Bio: Satyanarayana Gupta Manyam is a Research Scientist with Infoscitex Corp., a DCS company, and contractor for Autonomous Control Branch, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratories, WPAFB, OH. He received the Ph. D degree in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A & M University, College Station, TX. He also holds the M.S degree in Mechanical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, and the B.E degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India. His main research interests include cooperative mission and path planning of multi-vehicle systems, path planning for vehicles with kinematic constraints, approximation algorithms and servo regulators for nonlinear systems.