Estimation and control with guarantees under uncertainty, from theory to flight.

People

• Raktim BhattacharyaProfessor
• Tanay KumarPh.D. Student
• Jae-son RiveraM.Eng. Student

Former members and alumni

• Uncertainty Quantification

  Propagating uncertainty through nonlinear dynamics.

• Estimation & Data Assimilation

  State estimation for nonlinear, non-Gaussian systems.

• Robust Control

  Control and filtering with guaranteed performance.

• Optimal Control & Trajectory Generation

  Trajectories and controllers that remain optimal under uncertainty.

• Sensor & Actuator Architecture

  The sparsest, least precise sensing that still meets performance.

• Scientific Machine Learning

  Machine learning for control design and analysis.

• Control of Computation

  Control theory for numerical and parallel algorithms.

• Optimal Transport

  Wasserstein geometry for filtering and robustness.

• Verification & Model Validation

  Certificates for stability, invariance, and model fidelity.

Recent publications

1. Improving D-Optimal Sensor Placement for Bearing-Only Localization via Maximum-Entropy Reweighting

   R. Bhattacharya. International Conference on Information Fusion, 2026.

2. Sensor Design for Accuracy-Bounded Estimation via Maximum-Entropy Likelihood Synthesis

   R. Bhattacharya. International Conference on Information Fusion, 2026.

3. Robust Cislunar Navigation via LFT-Based ${\mathcal{H}}_{\infty }$ Filtering with Bearing-Only Measurements

   R. Bhattacharya. American Control Conference, 2026.

4. Robust Attitude Control of Nonlinear Multi-Rotor Dynamics with LFT Models and ${\mathcal{H}}_{\infty }$ Performance

   T. Kumar, R. Bhattacharya. American Control Conference, 2026.

5. On Improved Statistical Accuracy of Low-Order Polynomial Chaos Approximations

   V. Deshpande, R. Bhattacharya. American Control Conference, 2026.

6. Spectral Koopman Approach for Reconstructing State-space Geometry of Cislunar Restricted 3-Body Problem

   S. Sinha, S. S. K. S. Narayanan, R. Bhattacharya, U. Vaidya. American Control Conference, 2026.

7. ${\mathcal{H}}_2/{\mathcal{H}}_{\infty }$ State and Output Feedback Control with Sparse Actuation

   V. Deshpande, R. Bhattacharya. Automatica, 2026.

8. Privacy-aware Gaussian Process Regression

   R. Tuo, H. Chen, R. Bhattacharya. Technometrics, 2025.

9. ${\mathcal{H}}_{\infty }$ Optimal Navigation in the Cislunar Space with LFT Models

   T. Kumar, R. Bhattacharya. IEEE International Conference on Multi-Sensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, 2025.

10. Sparse Actuation for LPV Systems with Full-State Feedback in ${\mathcal{H}}_2/{\mathcal{H}}_{\infty }$ Framework

    T. Kumar, R. Bhattacharya. American Control Conference, 2025.

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