From Flight Control to Multi-Agent Systems

In this two-part talk, I will present an overview of my research over the past ten years in the academia and the industry. In the first part, I will talk about the use of articulated wings for rapid manoeuvring at high angles of attack, particularly with application to landing in constrained spaces. I will present a first-principles analysis leading to design rules as well as guidelines for control design. In the second part, I will talk about some recent work on the control of the emergent behaviour of large multi-agent systems. I will present motivating examples drawn from my recent research, including in the industry. I will talk about the use of continuum methods for describing the dynamics of large systems and for designing compact control laws. I will wrap up by discussing interesting directions for future research on these topics.

Speaker : Aditya A. Paranjape

Biography :

Aditya A. Paranjape received B.Tech and M.Tech in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in 2007, and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. After completing his post-doc in 2013 from the University of Illinois, he held tenure-track academic positions, most recently at Imperial College London, before spending five years with TCS Research, a division of Tata Consultancy Services, in Pune, India. He has been with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Monash University since April 2024. He is also Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London and Visiting Associate Professor at IIT Bombay. His research interests are centred around flight dynamics, control systems, and multi-agent systems. He is a Senior Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of AIAA’s Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Technical Committee.