Madhubanti Maitra
Papers
13
Total Citations
230
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About
Madhubanti Maitra is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans nonlinear control theory, mobile robotics, and swarm intelligence. Her research has made significant contributions to two interconnected domains: the design of advanced control laws for underactuated and nonholonomic mechanical systems, and the development of intelligent multi-robot coordination strategies for complex environments. Her foundational work on block backstepping control — most notably her 2016 monograph and associated papers garnering over 43 and 13 citations respectively — established robust nonlinear state feedback frameworks for underactuated mechanical systems, a notoriously challenging control problem. Her 2015 paper on tracking control for wheeled mobile robots (39 citations) demonstrated elegant practical application of these theoretical advances. Maitra has also pioneered virtual region-based swarm robotics methodologies, developing geometric shape-control strategies that enable robot swarms to navigate unknown, obstacle-occluded environments, split and merge formations, and explore multiple targets autonomously. This body of work, accumulating citations across five publications, addresses real-world challenges in search-and-rescue and autonomous coverage operations. Her evolutionary algorithm approaches to formation control further demonstrate her interdisciplinary reach, making her a notable contributor to modern autonomous systems research.
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- 7Path planning of autonomous mobile robot: A new approach15 citations · 2013
- 8Block Backstepping Control of the Underactuated Mechanical Systems13 citations · 2016
- 9Autonomous robot coverage in rescue operation11 citations · 2013
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