Shreyas Bharadwaj

Hey! I'm Shreyas. I'm a Master's student (Dual Degree B.Tech. + M.Tech.) at the Center for Systems and Controls, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. I finished my B.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering in April 2025. My research interests include geometric mechanics, control theory, optimization on manifolds, and nonlinear dynamical systems.

I also love hands-on projects, especially real-world applications involving aerial robotics, aeroelasticity, and control systems. I've recently also started working on data-driven control, and I'm a coffee buff :)


Education
  • Indian Institute of Technology
    Indian Institute of Technology
    Center for Systems and Controls
    Master's Student
    May 2025 - present
  • Indian Institute of Technology
    Indian Institute of Technology
    B. Tech. in Aerospace Engineering
    May 2021 - Apr. 2025
Experience
  • ICMAT
    ICMAT
    Research Intern
    May 2024 - Jul. 2024
News
2025
Submitted a paper to the 8th Learning for Dynamics and Control (L4DC) Conference, 2026 at USC, Los Angeles, USA
Nov 12
Presented my Stage I Master's Thesis Project. Report link
Nov 06
Presented a conference paper at the European Controls Conference, 2025 at Thessaloniki, Greece
Jun 26
Completed my Bachelor's Thesis Project under Prof. Ravi Banavar. Links to the reports: Stage I and Stage II
May 02
Presented a conference paper at the AIAA SciTech Forum 2025, Orlando, FL
Jan 08
2024
Promoted to Avionics Subsystem Lead at Team Rakshak
Jul 29
Landed in Spain for a Summer Internship at ICMAT, Madrid
May 25
2023
Promoted to Vice Avionics Lead at Team Rakshak
Jul 05
Selected for the Summer Undergraduate Research Programme (SURP) at SysCon, IITB
May 19
2022
Completed a Summer of Science Project on Black Hole Thermodynamics... for fun :P
May 19
Selected Publications (view all )
Feedback Linearizable Discretization of Second-Order Mechanical Systems
Feedback Linearizable Discretization of Second-Order Mechanical Systems

Shreyas N. B., David Martin de Diego, Ravi N. Banavar

European Controls Conference 2025

Mechanical systems are most often described by a set of continuous-time, nonlinear, second-order differential equations (SODEs) of a particular structure governed by the covariant derivative. The digital implementation of controllers for such systems requires a discrete model of the system and hence requires numerical discretization schemes. Feedback linearizability of such sampled systems, however, depends on the discretization scheme employed. In this article, we utilize retraction maps and their lifts to construct feedback linearizable discretizations for SODEs which can be applied to many mechanical systems.

Feedback Linearizable Discretization of Second-Order Mechanical Systems

Shreyas N. B., David Martin de Diego, Ravi N. Banavar

European Controls Conference 2025

Mechanical systems are most often described by a set of continuous-time, nonlinear, second-order differential equations (SODEs) of a particular structure governed by the covariant derivative. The digital implementation of controllers for such systems requires a discrete model of the system and hence requires numerical discretization schemes. Feedback linearizability of such sampled systems, however, depends on the discretization scheme employed. In this article, we utilize retraction maps and their lifts to construct feedback linearizable discretizations for SODEs which can be applied to many mechanical systems.

Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Model for a Two Degree-of-Freedom Flexible WIng
Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Model for a Two Degree-of-Freedom Flexible WIng

Shreyas N. Bharadwaj, Vivek Natarajan, Aditya A. Paranjape

AIAA SciTech Forum 2025

An infinite-dimensional nonlinear model for a two-degree-of-freedom highly flexible wing is presented in this paper. The model describes the coupled dynamics of bending and torsion in terms of a set of nonlinear partial differential equations. When torsion is ignored, the resulting transverse bending equations are identical to those for the well-known elastica. The in vacuo response and the flutter onset characteristics of the model are compared with standard aeroelastic models using numerical simulation. The nonlinear model presented here could potentially serve as a benchmark for PDE-based control design methods, providing an intermediate step between low-fidelity linear models and nonlinear simulation models whose high fidelity is usually accompanied by large computational times.

Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Model for a Two Degree-of-Freedom Flexible WIng

Shreyas N. Bharadwaj, Vivek Natarajan, Aditya A. Paranjape

AIAA SciTech Forum 2025

An infinite-dimensional nonlinear model for a two-degree-of-freedom highly flexible wing is presented in this paper. The model describes the coupled dynamics of bending and torsion in terms of a set of nonlinear partial differential equations. When torsion is ignored, the resulting transverse bending equations are identical to those for the well-known elastica. The in vacuo response and the flutter onset characteristics of the model are compared with standard aeroelastic models using numerical simulation. The nonlinear model presented here could potentially serve as a benchmark for PDE-based control design methods, providing an intermediate step between low-fidelity linear models and nonlinear simulation models whose high fidelity is usually accompanied by large computational times.

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