National Workshop On

Vistas of Advanced Control Theory

with Aerospace Applications

2- 2012 July 2-3, 2012

Under the auspices of UGC SAP DRS I

Organized by
Department of Applied Physics
UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

In association with

IET-UK Kolkata Local Network

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Professor Tapan Kumar Ghoshal is presently a Hon Emeritus Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University. He received his B. E. E. (1966) and M. E. E. (1968) both from the Jadavpur University, followed by Ph. D (Engg.) in Flight Control from Cranfield, UK in 1976. Since 1967, he served as a faculty at the Electrical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University and later he as a Professor and Head in the same department. Since the inception of the School of Education Technology (JU) in 1987, he served as the Jt Coordinator till June 2005. He also, served as the Coordinator of the Centre for Knowledge Based Systems (JU) till June 2005 and as a Member Advisory Committee, India Science Lab (General Motors R&D) since December 2007. He has a 42 year long Teaching and Research career a major part of which was devoted to Consultancy of missile and aircraft control systems. His major research interests are Control Systems, Aerospace, Real Time Software Engineering, Software QA, IV&V. He has received many awards and honours such as Commonwealth Fellowship in UK (1973-1976), Corps of Engineers Medal 1998 and Certificate of Merit, 1980, 1996 awarded by IE (India) for research Publication, Academic Excellence Award of Defence Research & Development Organisation 1998 for contribution in the Guidance of PRITHVI & NAG Missiles etc. He has about 40 Journal Research Papers and 50 Technical Reports.

Dr. Radhakant Padhi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from University College of Engineering, Burla, Orissa in 1994, followed by Master of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1996. He earned his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology Rolla (formerly University of Missouri Rolla), USA in 2001 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the same university for two years. In Dec 2003, he joined Indian Institute of Science as an Assistant professor and subsequently promoted to Associate professor in Dec 2009. Dr. Padhi has also served as a scientist at RCI (DRDO), Hyderabad during 1996-1997. Dr. Padhis research interests are in the broad area of systems theory and applications. Specifically, he is interested in optimization and optimal control, distributed parameter systems, neural networks, control and guidance of aerospace vehicles and application of control theory in biomedical systems. He has more than 130 publications in international journals and conferences. He has received many awards and honours for his valuable research contributions.

SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP

Industries, in the present day, need be operated at the highest possible efficiency to ensure precision and quality of its products for accurate control in different applications. The aim of this workshop is to provide an overview of various techniques available in the area of control theory. The workshop will cover an overview of the basics and advanced topics of control theory and cover the areas of optimal control, static optimization, nonlinear control etc. This will help the participants in updating continuously their knowledge and skills in the areas mentioned.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Faculties and Research Scholars of AICTE approved engineering colleges / universities / practicing engineers from industry, involved in teaching/ R & D in the area of control

REGISTRATION
Registration fee for the workshop is 100 INR and participants are to fill up the registration form and send through e-mail as mentioned below. The payment of registration fee is to be made at the registration desk on 2nd July, 2012.

IMPORTANT DATE
Last date for registration through e-mail only: 29th June, 2012 appliedphysicscontrol@yahoo.com

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UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA

Vistas of Advanced Control Theory

July2-3, 2012
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PROGRAMME
Date 02.07.2012 Venue : Department of Applied Physics, CU

10.15 AM

Welcome Address

Dr Madhuchhanda Mitra Head, Department of Applied Physics

Tentative Technical Programme Technical Session I 10.30 AM Vistas of Control Systems Professor T K Ghoshal Department of Electrical Engineering Jadavpur University, Kolkata 11.30 AM Tea Break Professor Radhakant Padhi Department of Aerospace Engineering

12.00 pm

Motivation and overview of nonlinear and optimal control

1.30 PM

02.07.2012 (Monday)

IISc, Bangalore

LUNCH

Technical Session II 2.30 PM

Nonlinear Dynamic Inversion: A promising substitute for gain scheduling

Professor Radhakant Padhi Department of Aerospace Engineering

IISc, Bangalore

4.30 PM

4.00 PM Tea Break Professor Radhakant Padhi Overview of static Department of Aerospace optimization
Engineering

IISc, Bangalore
6.00 PM General Discussions HIGH TEA

PROGRAMME
Date 03.07.2012 Venue : Department of Applied Physics, CU

Tentative Technical Programme Technical Session III 9.30 AM

An overview of applied optimal control

Professor Radhakant Padhi Department of Aerospace Engineering

IISc, Bangalore
11.00 AM Tea Break 11.30 Noon

03.07.2012 (Tuesday)

Approximate dynamic programming and AdaptiveCritic design

1.00 PM

Professor Radhakant Padhi Department of Aerospace Engineering

IISc, Bangalore

LUNCH

Technical Session IV 2.00 PM

An overview of flight dynamics and flight control

Professor Radhakant Padhi Department of Aerospace Engineering

IISc, Bangalore 3.30 PM Tea Break Professor Radhakant Padhi Model predictive static Department of Aerospace programming and Engineering optimal guidance of flight IISc, Bangalore vehicles
General Discussions HIGH TEA

4.00 PM

5.30 PM