Swati Vishwanath Shirke

Swati Vishwanath Shirke

MS in Robotics Engineering

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

At WPI, she conducted research on Safety-Critical Collaborative Control for Autonomous Vehicles using Deep Reinforcement Learning. Currently, she is working at ACP Lab, developing MPC-based collaborative control for payload aerial transportation using multiple quadrotors. Her work involves designing collision avoidance strategies for quadrotors, cable-suspended payloads, and obstacles by leveraging null space exploration with nonlinear constraints and Control Barrier Functions. Additionally, she has implemented MPC-based trajectory control for Autonomous Vehicles using the Ackermann steering model and integrated it with the CARLA UE5.5 simulator. She has implemented motion planning algorithms, including A* and PRM, for Autonomous Vehicle parking and navigation, incorporating non-holonomic constraints and kinodynamic simulation.

Interests
  • Motion Planning
  • Robot Control
Education
  • MS in Robotics Engineering, 2023

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • BTech in Electronics and Telecommunication, 2017

    Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India

  • Diploma in Electronics and Telecommunication, 2014

    Government Polytechnic Pune, India