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  one  Ph.D.   candidate to work on   "Reinforcement Learning   applied to Robotics",  (updated on 31/12/2024) .   A Scholarship equal to  that given in IITs  will be provided for a period of 5 years.


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




Students:

Shivani Chepuri  (Reinforcement Learning-based Control)

Bhaskar Joshi   (Reinforcement Learning-based planning and control for quadrotor)

Snehit Gupta  (Design and testing of flapping wing UAV)

Vidya C S (Fault tolerant control for quadrotor)

Shivan S (Fault classification for UAVs)

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

Aakash M (Fault tolerant control for multi-rotor)