Anjan Chakrabarty

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Anjan Chakrabarty is a roboticist whose work bridges autonomous aerial systems and the next frontier of space exploration. His primary research focuses on developing intelligent, autonomous decision-making frameworks for robots operating in unstructured and remote environments. Chakrabarty’s most cited work, "An Integrated System for Autonomous Search and Track with a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle" (2017, 12 citations), introduces a complete pipeline for sUAVs to independently search for and then persistently track a moving target—a foundational contribution to field robotics and aerial surveillance. Building on this expertise, he has become a key contributor to NASA’s OceanWATERS project, developing autonomy software for robotic arms designed to operate on ocean worlds like Europa and Enceladus. His 2021 paper on the lander’s robotic arm operation (7 citations) details the simulation and control strategies for sample acquisition in these extreme, low-gravity environments. By combining real-world flight dynamics with the challenges of planetary exploration, Chakrabarty’s work is shaping the next generation of autonomous robots that can explore both our skies and the outer solar system.