Publications

Google Scholar Page

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Book Chapters

  1. Chakraborty, Anusna, Sohum Misra, Rajnikant Sharma, Kevin Brink, and Clark Taylor. “Cooperative Localization: Challenges and Future Directions.” in Cooperative Localization and Navigation: Theory, Research, and Practice. CRC Press, 2019

  2. Rathinam, Sivakumar, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Sensor placement algorithms for a path covering problem.” Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: Theory and Applications (2017): 31.

  3. Rajnikant Sharma, Josiah Yoder, Hyukseong Kwon, and Daniel Pack. “Vision Based Mobile Target Geo-localization and Target Discrimination Using Bayes Detection Theory.” In Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems, pp. 59-71. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.

  4. S. Gruber, C. Hager, H. Kwon, J. Yoder, R. Sharma, D. Pack, “Payload design for autonomous small UAVs”, Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Springer, 2013.

Journals

  1. Khanapuri, Eshaan; Manasreh, Dmitry; Rechtin, Michael; Sharma, Rajnikant; Kim, Donghoon; Nazzal, Munir. "Low-Cost Shoulder Drop-off Prediction for Highways Using Learning-Based Methods." under review IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions.

  2. Manasreh, Dmitry, Munir D. Nazzal, Sk Abu Talha, Eshaan Khanapuri, Rajnikant Sharma, and Donghoon Kim. "Application of Autonomous Vehicles for Automated Roadside Safety Assessment." Transportation Research Record (2022): 03611981221095090

  3. Misra, Sohum, Kaarthik Sundar, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin Brink. "Deployable, Data-Driven Unmanned Vehicle Navigation System in GPS-Denied, Feature-Deficient Environments." Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems 105, no. 2 (2022): 1-21.

  4. E. Khanapuri, V. V. T. K. Chintalapati, R. Sharma and R. Gerdes, "Learning Based Longitudinal Vehicle Platooning Threat Detection, Identification and Mitigation," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, doi: 10.1109/TIV.2021.3122144.

  5. Biswas, Srijanee, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Goal-Aware Robocentric Mapping and Navigation of a Quadrotor UAV.” Accepted for publication in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems (2021)

  6. Chakraborty, Anusna, Kevin M. Brink, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Cooperative Relative Localization Using Range Measurements Without a Priori Information.” IEEE Access 8 (2020): 205669-205684.

  7. Costley, Austin, Chase Kunz, Rajnikant Sharma, and Ryan Gerdes. “Low Cost, Open-Source Platform to Enable Full-Sized Automated Vehicle Research.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (2020).

  8. Misra, Sohum, Bingyu Wang, Kaarthik Sundar, Rajnikant Sharma, and Sivakumar Rathinam. “Single vehicle localization and routing in GPS-denied environments using range-only measurements.” IEEE Access 8 (2019): 31004-31017.

  9. Sundar, Kaarthik, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Path planning for unmanned vehicles with localization constraints.” Optimization Letters 13, no. 5 (2019): 993-1009.

  10. Fisher, Thomas, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Rudder-Augmented Trajectory Correction for Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Minimize Lateral Image Errors.” Journal of Aerospace Information Systems 15, no. 9 (2018): 544-552.

  11. Chakraborty, Anusna, Sohum Misra, Rajnikant Sharma, and Clark N. Taylor. “Observability conditions for switching sensing topology for cooperative localization.” Unmanned Systems 5, no. 03 (2017): 141-157.

  12. Lwowski, Jonathan, Liang Sun, Roberto Mexquitic-Saavedra, Rajnikant Sharma, and Daniel Pack. “A Reactive Bearing Angle Only Obstacle Avoidance Technique for Unmanned Ground Vehicles.” Journal of Automation and Control Research 1, no. 1, 2014.

  13. Huili Yu, Rajnikant Sharma, Randal W. Beard, “Observability-based local path planning and collision avoidance for micro air vehicles using bearing-only measurements”, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013.

