Paritosh A. Kavathekar

Dartmouth College, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord

Papers

Total Citations

107

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About

Paritosh A. Kavathekar is a leading researcher in mobile robotics, with a core focus on motion planning and optimal control for nonholonomic and omni-directional vehicles. His most influential work, "Time-optimal Trajectories for an Omni-directional Vehicle" (2006, 75 citations), provides a foundational analytical solution for the fastest paths of a three-omniwheel robot, a design ubiquitous in modern robotics. This work directly addresses the fundamental challenge of generating time-efficient maneuvers for vehicles with bounded velocity, offering a closed-form solution that has become a benchmark in the field. Kavathekar further advanced the state of the art by generalizing classical Dubins and Reeds-Shepp car models to bounded-velocity mobile robots (2008, 19 citations), extending the theoretical framework for optimal path planning to a broader class of robotic systems. His contributions are essential for researchers and engineers designing autonomous vehicles, from warehouse robots to planetary rovers, providing the mathematical tools to compute provably fastest trajectories. With a total of over 100 citations, Kavathekar’s work remains a cornerstone in the study of time-optimal motion, bridging theory and practical implementation in mobile robotics.