Jinaykumar Patel

Jinaykumar Patel

Ph.D. graduate, Aerospace Engineering

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Zonotope-Based Filtering: A Scalable Approach to Uncertainty in Aerospace Systems

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Uncertainty isn’t just a nuisance in aerospace systems—it’s a fact of life. From uncooperative satellites to orbital debris, spacecraft navigating near each other must operate with incomplete, noisy, and sometimes deceptive data. For safety-critical missions like satellite rendezvous and docking, ensuring accurate and robust state estimation is paramount.

Advancing Safety in Space Missions Through Reachability Analysis

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In the complex and high-risk phases of space missions, particularly during the hypersonic re-entry of spacecraft into Earth’s atmosphere, ensuring safety and efficiency is paramount. This phase is fraught with challenges due to extreme conditions such as intense heat and dynamic pressures. To address these challenges, my research has focused on a sophisticated method known as reachability analysis, which has proven pivotal in enhancing the reliability of these missions.

Installing OpenMP on mac!

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If you want to install OpenMP on mac, follow the steps below

  • Install homebrew for mac, if you don’t have already. Visit brew to install homebrew
  • Installing gcc with brew
 brew install gcc
  • Find the location where gcc is being installed. Generally, it should be in /usr/local/bin. However, when calling a compiler your bash will look into /usr/bin by default. Hence, you need to add the new directory to your PATH. Export the path using following command.
 export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
  • Now compile with OpenMP with following command
 gcc-10 -fopenmp -o prog_name prog_name.c

Note:- gcc-10 is the current version that I installed. You may have installed gcc-8 or gcc-7 or maybe someother version in future release.

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publications

Reachability Analysis for Atmospheric Re-entry Vehicle

Published in , 2023

This study details a zonotope-based method for computing reachable sets in nonlinear systems, validated on Dubin’s model and a hypersonic reentry vehicle.

Recommended citation: Patel, Jinaykumar, and Subbarao, Kamesh. (2023). “Reachability Analysis for Atmospheric Re-entry Vehicle.” _AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics_. 47 (1).
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Science with the Daksha High Energy Transients Mission

Published in , 2024

Daksha is a proposed dual-satellite mission for all-sky high-energy transient monitoring (1 keV–MeV), focusing on GRBs, gravitational wave counterparts, and diverse astrophysical phenomena with unparalleled sensitivity.

Recommended citation: Bhalerao, V., Sawant, D., Pai, A. et al. (2024). "Science with the Daksha High Energy Transients Mission." Experimental Astronomy. 57 (3).
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Daksha: On Alert for High Energy Transients

Published in , 2024

Daksha is a proposed dual-satellite mission for detecting high-energy transients, covering the entire sky in 1 keV–MeV, enabling rapid public alerts and diverse astrophysical studies.

Recommended citation: Bhalerao, V., Vadawale, S., Tendulkar, S. et al. (2024). "Daksha: On Alert for High Energy Transients." Experimental Astronomy. 57 (3).
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Rendezvous and Proximity Operations with Ellipsoidal and Zonotopic Set-Membership Filtering in MPC

Published in , 2025

This paper proposes an MPC strategy using ellipsoidal and zonotopic set-membership filtering for disturbed time-varying systems, validated via spacecraft rendezvous.

Recommended citation: Patel, Jinaykumar, and Kamesh Subbarao. "Rendezvous and Proximity Operations with Ellipsoidal and Zonotopic Set-Membership Filtering in MPC". The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences 72.1 (2025): 3.
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Reachable-Set Constrained Model Predictive Control for Safe Hypersonic Reentry

Published in , 2025

This research combines reachability analysis with MPC to ensure safe atmospheric reentry, even with disturbances. We enforce constraints via various MPC techniques, including tube-based MPC for nonlinear systems, with effectiveness demonstrated through simulations.

Recommended citation: Patel, Jinaykumar, and Subbarao, Kamesh. (2025). "eachable-Set Constrained Model Predictive Control for Safe Hypersonic Reentry." AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics. 1-13.
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talks

Stellar Structures and Evolution

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Delivered an institute-level talk on Stellar Structures and Evolution as a part of Astronomy Club at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

teaching

PH107: Quantum Physics and its Application

Undergraduate course, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Physics Department, 2019

Guided 45+ first year undergraduates by conducting weekly tutorials and grading their examinations. Administered the development of academically weak students and raised their performance by solving doubts.

AE225: Incompressible Fluid Mechanics

Undergraduate course, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Aerospace Engineering Department, 2020

Responsible for guiding 80+ students, solving their doubts and boosting the performance of weak students. Involved in the exam evaluation, designing assignments and conducting regular tutorials for problem solving.

MAE 3304: Astronautics 1

Undergraduate course, University of Texas at Arlington, Meachanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, 2021

Responsible for guiding 60+ students, solving their doubts and boosting the performance of weak students. Involved in the exam evaluation, designing assignments and conducting regular tutorials for problem solving.

MAE 4310: Introduction to Automatic Control

Undergraduate course, University of Texas at Arlington, Meachanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, 2021

Responsible for guiding 60+ students, solving their doubts and boosting the performance of weak students. Involved in the exam evaluation, designing assignments and conducting regular tutorials for problem solving.

MAE 3405: Flight Dynamics

Undergraduate course, University of Texas at Arlington, Meachanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, 2022

Responsible for guiding 60+ students, solving their doubts and boosting the performance of weak students. Involved in the exam evaluation, designing assignments and conducting regular tutorials for problem solving.

MAE 4304: Astronautics 2

graduate course, University of Texas at Arlington, Meachanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, 2025

Responsible for guiding 30+ students, solving their doubts and boosting the performance of weak students. Involved in the exam evaluation, designing assignments and conducting regular tutorials for problem solving.