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Three-dimensional Nonlinear Path-following Guidance with Bounded Input Constraints

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

under review [preprint available at arXiv:2404.08507 ]

Trajectory Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in 3D Spaces under Motion Constraints

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

under review [preprint available at arXiv:2404.10837]

3D Guidance Law for Maximal Coverage and Target Enclosing with Inherent Safety

Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

under review [preprint available at arXiv:2404.16312]

Cooperative Nonlinear Guidance Strategies for Guaranteed Pursuit-Evasion

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

under review [preprint available at arXiv:2402.06176]

Consensus-driven Deviated Pursuit for Guaranteed Simultaneous Interception of Moving Targets

Abhinav Sinha, Dwaipayan Mukherjee, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

under review [preprint available at arXiv:2402.05918]

Collaborative Localization and Guidance for Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) : Problem Formulation

Shivam Bajpai, Rohith Boyinine, Abhinav Sinha, and Rajnikant Sharma.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 6th-10th Jan 2025.

Range-Only Geometric Guidance for Enclosing Moving Targets

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 6th-10th Jan 2025.

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Target Capture in the Presence of a Defender

Suraj Bandela, Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 6th-10th Jan 2025.

Three-Dimensional Relational Maneuvering Guidance law for Flexible Leader-Follower Formation

Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 6th-10th Jan 2025.

Self-organizing Multiagent Target Enclosing under Limited Information and Safety Guarantees

Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, early access, 2024.

Time-Critical Unified Rendezvous Guidance for an Autonomous Vehicle

Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

Journal of Autonomous Vehicles and Systems, 4 (3), pp. 031001, 2024.

Relational Maneuvering of Leader-Follower Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Flexible Formation

Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, Yongcan Cao, David Casbeer, and Isaac Weintraub.

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, early access, 2024.

Offline Reinforcement Learning with Failure Under Sparse Reward Environments

Mingkang Wu, Umer Siddique, Abhinav Sinha, Yongcan Cao.

3rd International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI)

Robust Path-following Guidance for an Autonomous Vehicle in the Presence of Wind

Saurabh Kumar, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

Aerospace Science and Technology, 150, pp. 109225, 2024.

Three-Dimensional Path-Following Nonlinear Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 47 (6), 1231-1240, 2024.

On Deep Reinforcement Learning for Target Capture Autonomous Guidance

Umer Siddique, Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 8th-12th Jan 2024.

Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Optimal Time-constrained Intercept Guidance

Abhinav Sinha, Devin White and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 8th-12th Jan 2024.

Robust UAV Guidance Law for Safe Target Circumnavigation with Limited Information and Autopilot Lag Considerations

Praveen Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 8th-12th Jan 2024.

Generic Path-following Guidance for an Autonomous Vehicle

Saurabh Kumar, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 8th-12th Jan 2024.

Robust Nonlinear Control for Exact-time Stability of a Quadrotor UAV under Uncertainties

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 8th-12th Jan 2024.

Decentralized Cooperative Guidance for Time-constrained Rendezvous with Non-Accelerating Targets

Rasesh Tabiyar, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

9th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Visakhapatnam, India, 18th-20th Dec 2023.

Fairness in Preference-based Reinforcement Learning

Umer Siddique, Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop : The Many Facets of Preference-Based Learning, Honululu, USA, 26th-27th Jul 2023.

3-D Nonlinear Guidance Law for Target Circumnavigation

Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

American Control Conference (ACC), San Diego, USA, 31st May-2nd Jun 2023.

Three-Dimensional Autonomous Guidance for Enclosing a Stationary Target Within Arbitrary Smooth Geometrical Shapes

Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 59 (6), 9247-9256, 2023.

Three-Dimensional Guidance Law for Target Enclosing Within Arbitrary Smooth Shapes

Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 46 (11), 2224-2234, 2023.

Energy-efficient Ring Formation Control with Constrained Inputs

Praveen Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, Yongcan Cao, Dzung Tran, David Casbeer, and Isaac Weintraub.

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 46 (7), 1397-1407, 2023.

Three-dimensional Nonlinear Impact Time Guidance using Predicted Interception Point

Abhinav Sinha, Rohit V. Nanavati, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 46 (3), 608-617, 2023.

3-D Nonlinear Guidance Law for Target Circumnavigation

Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

IEEE Control Systems Letters, 7, 655-660, 2023.

A Nonlinear Guidance Law for Target Enclosing with Arbitrary Smooth Shapes

Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), National Harbor, USA, 23rd-27th Jan 2023.

Three-dimensional Nonlinear Impact Time Guidance using Predicted Interception Point

Abhinav Sinha, Rohit V. Nanavati, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), National Harbor, USA, 23rd-27th Jan 2023.

