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Abhishek Cauligi

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4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

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347F - Robotic Mobility

Abhishek Cauligi

Biography

Abhishek Cauligi is a Robotics Technologist at JPL in the Robotic Surface Mobility Group. His research interests lie in leveraging recent advances in nonlinear optimization, machine learning, and control theory towards planning and control for complex robotic systems.

Abhishek received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and his PhD. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University under the supervision of Prof. Marco Pavone, where he was a recipient of the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship (NSTRF/NSTRGO).

Research Interests

  • Optimal control and trajectory optimization
  • Data-driven numerical optimization

Education

Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University (2021).

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2016).

Publications

2023
  1. J. Briden, C. Choi, K. S. Yun, R. Linares, and A. Cauligi, "Constraint-Informed Learning for Warm Starting Trajectory Optimization," pp. 1-13, 21 December 2023.
  2. J. Briden, T. Gurga, B. Johnson, A. Cauligi, and R. Linares, "Improving Computational Efficiency for Powered Descent Guidance via Transformer-based Tight Constraint Prediction," In: AIAA Scitech Forum, Winner of 2024 AIAA GNC Graduate Student Paper Competition, pp. 1-19, 25 August 2023.
  3. Abhishek Cauligi, R. Michael Swan, Masahiro Ono, Shreyansh Daftry, John Elliott, Larry Matthies, Deegan Atha, "ShadowNav: Crater-Based Localization for Nighttime and Permanently Shadowed Region Lunar Navigation," IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 04 March 2023.
2021
  1. Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi, et al., "NeBula: Quest for Robotic Autonomy in Challenging Environments; TEAM CoSTAR at the DARPA Subterranean Challenge," Journal of Field Robotics, 21 March 2021.