Ortho-Fuse: Orthomosaic Generation for Sparse High-Resolution Crop Health Datasets Through Intermediate Optical Flow Estimation
Rugved Katole, Christopher Stewart
Workshop Proceedings of the 54th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP)
A novel approach for generating orthomosaics from sparse high-resolution imagery for crop health assessment using intermediate optical flow estimation.
2025
Edge-Native, Behavior-Adaptive Drone System for Wildlife Monitoring
Jenna Kline, Rugved Katole, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Christopher Stewart
Proceedings of the Tenth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)
An edge-native drone system that adapts its behavior for efficient wildlife monitoring, enabling real-time decision-making at the edge.
2025
Poster: An Edge-Native Approach to Behavior-Adaptive Navigation in Drone Systems
Jenna Kline, Rugved Katole, Christopher Stewart
Proceedings of the Tenth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)
A poster presentation on edge-native behavior-adaptive navigation for drone systems.
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous UAV Swarm Enabling Detailed Crop Health Assessment
Rugved Katole, Kevyn Angueira, Arpita Sinha, Christopher Stewart
IEEE
A multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for coordinating heterogeneous UAV swarms to perform detailed crop health assessments with improved coverage and efficiency.
2023
Balancing Priorities in Patrolling with Rabbit Walks
Rugved Katole, Deepak Mallya, Leena Vachhani, Arpita Sinha
arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.16564
A novel approach to multi-agent patrolling that balances competing priorities using Rabbit walk-based algorithms for improved coverage and efficiency.
A Low-Cost Framework for Decentralized Autonomous Intersection Management
Rugved Katole, Arpita Sinha
arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17681
A decentralized framework for autonomous intersection management that reduces costs while maintaining safety and efficiency in multi-vehicle coordination.
Development of a MEMS-based pressure sensor system for detecting negative pressure waves in subsea pipelines, enabling early leak detection and pipeline monitoring.