Angadh Nanjangud
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About
Angadh Nanjangud is a space robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of autonomous systems, orbital mechanics, and next-generation space infrastructure. He has established himself as a leading voice in on-orbit servicing and assembly, with his influential 2018 paper on robotics and AI-enabled on-orbit operations with small satellites accumulating 65 citations — a testament to the field's appetite for scalable, low-cost approaches to in-space operations. His research consistently tackles a fundamental constraint in space exploration: the physical limits imposed by launch vehicle dimensions and mass, which restrict the size of deployable spacecraft and telescopes. Nanjangud's most ambitious contributions center on robotic on-orbit assembly of large space telescopes, envisioning systems that could surpass the James Webb Space Telescope in capability. His 2024 paper on this topic has already garnered 28 citations, reflecting strong community interest. Complementing this, his work on contact-inclusive dynamics advances the nuanced manipulation behaviors — grasping, berthing, capturing — that autonomous space robots must master. Across his career, Nanjangud has helped lay the conceptual and analytical groundwork for a future where modular, robotically assembled space systems become an engineering reality rather than a distant ambition.
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