7
Promotion guide of Indian
Monitoring and Control
organizations
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Preface
The present document has been detailed under the efforts of the
Euclid project consortium. EUCLID is an ambitious and innovative EU
funded initiative aiming to enhance the cooperation in the field of
Networked Monitoring and Control Systems (NMCS) between EU and
India in key areas of mutual interest in order to create substantial
socio-economic benefits in both the regions through research and
technological cooperation. A range of diversified activities will be
implemented to achieve this objective which include
Organization of a partnership tour to bring India and EU research and industry to have face to face
interactions and establish future collaborative partnerships.
Analyze the Indian and EU research and industrial NMCS domain.
Analyze EU and Indian priorities in monitoring and control systems domain to identify
commonalities and establish collaboration in the commonly identified priority areas
Create a ‘pool’ of key NMCS players from India to promote collaboration with their EU
counterparts.
Advice and consult highly motivated NMCS actors from both the regions and support their
collaboration under FP7-ICT research activities.
Author:
Indian Institute of science (IISc) - Annapurna Kuchibhotla
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
SCOPE OF THE GUIDE..................................................................................... 5
1.
INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 6
2.
INDIAN MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS ORGANIZATIONS ...... 10
2.1.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ................................................................................................................................ 10
2.1.1.
IISc-ECE- Faculty...................................................................................................................................... 10
2.2.
IISC-CEDT- FACULTY 1 ......................................................................................................................................... 18
3.
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-INDIAN INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY-MADRAS ................................................................................ 19
3.1.
4.
IIT MADRAS- EE FACULTY ..................................................................................................................................... 21
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY- BOMBAY .................................. 22
4.1.
IIT-DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-1 ...................................................................................................... 24
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS .................................................................................................................................. 24
4.2.
IIT-DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-2 ...................................................................................................... 25
4.3.
IIT-DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-3 ...................................................................................................... 26
4.4.
IIT-DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING-4 ...................................................................................................... 30
4.5.
IIT- DEPARTMENT OF SYSTEMS AND CONTROL ........................................................................................................... 31
4.6.
IIT-DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING- FACULTY 1 ............................................................................. 33
4.7.
IIT- DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING .......................................................................................................... 37
4.8.
IIT- DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING- FACULTY ............................................................................................ 39
5.
5.1.
5.2.
5.3.
5.4.
5.5.
5.6.
5.7.
5.8.
6.
NATIONAL INSTITUTES ....................................................................... 40
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-HYDERABAD ............................................................................................ 40
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TEHNOLOGY ............................................................................................................ 41
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY -CALICUT .......................................................................................... 43
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY- HAMIRPUR ...................................................................................... 44
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY- ALLAHABAD ................................................................. 45
JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY ................................................................................................................................... 47
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING-PUNE ................................................................................................................... 49
AMRITA VISWA VIDYAPEETAM ........................................................................................................................ 50
PUBLIC COMPANIES IN MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS .......... 53
6.1.
TCS INNOVATION LABS-KOLKATTA .................................................................................................................. 53
6.2.
TCS INNOVATION LABS- BANGALORE .............................................................................................................. 55
6.3.
HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LIMITED ............................................................................................ 55
6.4.
ABB .................................................................................................................................................................. 57
6.5.
INFOSYS ........................................................................................................................................................... 58
6.6.
SIFY .................................................................................................................................................................. 59
6.7.
CONTROL & SOLUTIONS (INDIA)PVT LTD .................................................................................................................. 61
6.8.
NIPPON INSTRUMENTS (INDIA) PVT LTD ......................................................................................................... 63
APPLICATION DOMAINS ........................................................................................................................................... 64
6.9.
EMERSON ........................................................................................................................................................ 64
6.10. LARSON &TOUBRO .......................................................................................................................................... 65
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS; ................................................................................................................................. 66
APPLICATION DOMAINS ...................................................................................................................................... 66
L&T is and has executed several national and international projects in industrial engineering. It is one of the big
players and has spun off several SME’s. .................................................................................................................. 67
6.11. RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED ....................................................................................................................... 68
APPLICATION DOMAINS ...................................................................................................................................... 68
6.12. CHENNAKESAVA PURA TRUST ......................................................................................................................... 69
6.13. COGNIZANT ..................................................................................................................................................... 70
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6.14.
7.
YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION ............................................................................................................ 71
PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES ...................................................................... 72
7.1.
DHIRUBHAI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................ 72
7.2.
REVA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT ................................................................................. 74
APPLICATION DOMAINS ...................................................................................................................................... 75
7.3.
PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 77
7.4.
M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-BANGALORE ............................................................................... 78
7.5.
VJTI- BOMBAY .................................................................................................................................................. 79
APPLICATION DOMAINS ........................................................................................................................................... 80
7.6.
R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING ............................................................................................................................... 80
7.7.
CALCUTTA INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND MANGEMENT .......................................................................... 83
7.8.
NIRMA UNIVERSITY ......................................................................................................................................... 84
8.
PUBLIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS ................................................... 86
8.1.
CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE .......................................................................................................... 86
8.2.
THE ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ................................................................................................................. 87
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing) .................................................................................................................... 89
APPLICATION DOMAINS .......................................................................................................................................... 89
8.3.
CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING ............................................................................. 90
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS .................................................................................................................................. 92
8.4.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICALS LIMITED.............................................................................................................. 93
8.5.
CENTRE FOR STUDY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY .......................................................................... 94
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S COPE OF THE G UIDE
The scope of the guide is to highlight the research competencies and interests of
prominent Indian actors such as the research institutes, academic institutes,
government research organizations and public companies and Private academic
institutions. The purpose of the catalogue is to showcase India’s research potential
thus paving way for collaborative research.
The catalogue is structured according to the type of organizations grouping them
into public, R&D institutions and private organizations that exhibit research
interests. It should be noted that the lists of organizations included in this Guide are
neither exhaustive nor exclusive.
The catalogue details the collective research interests of the respective departments
along with the projects ongoing and executed. However, in India unlike Europe a
researcher in a position of Associate or Assistant Professor can independently
undertake research projects and hence the contact details and research interests of
the faculty who showed keen interest in cooperating with EU has been included. In
most of the premier institutes the Assistant/Associate professor runs his own lab
with his research group and lab facilities.
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1. I NTRODUCTION
This is a promotional guide of Indian organizations eager to develop international
cooperation with Europe in networked monitoring and control systems.
The profile of each organization includes:
Title, acronym and logo
Type (R&D organization/ private company/ Department, and Size)
Brief description of the organization (general description of the
organization, research activities international cooperation experience, if
any)
R&D competencies in monitoring and control systems (Theoretical,
Application Domains and Technological concepts)
Relevant publications and projects (Recent national and international
projects)
International collaborative experience if any, (optional)
Contact details (Name, Website, email, Phone, Address)
 To find Monitoring and Control research competences of the Indian
organizations present in this guide, please refer to the summary table on the
next page.
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IIT-M
IITEE-B
IIT- B
Chem
IISc
Y
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Y
Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Y Y Y Y Y
Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Discrete Manufacturing
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Surgery and Exams
Assistive/rehabilitation robotics
Transportation
Biomedical Devices
Air Vehicles
Y
Road Traffic management
Y
Air traffic management
Water
Automatic vehicle control
Waste Water treatment
Irrigation
Ind-Auto
Clean water Supply
Batch Manufaturing
Energy Mgmt
Continuos manufacturing
Carbon capture anSequestration
Renewable energy
D irect current Networks
Energy Efficiency
Embedded
Sys
Smart Grids
Technological
Concepts
Smart Buildings
Monitoring and Control Networks
Verification and validation
Inst
&mearmt
Real time systems
Sensor fusion
Pervasive sensors
Theoretical concepts
Wireless sensors
Principal component analysis (PCA)
Coordinated control
Multivariate statistics
Distributed parameter systems
Statistical performance monitoring
Probabilstic
Networked control
Discrete events/ Hybrid
Estimation / identification
Observers
Predictive control
Adaptive control
Non linear control
Robust control
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2. S UMMARY OF NETWORKED MONITORING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS R&D COMPETENCIES
Application Domains
Health
8
IIT- B
CSE
BITSH
NITC
NIT H
NIT -T
Y
Y
Y
ABB
Infos
ys
Sify
Y
Y Y
Y
Y Y
Y Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y Y Y
Y
Y Y
Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y Y Y
Y
Y Y
Y Y Y
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Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
RIL
CK
Trust
Y
Y
CSIL
Nipp
on
Emer
son
L&T
Y
Y
Y
IIIT-A
Jadav
pur
Univ
COEP
-Pune
Amrit
ha
TCS KOL
TCS B
HTSL
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
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Cogni
zant
DIITGuj
RIEM
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y Y
Y
Y
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
NAL
Y Y Y
Y Y
Y Y Y Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y Y
Y
Y Y Y
Y Y Y
Y Y Y
Y
Y
Y Y Y
TERI
CDAC
Y
Y
Y Y
CPRI
Y
Y
PESIT
MSRI
T
NIRM
A
VJTI
Y
Y Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
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Y
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Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
Y
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3. INDIAN MONITORING
ORGANIZATIONS
3.1.
AND
CONTROL
SYSTEMS
Indian Institute of Science
3.1.1. IISc-ECE- Faculty
Contact Name
Professor Vinod sharma, Chairman ECE Department
Website
www.ece.iisc.ernet.in
Email
office@ece.iisc.ernet.in
Phone
+91 80 2293 2276 / 2278; +91 80 2360 0563
80 2360 0563
Address
Brief Description
Research areas
Fax : +91
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
The Indian Institute of Science is one of the oldest institutions in
the country for higher education and world class research in both
Science and Engineering. The faculty and alumni of the Institute
have been responsible for establishing and spearheading many
new institutions and programs across the country, reflecting in a
real sense, a major contribution of this centre of learning to
national growth and development.
Communication networks: Network test bed labs with Cisco
routers, wireless LAN devices, link and traffic emulaters,
miniature wireless sensors, and several reconfigurable PCs; ERNET
network operations centre; protocol engineering & testing
software; network simulation software: ns2, OPNET, Qualnet.
The department has the following labs:
network_labs@ernet.in
Performance Analysis Lab
Protocol Engineering & Technology Unit
Wireless Research Lab
Microwave and Optical Communications
Coding and Modulation Lab
Coding and Signal Design Lab
Next Generation Wireless Systems Lab
Signal Processing for Communications (SPC)
Nano-Devices and Sensors :We have a strong research group
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actively involved in device and materials research for
nanoelectronics, MEMs and sensor based applications. In this
group, we cover the wide spectrum of conceiving novel device
concepts, modeling and simulation, materials engineering,
fabrication and characterization of devices.
VLSI: We also do extensive R&D in VLSI circuits and
systems, involving custom chip design as well as FPGA
and off-the-shelf based electronics system design. We
have a tie-up with external chip foundries via the
Europractice IC fabrication program through which we get
our chips fabricated.
Microwave Laboratory of ECE is motivated to work towards the
design and analysis of microwave circuits, components and subsystems including micromachined devices for RF, microwave,
millimeter wave applications. Micromachined antennas, phase
shifters, and filters are some such components. In addition we are
involved in the design of RF MEMS switches for space applications
and a low cost option for such devices.
R&D projects
Education and Research Network (ERNET), (Dept. of
Information Technology, MCIT)
MCIT Cognitive Radio Project (2010-2013)
MCIT WiMAX QoS Project (2009-2012)
Sensor Network Project
Program on advanced research in mathematical
engineering (DRDO)
Broadband wireless communications research (DST)
National MEMS design center (NPSM)
Device variability and its impact on circuit design
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Contact Name
Website
Email
Professor Bhardwaj Amrutur
http://chips.ece.iisc.ernet.in
amrutur@ece.iisc.ernet.in
Phone
+919886054723
Address
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
Professor Amrutur is an Associate professor in IISc Electronics
and Communication Engineering department of IISc. His research
interests include VLSI systems, circuits and architecture. He and
his group is currently involved in research in low power
techniques for circuits and systems for applications like
Large scale visual sensing systems with wireless
connectivity for security applications
Low cost electrochemical sensing of glycated hemoglobin
Implantable electronics for neural prosthetics.
Replacing wires with robust, low power wireless links
Low power microcontroller platform with high efficiency
signal processing
Brief Description
While circuit and chip design has been their primary focus, the
research group works on sensor design and algorithm design too
in collaboration with other experts of IISc. The lab is involved in
sensor fabrication, and is looking at building experimental
prototypes. He works with 15 phd students and 2 masters.
Besides analysis and simulations, they look to build experimental
prototypes to learn and validate ideas. They fabricate sensors inhouse in the CENSE facilty, chips through external foundries, PCBs
through local companies, FPGAs and embedded systems on their
respective development kits. The group has access to the state
of the art Chip/FPGA/PCB/System design tools and also makes
liberal use of open source software. Our testing lab is equipped
with high speed oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzer, data acquisition
system and other ancillary equipments to test the experimental
prototypes they build.
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2
3
4
5
R&D Projects and publications
R&D activities
Wireless sensor network for urban pollution management
Urban air quality monitoring through large scale wireless
sensor network,CISTUP@2010
Wireless sensor network for surveillance
Wireless Sensor Networks for human intruder detection,
Journal of IISc, 2010
Wireless sensor with video and locationing for emergency
response agents.
Wireless Sensor Networks for human intruder detection,
Smart Detect Project Team, Journal of the Indian Institute
of Science, Vo. 90, No. 3, July-Sep 2010, pp. 347-380.
[pdf]
Memory Bandwidth and Power Reduction using Lossy
Reference Frame Compression in Video Encoding, Ajit D.
Gupte, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Mahesh M. Mehendale, Ajit
V. Rao, Madhukar Budagavi, IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems for Video Technology, 2010.
Urban air quality monitoring through large scale wireless
sensor network, Arun Kumar, Mahodaya, Syam Krishnan
V, Umanath Kamath, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Navakanta
Bhat, S. Mohan, Kaustubh Rau, Rajesh Kasturirangan,
CISTUP@CISTUP 2010.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Statistical performance monitoring: Statistical performance
monitoring
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management: Energy efficiency
Health care: Biomedical devices, Assistive/rehabilitation
robotics
Other domains (use keywords) Pollution monitoring, video
surveillance
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors, Pervasive
sensors, Sensor fusion.
Embedded systems: Real time systems
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Contact Name
Professor Neelesh B Mehta
Website
http://ece.iisc.ernet.in/~nbmehta/
Email
neeleshbmehta@gmail.com
Phone
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
Professor Mehta is an Assistant professor in the ECE department of
IISc. His research areas are mainly into Next generation wireless
communication systems and standards, multiple access protocols,
cooperative communications, interference modeling, and low
complexity multi-antenna diversity techniques.
Address
Brief Description
R&D Projects and publications
His current research interests are Next generation Wireless systems
lab focuses on performance analysis and design of next generation
cellular mobile radio systems such as HSPA, LTE, and WiMAX,
wireless system and protocol design for energy harvesting wireless
sensor networks, cognitive radio, cooperative communications,
multiple antenna systems, and interference modeling.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent
Probabilistic: Stochastic
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management: Energy efficiency
Other domains (use keywords) Wireless communications
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors
1 “Voluntary Energy Harvesting Relays and Selection in Cooperative
Wireless Networks,” IEEE Trans. Wireleless Communications, Nov.
