Venkata Ramana Makkapati

Advanced Research Engineer Honda Aircraft Company, Greensboro, NC email | Google scholar | Linkedin | CV

Current Research Interests

• Aerospace control systems and Robotics
  

• Pursuit-evasion games
  

• Optimal control under uncertainties
  

• Learning techniques for decision and control

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2022

• A Game-Theoretic Model for One-on-One Air Combat
  V. Ramteke, V. Comandur, V. R. Makkapati, and M. Kothari
  IFAC International Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace (ACA)

• Desensitized Strategies for Pursuit-Evasion Games with Asymmetric Information
  V. R. Makkapati, V. Comandur, H. Sarabu, P. Tsiotras, and S. Hutchinson
  IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)

• Reachability-Based Covariance Control for Pursuit-Evasion in Stochastic Flow Fields
  V. R. Makkapati, J. Ridderhof, and P. Tsiotras
  AIAA SciTech Forum

2021

• Desensitized Trajectory Optimization for Hypersonic Vehicles
  V. R. Makkapati, J. Ridderhof, P. Tsiotras, J. Hart, and B. van Bloemen Waanders
  IEEE Aerospace Conference

2020

• Safe Optimal Control under Parametric Uncertainties [arXiv] [talk]
  V. R. Makkapati, H. Sarabu, V. Comandur, P. Tsiotras, and S. Hutchinson
  IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

• Covariance Steering for Discrete-Time Linear-Quadratic Stochastic Dynamic Games [arXiv] [talk]
  V. R. Makkapati, T. Rajpurohit, K. Okamoto, and P. Tsiotras
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

• C-DOC: Co-State Desensitized Optimal Control [arXiv] [talk]
  V. R. Makkapati, D. Maity, M. Dor, and P. Tsiotras
  American Control Conference (ACC)

2019

• Optimal Evading Strategies and Task Allocation in Multi-Player Pursuit-Evasion Problems
  V. R. Makkapati and P. Tsiotras
  Dynamic Games and Applications (DGAA)

• Nested Saturation Based Guidance Law for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  J. Patrikar, V. R. Makkapati, A. Pattanaik, H. Parwana, and M. Kothari
  ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control

• Sequential Auto-Landing of Multiple UAVs using Control Constrained Path Following
  J. Patrikar, V. R. Makkapati, and M. Kothari
  AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (GNC), SciTech

2018

• Optimal Evading Strategies for Two-Pursuer/One-Evader Problems
  V. R. Makkapati, W. Sun, and P. Tsiotras
  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (JGCD)

• Trajectory Desensitization in Optimal Control Problems
  V. R. Makkapati, M. Dor, and P. Tsiotras
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

• Pursuit-Evasion Problems Involving Two Pursuers and One Evader
  V. R. Makkapati, W. Sun, and P. Tsiotras
  AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (GNC), SciTech

2017

• A Comprehensive Differential Game Theoretic Solution to a Game of Two Cars
  R. Bera, V. R. Makkapati, and M. Kothari
  Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications (JOTA)

• Pursuit-Evasion Games of High Speed Evader
  M. V. Ramana and M. Kothari
  Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT)

2016

• Pursuit Strategy to Capture High-Speed Evaders using Multiple Pursuers
  M. V. Ramana and M. Kothari
  Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (JGCD)

• A Cooperative Pursuit Strategy for a High Speed Evader
  M. V. Ramana and M. Kothari
  AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (GNC), SciTech

• Motion Planning for a Fixed-Wing UAV in Urban Environments
  M. V. Ramana, S. A. Varma, and M. Kothari
  IFAC Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS)

2015

• A Cooperative Pursuit-Evasion Game of a High Speed Evader
  M. V. Ramana and M. Kothari
  IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)