Aerospace Engineering

Faculty

Akshay Prakash

Amardip Ghosh

Anup Ghosh

Arnab Roy

Bhrigu Nath Singh

Chetankumar Sureshbhai Mistry

Dipak Kumar Maiti

Kalyan Prasad Sinhamahapatra

Manas Kumar Laha

Manoranjan Sinha

Mira Mitra

Mohammed Rabius Sunny

Mrinal Kaushik

Naba Kumar Peyada

Prasun Jana

Ratan Joarder

Sandeep Saha

Sikha Hota

Somnath Ghosh

Srinibas Karmakar

Sunil Manohar Dash

Suresh Chandra Pradhan

Susmita Bhattacharyya

Sikha Hota

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering

+91-3222-284500

sikhahota@aero.iitkgp.ac.in

Awards and Accolades

Personal Webpage Bio Sketch

Research Areas

Missile Guidance
Collision avoidance
Multi-agent Systems
Optimal Path Planning of UAVs

Guidance and control of unmanned vehicles.

All Publications

No Record Found.

Completed Projects

Co-Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Biswajit Tripathy

Area of Research: Guidance of Aerospace Vehicles

Sayantan Pal

Area of Research: Waypoint following in Dynamic Environment

Soumitra Ray

Area of Research: Cooperative path planning and control

T Siddharth

Area of Research: Cooperative Path Planning of Unmanned Vehicles

Tammineni Harinarayana

Area of Research: Cooperative path planning of unmanned vehicles

Journal

Collision Avoidance with Optimal Path Replanning of Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles R H., Hota S. By JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE, CONTROL, AND DYNAMICS - (Accepted/In-Press)
Time-optimal moving target interception with impact angle constraint Singh N. K., Hota S. By Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering - (2022)
Vector field guidance for standoff target tracking Harinarayana T., Hota S., Kushwaha R. By Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering - (2022)
FOV constrained guidance law for nonstationary nonmaneuvering target interception with any impact angle Singh N.K., Hota S. By Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering - (2021)
Three-dimensional waypoint following for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in obstacle-filled environments Singh N.K., Hota S. By Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 234 640-654 (2020)
Waypoint-Based Trajectory Planning of Fixed-Wing MAVs in 3D Space S. Hota and D. Ghose By Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems doi:10.1007/s10846-016-0415-3 1-19 (2016)
Optimal spatial path planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle S. Hota and D. Ghose By Journal of Aircraft Vol. 51 681-688 (2014)
Curvature-constrained trajectory generation for waypoint following S. Hota and D. Ghose By Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering Vol. 228 2066-2082 (2013)
Optimal trajectory generation for convergence to a rectilinear path S. Hota and D. Ghose By Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Vol. 75 223-242 (2013)
Optimal trajectory planning for path convergence in 3D space S. Hota and D. Ghose By Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering Vol. 228 766-780 (2013)
Time-optimal convergence to a rectilinear path in the presence of wind S. Hota and D. Ghose By Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Vol. 74 791-815. (2013)

