Research Group
A note for future M. Tech/PhD candidates:
I am always on the lookout for motivated young researchers to work in areas related to nonlinear/adaptive control and time-varying systems. For details on our entrance procedure, please visit the Admissions page on the SysCon website. In general it is better if you are clear about specific directions you wish to pursue from amongst my interests. If indeed you have a problem that fascinates you, write to me and we can take it from there. However, generic copy-pasted emails expressing interest are of no avail.
Students:
PhD Candidates:
Akshith S. S. - Space manipulator, design and control
Barnita Maity - Dissensus based collision avoidance
Debasmita Majumder - Nonlinear safe control for extra-terrestrial rovers
Maitreyee Dutta - Cooperation under sensor bias
Sudipta Chattopadhyay (jointly with Vivek Natarajan) - Adaptive boundary control
M. Tech/DDP Candidates:
Smit Kesaria - Tilt rotor omnirotor
Sai Dinesh - Flapping wing robot, design and control
Sudip Mondal - Vision based non-cooperative agent state estimation
Bachelor's Students:
Shreyas N.B. - Flapping wing robot, design and control
Daksh Katkar - Flapping wing robot, design and control
Mohd. Saad Khan - Intelligent traffic intersection
Harshil Naik - Identification in social networks
PhD's awarded
Pallavi Sinha - Completed Spring 2024 - Currently with Halburton, Pune
Abdul Razak Rihab - Completed Fall 2020 - Currently with Shell R&D, Bangalore
Nilanjan Roy Chowdhury - Completed Fall 2017 - Currently postdoc with Y. Levron Technion, Haifa, Israel
Rakesh Warier - Completed Fall 2017 - Currently faculty at BITS Goa.
Dual Degree Candidates (Awarded):
Praneek D. Nayak (Mehcanical) - Lunar Lander Modeling, Simulator and Control
Himani Sinhmar (Aerospace) - Synchronisation of E-L systems under measurement errors
Chinmay Maheshwari (Mechanical) - Geometric multiplexing and chattering control
Yogesh (Aerospace) - Numerical aspects of optimal control
Tejaswi (Aerospace) - Geometric Attitude control via feedback integrators
Manish K. Nayak (Aerospace) - Trajectory tracking with pointing requirements for a quadrotor
Devyesh Tandon (Aerospace) - Consensus under sensor bias, completed June 2017, currently employed at GM, India
Monimoy B (Aerospace) - Attitude, angular velocity and actuator constrained control design for spacecrafts - completed, May 2016, pursuing Phd at UC Berkeley
M. Tech Candidates (Completed):
P. M. Manuraj - 2-DoF AeroBot control
Sayan Ray - Intellignent traffic intersections
S. Arun Kumar (M. Tech Research)- Synchronisation and formation control of underwater agents
Bhanupriya - State constrained control implementation for a quadcopter, completed June 2017, currently employed at ABB India.
Arunkumar G K - Lyapunov functions based modified steering laws for Generalized Voronoi Diagram (GVD) construction - completed, May 2014 - currently pursuing PhD in Systems and Control, IITB
Abhilash M - Analysis of CMG singularities and spacecraft control design with CMG - Converted to PhD in Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay
Short-term Interactions:
Bachelors degree pursuants and others inclined towards doing short term research projects should contact me directly via email with a short summary of research interests and a recent CV.
If you are in IIT already, I will usually not accept students that have not gone through sufficient controls courses (read SysCon minor). Also 6 month interactions are too short to get anything sensible done. I get a very common query, “will we publish at the end of the interaction ?”. Honestly, that depends on you and your efforts. It is not just a matter of typesetting theory I already have in my head. A paper is an outcome of considerable effort and involves extending the sum total of current knowledge in an area. So NO GUARANTEES.
If you are outside IIT, it is difficult to hire you since funding and stay are a big concern. The best avenue is the IITB Research Fellowship
Group News
06/2024: Sudipta's article on Adaptive identification of linear infinite-dimensional systems with Vivek Natarajan was accepted in the International Journal of Control.
02/2024: Pallavi successfully defended her PhD thesis on Robustification of output consensu to time-delay and network bias. Congratulations Dr. Pallavi Sinha !
12/2023: Atteneded the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Singapore.
11/2023: Maitreyee's article on MRAC-based dynamic consensus of linear systems with biased measurements over directed networks has been accepted in Automatica.
09/2023: Pallavi's article on Coupled Output Synchronization in Networked Systems has been accepted in Systems and Control Letters.
08/2023: I have been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award.
08/2023: I have been promoted to full Professor at IIT Bombay.
07/2023: Maitreyee and I will be traveling to the IEEE CDC this year, student travel award received by Maitreyee.
06/2023: Maitreyee's paper titled, A delta-persistently-exciting formation controller for non-holonomic systems over directed graphs has been accepted in L-CSS.
11/2022: Tejaswi’s article titled Attitude control via a feedback integrator based observer has been accepted in Automatica.
10/2022: Pallavi’s article titled Consensus of networked double integrator systems under sensor bias has been accepted in International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing.
08/2022: Our article titled Discrete-time Rigid Body Pose Estimation based on Lagrange-d'Alembert principle with Maulik Bhatt and Amit Sanyal has been accepted in the Journal of Nonlinear Science.