Publications
Journals
S.D. Vyas, V.K. Subash, M. Mepani, S. Venkatesh, A. Sinha, A. Guha, S. Dey, "Energy- and Safety-Aware Operation of Battery-Powered Autonomous Robots in Agriculture," IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics (Accepted).
J.M. Monsingh, A. Sinha, and Hoam Chung, "Trochoidal patterns generation using generalized consensus strategy for double-integrator dynamic agents." European Journal of Control, Vol. 76, 2024,
D. Mallya, A. Sinha, and L. Vachhani, "Priority Patrol With a Single Agent—Bounds and Approximations," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 1321-1326, 2023.
Sohan Suvarna, Hoam Chung, Arpita Sinha, Rajkumar S. Pant, “Revised semi-empirical aerodynamic estimation for modelling flight dynamics of an airship”, Aerospace Science and Technology, Volume 126, 2022, 107642, ISSN 1270-9638, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2022.107642.
M. Jana, L. Vachhani, A. Sinha, A deep reinforcement learning approach for multi-agent mobile robot patrolling, International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 6, 724–745 (2022)
S.C. Nagavarapu, L. Vachhani, A. Sinha, and S. Buriuly, “Generalizing Multi-agent Graph Exploration Techniques”, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems, vol. 19, no. 1, pp.491-504, 2021
A.V. Borkar, S. Hangal, H. Arya, A. Sinha, and L. Vachhani: “Reconfigurable formations of quadrotors on Lissajous curves for surveillance applications”, European Journal of Control, Volume 56, Pages 274-288, 2020.
A.V. Borkar, A Sinha, L Vachhani, and H Arya: “Application of Lissajous Curves in Trajectory Planning of Multiple Agents”, Autonomous Robots, 2019, pp. 1-18,
JM Monsingh, and A Sinha: “Trochoidal patterns generation using generalized consensus strategy for single-integrator kinematic agents” European Journal of Control, Volume 47, 2019, pp. 84-92.
AV Borkar, VS Borkar, and A Sinha: “Aerial monitoring of slow moving convoys using elliptical orbits”, European Journal of Control, Volume 46, 2019, pp. .90-102.
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha, "Unicycle With Only Range Input: An Array of Patterns," in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 1300-1312, May 2018.
S. Daingade and A. Sinha: “Fail-safe encircling of multiple UAVs with bearing only measurement”, International Journal of Micro Aerial Vehicles, Volume 8, Issue 4, Dec 2016, pp. 240-251.
R. Warier, A. Sinha, and S. Sukumar: “Line-of-sight based spacecraft attitude and position tracking control”, European Journal of Control, Volume 32, November 2016, Pages 43-53.
R. Warier, A. Sinha, S. Sukumar: “Line-of-sight Based Formation Keeping And Attitude Control of Two Spacecraft”, Acta Astronautica, Volume 127, October-November 2016, Pages 131-140.
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha, “Generating Patterns With a Unicycle,” in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 3140-3145, Oct. 2016.
Sarat N., L. Vachhani, A. Sinha: “Multi-robot Graph Exploration and Map Building with Collision Avoidance: A Decentralized Approach”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, September 2016, Volume 83, Issue 3, pp 503-523.
S. Daingade, A. Sinha, A. Borkar and H. Arya: “A Variant of Cyclic Pursuit for Target Tracking Applications: Theory and Implementation”, Autonomous Robots, Volume 40, Issue 4, 2016, pp 669-686.
G.R. Mallik, S. Daingade, and A. Sinha: “Scalable multi-agent formation with bearing only measurement: Consensus based approach”, European Journal of Control, Volume 27, January 2016, Pages 28–35.
G. Chaudhury, A. Sinha, T. Tripathy and A. Borkar: “Conditions for Target Tracking with Range-only Information”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 75, Part B, Jan. 2016, Pages 176-186.
S. Sahoo, R.N. Banavar and A. Sinha: Rendezvous in space with minimal sensing and coarse actuation, Automatica, Vol. 49, Issue 2, Feb 2013, pp. 519-525.
A. Sinha, A. Tsourdos and B.A. White: “Multi UAV coordination for tracking the dispersion of a contaminant cloud in an urban region”, European Journal of Control, Vol. 15, No. 3/4, 2009, pp. 441-448.
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Generalization of Non Linear Cyclic Pursuit”, Automatica, Vol. 43, Issue 11, Nov 2007, pp. 1954-1960.
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Control of multi-agent systems using linear cyclic pursuit with heterogeneous controller gains”, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol. 129, Issue 5, Sep 2007, pp. 742-748.
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Generalization of linear cyclic pursuit with application to rendezvous of multiple autonomous agents”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 11, Nov 2006, pp. 1819-1824.
Conferences
S. S. Purohit and A. Sinha, "Coverage patterns generated by two unicycles pursuing each other," 2023 European Control Conference (ECC), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.23919/ECC57647.2023.10178386.
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha, "Boundary surveillance using a unicycle: a limited information approach", AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 2022. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2044
Ashay Wakode, Arpita Sinha, "Online Evasive Strategy for Aerial Survey using Sierpinski curve", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 22, 2022, Pages 129-134.
