Sankalp (Sunny) Agrawal

I'm an undergraduate student at The Ohio State University. I am intrigued by robot learning techniques which enable robots to learn and think like humans.

At Ohio State, I am advised by Ayonga Hereid where I work on reinforcement learning for humanoid robots. I've also had the pleasure of collaborating with Erdem Bıyık through the USC SURE Program and Andrea Bajcsy through the CMU RISS Program.

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Research

AnySafe: Adapting Latent Safety Filters at Runtime via Safety Constraint Parameterization in the Latent Space

Sankalp Agrawal*, Junwon Seo*, Kensuke Nakamura, Ran Tian, Andrea Bajcsy

In Submission, 2025

TL;DR - We introduce constraint-parameterized latent safety filters, which adapt to user-specified visual constraints at runtime by conditioning on image encodings within a world model, enabling flexible and principled safe control without sacrificing task performance.


Reinforcement Learning with Data Bootstrapping for Dynamic Subgoal Pursuit in Humanoid Robot Navigation

Chengyang Peng, Zhihao Zhang, Shiting Gong, Sankalp Agrawal, Keith A. Redmill, Ayonga Hereid

In Submission, 2025

TL;DR - We present a hierarchical navigation framework combining RL-based subgoal selection, MPC gait planning, and data bootstrapping, which enables humanoid robots like Digit to navigate cluttered environments more reliably and adaptively than existing methods.



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