— Patent No. 430622 (granted 2024): Method and trajectory management controller for constrained trajectory optimization
— Patent application 202221040362 (filed 2022): Same as above, co-filed with Nakul Randad, Siddhartha Ganguly, and Ravi Banavar
— Patent application 202121061723 (filed 2021): Method and electronic device via global optimization for exact solutions of convex semi-infinite programs, co-filed with Souvik Das, Ashwin Aravind, and Ashish Cherukuri
— Patent application 202121002971 (filed 2021): Algorithmic Constrained Control Synthesis, co-filed with Karmvir Singh Phogat, Ravi Banavar, and Harish Joglekar (ISRO)
PhD student Rayyan received the Naik and Rastogi Award for Excellence in PhD Research (2022)
Collaborator Karmvir Singh Phogat’s paper on the Pontryagin maximum principle received the Automatica Paper Prize (2020)
Released QuITO v.2 software package (2024) for trajectory optimization
Research Experience
Professor at the Centre for Systems and Control, IIT Bombay
Supervised multiple PhD students to successful dissertation defenses, including Souvik, Pradyumna, Siddhartha, Shruti, Rayyan, and Priyanka
Collaborated with ISRO on algorithmic constrained control synthesis
Involved in preliminary discussions for the IITB-Hibikino Initiative
Organized and participated in academic events such as SysConTalks and workshops on Large Scale Learning and Control