Publications

Manuscripts under review

• Aashi Shrinate and Twinkle Tripathy. Opinion clusters under the Friedkin-Johnsen model: agreement in disagreement.

• Aashi Shrinate and Twinkle Tripathy. A signed Friedkin-Johnsen model for arbitrary network topologies.

• Aditi Saxena, Twinkle Tripathy and Rajasekhar Anguluri. Laplacian flows in complex-valued directed networks: analysis, sign and consensus.

• Vishnudatta Thota, Swati Priya and Twinkle Tripathy. Dominant Groups and Asymmetric Polarisation in Generalised Quasi-structurally Balanced Networks.

• Aashi Shrinate, Aravind Seshadri and Twinkle Tripathy. Enhancing  influence in networks with moderators using edge modifications in Friedkin Johnsen Model.

2025

• Swati Priya, Aashi Shrinate and Twinkle Tripathy. Desired group consensus in arbitrary signed networks. European Journal of Control. Accepted for publication.

• Aditya K. Rao and Twinkle Tripathy. Trajectory elongation strategies with minimum curvature discontinuities for a Dubins Vehicle. Automatica. Accepted for publication.

• Kushal P. Singh, Aditya K. Rao and Twinkle Tripathy. Finite-time max-consensus for simultaneous target interception in switching graph topologies. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2025.3570423.

• Akshay N. Kamthe, Vishnudutta Thota, Aashi Shrinate and Twinkle Tripathy. External Bias and Opinion Clustering in Cooperative Networks. Automatica, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112224.

• Aashi Shrinate and Twinkle Tripathy. Towards influence centrality: where not to add an edge in the network? European Control Conference 2025. Accepted.

• Aditi Saxena, Twinkle Tripathy and Rajasekhar Anguluri. Are the flows of complex-valued Laplacians and their pseudoinverses related? European Control Conference 2025. Accepted.

2024

• Aditya K. Rao, Kushal Pratap Singh and Twinkle Tripathy. Curvature bounded trajectories of desired lengths for a Dubins vehicle. Automatica, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2024.111749.

• Subhash Chand Yogi, Laxmidhar Behera and Twinkle Tripathy. Neural-FxSMC: A Robust Adaptive Neural Fixed-time Sliding Mode Control for Quadrotors with Unknown Uncertainties. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 5927-5932, 2024.

• Aditi Saxena, Twinkle Tripathy and Rajasekhar Anguluri. Real Eventual Positivity of Complex-valued Laplacians: Applications to Consensus in Multi-agent Systems. Indian Control Conference 2024. Accepted.

• Kushal P. Singh and Twinkle Tripathy. Distributed Laws for Simultaneous Interception in Ring-coupled Unicycles. Indian Control Conference 2024. Accepted.

• A. Gupta, D. K. Giri and Twinkle Tripathy. Detetction and Tracking of Unccoperative Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using a 2-DOF Robotic Manipulator. IFAC ACODS, pp. 333-338, 2024.

• I Roongta, P. Kumar and T. Tripathy. Trajectory Constrained Stand-off Target Tracking using Barrier Lyapunov Functions. AIAA SciTech Forum, p. 172, 2024.

2023

• Twinkle Tripathy and Tal Shima. On Convergence Results for Nonlinear Cyclic Pursuit Strategies. Automatica, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2023.111315.

• Aashi Shrinate and Twinkle Tripathy. Clustering dynamics for strongly connected digraphs. Indian Control Conference, pp. 233-238, 2023.

• V. Thota, A.N. Kamthe and T. Tripathy. Effect of external biases on opinion formation in a cooperative network. Indian Control Conference, pp. 251-256, 2023.

• Ritick Gupta and Twinkle Tripathy. Generation of Range-based Trajectories Using a Unicycle. American Control Conference, pp. 2703-2708, 2023.

