• NMSU
• College of Engineering
• Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Faculty / Staff
• Amit Sanyal

Research Interests:

Dynamics & Vibrations, Robotics & Controls

Nonlinear control and dynamics, geometric mechanics, nonlinear estimation, aerospace control, mobile robots

Current Projects

• Robust State and Uncertainty Estimation for Unmanned Systems in the Presence of External Uncertainties, NSF, $278,158, Sep. 1, 2011 - Aug. 30, 2014, PI (co-PI Eric Butcher).
• Proximity Operations for Near Earth Asteroid Exploration, NASA, $749,980, Sep. 1, 2011 - Aug. 30, 2014, co-PI.
• Robust Estimation and Control of Small Spacecraft with Reconfigurable Sensors and Actuators, NASA/NMSGC, $24,902, Sep. 1 2010-Dec. 31, 2011, PI.
• Inclusion of Spacecraft Dynamics and Control in Aerospace Engineering Curriculum at NMSU, NASA/NMSGC. $24,481, Sep. 1 2010-Jul. 31 2012, PI.

Recent Publications

1. A. K. Sanyal and N. Nordkvist, "Attitude State Estimation with Multi-Rate Measurement for Almost Global Attitude Feedback Tracking", to appear in AIAA J. Guidance, Control and Dynamics.
2. A. M. Bloch, P. E. Crouch, N. Nordkvist, and A. K. Sanyal, "Embedded Geodesic Problems and Optimal Control for Matrix Lie Groups," Journal of Geometric Mechanics, vol. 3(2), pp. 197-223, 2011.
3. N. A. Chaturvedi, A. K. Sanyal and N. H. McClamroch, "Rigid Body Attitude Control: Using rotation matrices for continuous, singularity-free control laws", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 31(3), pp. 30-51, 2011.
4. A. K. Sanyal, N. Nordkvist and M. Chyba, "An Almost Global Tracking Control Scheme for Maneuverable Autonomous Vehicles and its Discretization," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 56(2), pp. 457-462, 2011.
5. A. K. Sanyal, A. Fosbury, N. A. Chaturvedi, and D. S. Bernstein, "Inertia-Free Spacecraft Attitude Tracking with Disturbance Rejection and Almost Global Stabilization," AIAA J. Guidance, Control and Dynamics, vol 32(4), pp. 1167-1178, 2009.
6. A. K. Sanyal, C. Moseley, and A. M. Bloch, "Analytical and Numerical Solution of a Sub- Riemannian Optimal Control Problem with Applications to Quantum Spin Systems," Comm. Information and Systems, special issue dedicated to Roger Brockett, vol 9(1), pp. 59-76, 2009.
7. A. M. Bloch, I. I. Hussein, M. Leok, and A. K. Sanyal, "Geometric structure-preserving Optimal Control of the Rigid Body," Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 307-330, 2009.
8. A. K. Sanyal, A. M. Bloch, P. E. Crouch, and J. E. Marsden, "Optimal Control and Geodesics on Quadratic Matrix Lie Groups," Foundations of Computational Mathematics, vol 8(4), pp. 469-500, 2008.
9. A. K. Sanyal, T. Lee, M. Leok, and N. H. McClamroch, "Global Optimal Attitude Estimation using Uncertainty Ellipsoids," Systems and Control Letters, vol 57(3), pp. 236-245, 2008.

Recent Conference Papers

1. A. K. Sanyal and N. Nordkvist, "A Robust Estimator for Almost Global Attitude Feedback Tracking," AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, 2010.
2. N. Nordkvist and A. K. Sanyal, "Attitude Feedback Tracking with Optimal Attitude State Estimation," Proc. of 2010 American Control Conference, pp. 2861-2866, 2010.