Avijit Banerjee
Associate Senior Lecturer
Luleå University of Technology
About me
I am currently an Associate senior lecturer at Robotics and AI Team at Luleå Technical University (LTU). My areas of research interest include space robotics autonomy, collaborative multiagent system, multi-sensor fusion, autonomous guidance navigation and control strategies for various space applications.
Research subject: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
Division: Signals and Systems
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
E-mail: avijit.banerjee@ltu.se
Research Projects Participated
OPTACOM - Optimized and Autonomous Constellation Orbit Management, Funded by European Space Agency (ESA), Status: Ongoing
NRFP - Small Body Navigation, Funded by OHB Sweden, Status: Completed
Lunar Soft-Landing - Integrated guidance and control of a lunar module for optimal soft-landing, Space technology cell, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO/STC), Status: Completed
Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles - Guidance of Autonomous Aerospace Vehicles for Vertical Soft Landing using Nonlinear Control Theory, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/AFOSR/IOA(AOARD), Status: Completed
Masters Theses Supervision
Noah Otte, Development of a Novel Path-planning Algorithm for an Autonomous Lunar Rover Platform, Primary Supervisor, 2024, Ongoing
Roger Le Fort Ndayambaje, Satellite constillation initialization using intelligent learning, 2023, Primary Supervisor, Ongoing
Ulugbek Alibekov, High fidelity simulation platform for autonomous planetary soft landing, Co-Supervisor, 2023
Erik Hagel, Current Master Student pursuing, Learning based satellite constellation reconfiguration, Primary Supervisor, 2023
Dharshana Athauda, Obstacle avoidance scheme for floating planar satellite platform using reinforcement learning, Primary Supervisor, 2022
Vignesh Kottayam Viswanathan, Cooperative Navigation in Space in-proximity of Small Bodies, Co-Supervisor, 2021
Teaching
R7030R:Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control, Instructor, LTU, Sweden
R0006E: Robotics for all, Instructor, LTU, Sweden
AE 372:Applied Optimal Control and Estimation, Teaching Assistant, IISc Bangalore, India
Fellowships & Accolades
MHRD Fellowship of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, as a PhD research scholar in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 2013 - 2019
MHRD Fellowship of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, as a ME student in Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2011-2013
GARP Travel Grant for attending Guidance, Navigation, and Control and Co-located Conferences, AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition, Florida, USA, 2018
Young investigator best paper & presentation award in International conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Bhopal October 2012
Contributed in Chandryaan-3 soft-landing, Indian Lunar Exploration, the development of minimum jerk-based guidance algorithm developed as part of PhD thesis has been considered and implemented for successful soft-landing of Chandrayyan-3, Vikram Lander in Aug, 2023
All India Rank - 121, in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2012
Conference Session Chair Reglermöte 2022, Optimal control Session, at Luleå University of Technology, June 7-9 2022
Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Applied Soft Computing, Advances in Space research, IEEE Control system society Conferences (ACC, ECC, CDC, MED) and many more
Publications
Article in journal
A Decomposition and a Scheduling Framework for Enabling Aerial 3D Printing (2024)
Stamatopoulos. M, Banerjee. A, Nikolakopoulos. G
Part of: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer Nature, 2024
Article in journal
Attitude Constrained Robust Explicit Guidance for Terminal Phase of Autonomous Lunar Soft-Landing (2024)
Padhi. R, Banerjee. A, Sai Kumar. P, Parvathi. S
Part of: The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences, Springer Nature, 2024
Article in journal
Computational Guidance Using Model Predictive Static Programming for Challenging Space Missions: An Introductory Tutorial with Example Scenarios (2024)
Padhi. R, Banerjee. A, Mathavaraj. S, Srianish. V
Part of: IEEE Control Systems, s. 55-80, IEEE, 2024
Article in journal
Conflict-free optimal motion planning for parallel aerial 3D printing using multiple UAVs (2024)
Stamatopoulos. M, Banerjee. A, Nikolakopoulos. G
Part of: Expert systems with applications, 2024
Article in journal
Adaptive control for a payload carrying spacecraft with state constraints (2023)
Sankaranarayanan. V, Banerjee. A, Satpute. S, Roy. S, Nikolakopoulos. G
Part of: Control Engineering Practice, Elsevier, 2023