Specialization

Robotics, Adaptive Control, Sliding Mode Control, Autonomous Aerial Vehicle, Neural Network Control, Finite-Time Control

Email

vijay.singh1@thapar.edu

Office

H-202 (H-Block)

Biography

Vijay Kumar Singh is an enthusiastic and active researcher in the area of Control Theory, Sliding Mode Control, Adaptive control, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles and Adaptive Neural Network Control. Presently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India. He received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from CCS University, Meerut, in 2016, master’s degree in the field of control systems for robotic manipulators from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra in 2019 and doctoral degree in the field of Prescribed-Time Adaptive and Optimal Control for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems from IIT (BHU) Varanasi in 2023. Mr. Singh visited Lodz University of Technology, Poland, from 15 September 2022 to 14 October 2022 to do research in the field of Reaching Law-based Sliding Mode Control. He is actively involved in several national and international collaborations and has published in many journals and international conference publications.

Academic Profile

• Ph.D. in Prescribed-Time Adaptive and Optimal Control for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India
  • 2019-2023
• M.Tech in Control Systems, NIT Kurukshetra, India
  • 2017-2019
• B.Tech in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, CCS University, Meerut, India
  • 2012-2016

Teaching and Work Experience

• Assistant Professor (C-II), Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India
  • Sept 2023- Till Date

Research Interests

He is broadly interested in control system engineering and its applications to electrical, mechanical, and aerospace engineering. He is working on the following areas:

• Control of Autonomous Arial Vehicles
• Nonlinear Control
• Optimal Control Applications and Methods
• Prescribed Finite-time Control
• Adaptive backstepping control
• Adaptive Neural-Network control
• Sliding Mode Control

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

• IFAC

Publications and other Research Outputs

SCI 07, Conference Papers 05

Journal Papers: SCI/SCIE

• Vijay Kumar Singh, Shyam Kamal, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, Sandip Ghosh, and Thach Ngoc Dinh, “Prescribed-time optimal control of nonlinear dynamical systems with application to a coupled tank system,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023.
• Vijay Kumar Singh, Shyam Kamal, and Sandip Ghosh, “Predefined-time adaptive backstepping control for a class of nonlinear dynamical systems with parametric uncertainties,” International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 2023.
• Vijay Kumar Singh, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, and Thach Ngoc Dinh,
  “Neuroadaptive prescribed-time consensus of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2023.
• Vijay Kumar Singh, Shyam Kamal, and Sandip Ghosh, “Prescribed-time constrained feedback control for an uncertain twin rotor helicopter,” Aerospace Science and Technology, 140:108483, 2023.
• Vijay Kumar Singh and Shyam Kamal, “Prescribed-time adaptive backstepping control of an uncertain nonlinear 2-dof helicopter,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2023.
• Kallol Chatterjee, Vijay Kumar Singh, Parijat Prasun, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, and Thach N Dinh, “Fixed-time event-triggered control under denial-of-service attacks,” European Journal of Control, 69:100765, 2023.
• Ankit Sachan, Sharat Chandra Mahto, Vijay Kumar Singh, Shyam Kamal, and Thach Ngoc Dinh, “A [k, kl] sector-based hands-off control with quantization parameter mismatch,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 69(3):1407–1411, 2021.

Conference Papers

• Vijay Kumar Singh, Parijat Prasun, Kallol Chatterjee, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, and Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, “Optimal sliding mode control with predefined upper bound of settling time,” In 16^th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), pages 260–265, IEEE, 2022.
• Vijay Kumar Singh, Parijat Prasun, Bhawana Singh, Shyam Kamal, and Sandip Ghosh, “Neural network control based stabilization of nonlinear systems in arbitrary time,” In 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pages 1–6. IEEE, 2021.
• Parijat Prasun, Vijay Kumar Singh, Vinay Pandey, Shyam Kamal, Sandip Ghosh, Pavel Osinenko, and Sergei Parsegov, “Sliding mode control for a class of systems based on a non-monotonic Lyapunov function,” In 31^st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), pages 618–623. IEEE, 2023.
• Vijay Kumar Singh, Shyam Kamal, Ankit Sachan, and Sandip Ghosh, “Prescribed-time adaptive constraint control of an uncertain nonlinear 2-dof helicopter. IFAC World Congress, 56(2):6877–6882, 2023.
• Vijay Kumar Singh and Jyoti Ohri, “Simultaneous control of position and vibration of flexible link manipulator by nature-inspired algorithms,” In IEEE 8th Power India International Conference (PIICON), pages 1–6, IEEE, 2018.

Courses of Interest

• Automatic Control System
• Introduction to Robotics
• System Modelling and Control
• Adaptive Control
• Nonlinear Control Systems
• Modern control of dynamic systems
• Mechatronics

Reviewer

• IEEE Control System Letters
• ISA Transactions
• Nonlinear Dynamics
• International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Brief
• European Journal of Control

Foreign Visits

Awards and Honours

1. Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal for securing the 1st position in the B.Tech batch (2012-2016).
2. Awarded PROM Project Fellowship by the International Scholarship Exchange of Ph.D. candidates and academic staff, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange from 15 September 2022 to 14 October 2022.