Aerospace Engineering

Faculty

Akshay Prakash

Amardip Ghosh

Ananth S M

Anubhav Roy

Anup Ghosh

Arnab Roy

Bhrigu Nath Singh

Chetankumar Sureshbhai Mistry

Dipak Kumar Maiti

Manoranjan Sinha

Mira Mitra

Mohammed Rabius Sunny

Mrinal Kaushik

Naba Kumar Peyada

Prasun Jana

Priyam Chakraborty

Ratan Joarder

Sandeep Saha

Sikha Hota

Somnath Ghosh

Srinibas Karmakar

Sundaram Vinod Kumar Anicode

Sunil Manohar Dash

Suresh Chandra Pradhan

Susmita Bhattacharyya

Vatsalya Sharma

Sikha Hota, IIT Kharagpur

Sikha Hota

Associate Professor

Aerospace Engineering

+91-3222-284500

sikhahota@aero.iitkgp.ac.in

Awards and Accolades

Personal Webpage Bio Sketch

Research Areas

Missile Guidance
Collision avoidance
Multi-agent Systems
Optimal Path Planning of UAVs

Guidance and control of unmanned vehicles.

All Publications

No Record Found.

Completed Projects

Co-Principal Investigator

Ph. D. Students

Sandip Singha

Area of Research: Path Planning for Drones in Cluttered Natural Environments

Sayantan Pal

Area of Research: Waypoint following in Dynamic Environment

Soumitra Ray

Area of Research: Cooperative path planning and control

Journal

Curvature Constrained Vector Field Guidance for UAVs by Pal S., Hota S. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems - (2026)
Impact Angle Control Guidance Using Asymmetric Integral Barrier Lyapunov Function With FOV and Input Constraints by Pal S., Hota S. IEEE Control Systems Letters 9 2663-2668 (2025)
Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field-Based Waypoint Following by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Harinarayana T., Krishnan S.V., Hota S. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 48 192-202 (2025)
Time-optimal moving target interception with impact angle constraint by Singh N. K., Hota S. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering - (2022)
Vector field guidance for standoff target tracking by Harinarayana T., Hota S., Kushwaha R. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering - (2022)
FOV constrained guidance law for nonstationary nonmaneuvering target interception with any impact angle by Singh N.K., Hota S. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering - (2021)
Three-dimensional waypoint following for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles in obstacle-filled environments by Singh N.K., Hota S. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 234 640-654 (2020)
Waypoint-Based Trajectory Planning of Fixed-Wing MAVs in 3D Space by S. Hota and D. Ghose Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems doi:10.1007/s10846-016-0415-3 1-19 (2016)
Optimal spatial path planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle by S. Hota and D. Ghose Journal of Aircraft Vol. 51 681-688 (2014)
Time-optimal convergence to a rectilinear path in the presence of wind by S. Hota and D. Ghose Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Vol. 74 791-815. (2013)
Curvature-constrained trajectory generation for waypoint following by S. Hota and D. Ghose Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering Vol. 228 2066-2082 (2013)
Optimal trajectory generation for convergence to a rectilinear path by S. Hota and D. Ghose Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems Vol. 75 223-242 (2013)
Optimal trajectory planning for path convergence in 3D space by S. Hota and D. Ghose Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering Vol. 228 766-780 (2013)

