PhD Candidate,
SAFE AUTONOMOUS MARITIME TRANSPORT GROUP,
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).
Autonomous systems
Optimization and Control
Fault Diagnosis
Multi-agent systems
Robotics
MS (Research), Modelling and Intelligent Control (MIC) Group, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India (2021).
B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering, Uttarakhand Technical University, Uttarakhand, India (2018).
Zhang, C., Dhyani, A., Ringsberg, J. W., Thies, F., Negenborn, R. R., & Reppa, V. (2025). Nonlinear model predictive control for path following of autonomous inland vessels in confined waterways. Ocean Engineering, 334, 121592.
Dhyani, A., Wang, Y., Verbeke, M., Pissoort, D., Reppa, V. (2024). A POMDP model-based online risk mitigation method for autonomous inland vessels. To appear in the proceeding of the 15th IFAC Conference on Control Applications in Marine Systems, Robotics and Vehicles (CAMS).
Zhang, C., Dhyani, A., Ringsberg, J., Thies, F., Reppa, V., Negenborn, R.R. (2024). Manoeuvring Modelling And Control Design of Autonomous Vessels on Inland Waterways. Proceedings of the ASME 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE).
Dhyani, A., Negenborn R.R., Reppa V. (2024). A Multiple Sensor Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Autonomous Surface Vessels. 12th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS).
Dhyani, A. and Jain, T. (2022). Minimal-norm state-feedback globally non-overshooting/ undershooting tracking control of MIMO systems. IFAC Journal of Systems and Control, 100212.
Dhyani, A. and Jain, T. (2021). Globally non – overshooting/undershooting tracking with minimal-norm state-feedback control of linear multivariable systems. 5th International Conference on Control and Fault-Tolerant Systems (SysTol), pp. 237-242 .
Dhyani, A., Panda, M. K., & Jha, B. (2019). Design of an evolving Fuzzy-PID Controller for optimal trajectory control of a 7-DOF Redundant Manipulator with prioritized sub-tasks. Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier; 113021.
Dhyani, A., Panda, M. K., & Jha, B. (2018). Moth-flame optimization-based fuzzy-PID controller for optimal control of active magnetic bearing system. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering, Springer. 42(4), 451-463.
MATLAB , C/C++ , Python , Arduino, Raspberry-Pi , ROS
Teaching assistant for NPTEL MOOC on Linear Dynamical Systems, taught by Prof. Tushar Jain (Spring 2020, Spring 2021) (Course webpage).
Teaching assistant at IIT Mandi:
Control Systems (Head TA) (Spring 2020, Fall 2020).
Digital Signal Processing (Fall 2021).
Data Science (Fall 2019).
Treasurer, Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), IEEE IIT Mandi Student Chapter (August 2020-July 2021).
Served as a Reviewer for:
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier.
Ocean Engineering, Elsevier.
Special session organiser/chair:
"Multidisciplinarity for Autonomous Barges: Technical aspects", ICMASS 2023 (Rotterdam, The Netherlands).
"Advancements in Guidance, Navigation, and Control for Autonomous Surface Vessels", IFAC CAMS 2024 (Virginia, US).
Received the Foundation Day Award in recognition of contributions as a teaching assistant at IIT Mandi (2022).
Received the GATE scholarship from the Ministry of Education to pursue an MS (Research) degree (2019).
Awarded recognition as an Innovator by L&T Technology Services for competing as a finalist at TechGIUM, a national-level innovation competition (2018).
Runner-up in the state-level policy brainstorming competition (2017).