27) Patel, D., Govindan, N., Ramidi, M. R., and Kandath, H. (May 20, 2025). "GPALM—Multifunctional Underactuated Mechanism With Grasping, Perching, and Adaptive Landing Skills for Drone Applications." ASME. J. Mechanisms Robotics. 2025; 17(10): 101002. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4068556
26) Nikita Gupta, Harikumar Kandath, Hariprasad Kodamana, "An adversarial twin-agent inverse proximal policy optimization guided by model predictive control, " Computers & Chemical Engineering, Volume 199, 2025, 109124, ISSN 0098-1354, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compchemeng.2025.109124
25) Senthilnath J, Harikumar Kandath and Suresh Sundaram, "Metacognitive Decision Making Framework for Multi-UAV Target Search Without Communication," IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Systems, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 3195-3206, May 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2024.3358060
24) Josi John, Harikumar Kandath, Senthilnath J and Suresh Sundaram, "An Efficient Approach with Dynamic Multi-Swarm of UAVs for Forest Firefighting, " IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics, Systems, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 2860-2871, May 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2024.3352660
23) Nikita Gupta, Shikhar Anand, Deepak Kumar, Manojkumar Ramteke, Harikumar Kandath, and Hariprasad Kodamana, "A Twin Agent Reinforcement Learning Framework by Integrating Deterministic and Stochastic Policies," Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2024 63 (24), 10692-10703, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c00701
22) Joshi Tanuja, Hariprasad Kodamana, Harikumar Kandath and Kaisare Niket, "TASAC: a twin-actor reinforcement learning framework with a stochastic policy with an application to batch process control, " Control Engineering Practice, Volume 134, 2023, 105462, ISSN 0967-0661, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2023.105462.
21) Harikumar Kandath, Md. Meftahul Ferdaus, Ng Zhen Wei, Zhou Bangjian, Suresh Sundaram, Xiaoli Li, Senthilnath Jayavelu, "PASE: An autonomous sequential framework for the state estimation of dynamical systems," Expert Systems with Applications (2022), 119414, ISSN 0957-4174, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119414.
20) Dutta Rajdeep, Harikumar Kandath, Senthilnath Jayavelu, Li Xiaoli, Suresh Sundaram, and Daniel Pack. "A Decentralized Learning Strategy to Restore Connectivity during Multi-agent Formation Control." Neurocomputing (2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2022.11.054
19) Shuvrangshu Jana, Shashank Shivkumar, Mayur Shewale, Harikumar Kandath, Meghana Ramesh, Susheel Balasubramaniam, Eshaan Khanapuri and M.Seetharama Bhat, "Autonomous Flight Test of a Novel Non-conventional Biplane Micro Air Vehicle," ASCE Journal of Aerospace Engineering, no. 5 (2022): 04022059.
18) Shuvrangshu Jana, Harikumar Kandath, Mayur Shewale, Gunjit Dhingra, Duddela Sai Harish and M. Seetharama Bhat. "Design and development of a novel fixed-wing biplane micro air vehicle with enhanced static stability", Springer CEAS Aeronautical Journal, 13, no. 2 (2022): pp. 433-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13272-022-00570-w
17) Joshi, Tanuja, Shikhar Makker, Hariprasad Kodamana, and Harikumar Kandath. "Twin actor twin delayed deep deterministic policy gradient (TATD3) learning for batch process control." Computers & Chemical Engineering (2021): 107527.
16) Harikumar, K., Jinraj V. Pushpangathan, and Suresh Sundaram. "Effects of propeller flow on the longitudinal and lateral dynamics and model couplings of a fixed-wing micro air vehicle." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 235, no. 9 (2021): 1066-1076.
15) Senthilnath, J., Abhishek Kumar, Anurag Jain, K. Harikumar, Meenakumari Thapa, S. Suresh, Gautham Anand, and Jón Atli Benediktsson. "BS-McL: Bilevel Segmentation Framework With Metacognitive Learning for Detection of the Power Lines in UAV Imagery." IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2021).
14) Harikumar, K., Jinraj V. Pushpangathan, Sidhant Dhall, and M. Seetharama Bhat. "Integrated guidance and control framework for the waypoint navigation of a miniature aircraft with highly coupled longitudinal and lateral dynamics." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 235, no. 8 (2021): 949-961.
13) Pushpangathan, Jinraj V., Harikumar Kandath, and Ajithkumar Balakrishnan. "Hit-to-kill accurate minimum time continuous second-order sliding mode guidance for worst-case target maneuvers." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 235, no. 7 (2021): 729-744.
12) Pushpangathan, Jinraj V., Harikumar Kandath, Suresh Sundaram, and Narasimhan Sundararajan. "Robust Simultaneously Stabilizing Decoupling Output Feedback Controllers for Unstable Adversely Coupled Nano Air Vehicles." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (2020).
