10 peer-reviewed papers, newest first. Author order is as published, with my name in bold; an asterisk marks equal authorship. Each title opens a page with the abstract summary, links and a ready-made citation.
IEEE International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo)
MoonBot working alongside the HIDAS inflatable habitat module: inspection during inflation, alignment, final safety locking, and 3D mapping for maintenance, demonstrated on real hardware in the lab and at a lunar analogue site.
arXiv preprintVideoAccepted, to appear
* Equal authorship.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Lunar cargo transport split into lifting, transportation and placement, each learned as its own policy so several robots can share the load, evaluated in simulation and in field experiments at a JAXA test facility.
arXiv preprintAccepted, to appear
IEEE Transactions on Field Robotics (T-FR)
The MoonBot platform: limbs, wheels and tools that recombine on demand into whichever machine a lunar construction task needs, developed under JST Moonshot Goal 3 and shown in a preliminary field demonstration of lunar infrastructure tasks.
doi:10.1109/TFR.2025.3624346arXiv preprint
* Equal authorship.
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Human-in-the-loop verification and validation of UR16e manipulator control for precise assembly and deployment under uncertain terrain and visual conditions, using ArUco markers and OpenCV.
IEEE International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo)
A decentralized reinforcement learning approach for robots whose morphology changes: each module learns to act on local, multi-modal observation rather than from a central controller, so the same policy set survives reconfiguration.
doi:10.1109/ISPARO66239.2025.11436148arXiv preprintVideo
Best Paper Award in Planetary Robotics, IEEE iSpaRo 2025, Sendai, Japan
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Keeping multiple limbs of a space robot synchronized when any of them may be added, removed or delayed, using hypersphere trajectory clamping to bound the motion each limb is allowed to command.
doi:10.1109/IROS60139.2025.11246735arXiv preprintVideoCode: Motion Stack
IEEE International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo)
The software architecture question behind modular hardware: how to deploy and coordinate software across heterogeneous modules that do not know in advance what they will be attached to.
IEEE International Conference on Space Robotics (iSpaRo)
A bucket drum excavator built as a MoonBot module, so that regolith excavation for in-situ resource utilisation becomes one configuration of the platform rather than a separate purpose-built machine.
International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2025, IAF Space Exploration Symposium
Evolutionary algorithms for choosing the design of a modular robot to fit a lunar mission, rather than fixing the body first and fitting the task to it.
doi:10.52202/083076-0098Not peer reviewed
IAF Global Conference on Space Exploration (GLEX) 2025, AI Impact and Autonomy on Space Exploration
Automated detection and segmentation of craters and boulders in high-resolution lunar orbiter imagery from Chandrayaan-2.
doi:10.52202/080565-0008Not peer reviewed
International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2024, IAF Space Exploration Symposium
The International Lunar University proposal from the International Space University Space Studies Program 2024, hosted at NASA Johnson Space Center and Rice University, where I led the project management team and served as lead editor, supervised by Jacob Cohen, Chief Scientist at NASA Ames.
doi:10.52202/078357-0031Not peer reviewed
International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2024, IAF Space Systems Symposium
Graph neural networks for coordinating the paths of several robots exploring planetary terrain together.
doi:10.52202/078372-0095Not peer reviewed
International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering
A hybrid multilayer-perceptron and random-forest model for estimating GaN HEMT device parameters. From my earlier semiconductor device modelling work at the University of Delhi.
IEEE Access
An image watermarking scheme combining the Arnold transform with memristive chaotic oscillators, from my earlier work on secure signal processing.
IBM IEEE CAS/EDS AI Compute Symposium
A neural-network model predicting radiation-induced damage in GaN HEMTs, presented at the IBM IEEE CAS/EDS AI Compute Symposium.
International Conference on Devices, Circuits and Systems (ICDCS)
Memristor-based cryptographic information processing for secure communication systems.
Listed for completeness. None of these has completed peer review, so please do not cite them as published.
IEEE Access
Evolving a modular robot's morphology for the task with a genetic algorithm, and learning its control with reinforcement learning, so the body and the policy are chosen together.
In submission
* Equal authorship.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
Agentic planning and execution for modular lunar robots, field-validated at the JAXA Space Exploration Test Field in Sagamihara under Moonshot Goal 3.
Demo videoIn submission