Mihir Dharmadhikari
Postdoctoral Researcher at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Trondheim, Trøndelag, Norway
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Top SchoolMihir Dharmadhikari is a Postdoctoral Researcher at NTNU with eight years of hands-on experience in aerial robotics, specializing in autonomy, adaptive motion planning, and navigation under perception uncertainty. He completed a PhD focused on autonomy for aerial robots and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Nevada, Reno, building a career that bridges academic research and practical systems for UAVs. His work spans subterranean and warehouse navigation, global planning pipelines, and autonomous landing on moving platforms, reflecting a knack for solving real-world robotics challenges. Known for designing lab curricula and running a campus makerspace, he combines technical depth with a penchant for mentoring and enabling others. Based in Trondheim, he brings a persistent curiosity and rapid prototyping mindset that often turns theoretical planning frameworks into field-ready drone behaviors.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Nevada, RenoAksharnandan Secondary SchoolNorwegian University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (42)
graph9
agile9
gazebo-simulator9
simulation8
ros5
lidar5
autonomous-robots5
voxel5
robot5
wavelet5
marine5
hierarchical5
robotics5
scene-graph4
datasets4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ntnu-arl/voxblox
Jul 2020 - May 2022
A library for flexible voxel-based mapping, mainly focusing on truncated and Euclidean signed distance fields.
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 10 months
voxel
ntnu-arl/mbplanner_ros
Aug 2020 - Feb 2021
Motion-primitives Based Planner for Fast & Agile Exploration
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 months
agile
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