Postal Address: 2313, Chaitanya Niketan, Chakradhar Swami Nagar, Malegaon Road, Taroda (Kd),

Nanded-431 605, Maharashtra (India)

Email ID: gvl.instru@coep.ac.in, gv.lakhekar@gmail.com

Mobile No.: +91-9623611142

Academic qualifications:

• Ph . D. (Instrumentation Engineering), Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra, (India).

Research Topic: An Investigation of Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control for Underwater Vehicles, January 2019.

• M. Tech. (Instrumentation Engineering), Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, Maharashtra,(India). (CGA 8.75), July 2009.

• B. E. (Instrumentation Engineering), M. B. E. Society's College of Engineering, Ambajogai, Beed, July 2007 (Percentage of Marks 78.37 %) (Recipient of Second Rank University Ranker Holder)

Fields of Interest:

Process Control, Control System, Sliding Mode Control, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Network, Underwater Robotics

Experience:

Work Experience: 11+ Years

Nature of Duties and responsibilities: Teaching, Research and Administration

Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, Pune.

1st Aug 2017 to till date

Assistant Professor, Government College of Engineering, Jalgaon.

1st Aug 2017 to 11th Oct. 2020 (3 Years 3 Month)

Assistant Professor, G. H. Raisoni Institute of Engineering and Technology, Wagholi, Pune.

11th June 2012 to 31th July 2017 (5 Years 1 Month)

Lecturer, M. B. E. Society's College of Engineering, Ambajogai, Beed.

14th July 2009 to 08th June 2012 (2 Years 11 Month)

Professional Membership:

Life member of Indian Society for Technical Education, New Delhi (LM 64382)

Life member of Instrument Society of India

Life member of Institute of Marine Engineers, India.

Courses taught: Process Instrumentation, Control System, Industrial Automation, Neural Network and Fuzzy Logic Based Control System, Electrical Measurement and Instrumentation, Digital Control System, Renewable Energy

Research Publications:

Book Chapters: (02)

1. G. V. Lakhekar and L. M. Waghmare, “Dynamic fuzzy sliding mode control of underwater vehicles” Published in the Springer Book: Advances and Applications in Sliding Mode Control systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence) Vol. 576, 2015, XIV, 628 pp. 279-304 illus. ISBN 978-3-319-11172-8

2. G. V. Lakhekar, L. M. Waghmare and S. Vaidyanathan, “Diving autopilot design for underwater vehicles using an adaptive neuro-fuzzy sliding mode controller” Springer Book Chapter: Advances and Applications in Nonlinear Control systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence) Vol. 635, 2016, XII, 683 pp.477-503 illus. ISBN 978-3-319-30167-9

International Journals: (08)

1. G. V. Lakhekar, L. M. Waghmare, P. G. Jadhav and R. G. Roy, "Robust diving motion control of an autonomous underwater vehicle using adaptive neuro-fuzzy sliding mode technique," in IEEE Access, (Web of Science SCI Indexed, IF 4.098) Early Access Version doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3001631.

2. G. V. Lakhekar, L. M. Waghmare, and R. G. Roy, “Disturbance Observer-Based Fuzzy Adapted S-Surface Controller for Spatial Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 622-636, Dec. 2019. (Web of Science SCI Indexed, IF 4.125) doi: 10.1109/TIV.2019.2938082

3. G. V. Lakhekar and L. M. Waghmare, “Robust maneuvering of autonomous underwater vehicle: an adaptive fuzzy PI sliding mode control”, Intelligent Service Robotics, Vol. 10, No.3, pp 195–212, July 2017. (SCI Indexed, IF 0.875). doi: 10.1007/s11370-017-0220-2

4. G. V. Lakhekar, L. M. Waghmare, “Adaptive fuzzy exponential terminal sliding mode controller design for nonlinear trajectory tracking control of autonomous underwater vehicle”, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp 1690-1705, December 2018. (Scopus Indexed) doi: 10.1007/s40435-017-0387-6.

5. K. S. Holkar, L. M. Waghmare and G. V. Lakhekar, “Predictive sliding mode based cascade control for parametric uncertainty”, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Vol. 4, No.2, pp 110-121, 2014. (Scopus Indexed). doi: 10.1007/s40435-014-0095-4

6. G. V. Lakhekar, “A new approach to the design of an adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller”, International Journal of Ocean System Engineering, Vol. 3, No.2, pp 50-60, 2013. doi: 10.5574/IJOSE.2013.3.2.050

7. G. V. Lakhekar, “Tuning and Analysis of Sliding Mode Controller Based on Fuzzy Logic”, International Journal of Control and Automation, Vol. 5, No.3, pp 93-110, September 2012. (Scopus Indexed).

8. G. V. Lakhekar, L. M. Waghmare and V. G. Asutkar, “Fuzzy approach for the cascade control of interconnected system”, International Journal of Soft Computing, Vol. 5, No.3, pp 116-127, 2010. (Scopus Indexed).

National/International Conferences: (10)

1. G. V. Lakhekar, L. M. Waghmare, and P. S. Londhe, "Enhanced dynamic fuzzy sliding mode controller for autonomous underwater vehicles", International Symposium on Underwater Technology, pp 1-7, 23-25 Feb. 2015, held at NIOT, Chennai.

2. G. V. Lakhekar and R. D. Deshpande, “Diving control of autonomous underwater vehicles via fuzzy sliding mode technique”, IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, pp. 1027-1031, 20-21 March 2014.

3. G. V. Lakhekar and R. G. Roy, “Heading control of an underwater vehicle using novel dynamic fuzzy sliding mode controller”, IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, pp. 1448-1454, 20-21 March 2014.

4. G. V. Lakhekar and R. G. Roy, “A fuzzy neural approach for dynamic spectrum allocation in cognitive radio networks”, IEEE International Conference on Circuit, Power and Computing Technologies, pp. 1455-1461, 20-21 March 2014.

5. G. V. Lakhekar, “Dynamic fuzzy sliding mode approach for heading angle control of underwater vehicles”, National Conference on Control Instrumentation and System Conference, 20-21 December 2013, held at MIT, Manipal.

6. G. V. Lakhekar, and V. D. Saundarmal, “Robust self tuning of fuzzy sliding mode control”, IEEE Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, pp. 1-7, July 4-6, 2013.

7. G. V. Lakhekar, and V. D. Saundarmal, “Novel adaptive fuzzy sliding mode controller for depth control of an underwater vehicles”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, pp. 1-7, July 7-10 2013.

8. G. V. Lakhekar and V. G. Asutkar, “Modeling and Control of Continuous Stirrer Tank Heater”, Young Research Conference-09, ICT Mumbai, 27th January 2009.

9. S. V. Nair, G. V. Lakhekar and V. M. Panchade, "Fuzzy sliding mode control approach for two time scale system: Stability issues," 10th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, pp. 1-8, 7-8 Jan.2016, Coimbatore.

10. Ashwini More and G. V. Lakhekar, “Practical predictive non-singular terminal sliding mode control based cascade control system”, International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems, pp. 22-28, 15-16 June 2017.