Sriharsha Bhat

Sriharsha Bhat is a PhD student at the Department of Aeronautical and Vehicle engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Stockholm, Sweden. His research project on ‘Hydrobatics’ with the Swedish Maritime Robotics Center (SMaRC) focuses on developing new methods for simulating and controlling autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) in agile and acrobatic maneuvers. In the past, he has performed research on aerial and underwater robotics at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore and has been in the automotive industry as a development engineer at Continental in Hannover, Germany. His research interests include optimal and model predictive control, motion planning, reinforcement learning, simulation/modelling, and system identification for robots and autonomous vehicles in challenging field applications.