Abishek Hariharan

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Abishek Hariharan’s research centers on cooperative multi-robot control, with a primary focus on target tracking using onboard sensing. His major contribution lies in developing probabilistic localization and control frameworks that enable teams of robots to collaboratively estimate a moving target’s position while simultaneously localizing themselves—all without relying on external infrastructure. This work addresses critical challenges in autonomy, such as reducing tracking uncertainty, maximizing coverage, and ensuring robustness to individual robot failures. His most influential paper, “Cooperative multi-robot control for target tracking with onboard sensing” (2015), has garnered 90 citations, reflecting its foundational impact on the field. Hariharan also explored efficient switching of onboard sensing topologies to optimize team performance under dynamic conditions. By tackling the dual problems of self-localization and target estimation in a unified control scheme, his research has advanced practical applications in surveillance, environmental monitoring, and search-and-rescue operations. His work is particularly notable for its emphasis on fully decentralized, onboard sensing—a key enabler for real-world deployment where external positioning systems are unavailable.