Recent publications


2024


Pranav Gupta, Anastasia Bizyaeva and Ravi Banavar

Estimates on the domain of validity for Lyapunov-Schmidt reduction

Submitted to the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, to be held in Milano, Italy, Dec 2024.


Ashutosh Jindal, Florentina Nicolau, David Martin Diego and Ravi Banavar

Constructing Dynamic Feedback Linearizable Discretizations.

Submitted to the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, to be held in Milano, Italy, Dec 2024.


Shreyas N B, David Martin Diego and Ravi Banavar

Feedback Linearizable Discretizations of Second Order Mechanical Systems using Retraction Maps

Submitted to the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, to be held in Milano, Italy, Dec 2024.


Matthew Hampsey, Pieter van Goor, Ravi Banavar and Robert Mahony

Exploiting Equivariance in Design of Tracking Control for Euler-Poincare Systems on Matrix Lie-Groups

Accepted for the 8th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods in Nonlinear Control, Besançon,

France.


Rama Seshan C, Ravi N Banavar and Arun D Mahindrakar 

A Principal Bundle Framework for Generalised Notions of Formation andRigidity

Accepted for the 8th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods in Nonlinear Control, Besançon,

France.


2023


Bhavini Jeloka, Florentina Nicolau, Adnane Saoud and Ravi N. Banavar

Data-Driven Control of Adaptive Cruise Control Systems Using Differential Flatness and 

Gaussian Processes

To appear in the Proceedings of American Control Conference, June 2024.


Ashutosh Jindal, Ravi Banavar and David Martın Diego

Constructing Feedback Linearizable Discretizations for Continuous-Time Systems using 

Retraction Maps.

IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 2467-2472, 2023, doi: 10.1109/LCSYS.2023.3286992.


Ashmita Roy and Ravi N. Banavar

Robust Control Design for the Suspension System of LIGO 

Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 40, Number 19

DOI 10.1088/1361-6382/acf088


Harsh Oza, Irinel-Constantin Morarescu, Vineeth S. Varma, and Ravi Banavar

Optimal Switching of a Networked ControlSystem with Information Multiplexing in Control

and Observation

Submitted to the IFAC Journal of Systems and Control.


Ashutosh Jindal, Debasish Chatterjee and Ravi Banavar

Estimates on the size of the domain of the Implicit Function Theorem: A Mapping

Degree based Approach,

Math. Control Signals Syst. 36, 139–175 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00498-023-00370-5

Nishant Mittal, Shreya Shrivastava, Viyom Vivek, José Ángel Acosta and Ravi Banavar

Geometric Modelling and Control of Flexible Serial Robot Links

Proceedings of the 21st European Control Conference, Bucharest, Rumania, July 2023.


Ashmita Roy, Nishant Mittal and Ravi N. Banavar

Robust Control Design for a linearized model of a LIGO subsystem

Proceedings of the 21st European Control Conference, Bucharest, Rumania, July 2023.


Harsh Oza, Rama Seshan Chandrasekaran, Ravi Banavar

Consensus of Nonholonomic Systems Using Geometric PD Controller

Proceedings of the 21st European Control Conference, Bucharest, Rumania, July 2023.


Ashutosh Jindal*, Ravi Banavar, Debasish Chatterjee, Ronit Chitre

Quantitative Estimates on the Domain of Feedback Linearization

12th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, , Canberra, Australia, January 4-6, 2023.


Ashutosh Jindal*, Ravi Banavar, Debasish Chatterjee

Measure of controllability on $mathsf{SO}(3)$.

12th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2022), Canberra, Australia, January 4-6, 2023.


Hiya Gada*, Pieter van Goor, Ravi Banavar, Robert Mahony

Equivariant Filters are Equivariant

12th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems (NOLCOS 2022), Canberra, Australia, January 4-6, 2023.


2022


S. Ganguly, N. Randad, D. Chatterjee and R. Banavar

Constrained trajectory synthesis via quasi-interpolation

2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Cancun, Mexico, 2022, 

pp. 4533-4538, doi: 10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992892.


Rama Seshan, Ravi N Banavar and Arun D Mahindrakar

A Unified Framework for Consensus and Synchronization on Lie Groups admitting a Bi-Invariant Metric

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00345

(submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.)