Nonsingular Impact Time Guidance and Control Co-design against a Stationary Target

Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), National Harbor, USA, 23rd-27th Jan 2023.

Robust Path-following Guidance for an Unmanned Vehicle

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), National Harbor, USA, 23rd-27th Jan 2023.

Energy-efficient Ring Formation Control with Constrained Inputs

Praveen Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, Yongcan Cao, Dzung Tran, David Casbeer, and Isaac Weintraub.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), National Harbor, USA, 23rd-27th Jan 2023.

Nonlinear Guidance Law for Target Enclosing with Arbitrary Smooth Shapes

Abhinav Sinha, and Yongcan Cao.

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 45 (11), 2182-2192, 2022.

Separate Guidance and Control Design for Autonomous Path-following

Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha.

22nd IFAC International Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace (ACA), Mumbai, India, 21st-25th Nov 2022.

Cooperative Target Capture using Predefined-time Consensus over Fixed and Switching Networks

Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

Aerospace Science and Technology, 127, pp. 107686, 2022 [preprint available at arXiv:2106.01895].

Three-agent Time-constrained Cooperative Pursuit-Evasion

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

Journal of Intelligent & Robotics Systems, 104 (28), 1-27, 2022 [preprint available at arXiv:2106.01895].

Cooperative Integrated Guidance and Control Design for Simultaneous Interception

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

Aerospace Science and Technology, 120, pp. 107262, 2022.

Three-dimensional Nonlinear Impact Time Guidance Accounting for Autopilot Lag

Iftisam, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

IFAC PapersOnLine, 55 (1), 26–31, 2022.

Nonlinear Control Design for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Path Following

Shivam Kumar Singh, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

IFAC PapersOnLine, 55 (1), 592–597, 2022.

Cooperative Target Capture using Predefined-time Consensus

Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

7th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Mumbai, India, 20th-22nd Dec 2021.

Impact Angle Constrained Integrated Guidance and Control for a Dual-controlled Interceptor

Abhinav Sinha, Rohit V. Nanavati, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

7th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Mumbai, India, 20th-22nd Dec 2021.

Cooperative Salvo Based Active Aircraft Defense using Impact Time Guidance

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

American Control Conference (ACC), New Orleans, USA, 25th-28th May 2021.

Impact Time Constrained Integrated Guidance and Control Design

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

Aerospace Science and Technology, 115, pp. 106824, 2021.

Nonsingular Impact Time Guidance and Control Using Deviated Pursuit

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

Aerospace Science and Technology, 115, pp. 106776, 2021.

Integrated Guidance and Control For Dual Control Interceptors Under Impact Time Constraint

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Virtual Event, USA, 11th-15th and 19th-21st Jan 2021.

Cooperative Salvo Based Active Aircraft Defense Using Impact Time Guidance

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

IEEE Control Systems Letters, 5 (5), 1573-1578, 2021.

Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Cooperative Salvo Using Event-Triggered Strategy

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 44 (2), 328-342, 2021.

Three-Dimensional Guidance With Terminal Time Constraints for Wide Launch Envelops

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 44 (2), 343-359, 2021.

Integrated Guidance and Control Design For Time-Constrained Interception

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

IEEE TechRxiv, 2020.

Super-Twisting Control Based Cooperative Salvo Guidance Using Leader-Follower Approach

Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 56 (5), 3556-3565, 2020.

Consensus in first order nonlinear heterogeneous multi-agent systems with event-based sliding mode control

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

International Journal of Control 93 (4), 858-871, 2020.

Consensus-Based Odor Source Localization by Multiagent Systems Under Resource Constraints

Abhinav Sinha, Ritesh Kumar, Rishemjit Kaur, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 50 (7), 3254-3263, 2020.

Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Interception Time Guidance for Stationary Targets

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, USA, 1st-3rd Jul 2020.

Deviated Pursuit based Cooperative Simultaneous Interception against Moving Targets

Abhinav Sinha, Dwaipayan Mukherjee, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, USA, 1st-3rd Jul 2020.

Deviated Pursuit Based Nonlinear Impact-Time Guidance with Finite-Time Convergence

Himanshu U. S. Bishwash, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

IFAC PapersOnLine, 53 (1), 93–98, 2020, Awarded Best Paper.

Super-Twisting Control Based Impact Time Constrained Guidance

Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar.

AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (AIAA SciTech Forum), Orlando, USA, 6th-10th Jan 2020.

Consensus-Based Odor Source Localization by Multiagent Systems

Abhinav Sinha, Ritesh Kumar, Rishemjit Kaur, and Amol P. Bhondekar.

IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 49 (12), 4450-4459, 2019.

Event-triggered sliding mode based consensus tracking in second order heterogeneous nonlinear multi-agent systems.