PRIOR PUBLICATIONS

Journals

• David Dovrat, Twinkle Tripathy and Alfred Bruckstein. On Tracking and Capture in Proportional-Control Bearing-Only Unicycle Pursuit. IEEE Control System Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2132-2137, 2021.

• Benjamin Zadka, Twinkle Tripathy, Ronny Tsalik and Tal Shima. Consensus-Based Cooperative Geometrical Rules for Simultaneous Target Interception.  AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control & Dynamics, vol. 43, pp. 2425-2432, 2020.

• R. R. Pandi, S. G. Ho, S. C. Nagavarapu, T. Tripathy and J. Dauwels. Disruption Management for Dial-A-Ride Systems. IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, vol. 12, pp. 219-234, 2020. 

• Twinkle Tripathy and Tal Shima. Archimedean Spiral Based Intercept Angle Guidance. Journal of Guidance, Control & Dynamics, vol. 42, pp. 1105-1115, 2019.

• Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. Unicycle with Only Range Input: An Array of Patterns. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 63, no. 5, pp. 1300-1312, May 2018.

• Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. Generating Patterns with a Unicycle. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 3140-3145, Oct. 2016. 

• Gaurav Chaudhury, Arpita Sinha, Twinkle Tripathy and Aseem Borkar. Conditions for Target Tracking with Range-only Information. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 75, part B, pp. 176-186, Jan. 2016.

Book chapter

• Twinkle Tripathy, Sarat Chandra Nagavarapu, Kaveh Azizian, Ramesh Pandi Ramasamy and Justin Dauwels. Solving Dial-A-Ride Problems using Multiple Ant Colony System with Fleet Size Minimisation. Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems (ACIS), Springer Nature, Chapter 28, Vol. 650.

Conferences

• Aashi Shrinate and Twinkle Tripathy. Nonlinear opinion dynamics using disagreement Laplacian flows in antagonistic networks. Indian Control Conference, pp. 278-283, 2022.

• Puneet Shrivastava, Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. Boundary Surveillance Using a Novel Target Switching Technique. IFAC Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace, 2022.

• Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. Boundary Surveillance Using a Unicycle: A Limited Information Approach. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022- 2044.

• Benjamin Zadka, Twinkle Tripathy, Ronny Tsalik, Tal Shima. A Max-Consensus Cyclic Pursuit based Guidance Law for Simultaneous Target Interception. Accepted for presentation in European Control Conference 2020.

• Sarat Chandra Nagavarapu, Twinkle Tripathy and Justin Dauwels. Development of a Simulation Platform to Implement Vehicle Routing Algorithms for Large Scale Fleet Management Systems. To appear in the 20th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC): Workshop, Yokohama, Japan, October 2017.

• Shashank Agarwal, Twinkle Tripathy, Aseem Borkar and Arpita Sinha. Relative Heading based Pattern Generation. To appear in IFAC World Congress 2017.  

• Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. Generating Patterns with a Unicycle Having Turn Rate Constraints. Indian Control Conference, pp. 437-442, Guwahati, India, January 2017. 

• Twinkle Tripathy, Arpita Sinha, Hemendra Arya and Aseem Borkar. Range Based Control Law to Generate Patterns With a Unicycle. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4979-4984, Las Vegas, USA, December 2016. 

• Twinkle Tripathy, Ankita Humne and Arpita Sinha. Generating Patterns using Multiple Targets. European Control Conference, pp. 879-884, Aalborg, Denmark, 2016. 

• Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. A Control Scheme to Achieve Coverage Using Unicycles. Indian Control Conference, pp. 494-499, Chennai, India, Jan. 2015. 

• Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. A Guidance Law for a Mobile Robot for Coverage Applications: A Limited Information Approach. Third International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, pp. 437 − 442, Kanpur, India, March 2014.

• Twinkle Tripathy and Arpita Sinha. Guidance of an Autonomous Agent for Coverage Applications using Range Only Measurement. AIAA, Guidance, Navigation & Control Conference, Boston, USA, August 2013, http:dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2013-5095.