11) Jana, Shuvrangshu, Mayur Shewale, Susheel Balasubramaniam, Harikumar Kandath, and M. Seetharama Bhat. "Design and flight testing of closed-loop simple adaptive control for a biplane micro air vehicle." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering 234, no. 6 (2020): 677-689.
10) Jana, Shuvrangshu, Harikumar Kandath, Mayur Shewale, and M. Seetharama Bhat. "Effect of propeller-induced flow on the performance of biplane micro air vehicle dynamics." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 234, no. 3 (2020): 716-728.
9) Harikumar, Kandath, Sidhant Dhall, and Seetharama Bhat. "Design and experimental validation of a robust output feedback control for the coupled dynamics of a micro air vehicle." International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems 17, no. 1 (2019): 155-167.
8) Harikumar, K., J. Senthilnath, and Suresh Sundaram. "Mission aware motion planning (map) framework with physical and geographical constraints for a swarm of mobile stations." IEEE transactions on cybernetics 50, no. 3 (2019): 1209-1219.
7) Harikumar, Kandath, Titas Bera, Rajarshi Bardhan, and Suresh Sundaram. "Discrete-time sliding mode observer for the state estimation of a manoeuvring target." Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering 233, no. 7 (2019): 847-854.
6) Pushpangathan, Jinraj V., Harikumar Kandath, and M. Seetharama Bhat. "75-mm wingspan fixed-wing nano air vehicle with a novel aircraft configuration." IEEE Access 6 (2018): 74521-74535.
5) Pushpangathan, Jinraj V., M. Seetharama Bhat, and H. Kandath. "v-Gap Metric–Based Simultaneous Frequency-Shaping Stabilization for Unstable Multi-Input Multi-Output Plants." Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 41, no. 12 (2018): 2687-2694.
4) Harikumar, K., J. Senthilnath, and Suresh Sundaram. "Multi-UAV oxyrrhis marina-inspired search and dynamic formation control for forest firefighting." IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 16, no. 2 (2018): 863-873.
3) Kandath, Harikumar, Jinraj V. Pushpangathan, Titas Bera, Sidhant Dhall, and M. Seetharama Bhat. "Modeling and closed loop flight testing of a fixed wing micro air vehicle." Micromachines 9, no. 3 (2018): 111.
2) Pushpangathan, Jinraj V., M. Seetharama Bhat, and Kandath Harikumar. "Effects of gyroscopic coupling and countertorque in a fixed-wing nano air vehicle." Journal of Aircraft 55, no. 1 (2018): 239-250.
1) Harikumar, K., Joseph Arun, M. Seetharama Bhat, and S. N. Omkar. "Static output feedback control for an integrated guidance and control of a micro air vehicle." Journal of Unmanned System Technology 2, no. 1 (2014): 17-29.
2) Harikumar, K., Titas Bera, Rajarshi Bardhan, and Suresh Sundaram. "Cooperative obstacle avoidance for heterogeneous unmanned systems during search mission." In Robotic Intelligence, pp. 91-98. 2019.
1) Senthilnath, J., K. Harikumar, and Sundaram Suresh. "Efficient resource allocation for decentralized heterogeneous system using density estimation approach." In Robotic Intelligence, pp. 137-143. 2019.
37) V. Mundheda, D. D. K and H. Kandath, "Control Barrier Function-based Predictive Control for Close Proximity Operation of UAVs Inside a Tunnel," 2025 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Charlotte, NC, USA, 2025, pp. 975-981, doi: 10.1109/ICUAS65942.2025.11007781.
36) M. Bhatt, A. Maniar, A. Mulgundkar, D. Gangadharan and H. Kandath, "Sensor Based Active Fault Tolerant Controller for Hexacopters," 2025 11th International Conference on Automation, Robotics, and Applications (ICARA), Zagreb, Croatia, 2025, pp. 349-353, doi: 10.1109/ICARA64554.2025.10977680.
35) Srivastava, K., Kancharla, D.D., Tahereen, R., Ramancharla, P.K., Sarvadevabhatla, R.K., Kandath, H. (2025). CrackUDA: Incremental Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Improved Crack Segmentation in Civil Structures. In: Antonacopoulos, A., Chaudhuri, S., Chellappa, R., Liu, CL., Bhattacharya, S., Pal, U. (eds) Pattern Recognition. ICPR 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15330. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78113-1_6
34) V. C S and H. Kandath, "Equilibrium Point Selection and Two Stage Optimal Control of Quadrotor Under Actuator Failure," 2024 12th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA), London, United Kingdom, 2024, pp. 348-353, doi: 10.1109/ICCMA63715.2024.10843913.
