Co-ordination & Control of Multi-Robot/ Multi-Vehicle Systems , Resilient control of Robotics Systems, Secure Cyber-Physical systems, Multi-Agent Systems, IoT, Robust and adaptive Control, Intelligent Control.

Anomaly Detection & Countermeasures in Cyber-Physical System using Advanced Control and Estimation Techniques " sponsored by DST-SERB, SRG, PI: Dr. Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair,  Dec 2021-Apr 2024 (Ongoing).

Laxmidhar Behera, Swagat Kumar, Prem Kumar P, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Samrat Dutta, "Intelligent Control of Robotic Systems“, Taylor & Francis Publications, CRC Press, April 2020

Editors: Ritu Tiwari, Mario F. Pavone, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence 2021, Book Series: "Algorithms for Intelligent Systems", Springer, Singapore, 2022

• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, Swagat Kumar, “Event triggered finite time integral sliding mode controller for consensus-based formation of multi-robot systems with disturbances”, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 27, no. 1, pp 39-47, Jan. 2019
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Hamad Karki, Amit Shukla, Laxmidhar Behera, Mo Jamshidi “ Fault tolerant formation control of nonholonomic robots using fast adaptive gain nonsingular terminal sliding mode control”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, pp 1006-1017, Mar. 2019.
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, "Robust adaptive gain higher order sliding mode observer based control-constrained nonlinear model predictive control for spacecraft formation flying", IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, vol. 5, no. 1, pp 367-381, Jan. 2018
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, Vinod Kumar, Mo. Jamshidi, “Multi-satellite formation control for remote sensing applications using artificial potential field and adaptive fuzzy sliding mode control”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp 508-518, Jun. 2015.
• Radhe Shyam Sharma, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Pooja agrawal, Laxmidhar Behera, Venkatesh Subramanian, “Robust Hybrid Visual Servoing using Reinforcement Learning and Finite Time Adaptive FOSMC”, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 13, no. 3, Sep. 2019
• Anuj N, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, “Fuzzy Inferencing-based Path planning with a cyber-physical framework and Adaptive Second order SMC for routing and mobility control in a robotic network”, IET Cyber Systems and Robotics,vol. 2, no.3, pp 149-160, Sep. 2020.

• Archit K. Kamath, T. Dam, H.L. Maurya, P. Singh, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Saeid Nahavandi, "Modelling and Sliding Mode Control of a Stereo Vision Augmented 6 DoF Quadrotor System",  21^st  IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR),  Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec 2023 (Accepted)
• A. K. Kamath, S. Chand Yogi, L. Behera, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair and S. Nahavandi, "Back-stepping Nonlinear Integral Sliding Mode Control of a Vision Augmented 3 DoF Quadrotor in the presence of System Uncertainties and Bounded Disturbances," 2022 IEEE 17th International Conference on Control & Automation (ICCA), Naples, Italy, 2022, pp. 541-546,
• Dhruv Vaish, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, " Robust Battery Management system for Electric Vehicles", IEEE International Conference on Computer, Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Their Applications, NIT Uttarakhand, June 2023.
• Sajna. S, Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, "Learning-based Smart Parking System" International Conference on Computational Intelligence, 2021 , Pune, Book series: Algorithms for Intelligent Systems.
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, “Robust adaptive gain nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control for spacecraft formation flying”, 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2015), Osaka, Japan, Dec. 2015, pp 5214-5219.
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, “Swarm Aggregation Using Artificial Potential Field and Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control with Adaptive Tuning Technique,” American Control Conference, (ACC 2012), Montreal, Canada, Jun. 2012, pp 6184 - 6189
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, “Tracking Control of Spacecraft Formation Flying using Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control with Adaptive Tuning Technique”, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (Fuzz-IEEE 2013), Hyderabad, India, Jul. 2013, pp 1-8.
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, “Adaptive fuzzy nonsingular fast terminal sliding mode control for spacecraft formation flying”, IEEE First International Conference on Control, Measurement and Instrumentation, Kolkata, India, Jan. 2016, pp 408-413
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, “Formation Control of Non- Holonomic Robots using Artificial Potential Field and Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control with Adaptive Tuning Technique”, International Conference on Advances in control and optimization of dynamical systems (ACODS 2012) (2nd BEST PAPER AWARD), IISc, Bangalore, India, Feb. 2012
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Laxmidhar Behera, “Multi-Agent Formation Control using Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control", International UKIERI workshop on Fusion of Brain Computer Interface and Assistive Robotics (Poster), University of Ulster, UK, Jul. 2011
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair,  Rajeev U. P, Dinesh Pai A, “ A Decentralized Guidance Strategy for Multi-Aircrafts Flight Formation,” International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS’ 2007), IISc, Bangalore, India, Feb. 2007.
• Ranjith Ravindranathan Nair, Rajeev U. P, Dinesh Pai A, “Modeling drag Optimal Configuration of Aircrafts in Formation, ” 7 th National Conference on Technological Trends, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, Nov. 2006.