Rama Seshan, Ravi N Banavar, D H S Maithripala and Arun D Mahindrakar

Geometric PID Controller for Stabilization of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems on Lie Groups

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07061

(Conditionally accepted, IFAC Journal Automatica.)


Rama Seshan, Ravi N Banavar and Arun D Mahindrakar

Geometric Second-Order Laplacian Flow for Consensus on Lie Groups 

Runner-up, Best Student Paper Category, European Control Conference, July 15,2022.


Ashutosh Jindal, Debasish Chatterjee, Ravi Banavar

Implicit Function Theorem: Estimates on the size of the domain

https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12661


Sudin Kadam, Karmvir Singh Phogat, Ravi N. Banavar, Debasish Chatterjee

Exact isoholonomic motion of the planar Purcell's swimmer

IEEE Transactions on Automatic  Control, Vol. 67, N0. 1, January 2022

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.01038


2021


Siddhartha Ganguly, Souvik Das, Debasish Chatterjee, Ravi Banavar 

Rate Constrained Discrete-time Maximum Principle

IFAC PapersOnLine 54-19 (2021) 340–345

Presented at the 7th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods in Nonlinear Control


Ashutosh Jindal, Ravi Banavar and Debasish Chatterjee 

Feedback Linearization of Implicit Discrete Systems

IFAC PapersOnLine 54-19 (2021) 340–345

Presented at the 7th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods in Nonlinear Control


Rama Seshan, Ravi N Banavar, D. H. S. Maithripala and Arun D. Mahindrakar

Geometric PID Controller for Stabilization of Nonholonomic Mechanical Systems on Lie Groups

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.07061 (under revision - IFAC Journal Automatica)


Anant A. Joshi, D. H. S. Maithripala, Ravi N. Banavar 

A bundle framework for observer design on smooth manifolds with symmetry

accepted by the Journal of Geometric Mechanics

Journal of Geometric Mechanics, 2021, 13 (2) : 247-271. DOI: 10.3934/jgm.2021015 

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09234


Anant A. Joshi, Debasish Chatterjee, Ravi N. Banavar 

Robust Discrete-Time Pontryagin Maximum Principle on Matrix Lie Groups

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13459

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, DOI: 10.1109/CDC42340.2020.9303794


Aradhana Nayak, Ravi Banavar, D. H. S Maithripala

Stabilizing a spherical pendulum on a quadrotor

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06332

Asian Journal of Control, 12 May 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/asjc.2577


2020


Mishal Assif P. K., Debasish Chatterjee and Ravi N Banavar

Scenario approach for minmax optimization with emphasis on the nonconvex case: positive results and caveats

SIAM Journal on Optimization, 30(2), 1119–1143. (25 pages)

https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/19M1271026


Nidhish Raj, Ashutosh Simha, Mangal Kothari, Abhishek Abhishek, Ravi N Banavar

Iterative Learning based feedforward control for Transition of a Biplane-Quadrotor Tailsitter UAS

International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, Paris, June 2020.


Nidhish Raj, Ravi Banavar, Abhishek and Mangal Kothari

Robust Attitude Tracking for Aerobatic Helicopters: A Geometric Approach

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2020.2969124


2019


Nidhish Raj, Ravi Banavar, Abhishek and Mangal Kothari

Attitude Control of a Novel Tailsitter: Swiveling Biplane-Quadrotor

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Published Online:13 Dec 2019

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.G004697


Shruti Kotpalliwar, Pradyumna Paruchuri, Karmvir Singh Phogat, Debasish Chatterjee, Ravi Banavar

A frequency-constrained geometric Pontryagin maximum principle on matrix Lie groups

Provisionally accepted by the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.


Shruti Kotpalliwar, Pradyumna Paruchuri, Debasish Chatterjee and Ravi Banavar

Discrete time optimal control with frequency constraints for non-smooth systems

(Provisionally accepted by the IFAC journal, Automatica.)


Mishal Assif, Debasish Chatterjee and Ravi Banavar

A simple proof of the discrete time geometric Pontryagin maximum principle

https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00698

(Accepted by the IFAC journal, Automatica.)


