A Second year PhD student at LAAS-CNRS, France and National Institute for Applied Sciences, Toulouse.
Currently, I am working on improving legibility in robot motion for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) under the supervision of Dr. Rachid Alami.
Email : harunachal@laas.fr
A Retrieval Augmented Generation Approach for Planning on General Purpose Service Robots - ARTIIS 2025 [paper] [code]
Eden Attenborough, Hariharan Arunachalam, Juan Pablo Vásconez, Francesco Del Duchetto, Riccardo Polvara, Leonardo Guevara
Assessing Human Cooperation for Enhancing Social Robot Navigation - ICRA Workshop 2025 - Advances in Social Navigation - Poster Presentation [paper] [poster]
Hariharan Arunachalam, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid Alami
Resilient Timed Elastic Band Planner for Collision-Free Navigation in Unknown Environments - Journal of Field Robotics 2025 [paper]
Geesara Kulathunga, Abdurrahman Yilmaz, Zhuoling Huang, Ibrahim Hroob, Hariharan Arunachalam, Leonardo Guevara, Alexandr Klimchik, Grzegorz Cielniak, Marc Hanheide
Runtime Anomaly Monitoring of Human Perception Models for Robotic Systems - IEEE CASE 2024 [paper] [code]
Hariharan Arunachalam, Zhuoling Huang, Marc hanheide, Leonardo Guevara
Robot-assisted fruit harvesting: an ergonomics user study - IEEE CASE 2024 [paper]
Leonardo Guevara, Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma, Hariharan Arunachalam, Juan Vasconez, Marc Hanheide, Elizabeth Sklar
Learning Manipulation Tasks in Dynamic and Shared 3D Spaces - Arxiv [paper] [code]
Hariharan Arunachalam, Sariah Mghames, Marc Hanheide
PhD (Computer Science and Robotics) - CNRS, France (2024 - Present)
MSc by Research (Computer Science) - University of Lincoln (2023 - 2024) [Link to Thesis]
B.Tech (Hons.) (Mechatronics Engineering) - SASTRA University (2018 - 2022) [Link to Thesis]
I am extremely grateful for all the scholarships throughout my journey
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellowship - (2024 - Present)
Fellowship support during my PhD studies at CNRS
University of Lincoln Studentship - (2023 - 2024)
Funded MSc scholarship at University of Lincoln (Thanks to the sponsor - Berry Garden Growers Ltd)
Desh-Videsh Scholarship (2022)
Funded research exchange program from SASTRA University for research internship at University of Lincoln
Dean's Merit List - 10% (2019, 2020)
Awarded to top 10% performing students at SASTRA University
Visiting Research Student - Honda Research Institute, Offenbach am main, Germany (Feb 2025 - Mar2025)
Research Assistant (Part-time) - L-CAS, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK(June 2023 - May 2024)
Data Scientist 1 - Augur Ai Pvt Ltd, Trichy, India (Aug 2022 - Feb 2023)
Research Intern (Part-time) - L-CAS, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK (June 2021 - June 2022)
Winter Research Intern (Part-time) - CIR, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India (Nov 2020 - Jan 2021)
AI Developer Intern (Part-time) - WiselyWise Pvt Ltd, India (Oct 2020 - Dec 2020)
Fête de la science (Oct 2025) - LAAS-CNRS - Science demos for young students
Open day volunteer (2023 - 2024) - Uni. of Lincoln - Robot demos for incoming students
Lincolnshire Show 2023 (June 2023) - Lincoln, England, Uk - Represented Uni. of Lincoln
Social Volunteer (2019) - Dr.Abdul kalam Welfare Trust, India - Volunteered with an NGO for Social Causes
UPC Robotics & AI Summer School (2022) - Participant
