GCDSL

MRL

Guidance, Control, and Decision Systems Laboratory

Mobile Robotics Laboratory

RBCCPS & Department of Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Debasish Ghose

Professor, RBCCPS & Department of Aerospace Engineering

BSc(Engg), Regional Engineering College (now NIT), Rourkela, India, 1982.

ME, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, 1984.

PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, 1990.

Debasish Ghose joined the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science in 1990 as a lecturer (1990-1993) and continued as an assistant professor (1993-1997), associate professor (1997-2003), and professor (2003 - ). In 2023 he moved to the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber-physical Systems at the Indian Institute of Science while continuing to be an associate faculty at the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He has held various visiting positions such as at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Leicester, and the University of Exeter in the UK. He is a fellow of INAE, NASI, and INSA and an associate fellow of AIAA.

Contact: dghose[AT]iisc.ac.in

Areas of Interest

Guidance and Control of Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics, UAVs, Game Theory, Collision Detection and Avoidance, AI/ML Applications.

Research Members Publications Projects Honours, Awards, and Recognitions

Latest @ GCDSL-MRL

[19 June 2025] Sajid Ahamed gave his PhD thesis colloquium on "Decongestion Strategies for Dense Urban Airspace".
[18 June 2025] Amit Kumar defended his PhD thesis on "Barrier Coverage using UAVs and Camera Sensors".
[20 May 2025] Meenakshi Sarkar gave her PhD thesis colloquium on "Learning Action Priors for Deep Visual Predictions".
[14 May 2025] The following papers were accepted at the Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Boston, MA, August 2025.
1. Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, "Performance Evaluation of Observer Spacecraft on Cislunar Orbits".
2. Priyanjali Shukla and Debasish Ghose, "Orbital Transfer in the Cislunar Space Using Virtual Target with Adaptive Step Size Strategy".
3. Madhav Nakani, Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, "A Novel Orbit-bundle Based Approach Toward Conjunction Assessment in Cislunar Space".
4. Animesh Chakravarthy and Debasish Ghose, "Trajectory Design for Orbital Edge Computing Applications in Planetary Exploration Missions".
[12 May 2025] The following papers were accepted at the IEEE Space Aerospace and Defence Conference (SPACE 2025), Bengaluru, India, July 2025.
1. Madhav Nakani, Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat, and Debasish Ghose, "Orbit Bundle Based Halo Orbit Allocation Policy in Cislunar Space".
2. Priyanjali Shukla and Debasish Ghose, "Transfer Between Orbits in the Cislunar Space Using a Virtual Target Following Strategy".
3. Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, "Natural Trajectory Transfer Between Halo Orbits for Optimal Closest Approach to Desired Orbit".
[23 April 2025] Ankit Gupta gave his PhD thesis colloquium on "Navigation of Autonomous Vehicles using Event Cameras and Modified RRT Methods "
[16 April 2025] Samiskha Rajkumar Nagrare defended her PhD thesis on "Intersection Planning in Multilane Aerial Corridors for UAVs."
[16 April 2025] Shivshankar Sivaraman gave his PhD thesis colloquium on "Behavior Modelling of Non-Cooperative Space Objects and Strategies for Decision Support in Space Situational Awareness".
[28 March 2025] The following papers were accepted in the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Charlotte, NC, USA, May 2025.
1. Abhinay N S, Kaushik Das, and Debasish Ghose, "Robust Trajectory Tracking Control of a Multi-rotor UAV Carrying a Cable Suspended Load".
2. Animesh Chakravarthy and Debasish Ghose, "Inspection of Moving Structures by UAVs using a Robust Approach Cone Strategy".
3. Amit Kumar and Debasish Ghose, "Barrier Coverage of a Terrain-like Border with UAVs Presentation format: Oral Presentation".
[19 March 2025] Amit Kumar gave his PhD thesis colloquium on "Barrier Coverage using UAVs and Camera Sensors".
[12 March 2025] Suryadeep Nath gave his PhD thesis colloquium on "Multi-Agent Pursuit-Evasion and Coverage Strategies".
[25 February 2025] Kumar Ankit defended his PhD thesis on "Multi-agent Collaborative Framework for Automated Agriculture."
