Bibhuti Bhusan Pati

Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, National Institute of Technology Rourkela

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Total Citations

272

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Bibhuti Bhusan Pati is a leading researcher in autonomous underwater robotics, with a primary focus on cooperative control, formation dynamics, and path planning for multiple autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). His most influential work, the 2016 overview on cooperative formation control of AUVs, has garnered 196 citations, establishing a foundational reference for the field. Pati’s major contributions include developing an adaptive sliding mode control scheme for multiple underwater robots, published in 2014 (63 citations), which addresses the critical challenge of coordinated motion under variable added mass and acoustic communication constraints. This work provides a robust framework for maintaining formation stability in uncertain underwater environments. More recently, his 2020 hybrid approach to path planning for multiple AUVs (13 citations) demonstrates continued innovation in optimizing multi-vehicle trajectories. Pati’s research directly supports real-world applications such as oceanographic mapping, environmental monitoring, and underwater search operations. His work is notable for bridging theoretical control design with practical communication limitations, making his contributions highly relevant for both academic researchers and engineers developing autonomous marine systems.