2010
2 "A Novel, Balanced, and Energy-Efficient Training Method for
Receive Antenna Selection," IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications,
Sept. 2010
3 “The Relay Selection and Transmission Tradeoff in Cooperative
Communication Systems,” IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications,
Aug. 2010
4 “Performance Analysis of a Cooperative System with Rateless
Codes and Buffered Relays,” To appear in IEEE Trans. Wireless
Communications, 2011
5 “Moment-Matched Lognormal Modeling of Uplink Interference
with Power Control and Cell Selection,” IEEE Trans. Wireless
Communications, Mar. 2010
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Type
University/Research institute
Contact name
Professor P Vijay Kumar
Email
pvk1729@gmail.com, vijay@ece.iisc.ernet.in
Phone number
08022933155
Address
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
Professor Kumar has research interests in Signal design for
wireless communication including distributed space-time codes
for cooperative communication and low-correlation sequences
for CDMA; algorithms for distributed detection in sensor
networks
Research interests
R&D Competencies
Recent publications and projects
Coding for Distributed Storage, Distributed space-time codes for
cooperative communication, Space-time codes for multiple-input,
multiple-output (MIMO) antenna communication, Sensor
Networks, Algorithms for Distributed Detection and Localization,
Low-correlation
sequence
design
for
multiple-access
communication
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (Sensing)
Instruments and measurements : Wireless sensors
[TransIT_RBT] N. B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, P. V. Kumar and K.
Ramchandran, ``Distributed Storage Codes with Repair-byTransfer and Non-achievability of Interior Points on the StorageBandwidth Tradeoff,'' submitted to IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory, available online at arXiv:1011.2361 [cs.IT].
[TransIT_PM] K. V. Rashmi, N. B. Shah and P. V. Kumar, ``Optimal
Exact-Regenerating Codes for the MSR and MBR Points via a
Product-Matrix Construction,'' accepted for publication in the
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, available online at
arXiv:1005.4178 [cs.IT].
Also presented at IEEE ISIT 2010 Recent Results Poster Session.
[TransIT_MSR] N. B. Shah, K. V. Rashmi, P. V. Kumar and K.
Ramchandran, ``Interference Alignment in Regenerating Codes
for Distributed Storage: Necessity and Code Constructions,''
submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, available
online at arXiv:1005.1634v3 [cs.IT].
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Wireless Sensor Networks
Error Control for Reliable Distributed Storage Networks
Multiple Antenna Communication
Wireless Networks
R&D Projects
TYPE
University/ Research Institute
Size
>100
Contact Name
Website
Professor K V S Hari
http://www.ece.iisc.ernet.in/~hari
Email address
hari@ece.iisc.ernet.in
Phone number
+91-80-22932745
Address
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
Brief description
R&D activities
The Department of Electrical Engineering is an active participant in
many technological projects of national and international importance
and is constantly in the process of providing a vision for the future
technological trends in the country. The department has 25 faculty
members currently teaching and researching on the Communications
and Networking, Signal Processing, Microwave Engineering,
Microelectronics, Micro-Nano-Electronics and Photonics. The
department currently has over 122 Phd students working in one of the
above topics.
Professor Hari has research interests in Statistical Signal Processing
Wireless Communication: MIMO - OFDM systems, MIMO Wireless
channel modelling, Wireless Sensor Networks, Array Signal Processing:
Direction Estimation using sensor arrays, Microphone arrays. He has 7
Phd and 3 Masters students working in these areas.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters
Estimation / identification: System identification, Closed loop
identification, Parameter estimation
Coordination control: Synchronization
Probabilistic: Stochastic
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Distributed parameter systems: Multivariate statistics:
Statistical performance monitoring: Principal component analysis
(PCA):
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Transportation: Road traffic management
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors, Sensor
fusion Embedded systems: Real time systems
Rrecent publications
R&D Projects
Satya Sudhakar Yedlapalli and K. V. S. Hari, " THE LINE SPECTRAL
FREQUENCY MODEL OF A FINITE LENGTH SEQUENCE," Special Issue
on Model Order Selection in Signal Processing Systems, IEEE Journal
of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, June 2010.
M R Bhavani Shankar and K V S Hari, 'Systematic Construction of
Linear Transform based Full Diversity, Rate One Space-TimeFrequency Codes,' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57,
issue 6, June 2009, pp. 2285-2298.
M. R. Bhavani Shankar and K. V. S. Hari, 'On the Variations in Mutual
Information of MIMO Communication Systems Due to Perturbed
Channel State Information at Transmitter' IEEE Transactions in
Communications, Volume 54, Issue 9, Sept. 2006 Page(s): 1593 1603
1 Co-Channel Interference Cancellation in Wireless COmmunication,
NOKIA Research Centre, Helsinki
2 India-UK Advanced Technology Centre for Next Generation
Communication Systems
3 Indo-Swedish Strategic partnership Programme on position location
indoors.
4 Wireless sensor networks for Road traffic monitoring
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3.2.
TYPE
Size
IISc-CEDT- Faculty 1
University/ Research Institute
>100
Contact Name
Email address
Phone number
Address
Mr T V Prabhakar
tvprabs@cedt.iisc.ernet.in
+91 80 23600810
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
The areas of work of special interest to CEDT are :


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

Brief description
Communication Networks,
Power electronics and Energy systems,
Control Systems,
Embedded Systems,
Electronics Packaging and
VLSI
Mr Prabhakar’s research interest are mainly Energy related issues.
Specifically, he works on Energy harvesting wireless sensor networks special issues arising out them. He is interested in "System building" essentially build a piece of hardware from scratch and the software flesh
around it to create a platform. The idea is then to use this platform to
drive from harvested energies. Cyber Physical Systems is of overall
interest. Area of work - Communication networks. Course offered TCP/IP networking. Research work - Energy Harvesting for wireless
sensor networks - Platform building, Characterization and Algorithms,
Application of WSNs to agriculture - sensing and monitoring, and
Technologies for Healthcare.
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4. D EPARTMENT OF E LECTRICAL E NGINEERING -I NDIAN I NSTITUTE OF
T ECHNOLOGY -M ADRAS
Contact name
Dr. Enakshi Bhattacharya, Head of the Department
Website
www.ee.iitm.ac.in
Email address
eeoffice@ee.iitm.ac.in
Phone number
91 - 44 - 2257 4400 / 5407, Fax: +91 - 44 - 2257 4402
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, I.I.T. Post Office, Chennai - 600 036
India
Address
Brief Description of the
organization
EE department activities
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is one among the foremost institutes
of national importance in higher technological education, basic and applied
research. IIT Madras is a residential institute with nearly 460 faculty, 4500
students and 1250 administrative & supporting staff and is a self-contained
campus located in a beautiful wooded land of about 250 hectares. It has
established itself as a premier centre for teaching, research and industrial
consultancy in the country.
The Institute has fifteen academic departments and a few advanced
research centers in various disciplines of engineering and pure sciences, with
nearly 100 laboratories organized in a unique pattern of functioning. A
faculty of international repute, a brilliant student community, excellent
technical & supporting staff and an effective administration has all
contributed to the pre-eminent status of IIT Madras.
The department of Electrical engineering has 51 faculty members, forming
into four major groups conducting research addressing the pressing needs of
India and other developing countries. consists of 8 Reasearch group of
master's (MS) and doctoral (PhD) students. The major research areas of
interest to the group can be summarized in the following categories:
Communication, Telematics and Fibre Optics
Control Guidance and Robotics
Integrated Electronics lab
Machines and Drives
Measurements and Instrumentation
Microelectronics & MEMS
Analog & Digital VLSI
Power Systems and High Voltage
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EE department activities
R&D Activities
TeNeT GroupThe group working on the Power Electronics, Control,
Robotics and Instrumentation is involved with application of Power
Electronics Technology to control machine drives, converter and inverter
control.
The following works are carried out by research students in this group:
Hybrid active power filters, Grid connected inverter control, Sensor less
BLDC motor control, Position control of PMSM machines, Condition
monitoring of induction machines, Harmonic detection for use with Active
power filters, Digital Control of Scalable AC/DC and DC/DC Converters,
New architectures for robotic mapping and exploration
The Dynamics and Control Laboratory is involved in research on theoretical
and implementation aspects of control with emphasis on robotic systems.
A wide-range of areas are of interest to the group and they include
nonlinear control, applications of sliding-mode and energy-based control
laws for the stabilization of nonholonomic systems. Stabilization in the
presence of state-constraints is one such area that the group is currently
involved.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Non linear control: Feedback linearization, Differential geometry, Back
stepping, Sliding mode, Passivity based control
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent
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4.1.
IIT Madras- EE Faculty
Contact name
Dr. Arun D. Mahindrakar
Organization
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Website
http://www.ee.iitm.ac.in/~arun_dm
Email address
arun_dm@iitm.ac.in
Phone number
91-44-22574445
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, I.I.T. Post Office, Chennai - 600 036
India
Dr Mahindrakar’s group has 3 students currently working with him and his
research interests are Nonlinear control, optimal control and constrained
stabilization with particular emphasis on applications to underactuated
mechanical systems, Nonlinear systems and control, control of
piezoelectric tubes and mapping of mobile robots. Also in the formation
control of aerial vehicles.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Non linear control: Feedback linearization, Differential geometry, Back
stepping, Sliding mode, Passivity based control
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent
Robust stabilization of a class of underactuated mechanical systems using
time-scaling and Lyapunov redesign", IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronics, to appear .
V. Sankarnarayanan and Arun D. Mahindrakar , "Control of a class of under
actuated mechanical systems using sliding modes.", IEEE Trans. on
Robotics
Mobile Robot Navigation Through a Hardware- Efficient Implementation
for Control-Law-Based Construction of Generalized Voronoi Diagram",
IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, to appear .
Address
Research activities
R&D Competencies
R&D projects or recent
publications
Interested in
cooperating with EU
Joint research projects, Co- Supervision
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5. I NDIAN I NSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY - B OMBAY
Department of Electrical
Engineering –IIT Bombay
Contact Name
Professor V Ramgopal Rao
Website
www.ee.iib.ac.in
Email address
eeoffice @ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone Number
91 22 2576 7401, 7402
Address
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Brief Description of
the Organization
The EE department at IIT Bombay has been active in teaching and research
since its inception in 1957. Currently, about 45 faculty members are
engaged in research in the areas of Communication and Signal Processing,
Control and Computing, Power Electronics and Power Systems,
Microelectronics and VLSI design, and Electronic Systems. The department
has academic programmes with about 320 undergraduate and 340
postgraduate students. The department is equipped with the latest
experimental and computational facilities for taking up R & D and
consultancy activities in various fields.
Fax: +91 22 2572 3707
The EE department at IITB is equipped with state-of-the-art research
facilities and infrastructure. A wide variety of research topics are under
investigation, and several industry-sponsored projects are being carried
out in various disciplines.
Research areas
The Communication and Signal Processing Group has been active
in various research areas: Wireless Communication, Microwave RF,
Antenna, Signal Processing, Fiber Optics and Photonics,
Communication Networks, Computer Vision, Media processing,
Image Processing.
The activities of the Control and Computing Group include
Automatic control, Computational methods for systems theory,
Graph and matroid decompositions, Cryptography and coding
theory, Dynamical systems, Grobner basis methods
The Power Electronics and Power Systems Group is engaged in
research in a broad range of activities. An important aspect of the
group's programme is the integration of power electronics with
the study of power systems. The group is actively providing
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R&D activities in
monitoring and
control systems
R&D Projects
research and development support for the national electric power
infrastructure
Research activities in the Microelectronics Group span a wide
range of areas: physics, technology, characterization, modeling,
simulation, design, and CAD tools. The Group is a part of the
Centre of Excellence in Nanoelectronics. In addition to the
microelectronics group faculty members, over 15 faculty members
from 8 different departments/schools take part in the
Nanoelectronics centre activities. This Centre of Excellence in
Nanoelectronics is one of the two centres created in the country
through an initiative from the Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology.
The research areas being pursued by the Electronic Systems Group
are Embedded System design, Signal processing, Biomedical
Electronics, Electronic Instrumentation, and Audio and Speech
Processing
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent, Control
of networks, Control over network
Coordination control: Synchronization
Principal component analysis (PCA)
Fault detection and diagnosis
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Health care: Biomedical devices
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors, Pervasive
sensors, Sensor fusion
Silicon sensors for electroporation (Praman Technology) Channel
engineering for 100 nm CMOS devices (DST) Characterization of
vertical MOS transistors (Siemens) Design and characterization of
Flash memories (Hitachi)
Neonatal monitor, Pulse oxymeter Impedance cardiograph
Impedance glottograph, Diagnostic audiometer, Intravenous
drip rate indicator
Electronic Circuits & Instrumentation
Sampling instruments, active eqvt of ac bridges,family of A/D &
D/A structures
Time multiplexed SC filters
Subband adaptive filter structure for low computational load
Fault diagnosis in analog circuits
CM & DM separator & analysis tool for conducted EMI filter design
DSP Systems
VLSI implementation of DSP-based system.
DSP based multiprocessor system for real time simulation
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Multi-tasking scheduler for DSP based control applications
DSP based navigation system for space applications
DSP based system for low bit rate speech compression
5.1.
IIT-Department of Electrical Engineering-1
Department of Electrical
Engineering –IIT Bombay
Contact Name
Website
Prof V RamGopal Rao
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~rrao/
Email address
rrao@ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone Number
+91-22-25767456
Address
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Brief Description of the
Organization
Professor Ramagopal Rao is a part of the Microelectronics and VLSI
group with research interests in Nanoelectronics, Technology
Aware Design Challenges with Emerging Technologies (ProcessDevice-Circuit Interactions with Multigate MOSFETs, Polymer
Transistors, Molecular Electronics etc.) CMOS Reliability, and BioMEMS. He is currently guiding 11 Phd students and 1 Masters. He is
the chief coordinator for the Centre for Nano electronics which is a
new fabrication facility built with 25 million US dollars.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
R&D activities in monitoring
and control systems
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent,
Control of networks, Control over network
Coordination control: Synchronization
Principal component analysis (PCA)
Fault detection and diagnosis
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Health care: Biomedical devices
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors,
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Pervasive sensors, Sensor fusion
International Collaborative
experience:
Intel-(Circuit Research Lab) (high-k modeling, mixed-signal
CMOS, Multi-gate MOSFETs) (Current)
Infineon, Munich, Germany (IO Circuit Optimizations using
Novel Devices) (Current)
Universita della Calabria, Italy (High-k characterization for
CMOS/Finfets) (Current)
Tokyo Institute of Technology-Japan (Finfets) (Current)
Nanyang Technological University-Singapore (Organic
Electronics) (Current)
University of Cambridge, UK (Sensors) (Current)
University of Washington, USA (MEMS) (Current)
IBM (Technology Aware Design Challenges)
IMEC-Belgium (Multi-gate MOSFETs)
International Rectifier Corporation (Super-junction Power
MOSFETs)
National University of Singapore (High-k Dielectric
Characterization)
University of California -Los Angeles (Single Halo MOSFETs
& Mixed signal CMOS)
Yale University (JVD nitrides)
Universitaet der Bundeswehr Munich-Germany (Vertical
transistors)
1. V. Seena, Avil Fernandes, S. Mukherji, V. Ramgopal Rao,
"Photoplastic Microcantilever Sensor Platform for Explosive
Vapor Detection", To appear in International Journal of
Nanoscience 2011.
