Sarthak J. Shetty



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My research goal is to build biologically inspired, intelligent distributed robotic swarms. Building towards this goal, I've worked on swarm intelligence, autonomy, natural language understanding, machine vision and industrial robots.

I'm currently working as a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, working on exploration strategies and resource allocation for multi-robot systems involved in search & rescue operations. I'm advised by Professor Debasish Ghose at the Mobile Robotics Laboratory, in the Department of Aerospace Engineering.

My undergraduate thesis research was on transiently informed robotic swarms, at the Theoretical Ecology & Evolution Laboratory at the Center for Ecological Sciences. I was jointly advised by Professor Vishwesha Guttal and Professor Debasish Ghose.

I previously worked as an undergraduate researcher at Professor Guttal's lab, building a bio-mimetic robotic predatory fish to study collective behavior and swarming in Serpae tetra. We intend to build upon the observations and incorporate the findings into swarm robots.

I was an undergraduate researcher at the Center for System Design, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal where I worked as a research intern during my sophomore and junior years, jointly advised by Professor KV Gangadharan and Professor Pruthviraj Umesh.

I was also a member of the college robotics club, Astra Robotics, where we built prototype Mars Rovers. Apart from this, I am an avid quizzer and swimmer as well.

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, 560012