Hari B.
Hablani, Ph.D.
Email
Address: hbhablani@iiti.ac.in
Designation: Visiting Faculty, Center of Astronomy
On-going Ph.D. Research:
All research is
inspired by the industry related problems.
1. Navigation error analysis of IRNSS
receiver
2. Guidance of Air-to-surface missiles
with Infra-red Seeker and Millimeter Wave Radar, and IRNSS-Aided Inertial
Navigation
3. Agile maneuvers of spacecraft and precision pointing with control moment gyros
4. Satellite-based navigation of missiles
under jamming and spoofing
Areas of Interest:
Space
Flight Vehicles Guidance, Navigation and Control; satellites-based navigation
of flight vehicles; spacecraft attitude determination and control; multi-body
flexible spacecraft attitude dynamics and control; satellites payloads:
operation, kinematics, control, pointing accuracy, image stability and jitter
control; spacecraft rendezvous dynamics, guidance, navigation and control;
missile guidance, navigation and control; airplane navigation; Kalman filtering and estimation for navigation and tracking;
launch vehicles and reentry vehicles GNC;
Major Professional
Contributions:
Satellite-based
navigation of GEO and LEO satellites, launch vehicles; aided inertial navigation
of flight vehicles, underwater vehicles; spacecraft rendezvous guidance,
relative navigation, and control; strategic interceptor guidance and relative
navigation; multi-body flexible spacecraft attitude dynamics and control;
spacecraft payload: operation, kinematics, and control; momentum-bias satellite
control; precision pointing and jitter control; interplanetary spacecraft
control; spacecraft attitude determination
Education:
Ph.D.
(Aerospace, 1978) Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
M.
Tech (Aerospace, 1974) Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
B.
Tech (Mech., 1972) National Institute of Technology, Raipur, CG, India
Professional Experience:
v Professor, IIT
Gandhinagar (2015-2016); Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay (2009-2014),
IIT Kanpur (2008-2009)
v Technical Fellow,
Integrated Defense and Space Systems Division, Boeing Company (Rockwell
International Heritage; 1982-2008)
v NRC Research Associate,
NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX (1980-1982)
v Postdoctoral Fellow, Department
of Astronautics and Aeronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
(1978-’80)
v Associate Editor, AIAA
Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics (1999-2012)
v Associate Editor, IEEE
Trans. on Aerospace and Electronics Systems (2009-2011)
Honors and Awards:
v Fellow (Aerospace - 2015), Indian National
Academy of Engineering
v Excellence in Aerospace Education (2012), the
Aeronautical Society of India
v AIAA Associate Fellow
v (Former) Boeing Technical Fellow, USA
v Engineer of the Year (1992) Leonardo de Vinci
Award, Rockwell International, USA
v Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Aerospace
Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru
v Gold Medal, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of
Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bengaluru
Significant Publications
A.
Based on Research
in India (2008-’16):
2016
1. Sreeja,S., Hablani,H.B.,“Precision Munition Guidance
and Moving Target Estimation", AIAA Journal
of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, pp. 1-12, 2016, DOI: 10.2514/1.G000382.
2. Sreeja,S., Hablani, H.B., Arya, H., “Precision
targeting in guided munition using IR sensor and MmW
radar", SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol.
10, No. 3, 2016, DOI: 10.1117 / 1.JRS.10.036002; SPIE Security + Defence, Proceeding of SPIE, France, Proc. Vol.
9653, 2015.
3. Sreeja,S., Hablani,H.B., “Precision Munition Guidance and 2-D Target
Position Estimation",
AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference, San Diego, 2016, DOI: 10.2514/6.2016-2113.
2015
4. Sreeja,S., Hablani,H.B.,
“ Precision Munition Guidance and Moving Target Position Estimation", AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control
Conference, Kissimmee, Florida 2015, DOI: 10.2514 /6.2015-0092
5. Saini, V., and Hablani,
H. B., "Air-to-Air Tracking of a Maneuvering Target with Gimbaled
Radar", AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2015, doi: 10.2514/1.G001184
6. Kumar, V., and Hablani,
H. B., “Kinematic Navigation of Geostationary Satellites Formation Using Indian
Regional Navigation Satellites Observables,” AIAA J. Guidance, Control, and
Dynamics, doi: 10.2514/1.G000864
7. Soni, A., and Hablani, H.
B., “Relative Navigation of GEO Satellites in Formation Using Double-Difference
Carrier Phase Measurements with Integer Ambiguity Resolution,” Paper No.
IAC-15-B2.3.3, 66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem, Israel, October 2015
8. Kumar, V., and Hablani,
H. B., "Autonomous Formation-Keeping of GEO Satellites, with Reduced
Dynamics Formulation using Indian Regional Navigation Satellites," AIAA
Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (under review)
9. Awale, V., and Hablani, H.
B., “Fusion of Redundant Aided-Inertial Sensors with Decentralized Kalman Filter for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Navigation,” Defence Science Journal, Vol. 65, No. 6, Nov. 2015, pp.
