About
I'm a research scholar at Systems and Control Engineering, 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.
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
Veejay Karthik, Anushka Verma , and Leena Vachhani, "Choreographing Safety: Planning via Ice-cone inspired motion sets of feedback controllers for car-like robots", 13th International Workshop on Robot Motion and Control (RoMoCo '24), Poznan, Poland, 2024. [Accepted]
Veejay Karthik and Leena Vachhani. Self-navigation in crowds: An invariant set-based approach. arXiv e-prints, page arXiv:2401.09375, January 2024. [Under Preparation, To be submitted to Transactions of Control Systems Technology]
Veejay Karthik and Leena Vachhani, "Guaranteed Safe Navigation via state-constraints induced by feedback control", IFAC, Mechatronics [Under Review, Last Revision: 3rd March 2024]
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.
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