Advances in Control Instrumentation Systems (eBook)

This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the Control Instrumentation System Conference (CISCON 2019) in the specialized area of cyber-physical systems. The topics include current trends in the areas of instrumentation, sensors and systems, industrial automation and control, image and signal processing, robotics, renewable energy, power systems and power drives, and artificial intelligence technologies. Wide-ranging applications in various fields such as aerospace, biomedical, optical imaging and biomechanics are covered in the book. The contents of this book are useful for students, researchers as well as industry professionals working in the field of instrumentation and control engineering.

Dr. V. I. George completed his B.E. in Electrical Power Engineering (1983) from Mysore University, M.Tech. (1987) in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from NIT Calicut and Ph.D. (2004) in 'Robust Control of Dynamic Systems' from NIT, Tiruchirappalli. He joined as Faculty in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in the year 1985, 1992 promoted as Reader, 2004 as Professor and Head of the Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE). He was the elected Vice President of the Systems Society of India during the period 2005-07 and also Vice President of ISSE 2014 onwards. He is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers India, Fellow of Systems Society of India, Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of Indian Society of Systems for Science and Engineering (ISSE), and Life Member of ISTE. He has published more than 172 research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals, and conference proceedings. He received the Vikram Award instituted by the Systems Society of India, Fellow award from ISSE and Distinguished Alumnus award from MIT Manipal. In 2016, Dr. V.I. George received the Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution and achievements in the field of control systems instituted by Venus International faculty awards. In 2012, he published a textbook on Digital Control Systems.

Dr. Binoy Krishna Roy received his B.E. from NIT Silchar in 1985, M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Control Systems from IIT Kharagpur in 1989 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical engineering, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, Assam, India. Dr. Roy has 33 years of teaching experience. He has been actively involved with various administrative activities both at departmental and institute levels. He is a member of many professional bodies like The Institute of Engineers (India), IEEE, ISA, Senior Member of International Association for Computer Science and Information Technology and a Life Member of ISTE and SSI. He works in the field of application of linear and nonlinear control systems, nonlinear dynamics, chaos theory, control and application of chaos theory, fault detection and diagnosis, railway safety, image processing, robotics and control. Dr. Roy has published more than 80 papers in international journals, 10 papers in national journals, more than 90 papers in international conference proceeding and 8 book chapters.

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This book comprises select peer-reviewed proceedings of the Control Instrumentation System Conference (CISCON 2019) in the specialized area of cyber-physical systems. The topics include current trends in the areas of instrumentation, sensors and systems, industrial automation and control, image and signal processing, robotics, renewable energy, power systems and power drives, and artificial intelligence technologies. Wide-ranging applications in various fields such as aerospace, biomedical, optical imaging and biomechanics are covered in the book. The contents of this book are useful for students, researchers as well as industry professionals working in the field of instrumentation and control engineering.