Recent Publications
5.2.
2. V. Seena, Ravishankar S. Dudhe, Harshil N. Raval, Sheetal Patil,
Anil Kumar, Soumyo Mukherji and V. Ramgopal Rao, "Organic
Sensor Platforms for Environmental and Security Applications",
Electro-Chemical-Society (ECS) Transactions - Volume 35,
"Tutorials in Nanotechnology: Dielectrics in Nanosystems", To
be published in April, 2011
IIT-Department of Electrical Engineering-2
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Contact name
Email address:
Prof Debraj Chakraborty
http://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/wiki/faculty/dc
dc@ee.iitb.ac.in
Address
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Website :
Professor Debraj Chakraborthy belongs to the electrical engineering
department of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He is a part
of the 15 member Control and Computing group. His research interests
are in Optimal Control, Linear Systems, Optimization, Differential,
Games, Game Theory. He works with 2 Phd students and 2 M tech
students.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: LMI, LQR
Non linear control: Feedback linearization, Sliding mode
Networked control: Control over network
Fault detection and diagnosis: Fault detection and diagnosis
Research areas
R&D activities
1
2
3
R&D projects or recent
publications
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5
5.3.
Contact name
Project: ISRO funded project: Hybrid Control and Fault
Detection during re-entry of Reusable Launch Vehicles
Project: Royal Academy of Eng, London funded project: Widearea Damping Control With Limited Data Feedback
S. Mukhopadhyay and D. Chakraborty, “A Computational
Algorithm for Selecting Robust Designs in Safety and Quality
Critical Processes”, accepted in San
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Debraj Chakraborty and Balarko
Chaudhuri, “Damping Control in Power Systems under
Constrained Communication Bandwidth: A Predi
D. Chakraborty and J. Hammer, “Robust optimal control:
Operating with low error for the longest time”, International
Journal of Control, Volume 83.
IIT-Department of Electrical Engineering-3
Dr. VIVEK AGARWAL, PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
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Phone
91-22-25767422
Website
www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~agarwal
mail address:
agarwal@ee.iitb.ac.in
Address
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Professor Agarwal’s research interests include
Research areas
R&D Competencies
R&D Projects and
Publications
1. Power conversion: New converter topologies, High frequency
link power conversion, ZCS-ZVS configurations, Switched
Capacitor DC-DC converters
2. Power quality issues: Power factor correction techniques, Static
VAR compensation, Active filters
3. Non-conventional energy (solar PV, wind, fuel cell) : Power
conditioning, maximum power point tracking, stand-alone and
grid connected systems, Microgrid
4. Intelligent control of power electronic systems (including
electric drives): Advanced control schemes, DSP and FPGA
based control
5. Design of electronic systems : Design and fabrication of
hardware for a range of applications such as biomedical
applications, navigation systems and intelligent trransportation
systems etc., Radiation effects on electronic and power
electronic systems and components.
6. ElectroMagnetic Interference (EMI): EMI analysis and mitigation
techniques for electronic and power electronic circuits and
power systems.
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management: Smart grids, Energy efficiency, Renewable energy
Transportation: Automotive vehicle control
Health care: Biomedical devices, Assistive/reabilitation robotics
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Embedded systems: Real time systems
1. Design and Development of a High Frequency, High Voltage
Supply for High-Field Asymetric Waveform Ion Mobility
Spectrometer (FA- MS) application - Sponsoring Agency :
Defense Research and Development Establishment, Amount
of Grant: Rs.10 Lakhs (US$ 20,000 approx.), Duration and
year: 18 months (2009-2010)
2. Design, development and analysis of high power switched
capacitor- Inductorless DC-DC converters - Sponsoring
Agency : Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences , Amount of
Grant: Rs.15.25 Lakhs (US$ 30,500 approx.), Duration and
year: 2 years (2009-2011)
3. Analysis of transient loading, inverter current loading
propagation to fuel cells and design of bi-directional active
power network - Sponsoring Agency : Defense Research and
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Development Establishment , Amount of Grant: Rs.10 Lakhs
(US$ 20,000 approx.), Duration and year:18 months (20092011)
4. Development of a Wireless Remote Controlled Vehicle for
Nuclear Radiation Sensing and Intensity Mapping in Nuclear
Power Plants and Surrounding Facilities - Sponsoring Agency
: BARC, Amount of Grant: Rs.15.5 Lakhs (US$ 31,000
approx.), Duration and year: 18 months (Aug 2009- Jan 2011)
- (Project finalized, yet to be started)
5. Development of a Remote Whole Body Radioactivity
Detector and a Centralised Continuous Monitoring Data
Display System for In-patient Nuclear Medicine Therapy
Procedures - Sponsoring Agency : BARC, Amount of Grant:
Rs.12.8 Lakhs (US$ 25,600 approx.), Duration and year: 18
months (Aug 2009- Jan 2011) - (Project finalized, yet to be
started)
Somaiah, B., Agarwal, V., Choudhary, S. R., Duttagupta, S.
and Govindan, K. : Analysis And Comparative Study Of
Pulsating Current Of Fuel Cells By Inverter Load With
Different Power Converter Topologies,(Accepted Paper) - to
appear in International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (Elsevier
Science).
Recent publication
1. R. Thakur, Agarwal, V. and Nataraj, P.S.V. : A Reliable and
Accurate Calculation of Excitation Capacitance Value for an
Induction Generator Based on Interval Computation
Technique, (Accepted Paper) - to appear in International
Journal of Automation and Computing (A Springer Verlag
Publication).
2. Agarwal, V., Murali N. and Chandramouli, C.: A Cost Effective
Ultrasonic Sensor Based Driver Assistance System for
Congested Traffic Cond tions,(Accepted Paper) - to appear in
IEEE Tran. on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
3. Agarwal V., Ranganadh T.S. and Chandramouli C.: Design and
Development of a Wireless Internet based ECG Monitoring
System for Ambulatory Applications,(Accepted Paper) - to
appear in International Journal of Biomedical Engineering
and Technology.
4. Patel, H. and Agarwal V.: Investigations into the Performance
of PV based Active Filter Configurations and their Control
Schemes under Uniform and Non-Uniform Insolation
Conditions,(Accepted Paper) - to appear in IET Proc. on
Renewable Power Generation.
5. Agarwal V., Aggarwal R., Patidar P., and Patki C.: A Novel
Scheme for Rapid Tracking of Maximum Power point in Wind
Energy Generation Systems, (Accepted Paper) - to appear in
IEEE Tran. On Energy Conversion.
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5.4.
Contact name
IIT-Department of Electrical Engineering-4
Professor HARISH PILLAI
Phone
91-22-25767424
Email address
hp@ee.iitb.ac.in
Address
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Research areas
R&D activities
Professor pillai’s research interests include: Control theory, Systems
theory, Multidimensional systems, Numerical and computational
methods, Coding theory, Optimization techniques, Electromagnetics
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: H, LMI, Non linear control
Feedback linearization, Differential geometry, Sliding mode, Passivity
based control, Predictive control: MPC, Explicit MPC, Observers,
Luenberger Estimation / identification, Parameter estimation
Discrete events/ Hybrid
Networked control: Control of networks, Control over network
Coordination control
Synchronization, Consensus
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Transportation: Road traffic management
Water management: Waste water treatment
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements
Wireless sensors, Sensor fusion
Embedded systems
Monitoring and Control Networks
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5.5.
IIT- Department of Systems and control
Contact name
Phone
Website :
Email
Address
Research areas
R&D activities
R&D projects
Dr P. S. V NATARAJ
91-22-25727887
www.sc.iitb.ac.in\~nataraj
nataraj@sc.iitb.ac.in
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Professor Nataraj’s current research interests are in the areas of Robust
Stability and Control especially using quantitative feedback theory (QFT)
techniques, Nonlinear System Analysis and Control, and Reliable
Computing using interval analysis techniques.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: LMI, LQR
Non linear control: Feedback linearization, Sliding mode
Networked control: Control over network
Fault detection and diagnosis: Fault detection and diagnosic
1. Aeronautical Research and Development Board (ARDB)
sponsored “Prediction of Limit Cycle Oscillations”, sanctioned
received Rs 500 thousand
2. Aeronautical Rs. 1.5 crores, Research and Development Board
(ARDB) sponsored “Flight Control System Design using QFT”,
March 2002 – ongoing Rs 400 thousand
3. Technology development mission, "Integrated design and
competitive manufacturing (IDCM)", team member, 1995-1999.
4. Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) Sponsored Project
"Multivariable Control of Nuclear Steam Supply System in an
Indian PHWR" (Rs. 9.0 Lakhs), Principal Investigator. 1998. (Coinvestigator: Prof. J. B. Doshi, Mechanical Engg. IIT Bombay).
Recent Publications
1. On Speeding up a basic global optimization algorithm of interval
analysis, P. S. V. Nataraj and A. K. Prakash, submitted to Reliable
Computing. (Download zipped PDF file)
2. A Monotonicity based Method for Robust Stability Analysis of
Uncertain Polynomials with Nonlinear Uncertainty Structures, P. S.
V. Nataraj and Nandkishor S. Kubal, submitted to Nonlinear
Analysis: Theory, Methods, and Applications. (Download zipped PDF
file)
3. Experiments with a new randomized rule for bisection direction
selection in range computations, P. S. V. Nataraj and A. K. Prakash.
(Download zipped PDF file)
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4. An interval method to compute stability margins for fractional order
systems, P. S. V. Nataraj and Mangala K. Deshpande. (Download
zipped PDF file)
5. Algorithm to reliably and accurately compute robust margins and
crossover frequencies for nonrational transfer functions with
nonlinear parametric dependencies, P. S. V. Nataraj and Jayesh J.
Barve. (Download zipped PDF file)
6. A reliable algorithm to compute the spectral set of uncertain
polynomials with nonlinear parametric dependencies, P. S. V.
Nataraj and J. J. Barve. (Download zipped PDF file)
Department of Computer Science
Engineering –IIT Bombay
Contact Name
Professor Bhaskaran Raman
Website
www.cse.iitb.ac.in
Email address
office cse iitb ac in
Phone Number
91-22-2576 7901/02 Fax : +91-22-2572 0022
Address
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076
The CSE is one largest departments in India with the best talented faculty
who has their research areas in Algorithms , Database and Information
Systems ,Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing , Software
Engineering, Formal Methods, Distributed Systems, Computer Networks,
Data Mining, Real-Time and Embedded Systems.
The dept has the following labs
Brief Description
R&D activities
Centre for Indian Language Technologies
Database and Information Systems Laboratory
Embedded Real-Time Systems Laboratory
GCC Resource Center
Gigabit Networking Laboratory
Graphics and Vision Laboratory
Laboratory for Intelligent Internet Research
Systems and Networks Research Group
Geospatial Information Science & Engineering
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Networked control: Control over network
Coordination control: Synchronization
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Transportation
Road traffic management
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TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements : Wireless sensors, Pervasive sensors
Embedded systems: Real time systems
5.6.
IIT-Department of Computer Science EngineeringFaculty 1
Department of Computer Science
Engineering –IIT Bombay
Contact Name
Email
Phone number
Website
Address
Research Interests
Prof Bhaskaran Raman
br@cse.iitb.ac.in
+91-9820082064
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~br/
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Professor Bhaskaran Raman research interests are Computer
networks, Wireless and mobile networks, Protocol design &
evaluation, Wireless measurement studies, Computing and
communication system design for the developing world, System
building and protocol design for embedded wireless sensor
applications.
Research Projects
SYNERG stands for SYstems and NEtworks Research Group. It is
a research group at IITB, with research focus on networking and
distributed systems
Wireless networks
Network performance analysis
Communication systems for the developing world
Distributed systems
Bri Mon is a project the aim of which is to monitor the health of
the innumerable bridges. BriMon is a wireless sensor network
based system for such monitoring.
In the design of the system, attention was paid to two
specific aspects: application requirements, and detailed
measurement studies of several pieces of the
architecture.
We have an initial prototype of several aspects of the
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system and are planning to test the system on a real
train bridge to gain some deployment experience.
Recent Publications
“BriMon: A Sensor Network System for Railway Bridge
Monitoring”, Kameswari Chebrolu, Bhaskaran Raman,
Nilesh Mishra, Phani Kumar Valiveti, Raj Kumar, The
Sixth International Conference on Mobile Systems,
Applications, and Services, ACM MobiSys 2008, Jun
2008, Breckenridge, CO (USA) [Acceptance rate: 17.9%].
Received an honorable mention at MobiSys 2008
FRACTEL
Mesh networks based on IEEE 802.11 are a costeffective option for providing Internet connectivity to
rural regions, especially in developing countries.
Road Sound Sense: Acoustic Sensing based Road
Congestion Monitoring in Developing Regions
Rijurekha Sen, Pankaj Siriah, Bhaskaran Raman, “Road
Sound Sense: Acoustic Sensing based Road Congestion
Monitoring in Developing Regions”, The 8th Annual
IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor,
Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks
(SECON'11), Salt Lake City, Utah (USA), June 27-30,
2011.
Wireless Across Road: RF-Based Road Traffic
Congestion Detection
Swaroop Roy, Rijurekha Sen, Swanand Kulkarni,
Purushottam Kulkarni, Bhaskaran Raman, Lokendra
Singh, “WirelessAcrossRoad: RF based Road Traffic
Congestion Detection”, The 5th Annual Worshop on
Wireless
Systems:
Advanced
Research
and
Development (WISARD'11), A Workshop in COMSNETS
2011, Bangalore, India, Jan 4-5, 2011. details
Challenges In Communication Assisted Road
transportation Systems for Developing Regions
Rijurekha Sen, Vishal Sevani, Prashima Sharma, Zahir
Koradia, Bhaskaran Raman, “Challenges In
Communication Assisted Road Transportation Systems
for Developing Regions”, 3rd ACM Workshop on
Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR'09),
a workshop in SOSP'09, Big Sky, Montana, USA, 11 Oct
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2009.
R&D Competencies
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Networked control: Control over network
Coordination control: Synchronization
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Transportation
Road traffic management
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements : Wireless sensors,
Pervasive sensors Embedded systems: Real time systems
Contact name
Dr Sharad Bharatiya
Phone
00-91-22-25767225
Website :
Email
www.che.iitb.ac.in
bharthiya@che.iitb.ac.in
Address
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Research areas
Dr Sharad ‘s research interests is in predictive control of nonlinear
hybrid system, Predictive control of nonlinear hybrid systems using
generalized outer approximation (GOA), Colloids and complex fluids,
process systems engineering, nano materials, bio systems
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: LQR ,Non linear control Feedback linearization,
Differential geometry
Adaptive control: direct
Predictive control:MPC, Explicit MPC, NL
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters, Luenberger, Non linear
observability
R&D activities
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Estimation / identification: System identification, Closed loop
identification, Parameter estimation
Discrete events/ Hybrid : Discrete events, Hybrid, Reachability
Stochastic, Randomizing
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management
Renewable energy
Industrial automation
Continuous manufacturing, Batch manufacturing, Discrete
manufacturing
Other domains (use keywords) Systems biology
R&D projects
Novel approach to mpQP
MPC for multimodel hybrid systems
Lexicographic approach to MPC of DPS
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5.7.