425-430; DOI: 10.14429/dsj.65.8874
2014
10. Sharma, R., and Hablani, H., “High-Accuracy Integrated
GPS-INS Aircraft Navigation for Landing using Pseudolites
and Double-Difference Carrier Phase measurements,” DISHA-2013, Airports Authority Officers Association
Seminar, Delhi, India, Nov. 25-26, 2013; also Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems ( ACODS) Conference, IIT Kanpur, 2014
11. Kadam, S., and Hablani, H.B.,”Trajectory
Optimization and Control of Reentry Vehicles,” Advances in Control and Optimization of
Dynamic Systems ( ACODS) Conference, IIT Kanpur, Feb. 2014
12. Kaliyari, D., et al., “Motion Compensation of Airborne
Synthetic Aperture Radar,” Advances in
Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems ( ACODS) Conference, IIT Kanpur, 2014
13. Chatterjee, S., “Satellite and Payload Motions:
Effects of Multibody Dynamics on Image Stability,” Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems ( ACODS) Conference, IIT Kanpur, 2014
2013
14. Vinod Kumar, Hablani, H. B.
and Pandiyan R., “Smoothed Real-Time Navigation of
Geostationary Satellites in Formation using Regional Navigation Satellites
Differential Carrier Phase Measurements”, AIAA
Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference, Boston, 19-22 August 2013,
AIAA Paper 2013-4965, doi 10.2514/6.2013-4965
2012
15. Mulay,
S.S., et al., “Attitude Determination and Control of Pratham
-- Indian Institute of Technology Bombay’s First Student Satellite,” Paper No.
IAA-AAS-DyCoSS1-13-11, IAA Conference on Dynamics and Control of Space
Systems, Porto, Portugal, March 19-21, 2012
16. Unhelkar, V.V., and
Hablani, H.B., “Satellite Attitude Determination with Earth and Sun
Sensors and Gyros using Steady-state Kalman Filter,”
Bar-Sym, Springer; Bar-Itzhack
Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation and Spacecraft Control, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel,
Paper TuA2 2, October 14-17, 2012
17. Biswas, S, and Hablani, H.B., “Lunar
Trajectories of Spacecraft for Navigation, with Application to Chandrayan-2,”
Bar-Sym Springer; Bar-Itzhack
Memorial Symposium on Estimation, Navigation and
Spacecraft Control, Paper WeP1 .3, October 14-17, 2012
B.
Based on Research
for Product Development in Industry in the U.S. (prior to 2008)
1. “Autonomous Inertial Relative Navigation with Sightline Stabilized Integrated Sensor for Spacecraft Rendezvous,” J. of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 32, No. 1, January-February 2009, pp. 172-183
2. “Imaging Sensors Pointing and Tracking Controller Insensitive to Inertial Sensors Misalignments,” J. of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 4, July-August 2008, pp. 980-990
3. “Predictive and Pulsed Proportional Navigation Endgame Guidance Laws for Strategic Interceptors with Sensors and Process Delays,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, January-February 2006
4. “Miss Distance Error Analysis of Exo-Atmospheric Interceptors”, J. of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 27, No. 2, March-April 2004, pp. 283-289
5. “Guidance Algorithms for Autonomous Rendezvous of Spacecraft in Circular Orbits,” Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 25, No. 3, May-June 2002
6. “Attitude Commands Avoiding Bright Objects and Maintaining Communication with Ground Station,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 22, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1999, pp. 759-767
7. “Interplanetary Spacecraft Controllers Using Thrusters,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 21, No. 3, July-August 1998, pp. 542-550
8. “Pole Placement Technique for Magnetic Momentum Removal of Earth-Pointing Spacecraft,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 20, No. 2, March-April 1997, pp. 268-275
9. “Magnetic Precession and Product-of-Inertia Nutation Damping of Bias Momentum Satellites,” Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 18, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1995, pp. 1321-1328
10. “Modeling of Roll/Pitch Determination with Horizon Sensors for Oblate Earth,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 18, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1995, pp. 1355-1364
11. “Comparative Stability Analyses and Performance of Magnetic Controllers for Bias Momentum Earth-Observing Spacecraft,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 18, No. 6, Nov.-Dec. 1995, pp. 1313-1320
12. “Target Acquisition, Tracking, Spacecraft Attitude Control, and Vibration Suppression with IPFM Reaction Jet Controllers,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1994, pp. 831-839
13. “Momentum Accumulation Due to Solar Radiation Torque, and Reaction Wheel Sizing, with Configuration Optimization,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1994, pp. 805-814
14. “Design of a Payload Pointing Control System for Tracking Moving Object,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 12, No. 3, May–June 1989, pp. 365-374
15. “Constrained and Unconstrained Modes: Some Modeling Aspects of Flexible Spacecraft,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 5, No. 2, March–April 1982, pp. 164-173
16. “Order Reduction for Models of Space Structures Using Modal Most Analysis,” AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Vol. 5 No. 4, July–August 1982, pp. 351-357