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Dr. Sneha Gajbhiye
Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
Research Area: Nonlinear control; robotics; geometric mechanics; adaptive control
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  • Biosketch

    Assistant Professor (July 2019-present): Deapartment of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Kerala, India.

    Postdoctoral Researcher (2016-2019): Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China; Supervisor: Professor Carlos Silvestre

    Ph.D. (2010-2016): Interdisciplinary program in Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay, India; Supervisor: Professor Ravi N. Banavar

    M.Tech. (2007-2009): Department of Electrical Engineering, VJTI Mumbai, India; Supervisor: Professor N. M. Singh

  • Research

    Stability/control of autonomous systems (robotics: ground/underwater/aerial vehicles); Geometric mechanics and nonlinear control; Optimal control; Adaptive control

    Sponsored Projects:

    [3] "Design and development of Indigenous, cost-effective Autonomous Tractor, for Indian Farming Conditions and Applications (A-TRACT)”, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Role: Principal Investigator (IIT Palakkad), Other Members: Prof. Santhakumar Mohan, CDAC- Thiruvanathapuram, CDAC, Hyderabad, and Mahindra & Mahindra (industry), 2024-27.

    [2] SERB-National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), IIT Palakkad I-Hub Foundation (IPTIF) sponsored project, titled “Aerial Dexterous Manipulators, Grasping and Transportation”, 2021-25.

    [1] “Robust operational space motion control of a waist assistive powered exoskeleton”, DRDO-CAIR, Role: Co-PI, July 2021-Dec 2022 (18 months). Other members: Prof. Santhakumar Mohan (PI, IIT Palakkad), Dr Jayant Kumar Mohanta (Co-PI IIT Jodhpur)

  • Teaching

    EE2050: Signals and Systems Course (UG, odd semester)

    EE3150: Analog Circuits Laboratory (UG, odd semester) 

    EE3140: Measurements and Instrumentation Laboratory (UG, even semester)

    EE4150: Control Systems Laboratory (UG)

    EE5515: Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (PG, even semester)

    EE3160: CAD Laboratory (UG, even semester)

  • Research Group

    Anil B (Ph.D. student, EE)

    Mayank Pandey (MSc student, Mathematics)

    Amala E G (Ph.D. student, EE)

    Vidya A P (Ph.D. student, EE)

    Somisetti Bhargav Sai Rajesh (MS student, EE)

  • Additional Information
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    Anil, B., Gajbhiye, S. and Santhakumar Mohan. "A Lie group PMP approach for optimal stabilization and tracking control of autonomous underwater vehicles." International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control 35.1 (2025): 222-248, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.7645

    Pandey, M., & Gajbhiye, S. (2024). Finite-Time Trajectory Tracking of a Four wheeled Mecanum Mobile Robot. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06762. 

    Anil, B., & Gajbhiye, S. (2024, December). Spherical Robot Control with Internal Actuation: A Variational Approach. In 2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) (pp. 76-81). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV63323.2024.10821676

    Vidya, A. P., & Gajbhiye, S. (2024, December). Formation Control of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Manipulators. In 2024 18th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV) (pp. 651-656). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICARCV63323.2024.10821635

    Anil, B., & Gajbhiye, S. (2024, July). Nonlinear PMP approach for Stabilization and Tracking Control of Wheeled Inverted Pendulum (WIP). In 2024 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT) (pp. 2941-2947). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/CoDIT62066.2024.10708314

    Anil, B., & Gajbhiye, S. (2024, May). Optimal 1D control problem of Wheeled Inverted Pendulum (WIP) system using PMP approach. In 2023 Second IEEE International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICMICA) (pp. 1-6). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/ICMICA61068.2024.10732838

    B., Anil, Gajbhiye, S. "Optimal tracking control of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle: A PMP approach", ISA Transactions (2024), Springer publications, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2023.12.002 

    B., Anil, Gajbhiye, S. "Motion Planning with Obstacle Avoidance for Wheeled Inverted Pendulum System Based on PMP Approach", IEEE Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC) (2023), DOI: 10.1109/ICSC58660.2023.10449766

    Gajbhiye, S., Cabecinhas, D., Silvestre, C., Cunha, R. "Geometric finite-time inner-outer loop trajectory tracking control strategy for quadrotor slung-load transportation", Nonlinear Dynamics (2021), Springer publications, DOI: 10.1007/s11071-021-07026-6

    Gajbhiye, S., Banavar, R. N.,  Delgado, S. "Symmetries in the Wheeled Inverted pendulum mechanism". Nonlinear Dynamics (2017), vol. 90(1), pp. 391-403, Springer publication, DOI: 10.1007/s11071-017-3670-3 

    Gajbhiye, S., Banavar, R. N. "Geometric modeling and local controllability of a spherical mobile robot actuated by an internal pendulum". International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (2016), vol. 26(11), pp. 2436-2454, John Wiley and Sons publication, DOI: 10.1002/rnc.3457

    Saradagi, A., Menta, S., Gajbhiye, S., Mahindrakar, A., Banavar, R. N. "Poincaré representation of the equations of motion of a spherical robot actuated by internal rotors", In proceedings of 4th Indian Control Conference (ICC), pp. 196-201, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, January 2018.

    Gajbhiye, S., Banavar, R. N. "Geometric approach to tracking and stabilization for a spherical robot actuated by internal rotors", In proceedings of 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS), vol. 49(18), pp. 820-825, California, USA, August 2016.

    Delgado, S., Gajbhiye, S., Banavar, R. N. "Reduced equations of motion for a wheeled inverted pendulum", In proceedings of 8th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD), vol. 48(1), pp. 328-333, Vienna, Austria, February 2015.

    Gajbhiye, S., Banavar, R. N. "Local Equilibrium Controllability of a spherical robot actuated by a pendulum", In proceedings of 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), vol. 4, pp. 1616-1621, Florence, Italy, December 2013.

    Gajbhiye, S., Banavar, R. N. "Euler-Poincare Equations for a spherical robot actuated by a pendulum", In proceedings of 4th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non-Linear Control (LHMNC), vol. 4, pp 72-77, Bologna, Italy, August 2012.
      

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