Harikumar Kandath

Harikumar Kandath

Assistant Professor, started 2020
  • Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
  • Research Fellow at NTU Singapore
  • Google Scholars
  • Email - harikumar.kandath (at) iiit.ac.in




Equilibrium Point Selection and Two Stage Optimal Control of Quadrotor Under Actuator Failure
Vidya C S, Harikumar Kandath
Published at 2024 12th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA)   [Project Page]

RaCIL: Ray Tracing based Multi-UAV Obstacle Avoidance through Composite Imitation Learning
Harsh Bansal* Vyom Goyal* Bhaskar Joshi Akhil Gupta Harikumar Kandath†
Published at IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)   [Project Page]

Attention Meets UAVs:A Comprehensive Evaluation of DDoS Detection in Low-Cost UAVs
Ashish Sharma, SVSLN Surya Suhas Vaddhiparthy, Sai Usha Goparaju,Deepak Gangadharan and Harikumar Kandath
Published at IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)   [Project Page]

CrackUDA: Incremental Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Improved Crack Segmentation in Civil Structures
Kushagra Srivastava, Damodar Datta Kancharla, Rizvi Tahereen, Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla, Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla, Harikumar Kandath
Published at International Conference on Pattern Recognition   [Project Page]

Deep RL based Obstacle Avoidance for UAVs with Time Varying sensor Bias
Aditya Kurande, Bhaskar Joshi, and Harikumar Kandath
Published at 2024 IEEE SENSORS   [Project Page]

Design and Analysis of a Modular Flapping Wing Robot with a Swappable Powertrain Module
Snehit Gupta, K P Rithwik, Kurva Prashanth, Avijit Ashe, Harikumar Kandath
Published at ICMA 2024   [Project Page]

A dynamic area approximation-based stochastic multi-UAV target search with noisy measurements
P. Gokul, K. Harikumar and J. Senthilnath
Published at 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)   [Project Page]

An Efficient Approach With Dynamic Multiswarm of UAVs for Forest Firefighting
Josy John, K. Harikumar, J. Senthilnath and Suresh Sundaram
Published at IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS SYSTEMS   [Project Page]

Metacognitive Decision-Making Framework for Multi-UAV Target Search Without Communication
J. Senthilnath, K. Harikumar, Suresh Sundaram
Published at IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS SYSTEMS   [Project Page]

Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning based Obstacle Avoidance for UAVs under Measurement Uncertainty
Bhaskar Joshi, Dhruv Kapur, Harikumar Kandath
Published at ICARA 2024   [Project Page]

MPC-based obstacle aware multi-UAV formation control under imperfect communication
Vikrant Dewangan, Harikumar Kandath
Published at ICARA 2024   [Project Page]

Leveraging Latent Temporal Features for Robust Fault Detection and Isolation in Hexacopter UAVs
Shivaan Sehgal, Aakash Maniar, Harikumar Kandath, Deepak Gangadharan
Published at ICARA 2024   [Project Page]


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Current Students

Aditya Mulgundkar

aditya.mulgundkar (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2020
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Soft,Aerial and Underactuated Robotics
  • Personal Page

Bhaskar Joshi

bhaskar.joshi (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2019
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Navigation and Control
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Dhruv Kapur

dhruv.kapur (at) students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2019
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Control and Navigation
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Jhanvi Shingala

jhanvi.shingala (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2020
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Fault Tolerance in Quadrotors
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Pravin Mali

pravin.mali (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2016
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Fixed wing aircraft path planning
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Vedant Mundheda

vedant.mundheda (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2018
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: UAV-Model Predictive Controllers
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Prakhar Gupta

prakhar.gup@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Swarm drones path detection and tracking
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Vaibhav Wadhwani

vaibhav.wadhwani@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Navigation and Control
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Krishna goel

krishna.goel@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Reinforcement Learning
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Aarav Singla

aarav.singla@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: RL for Object Avoidance
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Snehil Sanjog

snehil.sanjog@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2026
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Flappy Bird UAV
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Anubhav Tripathi

anubhav.tripathi@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2023
  • Supervisor: Hari kumar Kandath
  • Areas: Imitation learning
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Keerthi Seela

keerthi.seela@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Reinforcement learning
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Piyush Kumar Tiwari

piyush.tiwari@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Reinforcement Learning - Decision Making Under Uncertainity - Skill Discovery
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Pragnya T

pragnya.tatiparthi@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Sound Localization
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sanjana sheela

sanjana.sheela@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Sound Source Localization
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Manas Inamdar

manas.inamdar@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: UAV motion using RL and MPC
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Aanchal Amit Mundhada

aanchal.mundhada@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: Flapping wing UAV
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Dataarnoor Singh Oberoi

dataarnoor.oberoi@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: RL algorithms and models
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Dhruv Bansal

dhruv.bansal@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: RL on LLMs
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Harsh Bansal

harsh.bansal (at) students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2021
  • Supervisor: Harikumar Kandath
  • Areas: UAV-Reinforcement Learning-Navigation and Control
  • Personal Page