Prashant Gupta I'm an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science undergraduate at IISER Bhopal. I build robots end to end, from CAD and fabrication to electronics, control and simulation, with a focus on aerial and ground robots that work as a team. At Moon Lab, IISER Bhopal, with Prof. P. B. Sujit, I lead the hardware for our NIDAR autonomous multi-drone team: airframe builds, Pixhawk setup and field flight tests. I also work on motion planning and off-road robot simulation. Before that, at IIT (BHU) Varanasi with Dr. Shyam Kamal, I designed PID and LQR controllers, deployed them on a Quanser QBot, and formulated an MPC controller. I'm applying to MS/PhD programmes in robotics and control, and I'm open to research and industry roles. Get in touch. Email  /  CV  /  GitHub  /  LinkedIn

COAST: Altitude as a Coupled Perception Variable in Shared-Camera Aerial-Ground Tracking Shlok Mehndiratta†, Divyam Sood†, Prashant Gupta†, Agniva Banerjee, Arijit Sen IFAC Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), 2026 accepted · † equal contribution · paper PDF after the camera-ready version code / more A UAV's downward camera is the only sensor guiding a ground robot. Flying higher sees more of the path but localises more coarsely, so we derive in closed form the lowest altitude that keeps the path in view, which rises with path curvature when the lane search region grows in turns, and validate it in ROS 2/Gazebo. Event triggering needs 24.9× fewer planner solves.

2026 –

Undergraduate Researcher, Moon Lab, IISER Bhopal, with Prof. P. B. Sujit

• NIDAR drone challenge (ongoing): I manage the hardware section of our autonomous multi-drone search-and-rescue team.
• Drone hardware: build, integrate and flight test drones; configure, calibrate and tune Pixhawk flight controllers (ArduPilot and PX4) in QGroundControl.
• Robocop (ongoing): built the mechanical chassis of a four-wheel ground robot: 3D modelling, cutting, drilling and grinding.
• Built Prune-PRM, a faster motion planner, and an off-road ATV simulation that the lab uses as its testbed.

2025

Summer Research Intern, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, under Dr. Shyam Kamal (report)

Modelled differential-drive kinematics, then wrote PID and LQR controllers in Python for trajectory tracking and tuned them on Quanser QBot hardware. Formulated an MPC controller for constrained motion.

June 2025, after my second year

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2023 –

BS in Engineering Sciences, major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IISER Bhopal

Coursework: Control Systems, Linear Control Systems, Signals & Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, Machine Learning, Linear Algebra, Intelligent Robotics (audited)

	Prune-PRM: Faster Roadmap Planning by Batch Collision Pruning Python, OMPL, NumPy, Moon Lab 2026 · built as a real OMPL planner code / more A roadmap planner that builds its graph blind, then removes collisions in one batch: 3–5× fewer collision tests than naive pruning, for the identical roadmap.
	NIDAR: Autonomous Multi-Drone Search & Aid Delivery Pixhawk, ArduPilot, PX4, QGroundControl, Moon Lab ongoing · I manage the hardware section more Autonomous drone team for flood search and aid delivery. I manage the hardware: airframes, Pixhawk setup and failsafes.
	Event-Triggered Tube MPC for a Crazyflie Quadrotor ROS 2, Gazebo, CrazySim SITL, CVXPY + OSQP, Docker Linear Control Systems course project (team), 2026 · my part: the simulation stack and the Docker image code / Docker image / more Robust MPC that re-solves its QP only when the drone is about to leave a safety tube: 84–93% fewer solves with zero constraint violations, flown on a Crazyflie in software-in-the-loop.
	Mechabot: Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) ROS 2 Jazzy, Gazebo Harmonic, ros2_control, slam_toolbox, AMCL, Nav2, MechaMind Labs 45-day AMR Mastery Program, 26 Jan – 13 Mar 2026 (completed) certificate / more A differential-drive robot built up in ROS 2 from a bare URDF to SLAM, AMCL localisation and Nav2. It solves a QR-code maze on its own in Gazebo.

• GPS-Denied Autonomous Navigation (UAV–UGV) · ROS 2 Jazzy, Gazebo Harmonic, LiDAR, OpenCV
  A drone finds fire targets and guides a ground robot to each one, with no GPS (course project, team).
• PGNTA: 17-DOF Humanoid Robot · ESP32, PCA9685, MPU6050, HC-SR04, servos
  A 17-servo humanoid that I designed and built from scratch on an ESP32.
• Scout: Surveillance UGV · ESP32, C++, L298N, MPU6050, HC-SR04, FlySky RC
  An ESP32 ground robot with web control over Wi-Fi and an RC override.
• Off-Road ATV Simulation · ROS 2, Gazebo, LiDAR, RGB-D, IMU
  An off-road ATV testbed in ROS 2 and Gazebo with suspension, IMU, LiDAR and RGB-D; MPPI control in progress.
• Robocop: Four-Wheel Ground Robot · 3D modelling, fabrication
  A four-wheel ground robot on an aluminium-extrusion chassis that I helped build; electronics next.

Robotics

ROS 2, Gazebo, Nav2, SLAM, AMCL, ros2_control, URDF / xacro, RViz

Control & planning

PID, LQR, MPC, mobile-robot kinematics, sampling-based motion planning (OMPL), state machines

Perception

OpenCV, LiDAR, camera models and frame transforms, sensor fusion

Drones

Pixhawk, ArduPilot, PX4, QGroundControl, airframe integration, flight testing

Embedded

ESP32, Arduino, I2C, PWM, motor drivers, IMU and range sensors, soldering and wiring

Fabrication

Fusion 360, AutoCAD, FDM 3D printing, CNC laser cutting, metalwork

Programming

Python, C++, C, NumPy, SciPy, scikit-learn, Git, Linux, Docker

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