Rajiv Kumar Mishra, and Abhinav Sinha.

European Journal of Control 45, 30-44, 2019.

Robust congestion control in cognitive radio network using dynamic event-triggered sliding mode

Tirtha Majumder, Rajiv Kumar Mishra, Abhinav Sinha, Sudhansu Sekhar Singh, and Prasanna Kumar Sahu.

International Journal of Communication Systems 33 (10), e4206, 2019.

Consensus Based Nonlinear Guidance for Cooperative Salvo

Abhinav Sinha, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Dwaipayan Mukherjee.

6th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Hyderabad, India, 18th-20th Dec 2019.

Control of a nonlinear continuous stirred tank reactor via event triggered sliding modes

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

Chemical Engineering Science 187, 52-59, 2018.

Congestion Control in Cognitive Radio Networks with Event-triggered Sliding Mode

Tirtha Majumder, Rajiv Kumar Mishra, Abhinav Sinha, Sudhansu Sekhar Singh, and Prasanna Kumar Sahu.

AEU– International Journal of Electronics and Communication, 90, 155-162, 2018.

Temperature regulation in a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor using event triggered sliding mode control

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

IFAC PapersOnLine, 51 (1), 401–406, 2018.

Convergence of multi-agent systems to unknown source of an odor

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

IEEE 3rd International Conference for Convergence in Technology, Pune, India, 7th-8th Apr 2018.

Resource Efficient Control Strategy for Consensus Based Odour Source Localisation by Multiagent Systems

Abhinav Sinha, Ritesh Kumar, and Rishemjit Kaur.

accepted, IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Bengaluru, India, 18th-21st Nov 2018.

Cooperative control of multi-agent systems to locate source of an odor

Abhinav Sinha, Ritesh Kumar, Rishemjit Kaur, and Amol P. Bhondekar.

arXiv:1711.03819, ArXiv e-prints, 2017.

Smooth sliding mode control of a nonlinear CSTR using an inverse hyperbolic function-based law

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

Foundations and Frontiers in Computer, Communication and Electrical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, 2016.

Congestion control in Cognitive Radio Networks using fractional order rate reaching law based sliding modes

Tirtha Majumder, Abhinav Sinha, Rajiv Kumar Mishra, Sudhansu Sekhar Singh, and Prasanna Kumar Sahu.

Foundations and Frontiers in Computer, Communication and Electrical Engineering, Taylor and Francis, 2016.

Nonlinear autonomous altitude control of miniature helicopter UAV based on sliding mode methodology

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

International Journal of Electronics and Communication Technology, 61 (1), 32-37, 2015.

Robust nonlinear congestion controller for time delayed and uncertain cognitive radio based wireless network

Tirtha Majumder, Abhinav Sinha, Rajiv Kumar Mishra, Sudhansu Sekhar Singh, and Prasanna Kumar Sahu.

IEEE Power, Communication and Information Technology Conference (PCITC), Bhubaneswar, India, 15th-17th Oct, 2015.

Sliding mode controller design for high performance of permanent magnet stepper motor

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems (ICIIECS), Coimbatore, India, 19th-20th Mar 2015.

Robust altitude tracking of a miniature helicopter UAV based on sliding mode

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems (ICIIECS), Coimbatore, India, 19th-20th Mar 2015.

Robust nonlinear congestion controller for cognitive radio based wireless network

Tirtha Majumder, Abhinav Sinha, Rajiv Kumar Mishra, Sudhansu Sekhar Singh, and Prasanna Kumar Sahu.

IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information, Embedded and Communication Systems (ICIIECS), Coimbatore, India, 19th-20th Mar 2015.

Robust and Smooth Nonlinear Control of an Industrial Robot for Automated Pick and Place

Abhinav Sinha, Rajiv Kumar Mishra, and Supratik Jaiswal.

IEEE International Conference on Computing Communication Control and Automation (ICCUBEA), Pune, India, 26th-27th Feb 2015, Awarded Best Paper.

Nonlinear Autonomous Control of a Two-Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Mobile Robot Based on Sliding Mode

Abhinav Sinha, Pikesh Prasoon, Prashant Kumar Bharadwaj, and Anuradha Chathuranga Ranasinghe.

IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Networks (CINE), Bhubaneswar, India, 12th-13th Jan 2015.

Perturbing effect compensation technique for smart sensors

Anuradha Chathuranga Ranasinghe, Lahiru K. Rasnayake, Abhinav Sinha, and Kavinda K. Rasnayake.

7th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 22nd-24th Dec 2014.

Smooth sliding mode controller design for robotic arm

Abhinav Sinha, and Rajiv Kumar Mishra.

IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE), Jabalpur, India, 16th-18th Dec 2013.