IIT- Department of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering Department–IIT
Bombay
Contact name
Professor Ravindra gudi
Phone
+91 (22) 2576 7204 (O) +91 (22) 2576 8204 (R)
Website :
Email
www.che.iitb.ac.in
gudi@che.iitb.ac.in
Address
Indian Institute of Technology, - Powai, Bombay
Research areas
R&D activities
The department is involved in a variety of frontier and
traditional areas in chemical engineering research, under the
broad areas of:
Biological Systems Engineering
Energy & Environment
Materials Engineering
Process Systems Engineering
Reactor Engineering
Transport Phenomena and Complex Fluids
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: LQR ,Non linear control Feedback linearization,
Differential geometry
Adaptive control: direct
Predictive control:MPC, Explicit MPC, NL
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters, Luenberger, Non
linear observability
Estimation / identification: System identification, Closed loop
identification, Parameter estimation
Discrete events/ Hybrid : Discrete events, Hybrid, Reachability
Stochastic, Randomizing
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management
Renewable energy
Industrial automation
Continuous manufacturing, Batch manufacturing, Discrete
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manufacturing
Other domains (use keywords) Systems biology
R&D projects
Contact name
Phone
Solar Bio-fuel and Carbon Sequestration with Cyanobacteria :
Role of Genetic Networks.
Prediction of thermodynamic properties for industrially
important polymerization systems using molecular simulation
Electronics design using DSP, FPGA, CPLD and Micro controllers
through simulation and direct access of the hardware
Dr GOPAL R. PATIL
00-91-22-25767308
Email
www.civil.iitb.ac.in/~gpatil
gpatil@civil.iitb.ac.in
Address
Indian Institute of Technology-
Website :
Research areas
R&D activities
R&D Publications
Prof Patil’s Research Interests include
Transportation systems planning
Network optimization
Freight transportation modeling
Traffic operations
Demand modeling
Traffic emissions
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Multivariate statistics: Multivariate statistics
Statistical performance monitoring: Statistical performance monitoring
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Transportation: Road traffic management
1. Patil, G. R., Ukkusuri, S., (2010). The Sample Average
Approximation technique for the Flexible Network Design
Problem, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering , In Press.
2. Ukkusuri, S, Ramadurai, G., and Patil, G. R., (2010). A robust
transportation signal control problem accounting for traffic
dynamics, Computers and Operations Research , Volume 37,
Issue 5, pp 869-879.
3. Ukkusuri, S.V., Patil, G., (2009). Multi-period transportation
network design under demand uncertainty, Transportation
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Research Part B: Methodological, 43 (6), pp. 625-642.
4. Holguin-Veras, J., and Patil, G. R., (2008). A Multicommodity
Integrated Freight Origin-destination Synthesis Model,
Networks and Spatial Economics, 8(2-3), pp 309-326.
5.8.
IIT- Department of Chemical engineering- Faculty
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6. NATIONAL INSTITUTES
6.1.
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-HYDERABAD
University/institute
Birla Institute of Technology and science
Dr P Ramakrishna, Assistant
Professor- Department of
Contact name
electrical engineering
Phone
040-66303550
Email
p.ramkrishna@bits-hyderabad.ac.in
Address
BITS, Pilani - Hyderabad Campus, Jawahar Nagar, Shameerpet
Mandal, Hyderabad, 500078, Andhra Pradesh.INDIA
Brief Description of the
organization
The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani is an allIndia Institute for higher education. The primary motive of BITS is to
"train young men and women able and eager to create and put into
action such ideas, methods, techniques and Information. The
institute is engaged in training of undergraduate, post graduate and
PHD students in technical education.
The department of electrical engineering has 8 professors working in
Instrumentation and Control, Microelectronics, Signal Processing
and Embedded Systems, Power Electronics, Telecommunication,
Robotics and Intelligent Systems,VLSI fabrication and Testing, MEMS,
VLSI Arithmetic, Low Power VLSI and Embedded Systems, Battery
Management, Power Electronics and Image Processing.
Dr Ramakrishna Pasumarthy is a part of the electrical engineering
department working in the research areas of:
Infinite-dimensional Systems, Nonlinear Control, and Power
Grids.
Modeling and Simulation of large scale infrastructures (eg.
power plants, power grids),
Distributed control of large scale systems.
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PLC and SCADA for Substation Automation Instrumentation
Sensors and Electronics for Data acquisition
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Non linear control: Differential geometry, Passivity based control
Predictive control: MPC
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
R&D activities and
competencies
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management : Smart grids Water management: Irrigation
Other domains (use keywords) Power Plant Simulators
1
2
R&D projects or recent
publications
6.2.
Developing Simulators for power plants
Modeling and Control of irrigation canals.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TEHNOLOGY
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY- Thiruchirapally, TamilNadu
University/ Institute
Size
1. National Institute of technology
>100
Prof Daniel , Department of Electrical
and Electronics Engineering,
Contact name
Email
Phone
Address
daniel@nitt.edu
Ph: 0431-2503256 (office)
Tanjore Main Road, National Highway 67, Tiruchirappalli - 620015, Tamil
Nadu, India.
The National Institute of Technology (formerly known as Regional
Engineering College) Tiruchirappalli, situated in the heart of Tamil Nadu a
Brief description
southern state in India on the banks of river Cauvery. The institution offers
Under Graduate Courses in ten branches and Post Graduate Courses in
twenty one disciplines of Science, Engineering & Technology besides Ph.D.
in all the departments. The institute has 10 undergraduate programmes
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and 23 post graduate programmes. The faculty strength is 246. The total
number of Phd students from all departments account for 242.
The main motto of the Department of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering is to be the centre of excellence in Electrical Energy systems. It
is headed by Professor Arul Daniel. The department has more than 3
professors, 7 Assistant professors, and one Associate professor working
along with Phd students on various areas such as the Renewable Energy
Applications, Power Quality ,Power electronics, applications, wind energy
conversion systems ,Distributed networks, Micro grids power systems,
Renewable energy, and DSP applications.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust Control-LMI
Non Linear control-Feedback linearization
Adaptive control-Indirect
Predictive control-MPC
Estimation/identification-Closed loop identification
Discrete events/ Hybrid- Reachability
Networked control- Control over network
Coordination control- synchronization
Probabilistic- Stochastic
Heuristic- Fuzzy, Neural, GT
Multi way PCA
R&D Competencies
Technological
Instrumentation and measurements- Wireless sensors
Embedded systems- Real time systems
Application Domains
Energy management- Energy efficiency, Renewable energy
Transportation- Road Traffic management
Industrial automation-Continuous manufacturing
Health care- Biomedical devices
Water Management- Clean water supply
Process modeling and online monitoring of laser beam welding
Online control of multivariable process using soft computing
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6.3.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY -CALICUT
Type
Research Institute
Size
>100
Contact Name
Dr Malladi Pavan Kumar
Email
mvpavank@gmail.com
Phone Number
+91-9746920959
Address
National Institute of Calicut is a premier institute engaged in training
high quality technical personnel in developing engineering,
management and innovative research capabilities.
Brief organization of the
organization
Research publications
The department of chemical engineering has 9 faculty members and
is engaged research areas such as Energy engineering, polymer
technology, Process control reactive distillation, absorption and
control
MV Pavan Kumar & N Kaistha (2008). Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry Research 47, 7304-7311.
2 MV Pavan Kumar & N Kaistha (2008). Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry Research 47, 7294-7303.
3 MV Pavan Kumar & Nitin Kaistha (2008).Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry Research47, 2778- 2787.
4 MV Pavan Kumar & Nitin Kaistha (2008). Journal of Process
Control, 18, 692-706.
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6.4.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY- HAMIRPUR
Organization
National Institute of Technology- Hamirpur
TYPE
University/Research organizations
Size
Contact name
>100
Dr Y R Sood, Department of Electrical engineering
Phone
01972-254500, 254524 (O)
Website
email
Address
www.nith.ac.in
yrsood@nitham.ac.in
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY HAMIRPUR, HIMACHAL PRADESH
PIN 177 005 INDIA
Electrical Engineering Department, established in the year 1986, is one of
the oldest departments of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur. The
department has been imparting quality education at undergraduate and
post graduate level technical education. The course curriculum is being
revised from time to time so as to keep abreast with the latest
developments and emerging technologies. Various departmental
laboratories have been strengthened and modernized by procuring state
Brief Description of the
of art equipments and latest soft ware. Three post graduate programs in
organization
the areas of Power System, Signal Processing & Control and Condition
Monitoring Protection & Control of Electrical Apparatus are running in the
department.
The department has 4 professors 4 Assistant professors and 2 lecturers
working in the areas of Power systems, Instrumentation and control. The
research interests include VLSI, wireless sensor nodes, communication
R&D activities and
Competences
systems, DSP and power systems.
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Embedded systems-Monitoring and Control
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Recent R&D projects
MEMS based VCO
Low power LC VCO
Ultra wide band LC VCO
Design issues of VCO
6.5.
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYALLAHABAD
Organization
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, U.P., India 211012
Contact name
Dr Vijay K Chaurasiya, Assistant professor Computer Science
email
Phone
vijayk@iiita.ac.in , vijay.chaurasiya@gmail.com,
Phone : +91-532-2922179 (O); +91-532-2922164 (R); +919415648188(M)
Address
IIIT Allahabad, Deoghat, Jhalwa, Allahabad, India 211012
The Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad (IIIT-A) was
established in 1999, as a center of excellence in Information
Technology and allied areas. The institute came into being with a
vision to equip students in the emerging new technologies of
Information Technology through its doctoral and master’s program as
a means of capacity building for the nation.
Brief description of the
The department has over 8 professors with many PHD students
working on Wireless sensor networks, Industrial Automation –
Design, process, production, control, security surveillance and
security for industry and defense, safety in general and in
transportation systems in particular, wireless networks, wireless
sensor networks, adhoc networks, DSP, and mobile networks.
organization
Dr. Chaurasiya is working as an Assistant Professor of Computer
Science in the MBA (IT) & MS (Cyber Law and Information Security)
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R&D activities and
Competences in control
and monitoring systems
Division of Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad. He
has published more than 20 papers in reputed International Journals
and conferences in the area of Network Protocols, P2P networks,
Routing Techniques, Clustering and Localization in Wireless Sensor
Networks, Network Security, Load Balancing, Data Backup and
Reliability etc. His current research interests include resource
utilization in Wireless Sensor Networks, Routing Protocols for
Wireless Networks and Information Security. He has graduated more
than 30 Master students. He is also professional member of
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He has two PHD
students working in the areas of wireless networks.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Networked control
Control of networks
Control over network
Distributed systems
Neural
Genetic Algorithms
Technological concepts
Wireless Sensors
Embedded systems
Real time systems
Monitoring and Control networks
Localized control
Application Domains
Energy management
Smart grids
Smart buildings
Energy efficiency
Monitoring & Control
Monitoring over the network
Data Mining
Transportation
Road Traffic management
Health care
Other domains, biomedical, bio informatics and Information
security.
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6.6.
JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
TYPE:
University/ Research organization
Size
>100
Contact name
Dr Ratna Ghosh, Head of the department
E-mail
rg@iee.jusl.ac.in, ratna_g@gmail.com
Website
Phone
www.jaduniv.edu.in
2335-2587 (O) 9831847291 (M)
Address
Salt Lake City , Block-LB, Plot No. 8, Sector - III, Kolkata - 700098
The University has been formally awarded the status of a university in
1955 although many departments had been functioning from 1910.
Jadavpur University has successfully established itself as a foremost
Indian University with a vast repertoire of courses offered, a well
qualified list of faculty members and has come to be known for its
commitment towards advanced study and research.
Brief description of
the organization
International
Collaboration
The departments of Electrical engineering, ECE, and Instrumentation
Engineering have over 35 experienced faculty and groups researching in
Sensor networks, Sensor signal processing, Wireless sensors and Control
systems, Biomedical instrumentation and sensors, Neural networks,
WSN topology, measurement and instrumentation and process
instrumentation and energy efficiency, Intelligent control, computational
intelligence, Control systems .
Jadavpur university is a partner university from the Asia Partner
universities for the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus
programme. It has collaborative programmes with Newcastle
Upon Tyne, UK, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
Faculty Exchange and Research on Web based distance
education, Bolzano University, Italy, Exchange programme,
Brunei University, UK.
Faculty Exchange & Research, Shastri Indo Canadian Foundation,
Faculty & Student Exchange, Research, staffordshire University,
UK (www.staffs.ac.uk) Distance learning programme: MA in
Sustainable Development, International Centre for Theoretical
Physics, Trieste, Italy Research
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R&D Competencies
Recent projects
Technological
Wireless sensors
Real time systems
Theoretical concepts
Non linear control- Feedback linearization
Adaptive control: learning control
Neural distributed parameter systems
Discrete events: Reachability
Probabilistic: Stochastic
Heuristic: neural
Application Domains
Smart grids,
Energy Efficiency
Renewable energy
Automotive Vehicle control
Road traffic management
Air Traffic management
1. Using self organized map in wireless sensor networks for
designing emerging efficient topologies.
2. Working as Principal Investigator in a project entitled “Non
Classical Estimation Techniques for Homing Interceptor
Guidance” in the Dept of Instrumentation & Electronics
Eng., JU sanctioned by DRDO from April 2005 till
31/03/2009.
3. Worked as Co- Investigator in a project entitled
“Development of a Tool for De-coupling Control of
Multivariable Processes using Message Passing across
embedded Controllers ” in the Department of Power
Engineering, Jadavpur University, sponsored by the
BRNS(Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences) from
22/06/2004 till 31/12/2008.
4. Working as Co- Controllers ” in the D . Investigator in a
project entitled “Development of PI Department of Power
Engineering, Jadavpur University, sponsored by the
BRNS(Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences) from
01/04/2007 till 01/06/2009.
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6.7.
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING-PUNE
University/
Institute
College of Engineering, Pune
Size:
>50
Contact Name
Email
Dr B N Chuadhari, Head of the Department- Electrical Engineering
Dr. S. D. Agashe, Head of the Department- Instrumentation Engineering
hod.instru@coep.ac.in; hod.elect@coep.ac.in, sda.instru@coep.ac.in
Phone
02025507111/2; 02025507171
Address
Brief Description
College of Engg. Pune,Wellesely Rd, Shivajinagar,Pune-411
005. Maharashtra, INDIA.
College of Engineering, Pune (COEP) is one of the most prestigious
engineering colleges in India. Established in 1854, it is the third oldest
engineering college in Asia, after the College of Engineering, Guindy (1794)
and IIT Roorkee (1847). It is located in Pune, Maharashtra. The Department
of Electrical Engineering is established in 1932. It has excellent team of
experienced, qualified faculty and non-teaching staff. Electrical engineers
produced by this department have contributed to industrial development
over the last 75 years at national and international level. Department has a
good liaison with industry.
