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Dr. Shaikshavali Chitraganti
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Networked control systems, Research Area: Optimal control, Research Area: Reinforcement learning, Research Area: Approximate dynamic programming
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  • Biosketch

    Academic Background:

    • B. E., BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, 2006
    • M. Tech, IIT Bombay, 2009
    • Ph. D., University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, 2014

    Experience:

    • Postdoc, Dept. EE, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2015
    • Assistant Professor, Dept. ECE, Amrita University, Kerala, 2016-2017
    • Assistant Professor, Dept. EEE, BITS Pilani  Hyderabad Campus, 2017-2019
    • Assistant Professor, Dept. EE, IIT Palakkad, since 2019
  • Research

    Networked control systems (NCS): If a dynamical system(s) or components of a dynamical system are connected via a wireless network, then how does its state estimation, stability and control design work in tandem is the main theme of this research. This work is at the intersection of the areas of control theory and communication systems engineering.

    Reinforcement learning (RL) based control: If a dynamical system model is not available, is it sill possible control a system, either linear or nonlinear, using the data obtained from the measurement sensors? This work is at the intersection of reinforcement learning, deep learning and optimal control

     

  • Teaching

    EE5531 Reinforcement Learning based Control - 2022, 2023, 2024

    EE3060 Control Engineering - 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

    EE5521 Optimal Control - 2020, 2022, 2024

    EE2030 Electrical and Magnetic circuits - 2019, 2020, 2021

  • Research Group

    PhD Students:

    • Anna Varghis (2024 - )
    • Athira M (2022 - ): RL control for linear systems
    • Ayyappadas Rajagopal (2020 - ): Estimation and control over wireless networks
    • Swapna Challagundla (Supervisor during 2018-2019 and Co-supervisor during 2019-2022)

              PhD thesis title: Design of efficient state estimators for discrete-time systems. Currently at Dhruva Space, India.

    MS Students:

    • Gautam Mishra (2024 -  present)

    Postdocs:

    • Karthick S (December 2023 -  November 2024): RL for control of nonlinear systems

    Interns/Project Staff:

    • Aneesh Swaminathan (January 2024 - present): Project staff: Implementation aspects of networked control systems
    • Nandagopan (June 2023 - present). Project staff: 3D Simulations of RL algorithms
    • Sailakshmi (June 2024 - December 2024): Project trainee: Security aspects in networked control systems
    • Dilli Bhaskar (June - July 2023, Jan 2024 - July 2024). Project Intern: RL algorithms for control
    • Shaz Nazar (January - May 2024). Project intern: RL algorithms for control
    • Sudhina Dinesh (December 2023 - June 2024). Project intern: Control of dynamical systems over unreliable communication channels
    • Avanthik Vikas (July 2023 - Oct 2023). Project staff: Estimation and control of dynamical systems
    • Hari Krishna (June - July 2023). Intern - PG student at College of Engineering Trivandrum: Estimation of a dynamical system
    • Mehar Khurana (Dec 2022). Intern - UG student at IISER Bhopal: RL control of a self balancing robot
    • Sandeep Sudhakaran (Sep 2021 -  Feb 2022). Project staff - Currently at Tata Elxsi: Stability of a networked control system

     

    BTech Project/OELP project students: List

    Vacancy: There is a full time PhD position available to work in the area of distributed control over wireless networks; interested candidates with MTech in Control/Communication/Electrical/Electronics and the related areas can write to me for more details.

  • Additional Information
    Title
    Invited Talks/honours
    Description
    • “Inverse reinforcement learning” for Indo-Norway Workshop on Sensing, Communication and Control Systems for Industrial Automation Applications (IN-SCOCOS), IIT Palakkad, Feburary 2024
    • Coordinator of an Indo-Norway Workshop on “Sensing, Communication and Control Systems for Industrial Automation Applications (IN-SCOCOS)” at IIT Palakkad, February 2024
    • Chair of session on "Networked control" at the 9th Indian Control Conference, December 2023
    • Co-chair of session on "Optimal control" at the 9th Indian Control Conference, December 2023
    • "Estimation and control over wireless networks" for SERB Karyashala workshop on Paramount topics in Control and Automation for Industry Applications at VNIT Nagpur, July, 2023
    • "Basics of Reinforcement learning and its application to control" for SERB Karyashala workshop on Application of Artificial Intelligence in Power System Operation and Control at NIT Calicut, July, 2022
    • "Reinforcement learning based controls strategies" for workshop on Emerging Learning Methods and Systems (ELMS) at IIT Tirupati, July, 2022
    • "Stochastic model predictive control for LPV systems" for tutorial session on 2021 International Symposium of Asian Control Association on Intelligent Robotics and Industrial Automation (IRIA), IIT Goa, September, 2021
    • "Event triggered state estimation with multiplicative noise: an optimization perspective" for TEQIP workshop on Data science and optimization in System and Control, IIT Guwahati, September, 2019
    Title
    Sponsored projects
    Description
    • "Energy Efficient Distributed Estimation and Control of Networked Robots and its Implementation Architectures”, IIT Palakkad Technology IHub Foundation (IPTIF), TIH NM-ICPS, 2021-2026. Status - ongoing
    • "Indo-Norwegian Collaboration in Intelligent Offshore Mechatronics Systems (INMOST)", funded by Research Council of Norway - INTPART, 2021 - 2023. Status - ongoing
    • "Feedback control of stochastic hybrid systems with state-dependent noise", funded by SERB - MATRICS, 2019-2022. Status - completed

     

    Title
    Publications
    Description

    Journals:

    [11] A. Rajagopal, S. Chitraganti, “A real-time hardware-in-the-loop system incorporating software defined radios for emulating multi-sensor networked control systems”, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs.