Tejas Kotwal, Roshail Gerard and Ravi N. Banavar

An energy and dynamical systems perspective to the damping-induced self recovery phenomenon

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05596

ASME Journal of Dynamical Systems, Measurement and Control, vol. 141, , April 2019.


Siddharth Nair and Ravi Banavar

Discrete Optimal Control of Interconnected Mechanical Systems

Proceedings of the NOLCOS 2019, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 3 - 5, 2019


Siddharth Nair, Ravi Banavar and D. H. S. Maithripala

Control Synthesis for an Underactuated Cable Suspended System Using Dynamic Decoupling

Proceedings of the American Control Conference, June 2019


Sudin Kadam, Karmvir Singh Phogat, Ravi N. Banavar, Debasish Chatterjee

Exact isoholonomic motion of the planar Purcell's swimmer

Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.01038



Sudin Kadam and Ravi N. Banavar,

Variational dynamic interpolation for kinematic systems on trivial principal bundles

Under revision with Systems and Control Letters

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00414



2018


Klaus Albert, Karmvir Singh Phogat, Felix Anhalt, Ravi N Banavar, Debasish Chatterjee, Boris Lohmann

Structure-preserving constrained optimal trajectory planning of a wheeled inverted pendulum

Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Robotics

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12819

Link to the video


K. S. Phogat, D. Chatterjee and R. N. Banavar,

A Discrete-time Pontryagin Maximum Principle on Matrix Lie Groups,

Vol. 7, Nov 2018, Pages 376-391, IFAC Journal, Automatica, Elsevier.


Shruti Kotpalliwar, Pradyumna Paruchuri, Karmvir Singh Phogat, Debasish Chatterjee, Ravi Banavar

A frequency-constrained geometric Pontryagin maximum principle on matrix Lie groups

Proceedings of the IEEE, Conference on Decision and Control, Florida, USA, 2018

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03052


Mishal Assif, Ravi Banavar, Anthony Bloch, Margarida Camarinha and Leonardo Colombo

Variational collision avoidance problems on Riemannian manifolds

Proceedings of the IEEE, Conference on Decision and Control, Florida, USA, 2018

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.00122


S. Kadam and R. N. Banavar

Modelling and controllability of a slender, flexible micro-swimmer using Cox theory

Proceedings of the 7th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08795


K. S. Phogat, R. N. Banavar and D. Chatterjee

Structure-preserving discrete-time optimal maneuvers of a wheeled inverted pendulum

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10932

Proceedings of the IFAC workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods in Nonlinear Control, Valaparaiso, Chile, May 2018.


Aradhana Nayak, Ravi N. Banavar and D. H. S. Maithripala

Almost-global tracking for a rigid body with internal rotors

Volume 42, July 2018, Pages 59-66, European Journal of Control, March 2018. 


Aradhana Nayak and Ravi N. Banavar 

On Almost-Global Tracking for a Certain Class of Simple Mechanical Systems

DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2018.2833046, IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control.


A. Nayak and R. N. Banavar

Almost-global tracking of the unactuated joint in a pendubot

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10379

Proceedings of the IFAC workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods in Nonlinear Control, Valaparaiso, Chile, May 2018.


K. S. Phogat, D. Chatterjee and R. N. Banavar

Discrete-time optimal attitude control of a spacecraft with momentum and control constraints

AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics, Vol. 41, No. 1, pgs. 199-211, 2018.


Sudin Kadam and Ravi N. Banavar

Geometric Controllability of The Purcell's Swimmer and its Symmetrized Cousin

IFAC Journal of Systems and Control, Vol .4, pgs. 7-16, 2018.


2017


Sneha Gajbhiye, Ravi N. Banavar and Sergio Delgado

Symmetries in the wheeled inverted pendulum mechanism

Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer, Vol. 90, No. 1, pgs. 391-403, 2017.


