Rajnish Bhusal

Postdoctoral Researcher

Aerospace Systems Laboratory

Mechanical & Aerospace Eng.

The University of Texas at Arlington

Biography

Rajnish Bhusal is a postdoctoral researcher at the Aerospace Systems Laboratory in the University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA. He received his PhD in Aerospace Engineering in 2021. He specializes in flight dynamics and control of aerospace vehicles. Currently, he is working on uncertainty quantification and stochastic cooperative control of multi-agent systems. He enjoys hiking, cooking, reading books, and listening to podcasts.

Interests

Flight Dynamics
Astrodynamics
Guidance, Navigation, and Control
Uncertainty Quantification
Physics and Mathematics

Education

PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Jan 2017 - Aug 2021

The University of Texas at Arlington
Bachelor of Engineering

Aug 2011 - Jul 2015

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Skills

Analytical

Model Predictive Control, SLAM, Optimization, Probability Theory, Cooperative Control, Kalman Filter

Programming

C++, Python, MATLAB, git, LaTeX

Operating Systems

Windows, Linux, ROS

Languages

English, Nepali, Hindi

Projects

Uncertainty Propagation using gPC Expansion

Mixed sparse grid sampling-based uncertainty propagation in dynamical systems using generalized polynomial chaos (gPC) expansion framework.

Summary Selected Publication

Cooperative Assessment of Multibody-Control-Systems

Characterization of performance metrics for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles

Summary Selected Publication

UQ for UTM

A uncertainty quantification (UQ) framework for unmanned traffic management (UTM) of small unmanned aerial vehicles in National Airspace.

Summary

gPC-based State Estimation

Computationally efficient novel filtering algorithm for the state estimation of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainties and noisy measurements.

Summary Selected Publication

GNC of an UAV

Modeling of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) subsystems for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.

Publications

Robust Stability Margin of Continuous-Time Cooperative Unmanned Systems

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Nested Robust Controller Design for Interconnected Linear Parameter Varying Aerial Vehicles

Baris Taner , Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Generalized polynomial chaos expansion approach for uncertainty quantification in small satellite orbital debris problems

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Uncertainty quantification using generalized polynomial chaos expansion for nonlinear dynamical systems with mixed state and parameter uncertainties

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Robust Stability Margin of Continuous-Time Cooperative Unmanned Systems

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Consensus of Cooperative Unmanned Systems with Non-uniform Time-varying Delays

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Stochastic Model Predictive Control of Discrete-time Cooperative Unmanned System

Rajnish Bhusal , Diganta Bhattacharjee , Kamesh Subbarao

Generalized Polynomial Chaos-based Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Orbit Estimation

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Generalized polynomial chaos expansion-based stochastic linear quadratic regulator for multi-agent systems

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Nonlinear State Estimation of Reentry Vehicle Using Polynomial Chaos-Based Ensemble Filtering

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

On the Phase Margin of Networked Dynamical Systems and Fabricated Attacks of an Intruder

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Performance analysis of a team of highly capable individual unmanned aerial systems

Rajnish Bhusal , Baris Taner , Kamesh Subbarao

A nested robust controller design for interconnected vehicles

Baris Taner , Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Sensitivity Analysis of Cooperating Multi-agent Systems with Uncertain Connection Weights

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao

Uncertainty Quantification Using Non-Intrusive Generalized Polynomial Chaos Expansion for Orbital Debris Studies

Rajnish Bhusal , Kamesh Subbarao