HARIKUMAR KANDATH

Harikumar Kandath

Assistant Professor  

Robotic Research Center,

International Institute of Information Technology,

Gachibowli

Hyderabad - 500032

India

Phone:  (91) (40) 6653 1000 Ext: 1637

E-mail: harikumar.k@iiit.ac.in



Research and project positions:

Looking for MS by research 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:

Animesh Sahu (MS degree: MPC for multi-robot systems),  Software engineer at xpo logistics

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

Vedant Mundheda  (MS Degree: Predictive Control of Aerial Robots for Safety-critical operations using

Barrier Lyapunov function ), Research Student @ CMU, USA

Dhruv Kapur   (B.tech-honors: Learning-based planning and control for quadrotor),  Researcher @ Microsoft

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

Shivaan Sehgal  (MS Degree: Robust fault detection for UAVs), SDE @ Media.Net 

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




Students:

Shivani Chepuri  (MS: Reinforcement Learning-based Control)

Snehit Gupta  (MS: Design and testing of flapping wing UAV)

Vidya C S (MS: Fault tolerant control for quadrotor)

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

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

Kirankumar A (PhD: GPS denied navigation)