The Electrical department has 5 professors, 7 Assistant Professors and 4
lecturers and one head of the department working in the areas of Power
System protection, Demand side management, Voltage Stability, Airborne
Control Systems, Advanced power electronics drivers. The department has a
well equipped state of art labs such as the Industrial Electrical Systems and
drivers lab, Advanced Electrical machines lab, Power Electronics lab, Power
systems and protection lab and Control systems lab
The department of Instrumental engineering has 4 assistant professors, 4
lecturers working in the research areas of Process control and automation,
instrumentation on chip, Biomedical Instrumentation, and Sensor
Development. The department has well equipped labs such as the Process
lab, DSP lab, PLC lab, and the Biomedical lab.
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Technological concepts
Instrumentation and Measurements-Wireless Sensors
R&D activities and
Competences
R& D Projects and
Recent publication
6.8.
Application Domains:
Transportation: Automotive Vehicle Control
Industrial automation : Continuous manufacturing, Batch
manufacturing, Discrete manufacturing
Health care: Biomedical devices
Investigation of radiated Emission of Ruggedized GPS based vehicle
Tracking systems
Plant optimization for food processing industry
2 Development of embedded process control tool
AMRITA VISWA VIDYAPEETAM
TYPE
Size
Academic and Research Institute
>80
Dr Maneesha V Ramesh, Head, Amrita Center of
Wireless
Networks
and
Applications, Head, Indo-US
and International Initiatives,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Contact Name
Website
www.amrita.edu/wna
Email
maneesha@am.amrita.edu, maneesha@amrita.edu
Address
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Ettimadai Post, Coimbatore - 641 105
Brief Description
Located at the Amritapuri Campus by the beautiful backwaters
of Kerala, minutes away from the Arabian Sea, the Amrita WNA
carries out research in the fields of wireless communications,
mobile computing, sensor networks, embedded systems, signal
processing and applications such as landslide detection,
environmental monitoring, etc.
All the laboratories are well equipped with measuring
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instruments and other equipment and software tools required
for B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. programs. The school has stateof-the-art computer laboratories and high-end supercomputing
facilities.
The Electrical and electronics department has Power electronics,
Electric Machines and Control Systems, Electrical Measurements
and Embedded Systems Laboratories in addition to Electrical
Workshop. Each laboratory is equipped with instruments and
equipments for teaching, learning and research.
Dr Maneesha and her research group is involved in research in
wireless sensor networks and Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless
Networks, Adaptive Algorithms, System Architecture Development,
Disaster Management Applications.
Amrita
participated
www.winsoc.org
International
collaboration
in
the
FP6
project
WINSOC,
Known for its successful completion of the Indo-European
WINSOC Project, Amrita WNA is recognized worldwide today for
its deployment of the first-ever wireless sensor network system
for predicting landslides.
The system uses wireless sensor technology to provide advance
warning of an impending landslide disaster, facilitating
evacuation and disaster management. The Government of India
has shown interest to deploy this system in all landslide prone
areas including the Himalayas and the Konkan Region in India
Amrita partners with KTH, Sweden for joint project on Energy
Management on Smart Grid using Embedded Systems Read
More »
Research Projects
Amrita has successfully developed a secured wireless based media
propagation and communication system for Konkan Sky Bus Metro
Project. The application was deployed at the 1.6 km long Sky Bus
test track in Madgaon, Goa. The striking features of the system
include Video surveillance, Two way audio communication, Real
time location tracking of the Sky Bus on the track, Live Voice
Announcement capability, Pre-recorded voice announcements, Prerecorded video displays and much more.
1. Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Kala John K., "Real - Time
Monitoring and Detection of Heart Attack Using Wireless
Sensor Networks", SENSORCOMM 2010 Conference.
Research publications
1. Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh,"Real - Time Wireless Sensor
Network for Landslide Detection", SENSORCOMM 2009,
IEEE Digital Library, 2009.
2. Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Jisha, Lekshmi, "Intruder
Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks", 2010 IEEE
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International Conference on Computational Intelligenece
and Computing Research, Dec 28-29, 2010.
3. Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Nisha M. S., "Brain Machine
Interface for Continuous Monitoring and Detection of
Epileptic Seizures Using Wireless Networks", Brain
Machine Interface for Continuous Monitoring and
Detection of Epileptic Seizures Using Wireless Networks,
Vol. 1, PP: 144-153, Sep 2010.
4. Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Simi S., "Wireless Sensor
Network for Remote Monitoring And Detection of
Explosives (W-ReMADE)", 1st International Workshop on
Semantic Sensor Web - SSW 2010 27-28 October, 2010 Valencia, Spain In conjunction with the 2nd International
Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge
Engineering and Knowledge Management - IC3K 2010.
5. Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh, Simi S., Real-time Wireless
Sensor Network for Remote Monitoring And Detection of
Explosives at Airports",ACM-W First Conference of
Women in Computing in India, Sep 16-17, 2010.
6. A complete chapter named "Wireless Sensor Networks
for Disaster Management", for the book titled "Wireless
Sensor Networks" published by INTECH.
etences
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7. PUBLIC COMPANIES IN MONITORING AND CONTROL
SYSTEMS
7.1.
TCS INNOVATION LABS-KOLKATTA
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES- INNOVATION LABS
TYPE:
Public Limited R&D organization
Size
Contact Name
>1>100
Mr Jay dip sen,
Email
jaydip.sen@tcs.com
Phone
Ph no: +91 98361 89765
Brief description of the
organization
R&D activities and
Competences
TATA Innovation labs is engaged in R&D activities in the areas of
Multimedia, Industrial automation, Networked video surveillance,
Wireless technologies- security in wireless networks, cross layer
optimization for QoS. The lab focuses on the convergence of
applications/contents like voice, video, and data over the new age
information superhighway and also uses the sensor network to
connect the distributed world of information. Solutions from this lab
address telecom, media, and information services and manufacturing
services. The lab has research alliances with leading universities in
India and abroad.
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS:
Instrumentation and measurement : Wireless sensors, Pervasive
Sensors, Sensor fusion
Embedded systems: Real time systems
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Non linear - Feedback linearization
Adaptive Control- Direct
Predictive Control-MPC
Estimation/identification-Closed loop identification &
parameter estimation
Networked Control- Cooperative/Multiagent, Control of
networks, & Control over networks
Coordination control-localized control
Probabilistic- stochastic, randomizing
Heuristic- Fuzzy, GT
Chemo metrics- Mutivariate statistics
Statistical performance monitoring
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Statistical Process monitoring
Application Domains
Energy management- Smart grids
Transportation-Automotive vehicle control
Industrial Automation-Continuous Manufacturing
Health care- Biomedical Devices
22 publications (conference, journal and book chapters)
R&D projects and
R&D projects in sensor network security
publications
Ubiquitous Pervasive computing
Mesh network
Throughput optimizing routing
1.
Jaydip Sen. “A Survey on Wireless Sensor Network Security”,
International Journal of Communication Networks and
Information Security (IJCNIS), Vol. 1, No. 2, August 2009, pp. 59
– 82.
2.
Jaydip Sen, “A Distributed Trust Management Framework for
Detecting Malicious Packet Dropping Nodes in a Mobile Ad
Hoc Network”, International Journal of Network Security and
its Applications (IJNSA), Vol. 2, No.4, pp. 92-104, October 2010.
3.
Jaydip Sen, “An Agent-Based Intrusion Detection System for
Local Area Networks”, International Journal of Communication
Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS), Vol 2, No 2, pp.
128 – 140, August 2010.
4.
Jaydip Sen, “An Efficient Certification Scheme for Nodes in a
Wireless Ad Hoc Network”, International Journal on
Advancements in Computing Technology (IJACT), Vol. 2, No. 4,
pp. 57 – 66, October, 2010.
5.
Jaydip Sen, “An Efficient and User Privacy-Preserving Routing
Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks”, in the International
Journal Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience, Special
Issue on Network and Distributed Systems, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp.
345 – 358, January 2011.
6.
Jaydip Sen, “A Robust Mechanism for Defending Distributed
Denial of Service Attacks on Web Servers”, in International
Journal of Network Security and its Applications, Vol. 3, No. 2,
pp. 162 – 179, March 2011.
7.
Debasis Bandyopadhyay and Jaydip Sen, “Internet of Things:
Applications
and
Challenges
in
Technology
and
Standardization”, Springer International Journal of Wireless
Recent Publications
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Personal Communications, Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 49 – 69. Special
Issue: Distributed and Secure Cloud Clustering (DISC). (DBLP)
7.2.
TCS INNOVATION LABS- BANGALORE
Experience certainty. IT Services, Business Solutions, OutsTA
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES- INNOVATION LABS- BANGALORE
TYPE:
Public Limited R&D organization
Size
Contact Name
>100
Mr P Balamurali
Email
balamurali.p@tcs.com
Website
www.tcs.com
Research in error control coding, ubiquitous sensor networks, biomedical
and multimedia signal processing, applied electro magnetic, and
emerging technologies and algorithms for the next generation radio
communication technologies. Embedded and Wireless technologies:
Distributed multimodal sensing communications monitoring and control.
The lab has research alliances with leading universities in India and
abroad.
Brief description
The applications of these research activities include health monitoring of
people, structure and equipment monitoring, safety and security of
assets and security, automatic data gathering for managing environment,
infrastructures and resources and monitoring of regulations and policy
evaluation for network industries. Solutions from this lab cater to the
telecom, healthcare, manufacturing, infrastructure, government and
insurance verticals.
7.3.
HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LIMITED
HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LIMITED
TYPE:
Size
Contact Name
Website
Email
Phone number
MultiNational Corporation
>100
Dr Venkoporao Vijendran, Director R&D, Dr Vishwanath
Talasila, Lead Scientist
www.honeywell.com
Viswanath.talasila@honeywell.com
91 80 43615000
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Address
Brief description
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab (HTSL)
Devarabisanahalli Village KR Puram Hobli, Bangalore
HTSL supports and develops product solutions in two key
areas of Honeywell businesses – aerospace and automation
and control solutions. Automation and Control Solutions at
HTSL has come a long way in satisfying business priorities
through a total solution ownership approach
The computation and communication systems (CCS) lab
focuses on core research in the fields of computation systems
with a primary focus on wireless system design. The CCS lab
has core competencies in research pertaining to algorithm
design, analysis and parallelization, large scale complex
system design and implementation, model based
development, modeling and simulation of networks and
performance analysis, etc,.
R&D activities
Research interest
The Intelligence Vehicle Technologies group works on
autonomous vehicle systems for various applications like
Unmanned Air Vehicles, Mining, Agriculture, Smart
transportation systems, Robot vehicles, Marine vessels, etc,.
The focus areas include navigation, perception sensing,
guidance, x-by-wire controls, multi-sensor fusion, fault
tolerance and reconfiguration, smart communication and
computing platforms with competencies ranging from multisensor fusion algorithms, Pattern Recognition, Machine
Learning to Vision sensor processing techniques, and Robotics
The research focus of Control Automation Technologies group
is in developing technologies in the areas of process
optimization, monitoring and control for various industry
verticals. The key competencies of the group are in advanced
modeling, optimization, system identification, data analytics
and control. The Advanced Technology Solutions group
focuses on demonstrating business and societal value of
advanced/emerging/nascent technologies by creating
innovative applications and solutions and the group’s key
capabilities
include
Algorithms
implementation
&
Optimization, System architecture and design, Embedded
Systems, Usability and Human Factors, and Modeling &
Simulation.
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy Management: Smart Grids, Energy Efficiency
Transportation: Automatic Air traffic control, Air vehicles,
Technological Concepts:
Instruments and Measurements: Wireless Sensors, Sensor
fusion
Embedded Systems: Real time Systems, Verification and
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Validation, Monitoring and control networks
Theoretical concepts
Robust Control: LMI
Non Linear Control: Feedback linearization
Adaptive Control: direct
Estimation/identification: Parameter estimation
Fault Detection and analysis.
7.4.
ABB
Contact name
Mr Seshadhri Srinivasan
Email
seshucontrol@gmail.com
Website
www.abb.com
Address
White field Road, 5th Block, Mahadevpura, Bangalore
Phone number
+91-9901427455
ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies that
enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance
while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Corporate Research
Center in India is based in Bangalore. ABB works very closely with
other research centers, ABB businesses and universities in India. The
focus areas are manufacturing technologies, software technologies
and communication technologies and protocols.
Brief description
ABB works in the research areas of Networked control systems, real
time control systems, Industrial software systems, Hybrid systems,
consensus and cooperative control, automation and remote control
for the application domains of Energy management, Smart grids,
industrial automation and robotics.
ABB Bangalore research centre is into developing software for
Process automation
Substation and distribution automation
Automation products
Robotics
R&D activities
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control :H, LMI, LQR
Adaptive control: direct
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Predictive control: MPC, Explicit MPC
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters
Estimation / identification: System identification, Parameter
estimation
Discrete events/ Hybrid: Discrete events, Hybrid, Reachability
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent, Control of
networks, Control over network
Coordination control: Consensus
Probabilistic: Stochastic
Fault detection and diagnosis : Fault detection and diagnosis
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Industrial automation: Continuous manufacturing
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors Embedded
systems: Real time systems, Verification and validation, Monitoring
and Control Networks
1. S. Seshadhri and R. Ayyagari, Dynamic controller for
Networked control systems with Random Communciation
delays, vol. 3, no.2, IJSCC
2. Platooning over packet dropping links, In IJSCC, vol.9,
no.1,2/3, 2011
3. Controller design for NCSs with Random delays, IJSCC, 2011
1 Consensus among robotic agents over packet dropping links,
IEEE BMEI conference, China
2 Stochastic Hybrid Controllers for Networked Control Systems
subjected to Random Delays and Packet Losses, IEEE ARTCom
conference, 2009
R&D projects or recent
publications
7.5.
INFOSYS
TYPE
Private Company
Size
>100
Contact Name
Mr Vishav Vikram Kapoor
Email
Vishav_kapoor@infosys.com
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Address
Electronics City, Hosur Road, Bangalore - 560 100
Phone
91 9814076231
Brief description
INFOSYS convergence lab has research groups working on various areas
of wireless technologies: Wireless sensor networks, wireless sensor
nodes, Mobility, convergence of screens, mobile security, and wireless
technologies for distributed networks. The Convergence Lab seeds the
progress of innovative products in connected communities, tele-health,
media convergence and blended services. The key activities involve,
generating IP, creating working proof of concepts, early product
prototypes and analyzing product needs from the market. This apart,
Convergence Lab also disseminates e2e solutions for multiple markets in
the chosen domains. The Convergence CoE pursues research in the
following areas: Digital Convergence , Sensors , Healthcare ,Advanced
Testing , Networking .
R& D Competencies
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Instrumentation and Measurement: Wireless Sensors, Pervasive sensors
APPLICATION DOMAINS: Energy efficiency,Bio medical devices
7.6.
SIFY
Type
INTEGRATED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Private company
Size
>100
Contact Name
Mr Venkata Enumula
Email
venkata.enumula@sifycorp.com
Website
www.sifycorp.com
Phone number
II Floor, Tidel Park, No.4, Canal Bank Road, Taramani, Chennai 600 113, India.
