Spandan Roy

Spandan Roy

Assistant Professor, started 2020
  • Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  • Postdoc at TU Delft
  • Personal Webpage
  • Email - spandan.roy (at) iiit.ac.in




Overcoming the Underestimation and Overestimation Problems in Adaptive Sliding Mode Control
S. Roy, S. Basu Roy, J. Lee and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics   [Project Page]

On Reduced-Complexity Robust Adaptive Control of Switched Euler-Lagrange Systems
S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at Nonlinear Analysis, Hybrid Systems   [Project Page]

Analysis and Design of a Wide-Area Damping Controller for Inter-Area Oscillation With Artificially Induced Time Delay
S. Roy, A. Patel and I. N. Kar
Published at IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid   [Project Page]

A Simultaneous Adaptation Law for a Class of Nonlinearly-Parametrized Switched Systems
S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Control Systems Letters   [Project Page]

A New Continuous-Time Stability Perspective of Time-Delay Control: Introducing a State-Dependent Upper Bound Structure
S. Roy, J. Lee and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Control Systems Letters   [Project Page]

Adaptive-Robust Control of a Class of Euler-Lagrange Systems with Parametric Variations Using Artificially Delayed Input and Position Feedback
S. Roy, I. N. Kar, J. Lee, N. Tsagarakis and D. G. Caldwell
Published at IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology   [Project Page]

Adaptive Discrete-Time Higher Order Sliding Mode
N. K. Sharma, S. Roy, S. Janardhanan and I. N. Kar
Published at IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, Express Briefs   [Project Page]

A Double-Layered Artificial Delay-Based Approach for Maneuvering Control of Planar Snake Robots
J. Mukherjee, S. Roy, I. N. Kar and S. Mukherjee
Published at ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control   [Project Page]

The Role of Uncertainty in Adaptive Control of Switched Euler-Lagrange Systems
S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2019), Nice, France   [Project Page]

Observer-based Robust Control for Dynamic Positioning of Large-scale Heavy Lift Vessels
J. Ye, S. Roy, M. Godjevac and S. Baldi
Published at IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems (LSS 2019), Delft, The Netherlands   [Project Page]

Adaptive Single-Stage Control for Uncertain Nonholonomic Euler-Lagrange Systems
T. Tao, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2022), Cancun, Mexico   [Paper]

Introducing Scissor Mechanism based Novel Reconfigurable Quadrotor: Design, Modelling and Control
B. V. S. G. Suraj, V. Shankaranarayanan, R. D. Yadav and S. Roy
Published at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2022), China   [Paper]

Adaptive Artificial Time Delay Control for Quadrotors under State-dependent Unknown Dynamics
S. Dantu, R. D. Yadav, S. Roy, J. Lee and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2022), China   [Paper]

Robust Manoeuvring of Quadrotor under Full State Constraints
S. Ganguly, V. Shankaranarayanan, B. V. S. G. Suraj, R. D. Yadav and S. Roy
Published at Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS 2022), India   [Paper]

An Adaptive Control Framework for Underactuated Switched Euler-Lagrange Systems
S. Roy, S. Baldi and P. Ioannou
Published at IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control   [Paper]

An Underactuated Control System Design for Adaptive Autopilot of Fixed-Wing Drones
S. Baldi, S. Roy, K. Yang and D. Liu
Published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics   [Paper]

Adaptive Vector Field Guidance Without a Priori Knowledge of Course Dynamics and Wind
X. Wang, S. Roy, S. Fari and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics   [Paper]

Robust Adaptive Control of Steer-by-Wire Systems under Unknown State-Dependent Uncertainties
H. Shukla, S. Roy and S. Gupta
Published at International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing   [Paper]

Robustifying Payload Carrying Operations for Quadrotors under Time-Varying State Constraints and Uncertainty
V. Shankaranarayanan, R. D. Yadav, R. K. Swyampakula, S. Ganguly and S. Roy
Published at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters   [Paper]