[24 February 2025] The paper "Determination of Barrier Coverage in a UAV Network with Occluding Objects" by Amit Kumar and Debasish Ghose was accepted in AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.
[28 January 2025] The paper "3D Reconstruction via Camera-lidar (2D) Fusion for Mobile Robots: A Gaussian Splatting Approach" by Ajay Kumar Sandula, Shriram Damodaran, Suhas Nagaraj, Debasish Ghose, Pradipta Biswas, was accepted in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2025.
[2 December 2024] The paper "Quadrotor-based Aerial Manipulator Robotics" by Vidya Sumathy and Debasish Ghose was accepted in the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science.
[30 October 2024] The paper "Trajectory planning for satellite servicing operations" by Animesh Chakravarthy and Debasish Ghose was accepted in AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Hawaii, USA, January 2025.
[30 October 2024] Samiskha Rajkumar Nagrare gave her PhD colloquium on "Intersection Planning in Multilane Aerial Corridors for UAVs."
[1 October 2024] The paper "Dronecage: A Model for Conflict Resolution in Aerial Corridor Intersections" by Samiksha Nagrare and Debasish Ghose was accepted in AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.
[20 September 2024] The following papers were accepted at the Indian Control Conference, IISER, Bhopal, India, December 2024.
1. Rajkumar Hindoliya and Debasish Ghose, "Emergency Vehicle Collision Avoidance using LSTM-based Trajectory Predictions and Collision Cones"
2. Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, "Modeling Halo Orbits using Fourier Series Approximations"
3. Amritesh Maitra and Debasish Ghose, "Morse Potential Field based Guided Exploration in an Augmented Directed Network"
[26 August 2024] The following papers were accepted at the AIAA SciTech Conference, Florida, USA, January 2025.
1. Sai Abhinay Nimmala, Kaushik Das, and Debasish Ghose, "Data Driven Model Predictive Control of a UAV Carrying a Cable Suspended Load"
2. Animesh Chakravarthy and Debasish Ghose, "Servicing Multiple Satellites on Planetary Exploration Missions"
3. Amit Kumar and Debasish Ghose, "Assessing Barrier Coverage of a UAV Network in the Presence of Occluding Objects"
4. Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, "Optimal Tracking of a Target Spacecraft Using Multiple Chasers in Halo Orbits"
5. Sajid Ahamed M A, Debasish Ghose, and Prathyush Menon, "Effect of Congestion Mitigation Strategy on UAS Traffic Flow in Dense Urban Airspace"
[24 July 2024] The paper "Steering Opinions over n-Dimensional Spherical Manifolds" by Animesh Chakravarthy and Debasish Ghose was accepted at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024), Milan, Italy, December 2024.
[24 July 2024] Kumar Ankit gave his PhD colloquium on "Multi-agent Collaborative Framework for Automated Agriculture."
[23 July 2024] Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat won the First Prize in the 3 Minute Thesis Competition at the IEEE Space 2024 Conference for his presentation on "Optimal tracking of a target spacecraft using multiple chasers in halo orbits."
[5 July 2024] The paper "Dynamic Aerial Coverage of Stationary and Moving Structures Using Lissajous Curves" by Suryadeep Nath and Debasish Ghose was accepted in the AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.
[June 2024] Three of our lab members presented their work at various conferences: Meenakshi Sarkar at CVPR in Seattle, Washington, USA (17-21 June), Suryadeep Nath at ICCA in Reykjavik, Iceland (18-21 June), and Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat at ECC in Stockholm, Sweden (25-28 June).
[10 June 2024] The paper "Formation Control for Tracking Non-Cooperative Space Objects" by Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, was accepted in IEEE Space Aerospace and Defence Conference (SPACE 2024), Bengaluru, India, July 2024.
[27 May 2024] The paper "On The Loop Demand Aware Robot Scheduling: A Mixed Reality based User Study" by Ajay Kumar Sandula, Rajatsurya M, Debasish Ghose, and Pradipta Biswas, was accepted at the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), Pasadena, California, August 2024.
[17 May 2024] The paper "Deployment of multiple satellites on collision-free orbital trajectories for planetary exploration" by Animesh Chakravarthy and Debasish Ghose, was accepted in AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference (ASC'2024), in Bloomfield, Colorado, August 2024.

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