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Control and Automation

Microelectronics and VLSI

Photonics

Power Engineering

RF and Microwave

Signal Processing, Communications & Networks

 
 

Control And Automation Facilities

Welcome to the Controls and Automation group in the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur. The stream offers M.Tech. and PhD programs.

On the control systems front, the research interests of the group include applications of control theories such as robust control, linear and non linear control, intelligent techniques (fuzzy logic and neural networks), adaptive control, sliding mode control, etc, to modern areas such as robotics, mobile robots, consensus and cooperation among multiple agents, quadrotors, and all-wheel independent drive electric vehicles.

On the instrumentation front, the research interests of the group include smart and intelligent sensors, virtual instrumentation, intelligent systems and modeling, soft-computing, data mining, machine learning, brain-computer interface, computer vision, intelligent informatics, intelligent condition-based monitoring, computational intelligence, business intelligence, and related applications in various domains.

The faculty members have multiple projects funded by government and private agencies, and are working on them with active support from students.
 
 

Networked Control Systems Laboratory

  • Location: WL 217B

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.Ramprasad Potluri

  • Lab Contact No:7735

  • Research Areas:Practical applications of control system theory that will have significant positive impact on India and mankind,Control system of Moon Rover for ISRO


  

Control and Automation
 
 

Intelligent Systems Laboratory

  • Location: WL 213

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.L.Behera

  • Lab Contact No:7854

  • Research Areas:Neural Networks,Visual Servoing,Neural Networks


  
 
 

Intelligent Informatics and Automation Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 107

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.K.Nishchal Verma

  • Lab Contact No:7032

  • Research Areas: Intelligent Data Mining Algorithms, Health Monitoring and Intelligent Fault Diagnosis Systems, Soft-Computing in, Modeling and Control, Machine Learning Algorithms, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics, Intelligent Informatics, Fuzzy Controllers


  
 
 

Power Engineering Facilities

Welcome to the Power and Control Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Kanpur. The stream offers M.Tech., dual-degree and PhD programs. The stream has always aimed at imparting technical education and equip the students with the latest technologies.

The research interests of the faculty members include application based areas like Intelligent Control, Quantum Learning System, Cognitive Modeling, Soft Computing. Power system dy namics and stability, state estimation, use of synchronized measurement technology in power systems, Electric Drives, Electrical machines, Microprocessor Systems and instrumentation. Digital systems, Microprocessor based systems. Multiphase DC/DC Power Conversion, Power Management Circuits, Modeling and Control of Power Electronics Systems. Power system dynamics and voltage stability studies, Wide Area Monitoring, Optimal power dispatch and state estimation, Security analysis and control, Energy management system and distribution automation, Power system restructuring. Machine Learning, Biometrics, GMM, HMM, Fuzzy Systems, Clustering Algorithms, Coloe Segmentaion, Video Image sequence recognition. Several ongoing projects are coordinated by the faculty along with active participation of the students, which are being funded by various Government and private agencies. The research interest of the High Voltage Laboratory broadly includes fundamental and application research into electrical insulation for power system and apparatus, and insulation diagnostics. Specific areas of research interest include nano-dielectrics, space charge diagnostics, electrical treeing, tracking, partial and plasma discharges.
 
 

High Voltage Laboratory

  • Location: WL 114A

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.Nandini Guptha

  • Lab Contact No:7850

  • Research Areas: Study of electric tree growth in polymeric dielectrics with and without voids, 200, Dielectric behaviour of epoxy-based composites with nano-sized metal-oxide fillers, 2009, Kinetic modelling of gas discharges in narrow dielectric channels: applications to partial discharges and plasma thrusters, 2009, Polarization and conduction mechanisms in epoxy-based nano-dielectrics, 2013, Space charge mechanisms in polymer composite dielectrics, 2013, Space Charge diagnostics in epoxy based nano-dielectrics (ongoing), Dielectric response and energy storage in epoxy nano composites, Electric stress control and permittivity in functionally graded dielectrics.


