},
      organization={Springer}
    }

- Puthumanaillam, G., Paramjit, S, Harshwardhan, K. BlockMapping: A Blockchain based multi-robot exploration. Paper presented at Blockchain Applications in Robotics and Automation, IROS 2021

Bibtex entry
    @inproceedings{puthumanaillam2022blockmapping,
      author = {Puthumanaillam, Gokul and Paramjit, Singh and Harshwardhan, Kulkarani},
      title = {BlockMapping: A Blockchain based multi-robot exploration},
      booktitle = {Blockchain Applications in Robotics and Automation, IROS 2021},
      year = {2021}
    }

Other Publications (White papers and theses)

- Puthumanaillam, G.. Zero-shot segmentation on the edge. Bachelors (Hons) Thesis. Advisor: Prof. Ujjwal Verma. 2022.
- Siddarth Venkatraman et.al. SOLO Design Report (IGVC 2019). Available at http://www.igvc.org/design/2019/6.pdf. 2019.
- Sujit PB et.al. MBZIRC 2023 White paper: Team Luna. Available at: https://moloch-dev.github.io/pdf/MBZIRC.pdf. 2019.
- Ramakrishnan, K, Puthumanaillam, G., Batavia, P, and Tripathi, S. Zeoco: An insight into daily carbon footprint consumption. 2021. arXiv: 2102.06185


Patent Applications

- Puthumanaillam, G. and A Agarwal. “POMCP based MIC creation for engines”. Patent Application No. 606950-US-2 (146674.582103). Patent application under review. 2022 with GE Aerospace.
- Puthumanaillam, G., V Dongre, and P Renkert. “Estimation of environmental disturbance for trailering”. Patent Application No. ENT-2023-023. Patent application under review. 2023 with Brunswick Corporation.