Dhruv Mehta, PhD

Dhruv Mehta, PhD

Roboticist. I train robot policies in simulation and get them working on real hardware.

Agile Off-Road Terrain Traversal of an Ackermann Steered Platform using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Published in IFAC-PapersOnLine (Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference), Vol. 59(3), pp. 79–84, 2025

Learning-based goal-to-goal navigation with a point stabilization task for a mid-scale off-road platform, with reward shaping tuned for stability and a custom off-road simulation environment. 86% success rate at reaching the desired goal.