Anoop Jain

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I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur (August 2019 onward). Prior to joining at IIT Jodhpur, I was a Post Doctoral Fellow (November 2017 - June 2019) at Cooperative Networks and Controls (CoNeCt) Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, and working with Professor Dainel Zelazo. 

Research Interests

• Cooperative Guidance and Control of Autonomous Systems 

• Formation Control of Multi-Agent Systems 

• Security in Cyber-Physical Systems

• Optimization and Control of Passive Systems 

Education 

• PhD  (Apr 2017) : Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India with Professor Debasish Ghose. 

• ME (Jul 2011) : Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India with Professor Debasish Ghose. 

• BTech (Jul 2009) : Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology, Ghaziabad, India. 

Awards

• 2022 Certificate of Merit for Best Academic Performance in Cyber Physical Systems, IIT Jodhpur (Shivanshu Tripathi, MTech Student with me). 

• Associate Editor, 22nd IFAC International Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace (ACA) 2022.

• Two papers among the three finalist for the best student paper award at IEEE Indian Control Conference (2021).

• Excellent Reviewer: AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics (October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2019)

• Lady Davis Fellowship Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2018-2019)

• Outstanding Contributions in Reviewing Journal of The Franklin Institute (2017 and 2018)

• Best presentation award at 2016 Aerospace Research Student Symposium, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Bangalore (2016)

• Among the three finalists for the best paper award Indian Control Conference (2016)

• Best presentation in session award American Control Conference (2015)

• Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2009: All India Rank 53 (99.74 Percentile score in Electrical Engineering).

Publications

Journals

1. Shivanshu Tripathi, Anoop Jain, and Abhisek K. Behera, "A partially distributed fixed-time economic dispatch algorithm with Kron's modeled power transmission losses," IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (Early Access), 2023. DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2023.3290110 

2. Vaibhav Vaibhav, Dushyant Sharma, and Anoop Jain, "Quadratic-Droop-Based Distributed Secondary Control of Microgrid With Detail-Balanced Communication Topology," IEEE Systems Journal (Early Access), 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2023.3240171 

3. Aditya Hegde, and Anoop Jain, "Synchronization and Balancing around Simple Closed Polar Curves with Bounded Trajectories," Automatica 149, pp. 1-15, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2022.110810

4. Shubham Singh, Vaibhav Vaishnav, Anoop Jain, and Dushyant Sharma, "Bounded Voltage Regulation in a Direct Current Microgrid using Barrier Lyapunov Function with Uncertain Load Current," IEEE Control Systems Letters + ACC, Vol. 7, pp. 991-996, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3230088 

5. Vaibhav Vaishnav, Dushyant Sharma, and Anoop Jain, "Control of Heterogeneous Battery Energy Storage Systems-Based Microgrid Connected via Detail-Balanced Communication Topology," IEEE Control Systems Letters + ACC, Vol. 7, pp. 733-738, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2022.3223305 

6. Miel Sharf,  Anoop Jain, and Daniel Zelazo, "A Geometric Method for Passivation and Cooperative Control of Equilibrium-Independent Passivity-Short Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66,  no. 12, December 2021, pp. 5877 - 5892. DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2020.3043390 

7. Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "Trajectory-Constrained Collective Circular Motion with Different Phase Arrangements" IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 65, no. 5, pp.  2237 -2244 , May 2020.  DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2019.2940233

8. Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "Robust Stabilization of Balanced and Splay Formations with Heterogeneous Controller Gains," Journal of The Franklin Institute, vol. 356, no. 8, pp. 4554-4576, 2019.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2019.04.016 

9. Anoop Jain, Miel Sharf, and Daniel Zelazo: "Regularization and Feedback Passivation in Cooperative Control of Passivity-Short Systems: A Network Optimization Perspective," IEEE Control System Letters + CDC, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 731-736, 2018.  DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2018.2847738 

10. Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "Collective Circular Motion of Multi-agent Systems in Synchronized and Balanced Formations With Second-Order Rotational Dynamics," Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, vol. 54, pp. 1433-1451, 2018.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2017.05.029 

11. Anoop Jain, Debasish Ghose, and Prathyush P. Menon: "Multi-agent Formation in a Controllable Force Field with Non-identical Controller Gains," IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 802-811, 2018. DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2017.0651 

12.  Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "Synchronization of Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous Controllers," Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 89, pp. 1433-1451, 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11071-017-3526-x

13. Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "Stabilization of Collective Formations with Speed and Controller Gain Heterogeneity and Saturation," Journal of The Franklin Institute, vol. 354, no. 14, pp. 5964-5995, 2017.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2017.07.035

Conference Papers

1. Pushkal Purohit and Anoop Jain, "Passivity-Based Attack Detection and Mitigation with Switching Adaptive Controller and Quadratic Storage Function," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Dec. 13-15, 2023, Singapore, (Accepted for presentation).

