Specialization

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

Email

vijay.singh1@thapar.edu

Mr. Vijay Kumar Singh

Assistant Professor

 

Specialization

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

 

Email

vijay.singh1@thapar.edu

 

Contact No.

+91-7054441856

Biography

Vijay Kumar Singh is an enthusiastic and active researcher in the area of Control Theory, Sliding Mode Control, Adaptive Backstepping 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 Adaptive and Optimal Control for Uncertain Autonomous Aerial Vehicles techniques 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 involved actively in several national and international collaborations and has published many journals and international conference publications.

 

Academic Profile

• Ph.D. in Adaptive and Optimal Control for Uncertain Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
  • 2019 – 2023
• M.Tech. in Control Systems, NIT Kurukshetra
  • 2017 – 2019
• B.Tech. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, CCS University Meerut
  • 2012 – 2016

 

Teaching and Work Experience

Assistant Professor, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India

Sept. 2023 – Till Date

 

Research Interests

He is broadly interested in Control System Engineering, Applications to electrical,

mechanical, and aerospace engineering, etc. 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

 

Publications and other Research Outputs

Publications in Peer Reviewed International Journals

 

[1.] V.K. Singh, S. Kamal, and S. Ghosh, "Prescribed-time constrained feedback control for an uncertain twin-rotor helicopter," Aerospace Science and Technology, vol. 140, 108483, 2023.

 

[2.] V.K. Singh, and S. Kamal, "Prescribed-time adaptive backstepping control of an uncertain nonlinear 2-DOF helicopter," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Brief, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3267944.

 

[3.] V.K. Singh, S. Kamal, S. Ghosh, and T.N. Dinh, "Prescribed-time consensus of uncertain nonlinear multi-agent systems," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Brief, 2023, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2023.3303026.

 

[4.] K. Chatterjee, V.K. Singh, P. Prasun, S. Kamal, S. Ghosh, and T.N. Dinh, "Fixed-time event-triggered control under denial-of-service attacks," European Journal of Control, vol. 69, 100765, 2023.

 

[5.] A. Sachan, S.C. Mahto, V.K. Singh, S. Kamal, and T.N. Dinh, "A [K; KL] sector based hands-off control with quantization parameter mismatch," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Brief, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1407-1411, 2021.

 

Publications in Peer Reviewed International Conferences

 

[1.] V.K. Singh, S. Kamal, A. Sachan, S. Ghosh, "Prescribed-time adaptive constraint control of an uncertain nonlinear 2-DOF helicopter," 22nd IFAC World Congress, Yokohama, Japan, pp. 1-6, 2023.

 

[2.] P. Prasun, V.K. Singh, V. Pandey, S. Kamal, and S. Ghosh, "Sliding Mode Control for a Class of Systems based on Non-Monotonic Lyapunov Function," 31st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Limassol, Cyprus, pp. 1-6, 2023.

[3.] V.K. Singh, P. Prasun, K. Chatterjee, S. Kamal, S. Ghosh, "Optimal Sliding Mode Control with Predefined Upper Bound of Settling Time," 2022 16th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 260-265, 2022.

 

[4.] V.K. Singh, P. Prasun, B. Singh, S. Kamal, S. Ghosh, "Neural Network Control based Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems in Arbitrary Time," 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Toronto, ON, Canada, pp. 1-6, 2021.

 

[5.] V.K. Singh, J. Ohri, "Simultaneous control of position and vibration of flexible link manipulator by nature-inspired algorithms," 2018 IEEE 8th Power India International Conference (PIICON), Kurukshetra, India, pp. 1-6, 2018.

 

Courses of Interest

Control System

Introduction to Robotics

System Modelling and Control

Adaptive Control

Nonlinear Control Systems

 

Reviewer

IEEE Control System Letters

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Brief

European Journal of Control

 

Professional Responsibilities

• Chair, IEEE Student Branch IIT (BHU.) Varanasi, India
• Founder and Chair, IEEE Student Branch Chapter (Control System Society) IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India
• Graduate Student Member, IEEE
• Speaker at I-dapt sponsored "Development of autonomous wheelchair for disabilities" held during 1-5 Dec. 2021 at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU.) Varanasi, India.
• Speaker at IEEE Student Branch sponsored "Hands-on Workshop on LaTeX" held on 15 April 2023 at the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU.) Varanasi, India.

 

 Awards/Scholarships

❖ Vice Chancellor’s Gold Medal for securing the 1st position in the B.Tech batch (2012-2016).

❖ 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.