I am Ameya Salvi, a PhD candidate in the Department of Automotive Engineering at Clemson University. My research interests lie in mobile robotics, with an emphasis on planning and control in uncertain and unstructured environments. I am currently a member of Dr. Venkat Krovi’s ARMLab at Clemson.

Research Interests

My current research experience spans the development of learning-based controllers for motion planning and control of a wide range of robot platforms and applications, including skid-steered wheeled mobile robots, Ackermann-steered car-like robots, cable-driven parallel robots, and robotic arms. My work emphasizes leveraging the underlying geometric robot motion models to structure and accelerate control policy learning. In addition to physical deployments, my experience also includes utilizing containerized high-power compute cluster based simulated environments to enable rapid robot learning.

Profession Highlights

2020 - 2024 : PhD at Clemson University 
 Research Assistant - VIPR-GS 
 Teaching Assistant - Autonomy Science and System 
 Disseration - Learning for Skid-steer wheel mobile robots 
2018 - 2020 : MS at Clemson University 
 Course Focus : Dynamical Systems and Controls 
 Summer Internship : Proterra 
2013 - 2017 : BE at Mumbai University 
 Formula Student Competitions 
 ASME Human Powered Vehicle Challenge 
 Course Focus : Mechanical Engineering