Robust Manoeuvring of Quadrotor under Full State Constraints
Sourish Ganguly, Viswa N. Sankaranarayanan, B. V. S. G. Suraj, Rishabh Dev Yadav, and Spandan Roy
Published at Automatic Control and Dynamical Optimization Society (ACODS 2022)   [Project Page]

Robustifying Payload Carrying Operations for Quadrotors Under Time-Varying State Constraints and Uncertainty
Viswa N. Sankaranarayanan, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Rahul K. Swayampakula, Sourish Ganguly, and Spandan Roy
Published at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE-RAL 2022)   [Project Page]

An Integrated Approach to Aerial Grasping: Combining a Bistable Gripper With Adaptive Control
R. D. Yadav, B. Jones, S. Gupta, A. Sharma, J. Sun, J. Zhao and S. Roy
Published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics   [Paper]

An Integrated Approach to Aerial Grasping:Combining a Bistable Gripper With Adaptive Control
Rishabh Dev Yadav, Brycen Jones, Saksham Gupta, Amitabh Sharma, Jiefeng Sun, Jianguo Zhao and Spandan Roy
Published at IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS   [Project Page]

Modular Adaptive Aerial Manipulation Under Unknown Dynamic Coupling Forces
Rishabh Dev Yadav, Swati Dantu, Wei Pan, Sihao Sun, Spandan Roy, Simone Baldi
Published at IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS   [Project Page]

Towards Structure-Independent Stabilization for Uncertain Underactuated Euler-Lagrange Systems
S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at Automatica   [Project Page]

On Adaptive Sliding Mode Control without A Priori Bounded Uncertainty
S. Roy, S. Baldi and L. M. Fridman
Published at Automatica   [Project Page]

On Vanishing Gains in Robust Adaptation of Switched Systems: A New Leakage-Based Result for a Class of Euler-Lagrange Dynamics
S. Roy, E. B. Kosmatopoulos and S. Baldi
Published at Systems and Control Letters   [Project Page]

Introducing Switched Adaptive Control for Quadrotors for Vertical Operations
V. Shankaranarayanan and S. Roy
Published at Optimal Control Applications and Methods   [Project Page]

The Issue of Transients in Leakage-Based Model Reference Adaptive Control of Switched Linear Systems
T. Tao, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at Nonlinear Analysis; Hybrid Systems   [Project Page]

Addressing Unmodelled Path-Following Dynamics via Adaptive Vector Field: A UAV Test Case
S. Fari, X. Wang, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems   [Project Page]

Towards Adaptive Autopilots for Fixed-wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
S. Baldi, S. Roy and K. Yang
Published at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2020), Jeju Island, South Korea   [Project Page]

Aerial Transportation of Unknown Payloads; Adaptive Path Tracking for Quadrotors
V. Shankaranarayanan, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020), Las Vegas, USA   [Project Page]

The Problem of Reliable Design of Vector-Field Path Following in the Presence of Uncertain Course Dynamics
X. Wang, S. Roy, S. Fari and S. Baldi
Published at IFAC World Congress 2020, Berlin, Germany   [Project Page]

Robust Adaptation in Dynamically Switching Load Frequency Control
T. Tao, S. Roy, S. Yuan and S. Baldi
Published at IFAC World Congress 2020, Berlin, Germany   [Project Page]

Adaptive Control for a Payload Carrying Spacecraft with State Constraints
V. Shankaranarayanan, A. Banerjee, S. Satpute, S. Roy and G. Nikolakopoulos
Published at Control Engineering Practice   [Project Page]

An Annular Event-Triggered Artificial Time-Delayed Control Based Guidance Approach
A. Banerjee, R. Sarkar, J. Mukherjee and S. Roy
Published at International Journal of Control   [Project Page]

