Siddharth Narayanaswamy

 

Hi! Welcome to my web-page. I'm a graduate student pursuing my doctoral degree at Purdue University.
I am a Graduate Research Assistant under Prof.Jeffrey Mark Siskind. My other advisors are Prof.Avinash Kak and Prof.Bob Givan.

 

Research

My principal research interests lie in the field of Cognitive Robotics; a confluence of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Cognition.
My recent research involves work on the robotics and vision segments of a long-term project to ground language in perception.

A couple of months back, we finished work on a preliminary system that could play simple games (tic-tac-toe, hexapawn, and a few variants of hexapawn) through a robotic arm,
watch the games being played, and learn the rules of the game independent of the system initially playing the game.
The robotic system for this effort was effected using dead-reckoning, with vision providing the cues for game-play.
We have a paper on this effort, currently under consideration in IJCAI09.

We are now working on extending the preliminary result by implementing image-based visual servoing for the robotic arm, feature extraction based on filters from images,
and modeling a constraint-satisfaction-problem to codify the grammar for structure assembly with Lincoln Logs.

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During my undergraduation, I worked on a Do-It-Yourself Virtual Reality based Laparoscopic Simulator under the guidance of Dr.M.Manivannan, IIT-Madras, India, and
together with Dr.Suresh Devasahayam and Dr.George Mathew (from Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore, India), I implemented a part-task laparoscopic simulator,
constructed purely from off-the-shelf parts (webcams, enclosures, etc.), providing a robust, low-cost alternative to existing systems.
Our system was selected to appear in poster form at MMVR17, held in Long Beach, California in January 2009.
The open-source code, materials required, costs involved and instructions to setup the system, can be found here
**UPDATE**
We have signed an MOU with Viswire, (a virtual simulation company in Chennai, India), to further develop the system.

 

Publications

 

Posters

 

CV

My CV in pdf and html formats.

 

Mailing Address:

Siddharth Narayanaswamy
Box #350, 465 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2035
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Purdue University

Other Contact Info:

My Office: EE 36
Office Phone: 765-494-3378
My Lab: EE 309
Lab Phone: 765-494-3359

Website & Email:

www.iffsid.com
siddharth(at)iffsid(dot)com
snarayan(at)purdue(dot)edu