2025

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.

2025

SmartWilds: Multimodal Wildlife Monitoring Dataset

Jenna Kline, Anirudh Potlapally, Bharath Pillai, Tanishka Wani, Rugved Katole, Vedant Patil, Penelope Covey, Hari Subramoni, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Christopher Stewart

arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18894

A comprehensive multimodal dataset for wildlife monitoring, enabling research in computer vision and machine learning for conservation applications.

2023

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.

2023

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.

2023

Swarm Synergy: A Silent and Anonymous Way of Forming Community

Sweksha Jain, Rugved Katole, Leena Vachhani

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17697

A novel approach for silent and anonymous community formation in swarm robotics, enabling privacy-preserving coordination and collaboration.

2023

MEMS Based Pressure Sensor for Detection of Negative Pressure Wave in Subsea Pipelines

Sumit Sunil Kumar, Dhyan Patel, Rugved Katole, Ujwal Gandhi

Journal/Conference TBD

Development of a MEMS-based pressure sensor system for detecting negative pressure waves in subsea pipelines, enabling early leak detection and pipeline monitoring.