Adaptive Anti-swing Control for Clasping Operations in Quadrotors with Cable-suspended Payload
S. Dantu, R. D. Yadav, A. Rachakonda, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2023), Singapore   [Project Page]

Adaptive Control of Euler-Lagrange Systems under Time-varying State Constraints without a Priori Bounded Uncertainty
V. Shankaranarayanan, S. Satpute, S. Roy and G. Nikolakopoulos
Published at 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan   [Project Page]

Adaptive Tracking and Anti-Swing Control of Quadrotors Carrying Suspended Payload under State-Dependent Uncertainty
S. Dantu, R. D. Yadav, A. Rachakonda, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics   [Project Page]

Adaptive Synchronization of Uncertain Underactuated Euler-Lagrange Agents
T. Tao, S. Roy, B. De Schutter and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control   [Project Page]

Distributed Adaptive Synchronization in Euler-Lagrange Networks with Uncertain Interconnections
T. Tao, S. Roy, B. De Schutter and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control   [Project Page]

Introducing Switched Adaptive Control for Self-Reconfigurable Mobile Cleaning Robots
M. M. Rayguru, S. Roy, L. Yi, R. E. Mohan and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering   [Project Page]

Adaptive Control of Quadrotor under Actuator Loss and Unknown State-dependent Dynamics
S. Gupta, A. Sharma, A. Mulgundkar, R. D. Yadav and S. Roy
Published at International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2024), Bari, Italy   [Project Page]

Optimized RainDNet: an efficient image deraining method with enhanced perceptual quality
Debesh Kumar Shandilya, Spandan Roy, Navjot Singh
Published at Signal, Image and Video Processing (2024) Journal   [Project Page]

Adaptive Tracking and Anti-Swing Control of Quadrotors Carrying Suspended Payload Under State-Dependent Uncertainty
Swati Dantu, Rishabh Dev Yadav , Ananth Rachakonda, Spandan Roy and Simone Baldi
Published at IEEE/ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS   [Project Page]

Adaptive Control of Quadrotor under Actuator Loss and Unknown State-dependent Dynamics
Saksham Gupta, Amitabh Sharma, Aditya Mulgundkar, Rishabh Dev Yadav, Spandan Roy
Published at IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)   [Project Page]

Distributed Adaptive Synchronization in Euler-Lagrange Networks With Uncertain Interconnections
Tian Tao, Spandan Roy, Bart De Schutter and Simone Baldi
Published at IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL   [Project Page]

Adaptive Synchronization of Uncertain Underactuated Euler-Lagrange Agents
Tian Tao, Spandan Roy, Bart De Schutter and Simone Baldi
Published at IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL   [Project Page]

Introducing Switched Adaptive Control for Self-Reconfigurable Mobile Cleaning Robots
Madan Mohan Rayguru, Spandan Roy, Lim Yi, Mohan Rajesh Elara and Simone Baldi
Published at IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING   [Project Page]

Artificial-Delay Adaptive Control for Under-actuated Euler-Lagrange Robotics
S. Roy, S. Baldi, P. Li and V. Shankaranarayanan
Published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics   [Project Page]

An Output Feedback Based Robust Saturated Controller Design for Pavement Sweeping Self-Reconfigurable Robot
M. M. Rayguru, R. E. Mohan, R. Parween, L. Yi, A. N. Le and S. Roy
Published at IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics   [Project Page]

Wide-Area Damping Control Resilience towards Cyber-Attacks; A Dynamic Loop Approach
A. Patel, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid   [Project Page]

A Switching Control Perspective on the Offshore Construction Scenario of Heavy-Lift Vessels
J. Ye, S. Roy, M. Godjevac and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology   [Project Page]

A New Adaptive-Robust Design for Time Delay Control under State-Dependent Stability Condition
S. Roy, J. Lee and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology   [Project Page]