General Chair for Second International Conference on Computational Intelligence, 27-28 Dec 2021, jointly organized by Soft Computing Research Society of India & Indian Institute of information Technology Pune.

Coordinator for AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored faculty development Programme on "Advances in Control Systems and Sensor Technologies” at Indian Institute of Information Technology Pune from 27 Nov-01 Dec 2021.

Coordinator for AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored faculty development Programme on "Cyber-Physical Systems” held at Indian Institute of Information Technology Pune from 07-11 Nov 2020.

Proctoring Coordinator for Two-week Online Faculty Development Programme on “Demystifying 5G RF ASICs” sponsored by Electronics and ICT Academies under MEITY, IIT Guwahati & MNIT Jaipur

Coordinator for AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy Sponsored faculty development Programme on "Smart Robots” held at Indian Institute of Information Technology Pune from 07-11 Dec 2019

Coordinator for faculty development Programme on "Data Science and Machine Learning” held at Indian Institute of Information Technology Pune from 20-24 Dec 2018.

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, Aug 2023- Present

• Assistant Professor, Department of ECE, Indian Institute of information Technology Pune, Oct 2018-July 2023

•  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Intelligent Systems and Control Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

             • Project: A condition monitoring system with multi-agent mechanism for external non-contact smart inspection of buried oil and gas pipelines, funded

                 by  Abu  Dhabi National Oil Corporation, Gas Research Centre, Abu Dhabi.

•  Sr. Project Engineer at Intelligent Systems and Control Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

             • Project: A condition monitoring system with multi-agent mechanism for external non-contact smart inspection of buried oil and gas pipelines, funded

                 by  Abu  Dhabi National Oil Corporation, Gas Research Centre, Abu Dhabi.

• Research Intern at TCS Robotics Innovation Lab, New Delhi, India

• Sr. Student Research Associate at Intelligent Systems and Control Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India ◦ Projects: 1) Multi-mobile wireless sensor networks in tracking and surveillance 2) A condition monitoring system with multi-agent mechanism for external non-contact smart inspection of buried oil and gas pipeline

• Tutor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India (Fall 2014)

• Software Engineer, Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited Chennai, India

• Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering, RGCE, Anna University Chennai & SGCE, MG University, Kerala

Awards

• Award for best book in reference category for Engineering at the Book and Digital Product Awards 2020 organized by the Taylor & Francis Group for the book titled “Intelligent Control of Robotic Systems”.
•  2 nd Best Paper award in International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS 2012) held at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, Feb. 2012.

Positions of Authority

• Associate Editor, IEEE ROMAN 2019-2023
• PG & Ph.D Coordinator at IIIT Pune 2019-2023
• Center-In-charge for CCMT-2020, CCMT-2021, CCMT-2022 counselling, IIIT Pune

Education

• Ph.D- Specialisation: Control and Automation, Discipline: Electrical Engineering, Year: 2017                                                                                                            Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India [CPI: 9.0/10 (graded in relative scale)]                                                                                                          Thesis topic: Leader-Follower-based Formation Control of Multi-Satellite & Multi-Robot Systems using Sliding Mode Techniques Supervisor: Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India