  14. Rajnikant Sharma, Stephen Quebe, Randal W Beard, and Clark N. Taylor, “Bearing-only cooperative localization: simulation and experimental results”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2013.

  15. Mangal Kothari, Rajnikant Sharma, Ian Postlethwaite, Randal W. Beard, Daniel Pack, “Cooperative target capturing with incomplete target information”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2013.

  16. Rajnikant Sharma, Randal W. Beard, Stephen Quebe, Clark N. Taylor, “Graph based observability analysis of bearing-only cooperative localization”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol 28, Issue 2, p.522-529, 2012.

  17. Rajnikant Sharma, Jeffery Saunders, Randal W. Beard, “Reactive path planning for micro air vehicles using bearing only measurements”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Volume 65, Issue 1 (2012), p.409-416.

  18. Rajnikant Sharma, Debashish Ghose, “Collision avoidance between UAV clusters using swarm intelligence techniques”, International Journal of Systems Science, v.40 n.5, p.521-538, 2009.

Conferences

  1. Khanapuri, Eshaan M., Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin Brink. "Learning-based Detection of Stealthy False Data Injection Attack Applied to Cooperative Localization Problem." In AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, p. 2543. 2022.

  2. Mayle, Melody N., and Rajnikant Sharma. “Cooperative Localization in a GPS-Limited Environment Using Inter-Vehicle Range Measurements for a System of Multiple, Non-Homogeneous Vehicles.” In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, p. 1883. 2021

  3. Omotuyi, Oyindamola, Sameer Pokhrel, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Distributed Quadrotor UAV Tracking using a Team of Unmanned Ground Vehicles.” In AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, p. 0266. 2021

  4. Boyinine, Rohith, Anusna Chakraborty, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin Brink. “Development of Sliding-Mode Landing Controller using Cooperative Relative Localization with Pattern Generation.” In 2019 Sixth Indian Control Conference (ICC), pp. 128-133. IEEE, 2019.

  5. Manoharan, Amith, Rajnikant Sharma, and P. B. Sujit. “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control to Aid Cooperative Localization.” In 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 26-32. IEEE, 2019.

  6. Misra, Sohum, Srijanee Biswas, Ali A. Minai, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Cooperative Search Area optimization using Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in a GPS-denied Environment.” In 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 580-587. IEEE, 2019.

  7. Wang, Bingyu, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Landmark Placement for Cooperative Localization and Routing of Unmanned Vehicles.” In 2019 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 33-42. IEEE, 2019

  8. Khanapuri, Eshaan, Tarun Chintalapati, Rajnikant Sharma, and Ryan Gerdes. “Learning-based adversarial agent detection and identification in cyber physical systems applied to autonomous vehicular platoon.” In 2019 IEEE/ACM 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SEsCPS), pp. 39-45. IEEE, 2019.

  9. Mishra, Nikita, Anusna Chakraborty, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin Brink. “Cooperative relative pose estimation to aid landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle on a moving platform.” In 2019 Fifth Indian Control Conference (ICC), pp. 277-282. IEEE, 2019

  10. Hartman, Chase R., and Rajnikant Sharma. “Development of a Velocity Controller for Following a Human Using Target Velocity in a GPS-Denied Environment.” In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 1452. 2019.

  11. Wang, Bingyu, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Landmark placement algorithms for multi-vehicle path planning with localization constraints.” In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 0389. 2019.

  12. Biswas, Srijanee, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Goal-aware Navigation of Quadrotor UAV for Infrastructure Inspection.” In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 1691. 2019.

  13. Chakraborty, Anusna, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin Brink. “Cooperative localization for multi-rotor UAVs.” In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 0684. 2019

  14. Holsinger, Seth D., and Rajnikant Sharma. “Multiple Target Tracking Via Dynamic Point Clustering on a UAV Platform.” In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 0387. 2019.

  15. Khanapuri, Eshaan M., and Rajnikant Sharma. “Uncertainty aware geo-localization of multi-targets with multi-UAV using neural network and extended kalman filter.” In AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum, p. 1690. 2019.

