Prashant Gupta

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Education

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) BhopalAug 2023 – Present

BS in Engineering Sciences, Major in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | CGPA: 7.43/10Bhopal, MP

Coursework: Control Systems, Linear Control Systems, Signals & Systems, Optimization Techniques, Machine Learning, Data Structures & Algorithms, Linear Algebra

Rani Laxmi Bai Memorial School2020 – 2022

CBSE Class XII: 90.2% | Class X: 95.0%Lucknow, UP

S. Mehndiratta^†, D. Sood^†, P. Gupta^†, A. Banerjee, A. Sen, “COAST: Altitude as a Coupled Perception Variable in Shared-Camera Aerial-Ground Tracking,” IFAC Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), 2026. Accepted.^†equal contribution · code

Undergraduate Researcher, Moon Lab, IISER BhopalMay 2026 – Present

Advisor: Prof. P. B. SujitBhopal, MP

NIDAR multi-drone challenge: lead the team’s hardware for autonomous flood search and aid delivery: airframe builds, Pixhawk setup (ArduPilot, PX4), failsafes and field flight tests.
Off-road ATV: built the lab’s ROS 2 + Gazebo testbed (rough terrain, suspension, IMU, LiDAR, RGB-D); now implementing an MPPI controller for unstructured terrain.

Perception-Aware Altitude Optimisation for Aerial-Ground TrackingJan 2026 – Jul 2026

Undergraduate Researcher, Advisor: Dr. Arijit Sen, IISER BhopalBhopal, MP

Treated UAV altitude as a control variable in shared-camera UAV–UGV tracking (coverage vs. localisation noise R ∝ z²); derived a closed-form, curvature-scheduled altitude policy.
Co-designed a belief-space ground controller and an event-triggered aerial planner: 24.9× fewer planner solves at the same estimation quality. My part: the ROS 2/Gazebo testbed and experiments, result analysis and paper writing.

Summer Research Intern, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT (BHU) VaranasidetailsJun 2025 – Jul 2025

Advisor: Dr. Shyam KamalVaranasi, UP

Modelled differential-drive kinematics; wrote PID and LQR trajectory-tracking controllers in Python and tuned them on Quanser QBot hardware; formulated a constrained MPC controller.

Event-Triggered Tube MPC for a Crazyflie Quadrotordetails / GitHub / Docker

ROS 2, CrazySim SITL, CVXPY, Docker

Course project (team): tube MPC with an mRPI safety tube that re-solves the QP only near the tube boundary: 84–93% fewer QP solves than standard MPC, zero constraint violations under wind, payload-drop, gust and sensor-glitch tests.
My part: integrated CrazySim, firmware SITL and the MPC into one ROS 2 + Gazebo + RViz pipeline; wrote a direct CFLib bridge; shipped a one-command Docker demo.

Prune-PRM: Roadmap Planning by Batch Collision Pruningdetails / GitHub

Python, OMPL, NumPy

Builds the roadmap blind and prunes collisions in one batch; a locality bound proves most edges safe: 3–5× fewer collision tests, identical roadmap. Native OMPL planner, benchmarked against PRM, PRM* and FMT*.

Mechabot: Autonomous Mobile Robotdetails

ROS 2, Gazebo, slam_toolbox, Nav2

Full ROS 2 stack from URDF to ros2_control, SLAM, AMCL and Nav2; an autonomous QR-code maze solver (camera + LiDAR + IMU state machine) in Gazebo.

GPS-Denied UAV–UGV Fire Rescuedetails

ROS 2, Gazebo, OpenCV, LiDAR

Course project (team): a drone finds fires with its camera and guides a ground robot to each; my part: the simulations and the ground robot’s state machine and PD control.

Embedded Robot BuildsPGNTA / Scout

ESP32, PCA9685, MPU6050, L298N, C++

PGNTA: 17-servo humanoid designed and built from scratch. Scout: ground robot with web control and an RC override.

Robotics: ROS 2, Gazebo, Nav2, SLAM, AMCL, ros2_control, URDF/xacro, RViz, OMPL
Control & Planning: PID, LQR, MPC, Tube MPC, event-triggered control, MPPI, sampling-based motion planning
Perception: OpenCV, LiDAR, camera models and frame transforms, sensor fusion
Hardware: Pixhawk, ArduPilot, PX4, QGroundControl, ESP32, Arduino, Fusion 360, 3D printing, CNC laser cutting
Programming: Python, C++, C, NumPy, SciPy, CVXPY, scikit-learn, Git, Linux, Docker

Founding Member & Coordinator, EECS Club: organised the fest Latency ’25 and an Arduino & IoT workshop2024 – 2025
Organiser, Throttle-X: the first RC car race at IISER Bhopal; core member, CNC club2025
UAV Modelling and Flight Control: hands-on workshop by IIT Bombay (MeitY SwaYaan), nominatedAug 2026
Autonomous Mobile Robotics Mastery Program: MechaMind Labs, 45 days, ROS 2 + hardwareJan – Mar 2026
ROSCon India 2025: COEP Pune: humanoid robotics workshop, NVIDIA Isaac Sim session2025