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Current Ph. D. students
Ashutosh Jindal (jointly guided with Debasish Chatterjee) - Computing explicit bounds in the inverse and implicit function theorem
and applications in engineering applications
Ashmita Roy (jointly guided with Debasish Chatterjee) - Modern robust control strategies applied to a subcomponent of the LIGO mechanism
Siddhartha Ganguly (jointly guided with Debasish Chatterjee) - Quasi Interpolation algorithms and optimization
Rama Seshan Chandrasekharan (jointly guided with Arun Mahindrakar, IIT Madras) - Consensus, coordination and synchronization on Lie groups
Harsh Oza (jointly guided with Sukumar Srikant) - Formation control laws over manifolds: Stability and geometry
Viyom Vivek - Extending the Controlled Lagrangian framework for nonlinear control design to nonholonomic systems
Srishti Siddharth (jointly guided with Vivek Natarajan)- Variational integrators and discrete control for flexible link manipulators
Current Masters students
Current Bachelors students
Vighnesh V. R. - Examining geometric control laws for underwater vehicles
Pranav Gupta - Employing bounds in the implicit function theorem to predict safe regions in bifurcation problems
Shreyas N. Bharadwaj - Using retraction maps for discretizating second-order differential equations for feedback linearization
Hitaishi Modi - Modelling and control of a quadrotor carrying a flexible pipe
Ronit Chitre - A Differential flatness approach to leader-follower problems in nonholonomic systems with uncertainty
Tanmay Dokania - Switching strategies and stabilization for nonholonomic systems
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Past Ph. D. students
Kallol Roy (Ph. D., 2000)
Application of Fault Detection and Identification (FDI)Techniques in Power Regulating Systems of Nuclear Reactors
Retired:Chairman-cum-Managing Director" (CMD)BHAVINI (Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam), -- a PSU under the Dept. of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India.
Sanjay Talole (Ph. D., 2000)
On Aspects of Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems
(Scientist, Institute of Armament Technology, Pune.)
Arun Mahindrakar (Ph. D., 2003)
Control of Underactuated Manipulators
(Professor, Department of Electrical Engg., IIT Madras.)
V. Sankaranarayanan (Ph. D., 2006)
Control Strategies for a class of Underactuated Systems
(Professor and Head, Department of Instrumentation and Electronics Engg., NIT ,Trichy)
Amar Banerji (Ph. D. 2007)
A Dual-Arm Manipulator: Cooperative Task Formulation & Feasibilty
(Scientific Officer, BARC Mumbai.)
Vrunda Joshi (Ph. D. 2008)
Path Planning of a Spherical Mobile Robot
(Professor, Instrumentation Engg, PVGs COET, Pune.)
Faruk Kazi (Ph. D. 2009)
Modelling and control of cable suspended manipulators
(Professor, Department of Electronics Engg, VJTI, Mumbai..)
Narayan Manjarekar (Ph. D. 2009)
Nonlinear control techniques for electrical power system stabilization using controllable series capacitors
(Asst. Professor, Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engg., BITS Goa.)
Harsha Simha (Ph. D. 2013)
Modelling and control of the dielectrophoretic phenomenon for particle separation.
(Asst. Professor, Department of Avionics, Indian Institute of Space Technology, Trivandrum.)
S. Sahoo (jointly guided with Arpita Sinha, Ph. D. 2013)
Coordination problems with minimal sensing and coarse actuation
(Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engg., IIT Kanpur.)
Ramaprakash Bayadi (Ph. D. 2014) -
Control theoretic issues in a rigid body with rotors: A geometric mechanics based approach
(Research Engineer, GE Global Research Center Bengaluru.)
T. S. Kumar (Ph. D. 2015) -
Advanced control techniques for modern telescopes.
(Research Scientist, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences)
Sneha Gajbhiye (Ph. D. 2016)
Modeling, controllability and feedback control of spherical mobile robots.
(Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Palakkad.)
Megha Trivedi (Ph. D. 2017)
Hamiltonian modeling and buckling analysis of a nonlinear beam with actuation at the bottom.
Karmvir S. Phogat (Ph. D. 2018) (jointly guided with Debasish Chatterjee) -
Discrete optimal attitude control of satellites with state and control constraints
(Post-doctoral researcher at KAIST, Korea.)
Aradhana Nayak (Ph. D. 2019)
Geometric issues in tracking problems on Riemannian manifolds
(Post-doctoral researcher at École Centre de Mines, Paris.)
Nidhish Raj (Ph. D. 2020) (IIT-Kanpur student, in a co-guide capacity, jointly guided with Abhishek)
Geometric tracking control laws for aerobatic helicopters
(Currently at DLR, Munich.)
Sudin Kadam (Ph. D. 2022)
Modelling, locomotion and control of manipulators in fluids with low Reynolds number.
Shruti Kotpalliwar (Ph. D. 2023) (jointly guided with Debasish Chatterjee)
Discrete non-smooth optimal control
Past Masters students
Arjun Narayanan - Tracking control laws for satellites actuated by VSCMGs in a geometric framework
K. C. Tejaswi (jointly guided with Sukumar Srikant) - Lyapunov-like functions for attitude control via feedback integrators
Mishal Assif - Discrete time and robustness aspects in optimal control
Soham Shanbhag - Discrete time attitude estimators for the rotational kinematics on SO(3)
Yashaswini Krishnamurthy - Coordinated motion of scallop-like mechanisms in non-Newtonian fluids
Anant Joshi - Estimation and filtering on Lie groups
Anmol Sikka - Discrete mechanics and optimal control techniques applied to a launch vehicle in the reentry phase
Shashank Verma - Discrete mechanics and optimal control techniques applied to a highly maneuverable acrobatic helicopter
Bhavini Jeloka - Differential flatness and Gaussian processes in adaptive cruise control
Past Bachelors students
Nishant Mittal - Jacobian and Inverse robotic kinematics using geometry
Soham Purohit - Kalman filtering on Lie groups
Shreya Shrivastava - Lie group framework for kinematic modelling of flexible manipulators
Hiya Gada - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) on manifolds
Kriti Verma/Amrutha Lakshmi - Cathode arc thrusters for fine manoeuvring of satellites