Parakh M. Gupta

University of Pennsylvania, Czech Technical University in Prague

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Parakh M. Gupta is a robotics researcher whose work pushes the boundaries of autonomous aerial and marine systems. His primary research areas include modular aerial robotics, autonomous landing in extreme environments, and heterogeneous robot team coordination. Gupta's major contributions are threefold: he pioneered the concept of inflight self-disassembly for modular aerial robots, enabling dynamic self-reconfiguration during missions (50 citations); he developed novel control strategies for landing UAVs on unmanned surface vehicles in harsh winds and turbulent open waters (36 citations); and he introduced CurviTrack, a drag-aware curvilinear trajectory tracking method for high-speed USV chase scenarios. His work on landing UAVs in adverse conditions addresses a critical bottleneck in persistent marine operations, while his modular systems research opens new possibilities for adaptive mission planning. The 2022 landing paper demonstrates particular impact by tackling the dangerous problem of severe roll and pitch during touchdown on moving platforms. Gupta's research has direct applications in maritime surveillance, search-and-rescue, and long-duration environmental monitoring, where reliable aerial-marine coordination is essential.