Atharva Navsalkar
Hello! I am a final-year dual degree student in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. I am excited about research in robotics focused on the control and motion planning of autonomous systems in complex and uncertain environments. I have been working with Prof. Ashish Hota, for my thesis on data-driven model predictive control for risk-aware behavior. More about my previous research and projects!
I will be joining Intelligent Robotics and Autonomy Lab (iRaL) at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to pursue doctoral studies, under the supervision of Prof. Vasileios Tzoumas from Fall 2023. I aspire to work in the intersection of controls, optimization, and learning for safe navigation and control in robotics applications.
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| Apr, 2023 | I have accepted the offer from University of Michigan, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering to pursue Ph.D. from Fall 2023. |
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| Jan, 2023 | My work “Data-Driven Risk-sensitive Model Predictive Control for Safe Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems” has been accepted for presentation at the 2023 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) to be held in London! |
| Oct, 2022 | My project titled “Distributed Risk Sensitive Model Predictive Control for Safe Navigation in Multi-agent Systems”, funded through Student Innovation Grant Program by ARTPARK, has been awarded “Most Innovative Award” in the UG category. More info on the announcement. |
| Sep, 2022 | Preprint of my paper “Data-Driven Risk-sensitive Model Predictive Control for Safe Navigation in Multi-Robot Systems” is available. |
| May, 2022 | Starting my summer internship at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada with Prof. David Saussié through Mitacs Globalink Internship Program. |
| Apr, 2022 | My work at IISc. Bangalore, “GPU-Accelerated Multi-Objective Optimal Planning in Stochastic Dynamic Environments” published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2022. |
| Dec, 2021 | Presented my work “Minimum-time Path Convergence for UAVs in Wind Using Vector Field Guidance” at the Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2021 held at IIT Bombay remotely. My presentation in available here. |
| Aug, 2021 | My proposal has been selected for funding under the “Student Innovation Grant Program” of AI & Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK), IISc. Bangalore. Total 29 projects were selected for out of 131 proposals in the UG category. |
| May, 2021 | Starting my summer internship remotely at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore with Prof. Deepak Subramani in the Dept. of Computational and Data Sciences. |