Amith Manoharan
Research Fellow
Institute of Technology
University of Tartu
Tartu, 50090
Estonia.
Biography:
Amith is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia. He obtained Ph. D. from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD) in 2023. He completed M. Tech with specialisation in Guidance, Navigation and Control from College of Engineering Trivandrum, kerala, India in 2017. He received B. Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with honours from Government College of Engineering Kannur, Kerala, India in 2014. He was a visiting scholar with the Brigham Young University, Provo, USA from 2019-20. He was a project student at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), a major research centre of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for one year (2016-17). His research interests are cooperative control of multi-agent systems, guidance and control of surface, underwater, and aerospace vehicles using optimal control techniques ( MPC, LQR, ...) and AI techniques (RL, NN, ...).
Publications
Journals
A. Manoharan and P. B. Sujit, "Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Framework for Cooperative Three-Agent Target Defense Game", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 108 (2), 21, 2023. [PDF]
A. Manoharan and P. B. Sujit, "NMPC-Based Cooperative Strategy to Lure Two Attackers Into Collision by Two Targets", IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 496-501, 2022. [PDF]
Conferences
A. Manoharan, P. Thakur, and A. K. Singh, "Multi-agent Target Defense Game with Learned Defender to Attacker Assignment", International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Warsaw, 2023. [PDF]
D. Soni, A. Manoharan, P. Tyagi, and P. B. Sujit, "Learning-based NMPC Framework for Car Racing Cinematography Using Fixed-Wing UAV", International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Dubrovnik, 2022. [PDF]
A. Manoharan, R. Sharma, and P.B. Sujit, “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control to Aid Cooperative Localization”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Atlanta, 2019. [PDF]
M. Singh, A. Manoharan, A. Ratnoo, and P.B. Sujit, “Three Dimensional UAV Path Following Using SDRE Guidance”, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Atlanta, 2019. [PDF]
A. Manoharan, M. Singh, A. Alessandretti, J.G. Manathara, S.C. Prusty, N. Mohanty, I.S. Kumar, A. Sahoo, and P.B. Sujit, “NMPC Based Approach for Cooperative Target Defence”, American Control Conference, Philadelphia, 2019. [PDF]
Y. Kumar, A. Manoharan and P.B. Sujit, “Right of Way Rules based Collision Avoidance Approach Using Model Predictive Control”, Indian Control Conference, 2019. [PDF]
A. Manoharan, “Three-agent Pursuit-evasion Problem: A Review”, in Proc. of the 42nd National Systems Conference, Thiruvananthapuram, 2018. [PDF]
A. Manoharan, M. Selvaraaj, and P. S. Shenil, “Geostationary Orbit Payload Improvement using Lunar Gravity Assist”, in Proc. of the 18th National Conference on Technological Trends, Thiruvananthapuram, 2017. [PDF]
Doctoral Consortium
A. Manoharan, "Strategies for cooperative UAVs using model predictive control." Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021. [PDF]
Preprints
A. Manoharan, R. Sharma, and P. B. Sujit. "Multi-AAV Cooperative Path Planning using Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with Localization Constraints." arXiv preprint, arXiv:2201.09285 (2022). [PDF]
A. Manoharan and P. B. Sujit. "Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Framework For Cooperative Three-Agent Target Defense Game." arXiv preprint, arXiv:2207.09136 (2022). [PDF]
A. Manoharan and P. B. Sujit. "NMPC-Based Cooperative Strategy For A Target Pair To Lure Two Attackers Into Collision." arXiv preprint, arXiv:2108.06276 (2021). [PDF]