Rahul Kala received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Information Technology from the ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India in 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree in Cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK in 2013. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India in the Centre for Intelligent Robotics from 2014-2023. He is the author of five books and over 130 papers. He has numerous funded projects from Government agencies and industry to his name. He is a recipient of the Early Career Research Grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. He is a recipient of the Best PhD dissertation award from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society; and a scholarship under the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Program from the UK Government.

Authored Books

1. R. Kala (2023) Autonomous Mobile Robots: Planning, Navigation and Simulation, Elsevier.

2. R. Kala (2016) On-Road Intelligent Vehicles: Motion Planning for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Elsevier, Waltham, MA.

3. R. Tiwari, A. Shukla, R. Kala (2013) Intelligent Planning for Mobile Robotics: Algorithmic Approaches, IGI Global Publishers, Hershey, PA.

4. A. Shukla, R. Tiwari, R. Kala (2010) Real Life Applications of Soft Computing, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

5. A. Shukla, R. Tiwari, R. Kala (2010) Towards Hybrid and Adaptive Computing: A Perspective, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg.

Selected Publications

Journals

1. R. Kala (2023) Mission planning on preference-based expression trees using heuristics-assisted evolutionary computation, Applied Soft Computing 136, 110090.

2. R. Yadav, V. Pani, A. Mishra, N. Tiwari, R. Kala (2023) Locality-constrained continuous place recognition for SLAM in extreme conditions. Applied Intelligence https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-022-04415-1

3. SMH Jafri, R. Kala (2023) Dynamic Head-on Robot Collision Avoidance Using LSTM. Neural Processing Letters 55: 1173–1208.

4. SMH Jafri, R. Kala (2022) End-to-end human inspired learning based system for dynamic obstacle avoidance. Complex and Intelligent Systems 8: 5065–5086.

5. A. Malviya, R. Kala, R. (2022) Learning-based simulation and modeling of unorganized chaining behavior using data generated from 3D human motion tracking. Robotica, 40(3), 544-569.

6. L. Kenye, R. Kala (2022) Improving RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments using Semantic Aided Segmentation, Robotica, 40(6), 2065-2090.

7. R. Kala (2021) Multi-robot mission planning using evolutionary computation with incremental task addition, Intelligent Service Robotics 14:741–771.

8. A.K. Reddy, V. Malviya, R. Kala, R (2021) Social Cues in the Autonomous Navigation of Indoor Mobile Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13, 1335–1358.

9. A. Malviya, R. Kala (2021) Social robot motion planning using contextual distances observed from 3D human motion tracking, Expert Systems with Applications 184:115515.

10. V. Malviya, A.K. Reddy, R. Kala (2020) Autonomous Social Robot Navigation using a Behavioral Finite State Social Machine. Robotica38(12): 2266-2289.

11. R. Kala (2020) Robot Mission Planning using Co-evolutionary Optimization, Robotica 38(3): 512 – 530.

12. R. Kala (2019) On sampling inside obstacles for boosted sampling of narrow corridors, Computational Intelligence 35(2): 430-447.

13. S.S. Paliwal, R. Kala (2018) Maximum clearance rapid motion planning algorithm. Robotica 36(6): 882-903

14. R. Kala (2018) Routing-based navigation of dense mobile robots. Intelligent Service Robotics 11(1): 25–39.

15. R. Kala (2018) On repelling robotic trajectories: coordination in navigation of multiple mobile robots. Intelligent Service Robotics 11(1): 79–95.

16. R. Kala (2016) Homotopic Roadmap Generation for Robot Motion Planning, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 82(3): 555–575.

17. R. Kala, K. Warwick (2015) Congestion Avoidance in City Traffic. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 49(4): 581–595.

18. R. Kala, K. Warwick (2013) Planning Autonomous Vehicles in the Absence of Speed Lanes using an Elastic Strip. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 14(4): 1743-1752.

19. R. Kala, K. Warwick (2013) Multi-Level Planning for Semi-Autonomous Vehicles in Traffic Scenarios based on Separation Maximization. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 72(3-4): 559-590.

Conferences

1. R. Chandra, M. Mahajan, R. Kala, R. Palugulla, C. Naidu, Alok Jain, Dinesh Manocha, METEOR: A Massive Dense & Heterogeneous Behavior Dataset for Autonomous Driving, In: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023, Accepted, To appear.

2. H. Bhati, G. Suri, R. Kala, G. C. Nandi (2022) Simulation Aided Anticipatory Congestion Avoidance for Warehouses. In: 2022 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2022, pp. 2062-2067, Mexico City, Mexico.

3. A. Malviya, R. Kala, (2022) Risk Modeling of the Overtaking Behavior in the Indian Traffic. In 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 2882-2887, Macau, China.

4. R. B. Jha, A. Rai and R. Kala (2021) Predictive Risk Analysis using Deep Learning in Indian Traffic. In: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), pp. 258-263.

5. R. Kala (2019) Evolutionary Planning for Multi-User Multi-Task Missions, In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 2689-2696.

6. A. Bharadwaj, R. Kala (2019) Sensor based Evolutionary Mission Planning, In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Wellington, New Zealand, pp. 2697-2704.

7. R. Kala (2018) Dynamic Programming Accelerated Evolutionary Planning for Constrained Robotic Missions, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Brisbane, Australia, pp 81-86.

8. R. Kala (2018) Increased Visibility Sampling for Probabilistic Roadmaps, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Simulation, Modelling and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 87-92.

9. R. Kala, A. Khan, D. Diksha, S. Shelly and S. Sinha (2018)Evolutionary Mission Planning, In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 1-8.

10. S. Dumka, S. Maheshwari, R. Kala (2018) Decentralized Multi-Robot Mission Planning using Evolutionary Computation, In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 662-669.

11. R. Kala (2016) Sampling based mission planning for multiple robots. In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Vancouver, BC, Canada, pp. 662-669.

12. R. Kala, K. Warwick (2012) Planning autonomous vehicles in the absence of speed lanes using lateral potentials. In Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, pp. 597-602.