Bio:
Mrinal Kalakrishnan graduated with a bachelors degree in Telecommunication from the PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India in 2004. After working for two years in the software industry, he joined the Masters program in Computer Science at USC. He worked on computational biology at the Computational Laboratory of Integrative Genomics at USC for a year before joining the Computational Learning and Motor Control lab in Fall 2007. He received his M.S in Computer Science at USC in 2008, and is continuing research towards a doctoral degree.
Research Interests:
Legged Locomotion, Machine Learning
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Publications
Kalakrishnan, M.;Buchli, J.;Pastor, P.;Schaal, S. (2009). Learning locomotion over rough terrain using terrain templates, Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp.167-172.
[Keywords: legged locomotion
path planning
littledog quadruped robot
foot
hand-hold selection
foothold ranking function
human rock-climbing
robotic legged locomotion
rough terrain
terrain templates]
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Buchli, J.;Kalakrishnan, M.;Mistry, M.;Pastor, P.;Schaal, S. (2009). Compliant quadruped locomotion over rough terrain, Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009. IROS 2009. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pp.814-820.
[Keywords: force control
gain control
humanoid robots
legged locomotion
position control
predictive control
robot dynamics
stability
active balance control
climbing rocks
compliant quadruped locomotion
floating-base inverse dynamics control
foothold selection
gain p]
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Ting, J.;Kalakrishnan, M.;Vijayakumar, S.;Schaal, S. (2008). Bayesian kernel shaping for learning control, in: Koller, D.;Bengio, Y.;Schuurmans, D.;Bottou, L.;Culotta, A. (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 (NIPS 2008), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
[Keywords: locally weighted learning, kernel regression, bayesian learning, nonstationary processes]
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Pre-CLMC Publications
Mehan, M.R.; Nunez-Iglesias, J.; Kalakrishnan, M.; Waterman, M.S.; Zhou, X.J (2008). An Integrative Network Approach to Map the Transcriptome to the Phenome, Research in Computational Molecular Biology.
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Liu, C.; Hu, J.; Kalakrishnan, M.; Huang, H.; Zhou, X.J. (2009). Integrative Disease Classification Based on Cross-platform Microarray Data, BMC Bioinformatics (APBC 2009).
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