DrAdityaParanjape

My primary research areas are aerial robotics, control of nonlinear systems, and flight dynamics and control.

In addition to these, I have worked in the past on spacecraft attitude control, and on control of a class of systems that are modelled after processes in a typical human cell. These, and related, problems continue to remain an area of interest.

I am currently working on the following research problems:

• Flight dynamics and control of fixed and flapping-wing aircraft. The focus of this work is on understanding manoeuvre design and the stability issues that arise therein.
• Autonomous decision-making and motion planning for single and multi-agent robotic systems.
• Adaptive control of nonlinear infinite dimensional systems. The current focus of this work is on the development of an adaptive control framework for semilinear systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs).

This list of selected journal papers spans most of my research interests. Although I have a strong preference for analytical work starting from the "first principles", I routinely turn to experiments for validation of my analytical solutions.

• Aditya A. Paranjape, Kevin C. Meier, Xichen Shi, Soon-Jo Chung, and Seth Hutchinson, "Motion Primitives and 3D Path Planning for Fast Flight Through a Forest," International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 34, 2015, pp. 357 - 377.
• Sanjay P. Bhat and Aditya A. Paranjape, "Small-Time Local Controllability and Stabilizability of Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics under CMG Actuation," SIAM J. Control and Optimization, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2014, pp. 797 - 820.
• Aditya A. Paranjape, Joseph Kim, and Soon-Jo Chung, “Novel Dihedral-Based Control of Flapping-Wing Aircraft with Application to Perching,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 29, No. 5, 2013, pp. 1071 - 1084.
• Aditya Paranjape, Jinyu Guan, Soon-Jo Chung, and Miroslav Krstic, “PDE Boundary Control for Flexible Articulated Wings on a Robotic Aircraft,” IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2013, pp. 625 - 640.
• Aditya A. Paranjape and Narayan Ananthkrishnan, "Analytical Criterion for Aircraft Spin Susceptibility," Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 47, No. 5, 2010, pp. 1804-1807