Puneet Shrivastava, Twinkle Tripathy, Arpita Sinha, "Boundary Surveillance Using a Novel Target Switching Technique", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 22, 2022, Pages 293-298.
Asifa Yesmin, Kiran Kumari, Aseem Vivek Borkar, Arpita Sinha, Hemendra Arya, "Software-In-The-Loop validation of super twisting based sliding mode control for quadcopters", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 22, 2022, Pages 123-128.
Somnath Buriuly, Leena Vachhani, Arpita Sinha, Sivapragasam Ravitharan, Sunita Chauhan, "Route planning for capacity restricted agents over railway network, without disrupting train schedules", IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 1, 2022, Pages 38-45,
T. Thakkar and A. Sinha, "Motion Planning for Tractor-Trailer System," 2021 Seventh Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2021, pp. 93-98.
S. Suvarna, H. Chung, A. Sinha and R. S. Pant, "Trajectory Planning using Nonlinear Receding Horizon Optimization for an Autonomous Airship," 2021 Seventh Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2021, pp. 99-104.
P. Acharya, A. Sinha and A. Guha, "Conceptual Design of a Robotic Vehicle Refuelling System," 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA), 2021, pp. 388-393.
D. Mallya, S. Kandala, L. Vachhani, and A. Sinha, “Priority Patrolling using Multiple Agents”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, pp. 8692-8698.
A. Joshi, M. Bhatt and A. Sinha: “Modification of Hilbert's Space-Filling Curve to Avoid Obstacles: A Robotic Path-Planning Strategy”, Proceedings of Sixth Indian Control Conference (ICC), Hyderabad, India, Dec. 2019.
Jerome Moses M, Arpita Sinha, Hoam Chung: Geometric Pattern Formation with Coordinated Double-Integrator Agents”, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 51, Issue 22, 2018, Pages 172-177.
GR Mallik, A Sinha: “Regular convex polygon formation with deviated cyclic pursuit”, Proceedings of Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC), Kanpur, India, Jan. 2019, pp. 107-112.
AV Borkar, VS Borkar, A Sinha: “Vector field guidance for convoy monitoring using elliptical orbits”, Proceedings of IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 2017, pp.918-924
SH Nair, A Sinha, L Vachhani: “Hilbert's space-filling curve for regions with holes”, Proceedings of IEEE 56th Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec 2017, pp. 313-319
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha, “Generating patterns with a unicycle having turn rate constraints,” Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Guwahati, India, Jan 2017, pp. 437-442.
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha, H. Arya and A. Borkar: “Range Based Control Law to Generate Patterns With a Unicycle”, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, USA, Dec 2016, pp. 4979-4984
A. Borkar, A. Sinha, L. Vachhani and H. Arya: “Collision-Free Trajectory Planning on Lissajous Curves for Repeated Multi-Agent Coverage and Target Detection”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Daejeon, Korea, Oct 2016, pp. 1417-1422.
T. Tripathy, A. Humne and A. Sinha: “Generating patterns using multiple targets”, European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2016, pp. 879-884 2016.
S. Agarwal and A. Sinha: “Formation Control of Spacecraft under orbital perturbation”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Tiruchirappalli, India, Feb 2016, pp 130-135.
G. Mallik, S. Daingade and A. Sinha: “Consensus based Deviated Cyclic Pursuit for Target Tracking Applications”, Proceedings of European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, July, 2015.
G. Mallik and A. Sinha: “A Study of Balanced Circular Formation under Deviated Cyclic Pursuit Strategy”, Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Multivehicle Systems, Genova, Italy, May 2015.
S. Daingade, A. Borkar, A. Sinha and H. Arya: “Multi UAV formation Control for Target Tracking”, Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Chennai, India, Jan 2015.
S.C. Nagavarapu, L. Vachhani, and A. Sinha: “A Decentralized Approach for Autonomous Multi- Robot Exploration and Map Building”, Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Chennai, India, Jan 2015.
R. Warier, A. Sinha and S. Srikant: “Line Of Sight Based Spacecraft Formation Control Under Gravity”, Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Chennai, India, Jan 2015.
G. Mallik and A. Sinha: “Formation Control of Multi Agent System in Cyclic Pursuit with Varying Inter-Agent Distance”, Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Chennai, India, Jan 2015.
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha: “A Control Scheme to Achieve Coverage Using Unicycles”, Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Chennai, India, Jan 2015.
R. Warier, A. Sinha and S. Srikant: “Spacecraft Attitude Synchronization And Formation Keeping Using Line Of Sight Measurements”, Proceedings of IFAC World Congress, Cape Town, Aug 2014
R. Warier, A. Sinha, S. Sukumar: “Relative attitude trajectory tracking using line of sight measurements under spacecraft position dynamics” Proceeding of Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Kanpur, India, 2014, pp. 455-461.
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha: “A Guidance Law for a Mobile Robot for Coverage Applications: A Limited Information Approach”, Proceeding of Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Kanpur, India, 2014, pp. 437 - 442.
