A list of my publications. Research videos can also be seen in-site in the videos tab. Please check my Google Scholar for additional information about the publications.

  • QUaRTM: A Quadcopter with Unactuated Rotor Tilting Mechanism Capable of Faster, More Agile, and More Efficient Flight
    Jerry Tang, Karan P. Jain, Mark W. Mueller
    [PDF, Video]
    Accepted for publication in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
    In the News: [New Atlas, IEEE Spectrum]

  • Tethered Power for a Series of Quadcopters: Analysis and Applications
    Karan P. Jain, Prasanth Kotaru, Massimiliano de Sa, Koushil Sreenath, Mark W. Mueller
    [arXiv, Video] Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2023

  • Docking two multirotors in midair using relative vision measurements
    Karan P. Jain, Minos Park, Mark W. Mueller
    [arXiv, Video]

  • Staging energy sources to extend flight time of a multirotor UAV
    Karan P Jain, Jerry Tang, Koushil Sreenath, Mark W. Mueller
    [PDF, Publisher, Video, Presentation]
    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020

  • Flying batteries: In-flight battery switching to increase multirotor flight time
    Karan P Jain, Mark W. Mueller
    [PDF, Publisher, Video, Presentation]
    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
    In the News: [IEEE Spectrum, Gizmodo, New Atlas, hackster.io, InceptiveMind, UPS Battery Center]

  • Modeling of aerodynamic disturbances for proximity flight of multirotors
    Karan P Jain, Trey Fortmuller, Jaeseung Byun, Simo A Makiharju, Mark W. Mueller
    [PDF, Publisher]
    IEEE International Conference on Unmanned Aerial Systems (ICUAS), 2019