Students

PhD

• Lovesh Goyal : (in progress)
• Sangeetha G R (external, IISU) : (in progress)
• Ravi Kumar (with Prof. Santanu Ghosh) : (in progress)
• Pavan N : (in progress)
• Ajith Joseph (with Prof. P A Ramakrishna) : (in progress)
• Kavitha S (external, URSC) : Precise orbit determination of LEO satellites (in progress)
• Balakumaran S (external, ADA) : On-line parameter estimation for reconfigurable control of aircraft (in progress)
• Rishi Krishna P : Periodic and quasi-periodic motion in asteroid environments (submitted)
• Anandu Bhadran (with Prof. P A Ramakrishna) : Hybrid rocket thruster for vertical takeoff and landing in Earth’s atmosphere (2024)
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• Siddhardha K : Portable multirotor microgravity platforms (2021)
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MS

• Sateesh Kache (with Prof. Ranjith M) : (in progress)
• Chaudhari Labhesh Deepak (with Prof. Ranjith M) : (in progress)
• Piyali Ghosh (with Prof. P A Ramakrishna) : Control of burn rate of AP-based metal-rich solid propellant through the application of an electric voltage (2025)
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• Ankit Jaiswal (with Prof. H S N Murthy) : Development of a methodology for design of a small horizontal-tail UAV (2023)
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• Raksha Rao K : Autonomous landing of a quadrotor on stationary and moving platforms using only vision from an on-board monocular camera (2019)
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MTech project

• Tarun Kumar (Web Enabled, HAL) : (in progress)
• Manikandaswamy R : Attitude estimation and precision guidance of spinning artillery shell (2025)
• Sanjay K Vishwakarma (Web Enabled, HAL) : Methodology and design of a guidance algorithm for helicopter approach on a ship deck (2024)
• Harshad P D : Launch vehicle trajectory optimization using pseudospectral methods (2024)
• Kirubakaran C : Interplanetary trajectory design (2018)
• Sharanappa S (with Dr. R Pandiyan) : Minimum fuel guidance for rendezvous of two satellites (2018)
• Avinash K M : Computational and experimental analysis of foldable wing (2018)
• Unnikrishnan C L : Control design of rocket propelled jetpack using PID and LQR controller (2017)
• Srinivas Ganesh P : Trajectory design for interplanetary missions (2017)
• Kumar K : Modeling the attitude control of a launch vehicle using an electromechanical actuator (2016)
• Prabodh Kumar U K : Development of a flight simulation framework to test control algorithms (2016)

BTech Dual Degree project

• Yogeswari S A (with Dr. Bijo Sebastian) : Non-linear model predictive control with fuel optimisation for energy-efficient coverage control of multirotor drones (2024)
• Janni Victor P : Object tracking quadcopter: a vision-based approach (2023)
• Chinnapotula Seshank : Guidance law for 2d and 3d planetary landing with and without obstacles (2023)
• Deepak B : Comparison of spacecraft rendezvous guidance algorithms for different relative dynamics models (2023)
• Nischitha Gangula : Equilibrium points and periodic orbits of Eros 433 (2022)
• Advait Walsangikar : Reinforcement learning for quadcopter control (2022)
• Amal Nahar P A : Computer vision-based guidance of unmanned aerial vehicles for dynamic object tracking (2022)
• Avyay Gururaj Rao : Vision-based guidance for a fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicle (2022)
• Koundinya Poluri : High-level controller for a multi-UAV surveillance system (2018)
• Ashutosh Singh : Autonomous corridor navigation of a quadrotor using deep learning (2018)
• Anandu Bhadran (with Prof. P A Ramakrishna) : Vertical take-off and landing of hybrid rocket motor powered platform (2017)
• Mohammed Shafeeq E T : Algorithms to augment manual flying quality of an off-the-shelf quadrotor (2016)
• Nigam Krishna A (with Prof. H S N Murthy) : Design and fabrication of variable sweep wing unmanned aerial vehicle (2015)

BTech project

• Sahaj Singha : Guidance strategies for UAV landing on moving platforms (2025)
• Lohit Prakash S J : Soft landing of rockets and its performance analysis using PD and SMC controllers (2025)
• Kirtan P P (with Dr. Hari Hablani) : Attitude control for precise ground station pointing of bias momentum geosynchronous spacecraft in the presence of orbital deviations (2023)
• Bhagya S P : Guidance algorithms for tracking dynamic soaring trajectories (2023)
• Neethu Ranjith (with Dr. R Pandiyan) : Coordinated guidance and control of two satellites for rendezvous and docking (2018)
• Gowtham Srinivas R B : Performance and stability analysis of a drone with foldable/rotating wings (2015)