Ravi N. Banavar and Arjun Narayanan

The Principal Fiber Bundle Structure of the Gimbal-Spacecraft System

https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07170


Nidhish Raj, Ravi N. Banavar, Abhishek, Mangal Kothari

Attitude Tracking Control for Aerobatic Helicopters: A Geometric Approach

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08800 

(Proceedings of the IEEE, CDC, Melbourne, Australia, 2017)


Aradhana Nayak, Ravi N. Banavar and D. H. S. Maithripala

Almost-global tracking for a rigid body with internal rotors

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07839


Kedar Joshi, Naman Gupta, Pulkit Katdare, Sudin Kadam and Ravi N Banavar

Trajectory Tracking Using Motion Primitives for the Purcell's Swimmer

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06731 (Proceedings of the IROS, 2017) 


T. S. Kumar and Ravi N. Banavar

Velocity Reversal Systems: A Simple Friction Model for Telescopes

(Asian Journal of Control, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asjc.1623/full


2016


Sneha Gajbhiye, Ravi N. Banavar and Sergio Delgado

Symmetries in the wheeled inverted pendulum mechanism

https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.01814 (accepted by Nonlinear Dynamics, Springer.)


K. S. Phogat, D. Chatterjee and R. N. Banavar

Discrete Maximum Principle on Matrix Lie Groups

https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.08022

(under revision for the IFAC Journal, Automatica.)


Sudin Kadam and Ravi N. Banavar

Geometric Controllability of The Purcell's Swimmer and its Symmetrized Cousin

https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06249


M. Trivedi, R. N. Banavar and P. Kotyczka

Hamiltonian modelling and buckling analysis of a nonlinear flexible beam with actuation at the

bottom,” Mathematical and Computer Modeling of Dynamical Systems,

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13873954.2016.1201517.


K. S. Phogat, D. Chatterjee and R. N. Banavar

Discrete-time optimal attitude control of spacecraft with momentum and control constraints

https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.04521

(accepted by the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics.)


Sneha Gajbhiye and R. N. Banavar

A geometric approach to tracking of a nonholonomic system: a spherical robot.

Proceedings of IFAC-NOLCOS 2016, Monterrey Bay, USA, August 2016.


S. Kadam and R. N. Banavar

Geometric controllability of the Purcell’s swimmer and its symmetrized cousin

Proceedings of IFAC-NOLCOS 2016, Monterrey Bay, USA, August 2016.



A. Nayak and R. N. Banavar

Almost-globally asymptotic tracking on Riemannian manifolds

Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2016, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2016.


R. Agrawal and R. N. Banavar

Circular orbit spacecraft control at the L4 point using Lyapunov functions

Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2016, Aalborg, Denmark, July 2016.


2015


Sneha Gajbhiye and R. N. Banavar

Geometric Modeling and Local Controllability of a Spherical Robot Actuated by a Pendulum,

DOI:10.1002/RNC, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (2015).


K. S. Phogat, D. Chatterjee and R. N. Banavar

A Geometric Approach to Single Axis Time-Optimal Attitude Manoeuvres,

Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, July 2015.


M. Trivedi, R. N. Banavar and P. Kotyczka Port-Hamiltonian Modelling for Buckling Control of a Vertical Flexible Beam with Actuation at the Bottom Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control held in Lyon ,France, July 2015.


2014


S. R. Sahoo and R. N. Banavar

Attitude synchronization of satellites with internal actuation,

European Journal of Control (20), 2014 152-161. (Elsevier.)


R. Bayadi and R. N. Banavar

Almost global attitude stabilization of a rigid body for both internal and external actuation schemes,

European Journal of Control (20), 2014 45-54. (Elsevier.)


2013


R. Bayadi, R. N. Banavar and D. E. Chang

Characterizing the Reachable Sets of a Spacecraft with Two Rotors,

Systems and Control Letters (62) 2013, 453-460.


Sneha Gajbhiye and R. N. Banavar

Local Equilibrium Controllability of a Spherical Robot Actuated by a Pendulum,

Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, to be held in Firenze, Italy, Dec 2013.


Simha, H., Banavar, R.N.

