• Prof. Sirish L Shah, University of Alberta-Canada released the MLAPC research lab brochure with first copy to Prof . Ravindra D Gudi at IIT Bombay during the workshop gathering of Oil, Refinery and Gas engineers.

  • Prof. P. S. V. Nataraj, Professor (Retd), Systems and Control, IIT Bombay visited the ML lab.

  • Prof. Ravindra D Gudi, AI/ML Chair Professor, Dean(ARC) & Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay visited ML for Advanced Process Control Lab, guided with future direction of ML works for batch reactor.

  • Dr. J. Prakash , Registrar -Anna University inaugurated the Machine Learning for Advanced Process Control lab.

  • With Prof. George Stephanopoulos, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.

  • Dr. J. Prakash , Registrar -Anna University inaugurated the Machine Learning for Advanced Process Control lab.

  • Dr. J. Prakash , Registrar -Anna University inaugurated the Machine Learning for Advanced Process Control lab.

  • Machine Learning based modeling and ML Controllers for the biodiesel production using deterministic and stochastic optimal temperature profiles.

  • Fortunate to meet ISRO chairman Dr. Somnath at ISRO Center, Ahmadabad during a meeting.

  • With Prof. Urmila Diwekar, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA at IIT, Bombay.

  • Prof. Arun Tangirala, Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras.

  • Prof. M. Chidambaram Ex-Director, NIT-T & Professor, Chemical Engineering, IIT,M visited MIT, Manipal.

  • Prof. J. Prakash, Instrumentation Engineering, Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai.

  • Awards & Publications

    A1-100 NVIDIA 80GB RAM HPC for ML algorithms. Server based computations for fast processing enabled in MLAPC.

  • Awards & Publications

    Cyber Physical System enabled Machine Learning for Advanced Process Control lab - Implementation of Digital Twin and Cloud computation for batch reactor completed. Industrial Gateway based cloud computing for multiple nodes under process.

  • Awards & Publications

    Applying Joint and Dual State and Parameter Estimation Using Derivative-Free Kalman Filter for a Switched Nonlinear System

  • Awards & Publications

    Elenchezhiyan, M., Thirunavukkarasu, I. & Kumar, E. G., 2024, Intelligent Control, Robotics, and Industrial Automation - Proceedings of International Conference, RCAAI 2023. Suresh, S., Lal, S. & Kiran, M. S. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 441-458 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering; vol. 1220 LNEE).

  • Awards & Publications

    CNN-LSTM-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller for Temperature Trajectory Tracking in a Batch Reactor"Aishwarya Selvamurugan Parthiban Kunnathur GanesanShashank S NayakArockiaraj Simiyon* Thirunavukkarasu Indiran*, ACS Omega, Nov 2024. Q1 Journal

  • Awards & Publications

    Machine Learning Based Fault Classification in Pilot Plant Batch Reactor: Using Support Vector Machine". Arockiaraj Simiyon, Chaitanya Sachidanand Manthana Halmakki KrishnamurthyAnanya V. Bhatt, Thirunavukkarasu Indiran*, ACS Omega, June 2024.

  • Awards & Publications

    Identification of batch reactor process using Extreme Learning Machine based Hammerstein and Hammerstein-Wiener Models" Murugan Balakrishnan Vinodha Rajendran, Shettigar. J. Prajwal Thirunavukkarasu Indiran*, Journal of Physics-Conference Series, September 2024.

  • Awards & Publications

    Machine Learning Based Fault Classification in Pilot Plant Batch Reactor: Using Support Vector Machine". Arockiaraj Simiyon, Chaitanya Sachidanand Manthana Halmakki KrishnamurthyAnanya V. Bhatt, Thirunavukkarasu Indiran*, ACS Omega, June 2024.

  • Awards & Publications

    CNN-LSTM-Based Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller for Temperature Trajectory Tracking in a Batch Reactor"Aishwarya Selvamurugan Parthiban Kunnathur GanesanShashank S NayakArockiaraj Simiyon* Thirunavukkarasu Indiran*, ACS Omega, Nov 2024. Q1 Journal

  • Awards & Publications

    Krupa Narwekar, Thirunavukkarasu I, Prajwal Shettigar J, "Validation of Nonlinear Controllers on a Lab Scale Batch Reactor: Sliding Mode Controllers", presented in an International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cyber Security held at Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Lucknow won the best paper award.

  • Awards & Publications

    Krupa Narwekar, Thirunavukkarasu I, Prajwal Shettigar J, "Validation of Nonlinear Controllers on a Lab Scale Batch Reactor: Sliding Mode Controllers", presented in an International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Cyber Security held at Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Lucknow won the best paper award.

  • Awards & Publications

    System Identification of Batch Reactor using Machine Learning Techniques" presented by Prof.(Dr.) I. Thirunavukkarasu, won the best paper award in the session in an International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Computing, IoT and Data Analytics held at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh (Government Funded Technical Institution) during 18th -20th December, 2023.

  • Awards & Publications

    Neural Network-Based Hammerstein Model Identification of a Lab Scale Batch Reactor" got Published in ACS Omega, Q2 Journal with 4.1 Impact factor in Dec 2023. Vol.9, Issue.1, 2024. The paper was Co-authored by Murugan Balakrishnan, Prof.(Dr.) Vinodha Rajendran, Process Control Group, Dept of EIE, Annamalai University and Shettigar J. Prajwal, Ex-PG Student, Mechatronics, MIT, Manipal.

  • Awards & Publications

    Shettigar J P, Pai A, Joshi Y, Indiran T, Chokkadi S, (2023) Validation of Nonlinear PID Controllers on a Lab-Scale Batch Reactor. In: Woungang I, Dhurandher S.K, Pattanaik K.K, Verma A, Verma P (eds) Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing. ANTIC 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1797. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28180-8_4

Dr.I.Thirunavukkarasu born on 18th August 1981 at Kanchipuram. Presently working as Professor in the Dept. of Instrumentation and Control, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (Institution of Eminence, status given by MHRD, G.O.I), Karnataka.

He has 20+ years of teaching experience and 15+ years of research experience. He completed his diploma with honors in Electronics and Communication Engg. in 1999 and joined as a lateral entry candidate for B.E (Instrumentation and Control Engg) and completed the degree in 2002 from Madras University, Chennai. Obtained his M.E (Process Control and Instrumentation) from Annamalai University, Chidambaram in 2005 followed by the Ph.D degree in Robust Process Control from MIT, MAHE in the year April 2012.

He is the recipient of DST Fast Track grant for young scientist from the Government of India for the period 2013-2016. Presently working on a sponsored research from ISRO, Govt. of India towards the Nonlinear Control design for Quadrotor during 2019-2021.

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