PhD Research Scholar / IIT Kanpur

Srinjoy
Chakraborty.

Control Theory. Swarm Robotics.
Autonomous Systems.

I study how autonomous agents coordinate, make decisions and adapt to uncertain environments—connecting mathematical control theory with bio-inspired collective behaviour.

Department of Electrical Engineering Kanpur, India

Portrait of Srinjoy Chakraborty
SRINJOY CHAKRABORTYCONTROL & AUTOMATION
01 / ABOUT

Curiosity, grounded
in engineering.

I am a PhD research scholar in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, specialising in Control & Automation.

My work is motivated by a simple question: how can many relatively simple agents produce coordinated, robust and intelligent behaviour without a central controller?

I approach this through nonlinear and distributed control, graph-theoretic methods, collective animal behaviour and robotic experimentation. I am particularly interested in the connection between elegant mathematical models and systems that work outside simulation.

Nonlinear controlDistributed systemsCollective behaviourRobotics
02 / RESEARCH

Questions that drive
the work.

From local interactions to global coordination.

01 —

Swarm robotics &
collective intelligence

Bio-inspired multi-robot systems, emergent motion, local interaction rules and decentralised coordination.

FlockingCollective sensingSwarm control
02 —

Distributed control &
multi-agent systems

Consensus, switching interaction graphs, coalition formation and coordination under limited information.

Graph theoryConsensusCoordination
03 —

Nonlinear control &
autonomous motion

Stability, trajectory design, motion planning and decision-making for autonomous robotic agents.

StabilityPlanningOptimization
CURRENT DIRECTION

Studying how biologically inspired interaction mechanisms can inform distributed control laws for adaptive, resilient robot swarms.

03 / SELECTED WORK

Ideas made tangible.

All project details
UAV used for autonomous mapping and vision work
02 / ROBOTICS

SLAMDrive UAV

Autonomous aerial perception and mapping for agricultural and surveillance applications.

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Holonomic drive robotics project
03 / MULTI-ROBOT

Holonomic Drive Bot

Camera-based localisation and coordinated mobile-robot motion using ArUco markers.

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Self-balancing robot project
04 / CONTROL

Self-Balancing Robot

LQR-based balancing and inertial sensing for an underactuated robotic platform.

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EEG emotion classification project screenshot
05 / MACHINE LEARNING

EEG Emotion Detection

Signal processing and recurrent neural networks for classifying emotion from EEG.

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04 / ACADEMIC JOURNEY

Research & teaching.

Education

2025 — PRESENT

PhD · Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Control & Automation

2021 — 2025

B.E. · Electrical Engineering

Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology

Experience

IIT KANPUR

Research Scholar

Distributed control, autonomous systems and bio-inspired swarm coordination.

IIT KANPUR

Teaching Assistant

Control systems laboratory sessions, tutorials and undergraduate teaching support.

05 / CONTACT

Let's discuss
an interesting problem.

Open to conversations about research, autonomous systems, control theory and robotics.