Purdue University · Aeronautics & Astronautics

Vishnu Vijay

PhD Student in Aeronautics & Astronautics
Purdue University

Autonomy · Control · Robotics · Resilient Autonomous Systems

My research focuses on developing learning-enabled methods for safe and resilient autonomous systems. I am particularly interested in combining control theory, data-driven modeling, uncertainty quantification, and runtime safety methods for robotic systems operating under uncertainty and unexpected changes.

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01 / Work

Selected Research

Projects in safe autonomy and resilient control.

Research project 01

Confidence-Aware Reachability for Autonomous Marine Vehicles

Forward reachability for learned marine vehicle dynamics using state-dependent uncertainty bounds from conformal prediction.

  • Reachability
  • Conformal Prediction
  • Autonomous Marine Vehicles

Research project 02

Resilient Multi-Robot Integrity Monitoring

Distributed methods for detecting faults and malicious information in networked autonomous systems using inter-robot measurements.

  • Multi-Robot Systems
  • Resilient Control
  • Fault Detection

Research project 03

Byzantine-Resilient Distributed Optimization

Distributed optimization methods designed to maintain useful behavior when network participants provide faulty or adversarial information.

  • Distributed Optimization
  • Resilience
  • Networked Systems

Research project 04

Modeling and Control of Tethered Aerial Systems

Modeling and controller development for tethered aerial vehicles, using reduced-order models to support rapid control-system development before transitioning to higher-fidelity dynamics.

  • Flight Dynamics
  • Control
  • Modeling

02 / Writing

Selected Publications

Recent work in resilient autonomy, distributed optimization, and multi-robot systems.

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2025

Vishnu Vijay, Kartik A. Pant, Minhyun Cho, Inseok Hwang

A Dynamically Weighted ADMM Framework for Byzantine Resilience

IEEE Control Systems Letters · 9 · pp. 2591–2596 · 2025

2025

Vishnu Vijay, Kartik A. Pant, Minhyun Cho, Yifan Guo, James M. Goppert, Inseok Hwang

Range-Based Multi-Robot Integrity Monitoring For Cyberattacks and Faults: An Anchor-Free Approach

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · 10(3) · pp. 2630–2637 · 2025

2026

Kartik Anand Pant, Vishnu Vijay, Minhyun Cho, Inseok Hwang

On Enhancing Structural Resilience of Multirobot Coverage Control With Bearing Rigidity

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems · 13(2) · pp. 648–660 · 2026

03 / Connect

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