  16. Misra, Sohum, Anusna Chakraborty, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin Brink. “Cooperative simultaneous arrival of unmanned vehicles onto a moving target in gps-denied environment.” In 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pp. 5409-5414. IEEE, 2018

  17. Chakraborty, Anusna, Kevin Brink, Rajnikant Sharma, and Laith Sahawneh. “Relative pose estimation using range-only measurements with large initial uncertainty.” In 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5055-5061. IEEE, 2018.

  18. Sundar, Kaarthik, Shriram Srinivasan, Sohum Misra, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Landmark Placement for Localization in a GPS-denied Environment.” In 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 2769-2775. IEEE, 2018

  19. Wang, Bingyu, Sohum Misra, Kaarthik Sundar, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Routing Multiple Unmanned Vehicles in GPS Denied Environments.” In 2018 AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech@ Aerospace, p. 0897. 2018

  20. Wang, Bingyu, Sivakumar Rathinam, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kaarthik Sundar. “Algorithms for localization and routing of unmanned vehicles in gps-denied environments.” In ASME 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers Digital Collection, 2018

  21. Chakraborty, Anusna, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin Brink. “Target-Centric Formation Control in GPS-denied Environments.” In 2018 AIAA Information Systems-AIAA Infotech@ Aerospace, p. 0642. 2018.

  22. Kumar, Rumit, Alireza Nemati, Manish Kumar, Rajnikant Sharma, Kelly Cohen, and Franck Cazaurang. “Tilting-rotor quadcopter for aggressive flight maneuvers using differential flatness based flight controller.” In Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, vol. 58295, p. V003T39A006. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017

  23. Dunn, Daniel D., Samuel A. Mitchell, Imran Sajjad, Ryan M. Gerdes, Rajnikant Sharma, and Ming Li. “Regular: Attacker-induced traffic flow instability in a stream of semi-automated vehicles.” In 2017 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), pp. 499-510. IEEE, 2017.

  24. Sundar, Kaarthik, Sohum Misra, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Routing unmanned vehicles in GPS-denied environments.” In 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 62-71. IEEE, 2017

  25. Garber, Mark, Sivakumar Rathinam, and Rajnikant Sharma. “A grid-based path planning approach for a team of two vehicles with localization constraints.” In 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 516-523. IEEE, 2017.

  26. Lee, Brad Hyeong-Yun, James R. Morrison, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Multi-UAV control testbed for persistent UAV presence: ROS GPS waypoint tracking package and centralized task allocation capability.” In 2017 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 1742-1750. IEEE, 2017

  27. Mitchell, Samuel, Imran Sajjad, Ali Al-Hashimi, Soodeh Dadras, Ryan M. Gerdes, and Rajnikant Sharma. “Visual distance estimation for pure pursuit based platooning with a monocular camera.” In 2017 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 2327-2332. IEEE, 2017

  28. Sajjad, Imran, Rajnikant Sharma, and Ryan Gerdes. “A game-theoretic approach and evaluation of adversarial vehicular platooning.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Safe Control of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, pp. 35-41. 2017.

  29. Manjunath, Abhishek, Parwinder Mehrok, Rajnikant Sharma, and Ashwini Ratnoo. “Application of virtual target based guidance laws to path following of a quadrotor uav.” In 2016 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), pp. 252-260. IEEE, 2016

  30. Chakraborty, Anusna, Clark N. Taylor, Rajnikant Sharma, and Kevin M. Brink. “Cooperative localization for fixed wing unmanned aerial vehicles.” In 2016 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), pp. 106-117. IEEE, 2016.

  31. Rajnikant Sharma, Sivakumar Rathinam “Cooperative-timing Attack with Smart Munitions using Cooperative Localization in Contested Environments”, AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2016.

