Parijat Bhowmick
University of Manchester, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Papers
6
Total Citations
500
H-Index
6
About
Parijat Bhowmick is a leading researcher in cooperative control of multi-robot and connected vehicle systems, with a focus on formation, containment, and platooning strategies. His major contributions include developing adaptive leader-following control for heterogeneous connected vehicle platoons—a framework that enhances traffic throughput and safety on automated highways, as evidenced by his most-cited work (213 citations). He also pioneered decentralized cluster formation containment for multirobot systems (153 citations), enabling flexible, reconfigurable teams for complex tasks like object transportation (77 citations). Bhowmick’s innovative use of Negative Imaginary (NI) theory for consensus-based formation tracking—applied to quadcopters and robotic systems—marks a notable theoretical advance, bridging robust control with swarm coordination. His two-layer distributed formation-containment strategy (41 citations) has been validated experimentally, demonstrating real-world applicability. With over 500 total citations across his top papers, Bhowmick’s work is shaping the future of autonomous, cooperative systems, offering scalable solutions for traffic management, search-and-rescue, and industrial automation. His research is essential reading for students and engineers interested in the intersection of control theory, robotics, and intelligent transportation.
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- 2A Decentralized Cluster Formation Containment Framework for Multirobot Systems153 citations · 2021
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