  

Power Engineering
 
 

NaMPET Laboratory

  • Location: WL 110

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.P.Sensarma

  • Lab Contact No:7822

  • Research Areas:


  
 
 

Networked Control Systems Laboratory

  • Location: WL 217B

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.Ramprasad Potluri

  • Lab Contact No: 7735

  • Research Areas: Practical applications of control system theory that will have significant positive impact on India and mankind, Motion control of a four-wheel independent-steering four-wheel independent-drive electric vehicle.


  
 
 

Power Management Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 101

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.Santanu K. Mishra

  • Lab Contact No:7801

  • Research Areas: Multiphase DC/DC Power Conversion, Power Management Circuits, Modeling and Control of Power Electronics Systems

 


  
 
 

Power System Simulation and Research Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 105,WLE 312

  • Faculty Incharge:Dr.S.C.Srivastava ,Dr.S.N.Singh,Dr.S.Chakrabarti

  • Lab Contact No:7874

  • Research Areas: Power System Operation and Control, Power System Dynamics and Stability, Wide Area Measurement Systems, Power System State Estimation, Power System Reliability, HVDC Transmission and FACTS, Power System Deregulation, Smart Grid and Distributed Generation, Micro-Grids and MVDC System, Artificial Intelligent Application to Power Systems.

 


  
 
 

Static Controller Laboratory

  • Location: WL 111

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.S.P.Das

  • Lab Contact No:7183

  • Research Areas:Power Electronic Converters, Power Quality, Electric Drives, Renewable Energy, Quasi Resonant Inverter-fed High Performance Induction Motor Drive, Some Studies on Unified Power Quality Conditioners, Switch Mode Utility Friendly Rectifiers for DC and Magnetic Power Supplies, Unified Power Quality Conditioner with Minimum VA Loading, Utility Friendly Three-level Neutral Clamped Converter-Inverter System for Direct Torque and Flux Controlled Induction Motor Drive, AC-AC Matrix Converter with Improved Commutation Technique.


  
 
 

Power Electronics for Renewable Integration(PERI) Lab

  • Location: CL102C

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr. Sandeep Anand

  • Lab Contact No: 6467

  • Research Areas: Integration of Solar PV, Microgrids and Distributed Generation, UPS and Power Quality.


  
 
 

RF And Microwave Facilities

Welcome to the RF, Microwave and Photonics Group of EE Dept. of IIT Kanpur. The RF, Microwave and Photonics Group uniquely offers academic training and research expertise in RF, Microwave and Photonics engineering ranging from microwave passive and active devices to optoelectronic integrated devices. Major group objectives include Encouraging scientific exchanges amongst academia and industry within the field of RF, Microwave & Photonics. Providing research support and consultation for industry and other government organizations. Enhance the awareness of RF/Microwave Engineering and optical science and to students outside of the field of RF/Microwave and optics. Organizing seminars and workshops with an aim to promote research lifestyle to the student community and enhance the spirit of research by eminent Professors.

Encouraging scientific exchanges amongst academia and industry within the field of RF, Microwave & Photonics.

Providing research support and consultation for industry and other government organizations.

Enhance the awareness of RF/Microwave Engineering and optical science and to students outside of the field of RF/Microwave and optics.

Organizing seminars and workshops with an aim to promote research lifestyle to the student community and enhance the spirit of research by eminent Professors.
 
 

Microwave Circuits Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 227

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.Biswas

  • Lab Contact No:7319

  • Research Areas:Meta-materials,Wireless Power Transfer,Microwave Passive Filters,Finite Difference Time Domain Technique,Multi-conductor Transmission Line, Substrate Integrated Waveguide Filters and Antennas, Dielectric Image Line, Leaky Wave Antenna, Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRA), Reconfigurable Antennas, Microwave Active Circuits.


  

RF and Microwave
 
 

Microwave Imaging and Material Testing (MIMT) Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 329

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.Jaleel Akhtar

  • Lab Contact No:6153

  • Research Areas:Microwave imaging, characterization and nondestructive testing,RF and Microwave Sensors,Artificial Dielectrics and Metamaterials,UWB Antennas

  
 
 

Antennas Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 223

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.R.Harish

  • Lab Contact No:6073

  • Research Areas: Phased Array Antenna, RFID Antenna,Microwave Imaging and Remote Sensing, High Impedance Surface (HIS), Frequency Selective Surface (FSS), Three-dimensional Antennas, Reconfigurable Antennas

 

  
 
 

Anechoic Chamber

  • Location: ACES 325

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.R.Harish

  • Lab Contact No:7058


  
 
 

RFID Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 325

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.R.Harish

  • Lab Contact No:6998

  • Research Areas: RFID technology, viz. RF Propagation, Location Sensing, Antenna Design, Antenna Measurements.

