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Mr. Ashutosh Simha

Computer Science and Engineering

Ashutosh Simha

Mr. Ashutosh Simha

Professor

Mr. Ashutosh Simha

Email: ashutosh.iisc@gmail.com

Ashutosh is a researcher in robotics, nonlinear control theory and Differential geometry. He has completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 2018, following which he was at the Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia (2018-2020) and TU Delft, Netherlands (2020-2023). From 2023 he has been a consultant for defence systems, and an adjunct faculty at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.

  • Teaching: 2 Years
  • Research: 10 Years
  • Industry: 3 Years

Differential and Riemannian geometry, Nonlinear control, robotics, machine learning

IEEE communications society

Journal Publications
  1. Extended observer forms for submersive discrete-time systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 69.4 (2023): 2684-2688
  2. Accessibility and system reduction of nonlinear time-delay control systems, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 66 (8), 3781-3788
  3. Extended observer form with vector fields, International Journal of Control 97 (10), 2399-2412
  4. Structure preserving reduced attitude control of gyroscopes N Raj, LJ Colombo, A Simha IFAC Automatica 125, 109471
  5. A Flapped Paddle-Fin for Improving Underwater Propulsive Efficiency of Oscillatory Actuation, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. (also accepted for IEEE ICRA 2020) DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2975747
  6. Hermes-Wind Energy Harvesting Wireless System for Sensing AoA and Wind Speed IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6 (4), 7097-7104
  7. Adaptive Control Based Harvesting Strategy for a Predator–Prey Dynamical System, Acta Biotheoretica, Volume 66, Issue 4, pp 293–313. DOI:10.1007/s10441-018-9323-1
  8. Geometric methods in analysis and control of implicit differential systems, Springer, Volume 97, issue 3, pp 391–411. DOI:10.1007/s41745-017-0038-0
  9. A geometric approach to position tracking control of a nonholonomic planar rigid body: case study of an underwater vehicle. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences 69 (3)
  10. FLHex: a flapped-paddle hexapod for all-terrain amphibious locomotion Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences: Technical Sciences
  11. Nonlinear Control of Quadrotor UAV Under Rotor Failure for Robust Trajectory Tracking, Nature Scientific Reports, Nonlinear Control 10.1038/s41598-025-26264-x
Paper Presentations in International/National Conferences
  1. BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing (Accepted for MobiCom 2023, 17% acceptance rate). 
  2. Extended Observer Form for Nonlinear System with Disturbances: Algorithm and Application. In 2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) (pp. 93-98). IEEE.
  3. Intrinsic conditions for extended observer forms for nonlinear systems, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2018, Miami, USA.
  4. A Riemannian Geometric Approach to Output Tracking for Nonholonomic Systems, IFAC Mechatronics & NOLCOS 2019. DOI:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.769
  5. A Linear Filtering Framework for Nonlinear Systems Based on Extended Output Injection, IFAC Mechatronics & NOLCOS 2019. DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.791
  6. Event-Based Control for Differentially Flat Systems: Application to Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, IFAC Mechatronics & NOLCOS 2019. DOI:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.775
  7. Almost-Global Exponential Tracking of a Variable Pitch Quadrotor on SE(3), IFAC World Congress 2017. DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.1476   
  8. Adaptive attitude control of the spherical drone on SO(3), IEEE Distributed Computing, VLSI, Electrical Circuits and Robotics (DISCOVER), DOI: 10.1109/DISCOVER.2016.7806265.
  9. Control of a 3D solid tumor model using optimal dynamic inversion, American Control Conference, 2016, Boston, USA. DOI: 10.1109/ACC.2016.7525536
  10. Iterative Learning based feedforward control for Transition of a Biplane-Quadrotor Tailsitter UAS, Proceedings of  IEEE ICRA 2020.
  11. A Flapped Paddle-Fin for Improving Underwater Propulsive Efficiency of Oscillatory Actuation (preliminary results), Proceedings of  IEEE ICRA 2020. 
  12. Nonlinear controller for a compliant robotic-fish based on asymmetric actuation,  IEEE ICRA 2019, Montreal, Canada.  DOI: 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793892 
  13. A new philosophy in adaptive control for robust attitude maneuvers of spacecrafts, IFAC ACODS 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.03.135
  14. Motor Failure Tolerant Control System With Self Diagnostics for Unmanned Multirotors,  IEEE MMAR 2019.  DOI: 10.1109/MMAR.2019.8864726.
  15. Heart Watch: Dynamical Systems Based Real Time Data Driven ECG Synthesis A Simha, S Sharma, S Narayana, RV Prasad 2021 IEEE 7th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 789-794
  16. Switched Control Strategy for Robust Formation Flight with HIL and In-Flight Validation, L Ambroziak, C Kownacki, A Simha, ICC 2022-IEEE International Conference on Communications, 1-6
Patents
  1. (Filed, based on paper:)Hermes-Wind Energy Harvesting Wireless System for Sensing AoA and Wind Speed 
  2. (Filed, based on paper:)BEAVIS: Balloon Enabled Aerial Vehicle for IoT and Sensing (MobiCom 2023)

 

Grants/Funded Projects/ Consultancy

Awarded the DORA-Plus 2018 and 2019 European mobility grant.

Achievements and awards

Awarded research incubation grant at the all-India GE-Edison Challenge 2016, for proposing an optimal control solution for distributed traffic networks. Won second place among 300 teams nationwide.

Resource Person for workshops / FDPs

Conducting workshops as a resource person for Vedanta Bharati on Scientific aspects of ‘Dakshinamurty ashtakam’ in several colleges in Bangalore.