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Education

PhD

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Aerospace Engineering

2007

MTech

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

Electrical Engineering

2003

B.E.

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Electrical Engineering

2001

Research Interest

My research interests are broadly in the area of Cooperative Control of Multi-agent Systems which includes (and is not limited to)

· consensus algorithms for dynamical systems

· path planning of autonomous vehicles

· resource allocation of intelligent agents

Work Experience

Feb 2009 - till date

Assistant professor

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

Dec 2007 - Dec 2008

Post doctoral researcher

Cranfield University, UK

Publications

· P.B. Sujit, A. Sinha and D. Ghose, “Team, game, and negotiation based intelligent autonomous UAV task allocation for wide area application”, Innovations in Intelligent Machines, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 39-75

· A. Sinha, A. Tsourdos and B.A. White, "Multi UAV coordination for tracking the dispersion of a contaminant cloud in an urban region", to appear in European Journal of Control

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Generalization of Non Linear Cyclic Pursuit, Automatica, Vol 43 ,  Issue 11, Nov 2007, pp 1954-1960

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Control of multi-agent systems using linear cyclic pursuit with heterogonous controller gains, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Vol 129, Issue 5, Sep 2007, pp. 742-748

· A.. Sinha and D. Ghose, "Generalization of linear cyclic pursuit with application to rendezvous of multiple autonomous agents, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 51, No. 11, Nov 2006, pp. 1819-1824.

· A. Sinha, A.Tsourdos and B.A. White, "Multi UAV negotiation for coordinated tracking of contaminant cloud", Proceedings of European Control Conference, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009

· A. Sinha, A.Tsourdos and B.A. White, "Monitoring the dispersion of a contaminant cloud in an urban region by a swarm of UAV sensors", Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on Networked Robotics, Golden, Colorado USA, October 6-8, 2009

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, "Application of generalized cyclic pursuit to autonomous vehicles with motion constraints" Proceedings of IISc Centenary International Conference and Exhibition on Aerospace Engineering (ICEAE), Bangalore, India, May 2009

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Control of agent swarm using generalized centroidal cyclic pursuit laws, to appear in Proceedings of Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, Hyderbad, India, Jan 2007

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Line formation of a swarm of autonomous agents with centroidal cyclic pursuit, to appear in Proceedings of Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, ACODS, Bangalore, India, Feb 2007

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Behaviour of Autonomous Mobile Agents using Linear Cyclic Pursuit Laws, Proceedings of the 2006 American Control Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 2005, pp. 4964-4969

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Generalization of cyclic pursuit problem, Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon, June 2005, pp. 4997-5002

· A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Some generalization of linear cyclic pursuit, Proceedings of IEEE India Annual Conference 2004, INDICON 2004, Kharagpur, India, December 2004, pp. 210-213

· P.B. Sujit, A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Multi UAV task allocation using team theory, Proceedings of 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference 2005, Seville, Spain, December 2005, pp. 1497 – 1502

· P.B. Sujit, A. Sinha and D. Ghose, Multi UAV task allocation using negotiation, Proceedings of Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Hakodate, Japan, May 2006, pp. 471-478.

Teaching

Aug-Dec 2009

Cooperative control of multiagent systems

Jan-April 2010

Guidance Strategies

Students

PhD

Galib Rahaman Mallik

Soumya  Ranjan Sahoo (co-guided with Prof. Banavar)

MTech

M.S. Chaitanya Chigatapu

Shashank Agarwal