+91 9176683848/ +91 44 42118283
Brief description
Sify corp is one of India’s leading integrated information
technologies companies It is involved in data center automation,
cloud computing automation and monitoring. Sify is the first
company to have introduced IPv6 enabled commercial services
through the FP6 funded project 6choice.
Address
Sify Technologies Limited (SIFY) becomes the first-ever Integrated
Information & Communication Technology (ICT) company to land
an International Undersea Cable in India.
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THEORETICAL CONCEPTS:
Networked control
Control of networks, Control over network
R&D activities
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Embedded Systems: Verification and validation and Monitoring
and control of networks
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7.7.
Type
Control & Solutions (India)Pvt Ltd
Control & Solutions (India) Pvt.Ltd
Private company
Size
>100
Contact Name
MR. VILAS CHITNIS
Email
chitnis@csil.co.in
Website
www.csil.co.in
D-102, Dheeraj Residency II , Shastri Nagar, Santacruz West
Mumbai, Maharashtra - 400 054, India
00 91-9820186801
Address
Phone number
Control & Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd. (CSIL) is a knowledge-based
company engaged in Process Automation. They are into system
Integrations and undertake the consultancy jobs for total
automation. The team of engineers associated with us has
experience on various PLC, DCS, SCADA and Data Acquisition
Systems. CSIL promotes the concept of open system architecture
DCS to provide the cost effective solution.
CSIL is a private limited company based in Mumbai undertaking
activities in the field of Power Sector ,Instrumentation,
Information Technology, and Process Control Automation. The
company has the state of the art technologies in the fields and has
back up from some of the foremost worldwide technical experts.
Brief description
CSIL pride them selves in providing effective control & efficient
solution for Automation in all the industry verticals, CSIL offers
Energy Management Solutions providing metering from different
vendors. They provide solutions for energy measurements &
analysis of total energy consumption in each area of plant.
CSIL also provides solutions for State Electricity boards for
Automatic Data Logging systems (ADLS) or Automatic meter
reading (AMR) and Substation Automation.
DCS & PLC : They have built their expertise in providing Control
System using different brands with Indusoft SCADA. They have
installations in various industry sectors such as Nuclear power,
Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Sugar plants. It offers the
following services
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Basic & detail Engineering in Instrumentation and Process
Control.
Basic & detail Engineering on total automation of the
process using DCS or PLC
Consultancy on Field bus technology and its
implementation
Installation & Supervision
Documentation
On-site Training - Industrial training on subjects related to
Instrumentation and Process Control.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Networked control: Control of networks
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
Heuristic: Fuzzy
Multivariate statistics
R&D activities
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management :Smart buildings, Energy efficiency
Industrial automation: Continuous manufacturing, Batch
manufacturing
Water management: Clean water supply, Waste water treatment
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements :Wireless sensors Embedded
systems: Real time systems
Client :Design of reliable Bus Transfer Control For Fast Transfer
Control:
Projects
When running power source fails, standby source supplies power
to connected auxiliaries. The system, which transfers bus from
running source to standby source and vice versa is called Bus
Transfer System (BTS). Control and Solution can provide complete
solution in this area. Read More....
Client GAIL(India) Ltd.GAIL (INDIA) LTD. had a requirement for
modern monitoring and control system for their Gas Detection
Plant in Guna, Madhya Pradesh. Read More....
Client :KFUPM University of Saudi Arabia: KFUPM University of
Saudi Arabia had a requirement of automatic monitoring and
control of the installed Chiller plant in order to have a control over
the centralized Air conditioning system.
Client Lubrizol Pvt.Ltd.Located in Turbhe,Thane: Lubrizol Pvt. Ltd.
required automatic monitor and control of their installed tanks
status and ERP connectivity in order to improve their plant
efficiency.
Client:Lupin PHARMA Ltd.Located in Tarapur,Boisar:The main
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challenge was to meet the clauses specified by the US Food and
Drug Administration & provide round the clock reliability.
Client :Indian Aluminum Company Limited (INDAL): The
requirement was to monitor & control the data of two Allen
Bradely PLC of different series with Data Acquisition System.Read
More...
Client :Thermax Limited, Pune
The challenge was to communicate, control & monitor the data of
two S7 - 200 series Siemens PLCs.Read More...
Client :Nelco Ltd, Navi Mumbai
Monitor the data of Energy Meters as well as of CMRI (Common
Meter Reading Instrument) & create the energy audit reports for
the same.Read More...
Client :Kanoria Chemicals: Uttar Pradesh
Monitor the data of Energy Meters & create the energy audit
reports for the same. Read More...
7.8.
NIPPON INSTRUMENTS (INDIA) PVT LTD
Type
Private Limited Company
Size
>100
Contact name
Web site
Email address
Phone number
Hemant Shroff
www.nipponinstruments.com
nityanand@nipponinstruments.com
02228755867
Address
106, Shivsagar Ind. Estate Premises Co-Op. Society Ltd., Kotkar Road,
Off Vishveshwar Road, Goregaon (East), Mumbai - 400 063.
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Brief description of the
company
Nippon Instruments & Nippon technologies is a premier company
manufacturing and supplying flameproof enclosures, temperature
transmitters, temperature controllers, PID controllers, process
controllers, humidity controllers, frequency indicators, temperature
sensors, timers and counters, Energy Saving products. Nippon
Instruments (I) Pvt. Ltd. & Nippon Technologies has devoted its
entire resources to the Design & production of Process Control
Instruments & Sensors since last 15 Years. The manufacturing
capacity is 50000 Instruments and 300000 sensors per annum. Till
date Nippon has Installed 240000 Instruments and 600000 sensors.
Nippon has a committed team of 110 members. The Technical staff
consists of R & D, Production, and Quality Control engineers. The
manufacturing facility is supported by assemblers. The Products are
marketed by application & sales engineers. The entire operation is
administered by techno-commercial personnel.
Theoretical Concepts
Adaptive control: direct
Coordination control: Synchronization
Heuristic: Fuzzy
APPLICATION DOMAINS
R&D Activities in
monitoring and control
systems
R&D Projects
7.9.
Industrial automation: Batch manufacturing, Discrete
manufacturing
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements:
Wireless sensors, Sensor fusion
Embedded systems:
Real time systems, Monitoring and Control Networks
Other relevant information
R&D projects or recent publications
1 scanner with 64 channels, 2 PID controllers, 3 multi input
temperature transmitters, 4 multi input signal isolators.
EMERSON
Type
Private Company
Size
>100
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Contact name
Web site
Email
Address
Phone number
Brief description of the company
R&D activities
Projects
7.10.
MR. A. S. PRASAD
www.emerson.com
prasad.as@emerson.com
Emerson Electric Co, 301 Solitaire Corporate Park, 151 M.V.
Road, Andheri East, Mumbai 400 093
00-91-22-66620444
Emerson is a diversified global manufacturing and
technology company. We offer a wide range of products and
services in the areas of network power, process
management, industrial automation, climate technologies,
and tools and storage businesses. Recognized widely for our
engineering capabilities and management excellence,
Emerson has approximately 127,700 employees and 240
manufacturing locations worldwide.
Emerson Industrial Automation, offers the most trusted and
innovative brands in power generation, electrical protection,
power quality, mechanical power transmission, fluid
automation, materials joining, precision cleaning and
machine motion. Emerson offers Fluid automation, Flow
control products, Pneumatic and motion control products,
Industrial Electrical Products, Electrical Construction
Material, Power Supplies and Power Quality Solutions, and
Industrial Lighting.
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors
Embedded systems: Monitoring and Control Networks
Emerson has executed many projects in
Nuclear Technologies
Solar Power Technologies
Wind Power Technologies
Critical Power Technologies
LARSON &TOUBRO
TYPE
Size
Contact name
Private Company
>100
MR. SANDEEP A. BHAT
& MR. ABRAHAM SAMSON
Website
www.automation4me.com; www.larsontoubro.com
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Email
Address
Phone number
Brief description of the company
bhatsandeep@lntebg.com; SamsonAA@lntebg.com
Control & Automation Business Unit, Automation
Campus A-600, TTC Industrial Area Navi Mumbai - 400 710,
INDIA
00-91-9820323109; 00-91-9820141575
Control & Automation (C&A) Business Unit of Larsen &
Toubro is a comprehensive industrial automation solution
provider. C&A has been effectively providing discrete and
turnkey automation solutions for a wide variety of industries
since 1972. C&A also specializes in Engineering,
Procurement and Commissioning (EPC) of customized
automation solutions for diverse industry types. Control &
Automation Business Unit is a part of Larsen & Toubro's,
Electrical & Electronics Division (formerly EBG).
PLCs for normal and high availability safety
applications (like Emergency Shut Down Systems,
Fire & Gas Systems)
Distributed Control Systems, for plant-wide
distributed control to stand-alone control and
protection of specific assets
Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition System
(SCADA) , Remote Telemetry Units with
telecommunication systems
Electrical Power Distribution System including
Switchyard
Plant Information systems, integration of process
control systems with business systems and web
enabling of legacy systems
Material Handling Systems
Control & Instrumentation packages
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS;
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural
Statistical performance monitoring: Statistical performance
monitoring
Statistical process monitoring :Statistical process monitoring
APPLICATION DOMAINS
R&D activities
Energy management : Smart grids, Smart buildings,
Renewable energy
Transportation: Road traffic management
Industrial automation : Continuous manufacturing, Batch
manufacturing, Discrete manufacturing
Water management :Waste water treatment
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements : Wireless sensors,
sensor fusion, pervasive sensors Embedded systems :
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Verification and validation, Monitoring and Control
Networks
Projects
L&T is and has executed several national and international
projects in industrial engineering. It is one of the big players
and has spun off several SME’s.
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7.11.
RELIANCE INDUSTRIES LIMITED
TYPE
Size
Contact name
Private company
>500
DR. PARASU VEERA UPPARA
Website
Email
Phone number
www.ril.com
parasuveera.uppara@ril.com
00-91-9987061360
The Reliance Group, founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (19322002), is India's largest private sector enterprise, with
businesses in the energy and materials value chain. Group's
annual revenues are in excess of US$ 58 billion.The Group's
activities span exploration and production of oil and gas,
petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals
(polyester, fibre intermediates, plastics and chemicals),
textiles, retail, infotel and special economic zones.
Brief description of the company
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management : Energy efficiency, Renewable energy,
Carbon capture and sequestration
R&D activities
Industrial automation :Continuous manufacturing, Batch
manufacturing, Discrete manufacturing Water
management : Irrigation, Clean water supply, Waste water
treatment
Major achievements
RIL won the 'Excellent Energy Efficient Unit Award
for FY 2009-10' from CII in 2010.
Dahej Manufacturing Division bagged the
'Excellent Energy Efficient Unit Award 2010' for its
energy conservation efforts from CII in 2010.
Dahej Manufacturing Division received the
'National Energy Conservation Award 2010' for its
energy conservation initiatives from the Ministry
of Power, Government of India.
Jamnagar Manufacturing Division received the
'National Award for Excellence in Energy
Management' for its energy conservation
techniques from CII in 2010.
Jamnagar Manufacturing Division received the
'I.C.C. Award for Excellence in Energy
Management' for its energy performance from the
Indian Chemical Council in 2010.
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7.12.
CHENNAKESAVA PURA TRUST
CHENNAKESAVA PURA TRUST
TYPE
Size
Contact name
Website
Email
Phone number
Address
Brief description
R&D activities
SME
>10
Mr P R Seshagiri Rao
girickp@gmail.com
Chenna kesava pura,Pavagada Taluk- Karnataka- India
C K Pura trust was formed after the implementation of the
Swiss development agency funded project COMMON SENSE
which was a project on deploying ground wireless sensors to
record and monitor the soil moisture, temperature, water
salinity etc which would help as a decision support tool to
the farmers.
The trust is managed by Mr Seshagiri Rao who is a scientist
turned farmer. He has a practical exposure to the ground
issues of farming and the necessary technical background to
find solutions to them. Ck Pura trust was a part of this
project along with EPFl- Switzerland, and IISc , Bangalore
Two deployments are undertaken in parallel in India and
Siwtzerland, with a total of 100 nodes to be installed in the
field.
THEORECTICAL CONCEPTS
Multivariate statistics:Multivariate statistics
Principal component analysis (PCA):Principal component
analysis (PCA)
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management
Renewable energy, Carbon capture and sequestration
Water management
Irrigation, Waste water treatment
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
None
R&D interests
1 Use of Extended range forecast for agriculture risk
management, IIT, delhi led consortium
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2 Carbon and energy benefits by use of organic nutrient
sources- PISCES project under DFID, MSSRF.
3 COMMONSENSE project led by CEDT, EPFL
7.13.
COGNIZANT
TYPE
Size
Contact name
Private company
>500
MR. DEEPAK NAIK
www.cognizant.com
Website
Email
Address
Phone number
Brief description
R&D activities
deepak.naik@cognizant.com
Behind Unity Building Complex, 3rd Cross, Mission
Road Bangalore - 560 027 India
00-91-9604400258
Cognizant is involved in IT services and business consulting
for various industry verticals, it is involved in providing
integrated solutions in virtualization and cloud computing,
data center management. Energy and utilities is one of the
focus areas. Focus areas are smart grid and data modelling.
It offers services in Enterprise Computing , Infrastructure
Security , Network & Convergence , End-User Computing ,IT
Management Consulting.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Networked control:Control over network
Coordination control: Synchronization
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management: Smart grids, Energy efficiency
Transportation: Automotive vehicle control
Industrial automation: Continuous manufacturing, Batch
manufacturing, Discrete manufacturing
Water management: Waste water treatment
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors
Embedded systems: Real time systems, Monitoring and
Control Networks
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7.14.
YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
TYPE
Size
MultiNational Corporation
>100
Contact name
MR. DINESH JAGUSTE
Website
Email
Address
Phone number
www.yokogawa.com
dinesh.jaguste@yokogawa.co.in
Brief description
00-91-9892525727
Yokogawa has been engaged in developing businesses that
are based on its technologies in measurement, control, and
information fields. Since its foundation in 1915, the
Company has contributed to the growth of industries and
made the world a better place by supplying reliable
solutions. These have been developed under the founding
principle of Quality First and our advanced technologies.
The company offers industrial automation and control
solutions such as SCADA, PLC, DCS, Controllers, Recorders
and Data acquisitions, CCTV and other surveillance
solutions. The company offers many industrial automation
products and services to various sectors such as oil, refining,
pharmaceuticals, power, paper and various other industries.
R&D activities
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Industrial automation: Continuous manufacturing, Batch
manufacturing, Discrete manufacturing.
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8. PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES
8.1.
DHIRUBHAI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
TYPE
University/Research Institute
Size
>100
Phone
91-79-30510-553
Contact Name
Email
Address
Brief description of the
Organization
R&D activities and
Competences
Professor Prabhat ranjan
Prabhat_ranjan@daiict.ac.in
Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication
Technology,Near Indroda Circle, Gandhinagar 382 007, Gujarat
(India)
DA-IICT has emphasized and encouraged research right from its
founding in the year 2001. The institute is engaged in research in
many ICT related areas of Communication and Signal Processing,
Distributed & Service-Oriented Computing, ICT in Agriculture &
Rural development, Natural Information Processing, Networks &
Security, Next Generation Wireless Systems, Pattern Recognition &
Image Processing, Sensor Networks, Speech Processing, VLSI, &
Wireless communication.
