Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Flight Mechanics & Control Faculty

Ashish Tewari, Professor
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  +91-512-2597868 (O) / 8499 (R)
  https://home.iitk.ac.in/~ashtew

Research Interests: Flight Mechanics, Control, Aeroservoelasticity, Unsteady Aerodynamics, Space Dynamics

Dipak Kumar Giri, Assistant Professor
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Research Interests: Linear and nonlinear controls for aerospace systems (flight vehicle), Satellite Attitude Dynamics and Control.

Mangal Kothari, Professor
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  0512-259-6104 (O)/ 5623 (H)
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Research Interests: Optimal Control, Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Flight Vehicle Guidance and Control, State Estimation, Motion Planning and Cooperative Control

Raghavendra P. Kukillaya, Assistant Professor
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  6706 (Office, HSAL-02)
 

Research Interests: Aircraft and Airship dynamics and control, Systems modeling, simulation and design, Optimal control, Biomechanics

Subrahmanyam Saderla, Assistant Professor
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  0512-259-2009 (Office, HSAL-05)
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Research Interests:

  • Real Time Aircraft Parameter Estimation
  • Aerodynamic Characteristics of UAVs using flight testing methods
  • Aircraft Instrumentation and Control
  • Aircraft/UAV Simulations and Simulator development
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Design
  • Experimental Flight Dynamics
  • Drone Design and Development
  • AI based controller design for UAVs
  • Controller reconfiguration of UAVs using online system identification