Sivakumar Rathinam

Educational Background

Ph.D., Civil Systems Engineering, University of California, Berkeley – 2007
M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley – 2006
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University – 2001
B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras – 1999

Dr. Rathinam's research focuses on motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles, collaborative decision making, combinatorial optimization, vision based control and air traffic control.

2021 J. Mike Walker ‘66 Department of Mechanical Engineering IAC Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award
2021 Best Paper Runner-Up Award, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS)
2021 ASME Fellow
2021, 2020 Senior Summer Faculty Fellowship, Office of Naval Research
2019 IEEE Senior Member
2015 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Air Force Research Laboratory
2015 Best paper award at the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems
2012 Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan '65 Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching
2009 Morris Foster Fellowship, Texas A & M University

K. Chour, S. Rathinam, R. Ravi, S*: A Heuristic Information-Based Approximation Framework for Target Path Finding, 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021). Acceptance rate: 29%.
S. Rathinam, R. Ravi, J. Bae, K. Sundar, Primal-Dual 2-Approximation Algorithm for the Monotonic Multiple Depot Heterogeneous Traveling Salesman Problem, 17th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2020). Acceptance rate: 28.8%.
M. Liu, K. Chour, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, Lateral control of an autonomous and connected vehicle with limited preview information, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, 2020.
S. K. K. Hari, S. Rathinam, S. Darbha, K. Kalyanam, S. G. Manyam, D. Casbeer, Optimal UAV route planning for persistent monitoring missions, IEEE Transactions of Robotics, 2020.
S.K.K. Hari, A. Nayak, S. Rathinam, An Approximation Algorithm for a Task Allocation, Sequencing and Scheduling Problem involving a Human-Robot Team, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Letters, Jan 2020.