Maulik Bhatt
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, where I am advised by Prof Negar Mehr. I am a part of the ICON lab. I started my Ph.D. at UIUC as a part of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Later, I moved to UC Berkeley with my advisor, Prof Negar Mehr, starting in January 2024.
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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Research
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.
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Maximum-Entropy Multi-Agent Dynamic Games: Forward and Inverse Solutions
Negar Mehr,
Mingyu Wang, Maulik Bhatt , Mac Schwager
Transactions on Robotics, 2023
arXiv /
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We introduce the notion of noisy Nash equilibrium and provide forward solutions and inverse solutions to estimate the objectives of the agents from demonstrations.
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Efficient Constrained Multi-Agent Trajectory Optimization using Dynamic Potential Games
Maulik Bhatt , Yixuan Jia,
Negar Mehr
IROS, 2023
arXiv /
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code
Our constrained trajectory planner is 20 times faster than the state-of-the-art
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RAPID: Autonomous Multi-Agent Racing using Constrained Potential Dynamic Games
Yixuan Jia, Maulik Bhatt ,
Negar Mehr
Eurpean Control Conference, 2023
arXiv /
video /
code
Our algorithm outperfroms the state-of-the-art.
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Discrete-time Rigid Body Pose Estimation based on Lagrange-d'Alembert principle
Maulik Bhatt ,
Srikant Sukumar,
Amit K Sanyal
Journal of Nonlinear Science-
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To the best of our knowledge, this is the first pose estimator that is proven to be almost globally asymptotically stable in discrete-time
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Asymptotically Stable Optimal Multi-rate Rigid Body Attitude Estimation based on Lagrange-d'Alembert Principle
Maulik Bhatt ,
Amit K Sanyal,
Srikant Sukumar
Paper-1: 59th Conference on Decision and Control, 2020 - link
Paper-2: Journal of Geometric Mechanics - link
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
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Modification of Hilbert's Space-Filling Curve to Avoid Obstacles: A Robotic Path-Planning Strategy
Anant Joshi,
Maulik Bhatt ,
Arpita Sinha
6th Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2019 - link
Link to experiment videos - Experiment-1, Experiment-2
Developed an algorithm to explore an unknown region while avoiding obstacles
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Autonomous Landing of Drones on Moving Ground Vehicles
Maulik Bhatt,
David Saussié
Implemented a Dynamic Image-Based Visual Servo Control technique for safe autonomous landing of drone on moving ground vehicle
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Hobbies
Climbing, Hiking, Cooking, Flute
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