The research group is involved in research and teaching related to
embedded systems and sensor networks. The group is working to
bring WSN technology to various application domains in India.
Currently the group is involved with many interesting projects
including those related to planetary exploration and wildlife
monitoring.
This group consists of 8 Professors and Associate professors, 2 PhD
Scholars, 8 Research Engineers. It has the capability to Simulate,
Design and develop embedded devices as well as networked
embedded device such as Sensor Networks.
Technological Concepts
Wireless sensors for distributed systems
Theoretical Concepts
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Non Linear observability
Parameter estimation
Control of networks
Statistical performance monitoring
APPLICATION Domains
Energy Efficiency
Automotive Vehicle control
Water Detection on Moon : Seed funds have been provided to
develop a Sensor Network based system to detect presence of
water in the permanently shadowed polar craters in collaboration
with PRL Planex Group.
Lunar Seismic Sensor Network : A proposal in collaboration with
PRL Planex group has been submitted to carry out subsurface
analysis of Lunar Surface using Seismic Sensor Network and
Thermal Probes. It is proposed to be carried aboard Chandrayaan-2.
WildCense: In collaboration with Wildlife Institute of India,
Dehradun(WII), Prof. Prabhat Ranjan and his group are working on
Design of Sensor Nodes to monitor social behaviour of Spotted
Deer and migration pattern of Swamp Deer.
TigerCense : In collaboration with WII, Prof Prabhat Ranjan and his
group are working to set up a IR Image Sensor Network to monitor
tiger movements.
TurtleCense : This project aims to track Hill-turtle in WII campus by
utilizing a grid of receivers and localizing the turtle as well as
providing microclimate and details about hibernation
Acoustic Sensor Network: Carrying out vocalization digitization and
processing on local nodes to find out the distribution of Purple
Frogs.
Coral Reef Monitoring 3-d Sensor Network : We are working on a
joint proposal to setup a 3-d coral reef in Lakshdweep in
collaboration with Indian and Australian Team.
CePal - Tilt Sensor based Universal Remote Control for cerebral
palsy patients. This device that was awarded HP Innovate 2009 is
being supported by "National Trust" for further development.
Recent publications
In-Vessel Sensor Network for Tokamaks : approved for support by
"National Fusion Program", this would develop sensor nodes that
can be deployed inside a Tokamak Vessel.
1. Sengupta and P. Ranjan , Modified neural networks for
rapid recovery of tokamak plasma parameters for real
time control, Review of Scientific Instruments, 73,
74
(2002) 2566
2. Sengupta and P. Ranjan, "Forecasting Disruptions in the
ADITYA tokamak using neural networks", Nuclear
Fusion 40 (2000) 1993
3. Sengupta and P. Ranjan, " Prediction of Density Limit
Disruption Boundaries from Diagnostic Signals using
neural networks", Nuclear Fusion, 41 (2001) 487
4. P. Ranjan, S.K. Dhurandhar, K. Mahajan, H. Gulati, A.
Sengupta, I. Bandyopadhyay, S. Deshpande and SST-1
Team, "Central Control System for SST-1 Tokamak", Proceedings of 2nd IAEA Technical Committee Meeting
on Steady-State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices,
Vol. III, Oct. 25-29, 1999, Fukuoka, Japan, P. 723
5. A. Sengupta and P. Ranjan, "Identification of plasma
parameters and optimization of magnetic sensors in the
SST-1 tokamak using neural networks", Fusion
Technology, 39(2001)1
8.2.
REVA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
Contact name
University/Institute
Prof Vijay Kumar B P
Reva Institute of Technology and Management
Website
www.revainstitution.org/ritm/cse.html
Email
vijaykbp@yahoo.co.in
Phone
919980634134
Address
Yelahanka, Bangalore, 560064
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Brief Description
Reva Institute of Technology and Management was incepted in
the year 2004 College is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological
University, The institute has 9 Departments which cater to the
technical and managerial needs with 125 highly qualified and
dedicated faculty,2000 talented and motivated students and
1500 distinguished Alumini.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering was
established in the year 2004 with an intake of 60 and was
enhanced to 90 and 120 in the years 2005 and 2006, respectively.
Department has well qualified and experienced teaching faculty
and technical staff with state of the art laboratories to meet the
quality education required for present challenging societal and
industrial needs.
It is involved in research activities in the areas of
Ubiquitous/Pervasive computing technologies, Intelligent Agent
Technologies, Computational Intelligence Applications, Image
Processing and Database Management.
The research areas Professor Kumar and his team is working on
are mobile adhoc and sensor networks. With sensor network test
bed and simulation platform. Design and development of
algorithms for the critical issues in sensor networks like routing,
energy mgmt., security and aggregation
R&D Competencies
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS:
Adaptive control: learning control
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters
Discrete events/ Hybrid: Reachability
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent
Coordination control: Synchronization
Probabilistic: Stochastic
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
Principal component analysis (PCA):
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management : Energy efficiency
Transportation: Road traffic management
Water management: Waste water treatment
Health care: Biomedical devices
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors
Embedded systems: Verification and validation
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8.3.
PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
PES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Type
Size
Contact name
Email
Phone Number
Website
Address
Brief description
Research interests
Research Institute
>100
Dr Venkatesh Vadde, Assistant Professor Computer science
Department
vvadde@gmail.com
91-9945715725
www.pes.edu
100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, Bangalore-560085
PES institute of technology trains students in many fields of
engineering and technology. It has well equipped departments
with state of art facilities and experienced faculty. The institute
attracts 50% of the top 500 students who are selected through
highly competitive exams. The institute is engaged in research
activities in various areas of ICT and other thematic sectors.
Wireless-System Design: wireless network design and
deployment using motes, wireless-nodes for specific
applications, Software integration: SW development in the
application layer and system performance algorithm
development, Wireless-Analytics: analysis of wireless signals
and inputs to manage network loads better in traffic for roadtransport systems. MEMS-Sensors: MEMS-based wireless
sensor design and optimization for various industrial wireless
needs, energy harvesting sensors, Applications: land-based
communication systems, intelligent transportation systems,
underwater acoustic systems for the Navy, or earth
observation, space-based satellite communication UWA
Modeling: modeling of propagation of acoustic signals through
various
channel
types
for
sonar-signaling,
UWA
Communications: techniques to improve data-rate, reliability
and range of UWA telematics using advanced space-time
concepts UWA Sonar Signal-processing: Sonar signal echo-toreverberation dynamic modeling and ERR-enhancement UWASensors: scalar and vector sensors development as well as
integration into wireless sensor networks.
The department is keen to cooperate in the domain of
intelligent transportation systems, especially using ICT-enabled
bicycles and ICT-enabled bicycle-kiosks for last mile
connectivity.
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APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy Management:
Smart buildings
Energy efficiency
DC networks
Renewable energy
Transportation:
Road traffic management
R&D Competencies
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements, Wireless sensors
8.4.
M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-BANGALORE
M S RAMAIAH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Type
Research Institute
Size
>100
Contact Name
Dr. S. Sethu Selvi
Email
hod_ec@msrit.edu
Website
http://www.msrit.edu/node/436
Phone number
080 23600822
Address
MSRIT -New Bel Road, Bangalore
Brief Description
M S Ramaiah has carved out for itself a big name all over the country
and is recognized as a premier educational institution in India. It
abounds in well equipped and sophisticated laboratories, well stocked
libraries and highly qualified, experienced and dedicated staff
members.
The department of Electronics and Communication was started in
1975. The department offers UG and PG and Research programs. The
M.Tech program in "Digital Electronics & Communication" was started
in 2002 and Research centre status was approved to the department.
The department has 31 teaching Staff, 5 Technical supporting staff and
3 Non Technical staff. The research activities of the department are in
Signal processing and image processing.
Department of Electrical and electronics has a team of 18 highly
dedicated faculty members, of which 3 are Doctorates, 14 Masters
degree holders and 1 Bachelor degree holders. The average experience
of the faculty of the department is around 13 years. The department is
engaged in teaching and training of power systems, power electronics,
MEMS,
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Research publications
R&D competencies
8.5.
The department of ECE is engaged in research areas covering Robotics,
H-infinity filtering,Multi-source multi-sensor Information Fusion,
Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms, Fuzzy Systems, Parameter
Estimation for closed loop and non-linear systems/Factorisation
filtering & maximum likelihood techniques/flight data analysis/system
identification/sensor failure detection.
Sudesk K. Kashyap, VPS Naidu, Jatinder Singh, Girija G. and J.R.
Raol. Tracking of Multiple Targets using Interacting Multiple Model
and Data Association Filter. Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI)
Journal, Vol. 58, No.1, pp. 65-74, Feb. 2006.
VPS Naidu, Girija G. and J R Raol. Estimation of launch and impact
points of a flight trajectory using U-D Kalman filter/smoother.
Defence Science Journal, New Delhi, Vol. 56, no. 4, Oct. 2006, pp.
451-463.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Adaptive control: learning control
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters
Estimation / identification: System identification, Closed loop
identification, Parameter estimation
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
Principal component analysis (PCA): Principal component analysis
(PCA)
Multiway PCA: Multiway PCA
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Transportation: Air vehicles
Health care: Biomedical devices
Other domains (use keywords) Electrical Shock Prediction, Full body
scan
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Sensor fusion
Embedded systems: Monitoring and Control Networks
VJTI- BOMBAY
Type
Private Academic Institute
Size
>100
80
Contact Name
Dr H A Mangalvedkar & Dr NAVDEEP M. SINGH
Email
www.vjti.org.in
Website
nmsingh@vjti.org.in;
Phone number
00-91-9819737960 / 00-91-22-24198173
Address
Brief Description
R&D competencies
The department of Electrical Engineering was established in 1903. The
department conducts a variety of courses at the diploma, bachelors and
masters level in electrical and electronics engineering. It is also recognized
for doctoral research heritage and competent faculty in many diverse
fields including digital signal processing, control theory, communication
engineering and power systems engineering and robotics. A 'state of the
art' high voltage laboratory has been developed with the help of generous
donations by M/s Siemens India Ltd.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: H, LMI, LQR , Non linear control, Flatness, Feedback
linearization, Differential geometry, Back stepping, Passivity based control
Predictive control:MPC, NL
Observers ;Non linear observability
Estimation / identification :System identification, Closed loop
identification, Parameter estimation
Networked control : Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent, Control of
networks
Coordination control, Synchronization, Consensus, Localized control
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management ; Smart grids
8.6.
R V College of Engineering
Contact Name
Website
email
Address
o
Professor B S Satya Narayana
www.rvce.edu.in
principal@rvce.edu.in
Mysore Road, R V Vidyaniketan post Bangalore 560059
Established in 1963 with three engineering branches namely Civil,
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Mechanical and Electrical, today RVCE offers 12 Under Graduate
Engineering programmes, 16 Master Degree programmes and
Doctoral Studies. Located 13 km from the heart of Bangalore City
– the Silicon Valley of India, on Mysore Road. Sprawling campus
spread over an area of 52 acres set in sylvan surroundings. Rated
one amongst the top ten self-financing Engineering Institutions in
the country. Has collaborative arrangements with leading
universities in USA, France, Australia and Germany for PostGraduate and research programmes.
The department has a total faculty strength of 41 out of which
two are PhD holders and ten are pursuing PhD. The department
has a student staff ratio of 12:1. Most of the faculty members are
PG degree holders with good teaching experience. The
department has excellent infrastructure with state of the art
equipment and software. The department is having computer
centre with 150 computers cater to student needs.
Research activities
R&D projects
The IT curriculum encompasses cutting edge industry relevant
technologies like Signal & Image Processing, Microprocessors and
Microcontrollers, VLSI and HDL Design, Computer Networking,
Process Instrumentation and Controls, Bio-Medical
Instrumentation, Virtual Instrumentation, Product Design
Technology, etc., the contents of which are updated in
consonance with the changing industrial needs. The department
offers consultancy services and executes Research projects
related to Biomedical Instrumentation, Process Control and
Instrumentation, Signal Processing, Bioinformatics, etc.
Research activities have been carried out in the areas of (i). Image
Processing, (ii). Broadband Communication, (iii). RADAR, (vi).
Antennas (v). Control & Automation & (vi). Testing in VLSI.
Implementation of Self Tuning Controller
Implementation of Self Tuning Controller
ASIC Control for AC Servomotor Drive for Military applications
Design and development of controller working on 1553b
digital bus in various modes.
Design & Hardware implementation of Universal Controller
for Radar Control in Marine applications
A study and analysis of active array antennas embedded in
hemispherical and hemispheroidal shaped dielectric lenses
for airborne mobile communications
Design and development and integration of coprocessor with
DSP using FPGA for Naval application
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8.7.
CALCUTTA
MANGEMENT
INSTITUTE
OF
ENGINEERING
AND
University/ Institute
Calcutta Institute of Engineeing and Management
Contact Name
Dr Chiranjib patra, Assistant professor
Email
chiranjibpatra@gmail.com,
Website
www.ciemcal.org
Address
24/1A CHANDI GHOSH ROAD, KOLKATA - 700040,WEST BENGAL, INDIA.
Phone
(033)2421- 99518998, 91 9831518949
Brief description of
organization
R&D activities and
Competences
The Institute was started in the year 2003 with an aim to develop
a “Center for Excellence” by eminent academicians, social
workers and the Government of West Bengal. The Institute with
5.08 acres of land has built up a huge infrastructure in the shape
of lecture rooms, laboratory rooms, and a central library with
other amenities as per the All India Council of Technical Education
guidelines.
The department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of
Electronics and Communication engineering is involved in training
and educating undergraduate and postgraduate students in
engineering. There are 4 professors and 20 lecturers in both the
departments working in the areas of Adhoc networks and Sensor
networks.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Adaptive control- Learning control
Probabilistic- Stochastic
Heuristic- Neural
Multi way PCA
TECHNOLOGICAL
Instrumentation and measurements- Wireless sensors
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management- Energy efficiency
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8.8.
NIRMA UNIVERSITY
Private University/ Research Institute
Type:
www.nirmauniv.in
Website
>80
Size
Contact person
Prof. (Dr.) Dipak Adhyaru, Head,
Department of Instrumentation
and Control
dipak.adhyaru@nirmauni.ac.in
E-mail
Address
Brief description of
the organization
Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, Post : Chandlodia, Via : Gota,
Ahmedabad - 382 481.Gujarat, India.
Institute of Technology, Nirma University is a leading institute offering
multi disciplinary postgraduate & undergraduate programmes in
engineering. The institute became a constituent of the Nirma
university since 2003.
The department of Electrical Engineering comprises of three sections
-Electrical Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engineering and
Instrumentation & Control Engineering. The department offers three
B. Tech programmes in Electrical Engineering (EE), Electronics &
Communication Engineering(EC), Instrumentation & Control
Engineering (IC) and five M.Tech programmes in VLSI Design,
communication Engineering, Power Electronics Machines and Drives,
Electrical Power system, Control and Automation. The
instrumentation and controls department trains students in
Measurement and Transducers, Control Systems components,
Biomedical Instrumentations, Process Instrumentation and Control,
Micro Processors and Micro Controllers.