33) A. Kurande, B. Joshi and H. Kandath, "Deep RL Based Obstacle Avoidance for UAVs with Time Varying Sensor Bias," 2024 IEEE SENSORS, Kobe, Japan, 2024, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/SENSORS60989.2024.10785031.
32) Harsh Bansal, Vyom Goyal, Bhaskar Joshi, Akhil Gupta and Harikumar Kandath, "RaCIL: Ray Tracing Based Multi-UAV Obstacle Avoidance through Composite Imitation Learning," IEEE CASE 2024, Bari, Italy, 2024, pp. 2188-2193, doi: 10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711835.
31) Ashish Sharma, SVSLN Surya Suhas Vaddhiparthy, Sai Usha Goparaju, Deepak Gangadharan and Harikumar Kandath, "Attention Meets UAVs: A Comprehensive Evaluation of DDoS Detection in Low-Cost UAVs," IEEE CASE 2024, Bari, Italy, 2024, pp. 3748-3753, doi: 10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711508.
30) Snehit Gupta, K P Rithwik, Kurva Prashanth, Avijit Ashe and Harikumar Kandath, "Design and Analysis of a Modular Flapping Wing Robot with a Swappable Powertrain Module," IEEE ICMA 2024, Tianjin, China, 2024, pp. 323-328, doi: 10.1109/ICMA61710.2024.10633033.
29) P. Gokul, K. Harikumar and J. Senthilnath, "A dynamic area approximation-based stochastic multi-UAV target search with noisy measurements," IEEE ICUAS 2024, Chania - Crete, Greece, 2024, pp. 718-723, doi: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10557107.
28) Vikrant Dewangan and Harikumar Kandath, "MPC-based obstacle aware multi-UAV formation control under imperfect communication," IEEE ICARA 2024, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 273-277, doi:10.1109/ICARA60736.2024.10553141.
27) Bhaskar Joshi, Dhruv Kapur, and Harikumar Kandath, "Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning based Obstacle Avoidance for UAVs under Measurement Uncertainty," IEEE ICARA 2024, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 278-284, doi: 10.1109/ICARA60736.2024.10553074.
26) Shivaan Sehgal, Aakash Maniar, Deepak Gangadharan and Harikumar Kandath, "Leveraging Latent Temporal Features for Robust Fault Detection and Isolation in Hexacopter UAVs", IEEE ICARA 2024, Athens, Greece, 2024, pp. 311-317, doi: 10.1109/ICARA60736.2024.10552933.
25) Chepuri Shivani and Harikumar Kandath, "Reinforcement Learning-based Response Shaping Control of Dynamical Systems," IEEE ICCMA, Grimstad, Norway, 2023, pp. 403-408, doi: 10.1109/ICCMA59762.2023.10374645.
24) Jayakant Kumar, Himanshu, Harikumar Kandath and Pooja Agrawal, "Vision based Micro-UAV Navigation through Narrow Passages," IEEE ICCMA 2023, Grimstad, Norway, 2023, pp. 97-102, doi: 10.1109/ICCMA59762.2023.10375021.
23) H. Kumar, Damodar D. K, J. V. Pushpangathan, H. Kandath and A. Dhabale, "AGVO: Adaptive Geometry-Based Velocity Obstacle for Heterogenous UAVs Collision Avoidance in UTM," IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312682.
22) A. Shankar, Himanshu, H. Kandath and J. Senthilnath, "Acceleration-Based PSO for Multi-UAV Source-Seeking," IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON51785.2023.10312321.
21) Aditya Mulgundkar, Mayank Singh, Munjaal Bhatt, Prudhvi Raj Turlapati, Deepak Gangadharan, and Harikumar Kandath, "Fault Detection and Isolation on a Hexacopter UAV using a Two-stage classification method," 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Auckland, New Zealand, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260371.
20) Vaddhiparthy, SVSLN Surya Suhas, Sreya Garapati, Prudhvi Raj Turlapati, Deepak Gangadharan, and Harikumar Kandath, "A Comprehensive Evaluation on the Impact of Various Spoofing Scenarios on GPS Sensors in a Low-Cost UAV." 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Auckland, New Zealand, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CASE56687.2023.10260534.
19) Vedant Mundheda, Karan Mirakhor, Harikumar Kandath and Nagamanikandan Govindan, "Predictive Barrier Lyapunov Function Based Control for Safe Trajectory Tracking of an Aerial Manipulator," 2023 European Control Conference (ECC), Bucharest, Romania, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.23919/ECC57647.2023.10178336.
