Publications

Research Areas

  • ML and Applications: Deep learning and Reinforcement learning.
  • Robotics: Autonomous Driving, Motion Planning and Control.
  • Optimization: Convex Optimization.

Journal Publications

  • Srikanth Shashank, Mithun Babu, Houman Masnavi, Arun Kumar Singh, Karl Kruusamäe, and K. Madhava Krishna. “Fast Adaptation of Manipulator Trajectories to Task Perturbation by Differentiating through the Optimal Solution.” Sensors 22, no. 8 (2022): 2995.

Conference Publications

  • Gaurav Melkani*, Apoorva Jangir*, Mithun Babu, Nagarathna R, Gopal Krishna Patra - “Sybil Attack Detection in 5G-Enabled VANETs Using Image-based Learning Framework” – 2025 ICCCNT

  • Harish Thangaraj, Mithun Babu, Abinaya S - “AT-DQN: Attention-Enhanced Exploration in Deep Reinforcement Learning” – 2025 ICCCNT

  • Arun Kumar Singh, Raghu Ram Theerthala, Mithun Babu, Unni Krishnan R. Nair, and K. Madhava Krishna. “Bi-convex approximation of non-holonomic trajectory optimization.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 476-482. IEEE, 2020.

  • Raghu Ram Theerthala, AVS Sai Bhargav Kumar, Mithun Babu, S. Phaniteja, and K. Madhava Krishna. “Motion planning framework for autonomous vehicles: A time scaled collision cone interleaved model predictive control approach.” In 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), pp. 1075-1080. IEEE, 2019.

  • Mithun Babu, Raghu Ram Theerthala, Arun Kumar Singh, B. P. Baladhurgesh, Bharath Gopalakrishnan, K. Madhava Krishna, and Shanti Medasani. “Model predictive control for autonomous driving considering actuator dynamics.” In 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1983-1989. IEEE, 2019.

  • AVS Sai Bhargav Kumar, Adarsh Modh, Mithun Babu, Bharath Gopalakrishnan, and K. Madhava Krishna. “A novel lane merging framework with probabilistic risk based lane selection using time scaled collision cone.” In 2018 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), pp. 1406-1411. IEEE, 2018.

  • Mithun Babu*, Yash Oza*, Arun Kumar Singh, K. Madhava Krishna, and Shanti Medasani. “Model predictive control for autonomous driving based on time scaled collision cone.” In 2018 European Control Conference (ECC), pp. 641-648. IEEE, 2018.

Thesis

  • Mithun Babu. “Towards Efficient Trajectory Optimization for Non-Holonomic Robots.” M.S. Thesis, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, 2021.