Kalana is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra. He has a background in Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests include robotic navigation and manipulation, human-robot interaction and LLM-based robotic planning. His current research focuses on llm based generative behaviour planning for social robots. His areas of technical experience include ROS1 and ROS2 development (in C++ and Python), Navigation stack and Moveit stacks, robotic planning, and low-level robot control.
As a part of his research work, he develops and maintains the following repositories (some of which might stay hidden until the related publication is out)
As co-collaborator
As the maintainer
- fabric
- fabric_capabilities
- prompt_capabilities
- turtlebot_capabilities
- nav2_capabilities
- moveit2_capabilities
- perception
- perception_capabilities
- supervisor
- experience
- rodeo
- anygrasp_ros
- grasping
- anygrasp_grasping
He also maintains the following stacks for robots used in the lab,
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Ujk7jMsAAAAJ
