Publications

Journal Papers

  1. Susan Basnet, Saurabh Kumar and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Robust Exact-time Trajectory Tracking Control for Autonomous Surface Vessels, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2025, Early Access, pp. 1-12.

  2. Saurabh Kumar and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Robust Trajectory Tracking of an Uncertain Quadrotor with Almost Global Finite-time Convergence, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2025, OnlineFirst, pp. 1-26.

  3. Saurabh Kumar, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Robust Path-following Guidance for an Autonomous Vehicle in the Presence of Wind, Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 150, 2024, pp. 109225.

  4. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Three-Dimensional Path Following Nonlinear Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 47, No. 6, 2024, pp. 1231-1240.

Conference Papers

  1. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Geometric Guidance for Enclosing Moving Targets, Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2025.

  2. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Robust Nonlinear Control for Exact-time Stability of a Quadrotor UAV under Uncertainties, Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2024.

  3. Saurabh Kumar, Abhinav Sinha, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Generic Path-following Guidance for an Autonomous Vehicle, Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Orlando, Florida, 2024.

  4. Susan Basnet, Saurabh Kumar, and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Nonlinear Cooperative Strategy for Active Aircraft Defence with Exact-time Convergence, Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Vishakhapatnam, 2023, pp. 239-244.

  5. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Robust Path-following Guidance for an Unmanned Vehicle, Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, National Harbor, MD, USA, 2023.

  6. Saurabh Kumar and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Exponential Reaching Law based Robust Trajectory Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Chennai, India, 2022, pp. 302-307.

  7. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Separate Guidance and Control Design for Autonomous Path-following, IFAC-PapersOnLine, Vol. 55, No. 22, 2022, pp. 212-217.

  8. Saurabh Kumar and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Barrier Lyapunov-based Nonlinear Trajectory Following for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Constrained Motion, Proceedings of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, June 21-24, 2022, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 1146-1155.

  9. Saurabh Kumar and Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Finite-Time Convergent Robust Trajectory Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Proceedings of International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, June 21-24, 2022, Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 1166-1175.

  10. Saurabh Kumar and Lillie Dewan, A Comparative Analysis of LQR and SMC for Quanser AERO, Control and Measurement Applications for Smart Grid: Select Proceedings of SGESC 2021.

  11. Saurabh Kumar and Lillie Dewan, Set-Point Tracking of Quanser AERO using SMC in the presence of Uncertainties, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems, May 06-08, 202, Madurai, India, pp. 1595-1601.

Preprints

  1. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Three-dimensional Nonlinear Path-following Guidance with Bounded Input Constraints, ArXiv, 2024, pp. 1-31.

  2. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Trajectory Tracking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in 3D Spaces under Motion Constraints, ArXiv, 2024, pp. 1-34.

  3. Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan Kumar, and Abhinav Sinha, Cooperative Nonlinear Guidance Strategies for Guaranteed Pursuit-Evasion, ArXiv, 2024, pp. 1-8.