Accepted

Accepted · IROS 2026 WORLDS Workshop · 2026

Build Once, Monitor Continuously: Persistent Semantic Mapping via Autonomous Exploration and Open-Vocabulary Object Updates

Sai Haneesh Allu, Itay Kadosh, Tyler Summers, Yu Xiang

A Fetch robot builds a geometric map once, then updates an open-vocabulary semantic object graph across revisits as objects move, appear, or disappear.

Submitted manuscripts

Submitted · Research manuscript · 2026

Direct Solution of Algebraic Path Problems

Richard Samuelson, Itay Kadosh, James P. Fairbanks

Semiring-based sparse algebraic path algorithms unify shortest paths, widest paths, and reachability, with open-source Julia implementations for CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs.

Submitted · ICRA 2027 · 2026

Same Scene, Different Story: Evaluating Robot Perception Across Scene Phases in the Wild

Jishnu Jaykumar P*, Itay Kadosh*, Narendhiran Vijayakumar*, Srinanditha Kamath, Sai Haneesh Allu, Govind Tyagi Rangappa, Animesh Maheshwari, Jikai Wang, Yu Xiang

* Equal contribution

A real-world perception benchmark across scene changes: 100 scenes, 70 objects, and 133,121 frames, with 49 models tested in 65 model–task evaluations.

Six tasks cover image depth, video depth, object tracking, relative camera pose, general VQA, and in-context VQA. The dataset includes over 5.2 million VQA question records.

Submitted · ICRA 2027 · 2026

IntelX: Autonomous Indoor Exploration via Local Coverage Gain Prediction and Structure-Aware Planning

Saurav Dosi, Itay Kadosh, Yu Xiang

A U-Net predicts local coverage gain from partial maps, guiding memory- and structure-aware planning for efficient indoor robot exploration.

Submitted · ACC 2027 cycle · 2026

A Layered Control Architecture for Multi-Agent Coordination on Cellular Sheaves with a Conic Constrained Harmonic Extension

Itay Kadosh, Richard Samuelson, James P. Fairbanks

A layered approach to multi-agent coordination using cellular sheaves and constrained harmonic extension. CellularSheaves.jl provides companion software.

Conference presentations

Presented · IISE Annual Conference & Expo · 2026

Measuring the Effects of Mental Fatigue on Worker Performance Through Task Rotations

Shirin Ghasemi, Tuğçe Işık, David Neyens, Toni Dismuke, Itay Kadosh, Emily Yuan

An experimental study of how task rotation and cognitive workload affect mental fatigue, worker errors, and task completion times.