18) Harikumar Kandath, Jinraj V Pushpangathan, TITAS BERA, Sidhant dhall and M Seetharama Bhat, "Development and Calibration of Autopilot Hardware for Small Fixed-Wing Air Vehicles with Flight Test Validation of Linear Output Feedback Controller," IEEE ICUAS, Warsaw, Poland, 2023, pp. 835-841, doi: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10155971.
17) Avijit Ashe, SRIKANTH GOLI, Harikumar Kandath and Deepak Gangadharan, "Multivariate Data Analysis for Motor Failure Detection and Isolation in a Multicopter UAV Using Real-Flight Attitude Signals," IEEE ICUAS, Warsaw, Poland, 2023, pp. 9-16, doi: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10155856.
16) Jaskirat Singh, Neel Adwani, Harikumar Kandath and Madhava Krishna, "RHFSafeUAV: Real-Time Heuristic Framework for Safe Landing of UAVs in Dynamic Scenarios," IEEE ICUAS, Warsaw, Poland, 2023, pp. 863-870, doi: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10156604.
15) Jinraj V Pushpangathan, Harikumar Kandath, Bibin Francis, "Deep Reinforcement Learning and Simultaneous Stabilization-Based Flight Controller for Nano Aerial Vehicle," IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 22, 2022, Pages 55-60, ISSN 2405-8963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.03.010.
14) K. Himanshu, Harikumar, Jinraj V Pushpangathan, "Waypoint Navigation of Quadrotor using Deep Reinforcement Learning," IFAC-PapersOnLine, Volume 55, Issue 22, 2022, Pages 281-286, ISSN 2405-8963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2023.03.047.
13) Srivastava, Kushagra, Dhruv Patel, Aditya Kumar Jha, Mohhit Kumar Jha, Jaskirat Singh, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla, Harikumar Kandath, and K. Madhava Krishna. "UAV-based Visual Remote Sensing for Automated Building Inspection." In: Karlinsky, L., Michaeli, T., Nishino, K. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2022 Workshops. ECCV 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13807. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25082-8_20
12) Ishaan Khare, Harikumar Kandath and K. Madhava Krishna, " Predictive optimal collision avoidance for a swarm of fixed-wing aircraft in 3D space," International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2022, pp. 1139-1145, doi: 10.1109/ICUAS54217.2022.9836212.
11) Harikumar Kandath, Rajdeep Dutta, and J. Senthilnath, "Optimal Connectivity during Multi-agent Consensus Dynamics via Model Predictive Control," IEEE American Control Conference, 2022, pp. 5193-5198, doi: 10.23919/ACC53348.2022.9867706.
10) B. B. Kocer, M. A. Hady, H. Kandath, M. Pratama and M. Kovac, "Deep Neuromorphic Controller with Dynamic Topology for Aerial Robots," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, pp. 110-116 .
9) P. Mali, K. Harikumar, A. K. Singh, K. Madhava Krishna, P.B. Sujit, ”Incorporating Prediction in Control Barrier Function Based Distributive Multi-Robot Collision Avoidance,” in IEEE European Control Conference (ECC 2021), pp. 2394-2399.
8) A. Sahu, H. Kandath and K. M. Krishna, "Model predictive control based algorithm for multi-target tracking using a swarm of fixed wing UAVs," IEEE 17th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2021, pp. 1255-1260.
7) H. Kandath, M. A. Hady, M. Pratama and Ng. Bing Feng, ”Robust Evolving Neuro-Fuzzy Control of a Novel Tilt-rotor Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft,” IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, New Orleans, June 2019.
6) K. Harikumar, T. Bera, R. Bardhan and S. Sundaram, ”State Estimation of an Agile Target using Discrete Sliding Mode Observer,” 5th IEEE International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT), Thessaloniki, 2018, pp. 75-79.
5) H. Kandath, T. Bera, R. Bardhan and S. Sundaram, ”Autonomous Navigation and Sensorless Obstacle Avoidance for UGV with Environment Information from UAV,” Second IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Laguna Hills, CA, 2018, pp. 266-269.
4) S. Jayavelu, H. kandath and S. Sundaram, ”Dynamic Area Coverage for Multi-UAV Using Distributed UGVs: A Two-Stage Density Estimation Approach,” Second IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Laguna Hills, CA, 2018, pp. 165-166.
3) K. Harikumar, J. Senthilnath and S. Sundaram, ”Mutli-agent consensus under communication failure using Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning,” IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Bangalore, 2018, pp. 1461-1465.
2) K. Harikumar, S. Dhall and M. S. Bhat, ”Nonlinear modeling and control of coupled dynamics of a fixed-wing micro air vehicle,” IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), Hyderabad, 2016, pp. 318-323.
1) K. Harikumar and M. S. Bhat, ”Path generation and integrated guidance and control of a micro air vehicle,” IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (CCA), Hyderabad, 2013, pp. 1024-1029.