Maulik Bhatt

I am a PhD student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at UIUC, where I am advised by Prof Negar Mehr. I am a part of the Coordinated Science Laboratory and ICON lab.

Previously, I graduated from IIT Bombay with an interdisciplinary dual degree(Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering + Master's in Systems and Control Engineering). During my stay at IIT Bombay, I was awarded Panasonic Scholarship, Undergraduate Research Award and Technical Hostel's Commendation.

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I am interested in leveraging game theory, stochastic control, and machine learning to enable robotic multi-agent interactions and safe motion planning. As autonomy is getting integrated more with human lives, I wish to study the societal impact of autonomy.

Our constrained trajectory planner is 20 times faster than the state-of-the-art

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first pose estimator that is proven to be almost globally asymptotically stable in discrete-time

To the best of our knowledge this is the first attitude estimator that is proven to be almost globally asymptotically stable in discrete-time and considers multi-rate measurements

Developed an algorithm to explore an unknown region while avoiding obstacles

Implemented a Dynamic Image-Based Visual Servo Control technique for safe autonomous landing of drone on moving ground vehicle

Climbing, Hiking, Cooking, Flute