Conferences

Time-Optimal L1 Guidance for Straight-Line Path Following in 3D by Mahajan P., Pal S. , Hota S. 2026 12th International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering - (2026)
Impact Angle Constrained Guidance Laws for Stationary Target Interception in 3D Space by Singh N.K., Pal S., Menon A.D., Hota S. AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2026 - (2026)
Vector Field Guidance with Curvature Constraint for UAVs by Pal S., Hota S. AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2025 - (2025)
Impact Angle Constrained 3D Guidance Law for Stationary Target Interception by Sahu N.K., Pal S., Hota S. 2025 IEEE Space, Aerospace and Defence Conference, SPACE 2025 - (2025)
Smooth Trajectory Generation for Gap Traversal by UAVs by Singha S., Pal S., Hota S. 2025 IEEE Space, Aerospace and Defence Conference, SPACE 2025 - (2025)
Optimized UAV Path Planning to a Straight Line Using Modified Dubins Path by Sunil R., Pal S. , Hota S. ICMRACC-2025 conference - (2025)
Path Convergence of UAVs via Fast Terminal Sliding Mode Control by Kumar P., Pal S. , Hota S. ICC - (2025)
Nonlinear Control Law for Path Following by UAVs by Pal S., Hota S. 2024 10th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2024 - Proceedings 476-481 (2024)
Time-optimal Bezier Curves for Straight-line and Circular Path Convergence 3D Space by Pal S., Hota S. 2023 9th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2023 - Proceedings 365-370 (2023)
Look Angle Constrained Guidance Law for Stationary Target Interception in 3D by Kumar A., Singh N. K., Hota S. AIAA Scitech 2022 - (2023)
Geometric Collision Avoidance Algorithm for Uncrewed Flight Vehicle by Ray S., Hota S. 22nd IFAC ACA 2022 - (2022)
Impact Angle Constrained Guidance Law for Intercepting Non-maneuvering Targets Avoiding Obstacles by Dharmendrabhai P.D., Gholap A., Singh N.K., Hota S. AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2022 - (2022)
Impact Angle Constrained Time-Optimal Guidance Law for Stationary Target Interception in 3D by Kumar A., Singh N.K., Hota S. AIAA Science and Technology Forum and Exposition, AIAA SciTech Forum 2022 - (2022)
Lyapunov Vector Field Based Guidance Algorithm for Standoff Target Tracking by Formation Flight by Gopalabhatla A., Harinarayana T., Hota S. 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021 129-136 (2021)
A Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field Based Continuous Curvature Path Generation for Waypoint following of UAVs by Harinarayana T., Krishnan S.V., Hota S., Kushwaha R. 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021 498-506 (2021)
A Lyapunov Guidance Vector Field Based Continuous Curvature Path Generation for Waypoint Following of UAVs by Harinarayana T., Krishnan S. V., Hota S. , Kushwaha R. 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS 498-506 (2021)
Minimum-Time Path Convergence for UAVs in Wind Using Vector Field Guidance by Navsalkar A., Hota S. 2021 7th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2021 - Proceedings 33-38 (2021)
Moving target interception guidance law for any impact angle with field-of-view constraint by Singh N.K., Hota S. AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum 1-14 (2021)
Moving target interception guidance law for any impact angle with field-of-view constraint by Singh N.K., Hota S. AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum 1-14 (2021)
Three Dimensional Optimal Path Generation and Tracking for Quadrotors in Dynamic Environment by Hariharan R., Yadla S., Hota S. 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2021 120-128 (2021)
Three Dimensional Optimal Path Generation and Tracking for Quadrotors in Dynamic Environment by Ravichandran H., Yadla S. , Hota S. 2021 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS ICUAS 21 120-128 (2021)
Collision Avoidance with Optimal Path Replanning for Mobile Robots by Mohta V., Dimri S., Ravichandran H., Hota S. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 13054 LNAI 315-325 (2021)
Coordinated Standoff Target Tracking by Multiple UAVs in Obstacle-filled Environments by Harinarayana T., Hota S. 2021 7th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2021 - Proceedings 111-116 (2021)
Lyapunov Vector Field Guidance for Convergence to a Straight line Path by Harinarayana T., Singh N. K., Hota S. AeSI 2020 on Aviation Technology Current Scenario - (2020)
Optimal path generation for simultaneous rendezvous of fixed-wing uavs in 3d dynamic environments by Mitra B.C., Hota S. AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum - (2019)
Three-Stage Proportional Navigation for Intercepting Stationary Targets with Impact Angle Constraints by Ranjan A., Hota S., Singh N.K. 2019 6th Indian Control Conference, ICC 2019 - Proceedings 379-384 (2019)
Waypoint following for fixed-wing MAVs in 3D space by Singh N.K., Hota S. AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, 2018 - (2018)
Enhanced exploitation of long endurance UAV s electro-optical payload for improved surveillance by Kumar V., Shukla U. , Dutta P. K., Hota S. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)
Coordinated Path Planning and Simultaneous Rendezvous of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Kumar S., Hota S. International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)
Time-Optimal Convergence of Fixed-Wing UAVs to a Circular Path in Steady UniformWind by Ranjan A., Hota S. International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)
Optimal path planning for fixed-wing UAVs in 3D space by Singh N. K., Hota S. International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics - (2017)

Book

Aerospace and Associated Technology by Sinhamahapatra K. P., Ghosh A. , Joarder R. , Hota S. - (2022)

Edited Volume

Conference Proceedings by Ghosh A., Sinhamahapatra K. P., Joarder R. , Hota S. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of ICTACEM 2021, APCATS 2021, AJSAE 2021 and AeSI 2021 1-400 (2022)
Book of Abstracts by Ghosh A., Sinhamahapatra K. P., Joarder R. , Hota S. Joint Conference of ICTACEM 2021, APCATS 2021, AJSAE 2021 and AeSI 2021 1-211 (2021)

Others

Collision avoidance with optimal path replanning of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles by Ravichandran H., Hota S. Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics 44 2118-2125 (2021)

Book Chapter/Section

Trends in Intelligent Robotics (Eds. P. Vadakkepat and J.-H. Kim), Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer-Verlag by S. Hota and D. Ghose Rectilinear path following in 3D space 210-217 (2010)