    [10]. A. Rajagopal, S. Chitraganti, "State estimation and control for networked control systems in the presence of correlated packet drops", International Journal of System Science, v54:11, p.2352-2365. 2023.

    [9]. S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, P. Wali, "An efficient event-based state estimator for linear discrete-time system with multiplicative measurement noise", IEEE Control System Letters, v5:4, p.1315-1320, 2021. 

    [8]. S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, P. Wali, "Event-based state estimation with multiplicative measurement noise and correlated additive noises", IEEE Control System Letters, v4:3, p.554-559, 2020. 

    [7]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, "Event based estimation with correlated noises", Journal of the Franklin Institute, v356:13, p.7533-7547, 2019. 

    [6]. S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, "Event based state estimation under the presence of multiplicative measurement noise", IEEE Control System Letters, v3:3, p.625-630, 2019. 

    [5]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, "Stochastic H-infinity control of state dependent jump linear systems with state dependent noise", IET Control Theory & Applications, v13:9, p.1291-1297, 2019.

    [4]. S. Chitraganti, R. Toth, N. Meskin, J. Mohammadpour, "Stochastic model predictive tracking of piecewise constant references for LPV systems", IET Control Theory & Applications, v11:12, p.1862-1872, 2017. 

    [3]. M. A. Sid, S. Chitraganti, K. Chabir, “Medium access scheduling for input reconstruction under deception attacks”, Journal of the Franklin Institute, v354:9, p.3678-3689, 2017. 

    [2]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, “Robust stabilization of a class of state-dependent jump linear systems”, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems, v18, p.48-59, 2015. 

    [1]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, G. Valencia-Palomo, V. Dragan, “On control of discrete-time state-dependent jump linear systems with probabilistic constraints: a receding horizon approach”, Systems & Control Letters, v74, p.81-89, 2014. 

    Conferences:

    [20] A. Rajagopal, S. Chitraganti, “Enhancing state estimator performance in networked control cystems with sequential packet drops via adaptive power control and error correction coding: an experimental evaluation”, accepted to 11th SICE International Symposium on Control Systems (ISCS), Osaka, Japan, March, 2025.

    [19] A. Rajagopal, S. Chitraganti, “A real-time hardware-in-the-loop framework using software-defined radios for emulating re-configurable networked control systems”, accepted to 10th Indian Control Conference (ICC) in experimental abstracts category, Bhopal, December, 2024.

    [18]. A. Rajagopal, S. Chitraganti,  "Emulating Networked Control System with Hardware-in-the-Loop and Software Defined Radios Amidst Channel Uncertainties", accepted to 18th IEEE  International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Dubai, December, 2024

    [17]. A. Mullachery, S. Chitraganti,  "Off-policy Reinforcement Learning for a Robust Optimal Control Problem with Real Parametric Uncertainty", accepted to 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Milan, December, 2024.

    [16]. A. Mullachery, S. Chitraganti, "Off-policy reinforcement learning for optimal control of a two wheeled self balancing robot", Proc. of 9th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Visakhapatnam, pp 383-388, December, 2023.

    [15]. A. Rajagopal, S. Chitraganti, "Impact of fading channel imposed correlated packet drops on state estimation in a networked control system: An experimental study based on SDRs", Proc. of 9th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Visakhapatnam, pp 144-149, December, 2023. (Best student paper - first runner-up award)

    [14]. A. Rajagopal, S. Chitraganti, "State estimation with correlated packet drops: An experimental evaluation with a mobile robot", Proc. of 9th Indian Control Conference (ICC), Visakhapatnam, pp 156-161, December, 2023.

    [13]. S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, P. Wali, "Event-Based Distributed Filtering with Multiplicative Measurement Noise and Correlated Additive Noises", Proc. of 13th Asian Control Conference (ASCC), Jeju Island, South Korea, pp 920-925, May, 2022.

    [12]. S. Chitraganti, M. A. Sid, S. Aberkane, "Event Triggered Fault Detection in Linear Systems Using Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test", Proc. of 6th IFAC International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), Hyderabad, India, pp 444-449, February, 2018.

    [11]. S. Chitraganti, M. Darwish, "Nonlinear event-based state estimation using sequential Monte Carlo approach", Proc. of 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, pp 2170-2175, December, 2017.

