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Before coming to Rutgers, I received an MS in Aerospace Engineering from New Mexico State University where I was a graduate research assistant at the Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Lab. My Master's thesis advisor was Prof. Amit Sanyal. My MS thesis research focused on coupled orbit-attitude spacecraft dynamics in the proximity of asteroids. I also looked into the nonlinear controllability of underactuated spacecraft in such enviornments using differential geometry tools. I was also fortunate to complete my bachelor thesis at the French Space Agency (CNES), Toulouse, France. My bachelor thesis supervisor was Jean-Yves Prado and I worked on asteroid hazard mitigation using Yarkovsky effect reduction. I continued working on the orbital mechanics aspect of this problem as a research assistant at the Institut de Mécanique céleste et de calcul des éphémérides (IMCCE), Paris observatory under the supervision of Dr. Florent Deleflie. I also completed a summer internship during my junior year at the Institute of Space Systems, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bremen, Germany. Prior to starting graduate research, I spent some wonderful years at BITS - Pilani in India, from where I double majored in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering and Economics.
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News
- 12/2019: Upcoming engineering note in AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics on sum-of-squares based disturbance observer design for relative attitude tracking of spacecraft.
- 10/2019: Upcoming papers at AIAA Scitech, 2020 on carrier landing control and iterative feasible convexification of nonlinear optimal control problems.
- 01/2019: Paper accepted in the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Philadelphia, 2019.
- 12/2018: Upcoming paper at 2019 AIAA Scitech on UAV carrier landings.
- 03/2018: Received travel award for ACC 2018.
- 01/2018: Paper accepted in the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, 2018.
- 01/2018: Presented paper at AIAA Scitech, Florida.
- 11/2017: Presented PhD proposal to my dissertation committee.
- 07/2017: Attended the First American Model Predictive Control Summer School, UW Madison.
- 05/2016: Passed PhD qualifying exams.
- 05/2015: Graduated with MS in Aerospace Engineering.
- 01/2015: Attended ISAS/JAXA Sokendai Asian Winter School, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan.
- 01/2015: Presented paper at AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Florida.
- 01/2015: Presented paper at AIAA/AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, Virginia.
Publications
- Gaurav Misra and Xiaoli Bai, "Robust Disturbance Observer based Control for Relative Attitude Tracking using Sum-of-squares Programming," Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, in press.
- Gaurav Misra and Xiaoli Bai, "Iteratively Feasible Optimal Spacecraft Guidance using Convex Optimization", AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Florida, 2020.
- Gaurav Misra and Xiaoli Bai, "Updated Simulation Results of UAV Carrier Landings", AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, Florida, 2020.
- Gaurav Misra and Xiaoli Bai, "Nonlinear Disturbance Observer based Control for Polynomial Systems with Mismatched Uncertainties using Sum-of-Squares Programming", IEEE American Control Conference, Philadelphia, 2019.
- Gaurav Misra and Xiaoli Bai,Output-Feedback Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Glideslope Tracking During Aircraft Carrier Landing", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Volume 42, Number 9,September 2019.
- Gaurav Misra, Tianyu Gao, and Xiaoli Bai, "Modeling and Simulations of UAV Carrier Landings", AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, California, 2019.
- Gaurav Misra and Xiaoli Bai,Stochastic Model Predictive Control for Gust Alleviation during Aircraft Carrier Landing", IEEE American Control Conference, Wisconsin, 2018. Presentation
- Gaurav Misra, Hao Peng, Xiaoli Bai, Halo Orbit Station-keeping using Nonlinear MPC and Polynomial Optimization", AIAA/AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, Florida, 2018. Presentation
- Gaurav Misra, Xiaoli Bai, "Task Constrained Trajectory Planning of Free-floating Space Robotic Systems using Convex Optimization", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2017.
- Gaurav Misra, Xiaoli Bai, "Optimal Path Planning of Free-flying Space Robots using Sequential Convex Optimization", Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2017.
- Sasi Prabhakaran, Amit Sanyal, Gaurav Misra, "Controllability Analysis of Spacecraft with Only Atitude Actuation Near Small Solar System Bodies", IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), 2016.
- Gaurav Misra, Maziar Izadi, Amit Sanyal, Daniel Scheeres "Coupled Orbit Attitude Dynamics and Relative State Estimation of Spacecraft Near Small Solar System Bodies", Advances in Space Research, 2016.
- Gaurav Misra, Amit Sanyal, "Analysis of Orbit-Attitude Coupling of Spacecraft Near Small Bodies", AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, Florida, 2015.
- Gaurav Misra, Ehsan Samiei, Amit Sanyal, "Asteroid Landing Guidance Design in the Framework of Coupled Orbit-Attitude Spacecraft Dynamics", AIAA/AAS Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, Virginia, 2015.
- Gaurav Misra, "Asteroid Deflection via Yarkovsky Effect Reduction", IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Arizona, 2013.
- Dominik Quantius, Martin Löscher, Gaurav Misra, Volker Maiwald, "List of Potential Target NEOs for Human Missions", 64th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), China, 2013.