11 papers
Contact-Persistent Full Actuation for Aerial Physical Interaction
Abhimanyu Khadga, Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar
Fully actuated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are usually certified through rank conditions on a control-allocation matrix or through free-flight tracking performance. For aerial…
Predefined-time One-Shot Cooperative Estimation, Guidance, and Control for Simultaneous Target Interception
Lohitvel Gopikannan, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Abhinav Sinha
This work develops a unified nonlinear estimation-guidance-control framework for cooperative simultaneous interception of a stationary target under a heterogeneous sensing topology…
Cooperative Integrated Estimation-Guidance for Simultaneous Interception of Moving Targets
Lohitvel Gopikannan, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Abhinav Sinha
This paper proposes a cooperative integrated estimation-guidance framework for simultaneous interception of a non-maneuvering target using a team of unmanned autonomous vehicles, a…
Cooperative Guidance for Aerial Defense in Multiagent Systems
Shivam Bajpai, Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar
This paper addresses a critical aerial defense challenge in contested airspace, involving three autonomous aerial vehicles -- a hostile drone (the pursuer), a high-value drone (the…
Trajectory Encryption Cooperative Salvo Guidance
Lohitvel Gopikannan, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Abhinav Sinha
This paper introduces the concept of trajectory encryption in cooperative simultaneous target interception, wherein heterogeneity in guidance principles across a team of unmanned a…
On Robustness of Consensus over Pseudo-Undirected Path Graphs
Abhinav Sinha, Dwaipayan Mukherjee, Shashi Ranjan Kumar
Consensus over networked agents is typically studied using undirected or directed communication graphs. Undirected graphs enforce symmetry in information exchange, leading to conve…