Pranjal Bhatia

Pranjal Bhatia

Postdoctoral Research Associate | Multi-Agent Robotics

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UNSW Canberra @ ADFA, specializing in autonomous swarm intelligence for unmanned aerial systems (UAS). My research focuses on decentralized multi-agent control, developing real-time strategies for connectivity maintenance, collision avoidance, and formation coordination in complex environments. I have extensive experience in aerial robotics, with applications ranging from logistics and search-and-rescue to multi-robot coordination and autonomy.

Research

Decentralized Connectivity Maintenance for Multi-Agent Systems

Pranjal Bhatia, Sayan Basu Roy, P.B Sujit, Luis Mejias Alvarez, Aaron McFadyen

★ ICUAS 2024 ★

IEEE Xplore

Decentralized Collision Avoidance and Global Connectivity Maintenance using Nested Control Barrier Functions

Pranjal Bhatia, Sayan Basu Roy, P.B Sujit, Luis Mejias Alvarez, Aaron McFadyen

★ Accepted at International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS), 2025 ★