Pascal Sikorski

I'm a Computer Science and Mathematics undergraduate student at Saint Louis University, working under Prof. Madi Babaiasl at the Mecharithm Lab.

I've been fortunate to work with many great researchers in my undergraduate experience. This summer, I'll work with Prof. Joseph Davidson at the Oregon State University Intelligent Machines and Materials Lab on robotic crop manipulation. Previously, I've worked with Prof. Aaron Ames and Dr. Xiao Tan at the Caltech AMBER Lab on risk-aware control with autonomous robotic navigation.

Feel free to reach out if you are interested in my work or wish to start a chat!

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Research

I'm interested in robotic planning, human-robot interaction, game theory, and deep learning for assistive or environmental applications. Most of my research utilizes aspects of SLAM and human-centric design to solve challenges in planning/control.

Deployment of Large Language Models to Control Mobile Robots at the Edge
Pascal Sikorski, Leendert Schrader, Kaleb Yu, Lucy Billadeau, Jinka Meenakshi, Naveena Mutharasan, Flavio Esposito, Hadi Akbarpour, Madi Babaiasl
ICMCR, 2025
arXiv / code / bibtex

An online/offline control system for mobile robots using natural language commands with large language models.

Improving Robotic Arms through Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Edge Computing
Pascal Sikorski, Kaleb Yu, Lucy Billadeau, Flavio Esposito, Hadi Akbarpour, Madi Babaiasl
ICMCR, 2025
arXiv / code / bibtex

Combines natural language processing, computer vision, and edge computing for a robotic arm to interpret and execute spoken commands.

b3do EMG-TransNN-MHA: A Transformer-Based Model for Enhanced Motor Intent Recognition in Assistive Robotics
Joel Aikkarakudiyil Joby, Pascal Sikorski, Tipu Sultan, Hadi Akbarpour, Flavio Esposito, Madi Babaiasl
IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2024
IEEE / bibtex

A transformer model to utilize muscle EMG signals for upper-limb gesture classification.

Control Barrier Functions Through SLAM: A Probabilistic Approach
Pascal Sikorski, Xiao Tan, Aaron Ames
LANS, 2024
powerpoint

Incorporates a Belief Control Barrier Function for SLAM systems.

Adversary is on the Road: Attacks on Visual SLAM using Unnoticeable Adversarial Patch
Baodong Chen, Wei Wang, Pascal Sikorski, Ting Zhu
USENIX Security, 2024
usenix / bibtex

Presents an Adversary is on the Road (AoR) attack for many visual SLAM systems.

Miscellaneous

pascalagain Teaching Assistant at Saint Louis University,
CSCI 2100 Spring 2024,
CSCI 1060 Fall 2023
overwatch
I used to play professional Overwatch esports,
See my wiki-page.

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