Efficient Manoeuvring of Quadrotor under Constrained Space and Predefined Accuracy
S. Ganguly, V. Shankaranarayanan, B. V. S. G. Suraj, R. D. Yadav and S. Roy
Published at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), Prague, Czech Republic   [Project Page]

Modeling and Control of PANTHERA Self-Reconfigurable Pavement Sweeping Robot under Actuator Constraints
M. M. Rayguru, M. R. Elara, A. A. Hayat, B. Ramalingam and S. Roy
Published at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), Prague, Czech Republic   [Project Page]

Adaptive Synchronization of Uncertain Complex Networks under State-dependent a priori Interconnections
T. Tao, S. Roy and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2021), Texas, USA   [Project Page]

Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Autonomous Vehicle Platoon under Unknown Friction Forces
R. D. Yadav, V. Shankaranarayanan and S. Roy
Published at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2021), Ljubljana, Slovenia   [Project Page]

Adaptive Artificial Time Delay Control for Bipedal Walking with Robustification to State-dependent Constraint Forces
A. Bhaskar, S. Dantu, S. Roy, J. Lee and S. Baldi
Published at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2021), Ljubljana, Slovenia   [Project Page]

Efficient Manoeuvring of Quadrotor under Constrained Space and Predefined Accuracy
Sourish Ganguly, Viswa N. Sankaranarayanan, B. V. S. G. Suraj, Rishabh Dev Yadav, and Spandan Roy
Published at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021)   [Project Page]

Adaptive Sliding Mode Control for Autonomous Vehicle Platoon under Unknown Friction Forces
Rishabh Dev Yadav, Viswa N. Sankaranarayanan, and Spandan Roy
Published at International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2021)   [Project Page]


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Abhayram A Nair

abhayram.a (at) students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2019
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Control systems-Anthropomorphic hand
  • Personal Page

Abhigyan Gargav

abhigyan.gargav (at) students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2019
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Fault tolerant control of drones
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Ananth Rachakonda

ananth.rachakonda (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2021
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Underactuated Systems - Hybrid Systems - Dynamics Estimation and Modelling - Nonlinear Controls - Model based Planning - Trajectory Optimization - Safety Critical Controls - Reinforcement Learning - Bipedal Locomotion - Prehensile Manipulation - Nonprehensile Manipulation
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Charchit Gupta

charchit.gupta (at) students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2019
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Reconfigurable Modular Robots-Robotic Manipulator-Multi agent robotics
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Rishabh Dev

rishabh.yadav (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2021
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Dynamics and Non Linear Control
  • Personal Page

Suraj Bonagiri

bonagiri.v (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2019
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Novel UAV Mechanisms-Control Systems
  • Personal Page

Swati Dantu

swati.dantu (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2020
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Non Linear Dynamics and Control-Time delay and adaptive control
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Saksham Gupta

saksham.g@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2022
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Dynamics and Non Linear Control
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Amitabh Sharma

amitabh.sharma@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2022
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Non-Linear Control applied to robotic systems
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Soham Patil

soham.patil (at) research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2024
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Dexterous Manipulation
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Sarthak Mishra

sarthak.mishra@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2024
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Language Guided Aerial Manipulation
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Samaksh Ujjawal

samaksh.ujjawal@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2024
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Bipedal Locomotion
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Shivansh Pratap Singh

shivansh.singh@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Aerial Manipulators and Cooperative Transportation with Swarm Drones
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Indira C

indira.reddy@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Spandhan Roy
  • Areas: Tactile Sensing
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Vidvathama R

vidvathama.babu@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Dexterous arm Manipulation and Applications
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Ritama Sanyal

ritama.sanyal@research.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Heterogeneous Drone Manipulation using VLM
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Viswas Dinesh

viswas.dinesh@research.iiit.ac.in

Nilavra Ghosh

nilavra.ghosh@students.iiit.ac.in

  • Joined: 2025
  • Supervisor: Spandan Roy
  • Areas: Heterogeneous Drone Manipulation using VLM
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