publications

in reverse chronological order.

2026

  1. IROS
    Value Function-Guided MPPI for Hierarchical Planning and Control in Off-Road Autonomous Navigation
    Anoushka Alavilli, R. Song, Guanya Shi, and Jeff Schneider
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2026
    Accepted as a full paper with oral presentation.
  2. IROS-W
    Model Learning and Online Adaptation for Environmental Disturbances in Autonomous Off-Road Driving
    Anoushka Alavilli, Charles Noren, Jason Gibson, Guanya Shi, Jeff Schneider, and Shehryar Khattak
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop on Bridging Perspectives in Navigation, 2026
    Accepted as a poster.

2025

  1. ICRA
    Dynamics Modeling using Visual Terrain Features for High-Speed Autonomous Off-Road Driving
    Jason Gibson*, Anoushka Alavilli*, Erica Tevere, Evangelos A. Theodorou, and Patrick Spieler
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
    *These authors contributed equally to this work.
    arXiv

2024

  1. ICRA
    TinyMPC: Model-Predictive Control on Resource-Constrained Microcontrollers
    Anoushka Alavilli*, Khai Nguyen*, Sam Schoedel*, Brian Plancher, and Zachary Manchester
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
    *These authors contributed equally to this work.
    Best Paper Award in Automation Abs arXiv Code Website

2022

  1. GECCO
    PLAN: A Leafcutter Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Ride-Hailing Services
    Anoushka Alavilli and Mai Vu
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’22), 2022
    DOI