Purdue SMART Lab Team

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Shyam Sundar Kannan

Shyam became a SMART Lab alumni in December 2024.
His immediate position is an Engineer at Hitachi Astemo.
Personal Webpage , Google Scholar

Education:
 Ph.D. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2022 (Technology)
Dissertation: "Monocular Camera-based Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Mobility"
M.S. Purdue University, 2019 (Computer and Information Technology)
Thesis: "Multi-UAV Coverage Path Planning for Reconstruction of 3D Structures"
B.E. Anna University, Chennai, India, 2016 (Computer Science & Engineering)

 
Research Interests:
  • Vision-based localization and mapping
  • Robust localization for Autonomous Driving
  • Deep Learning

Selected Publications: (Google Scholar)
  • Shyam Sundar Kannan, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Investigation on Accepted Package Delivery Location: A User Study-based Approach", 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Virtual, Melbourne, Australia, 17-20 October, 2021. (PDF)
  • Shyam Sundar Kannan, Ahreum Lee, and Byung-Cheol Min, "External Human-Machine Interface on Delivery Robots: Expression of Navigation Intent of the Robot", 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN),, Virtual, Vancouver, Canada, 8-12 August, 2021. (PDF, Video)
  • Shyam Sundar Kannan, Wonse Jo, Ramviyas Parasuraman, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Material Mapping in Unknown Environments using Tapping Sound", 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020), Las Vegas, NV, USA, 25-29 October, 2020. (PDF, Video)
  • Manoj Penmetcha, Shyam Sundar Kannan, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Smart Cloud: Scalable Cloud Robotic Architecture for Web-powered Multi-Robot Applications", 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Toronto, Canada, 11-14 October, 2020. (PDF, Video)
  • Wonse Jo, Shyam Sundar Kannan, Go-Eum Cha, Ahreum Lee, and Byung-Cheol Min, "ROSbag-based Multimodal Affective Dataset for Emotional and Cognitive States", 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC), Toronto, Canada, 11-14 October, 2020. (PDF)
  • Ahreum Lee, Wonse Jo, Shyam Sundar Kannan, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Investigating the Effect of Deictic Movements of a Multi-robot", International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 2020. (PDF, Video)
  • Tamzidul Mina, Shyam Sundar Kannan, Wonse Jo, and Byung-Cheol Min, "Adaptive Workload Allocation for Multi-human Multi-robot Teams for Independent and Homogeneous Tasks", IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 152697-152712, 2020. (PDF, Video)

Posters:
  • Lakshmi Priya Muraleedharan, Shyam Sundar Kannan, and Ramanathan Muthuganapathy "Part-based Segmentation of CAD mesh models: A non-parametric approach" , Accepted for Poster Presentation in Solid and Physical Modeling (SPM) 2018, Bilbao, Spain, 2018.

Patents:
  • Shyam Sundar Kannan et al. Volumetric feature extraction in mesh representation of a CAD model using random cutting planes and graph traversals , Application Number - 201841008900. (Indian Patent)

Contact:
    kannan9 at purdue dot edu