Abhishek Cauligi

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I am a Robotics Technologist with the Robotic Surface Mobility Group (347F) in the Robotics Section of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior to this, I was a member of the Autonomous Systems Lab at Stanford University, where I received my PhD. in Aeronautics & Astronautics.

Prospective students: I will be joining as an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Fall 2025! If you’re a student interested in working with me, please apply to the Hopkins ME PhD. program and mention my name.

news

Oct 13, 2024 Congratulations to Kazu Echigo for being selected as a finalist for the 2025 AIAA SciTech GNC Graduate Student Paper Competition for our paper on applying stochastic trajectory optimization for asteroid reconnaissance!
Jun 27, 2024 Excited to announce that I’ll be joining Johns Hopkins Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor starting in July 2025!
May 31, 2023 Our paper on testing gecko adhesives on the ISS was awarded the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Best Paper Award!

selected publications

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    Expected Time-Optimal Control: a Particle MPC-based Approach via Sequential Convex Programming
    K. Echigo, A. Cauligi, and B. Açıkmeşe
    In Proc. IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, 2024
    arXiv
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    Multi-Agent Autonomy for Space Exploration on the CADRE Lunar Technology Demonstration Mission
    J.-P. de la Croix, F. Rossi, R. Brockers, and 17 more authors
    In IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2024
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    Testing Gecko-Inspired Adhesives with Astrobee Aboard the ISS
    T. G. Chen*, A. Cauligi*, S. A. Suresh, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2022
    Code