  32. Thomas Fisher, Rajnikant Sharma, “Rudder Augmented Trajectory Correction for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Decrease Lateral Flight Line Errors of Fixed Camera Imagery” AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition 2016.

  33. Imran Sajjad, Daniel D. Dunn, Rajnikant Sharma and Ryan Gerdes “Attack Mitigation in Adversarial Platooning Using Detection-Based Sliding Mode Control”, ACM Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Privacy Workshop 2015.

  34. Jerel Nielsen, Rajnikant Sharma, “Formation Control of Quad-Rotor UAVs Using a Single Camera”, 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

  35. Douglas Spencer Maughan, Ishmaal Timothy Erekson, Rajnikant Sharma
    “Flying Inverted Pendulum Trajectory Control on Robust Intelligent Sensing and Control Multi-Agent Analysis Platform”, 2015 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

  36. S. Rathinam, R. Sharma, ” A Multiple Vehicle Path Covering Problem with Localization Constraints: Formulation and Algorithms” 2015 IEEE American Control Conference (ACC) (Accepted)

  37. Soodeh Dadras, Ryan Gerdes and Rajnikant Sharma, “Vehicular Platooning in an Adversarial Environment”, 10th ACM Symposium Information, Computer, and Communication Security, ACM AsiaCCS’15 ( 18% Acceptance Rate) .

  38. Rajnikant Sharma, “Observability based Control for Cooperative Localization”, In the proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS’14), 2014.

  39. Rajdeep Dutta, Liang Sun, Mangal Kothari, Rajnikant Sharma, Daniel J. Pack, “A Cooperative Formation Control Strategy Maintaining Connectivity of A Multi-agent System”, 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014).

  40. Rajnikant Sharma, Daniel Pack “Cooperative sensor resource management for multi target geolocalization using small xed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, Boston, 2013.

  41. Hyukseong Kwon, Rajnikant Sharma, Josiah Yoder, Daniel Pack “Robust mobile ground target localization using ground image feature based UAV position compensation techniques”, 12th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2012), Jeju, Korea, 2012.

  42. Josiah Yoder, Hyukseong Kwon, Rajnikant Sharma, Daniel Pack “Monitoring intent to enter with a small UAV”, 12th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2012), Jeju, Korea, 2012.

  43. Rajnikant Sharma, Randal W. Beard, Clark N. Taylor, Daniel Pack, “Bearing-only cooperative geo-localization for unmanned aerial vehicles”, American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, 2012.

  44. Huili Yu, Rajnikant Sharma, Randal W. Beard, “Observability-based local path planning and collision avoidance for micro air vehicles using bearing-only measurements”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, San Francisco, 2011.

  45. Rajnikant Sharma, Clark N. Taylor, David Casbeer, Randal W. Beard, “Distributed cooperative SLAM using an information consensus lter,” AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, Toronto, Canada, paper no. AIAA-2010-8334, 2010.

  46. Rajnikant Sharma, Mangal Kothari, Clark N. Taylor and Ian Postlethwaite, “Cooperative target-capturing with inaccurate target information”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Baltimore MA, p. 5520-5525, 2010.

  47. Rajnikant Sharma, Je Saunders, Clark N. Taylor, Randal W. Beard, “Reactive collision avoidance for fixed wing MAVs flying in urban terrain”, AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference and Exhibit, 2009

  48. Rajnikant Sharma, Clark N. Taylor, “Vision-based distributed cooperative navigation for MAVs in GPS denied areas”, AIAA Infotech@Aerospace, 2009.

  49. Rajnikant Sharma, Clark N. Taylor, “Cooperative navigation of MAVs in GPS denied areas”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, p. 481-486, 2008.

  50. Rajnikant Sharma, Debashish Ghose, “Swarm intelligence based collision avoidance between realistically Modeled UAVs”, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, New York, NY, p. 3892-3897, 2007.

  51. Rajnikant Sharma, Debashish Ghose, “Collision avoidance between UAV clusters using swarm intelligence”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Bangalore, p. 246-253, 2007.