 

  
 
 

Microwave Metamaterial Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 328

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr. K. V. Srivastava

  • Lab Contact No: 7733

  • Research Areas: Microwave Metamaterial Absorbers (Multi-band and Broadband), Frequency Selective Surface (FSS) and Metamaterial-based Polarizers, Multi-band and Multi-polarized Antennas, Antenna Arrays and MIMO Antennas, Microwave Metamaterial Cloaking, Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Technique.

 

  
 
 

Photonics Facilities

 
 
 

Fibre and Quantum Optics Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 327

  • Faculty Incharge: Prof. Pradeep Kumar

  • Lab Contact No: 6154

  • Research Areas: Optical Fibre Communication, Quantum key distribution


  

Photonics
 
 

Optoelectronics and Nanofabrication Laboratory

  • Location: ACES extension: 122, 123, 129

  • Faculty Incharge: Prof. Utpal Das

  • Lab Contact no: 7360

  • Research Areas:Multiquantum Well Intermixed Waveguide Grating Assisted Couplers, Introduction to Code Composer Studio-II


  
 
 

Quantum Photonics Laboratory

  • Location: WL-215C

  • Faculty Incharge: Shilpi Gupta

  • Lab Contact no: 6893

  • Research Areas: Theoretical and experimental nanophotonics, plasmonics, and
    quantum optics


  
 
 

Tomographic Imaging Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 303A

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr Naren Naik

  • Lab Contact No: 6518

  • Research Areas: Development and analysis of reconstruction algorithms for nonlinear tomography, Shape-based and dynamic tomography, Tracking and battlefield surveillance, Numerical solutions to partial differential equations in electromagnetics, Subsurface imaging with GPR, fluorescence optics, electrical impedance and photoacoustic tomography.


  
 
 

Microelectronics and VLSI - Facilities

Welcome to the home of Microelectronics and VLSI. Research interests of faculty members includes Spintronics, Semiconductor Device Modeling and Simulation, Solid State Devices, Organic Electronics, Transparent Semiconductors and Photovoltaic systems, VLSI technology including analog/mixed signal circuit design, VLSI Circuit Design and RFID Tag Chip Design.

The department has excellent research laboratories and support facilities in the area of Microelectronics and VLSI. Micro fabrication lab with basic semiconductor processing capability for silicon as well as organic material based devices (OLED, organic solar cells, OTFT, etc.), Solar cell characterization lab, photo mask making facility, Semiconductor device lab with capability to synthesize organic materials for organic LEDs and solar cells, Integrated circuits simulation and VLSI design laboratory with all the modern EDA tools, (e.g. CADENCE, SYNOPSYS, Mentor Graphics, MAGMA, COWARE, XILINX based gate array design & programming tools, etc.) and adequate hardware in the form of servers and good number of workstations for research and course work. Three teaching/training labs have been developed to train students in areas related to organic electronics. These are the organic electronics processing lab, the organic electronics characterization lab and the organic electronics simulation lab.
 
 

Semiconductor Device Fabrication Laboratory

  • Location: WL 127-129

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.S.S.K.Iyer

  • Lab Contact No:7832

  • Research Areas: Organic Electronics, Organic Solar Cells, Organic Thin Film Transistors, Organic Light Emitting Diodes.


  

Microelectronics and VLSI
 
 

VLSI - EDA Laboratory

Circuit Design, Electronic Design Automation, System Level Design, Device Modelling and VLSI Testing.

  • Location: WL 211

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.S.Qureshi

  • Lab Contact No:7675

  • Research Areas:Organic Thin Film Transistor,Silicon-On-Insulator MOSFET,VLSI Interconnections,Carbon Nanotubes,Hetero-Junction Bipolar Transistor,Novel Semiconductor Devices,Tunnelling FET,Junction-less FET


  
 
 

Organic Electronics Processing and Characterization Lab

  • Location: WL 118

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.B.Mazhari

  • Lab Contact No:7189

  • Research Areas: Organic Electronics, Organic Solar Cells, Organic Thin Film Transistors, Organic Light Emitting Diodes.


