R. Sandeepkumar

rskravi15@gmail.com
Room 212, Composites Technology Centre
Department Of Aerospace Engineering
IIT Madras

Education

• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, 2017 - 2022
• B.Tech, Aerospace Engineering, IIT Madras, 2013 - 2017

Research Interests

• Non-linear model predictive control.
• Economic MPC.
• Optimization and optimal control.
• Trajectory generation.
• Dynamic soaring.

Publications

• R. Sandeepkumar, Ranjith Mohan. Differential flatness-based pseudospectral optimal control of six-degrees-of-freedom aircraft and its issues. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 1, October, 2022.
• R. Sandeepkumar, Suresh Rajendran, Ranjith Mohan, Antonio Pascoal. A Unified Ship Manoeuvring Model with a Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller for Path Following in Regular Waves. Ocean Engineering, Vol. 243, January, 2022.
• R. Sandeepkumar and Ranjith Mohan. Flatness-Based Reduced Hessian Method for Optimal Control of Aircraft. In Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. Vol. 45(1), January 2022.
• Sandeepkumar R. and Ranjith Mohan. Flatness-based aircraft trajectory optimization and tracking using pseudospectral method. In AIAA Scitech Forum, December 2020
• Sandeepkumar R. and Ranjith Mohan. Flatness-based model predictive control of six degree of freedom fixed-wing UAV. In International Conference on Advances in Robotics, July 2019