- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Council Faculty Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-3578
- FAX: 979-845-3081
- Email: srathinam@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 506
- Website: Research Webpage
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
Research Interests
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- Motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles
- Collaborative decision making
- Combinatorial optimization
- Vision-based and air traffic control
Certifications & Memberships
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) – 2021
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) – 2019
Awards & Honors
- Outstanding Faculty Contribution Award, J. Mike Walker ‘66 Department of Mechanical Engineering Industry Advisory Council – 2021
- Best Paper Runner-Up Award, International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) – 2021
- Senior Summer Faculty Fellowship, Office of Naval Research – 2021, 2020
- Summer Faculty Fellowship, Air Force Research Laboratory – 2015
- Best paper award, International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems – 2015
- Peggy L. and Charles L. Brittan '65 Teaching Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching – 2012
- Morris Foster Fellowship, Texas A&M University – 2009
Selected Publications
- 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).
- 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).
- 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.