The department has enrolled a few candidates for Ph.D. Under the
faculty development programme large number of faculty member
have registered for M tech and Ph.D programmes. Many faculty
members are likely to complete their Ph.D. soon. Hence the
department is getting fully equipped to undertake research &
development in the state of the art technology.
The department has well equipped laboratories such as the Control
System Components Laboratory, Bio Medical Instrumentation
Laboratory, Measurement and Control Laboratory, Process
instrumentation Laboratory, Computerized Process Control
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Laboratory & Power Electronics Laboratory.
R&D Competences
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: H, LMI, LQR
Non linear control: Feedback linearization, Back stepping, Sliding
mode
Adaptive control: direct, indirect, learning control
Predictive control: MPC
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters, Luenberger
Estimation / identification: System identification, Parameter
estimation
Networked control: Control of networks, Control over network
Coordination control: Synchronization
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
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9. PUBLIC RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
9.1.
CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
CENTRAL POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Contact name
Dr. S. SEETHARAMU
Website
Email address
Phone number
http://cpri.in
Address
Brief Description of the
organization
R&D Competencies
ssramu@cpri.in
080-23600399
Prof.Sir C.V.Raman Road, Post Box No: 8066, Sadasiva Nagar
(p.o), Bangalore, India , Pincode : 560 080
Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) is an autonomous
society under Ministry of Power, Government of India. Set up in
1960 by the Government of India, it functions as a centre for
applied research in electrical power engineering assisting
the electrical industry in product development, Consultancy and
quality assurance. CPRI also serves as an independent authority
for testing and certification of power equipment. CPRI's
governing body includes eminent professionals from industries,
utilities, prestigious academic and research institutions and the
government.
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Probabilistic: Stochastic, Randomizing
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
Fault detection and diagnosis :Fault detection and diagnosis
Statistical process monitoring : Statistical process monitoring
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management: Smart grids, Smart buildings, Energy
efficiency, DC networks, Renewable energy, Carbon capture
and sequestration
Water management: Waste water treatment
Other domains (use keywords) : Real time digital simulation,
Ultra high voltage engineering., Short circuit engineering.,
Earthquake engineering., Diagnostic studies in the power
sector, Switchgear,etc
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors,
Pervasive sensors, Sensor fusion.
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Embedded systems: Real time systems, Verification and
validation, Monitoring and Control Networks
Power system planning, improvement, studies
Diagnostic and condition monitoring of power system
equipments.
Reliability enhancement of power station equipment etc
SCADA & PLC
IT in Power
IT for relay protection (internet based)
Grid security Management through wide area network
monitoring
An integrated energy management system
Enhancement of power carrying capacity of transmission
corridor through temperature monitoring
AC/DC parallel operation, simulation and operational
experience
Intellligent energy metering system at Poles
Distribution Management for small Distribution Franchisees.
GPS based Data repository
Technology assessment Package for 100kW to 10MW
generating units- Electrical & Mechanical & Materials
aspects.
Distribution Management software for a Substation- testing
and validation
Transient and dynamic stability requirement of wind farm
Performance Analysis and Trading of Wind Power
Generation in Emerging Power system
Development of appropriate algorithms for efficient
management of Energy Control Centers
Optimal placement of Sectionalizing switches and
distributed generation resources for Improving service
Reliability in power distribution system
Wide area measurement and control for improving
observability and stability of power systems
Research Activities
R&D national projects
9.2.
THE ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Type
Research organization
Size
>100
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Website
www.terin.org
Contact Name
T Senthil kumar
Email
tsenthil@teri.res.in,
Address
Ph number
4th Main, Domlur II Stage Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka
080-25356590
TERI’s SRC (Southern Regional Centre) was set up at
Bangalore in 1990 with initial support from the Government
of India and the European Commission. Its main objectives
were to promote concepts and practices for improving
industrial energy efficiency through a concerted programme
of research, consultancy, training, and information
dissemination.
Brief Description
Over the years, the Centre has built up a reputation not only in
the realm of energy efficiency but also in the other spheres
like ES (environmental services) and also RRE (rural and
renewable energy). It has successfully executed innumerable
projects for various eminent Indian and multinational
organizations, corporates, state and government departments,
public and private sector enterprises, and international
financial and aid agencies. One of the main achievements of
this Centre has been the implementation of the ‘Indo-German
Energy Efficiency Project‘, a joint initiative of the Indian and
German governments, for nearly eight years.
Industrial Energy, Rural and renewable energy, and
Environmental studies encompassing energy audit for energy
efficiency. Industrial Energy Group of TERISRC has so far
completed 650 energy efficiency projects that fall under
different categories.
Comprehensive audits of all industrial sectors
covering areas of energy (thermal and electrical),
water, power quality, electrical safety
Collaborative Research
Activities
Capacity building and practical energy audit
programmes for various levels of industry.
Scrutiny of green field projects for incorporation of
efficiency parameters at design stage itself
Unique/special problem studies for the industries.
Implemented one of the biggest energy efficiency
programme titled as ‘Indo-German Energy Efficiency
Project’, a joint initiative of Indo-German government
especially for Industrial Sector (7years).
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Implemented the ‘Nepal Power Sector Efficiency
Project’ under the industrial energy management
that was funded by the World Bank (IDA Credit 2347
NEP) and Ministry of Industries of Nepal (2 years).
Undertook five projects for the Nepal-ESPS/Danida
Project, under the environment sector programme,
and provided technical assistance services to develop
and conduct training course for engineers in energy
efficiency. It also provided with technical consultancy
work in cleaner production.
Rational use for energy trainings and capacity
building’ – Energy advisory project for Deutsche GTZ
(Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) GmbH
and Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development,
Government of Uganda (6 projects)
Promotion of Energy Efficiency in Jordan—German
Energy Efficiency for Jordan Engineers—Deutsche
GTZ GmbH (3 projects)
R&D projects or recent
publications
Project with BBMP to have energy efficent building by
having the specifications in the bye law.
Energy Efficency sevices to Power Plants
Energy Audits to industries
Exchange of knowledge and know-how on solar
technologies between Germany, Belgium and India Capacity building for European Union - June
2005.This is a European Union project on capacity
building in solar thermal and solar photovoltaic
system technologies coordinated by Aachen
University
of
Applied
Sciences,
Germany;
Handwerkskammer Aachen (Chamber of Handicraft)
Aachen (HWK AC), Germany; and Zentrum für Ausund Weiterbildung des Mittelstands, Eupen (ZAWM),
Belgium.
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements
Embedded systems: Real time systems
R&D Competencies
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management
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Smart buildings, Energy efficiency, Renewable energy
Water management
Clean water supply
9.3.
CENTER
COMPUTING
FOR
DEVELOPMENT
OF
ADVANCED
CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANCED COMPUTING
Type
Size
Contact Name
Email
Research Institute
>100
Mr V.Muralidharan
murali@cdactvm.in
Phone
+91 9446571499
Website
www.cdactvm.in
CDAC is a national Centre of Excellence, pioneering application
oriented research, design and development in Electronics and
Information Technology. There are various groups and
departments working in the Power Electronics and Control
systems and Instrumentation groups
Brief Description
Power Electronics group is the vital part of industrial control and
is a major thrust area for C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram. The
major activities of the group are focused on the Power Quality
solutions using Custom Power Devices, Power Controllers for
tapping energy from Non-conventional energy sources like Wind,
Solar etc., Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Automotive Electronics,
Systems for Industrial Automation, Digital Controllers and Power
Control Systems for Industrial application, Networking of Power
Electronic systems and the Development of industrial control
products like Variable Speed Drive systems, High Performance
Uninterruptible Power Supply systems, High efficiency Switched
Mode Power Converters, Remote Controlled Mobile platforms,
etc.
The control and instrumentation group has its focus mainly on
General Purpose Control System, Power, Energy, Networking
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Office Automation, Cyber forensic and Energy system. The
technology developed by the group is Distribution Automation
SCADA, Vehicle Tracking System, Urban Traffic Control System,
General Purpose Control System, Artificial Intelligence Tools,
Hospital Management System, On-line Message Controller and
Cyber Forensic Tools.
Research projects
Monitoring and Control System for Silicon Reactors,
Metkem Silicon, Mettur
Skid detection system for Blooming Mill, BSP
Boiler Control System at Seshasayee Paper and Boards,
Erode
Online color control system at Seshasayee Paper and
Boards, Erode
Boiler Control System for Nath Pulp Mills
Synthetic rutile pilot plant automation system for
Travancore Cochin Chemicals, Cochin
Sinter Plant Automation for Bhilai Steel Plant
High speed data acquisition system for Blooming mill,
BSP
Computerized Energy Management System for BSP
Data Acquisition System for Kolaghat Thermal Power
Plant
Waste immobilisation Plant Control for Baba Atomic
Research Centre
Expert System for seizure management
Expert System for Agriculture
Fuel monitoring and truck tracking system for Vikram
Sarabai Space Centre
Brightness Monitoring and Control System for SPB,
Erode
Technical Resource centre for Cyber Forensics
Computerised Energy Management System for Bhilai
Steel Plant
Remote Monitoring and Control System for Teesta Canal
Falls Hydel Project Power Station I
Filter bed automation for Kerala Water Authority
Distribution Automation for Trivandrum city
ASTeC - Automation Systems Technology Centre
Intelligent Transportation System
Area raffic Contol system
Energy management system
IP65 wireless sensor mote
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THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: H, LQR
Non linear control: Back stepping, Sliding mode
Adaptive control: direct, indirect, learning control
Predictive control: MPC, NL
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters, Luenberger, Non
linear observability
Estimation / identification: System identification, Closed loop
identification, Parameter estimation
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent
Probabilistic: Stochastic
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
Heuristic: Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
Fault detection and diagnosis: Fault detection and diagnosis
Statistical process monitoring: Statistical process monitoring
R&D Competencies
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Energy management: Smart grids
Transportation: Automotive vehicle control, Road traffic
management
Industrial automation: Continuous manufacturing, Batch
manufacturing
Water management: Irrigation, Clean water supply
TECHNOLOGICAL CONCEPTS (sensing)
Instrumentation and measurements: Wireless sensors, Sensor
fusion
Embedded systems: Real time systems, Verification and
validation, Monitoring and Control Networks
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9.4.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICALS LIMITED
TYPE
SIZE
Contact Person
Website
Email
Phone
Address
Research Organization
>80
Dr Sridharamurthy S, Head, Knowledge and Technology
Management Division/Dr M Sathyanarayana, Joint Head, KTMD
www.nal.res.in
ssmurthy@nal.res.in, mns@nal.res.in
(+91-80)25086147, Tel: (+91-80)25086130, Fax: 91-8025086166
National Aerospace Laboratories,PB 1779, Bangalore 560 017,
India
NAL is a high technology oriented institution concentrating on
advanced topics in the aerospace and related disciplines.
Originally started as National Aeronautical Laboratory, it was
renamed National Aerospace Laboratories to reflect its major
involvement in the Indian space programme, its multidisciplinary
activities and global positioning. It is India’s only civilian
aerospace laboratory with a high level of competence and the
expertise of its scientists is globally acknowledged. Its research
areas in which it has developed technologies include:
Multi sensor, multi tracking and fusion,
Brief Description
Battery of integrated user interactive software, FUESDAT,
MultiDAT, IMDAT, BEARDAT, VARDAT, DTMSDF,
MSMTDTF.
Detection and tracking of maneuvering target,
Decentralized square root information filter fusion.
Seeker filter, adaptive modified Kalman filters,
Decision fusing using fuzzy logic.
Range safety applications ,
Low cost INS for autonomous landing system with DLR
germany,
Image tracking and fusion, situation assessment /
Artificial intelligence methods,
Sensor fusion and health monitoring, Cockpit data fusion,
Underwater tracking and Fusion
Flight path reconstruction and data analysis
Identification of non linear, unstable systems
Online Parameter Estimation
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R&D activities
THEORETICAL CONCEPTS
Robust control: H, LQR
Non linear control: Back stepping, Sliding mode
Adaptive control: direct, indirect, learning control
Predictive control:MPC, NL
Observers: Kalman filters; EKF, Particle filters, Luenberger, Non
linear observability
Estimation / identification: System identification, Closed loop
identification, Parameter estimation
Networked control: Cooperative/ coordinated /multiagent
Probabilistic: Stochastic
Distributed parameter systems: Distributed parameter systems
Heuristic:Fuzzy, Neural, GT (Genetic Algorithms)
Fault detection and diagnosis: Fault detection and diagnosis
APPLICATION DOMAINS
Transportation: Air vehicles, Air management
TECHNOLOGY CONCEPTS (Sensing)
Instruments and measurements: Wireless Sensor Networks,
Sensor fusion
Embedded systems: Real time systems, Verification and
Validation and Monitoring of networks.
9.5.
CENTRE FOR STUDY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND
POLICY
CENTRE FOR STUDY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY
TYPE
SIZE
Research Organization
>100
Contact Person
Website
Email
Phone
Address
Dr Rahul Tongia
www.cstep.in
tongia@cstep.in
+91-80-4249-0013
Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy, Old CAIR
Building, Dr. Raja Ramanna Complex, High Grounds. Bangalore 560 001
CSTEP focuses on several such options such as biofuels, solar
energy, nuclear power, and coal gasification and liquefaction.
CSTEP's Research involves technology modeling, economic
analysis and life cycle assessment. CSTEP researchers also focus
on assessment of natural gas supply and pricing options
Brief Description
Dr Rahul Tongia is Program Director at CSTEP, and was previously
at Carnegie Mellon University. His research focuses on
infrastructure and technology for sustainable development,
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Recent Publications
R&D projects
especially for under-served regions such as India or Africa. Using
quantitative policy and decision analysis, he has focused on the
Information and Communications as well as the energy/power
domains. In addition to engineering-economic analyses, his work
also deals with broader policy issues such as security,
international collaboration (especially US-India), and technology
analysis and transfer. His current work covers the broad areas of
Digital Divide, ICT for Sustainable Development, Smart Grids and
Smart Metering for Electricity Networks, and Energy for
Developing Regions..
A. Bharadwaj, R. Tongia, V. S. Arunachalam, “Scoping
Technology Options for India’s Oil Security, Part II: Coal
to Liquids and Bio-Diesel”, Bharadwaj, Current Science,
92(9), May 10, 2007
A. Bharadwaj, R. Tongia, V. S. Arunachalam, “Scoping
Technology Options for India’s Oil Security, Part I:
Ethanol for Gasoline”, Current Science, 92(8), April 25,
2007
R. Tongia, “Connectivity in Emerging Regions: The Need
for Improved Technology and Business Models” (2007),
IEEE Communications Magazine, Special Issue on New
Directions in Networking Technologies in Emerging
Economies, 45(1), January 2007, pp. 96-103
Solar Thermal Modeling
Karnataka ESCOMs IT Analysis and Roadmap: This project
involves detailed studies of existing business processes
and information flows in four Electricity Supply
Companies (ESCOMs) in Karnataka to analyze IT needs
under RAPDRP and beyond. The aim is to create a
framework and a roadmap for deployment of IT over the
medium to long term.
Energy Efficiency
Bescom New Equipment Evaluation
IT in Power Sector
Nuclear Report
UCG Conference
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