A website about
Christo Aluckal
Projects
I was fortunate to be part of a very dedicated research group during my undergraduate and my graduate course. Below you can find the major projects that I have been a part of.
Publications
Over the course of my undergraduate course, I have tried giving back to the scientific community in various ways. Below you can find the major publications that I have helped co-author.
PROJECTS
Reinforcement Learning Distillation
On-Line Knowledge Distillation for Multi-Environment Reinforcement Learning
Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
A hybrid Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) capabilites built around a high-wing trainer model aircraft
Roles
Fabrication Team
“Hex-Wife”, a hex-rotor UAV system
An inexpensive and reliable autonomous Unmanned Aerial System (UAV) capable of performing point-to-point autonomous missions
Roles
Design Head
Communications Operator
“PixTrigger”
An open source tool to trigger cameras and geotag the images using a Pixhawk and Raspberry Pi
“No Permission, No Take-off”
A tool that utilizes the OpenSSL framework to authenticate a digitally signed XML
“Building Segmentation”
Using an Orthomosaic and DEM/DTM image pair, the system can extract the height and coordinates of all buildings in the region of interest
PUBLICATIONS
TERA: Simulation Environment for Terrain Excavation Robot Autonomy
C. Aluckal et al(2025)."TERA: A Simulation Environment for Terrain Excavation Robot Autonomy,".
2025 IEEE International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR),
Palermo, Italy, 2025
Generative-Network Based Multimedia Super-Resolution for UAV Remote Sensing
Yash Turkar Christo Aluckal Shaunak De Varsha Turkar Yogesh Agarwadkar
IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2022
Dynamic realtime indoor environment mapping for
Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle
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Christo Aluckal, Yash Turkar, Yashom Dighe, Sumedh Deshpande, B. K. Mohan,
Yogesh Agarwadkar, Sunil Surve, Brijmohan Daga
IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication & Control, 2019
About Me
I recently completed my undergraduate degree and have over 3 years of research experience in
UAVs and Robotics. I am open to working on most scientific domains but have a keen interest
in Robotics and Computer Vision.
Interned
at InfiCorridor Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Currently studying at University at Buffalo pursuing a Master's of Science in Computer and Information Systems and working for the DRONESLab research group.