Girish Chowdhary - MIT ACL Members

Contact Information

Name: Girish Chowdhary
Office: 32-D569
Phone: 617-253-2147
Email: girishc[at]mit[dot]edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/girishc/www/

Education

Ph.D. School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT), GA, 2010
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, GIT, GA, 2008
B.E. in Aerospace Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2003

Research Interests

Machine learning and inference for planning
Adaptive and nonlinear control, including neuroadaptive control
Decentralized control of mobile networked systems
Aerospace Guidance, Navigation, and Control as applied to Unmanned Aerial Systems

Selected Publications

Chowdhary G., Concurrent Learning for Convergence in Adaptive Control without Persistency of Excitation, Ph.D. dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, Dec 2010.

Chowdhary, G, Johnson E., Theory and Flight Test Validation of a Concurrent Learning Adaptive Controller, AIAA Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 592-607, March-April 2011.

Chowdhary G., Srinivasan S., Johnson E., Frequency Domain Method for Real-Time Detection of Oscillations, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, Vol. 8, No.2, pp. 42-52, February 2011.

Chowdhary G., Jategaonkar R.., Parameter Estimation from Flight Data Applying Extended and Unscented Kalman Filter, Aerospace Science and Technology, Vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 106-117, March 2010.

Anderson R., Chowdhary G., Johnson E., Comparison of RBF and SHL Neural Network Based Adaptive Control, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, vol. 54, no. 1-3, pp. 183-199, September 2008.

Kingravi H., Chowdhary G., Vela P., Johnson E., A Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Approach for the Online Update of Radial Bases in Neuro-Adaptive Control, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, FL 2011.

Chowdhary G., Egerstedt M., Johnson E., Network Discovery: An Estimation Based Approach, American Control Conference, CA, USA 2011, winner of best presentation in session award.

Chowdhary G., Johnson E., A Singular Value Maximizing Data Recording Algorithm for Concurrent Learning, American Control Conference, CA, USA 2011, winner of best presentation in session award.

Chowdhary G., Johnson E., Concurrent Learning for Convergence in Adaptive Control without Persistency of Excitation, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, GA, USA 2010.

Chowdhary G., Johnson E., Kimbrell S., Chandramohan R., Calise A., Flight Test Results of Adaptive Controllers in the Presence of Severe Structural Damage, AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada 2010.

Chowdhary G., Sobers M., Salün E., Ottander J., Johnson E., Design, Development, and Testing of a Low Cost, Fully Autonomous Indoor Unmanned Aerial System, AIAA Guidance Navigation and Control Conference, Toronto, Canada 2010.

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