Specialization

Finite-Time Control, Sliding Mode Control, Multi-agent Systems, Machine Learning, Path-Planning for mobile robots

Email

anil.pal@thapar.edu

Biography

Dr. Anil Kumar Pal is a passionate researcher in the domain of Finite and Fixed Time Control Design, Sliding Mode Control, Multi-agent Systems and Machine Learning. 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 Telecommunication engineering from Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg, Chhattisgarh, India in 2008. He received M. Tech with specialization in Control Systems from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2013. He received his Ph.D. degree from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India in 2020. From March 2022 to March 2024, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Calgary, Canada. During his postdoctoral studies he worked on implementing machine learning and path planning algorithms for humanoid robot and autonomous drone projects. He also visited Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen during Nov-Dec 2019, working on super-twisting algorithms with predefined-time convergence. He has research collaborations both at national and international levels. He has published several papers in reputed journals and conferences.

 

 

Academic Profile

• PhD thesis title: “Free-will Arbitrary Time Stability and Stabilization,” IIT (BHU) Varanasi
  • 2015-2020
• M. Tech in Control Systems, IIT(BHU) Varanasi
  • 2011-2013
• B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication, Bhilai Institute of Technology, Durg
  • 2004-2008

 

Teaching and Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, India
  • May 2024 – Till Date
• Postdoctoral Associate, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • March 2022-March 2024
• Assistant Professor, IERT, Prayagraj, India
  • October 2021 – March 2022
• Assistant Professor, LCIT, Bilaspur, India
  • July 2014 – July 2015
• Assistant Professor, PSIT, Kanpur, India
  • July 2013 – July 2014
• Lecturer, DIMAT, Raipur, India
  • July 2008 – July 2011

 

Research Interests

• Nonlinear Control
• Sliding Mode Control: Theory and Applications
• Finite and Fixed-Time Control and Observation Problems.
• Multi-agent Consensus Problems
• Path Planning for Mobile Robots
• Machine Learning Applications

 

Publications and other Research Outputs

SCI 09, Conference Papers 06

Journal Papers: SCI/SCIE

 

• Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, Shyam Krishna Nagar, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay and Leonid Fridman, “Design of controllers with arbitrary convergence time,” Automatica, vol. 112, article no. 108710, 2020.

 

• Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, Shyam Krishan Nagar, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay and Leonid Fridman, “Authors’ Reply To: (CI 20-0229) Comments on Design of controllers with arbitrary convergence time [Automatica 108710],” Automatica, article no. 109194, 2020.

 

• Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, Xinghuo Yu, Shyam Krishna Nagar and Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, “Free-will Arbitrary Time Terminal Sliding Mode Control,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 69, no. 7, pp. 3189-3193, 2022.

 

• Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, Xinghuo Yu, Shyam Krishna Nagar and Xiaogang Xiong, "Free-Will Arbitrary Time Consensus for Multiagent Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 4636-4646, 2022.

 

• Bhawana Singh, Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, Thach Ngoc Dinh and Frédéric Mazenc, “Vector Control Lyapunov Function based Stabilization of Nonlinear Systems in Predefined Time,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 4984-4989, Aug. 2023.

 

• Sunil Kumar, Sandeep Kumar Soni, Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal and Xiaogang Xiong, "Nonlinear Polytopic Systems with Predefined Time Convergence," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2021.3125722, 2021.

 

• Xiaogang Xiong, Anil Kumar Pal, Zhichao Liu, Shyam Kamal, Ruining Huang and Yunjiang Lou, “Discrete-Time Adaptive Super-Twisting Observer with Predefined Arbitrary Convergence Time,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 2057-2061, 2021.

 

• Xiaogang Xiong, Ankit Sachan, Ruining Huang, Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, and Wei Chen, “Implicit‐Euler based digital implementation for constrained stabilization order systems,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol 31, no. 11, pp. 5086-5100, 2021.
• Sunil Kumar, Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, and Xiaogang Xiong, “Design of switched high-gain observer for nonlinear systems,” International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1471-1483, 2023.

 

Conference Papers

 

• Shyam Kamal, Anil Kumar Pal, Bhawana Singh, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, and Xinghuo Yu, “Stabilization of continuous time uncertain systems with predefined upper bound of settling time,” 16th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), 2022.

 

• Anil Kumar Pal, Shyam Kamal, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay and Leonid Fridman,” On the predefined, prescribed and arbitrary time convergence,” 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2022.

 

• Anil Kumar Pal, Bhawana Singh, Shyam Kamal, Shyam Krishna Nagar, and Jitendra Kumar Goyal, "Arbitrary Time Stabilization of a Coupled Tank System: A Contraction based Approach." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), pp. 23-28. IEEE, 2020.

 

• Bhawana Singh, Shyam Kamal, Debdas Ghosh, Sandip Ghosh, Antonella Ferrara, Anil Kumar Pal, and Jitendra Kumar Goyal, “Controller and Observer Design using Vector Framework with Simplified Contraction Analysis.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), pp. 29-34. IEEE, 2020.

 

• Jitendra Kumar Goyal, Shubham Aggarwal, Sandip Ghosh, Shyam Kamal, Pawel Dworak, Bhawan Singh, and Anil Kumar Pal, “Experimental Design of Robust Decentralized PI Controller for TRMS through Polytopic Modelling.” In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), pp. 47-52. IEEE, 2020.

 

• Anil Kumar Pal, Ankit Sachan, Rahul Kumar Sharma, Shyam Kamal, and Shyam Krishna Nagar, “Bounded Rate of Control-Based Guidance for Targets Exhibiting Higher Accelerations." In International conference on Modelling, Simulation and Intelligent Computing, pp. 356-364. Springer, Singapore, 2020.

 

Courses of Interest

• Linear Control Systems
• Nonlinear Control Systems
• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Sliding Mode Control
• Signals and Systems
• Linear Algebra
• Python Programming

 

Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
• Automatica
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Brief
• IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
• International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
• Journal of the Franklin Institute

 

 

Foreign Visits

S. No.	Country	University	Year	Contacted Person
1.	China	Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen	2019	Prof. Xiaogang Xiong