Discipline of Mathematical Science

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Name: Dr. Avinesh Prasad
Position: Senior Lecture in Mathematics
Email: avinesh.prasad@usp.ac.fj
Phone: 3232610

Detail Information

Qualification:
BSc, PGDip(Maths), MSs, PhD

Academic Achievement:
PhD

Research Interest:
Non-linear Dynamical Systems

Undergraduate Courses:
MA161, MA272, MA341 and MA313

Postgraduate Course:
MA441

  1. Journals:
    1. Chaudhary, K. , Prasad, A. , Prasad, A. , Sharma, B. Robot Motion Control Using Stepping Ahead Firefly Algorithm and Kinematic Equations, IEEE Access, 2024, 12, pp. 43078-43088
    1. Kumar, S.A. , Sharma, B. , Vanualailai, J. , Prasad, A. , Chand, R. New players in intelligent transportation: Autonomous Segway in a dynamic environment, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023, 126

     

    1. Kumar, S.A. , Vanualailai, J. , Sharma, B. , Prasad, A. , Chand, R. A Stable Nonlinear Switched System for Landmark-aided Motion Planning, Engineered Science, 2023, 25
    2. Sharma, B. , Karan, R.D. , Kumar, S.A. , Prasad, A. Navigation of a compartmentalized robot system, Heliyon, 2023, 9(5).
    3. K Chaudhary, A Prasad, V Chand, B Sharma ACO-Kinematic: a hybrid first off the starting block, PeerJ Computer Science, vol. 8, e905, 2022. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.905
    4. SA Kumar, J Vanualailai, A Prasad Assistive technology: autonomous wheelchair in obstacle- ridden environment, PeerJ Computer Science ,vol. 7, e725, 2021. doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.725
    5. SA Kumar, B Sharma, J Vanualailai, A Prasad Stable Switched Controllers for a Swarm of UGVs for Hierarchal Landmark Navigation, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2021.doi: 10.1016/j.swevo.2021.100926
    6. Avinesh Prasad, Bibhya Sharma, Jito Vanualailai and Sandeep Kumar. Motion Control of an Articulated Mobile Manipulator in 3D Using the Lyapunov-based Control Scheme, International Journal of Control, 2021. doi: 10.1080/00207179.2021.1919927
    7. Samlesh Chand, Kaylash Chand Chaudhary, Avinesh Prasad, Vishal Chand. Perceived Causes of Students’ Poor Performance in Mathematics: A Case Study at Ba and Tavua Secondary Schools, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics – Mathematics of Computation and Data Science, vol. 7, 2021. doi: 10.3389/fams.2021.614408
    8. Pritika Reddy, Emmenual Reddy, Vishal Chand, Sione Paea and Avinesh Prasad. Assistive Technologies: Saviour of Mathematics in Higher Education, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics – Mathematics of Computation and Data Science, vol. 6, 2021, doi: 10.3389/fams.2020.619725.
    9. Sandeep Kumar, Jito Vanualailai, Bibhya Sharma and Avinesh Prasad. Velocity Controllers for a Swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.jii.2020.100198.
    10. Avinesh Prasad, Bibhya Sharma, Jito Vanualailai and Sandeep Kumar. Stabilizing Controllers for Landmark Navigation of Planar Robots in an Obstacle-ridden Workspace, Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2020, doi: 10.1155/2020/8865608.
    11. Avinesh Prasad, Bibhya Sharma, Jito Vanualailai and Sandeep Kumar. A Geometric Approach to Target Convergence and Obstacle Avoidance of a Non-Standard Tractor-Trailer Robot. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2020, 30: 4924-4943, doi: 10.1002/rnc.5021
    12. Bibhya Sharma, Shonal Singh, Jito Vanualailai, and Avinesh Prasad. Globally rigid formation of n-link doubly nonholonomic mobile manipulators. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 105, pp. 69-84, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.robot.2018.02.006.

     

    Conferences:

    1. Chaudhary, K. , Prasad, A. , Chand, V. , Shariff, A. , Lal, A. A Solution to Collinear Problem in Lyapunov-Based Control Scheme, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2024, 364, 285-295
    2. K Chaudhary, G Lal, A Prasad, V Chand, S Sharma, A Lal Obstacle Avoidance of a Point-Mass Robot using Feedforward Neural Network, In 3rd Novel Intelligent and Leading Emerging Sciences Conference (NILES), 2021. doi: 10.1109/NILES53778.2021.9600550
    1. Prasad, A., Sharma, B., Kumar, Strategic Creation and Placement of Landmarks for Robot Navigation in a Partially-known Environment S.A. In IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, 2020. doi: 10.1109/CSDE50874.2020.9411583
    2. Chand, V., Prasad, A., Chaudhary, K., Sharma, B., Chand, S. A Face-off-Classical and Heuristic-based Path Planning Approaches In In IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, 2020. doi: 10.1109/CSDE50874.2020.9411557
    3. Sandeep Kumar, Jito Vanualailai and Avinesh Prasad. Distributed Velocity Controllers of the Individuals of Emerging Swarm Clusters, In In IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering, 2020. doi: 10.1109/CSDE50874.2020.9411585
    4. Bibhya Sharma, Avinesh Prasad, Ritesh Chand, Sandeep Kumar, Jai Raj and Jito Vanualailai. Landmarks as Navigation-Aids for Multiple Robots, In 2020 Fourth International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC), Coimbatore, India, 2020, pp. 8-14. doi: 10.1109/ICISC47916.2020.9171123.
    5. Bibhya Sharma, Avinesh Prasad, Swasti Narayan, Bijeta Kumar, Vineet Singh, Salsabil Nusair, Gavin Khan. Partnerships with Governments to Implement In-Country Science Programmes in the South Pacific Region, In 2019 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Science and Data Engineering (CSDE), Melbourne, Australia, 2019, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/CSDE48274.2019.9162419
    1. Avinesh Prasad, Bibhya Sharma, Jito Vanualailai. Motion Camouflage for Point-Mass Robots Using a Lyapunov-based Control Scheme, In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering (ICCRE 2019), IEEE, Nanjing, China, 2019, pp. 7-11. doi: 10.1109/ICCRE.2019.8724163.
  1. Virtual Gender Awareness Workshop (VGAW), USP, 16 May 2022.
  2. eModeration Workshop, Centre for Flexible Learning (CFL), USP, 26th April – 6th May, 2020.
  3. Open Educational Resources (OER) Workshop, Centre for Flexible Learning (CFL), USP, 6th March, 2019.
  1. External Review of Academic Programmes, Planning & Quality Office, USP, 28th Aug, 2018.
  2. USP’s Risk Culture Training, Assurance and Compliance Office, USP, 28th September 2018.
  1. Ritesh Chand (MSc), Landmark Navigation of Planar Robots via Lyapunov-based Approach. Graduated.
  2. Prithvi Narayan (MSc) – Dual arm mobile manipualtors.
  3. Vishal Chand (MSc) – Solving landmark-aided navigation problems using heuristic-based algorithms.
  4. Sandeep Kumar (PhD) – Stabilizing Nonlinear Switched Systems for Landmark-aided Motion Planning and Control
  5. Riteshni Devi Karan (MSc) – Motion Planning and Path Control of Compartmentalised Car-like Robots with Dynamic Leadership.