2. Raghvendra Kaushik, and Anoop Jain, "Stabilization of Collective Motion with Bounded Trajectories in an External Flow Field," IEEE European Control Conference, June 2023 (Accepted for presentation).

3. P.N.V. Sai Pavan Kumar, and A. Jain, "Towards the Secure Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems via a Virtual Network and Heterogeneous Controller Gains," Proceedings of the 22nd IFAC International Symposium on Automatic Control in Aerospace (ACA) 2022, IIT Bombay, 2022, pp. 236-241.

4. Vaibhav Vaishnav, Dushyant Sharma, and Anoop Jain: \Network-Based Finite-Time Secondary Control for Critical Bus Voltage Restoration and Accurate Reactive Power-Sharing," Proceedings of the 22nd National Power System Conference, 2022, IIT Delhi, pp. 584-589. 

5. Shubham Singh and Anoop Jain: "Time-Varying Distance-Constrained Formation Maneuver Control With Guaranteed Prescribed Performance for Mobile Agents," IEEE American Control Conference, pp. 5134-5139, June 2022, Atlanta, GA, USA.

6.  Shubham Singh and Anoop Jain: "Distance-Constrained Formation Control of Multi-Agent Systems Using Asymmetric Barrier Lyapunov Function," Proceedings of IEEE Indian Control Conference, IIT Bombay, India, December 20-22, 2021, pp. 395-399. 

7. Vaibhav Vaishnav, Anoop Jain, and Dushyant Sharma: "Finite-Time Stability Analysis of a Distributed Microgrid Connected via Detail-Balanced Graph," Proceedings of IEEE Indian Control Conference, IIT Bombay, India, December 20-22, 2021, pp. 365-370. 

8. Shubham Sharma and Anoop Jain: "Collective Circular Motion with Trajectory and Turn-Rate Constraints," Proceedings of IEEE Indian Control Conference, IIT Bombay, India, December 20-22, 2021, pp. 225-230. 

9. Anoop Jain and Daniel Zelazo: "Temporal Circular Formation Control with Bounded Trajectories in a Uniform Flow field," 27th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Akko, Israel, July 1-4, 2019, pp. 189-194.

10. Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "A Heterogeneous Control Gain Approach to Achieve a Desired Collective Centroid by a Formation of Agents," Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, IIT Guwahati, India, January 4-6, 2017, pp. 321-326.

11. Anoop Jain, Debasish Ghose and Prathyush P. Menon: "Achieving a Desired Collective Centroid by a Formation of Agents Moving in a Controllable Force Field," Proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Hyderabad, India, January 4-6, 2016, pp. 182-187.

12. Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "Stabilization of Collective Motion in Synchronized, Balanced and Splay Phase Arrangements on a Desired Circle," Proceedings of IEEE American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, USA, July 1-3, 2015, pp. 731-736.

13. Anoop Jain, Debasish Ghose and Prathyush P Menon: "Stabilization of Balanced Circular Motion about a Desired Center," Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Kanpur, India, March 13-15, 2014, pp. 656-661.

14. Anoop Jain and Debasish Ghose: "Collective Behavior with Heterogeneous Controllers," Proceedings of IEEE American Control Conference, Washington DC, USA, June 17-19, 2013, pp. 4629-4634.

Projects

• Start-up Research Grant, SERB (PI): Secure and Robust Coordination and Control of Autonomous Multi-Vehicle Systems with Desired Constraints. [Completed]

• Seed Grant, IIT-Jodhpur (PI): Achieving Collaborative Missions via Distributed Coordination and Control of Autonomous Multi- Vehicle System. [Ongoing]

• MeitY Grant (Co-PI): Centre for Advanced Security Technology Development in Cyber-Physical Systems. [Ongoing]

Students

• PhD

1. Vaibhav Vaishnav (Thesis Topic: Coordinated Control in Smart Grid)

2. Pushkal Purohit (Thesis Topic: Safe and Secure Operation of Multi-Agent Systems)

3.  Shubham Singh (Thesis Topic: Distributed Control of Multi-Agent System with Desired Constraints)

• MTech

1. Raghvendra Kaushik [CPS 2019 Batch] (PhD at IIT-Roorkee)

2. Vishal Raj [CPS 2019 Batch] (Post Baccalaureate Fellow, Robert Bosh Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Madras)

