Associate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering
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
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
2016
Thesis Title: Parameter Estimation using Flight Data of Unmanned Flight Vehicles at Low and Moderately High Angles of Attack Using Conventional Methods
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
2010
Thesis Title: Aerodynamic Characterization and Trajectory estimation of guided projectiles.
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
2008
Institute of Aeronautical Engineering
Hyderabad, India
Kumar, N., Kishore, G., Saderla, S., and Kim, Y., 2023. An adaptive law based online system identification of cropped delta unmanned aerial vehicles from flight tests, Aerospace Science and Technology, Volume 141. 108526, ISSN 1270-9638, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ast.2023.108526
Kumar, N., Saderla, S., and Kim, Y., 2023. Aerodynamic characterisation of delta wing unmanned aerial vehicle using non-gradient-based estimator. The Aeronautical Journal, 127(1314), 1435-1451. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2023.2
Samuel J, J., Kumar, N., Saderla, S., and Kim, Y., 2023. Parametric model identification of delta wing UAVs using filter error method augmented with particle swarm optimisation. The Aeronautical Journal, 127(1312), 982-1008. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2022.100
Kumar, N., Saderla, S., and Kim, Y., 2023. System identification of cropped delta UAVs from flight test methods using particle Swarm-Optimisation-based estimation. The Aeronautical Journal, 127(1307), 76-96. https://doi.org/10.1017/aer.2022.46
S. Saderla, Dhayalan R, Kirtiman Singh, Neetesh Kumar and Ghosh, A.K., 2019. Longitudinal and lateral directional aerodynamic characterization of reflex wing UAV from flight tests using ML, LS and NGN methods. The Aeronautical Journal, 123 (1269), 1807-1839.
Gwang-gyo Seo , Yoonsoo Kim, S. Saderla, 2019. Kalman-filter based online system identification of fixed-wing aircraft in upset condition. Aerospace Science and Technology, 89, 307-317.
S. Saderla, Rajaram, D., Ghosh, A., 2018. Lateral directional parameter estimation of a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle using maximum likelihood and Neural Gauss-Newton methods. The Aeronautical Journal, 122 (1252), 889-912.
Dhayalan R., S. Saderla, Ajoy Kanti Ghosh, 2018. Parameter estimation of UAV from flight data using neural network. Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, 90 (Issue 2), 302-311.
S. Saderla, Dhayalan, R., Ghosh, A., 2017. Non-linear aerodynamic modelling of unmanned cropped delta configuration from experimental data. The Aeronautical Journal, 121 (1237), 320-340.
S. Saderla, Rajaram, Dhayalan, Ghosh, A K, 2017. Parameter Estimation of Unmanned Flight Vehicle Using Wind Tunnel Testing and Real Flight Data. Journal of Aerospace Engineering (ASCE), 30 (1), 04016078.
S. Saderla, R. Dhayalan, A. K. Ghosh, 2017. Parameter estimation from near stall flight data using conventional and neural-based methods. Defense Science Journal, 67 (1), 03-11.
S. Saderla, R. Dhayalan, A. K. Ghosh, , "Aerodynamic parameter estimation using neuro-fuzzy model based method," 2017 First International Conference on Recent Advances in Aerospace Engineering (ICRAAE), Coimbatore, India, 2017, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICRAAE.2017.8297220
S. Saderla, Rajaram, Dhayalan, Ghosh, A K, 2016. Longitudinal parameter estimation from real flight data of unmanned cropped delta flat plate configuration. International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, 4(1), 2-22.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Jan, 2018 - Present
Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER
Sep, 2016 - Dec, 2017
Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea
CHIEF TECHNICAL OFFICER (CTO)
Oct, 2015 - Aug, 2016
Srashta Automation Labs Pvt. Ltd., India
PROJECT SCIENTIST, FLIGHT DYNAMICS
Jul, 2015 - Sep, 2015
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India