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I am an assistant professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore Campus, Tamil Nadu (from December 2023). Prior to joining Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, I was the lead design engineer at Tata Elxsi in Bangalore.  

Research Interests

• Robust control theory 

• Guidance and control of unmanned systems

• Simultaneous stabilization and estimation

• Sliding mode control

• Flight dynamics and control

• Reinforcement learning

• Robust estimators for small aerial vehicles

• Consensus of multi-agents

• Design and development of autonomous vehicles. 

Education

• PhD (Dynamics and Control, March 2018): Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India with Prof. M Seetharama Bhat. In my Ph.D. dissertation, I  designed and developed one of the smallest fixed-wing nano aerial vehicle (NAV) and its flight controller.  

• M.Tech (Guidance and Navigational Control, Dec. 2011): Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India with Prof. B Ajithkumar Balakrishnan 

• B.Tech (Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sept. 2006): Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, NSS Engineering college, Palakkad, Kerala, India.

Collaborators

• Prof. N Sundararajan (Retd. Prof EEE, NTU, Singapore)

• Prof. Suresh Sundaram (Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc)

• Dr. Harikumar Kandath (Assistant professor, Robotic Research Center, IIIT-Hyderabad)

• Dr. J Senthilnath  (Senior Scientist, I2R, AI3, A*STAR, Singapore)

• Dr. Rajdeep Dutta (Scientist, I2R, AI3, A*STAR, Singapore)

• Dr. Rajarishi Bardhan (Operations Research Engineer, Avlino)

• Dr. Anoop Jain (Assistant Professor, IIT Jodhpur)

• Dr. Saurabh Upadhyay (lecturer, Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-physical Systems, Cranfield University, UK )

• Dr. Sakthivel Thangavel (Assistant Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham)

• Dr. Krishna kumar S (Assistant Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham)

• Himanshu Kumar

Google Scholar , Researchgate 

Flight Video of  Nano Aerial Vehicle