3. Shubham Sharma [CPS 2019 Batch] (PhD at IIT-Jodhpur)

4.  Manjita Saini [CPS 2019 Batch] (Placement @ Intel)

5. Shivanshu Tripathi [CPS 2020 Batch] (PhD @ University of California, Riverside, with Prof.  Wei Ren and Prof.  Fabio Pasqualetti) 

6. Avinash Kumar Das [CPS 2020 Batch] (GET@Lightstorm, Mumbai)

7. Pentakoti Naga Venkata Sai Pavan Kumar (CPS 2021 Batch)

8. Vikram Reddy Ettam (CPS 2021 Batch)

9. Gaurav Singh Bhati (CPS 2022 Batch)

• BTech

1. Devesh Kumar Jangid (B17EE022)

2. Devraj Meena (B17EE023)

3. J Sandeep Narayan (B17EE035)

4. Shivansh Kulshrestha (B17EE056)

5.  Rashmi Mertia  (B18EE040)

6.  Arzoo Quershi (B18EE063)

7.  Akshat Agarwal (B19EE007)

8.  Mahendra Rao (B19EE047)

9. Manish Meena (B19EE050)

10.  Shyam Sundar Meena  (B19EE081)

11. Aditya R Gadhavi (B19EE004)

12. Upadhyay Akarsh Bholendukumar (B19EE085)

Collaborators

• Prof. Debasish Ghose (Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc-Bangalore)

• Dr. Daniel Zelazo (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

• Dr. Miel Sharf (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

• Dr. Shashi Ranjan Kumar (Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT-Bombay)

• Dr. Abhisek Kumar Behera (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Roorkee)

• Dr. Harikumar Kandath (IIIT-Hyderabad)

• Aditya Hegde (Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc-Bangalore)

• Dr. Twinkle Tripathy (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT-Kanpur)

• Dr. Dushyant Sharma (Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT ISM-Dhanbad)

Talks

• Vaibhav Summit (Track: UAV - Detection, Tracking and Neutralization), organized by government of India, October 24, 2020. Autonomous Tracking and Detection of Targets using Formation of Multi-UAV Systems 

• Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune, November 26, 2021 Coordination and control of UAVs: A Perspective on Theory, Applications, and Future Trends

• ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, June 24, 2020. Coordination and control of multi-agent systems: A Perspective on Theory, Applications, and Future Trends

• National Institute of Technology, Patna, June 4, 2020. Coordination and control of multi-agent systems

• Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Bombay (Bombay, India), October 18, 2019. Coordination and Control of Multiple Unmanned Systems: Various Formation Patterns and their Applications

• Tel - Aviv University (Tel-Aviv, Israel), April 29, 2019. Formation Control in Networked Dynamical Systems

•  Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Dharwad (Dharwad, India), April 9, 2019. Coordination of Networked Dynamical Systems: Formation Control, Passivation and Network Optimization

•  Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa, Israel), January 08, 2018. Synchronized and Balanced Collective Formations in Multi-Agent Systems

Professional Affiliation and Services

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

• Reviewer

  Journals

• Automatica 

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

• IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

• IEEE Control System Letters

•  IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

• IEEE Transactions on Aerospace & Electronic Systems 

• Journal of The Franklin Institute

• International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

• Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics

• Nonlinear Dynamics

• IET Control Theory & Applications

• Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering

• Transactions of the Indian National Academy of Engineering

• Proceedings of the Royal Society A

Conferences

• IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

• IEEE American Control Conference (ACC)

• IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC)

• IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)

• International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS)

• Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NECSYS)

• Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS)

• International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) 

• AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) Conference

• National Power System Conference (NPSC)

Teaching @ IIT-Jodhpur

Courses

• Control Systems (UG)

• Networked Dynamical Systems and Control (PG)

• Simulation of Dynamical Systems (PG)

• Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems (PG)

• Security in Cyber-Physical Systems (PG)

• Mobile Robots (PG)

Laboratory

• Control Systems Laboratory (UG)

• Engineering Visualization (UG)

• IEE Lab (UG)

• Cyber Physical Systems Laboratory (PG)

Contact Details

Room No.: 310

Department of Electrical Engineering 

Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur Rajasthan 342030 India

Email: anoopj@iitj.ac.in

Phone (Office): (+91 291) 280 1371

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