Hello, I'm Shridhar

June 2026

• A paper is accepted in IROS 26

  • • N. Dahlquist, S. Velhal, A. Saradagi, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Modular behavior tree synthesis for reactive anomaly-handling and graceful mission reconfiguration,” 2026.

• A paper accepted in CASE26

  • • M.-N. Stamatopoulos, E. Small, S. Velhal, A. Banerjee, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Autonomous reactive masonry construction using collaborative heterogeneous aerial robots with experimental demonstration,” 2025. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15114)

• Two papers accepted in IFAC WC26

  • • N. Dahlquist, S. Velhal, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Varying bundle size reactive multi-task assignment using selective cost estimation for multi-agent systems,” 2025.

    • Y. Bai, S. Velhal, C. Kanellakis, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Hybrid pbs: Extending priority-based search with local cbs for completeness,” Available at SSRN 6024517, 2025.   (http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6024517)

• A paper accepted in MED26

  • • S. Velhal, A. Saradagi, R. Salwekar, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Load-constrained multi-vehicle construction and demolition waste collection problem,” 2026 

April 2026

• A paper is accepted in Unmanned Systems

  • • G. Vignesh, S. Velhal, S. A. Samahith, and S. Sundaram, “Generalizable context-aware deep assignment network for the perimeter defense problem,” Unmanned Systems  2026, accepted (https://doi.org/10.1142/S2301385028500112).

Jan 2026

• A paper is accepted in IEEE T-ASE

  • • M.-N. Stamatopoulos, S. Velhal, A. Banerjee, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Optimal safety-awarescheduling for multi-agent aerial 3-d printing with utility maximization under dependency constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 23, pp. 3723–3737, 2026 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2026.3660212)

• A paper is accepted in IEEE T-AES

  • • M. Thousif, S. Velhal, S. Sundaram, S. Dora, and N. Sundararajan, “A generalizable decentralised sequential assignment learning spiking neural network for a perimeter defense problem,” IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, pp. 1–10, 2026 (early access) (https://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2026.3661505)

• A paper is accepted in IEEE T-IoT Journal

  • • A. S. Seisa, S. Velhal, S. Kotpalliwar, S. Satpute, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Optimization of edge offloading for centralized controllers through dynamic computational resource allocation,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 11068–11087, 2026 (https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2026.3650978)

Oct 2025

• A paper is accepted in JINT

  • • M.-N. Stamatopoulos, S. Velhal, A. Banerjee, and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Hierarchical reactive task allocation with dynamic conflict resolution framework for collaborative aerial 3d printing,” Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 111, no. 4, p. 127, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-025-02332-2)

• A paper is accepted in IEEE T-ASE

  • • John, J., Velhal, S. and Sundaram, S., 2025. A Resource-Efficient Decentralized Sequential Planner for Spatiotemporal Wildfire Mitigation. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.  (doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TASE.2025.3536356)

• A paper is accepted in Unmanned Systems

  • • Thousif, M., Velhal, S, Sundaram, S. and Sundararajan, N., 2025. Development of a Centralized Conflict free Greedy Assignment Learning Spiking neural network For Solving A Perimeter Defense Problem. Unmanned Systems. (doi : https://doi.org/10.1142/S2301385026500044 )

• A paper is accepted in ETAAV 25

  • • S. Velhal, “Prescribed spatio-temporal tracking in decentralized swarm-based perimeter defense,” in 2025 International Conference on Emerging Technology in Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (ETAAV), pp. 1–6, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1109/ETAAV66793.2025.11212953)

• A Paper is accepted in IEEE SMC: Systems

  • • Velhal, S, Sundaram, S. and Sundararajan, N., 2024. Priority-Based DREAM Approach for Highly Manoeuvring Intruders in a Perimeter Defense Problem. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems.(doi : https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.2024.3501480 )  

• A paper is accepted in IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Security, Defence and Biometrics (CISDB), 2025.  

  • • M. Thousif, Velhal, S, S. Sundaram, and N. Sundararajan, “A decentralized greedy assignment-learning spiking neural network-based solution for a perimeter defense problem,”

• I have joined Robotics and AI group, at LTU as a postdoc.

• Our paper is accepted in ICC23. Velhal, Shridhar, K. K. VS, and S. Sundaram “A non-iterative spatio-temporal multi-task assignments based collision-free trajectories for music playing robots” (pdf)  

• I have defended my PhD thesis on 4th Aug 2023.(Presentation video) (Thesis)

• My Ph.D. colloquium is scheduled on 27 March 2023

• I will be attending   ICRA 2023.