FACULTY PROFILE

Dr Saurabh Pandey has received the degree of Bachelor of Technology with Honours from the Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India in 2011. Later, he gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy under the guidance of Prof. Somanath Majhi at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India in the year 2018. From the doctoral research findings, he got an opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Tao Liu for conducting the postdoctoral research at the Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China during November 2018 - October 2020. Prior to joining the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, India in the month of May 2023, he was working as Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota, MNIT Campus, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Currently, his research interests include Control Theory, Nonlinear Systems, System Identification, Cyber-Physical Systems, Electric Vehicle Applications.

Education
Ph D 2018 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam
B Tech 2011 Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow 
Experience
May 2023 - Till Date Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais
November 2022 - April 2023 Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Kota
November 2018 - October 2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian
  • ECE221 Digital Circuits and Systems (Fall 2023)
  • ECE321 Microprocessor and Embedded Systems (Fall 2023)
  • ECE321L Microprocessor and Embedded Systems Lab (Fall 2023)
  • ECE102 Fundamentals of Electronics Engineering (Spring 2024)
  • ECE231 Control Systems (Spring 2024)
  • ECE102L Fundamentals of Electronics Engineering Lab (Spring 2024)
Research Interests
  • Control Theory
  • Nonlinear Systems
  • System Identification
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Electric Vehicle Applications
Research Projects

 

Journal Publications

Modeling and estimation of dynamics of time-delayed plants/processes
Prasenjit Ghorai, Somanath Majhi, Azim Eskandarian, Saurabh Pandey, Venkata Ramana Kasi International Journal of Dynamics and Control (Springer), vol. 11, pp. 183-193, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-022-00965-x

Parametric identification of sampled systems with time delay subject to load disturbance with unknown dynamics
Saurabh Pandey, Tao Liu, Qing-Guo Wang
IET Control Theory & Applications (Wiley), vol. 15, issue 15, pp. 1942-1955, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/cth2.12170

Transfer function identification of a liquid flow-line pressure control system from simple relay autotuning
Prasenjit Ghorai, Somanath Majhi, Venkata Ramana Kasi, Saurabh Pandey
Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control (Sage), vol. 43, issue 4, pp. 792-801, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0142331220934949

System identification under relay and PI control
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 67, issue 6, pp. 1089-1093, 2020
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2019.2927302

Relay-based identification scheme for processes with non-minimum phase and time delay
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
IET Control Theory & Applications (IET), vol. 13, issue 15, pp. 2507-2519, 2019
DOI: 10.1049/iet-cta.2018.6170

Parameter identification of delayed under-damped systems using on-line relay autotuning
Prasenjit Ghorai, Somanath Majhi, Venkata Ramana Kasi, Saurabh Pandey
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 66, issue 7, pp. 1197-1201, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2018.2876476

Limit cycle based identification of time delay SISO processes
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi, Prasenjit Ghorai
IFAC Journal of Systems and Control (Elsevier), vol. 6, pp. 43-52, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacsc.2018.09.003

A real-time approach for dead-time plant transfer function modeling based on relay autotuning
Prasenjit Ghorai, Somanath Majhi, Saurabh Pandey
International Journal of Dynamics and Control (Springer), vol. 6, pp. 950-960, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-017-0359-x

Identification and control of unstable FOPTD processes with improved transients
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Electronics Letters (IET), vol. 53, issue 5, pp. 312-314, 2017
DOI:10.1049/el.2016.3769

A new modelling and identification scheme for time delay systems with experimental investigation: a relay feedback approach
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi, Prasenjit Ghorai
International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor & Francis), vol. 48, issue 9, pp. 1932-1940, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2017.1290299

Modelling and identification of real time processes based on non-zero setpoint autotuning test
Prasenjit Ghorai, Somanath Majhi, Saurabh Pandey
Journal of Dynamics, Measurement, and Control (Transactions of the ASME), vol. 139, issue 2, pp. 021010-1-021010-8, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4034802

Limit cycle-based exact estimation of FOPDT process parameters under input/output disturbances: A state-space approach
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
International Journal of Systems Science (Taylor & Francis)", vol. 48, issue 1, pp. 118-128, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00207721.2016.1160455

Dynamic model identification of a real-time simple level control system
Prasenjit Ghorai, Somanath Majhi, Saurabh Pandey
Journal of Control and Decision (Taylor & Francis), vol. 3, issue 4, pp. 248-266, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23307706.2016.1216337

Estimation of process dynamics using biased relay feedback approach
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
IFAC Proceedings Volumes, vol. 47, issue 1, pp. 913-916
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3182/20140313-3-IN-3024.00020