A 2D-planar dielectrophoretic model with electro-thermally induced fluid motion and the stability of trapping zones, Journal of Nonlinear Science (2013), 3:1001–1021, DOI 10.1007/s00332-013-9176-3


Tripurari S. Kumar and Ravi N. Banavar Design and development of telescope control system and software for the 50/80 cm Schmidt telescope Journal of Optical Engineering, vol. 52(8):081607 (Accepted on May 2, 2013)


2012


Ramaprakash Bayadi and R. N. Banvar,

Weak Positive Poisson Stability and Hamiltonian Vector fields in Mechanical Systems,

Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control held in Bertinoro, Italy, August 2012. (bayadi_banavar.pdf)


Sneha Gajbhiye and R. N. Banavar

The Euler-Poincare Equation for a Spherical Robot Actuated by a Pendulum,

Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control held in Bertinoro, Italy, August 2012. (gajbhiye_banavar.pdf)


Ramaprakash Bayadi, Ravi N. Banavar and Dong Eui Chang

Characterizing the Reachable Sets of a Spacecraft with Two Rotors,

Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2012.

(bay_ban_chang.pdf)


N S Manjarekar and R N Banavar

Nonlinear Control Synthesis for Electrical Power Systems using Controllable Series Capacitors

Springer Briefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, Vol 11, 2012 (Monograph)


N. S. Manjarekar, R. N. Banavar and R. Ortega

An Immersion and Invariance Algorithm for a Differential Algebraic System,

European Journal of Control, Issue No.2, 2012.


Simha, H., Banavar, R.N.

A 2D-planar dielectrophoretic model,

Proceedings of the American Control Conference to be held in Montreal, Canada, June 2012.

(sim_ban_acc12.pdf)


S. Sahoo, R. N. Banavar and A. Sinha Rendezvous in space with minimal sensing and coarse actuation IFAC journal Automatica, published online Dec 2012: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.automatica.2012.11.024


2011


Ramaprakash Bayadi, R. N. Banavar, Bernhard M. Maschke

Small- Time Local Controllability of the Orientation of a Spacecraft Actuated by CMGs,

Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan Italy, September 2011


M. V. Trivedi, R. N. Banavar, Bernhard M. Maschke

Stabilization of Hybrid Lumped-Distributed Parameter Mechanical System with Multiple Equilibria,

Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan Italy, September 2011


N. S. Manjarekar, R. N. Banavar and R. Ortega

Stabilization of a Synchronous Generator with a Controllable series capacitor via Immersion and Invariance,

International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, doi: 10.1002/rnc.1732 (2011).


H. Simha, H. Barve and R. N. Banavar

Energy-optimal Control in a Dielectrophoretic System,

Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Wiley, published online July 2011.


H. Simha, R. N. Banavar and D. E. Chang

Reachability and Controllability of a Particle in a Dielectrophoretic System,

Systems and Control Letters, Vol. 60, Issue 7, July 2011.


Simha, H., Banavar, R.N. & Chang, D.E

Aspects of time-optimal control of a particle in a dielectrophoretic system,

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida USA, Dec. 2011 .


Soumya R. Sahoo, R. N. Banavar, Arpita Sinha

Rendezvous in Space with Minimal Sensing and Coarse Actuation,

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, Florida USA, Dec. 2011.


T. S. Kumar and Ravi. N. Banavar

Identication of Friction in the 50/80cm ARIES Schmidt Telescope Using the LuGre Model,

Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milan Italy, September 2011


2010


V. Joshi , R. N. Banavar and Rohit Hippalgaonkar

Design and Analysis of a Spherical Mobile Robot,

Mechanism and Machine Theory, Elsevier, 45 (2010) 130-136


N. S. Manjarekar, R. N. Banavar and R. Ortega

Application of Interconnection and Damping Assignment to the Stabilization of a Synchronous Generator with a Controllable Series Capacitor,

International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Elsevier, 32 (2010) 63-70.


Harsha Simha, R. N. Banavar, Chang Dong Eui

Reachability and Controllability of a Particle in a Dielectrophoretic System,

Proceedings of the 49th IEEE CDC, held in Atlanta, Georgia USA, December 15-17, 2010


Sarras Ioannis, Faruk Kazi, Ortega Romeo, R. N. Banavar

Total Energy-Shaping IDA-PBC Control of the 2D-Spider Crane,

Proceedings of the 49th IEEE CDC, held in Atlanta, Georgia USA, December 15-17, 2010.


2009


R. N. Banavar and Biswadip Dey

Stabilizing a Flexible Beam on A Cart: A Distributed Port Hamiltonian Approach,

Journal of Nonlinear Science, Springer, published online (Dec. 8th, 2009)


F. Kazi, P. Mullhaupt, R. N. Banavar and D. Bonvin

Dynamics and Control of 2D Spider Crane: a Lie-Backlund Approach,

Proceedings of the European Control Conference in Budapest Hungary, August 2009.


