Publications

Papers

• Efficient Planning for Scalable and Load-Balanced Area Coverage by Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  Jhoel Witter, Leighton Collins, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Jagadeswara P K V Pothuri, Payam Ghassemi, Ehsan Tarkesh Esfahani, Karthik Dantu, Souma Chowdhury

  Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE) · 2026

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• IndoorR2X: Indoor Robot-to-Everything Coordination with LLM-Driven Planning

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, et al.

  arXiv preprint · 2026

• Learning-Based Real-Time Down-Sampling for Scalable Decentralized Decision-Making in Bayes-Swarm Search

  Aditya Bhatt, Jhoel Witter, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Steve Paul, Souma Chowdhury

  Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering (JCISE) · 2025

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• Experimental Setup and Software Pipeline to Evaluate Optimization Based Autonomous Multi-Robot Search Algorithms

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, et al.

  ASME IDETC · 2025

• Learning Approach to Efficient Vision-Based Active Tracking of a Flying Target by an Unmanned Aerial VehicleBest Student Paper Award

  Jagadeswara P K V Pothuri, Aditya Bhatt, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Manaswin Oddiraju, Souma Chowdhury

  AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND · 2025

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• A Talent-Infused Policy-Gradient Approach to Efficient Co-Design of Morphology and Task Allocation Behavior of Multi-Robot Systems

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Steve Paul, Souma Chowdhury

  Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) · 2024

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• Towards Physically Talented Aerial Robots with Tactically Smart Swarm Behavior thereof: An Efficient Co-design Approach

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Steve Paul, Souma Chowdhury

  ASME IDETC · 2024

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• A Talent-Infused Reinforcement Learning Approach to Co-Design of Tactical UAV Swarm

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, et al.

  Working paper · 2024

• An Open-Source Hardware/Software Architecture and Supporting Simulation Environment to Perform Human FPV Flight Demonstrations for UAV Autonomy

  Haosong Xiao, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Jagadeswara P K V Pothuri, Puru Soni, Eric Butcher, Souma Chowdhury

  AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND · 2024

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• SHaSTA: An Open-Source Simulator for Human and Swarm Team Applications

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, et al.

  SHaSTA project · 2024

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• Graph Learning Based Decision Support for Multi-Aircraft Take-Off and Landing at Urban Air Mobility Vertiports

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Jhoel Witter, Steve Paul, Henry Cho, Karthick Dantu, Souma Chowdhury

  AIAA SciTech Forum · 2023

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• Fast Decision Support for Air Traffic Management at Urban Air Mobility Vertiports using Graph Learning

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Jhoel Witter, Steve Paul, Henry Cho, Karthick Dantu, Souma Chowdhury

  IEEE/RSJ IROS · 2023

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• Learning Constrained Corner Node Trajectories of a Tether Net System for Space Debris Capture

  Feng Liu, Achira Boonrath, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Eleonora M. Botta, Souma Chowdhury

  AIAA AVIATION Forum · 2023

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• Framework for Analyzing Human Cognition in Operationally-Relevant Human Swarm Interaction

  Joseph P. Distefano, Henry Cho, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Souma Chowdhury, Ehsan Esfahani

  ASME IDETC · 2023

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• Comparative Exploration of Three Approaches to Learning Heterogeneous Robot Swarm Operations over Abstracted Complex Adversarial Environments

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, et al.

  ICRA Workshop — Multi-Robot Systems · 2023

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• Game Engine Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Implementations to Evaluate Human Performance in Transportation Engineering

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar, et al.

  ModSim World · 2023

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• Efficient Concurrent Design of the Morphology of Unmanned Aerial Systems and their Collective-Search Behavior

  Chen Zeng, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Jhoel Witter, Souma Chowdhury

  IEEE/RSJ IROS · 2022

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• Learning Robust Policies for Generalized Debris Capture with an Automated Tether-Net System

  Chen Zeng, Grant Hecht, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Raj Kalpeshkumar Shah, Souma Chowdhury, Eleonora M. Botta

  AIAA SciTech Forum · 2022

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• Learning Robot Swarm Tactics over Complex Adversarial EnvironmentsBest Paper Award

  Amir Behjat, Hemanth Manjunatha, Prajit KrisshnaKumar, Apurv Jani, Leighton Collins, Payam Ghassemi, Joseph Distefano, David Doermann, Karthik Dantu, Ehsan Esfahani, Souma Chowdhury

  Intl. Symposium on Multi-Robot and Multi-Agent Systems (MRS) · 2021

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• GUI Enhancements and AI Interfaces for Swarm Simulation and Flight Learning of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  Prajit KrisshnaKumar

  State University of New York at Buffalo · 2021