Bharath Vedantha Desikan

Robotics Research Engineer specializing in autonomous sampling, probabilistic planning, and Gaussian Process–based spatial modeling. Experienced in ROS2, Python, and simulation-driven evaluation of uncertainty-aware decision making for real-world robotic systems.

Field Estimation and Adaptive Sampling under Positional Uncertainty

• This works ask the question "What happens when you consider a robot's positional uncertainty when performing tasks like adaptive sampling, path planning or field reconstruction post data collection"

Low Cost ASV for High-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Aquatic Field Reconstruction via Dynamic Kernels

Rodney Staggers Jr*, Bharath Vedantha Desikan*, Jnaneshwar Das (*contributed equally)

Published in ICRA 2025, Robots in the Wild