Pranav Thakkar

Hi! I am a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University. I work with Prof. Kuan Fang on learning visuo-haptic dexterous manipulation for everyday tasks. I also collaborate with Prof. Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee on creating physical human-robot interaction systems for assistive dressing and on large-scale multimodal haptic perception.

I have spent time at Amazon Robotics working on contact-rich manipulation, and at Honda R&D on robust multimodal perception and mapping in semi-structured environments.

Previously, I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay where I worked with Prof. Leena Vachhani and Prof. Hemendra Arya on creating robust state and parameter estimators.

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A compilation of my work over two years at the ARMS Lab, ranging from observability analysis to robust state estimation for ground robots with only bearing measurements.

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