Conferences

Look Angle Constrained Guidance Law for Stationary Target Interception in 3D Kumar A., Singh N. K., Hota S. By AIAA Scitech 2022 - (2023)
Geometric Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Uncrewed Flight Vehicle Ray S., Hota S. By 22nd IFAC ACA 2022 - (2022)
Impact Angle Constrained Guidance Law for Intercepting Non-maneuvering Targets Avoiding Obstacles Dharmendrabhai P.D., Gholap A., Singh N.K., Hota S. By AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2022 - (2022)
Impact Angle Constrained Time-Optimal Guidance Law for Stationary Target Interception in 3D Kumar A., Singh N.K., Hota S. By AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2022 - (2022)
Collision Avoidance with Optimal Path Replanning for Mobile Robots Mohta V., Dimri S., Ravichandran H., Hota S. By Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 13054 LNAI 315-325 (2021)
Coordinated Standoff Target Tracking by Multiple UAVs in Obstacle-filled Environments Harinarayana T., Hota S. By 2021 7th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2021 - Proceedings 111-116 (2021)
Coordinated Standoff Target Tracking by Multiple UAVs in Obstacle-filled Environments Harinarayana T., Hota S. By The Seventh Indian Control Conference 111-116 (2021)
Lyapunov Vector Field Based Guidance Algorithm for Standoff Target Tracking by Formation Flight Gopalabhatla A., Tammineni H. , Hota S. By 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems 129-136 (2021)
Lyapunov Vector Field Based Guidance Algorithm for Standoff Target Tracking by Formation Flight Gopalabhatla A., Harinarayana T., Hota S. By 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021 129-136 (2021)
Minimum-time Path Convergence for UAVs in Wind Using Vector Field Guidance Navsalkar A., Hota S. By The Seventh Indian Control Conference - (2021)
Minimum-Time Path Convergence for UAVs in Wind Using Vector Field Guidance Navsalkar A., Hota S. By 2021 7th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2021 - Proceedings 33-38 (2021)
Three Dimensional Optimal Path Generation and Tracking for Quadrotors in Dynamic Environment Ravichandran H., Yadla S. , Hota S. By 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS ICUAS 21 120-128 (2021)
Three Dimensional Optimal Path Generation and Tracking for Quadrotors in Dynamic Environment Hariharan R., Yadla S., Hota S. By 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021 120-128 (2021)
Moving target interception guidance law for any impact angle with field-of-view constraint Singh N.K., Hota S. By AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum 1-14 (2021)
Moving target interception guidance law for any impact angle with field-of-view constraint Singh N.K., Hota S. By AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum 1-14 (2021)
A Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field Based Continuous Curvature Path Generation for Waypoint following of UAVs Harinarayana T., Krishnan S.V., Hota S., Kushwaha R. By 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021 498-506 (2021)
A Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field Based Continuous Curvature Path Generation for Waypoint Following of UAVs Harinarayana T., Krishnan S. V., Hota S. , Kushwaha R. By 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS 498-506 (2021)
Lyapunov Vector Field Guidance for Convergence to a Straight line Path Harinarayana T., Singh N. K., Hota S. By AeSI 2020 on Aviation Technology Current Scenario - (2020)
Optimal path generation for simultaneous rendezvous of fixed-wing uavs in 3d dynamic environments Mitra B.C., Hota S. By AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum - (2019)
Three-Stage Proportional Navigation for Intercepting Stationary Targets with Impact Angle Constraints Ranjan A., Hota S., Singh N.K. By 2019 6th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2019 - Proceedings 379-384 (2019)
Waypoint following for fixed-wing MAVs in 3D space Singh N.K., Hota S. By AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2018 - (2018)
Time-Optimal Convergence of Fixed-Wing UAVs to a Circular Path in Steady UniformWind Ranjan A., Hota S. By International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)
Coordinated Path Planning and Simultaneous Rendezvous of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Kumar S., Hota S. By International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)
Optimal path planning for fixed-wing UAVs in 3D space Singh N. K., Hota S. By International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)
Enhanced exploitation of long endurance UAV s electro-optical payload for improved surveillance Kumar V., Shukla U. , Dutta P. K., Hota S. By Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)

Edited Volume

Conference Proceedings Ghosh A., Sinhamahapatra K. P., Joarder R. , Hota S. By Proceedings of the Joint Conference of ICTACEM 2021, APCATS 2021, AJSAE 2021 and AeSI 2021 1-400 (2022)
Book of Abstracts Ghosh A., Sinhamahapatra K. P., Joarder R. , Hota S. By Joint Conference of ICTACEM 2021, APCATS 2021, AJSAE 2021 and AeSI 2021 1-211 (2021)

Others

Collision avoidance with optimal path replanning of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles Ravichandran H., Hota S. By Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 44 2118-2125 (2021)

Book Chapter/Section

Trends in Intelligent Robotics (Eds. P. Vadakkepat and J.-H. Kim), Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer-Verlag S. Hota and D. Ghose By Rectilinear path following in 3D space 210-217 (2010)