Vivek Radhakrishnan

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Vivek Radhakrishnan is a robotics researcher specializing in multi-robot systems, aerial autonomy, and vision-based perception. His work focuses on enabling teams of micro aerial vehicles to operate with minimal infrastructure, addressing fundamental challenges in detection, tracking, and long-term autonomy. In his most cited paper, "Vision-based Relative Detection and Tracking for Teams of Micro Aerial Vehicles" (14 citations), he tackles the critical problem of perception consensus—ensuring multiple observing agents uniquely and consistently identify each other using only a single camera and IMU, without relying on external positioning systems. His second major contribution, "AutoCharge: Autonomous Charging for Perpetual Quadrotor Missions" (9 citations), provides a practical solution to battery endurance by combining a portable ground station with a lightweight charging tether, enabling sustained long-range operations. More recently, in "Directed Graph Topology Preservation in Multi-Robot Systems With Limited Field of View Using Control Barrier Functions" (6 citations), Radhakrishnan addresses the challenge of maintaining communication-free coordination under constrained sensing, a critical step toward robust, scalable swarms. His work bridges theoretical control methods with real-world deployment, making him a rising figure in autonomous aerial robotics.