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.
Latest @ GCDSL-MRL
[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.
Rajkumar Hindoliya and Debasish Ghose, "Emergency Vehicle Collision Avoidance using LSTM-based Trajectory Predictions and Collision Cones"
Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, "Modeling Halo Orbits using Fourier Series Approximations"
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.
Sai Abhinay Nimmala, Kaushik Das, and Debasish Ghose, "Data Driven Model Predictive Control of a UAV Carrying a Cable Suspended Load"
Animesh Chakravarthy and Debasish Ghose, "Servicing Multiple Satellites on Planetary Exploration Missions"
Amit Kumar and Debasish Ghose, "Assessing Barrier Coverage of a UAV Network in the Presence of Occluding Objects"
Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat and Debasish Ghose, "Optimal Tracking of a Target Spacecraft Using Multiple Chasers in Halo Orbits"
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.
[11 May 2024] Suryadeep Nath's video on "Aerial Coverage Strategies Using Lissajous Curves" won the 2nd Prize in the "3-Minute Research Video Contest" under the Division of Mechanical Sciences Research Symposium 2024, Indian Institute of Science.
[3 May 2024] Samiksha Nagrare obtained a drone piloting license for the European region for A1/A3 (open category for low-level altitudes).
[3 May 2024] The paper "Cooperative Mission Planning Using Rollout Policy Optimisation" by Sina Hajkarim, Prathyush P Menon, and Debasish Ghose was accepted in AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.
[24 April 2024] Meenakshi Sarkar was awarded a travel fellowship by the organizers of WiCV/CVPR to attend CVPR in Seattle, Washington, to be held in June 2024.
[23 April 2024] Nobin Paul was awarded the PhD degree of the Indian Institute of Science for his thesis "Longitudinal Acceleration-based Variable Speed Bio-inspired Guidance Law".
[16 April 2024] The paper "Drone Path Planning and Dynamic Arena-Target Allocation for Crowd Surveillance" by Onkar Chopra, Samiksha Rajkumar Nagrare, Shuvrangshu Jana, and Debasish Ghose, was accepted in Proc. of IMechE, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering
[6 April 2024] The paper "Action-conditioned video data improves predictability" by Meenakshi Sarkar and Debasish Ghose, was accepted in WiCV, CVPR, Seattle, Washington, June 2024.
[6 April 2024] The paper "Boundary Approximation and Area Coverage Using Fourier Analysis and Lissajous Curves" by Suryadeep Nath and Debasish Ghose, was accepted in IEEE ICCA, Iceland, Reykjavík, June 2024.
[19 March 2024] The paper "Enhancing Resolution and Fault Tolerance of Barrier Coverage with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" by Amit Kumar and Debasish Ghose, was accepted in AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.
[29 February 2024] The paper "Modified Lyapunov Vector Fields Based Approach Plane Constrained Spacecraft Docking Guidance for Non-cooperative Tumbling Targets" by Atharva Sunder Ramdas, Ishfaq Zahoor Bhat, and Debasish Ghose, was accepted in the European Control Conference (ECC'2024), Stockholm, Sweden, June 2024.
[19 January 2024] Amritesh Maitra wins the 1st Prize for best presentation on his paper "Aggregation Phenotypes in Constrained Heterogeneous Networks" under the Guidance and Control stream in the Aerospace Student Research Symposium (AERES 2024), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, 3-4 January 2024.
[10 January 2024] Suryadeep Nath was a finalist in the student paper contest (AIAA GNC Graduate Student Paper Competition) at the AIAA SciTech Forum and presented his paper in a special session.
[8-12 January 2024] Amit, Ankit, Nobin, Samiksha, and Suryadeep traveled to Orlando, Florida, to present their papers at the AIAA SciTech Forum Conference, 2024.