HARIKUMAR KANDATH

Research and project positions:

Looking for PhD students (intake through institute admission process)

Research Interests:

Aerial robotics, Control and coordination of multi-robot systems, Reinforcement learning, Robust control and state estimation, UAV design.

Alumni:

a) MS by Research:

1.  Animesh Sahu ( MPC for multi-robot systems),  Software engineer at xpo logistics

2. Ishaan Khare  (Collision avoidance for aerial robots operating in the context of Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM )),   SDE-1 at Slice 

3. Vedant Mundheda  ( Predictive Control of Aerial Robots for Safety-critical operations using Barrier Lyapunov function ), Research Student @ CMU, USA

4. Aditya Srinivas M ( ACTUATOR FAULT DETECTION, ISOLATION AND FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL OF A HEXACOPTER UAV  ), SDE - II @ HighSpot

5. Shivaan Sehgal  ( Robust fault detection for UAVs), SDE @ Media.Net 

6. Bhaskar Joshi   ( Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Obstacle Avoidance for  UAVs), Researcher @ Adobe

7.  Snehit Gupta  (Design and Analysis of a Modular Flapping Wing Robot with a Swappable Powertrain Module), Engineer @ MindLabs

8.  Vidya CS (Fault Tolerant Control of Quadrotors)

b) B.Tech Honors:

1. Dhruv Kapur   (Learning-based planning and control for quadrotor),  Researcher @ Microsoft

2. Garapati Sreya (GPS Spoofing for multirotors), SE @ Swimlane

3.  Jhalak A Bansal (Data generation for dynamical systems and Reinforcement Learning), Engineer @ Mastercard

4.  Harsh Bansal (Imitation learning for UAV navigation), Engineer @ Qualcomm

c) Research Staff:

1.  Damodar D (Research student @ Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

2.  Himanshu  (Research student @ RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

3.  Avijit Ashe (Researcher @ SPCRC, IIIT Hyderabad)

4. Prudhviraj T (Engineer @ Airbotix Technologies)

5. Dr. Srikanth G (Research Fellow @ King Fahd University, Saudi Arabia)

6.  KP Rithwik 

7. Chravi M (Research Student @  University of California, Santa Barbara)

8. Kushagra S (Research student @ Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)

9.  K Prashanth (Researcher @, IIT Hyderabad)

Current Students:

Shivani Chepuri  (MS: Reinforcement Learning-based Control)

Munjaal T B (MS: Fault tolerant control for multi-rotor)

Aakash M (MS: Fault tolerant control for multi-rotor)

Bhamidipati Srinath D (MS: Modeling and control of  hybrid UAV)

Aniketh P (MS: Energy efficient unconventional multirotor design)

Keerthi (MS: Multirotor applications)

Shinde Yash Hemant (MS: Learning-based navigation)

Kirankumar A (PhD: GPS denied navigation)

Jayakant (PhD: Learning-based control and navigation)