About

I am an associate professor in the Centre for Systems and Control at IIT Bombay. I am broadly interested in problems related to dynamical systems and control theory, with particular emphasis on systems governed by partial differential equations. Some of the ongoing research in my group are on the motion planning for thermal systems and flexible structures, parameter estimation of thermal systems, observer design for nonlinear partial differential equations and vibration control in flexible structures.

For industry partners: The research activities in my group are often inspired by industrial problems. In the past, I have worked closely with the steel industry and currently I am working with a semiconductor equipment manufacturer. Please see the Sponsored projects page and CDC lab page for some details. I am constantly on the look out for industrial problems that can be addressed using tools from control theory. In case you would like to speak to me about a potential problem, please drop me a mail. 

For students: The ongoing research in my group involves theoretical, computational and experimental studies. I encourage prospective postdoctoral researchers, PhD students and MTech students interested in dynamics and control to write to me outlining their interests and how they align with the research activities of the group. IIT Bombay undergraduates willing to work on problems for at least 4 months can contact me.

Research areas

Motion planning, vibration control, parameter estimation, averaging, stabilization, observer design, adaptive control, multiagent networks, thermal systems, flexible robots, partial differential equations, inverse problems, numerical methods.

Experience

• Associate professor, Systems & Control, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, since May 2021

• Assistant professor, Systems & Control, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

• Postdoctoral scholar, Electrical Engineering, Tel Aviv University

Education

• PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• MS, Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• MS, Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University

• BTech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Announcements

[22nd July 2025] Soham Chatterjee defended his PhD thesis on ``Flatness-Based Motion Planning of PDEs via Semi-Discretization"

[30th June 2025] Dhruv Sorathiya presented his dual degree project on ``Design, fabrication, modeling and control of a cable-driven parallel robot"

[26th June 2025] Sudipto Chattopadhyay presented our work on ``Frequency-domain adaptive parameter identification of linear infinite-dimensional systems'' at the  23rd European Control Conference held at Thessaloniki, Greece

[12th June 2025] Sudipta Chattopadhyay defended his PhD thesis on ``Adaptive identification and constrained control of linear systems''

[8th February 2025] Paper on ``Frequency-domain adaptive parameter identification of linear infinite-dimensional systems'' with Sudipta Chattopadhyay and Srikant Sukumar accepted for presentation in the 23rd European Control Conference to be held at Thessaloniki, Greece in June 2025

[25th January 2025] Paper on ``Model reference adaptive control for state and input constrained linear systems'' with Sudipta Chattopadhyay and Srikant Sukumar has been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Control

[20th January 2025] Paper on ``Semi-discretization of a Euler-Bernoulli beam and its application to motion planning'' with Soham Chatterjee and Aman Batra has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Access

[8th January 2025] Soham Chatterjee presented the pre-synopsis for his PhD thesis titled ``Flatness based motion planning for infinite-dimensional linear systems via semi-discretization''

[26th December 2024] Paper on ``Motion planning for parabolic equations using flatness and finite-difference approximations'' with Soham Chatterjee has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

[19th December 2024] Continuum Dynamics and Control (CDC) lab had a stall in TechConnect 2024 held at IIT Bombay, where we exhibited the ongoing research in our lab including a working prototype of a flexible robotic arm and a cable robot

[10th December 2024] Sarthak Sahoo presented our experimental work ``Design, Fabrication and Control of a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot,'' executed jointly with Dhruv Sorathiya, at the Tenth Indian Control Conference held at IISER Bhopal

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