About

I'm a doctoral candidate at the Autonomous Robots and Multi-agent Systems (ARMS) Lab at the Center for Systems and Control, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. My research interests lie in the intersection of the domains of motion planning, control, and safety for mobile robots. It is primarily targeted towards applications in complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments such as crowds. I'm also a recipient of the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship and the IGSTC (PIEF) Fellowships.

Resume

Timeline

(May 2024) My research article titled "Guaranteed safe navigation via state-constraints induced by feedback control" is published in Elsevier Mechatronics.
(May 2024) Received the IGSTC PhD Industrial Exposure Fellowship to out an internship in the robotics division of Fraunhofer IPA at Stuttgart, Germany from August 2024 to December 2024.
(April 2024) My research article titled "Choreographing Safety: Planning via Ice-cone inspired motion sets of feedback controllers for car-like robots" accepted for oral presentation at the 13th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control, Poznań, Poland.
(March 2024) Presented a poster at the Indo-German Workshop on "Frontiers of Robot Learning" at IIT Bombay.
(December 2023) Presented a guest talk on "Non-Linear Control Systems" for undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering at Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai.
(August 2023) Conducted a Workshop on the ROS (Robotic Operating System) Fundamentals for the undergraduate students at Dr. D Y Patil's Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai.
(August 2023) Presented a guest talk at DRDO, R&D Engineers, Pune, on "Integrated Planning and Control for Mobile Robots".
(February 2023) Attended the workshop on "Innovations in Non-Linear Control" at IIT Bombay.
(November 2022) Received the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship for the May 2022 cycle.
(December 2021) Gave an oral presentation of my research article titled "Mobile Robot Navigation using State-Constrained Sliding Mode Control" at the Indian Control Conference 2021.

Education

Dual Degree MTech+PhD (pursuing) at Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay. Advisor: Prof. Leena Vachhani
BTech (Electrical and Electronics Engineering), NIT Tiruchirappalli

Publications

V. K. J, A. Verma and L. Vachhani, "Choreographing Safety: Planning via Ice-cone-Inspired Motion Sets of Feedback Controllers for Car-Like Robots," 2024 13th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo), Poznań, Poland, 2024, pp. 229-236, doi: 10.1109/RoMoCo60539.2024.10604365.
Veejay Karthik J and Leena Vachhani, Self-navigation in crowds: An invariant set-based approach. arXiv e-prints, page arXiv:2401.09375, January 2024. [Under Review in Transactions of Control Systems Technology]
Karthik, J. V, Vachhani, L. (2024). Guaranteed safe navigation via state-constraints induced by feedback control. Mechatronics, 102, 103221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechatronics.2024.103221
J. V. Karthik, Arun GK, M. Thomas and L. Vachhani, "Mobile Robot Navigation using State-Constrained Sliding Mode Control," 2021 Seventh Indian Control Conference (ICC), Mumbai, India, 2021, pp. 219-224, doi: 10.1109/ICC54714.2021.9703148.
S. Raj, R. P. Manu Aatitya, S. Jack Samuel, J. V. Karthik, and D. Ezhilarasi, "Ibex: A reconfigurable ground vehicle with adaptive terrain navigation capability," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, 2020, pp. 2975-2980, doi: 10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196571.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant : SC645 - Intelligent Feedback and Control, during Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Autumn 2021 at IIT Bombay.
Teaching Assistant : SC649 - Embedded Control and Robotics, during Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023 at IIT Bombay.
Teaching Assistant : CEP course on Control Systems and Applications, during the winter break 2021 at IIT Bombay.
Teaching Assistant : NPTEL course on "Intelligent Feedback Control" to be offered online during Autumn 2024, Spring 2025.
Teaching Assistant at Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai, for the courses:
- Digital Electronics - Autumn 2022
- Signals and Systems Lab - Spring 2023
- Control Systems Laboratory - Autumn 2023
- Control System Design - Spring 2024