S. Daingade and A. Sinha: “Target centric cyclic pursuit using bearing angle measurements only”, Proceeding of Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Kanpur, India, 2014, pp. 491 - 1496.
S. Daingade, A. Borkar, A.Sinha, H. Arya: “Study of Target Centric Cyclic Pursuit for MAVs using Hardware In the Loop Simulator”, Proceedings of AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, MD, USA, Jan 2014.
S. Daingade, A. Borkar, A. Sinha and H. Arya: “Implementation of Collective Target Enclosing Strategy with Multiple UAVs using Hardware In-Loop Simulator”, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Jaipu, India, Sept 2013.
T. Tripathy and A. Sinha: “Guidance of an Autonomous Agent for Coverage Applications using Range Only Measurement”, Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, MA, USA, Aug 2013, DOI: 10.2514/6.2013-5095
G. Chaudhury and A. Sinha: “Capturing a target with range only measurement”, Proceedings of European Control Conference, Switzerland, Jul 2013, pp. 4400-4405
T.S. Potdaar, A. Sinha and R. Pant: “Controller Design for an Outdoor Autonomous Airship”, AIAA Lighter-Than-Air Systems Technology Conference, Georgia, USA, June 2013, doi: 10.2514/6.2013-1301
R. Warrier and A. Sinha: “LOS Based Attitude Alignment of two Spacecraft in Formation”, International Conference on Spacecraft Formation Flying Missions and Technologies (SFFMT), Munich, Germany, May 2013
G. Mallik and A. Sinha: “A Novel Obstacle Avoidance Control Algorithm in a Dynamic Environment”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Singapore, Apr 2013, pp. 57-63
S. Daingade and A. Sinha: “Nonlinear Cyclic Pursuit based Cooperative Target Monitoring”, International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems , MD, USA, Nov 2012 (Finalist in best paper award).
A. Sinha: “Rendezvous at a Desired Point Irrespective of Agent Failures”, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), Singapore, July 2012, pp. 406-411
G. Chaudhary and A. Sinha: “Detecting a Target Location Using a Mobile Robot With Range Only Measurement”, Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA), Singapore, July 2012, pp. 28-33
S. Daingade and A. Sinha: “Cooperative Target Capturing with Multiple Heterogeneous Vehicles”, Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems, Bengaluru, India, Feb 2012
Vivek G P, A. Sinha, H. Arya: “Cooperative Target Capturing in Minimum Time”, Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems, Bengaluru, India, Feb 2012
S. Sahoo, V. Kumar and A. Sinha: “Following the Leader with Minimum Sensing and Course Actuation”, Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems, Bengaluru, India, Feb 2012
S. Sahoo, R.N. Banavar and A. Sinha: “A note on sensor alignment in a minimal sensing and coarse actuation problem”, Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems, Bengaluru, India, Feb 2012
Vivek G.P., A. Sinha, and H. Arya: “Time to Capture Target using Cyclic Pursuit Strategy”, Infotech@Aerospace Conference, 2012, doi: 10.2514/6.2012-2526
S. Sahoo, R.N. Banavar and A. Sinha: “Rendezvous in space with minimal sensing and coarse actuation”, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC), FL, USA, Dec 2011, pp 1305-1310
A. Sinha, A. Tsourdos and B.A. White: “Monitoring the dispersion of a contaminant cloud in an urban region by a swarm of UAV sensors”, Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics, CO, USA, Oct 2009, pp. 7-12
A. Sinha, A. Tsourdos and B.A. White: “Multi UAV negotiation for coordinated tracking of contaminant cloud”, Proceedings of European Control Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Aug 2009
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Application of generalized cyclic pursuit to autonomous vehicles with motion constraints” IISc Centenary International Conference and Exhibition on Aerospace Engineering (ICEAE), Bangalore, India, May 2009
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Line formation of a swarm of autonomous agents with centroidal cyclic pursuit”, Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, ACODS, Bangalore, India, Feb 2007
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Control of agent swarm using generalized centroidal cyclic pursuit laws”, Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, Hyderabad, India, Jan 2007, 1525-1530
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Behavior of Autonomous Mobile Agents using Linear Cyclic Pursuit Laws”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, Jun 2006, pp. 4964-4969
P.B. Sujit, A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Multi UAV task allocation using negotiation”, Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006, pp. 471-478
P.B. Sujit, A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Multi UAV task allocation using team theory”, Proceedings of 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and Control Conference (CDC-ECC), Seville, Spain, Dec 2005, pp. 1497 - 1502
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Generalization of cyclic pursuit problem”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, Jun 2005, pp. 4997- 5002
A. Sinha and D. Ghose: “Some generalization of linear cyclic pursuit”, Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference (INDICON), Kharagpur, India, Dec 2004, pp. 210-213
Book Chapters
S. Daingade and A. Sinha: “Nonlinear cyclic pursuit based cooperative target monitoring”, Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 104, 2014, pp 17-30.
P.B. Sujit, A. Sinha and D. Ghose: 'Team, game, and negotiation based intelligent autonomous UAV task allocation for wide area application", Innovations in Intelligent Machines, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 39-75.