R. N. Banavar and Biswadip Dey

Stabilizing a Flexible Beam on A Cart: A Distributed Port Hamiltonian Approach,

Proceedings of the European Control Conference in Budapest Hungary, August 2009.


R. N. Banavar and Anup Menon

Time-Optimal Transfer in The Plate Ball Problem,

Proceedings of the European Control Conference in Budapest Hungary, August 2009


F. Kazi and R. N. Banavar

Energy Shaping Control of a Differentially Flat System,

Proceedings of the International Conference and Exhibition on Aerospace Engineering in IISc Bangalore, India in May 2009.


V. Joshi and R. N. Banavar

Motion Analysis of a Spherical Mobile Robot,

Robotica, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 27, Issue 03, pp: 343-353, May 2009 (published online June 2008)


N. S. Majarekar, R. N. Banavar and R. Ortega

An application of Immersion and Invariance to a Differential Algebraic System: A Power System,

Proceedings of the European Control Conference in Budapest Hungary, August 2009


N. S. Manjarekar, R. N. Banavar and R. Ortega

Nonlinear Control Synthesis for Asymptotic Stabilization of the Swing Equation using a Controllable Series Capacitor via Immersion and Invariance,

Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp:2493-2498, Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2009


Hrushikesh A . Brave and R. N. Banavar

Energy-optimal Control of a Particle in a Dielectrophoretic System,

Proceedings of the IEEE CDC Shanghai (Dec, 2009)



2008


V. Sankaranarayanan, A. D. Mahindrakar and R. N. Banavar

A Switched Controller for an Underactuated Underwater Vehicle

pg. 2266- 2278, Vol. 13 Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations, 2008.


A. Banerjee, R. N. Banavar and D. Venkatesh

A Task Planner for a dual-arm robot: A geometric formulation,

Proceedings of TENCON 2008, Hyderabad, India, Novermber 18-21, 2008


F. Kazi, R. N. Banavar, P. Mullhaupt and D. Bonvin

Stabilization of a 2D-SpiderCrane Mechanism Using Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control,

Procceedings of the IFAC World Congress in Seoul, South Korea, July 2008


N. S. Manjarekar, R. N. Banavar and R. Ortega

Application of Passivity-based Control to Stabilization of the SMIB System with Controllable Series Devices,

Procceedings of the IFAC World Congress in Seoul, South Korea, July 2008


2007


V. Joshi, R. N. Banavar, Rohit Hippalgaonkar

Design and Development of a Spherical Mobile Robot,

National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, Bangalore, Dec. 2007


F. Kazi, R. N. Banavar, R. Ortega and N. S. Manjarekar

Minimizing Cable Swing in a Gantry Crane Using The IDA-PBC Methodology,

National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms, Bangalore, Dec. 2007


F. Kazi, R. N. Banavar, R. Ortega and N. S. Manjarekar

Point-to-Point Control of a Gantry Crane: A Combined Flatness And IDA-PBC Strategy,

Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, 2007



2006


Ravi N. Banavar and V. Sankaranarayanan

Switched Finite-Time Control of a Class of Underactuated Systems

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (LNCIS Series),

Springer, 2006. (Monograph)


G. Viola, R. Ortega, R. N. Banavar, J. A. Acosta and A. Astolfi

Total Energy Shaping Control of Mechanical Systems:Simplifying the Matching Equations via Coordinate Changes,

3rd IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control, Nagoya, July 2006


Faruk Kazi, R. N. Banavar, R. Ortega and N. S. Manjarekar

The IDA-PBC Methodology Applied to a Gantry Crane

Proceedings of the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Kyoto, July 2006


V. Sankaranarayanan and R. N. Banavar

Output Feedback Stabilization of a Mobile Robot

Proceedings of the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Kyoto, July 2006


2005


Amar Banerji, R. N. Banavar and D. Venkatesh

A Non-Dexterous Dual Arm Robot’s Feasible Orientations Along

Desired Trajectories: Analysis & Synthesis

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, December 2005