  
 
 

NanoLab

  • Location:: WL 215

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr. Y.S.Chauhan

  • Lab Contact No: 7257

  • Research Areas: Nanoelectronics, Compact modelling of semiconductor devices, Development and support of BSIM model, SPICE modelling of High Voltage/Power semiconductor devices; DC,CV and RF characterization, atomistic simulation of Nanoscale devices.


  
 
 

Signal Processing, Communications & Networks Facilities

Welcome to the Signal Processing, Communications and Networking Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering IIT Kanpur. The stream offers M.Tech., dual-degree and PhD programs. The stream has always aimed at imparting technical education and equip the students with the latest technologies.

The research interests of the faculty members include application based modern areas like Image, Video and Speech processing, Signal processing for Wireless Communication, Tomography, Biomedical Imaging, Data Mining, Computer Vision, Cooperative Spectrum Sensing, Video Compression And Decompression, Development of live lecture delivery system over Internet, Cognitive Radio, Information Theory, Scalable Video Coding based Wireless Video Transmission, Several ongoing projects are coordinated by the faculty along with active participation of the students, which are being funded by various Government and private agencies.
 
 

Computer Vision Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 207

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.K.S.Venkatesh

  • Lab Contact No:7846

  • Research Areas:Digital Video Stabilization through curve warping techniques,Automatic Target Detection and tracking for thermal image sequences


  

Signal Processing, Communication & Networks
 
 

Mobile Communications

  • Location: ACES 201

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.K.Chaturvedi

  • Lab Contact No:7897

  • Research Areas:Mobile Communications and Wireless Systems,Multiuser Communications,Communication Theory,CDMA,Cognitive Radio


  
 
 

Multimedia Wireless Networks Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 205

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.K.Jagannatham

  • Lab Contact No:7025

  • Research Areas:LTE/WiMAX Based 4G Wireless,MIMO/OFDM Wireless Systems,H.264/SVC Based Scalable Video Coding


  
 
 

Multimodal Information Processing Systems Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 203

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.R.M.Hegde

  • Lab Contact No:6677

  • Research Areas:


  
 
 

Networks Laboratory

  • Location: ACES 307

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.K.Jagannatham,Dr.Ketan Rajawat,Dr.Y.N.Singh

  • Lab Contact No:7005

  • Research Areas:Network protocol studies,Performance measurement,Configuration and management


  
 
 

Wireless Communications Coding and Cognitive Radio Laboratory (WC3 laboratory)

  • Location: ACES 305

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr.A.Banerjee

  • Lab Contact No:7773

  • Research Areas:Cognitive Radio,Error Control Codes,Wireless Communications,Information Theoretic Security


  
 
 

Telematics Lab

  • Location: ACES-303

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr. K. Vasudevan

  • Lab Contact No: 7572

  • Research Areas: Digital communications,Coherent & noncoherent receivers,
    Synchronization, Channel estimation in OFDM, FBMC, MIMO.


  
 
 

Signal Processing in Networks (SPiN) Lab

  • Location: ACES 305C

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr. Ketan Rajawat

  • Lab Contact No: 7337

  • Research Areas: Wireless sensor networks, Design of distributed algorithms, Signal processing in Network monitoring and Smart grid communications, Stochastic resource allocation applications


  
 
 

Wireless Sensor Networks Lab

  • Location: ACES 203

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr. R. M. Hegde

  • Lab Contact No: 6677

  • Research Areas: Mobile Beacon and node localisation using array processing methods, mobile beacon tracking using signal processing methods, self-organizing autonomous
    sensor networks with random geometry, distributed multi sensor data fusion, situation aware multi modal sensor and cell phone networks.


  
 
 

Brihaspati Lab

  • Location: ACES 301

  • Faculty Incharge: Dr. Y. N. Singh

  • Lab Contact No: 7841, 7944

  • Research Areas: Web based e-learning system.