Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Papers
9
Total Citations
429
H-Index
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About
Dr. Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay is a pioneering roboticist whose research spans distributed multi-robot systems, autonomous space operations, and revolutionary concepts for lunar-based astronomy. His most impactful work, the "Fast, On-line Collision Avoidance for Dynamic Vehicles Using Buffered Voronoi Cells" (279 citations), introduced a provably safe, distributed algorithm that enables swarms of robots to navigate dynamically without collisions—a foundational contribution to multi-agent coordination. He further advanced swarm intelligence with his Probabilistic Swarm Guidance using Inhomogeneous Markov Chains (PSG-IMC) algorithm, offering a scalable, Eulerian approach for guiding large-scale robot formations. Dr. Bandyopadhyay is also the visionary behind the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) concept, a kilometer-scale telescope on the Moon’s far side designed to observe the universe at ultra-long wavelengths (<30 MHz) inaccessible from Earth. His work on robotics and AI-enabled on-orbit operations with small satellites (65 citations) highlights his commitment to practical, low-cost space missions. By bridging theoretical robotics with audacious space engineering, Dr. Bandyopadhyay continues to shape the future of autonomous systems and cosmic exploration.
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- 5Multi-Robot Assembly Sequencing via Discrete Optimization13 citations · 2019
- 6Conceptual ideas for radio telescope on the far side of the moon13 citations · 2018
- 7Probabilistic Swarm Guidance using Inhomogeneous Markov Chains10 citations · 2014
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- 9A Path to Solving Robotic Differential Equations Using Quantum Computing3 citations · 2022