    [10]. S. Chitraganti, R. Toth, N. Meskin, J. Mohammadpour, "Stochastic model predictive control for LPV systems", Proc. of 33rd American Control Conference (ACC), Washington, USA, pp 5654-5659, May, 2017.

    [9]. M. A. Sid and S. Chitraganti, "Nonlinear event-based state estimation using particle filtering approach", Proc. of 8th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC), Algiers, Algeria, pp 874–879, November, 2016.

    [8]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, T. Darure, “A receding horizon control of Markov jump linear systems with imperfect state information and probabilistic state constraints”, Proc. of 3rd IEEE International conference on control and Fault-tolerant systems (SYSTOL), Barcelona, Spain, pp 611-617, September, 2016.

    [7]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, “Stochastic stabilization of a discrete-time inhomogeneous Markov jump linear system with interval transition probability matrix”, Proc. of 3rd IEEE International conference on control and Fault-tolerant systems (SYSTOL), Barcelona, Spain, pp 838-842, September, 2016.

    [6]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, “State-feedback H infinity stabilization of state-dependent jump linear systems”, Proc. of 3rd IEEE International conference on control and Fault-tolerant systems (SYSTOL), Barcelona, Spain, pp 698-703, September, 2016.

    [5]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, “A novel mathematical setup for fault tolerant control systems with state-dependent failure process”, Proc. of 17th European Workshop on Advanced Control and Diagnosis (ACD), Berlin, Germany, Vol. 570. No. 8, pp 1-6, December 2014.

    [4]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, “Stochastic stability and stabilization of state-dependent jump linear systems", Proc. of 2nd IEEE International conference on control and Fault-tolerant systems (SYSTOL), Nice, France, pp 438-443, October, 2013.

    [3]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, “Mean square stability of non-homogeneous Markov jump linear systems using interval analysis", Proc. of 12th European Control Conference (ECC), Zurich, Switzerland, pp 3724-3729, July, 2013.

    [2]. S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, “Statistical properties of exponential weighted moving average algorithm for change detection”, Proc. of 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Maui, Hawaii, USA, pp 574-578, December, 2012.

    [1]. D. Chakraborty and S. Chitraganti, “An approximate solution to the norm optimal control problem”, Proc. of 21st IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), San Antonio, Texas, USA, pp 4490-4495, October, 2009. 

    Title
    Patents
    Description
    • A. Rajagopal and S. Chitraganti, "Transceiver system for networked control system",  Patent Number 540840 granted on 05th June, 2024.

  • Publications
    State estimation and control for networked control systems in the presence of correlated packet drops
    R. Ayyappadas, S. Chitraganti
    International Journal of System Science 54 (11) 2352-2365 (2023)
    Event-Based Distributed Filtering with Multiplicative Measurement Noise and Correlated Additive Noises
    S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, P. Wali
    Proc. of 13th Asian Control Conference 920-925 (2022)
    An Efficient Event-Based State Estimator for Linear Discrete-Time System With Multiplicative Measurement Noise
    S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, P. Wali
    IEEE Control Systems Letters 5 (4) 1315 - 1320 (2020)
    Event-based state estimation with multiplicative measurement noise and correlated additive noises
    S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, P. Wali
    IEEE Control System Letters 4 (3) 554-559 (2020)
    Event based state estimation under the presence of multiplicative measurement noise
    S. Challagundla, S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane
    IEEE Control System Letters 3 (3) 625-630 (2019)
    Stochastic H-infinity control of state dependent jump linear systems with state dependent noise
    S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane
    IET Control Theory & Applications 13 (9) 1291-1297 (2019)
    Event based estimation with correlated noises
    S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane
    Journal of the Franklin Institute 356 (13) 7533-7547 (2019)
    Event Triggered Fault Detection in Linear Systems Using Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test
    S. Chitraganti, M. A. Sid, S. Aberkane
    Proc. of 6th IFAC International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems 444-449 (2018)
    Stochastic model predictive control for LPV systems
    S. Chitraganti, R. Toth, N. Meskin, J. Mohammadpour
    Proc. of 33rd American Control Conference 5654-5659 (2017)
    Nonlinear event-based state estimation using sequential Monte Carlo approach
    S. Chitraganti, M. Darwish
    Proc. of 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2170-2175 (2017)
    Stochastic model predictive tracking of piecewise constant references for LPV systems
    S. Chitraganti, R. Toth, N. Meskin, J. Mohammadpour
    IET Control Theory & Applications 11 (12) 1862-1872 (2017)
    Medium access scheduling for input reconstruction under deception attacks
    M. A. Sid, S. Chitraganti, K. Chabir
    Journal of the Franklin Institute 354 (9) 3678-3689 (2017)
    Robust stabilization of a class of state-dependent jump linear systems
    S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun
    Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems 18 48-59 (2015)
    On control of discrete-time state-dependent jump linear systems with probabilistic constraints: a receding horizon approach
    S. Chitraganti, S. Aberkane, C. Aubrun, G. Valencia-Palomo, V. Dragan
    Systems & Control Letters 74 81-89 (2014)

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