Technical Talk towards innovation on "AI, Autonomy and Swarming"
Multi-robot systems can significantly expand our ability to operate in complex and hazardous environments, from disaster response and environmental monitoring to national security. Achieving this requires robotic teams that are scalable, resilient, and capable of safe collaboration with each other and with humans. In this talk, I will present my research toward advancing such autonomous multi-robot systems. I begin with my research work on adversarial swarm defense, where I developed a unified framework that enables defender robots to protect safety-critical areas against both risk-averse and risk-taking adversarial swarms. This framework leverages real-time monitoring of adversarial swarm behavior, optimal task assignment, and trajectory planning for coordinated defense, combining herding and collision-aware interception to collaboratively mitigate a wide range of adversarial behaviors. I then highlight my broader efforts to enable reliable autonomy in real-world settings, including human-multi-robot collaboration, motion planning for tethered robots in extreme terrains, and automated ROS2-based integration testing pipelines for PX4 UAVs. Together, these contributions reflect a cohesive and ongoing research direction toward building reliable multi-robot systems that operate safely, effectively, and collaboratively amid uncertainty and real-world constraints.
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- Co-sponsored by IIC, St. Thomas' College of Engineering & Technology, Kolkata
- Starts 09 February 2026 06:30 PM UTC
- Ends 11 February 2026 06:30 PM UTC
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Prof. (Dr.) Debasish Ghose
AI, Autonomy and Swarming
Biography:
Brief Bio-Data: Debasish Ghose is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science. He has previously been the chairman of Aerospace Engineering and a professor at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyberphysical systems, at the Indian Institute of Science. He has held various visiting positions such as at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Leicester, and the University of Exeter in the UK. He has also been in the editorial boards of several journals including IEEE Transactions. His areas of research interest are in robotics, and in guidance and control of autonomous systems. He is a fellow of INAE, NASI, INSA, AAAI, and an associate fellow of AIAA.
Address:Department of Aerospace Engineering Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru – 560012,
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