Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory

News & Updates

📑 [May 2025] 5 papers submitted to AIAA SciTech 2026 Forum, Orlando, FL. 

📑 [March 2025] "Cooperative Target Capture Using Voronoi Region Shaping" by Gautam Kumar and Ashwini Ratnoo is published in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 

📑 [March 2025] Aerospace and Defence Industries Summit for Advancing Key Technological Innovations (ADISAKTI), IIT Madras featured Ashwini Ratnoo's talk titled "Autonomous UAVs: A Guidance Perspective" 

📑 [Feb 2025] Safe and Sustainable Aviation and UAVs Workshop at NITK Surathkal featured Ashwini Ratnoo's talk titled "Guidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" 

📑 [Jan. 2025] Congratulations to Sriram Rajasekar  for winning the best poster presentation award at the 2025 Aerospace Research Students Symposium (AERES) at IISc👏👏.

📑 [Jan. 2025] Congratulations to Ravi Khandelwal for getting his paper accepted for presentation at the 2025 American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, Colorado,  July 8-10, 2025 👏👏.

📑 [Jan. 2025] "Surveillance Guidance Using Lamé Curve Paths" by Amit Shivam and Ashwini Ratnoo is published in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 

📑 [Jan. 2025] Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Midhun E K for joining as a postdoc at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden 🎉💐 

📑 [Nov. 2024] The 12th Mechanical Sciences Divisional Colloquium at IISc featured Ashwini Ratnoo's talk titled "Empowering UAV Autonomy through Innovative Guidance Design" 

📑 [Oct. 2024] A preprint of our work "Quadrotor Guidance for Window Traversal: A Bearings-Only Approach" by  Midhun E. K and Ashwini Ratnoo is now available on arXiv.org.

📑 [Oct 2024] 2 papers submitted to The 2025 American Control Conference.

📑 [Sept. 2024] Congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Kedarisetty Siddhardha (former postdoc) for joining as a member of faculty at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai👏👏💐.

📑 [Aug. 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Amit Shivam for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled "A Class of Vector Fields for Path Following Guidance"👏👏.

📑 [Aug. 2024] Congratulations to Gautam Kumar, Ravi Khandelwal and Hrishav Das for getting their papers accepted for presentation at the 2025 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, Jan 6-10, 2025 👏👏.

📑 [Aug. 2024] Congratulations and best wishes to Amit Shivam for joining as a postdoc at Polytechnic University of Milan 🎉💐.

📑 [Jul. 2024] Congratulations to Dr. Midhun E K for successfully defending his doctoral thesis titled "Bearings-Only Quadrotor Guidance in Gap Traversal Scenarios"👏👏.

📑 [Jun. 2024] A preprint of our work "Cooperative Target Capture using Voronoi Region Shaping" by Gautam Kumar and Ashwini Ratnoo is now available on arXiv.org.

📑 [May 2024] 4 papers submitted to AIAA Sci-Tech 2025 Forum.

📑 [Apr. 2024] A preprint of our work "Circular Distribution of Agents using Convex Layers" by Gautam Kumar and Ashwini Ratnoo is now available on arXiv.org.

📑 [Jan. 2024] "Local Information-Based Guidance for Lane Transition in Air Corridors" by Midhun E. K and Ashwini Ratnoo is published in the Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

📑 [Jan. 2024] "Target Prosecution using Manned-Unmanned Teaming of Aircraft" by Mohit K. Malhotra, Ashwini Ratnoo and Vijay Patel is presented at 2024 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Jan 8-12, 2024, Orlando, Florida.

📑 [Jan. 2024] "Cooperative Multiple Target Encirclement via Platooning" by Gautam Kumar and Ashwini Ratnoo is presented at 2024 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Jan 8-12, 2024, Orlando, Florida.

📑 [Jan. 2024] "Standoff Target Tracking using Look-Angle Shaping" by Dhiraj K. Jha and Ashwini Ratnoo is presented at 2024 AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, Jan 8-12, 2024, Orlando, Florida.

📑 [Nov. 2023] "Intersection planning for multilane unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management" by Samiksha R. Nagrare, Ashwini Ratnoo and Debasish Ghose is published in the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.