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Anirban Roy
Ph.D. IIT Dhanbad
Professor of Practice, Wadhwani School of AI & Intelligent Systems (WSAIS)
Research Interest
My research interest lies in wide ranges of target tracking and multi sensor data and information fusion algorithm development for both Aerospace and automotive applications. I’m also keen in development of fixed wing/Quad UAV Autopilot flight Control law and Hybrid Navigation algorithm with and without GNSS information and RAIM and GNSS Jamming detection algorithms.
I am looking for motivated Ph.D., M.S and M.Tech., students with good mathematical and statistical background to work in the areas of Tracking, Sensor Fusion and UAV GNC related problems.
Selected Publications
Journal
Anirban Roy, Debjani Mitra, “Multi-target trackers using cubature Kalman filter for Doppler radar tracking in clutter,” IET Journal of Signal Proc., Vol. 10, Issue 8, May 2016, pp. 888-901. DOI: 10.1049/iet-spr.2015.0540
Anirban Roy, Debjani Mitra, “Unscented Kalman Filter based multi-target tracking algorithms for aerial surveillance mission using 3-D angle only measurements,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, Dynamics, Vol. 39, No. 9, June 2016, pp. 1949-1966. DOI: 10.2514/1.G001587
Y Deep, P. Held, S Ram, D. Steinhauser, A Gupta, F Grusson, A. Koch, Anirban Roy, “Radar cross-sections of pedestrians at automotive radar frequencies using ray tracing and point scatterer modelling,” IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, Vol. 14 Issue. 6, pp. 833-844, Apr 2020 DOI: 10.1049/iet-rsn.2019.0471
Salahudden, H. Agrawal, A. Karnam, Anirban Roy, “Decouple nonlinear incremental Dynamic Inversion Control for Aircraft Autonomous Landing with Ground effect,” J. of Aerospace Engineering, vol. 149, June 2024. DOI: 10.1016/j.ast.2024.109156.
Salahudden, Anirban Roy, Shyam Chetty, “UAV Autopilot Design for Entire Flight Profile with Cubature Kalman Filter,” Int. Journal of Aeronautical and Space Science (IJASS, Springer), Sep 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s42405-024 00808-3
Salahudden, P Bhat, Anirban Roy, “Decoupled Incremental Nonlinear Control and Cubature Kalman Filter for Hybrid Tiltrotor Aircraft,” International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences (IJASS, Springer), Accepted October 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42405-025-01073-8
Salahudden, Henil Agrawal, Abhishek Singh, Anirban Roy, “Flight Modelling and Robust Control of Tilt Rotor Fixed Wing Aircraft,” International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences (IJASS, Springer), Accepted 9th Sep 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42405-025-01045-y
Conference
Salahudden, P. Bhat, A. Patil, A Ghosh Roy, Anirban Roy, “Multirotor VTOL and Tilt Rotor Transition to Fixed wing,”, IEEE Conf. on Systems and Control, Sousse, Dec 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ICSC58660.2023.10449771
Sanglap Sarkar, Anirban Roy, “ IMM tracker for automotive radar tracking using Doppler velocity measurement,” conf. IRSI 2017, Bangalore
Anirban Roy, “Comparison of different maneuvering models for Tracking Aircraft in Coordinated Turn using EKF, Pseudo-measurement & UKF”, Proc. of SPIE conf. on Signal & Data processing of Small Target –2005”, San Diego, California, U.S. August 2005.
Bio-sketch
Dr. Anirban Roy is working currently as a faculty in the Department of Intelligent Systems at IIT Kanpur. Prior to joining to IIT Kanpur, he has 21 years of research and development experiences in leading Aerospace and Automotive Industries. After obtaining his B.Tech. in Electrical and M.E in Control System Engineering from Jadavpur University Kolkata, he started his carrier in the ISRO Satellite Center Bangalore (URSC) in Spacecraft Attitude and Orbit Control System for Indian remote sensing spacecrafts from 2005 as Scientist ‘C’. Later he joined General Electric Corporation (JFWTC) Bangalore and worked as Control system Engineer for Marine Engine Control and Diagnostic algorithms development. In 2011 he joined Airbus Defence and Space (Former EADS) in Germany (Manching) and later in Bangalore where he worked as lead Guidance, Navigation and Control Engineer for EADS Telarion UAV program. He has been instrumental in implementation of multi sensor fusion data fusion algorithms for Telarion navigation and flight Control law development. He worked in EADS MIDCAS (multi-UAV Sense and avoid) program as lead GNC development engineer. He received his Ph.D. in multi-target tracking and Sensor fusion in arial surveillance and reconnaissance application during his employment in Airbus from IIT Dhanbad. From 2016, he joined Continental Automotive Lindau as a senior manager in Radar based Environment perception and localization technology development for ADAS application. In Continental, he led Radar, Camera and lidar based sensor data and information fusion algorithm development for L2+ automated driving for various OEM application. In his last assignment as DGM at TATA Advanced Systems, he led Autopilot flight Control law and Navigation algorithm development for VTOL based Loitering drones/munitions and Medium altitude and long endurance (MALE) UAV Autopilot development for reconnaissance applications.