Dr Prathyush Prathyush

Prathyush P Menon holds a personal chair in Control and Autonomy, at the Department of Engineering in the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Clean Mobility and leads the research activities in Cooperative Robotics and Autonomous NEtworks (CRANE) lab. The lab is active in the following research areas:

1. Enabling autonomy in land, air and sea

2. Decision-making in the presence of uncertainty

3. Information driven planning

4. Embedding cooperation and resilience among agents/assets

5. Validation of autonomy

 

He received a PhD in control engineering from the Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, UK in 2007. From 2007 to 2008, he was a European Space Agency (ESA) funded post-doctoral research associate (PDRA) at the University of Leicester, then as a lecturer till 2010. He joined the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter in 2010. He is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed refereed papers in these areas, including 60 journal publications.

 

His research is funded by UKRI, NERC, Dstl, Innovate UK, STFC, ESA-ESTEC/Industry, UKIERI and KTP. While at Exeter, he has developed strong international academic collaborations with faculties at University of Pavia, Univesity of Sevilla, University of Groningen, Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Indian Institute of Science, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, IIIT-Delhi, ISER Bhopal, and Seoul National University.

 

• NERC - SyncED-Ocean - v2 structure [190,824£]
• Industrial PhD studentship - Multi-agent path planning and learning for collaborative autonomy (Seebyte Ltd.) 
• Dstl - R-Cloud Preliminary safety assessment autonomous land vehicle (Supacat Ltd.) [190, 871£]
• Dstl - Progeny Task 79 - Modular position fusion (NOC-MARS, Sonardyne, Seebyte Ltd., Supacat Ltd.) [790,232£]

• Information aware decision making
• Estimation on graphs
• Probabilistic worst-case analysis for space applications
• Teaming of uncrewed systems (coalition)
• Decision making in cooperative uncrewed systems for emergency response

• LEP - Centre for Future Clean Mobility - Heart of the southwest local enterprise partnership
• ERDF - Accelarated Flaoting Offshore Wind in Cornwall
• DSTL - SERAPIS SSE11: Learn to Fly
• InnovateUK -  Connected Secure In Cable Control and Protection Device for Electrical Vehicle (EVParts)
• KTP - Design of DC Motor for Marine Drivetrain Application (with Lynch Motors)
• KTP - Optionally Manned All Terrain Mobile Platform (with SC Group Ltd) 
• ESA - Enhanced Techniques for AOCS GNC Functional Verification (SENER Ltd)
• UKRI-GCRF - Emergency Flood Planning and Management using Unmanned Aerial Systems (IISc, Cranfield University, ISER-Pune, TCS Ltd.)
• UKRI-NERC - Combining Autonomous Observations and Models for Predicting and Understanding Shelf Seas (PML, NOC-Southampton)
• NERC - Adaptive Autonomous Ocean Sampling Network (NOC-Southampton)
• ESA - Probabilistic Worst Case Analysis Tools
• ESA - Modern Attitude Control of Earth Observation Satellites With Large Flexible Elements (Astrium Ltd. UK.)
• STFC - UKSA-CREST2 - Generic Rover Dynamics Model Framework for Autonomous Capability Development, (Astrium Ltd. UK.)
• UKIERI - Contamination Monitoring using Mobile Sensor Networks, (IISc Bangalore, India)
• ESA - Integrated Guidance Navigation and Control for Mars Sample Return (AIR-GNC), (GMV, Spain)
• ESA - Robust Flight Control System Design Verification and Validation Framework (SAFE-V), (Astrium Space Transportation-France).