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Networked Control Systems Laboratory

 

Research

  • Practical applications of control system theory that will have significant positive impact on India and mankind

  • Motion control of a four-wheel independent-steering four-wheel independent-drive electric vehicle

 

Lab Setup

Lab Instruments

  

  

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  • Yokogawa DSO with CAN analyzer software

  • ezDSP kits (F2808 and F2812)

  • 8051 microcontrollers, dsPIC microcontrollers

  • USB-CAN converters

  • Lonworks' miniEVK

  • EZDSK91C111 Ethernet network daughter boards for ezDSP kits

  • PMDC motor control kits developed in-house

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  • Developed a digital automatic voltage regulator for BHEL Bhopal, jointly with Dr. P. Sensarma of the EE department, IITK (2007-2010)

  • Developed a new Control systems Laboratory for EE department IIT Kanpur (2009)

  • Developed feedback control strategies for coordination of the 10 motors that drive and steer ISRO's Moon Rover (2009-2015)

  • Developed a path-tracking control strategy for a four-wheel independent-steering four-wheel-drive electric vehicle (Funded by DST SERC, 2012-2016)


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  • Ramprasad Potluri, Pushpak Bhole, and Abhishek Verma. "Disturbance Observer for Speed-Dependent Disturbance in Motor Control". Indian Control Conference. IEEE. IIT Madras, Chennai, India. January 2015.

  • Manavaalan Gunasekaran, Ramprasad Potluri, and Ashish Dutta. "Path Tracking Control of a Moon Rover". Indian Control Conference. IEEE. IIT Madras, Chennai, India. January 2015.

  • Ramprasad Potluri and Arun Kant Singh. "Path-Tracking Control of an Autonomous 4WS4WD Electric Vehicle Using its Natural Feedback Loops". IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol 23, Number 5, September 2015.

  • Arun Kant Singh and Ramprasad Potluri. "Comments on “Model-Independent Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Output Tracking Control of 4WS4WD Road Vehicles”." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol 16, Number 3, June 2015.

  • Manavalan Gunasekaran and Ramprasad Potluri, "Low-Cost Undergraduate Control Systems Experiments Using Microcontroller-Based Control of DC Motor." IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol 55, issue 4, pp 508-516, November 2012.

  • Potluri, Ramprasad; Singh, Arun Kant, "Path-Tracking Control of an Autonomous 4WS4WD Electric Vehicle Using its Natural Feedback Loops," 2013 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC 2013), Hyderabad, India. 28 - 30 August 2013.

  • Saurav, Kumar; Potluri, Ramprasad, "Sensorless speed control of a permanent magnet DC motor by compensating the plant nonlinearities," 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp.1 - 4. Taipei, Taiwan. 28-31 May 2013.

  • Manavaalan Gunasekaran and Ramprasad Potluri. "Kinematics Modeling and Design of Motion Controller for a Moon Rover," 11th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC'12). Sept. 9 - 12, 2012, Seoul, Korea.

  • Ramprasad Potluri and Arun Kant Singh. "Path-tracking control of an autonomous 4WS4WD electric vehicle using driving motors' dynamics," 7th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2012, pp.1-6, 6-9 Aug. 2012, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

  • Ramprasad Potluri. Comments on “Chattering Free Robust Control for Nonlinear Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Vol. 20, Issue 2, pp. 562 -- 562, March 2012

  • Ramprasad Potluri. Comments on “Optimal Fault-Tolerant Path-Tracking Control for 4WS4WD Electric Vehicles”. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, 2011, Page(s): 622 - 623.

  • Manavaalan Gunasekaran and Ramprasad Potluri. Cooperative control of a dual-motor ball and beam system. INDICON 2008. IEEE, 2008.

  • Ramprasad Potluri, et al. Networked Control Systems and a Mixed Open-Loop/Closed-Loop Control. Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), IISc, Bangalore, India, February 2007


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  • Manavaalan Gunasekaran (Graduated in May 2015)


    Thesis Title: Path tracking control of a Moon rover: modeling, design, and implementation 

  • Arun Kant Singh

  • Arunava Karmakar

  • Dileep Kumar


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Ramprasad Potluri
Telephone: +91-512-2597735
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Location: Western Labs 217 B