Identification of FOPDT and SOPDT process dynamics using closed loop test
Raghunath Bajarangbali, Somanath Majhi, Saurabh Pandey
ISA Transactions (Elsevier), vol. 53, issue 4, pp. 1223-1231, 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2014.05.014

Conference Publications

Modeling of integrating and non-minimum phase dynamics using limit cycles
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancún, Mexico, pp. 1330-1335, December 6-9, 2022
DOI: 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992870

Identification of output error model for linear time delay systems subject to load disturbance with unknown dynamics
Saurabh Pandey, Tao Liu
Proceedings of 38th IEEE Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Guangzhou, China, pp. 1587-1592, July 28-30, 2019
DOI: 10.23919/ChiCC.2019.8865529

Parameter estimation and control of time delay SISO systems
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi, Prasenjit Ghorai
Proceedings of IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 5161-5166, July 10-12, 2019
DOI: 10.23919/ ACC.2019. 8814840

Closed-loop relay experiment for modeling of underdamped plant dynamics
Prasenjit Ghorai, Somanath Majhi, Saurabh Pandey
Proceedings of 5th IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, pp. 28-32, January 9-11, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/INDIANCC.2019.8715573

State space approach for identification of real-time plant dynamics
Prasenjit Ghorai, Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 3rd IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, pp. 28-32, January 4-6, 2017
DOI: 10.1109/INDIANCC.2017.7846447

A new relay feedback scheme for identification of non-minimum phase processes with time delay
Prasenjit Ghorai, Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 2073-2078, December 12-14, 2016
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2016.7798569

Limit cycle based identification of second order processes with time delay
Saurabh Pandey and Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 2nd IEEE Indian Control Conference (ICC), Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India, pp. 438-443, January 4-6, 2016
DOI: 10.1109/INDIANCC.2016.7441171

Frequency domain based identification of processes using limit cycle information
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC), COEP, Maharashtra, India, pp. 66-70, May 28-30, 2015
DOI: 10.1109/IIC.2015.7150713

Relay based identification of process dynamics under noisy environment
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 1st IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Embedded Systems (CARE), PDPM IIITD&M Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, pp. 1-6, December 16-18, 2013
DOI: 10.1109/CARE.2013.6733709

Identification of system dynamics in presence of measurement noise
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 10th Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Maharashtra, India, pp. 1-6, December 12-14, 2013
DOI: 10.1109/ INDCON.2013.6726001

Book/Book Chapters

Feedback test for identification of a class of SISO processes using process reaction curve
Saurabh Pandey, Somanath Majhi
Proceedings of 3rd National Symposium on Advances in Control & Instrumentation (SACI) BARC Bombay, Maharashtra, India, vol. 46, issue 14, pp. 1-8, November 22-24, 2014
Link: inis.iaea.org/search/search.aspx?orig_q=RN:46034527

  • Member, Time Table and Examination Committee, Indian Institute of Information of Technology, Kota, MNIT Campus, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, January 2023 - April 2023.
  • Member, Advisory Committee of IEEE workshops and lecture series, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, January 2015 - December 2015.
  • Head Teaching Assistant of Basic Electronics Laboratory, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, January 2015 - April 2015.
  • Vice Chairman, IEEE Student Branch, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, 2012.
  • Literary Secretary, Dr Ambedkar Institute of Technology for Handicapped, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, August 2009 - July 2010.
  • Ministry of Education, Government of China scholarship (CSC) for pursuing Postdoctoral research at Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2020.
  • IFAC Affiliate (Since 2017).
  • Co-chaired a session of Identification and Estimation in 3rd Indian Control Conference (ICC), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, January 4-6, 2017.
  • Member IEEE Control Systems Society (Since 2016).
  • Department of Science and Technology, Government of India travel grant to attend 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 12-14, 2016.
  • IEEE Control System Society travel grant to attend 2nd Indian Control Conference (ICC) at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India, January 4-6, 2016.
  • IEEE Control System Society travel grant to attend 1st Indian Control Conference (ICC) at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, January 1-3, 2015.
  • Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India travel grant for India-China Youth Exchange Program, May 13-22, 2013.
  • Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Government of India scholarship for pursuing Doctor of Philosophy at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, December 26, 2011 - December 25, 2016.
  • Reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Paper, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, International Journal of Systems Science, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Asian Journal of Control, National Academy of Science Letters, Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, IFAC World Congress, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE American Control Conference, IFAC Advances in PID Control, IEEE Indian Control Conference.

Dr Saurabh Pandey

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
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