Kshitij Madhav Bhat

I'm a first year MS student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

I was advised by Dr. Devendra Deshmukh for my B.Tech thesis project. I did my summer internship after my junior year at Lakehead University, Canada under Dr. Thiago E. Alves de Oliveira through the MITACS Globalink Research Internship program. I spent the summer after my sophomore year at Ati Motors, Bangalore, as an intern, where I was supervised by Karthik K S and Dr. Naveen Arulselvan. I spent the winter before that at Systems and Control, IIT Bombay where I was supervised by Dr. Leena Vachhani.

Email / Resume / Bio / Google Scholar / Twitter / Github

Updates

[Aug '24]	Started my Masters in Robotic Systems Development Robotics Institute, CMU!
[Mar '24]	GLiDR was accepted at CVPR 2024!
[Dec '23]	Selected as a Graduate Mechanical Engineering Trainee (GMET) at Jaguar Land Rover, India.
[May '23]	Spending the summer as a research intern at Lakehead University, Canada, funded by MITACS.

Research

GLiDR: Topologically Regularized Graph Generative Network for Sparse LiDAR Point Clouds
Prashant Kumar, Kshitij M. Bhat, Vedang Bhupesh Shenvi Nadkarni, Dr. Prem Kalra
IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) 2024
project page / arXiv

Static scene reconstrunction with sparse LiDAR pointclouds better with GLiDR.

Projects

	Pluto Drone Swarm Challenge Yeeshukant Singh, Kshitij M. Bhat, Harsh Bardhan, Sairaj Loke, Rohan Jha, Karandevsinh Khuman Akshit Raizada Omkar Shirgaonkar Shivankar Sharma Abhishek Nair 11th Inter-IIT Tech Meet, 2023 (Bronze Medal) GitHub Repository / Report / Presentation A PID Control-based framework for formation control of multiple Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs).
	Smartphone-based Autonomous Driving Module Kshitij M. Bhat, Bhavya Dalal, Yeeshukant Singh, Jitendra Kumar Choudhary, Raghuvamsi Bokka, K. Vishnu Vardhan DRISHTI-CPS, 2022-23 Abstract A smartphone-based drive-by-wire module for level-2 autonomous driving on 6-seater golf carts.
	Multi-Robot Coverage with Interval Analysis-based Obstacle Avoidance Kshitij M. Bhat, Vivek Yogi, Dr. Leena Vachhani Systems and Control, IIT Bombay, 2021-22 Abstract / GitHub Repository A probabilistic multi-robot coverage path planning framework with interval analysis-based obstacle avoidance for hardware-efficient FPGA mobile robots.
	Optimal Mission Planning for Vehicles with Satellite Images Kshitij M. Bhat, Bhavya Dalal, Tanishq Selot Takshak, 2021, IIT ISM Dhanbad (Runner up) GitHub Repository / Presentation A deep learning pipeline to process high-resolution satellite images and plan the A* shortest path for an autonomous vehicle.