Precision Navigation in DVL-Denied Environments for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (2024 - 2025)
Funded by Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL) - DRDO. The objective of this project is to design safe navigation methodologies in an underwater environment when the sensor (Doppler Velocity Logger) fails to provide accurate velocity measurements. (Ongoing)
3D Airspace Sectorization and Vertiport Design in UAS Traffic Management (2024 - 2025)
Funded by Collins Aerospace. The objective of this project is to design vertiports for UTM, sectorize 3D airspace for UTM integration, and maximizing the capacity of airspace and vertiports for optimal utilization. (Ongoing)
Safety Guarantee in Dynamic Deconflict Approach in UAS Traffic Management (2023 - 2024)
Funded by Collins Aerospace. The objective of this project is two-fold and will be handled in two different phases. The first phase focuses on the study and mathematical modeling of the safety guarantee of the Dynamic Deconflict Approach (DDA) for UTM. The second phase will aim to develop the experimental simulator (sim-to-real) to validate DDA in UTM.
Robotic Obstacle Avoidance using Physics-informed Neural Networks (2023 - 2024)
Funded by ARTPARK. This project aims to develop a Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINN)-based solution for obstacle avoidance and collision avoidance in a robotic environment with safety guarantees. It also focuses on the implementation of online learning for Sense-and-Avoidance (SaA). (Ongoing)
Emergency Flood Planning and Management using Unmanned Aerial Systems (2017 - 2020)
Managed successfully an EPSRC-GCRF-funded multi-institutional project in IISc for emergency response using UAVs in a flood scenario. Developed resource allocation framework for disaster management authority.
Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC 2020)
Involved as a member of IISc team in developing guidance algorithms multi-agent systems for different missions of MBZIRC - 2020. The tasks involved solving three significant challenges of grabbing an intruder flying object, construction of a brick wall, dousing the fire of a high rise building with teams of the autonomous ground and aerial robots.
Studies of GPR Wave Propagation through Soil (GWS) (2012 - 2014)
Managed an LRDE-funded project in IIT Kharagpur for study and implementation of ground penetrating radars. Designed experimental setup for the project. Developed a general guideline for using a vector network analyzer.