Our current research areas:
· Process Control – PID Design, Model Predictive Control, Unstable Systems, Control Loop Performance Assessment, Learning automata based design
· Process Dynamics – Nonlinear Dynamics and Analysis, Bifurcation
· Wastewater Treatment – Optimization, Monitoring and Control of Wastewater Treatment Plants
Funded Projects:
1. Advanced control of chemical processes involving time delays, funded by DST under fast track scheme for young scientists, Rs. 18 Lakhs, 2010-2013.
2. Advanced modeling, control and decision support tools for flexible and optimal water treatment plants, Indo-European networking project funded by New INDIGO - DST (www.newindigo-atwat.com), with partners from NCL, Pune (India), PEC, Pondicherry (India), University of Gent (Belgium), University of Girona (Spain), Catalan Water Agency (Spain), Euro 1,00,000, 2012-2014.
3. NMEICT-MHRD sponsored Pedagogy project for development of course modules for Instrumentation & Process Control, 2013-2014. (Principal developer: Prof. T. K. Radhakrishnan, NIT Trichy)
4. MHRD sponsored RSG grant worth Rs. 5 Lakhs for the project Advanced modeling and control of biological waste water treatment plants, 2014-2015.
5. Advanced control of wastewater treatment plants for improved effluent quality, cost reduction and effluent violations removal, SERB-Extra Mural Research Funding, Rs. 40.4 Lakhs, 2017-2020.
Invited Talks:
- Advanced control of biological wastewater treatment plants, IIT Madras, April 21, 2017 (Workshop on Trends in Process Control)
Delivered several invited talks at the following places.
- NIT Calicut
- Government Engineering College, Thrissur
- NIT, Trichy
- Kyung Hee University, South Korea
- Anna University, Trichy
- Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, Tamilnadu
- Shastra University, Tanjavur, Tamilnadu
- IIT Madras, Chennai
- Ghent University, Belgium
- Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India
- SVU College of Engineering, Tirupathi, India
- Madras Institute of Technology(MIT), Chennai
- BV Raju Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
- NIT Warangal