Assistant Professor
Email: nabanita@ee.nits.ac.in
Date of Joining: 27/06/2018
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Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3257-663X

LinkdIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nabanita-adhikary

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

• Robotics, Control systems, Man-machine interface, Artificial Intelligence, Satellite formation control, discrete-time sliding mode, mathematical models in population biology and epidemiology, Markov Jump Systems.

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

  Dr. Nabanita Adhikary obtained her B.E. in Electrcial Engineering from Jorhat Engineering College then affiliated to Dibrugarh University in 2010. After that, she joined as an assistant professor in NITS Mirza, Assam in October 2010. She worked there till June 2011 after which she joined in the Ph.D. program in Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in July 2011. She completed her Ph.D. in November 2017 after which she joined as an assistant professor in Assam Engineering College, Guwahati under the TEQIP scheme of the government of India in January 2018 where she worked till June 2018. She joined NIT Silchar in June 2018 and is currently working as an assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering in NIT Silchar.

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

Currently Teaching

1. Signals and System (UG)

2. Modeling of Dynamical System (PG)

Previously Taught

1. Modern Control System (UG)

2. Intelligent Control (UG and PG)

3. Basic Electrical Engineering (UG)

4. Analog Electronics (UG)

5. Optimization Methods and their Application in Engineering (UG 7th Semester)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

• Best presenter award in technical session of International Symposium on Control, Communication and Embedded System for Robotics (SOCCER 2020) for the presentation of the paper “Adaptive Backstepping Based Non-singular Finite Time Sliding Mode Controller for Suspension of Maglev Platforms” authored by Nabanita Adhikary and Jobin Mathew. 2. MHRD scholarship for pursuing Ph.D. in IIT Guwahati based on GATE qualification marks; 3. Secured state-wise 14th rank in HSLC examination, 2004 in the state of Assam.

PATENTS

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

• Current Positions:
  1. DPPC Secretary, EED
  2. Lab In-charge of the Control Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering
  3. Member of Institute GeM Committee
• Previous Position:
  1. Member of the institute examination cell.
  2. Associate Lab In-charge of the Measurement Laboratory, Department
  3. Associate Warden of Girls’ Hostel -1 of NIT Silchar.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

1. Adhikary N, Bartoszewicz A, Dey R. Remote tele‐operation using model reference discrete‐time sliding mode control. International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. 2024 May 25;34(8):5079-109.
2. Nabanita Adhikary and Chitralekha Mahanta, “Sliding mode control of position commanded robot manipulators”, Control Engineering Practice, Volume 81, 2018, Pages 183-198, ISSN 0967-0661, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.09.011. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096706611830532X)
3. Nabanita Adhikary and Chitralekha Mahanta, “Inverse dynamics based robust control method for position commanded servo actuators in robot manipulators”, Control Engineering Practice, Elsevier, vol. 66, pp. 146-155, 2017.
4. Nabanita Adhikary and Chitralekha Mahanta, “Integral backstepping sliding mode control for underactuated systems: Swing-up and stabilization of the cart-pendulum system ”, ISA Transactions, Elsevier, vol. 52, no 6, pp. 870-880, 2013.
5. Datta R, Dey R, Adhikari N, Gu J, Farooq U, Asad MU. H∞ control for T–S fuzzy system via delayed state feedback: Application to two-link robotic system. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 2022 Jan 1;55(1):777-82.
6. Asad MU, Farooq U, Gu J, Dey R, Adhikary N, Datta R, Chang C. DISTURBANCE OBSERVER-BASED EXTENDED STATE CONVERGENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR MULTILATERAL TELEOPERATION SYSTEMS. International Journal of Robotics and Automation. 2023;38(10).
7. Datta R, Dey R, Adhikari N. Dissipative Control for Single Flexible Joint Robotic System via T–S Fuzzy Modelling Approach. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 2022 Jan 1;55(1):637-42.

NATIONAL JOURNALS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

1. Nabanita Adhikary and Chitralekha Mahanta, “Kinematic control of a 6 DOF robotic manipulator using sliding mode”, 2017 Indian Control Conference (ICC), 04-06 Jan, 2017, pp. 350-355, Guwahati, India.
2. Nabanita Adhikary and Chitralekha Mahanta, “Hybrid impedance control of robotic manipulator using adaptive backstepping sliding mode controller with PID sliding surface”, 2017 Indian Control Conference (ICC), 04-06 Jan, 2017, pp. 391-396, Guwahati, India.
3. Nabanita Adhikary and Chitralekha Mahanta, “Adaptive backstepping sliding mode controller with PID sliding surface for a co-ordinated links (COOL) robotic arm ”, Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Advances In Robotics (p. 4), ACM, 02-04 July 2015, Goa, India.
4. Nabanita Adhikary and Chitralekha Mahanta, “Backstepping sliding mode controller for a coordinated links (cool) robot arm”, 13th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), IEEE, 29 June-02 July, 2014, pp.1-5, Nantes, France.
5. Kumar P, Kumar K, Bohre AK, Adhikary N. Optimal Management of Multi-Area System Incorporating Wind Power Across Varied Climatic Conditions using Firefly Optimization Methodology. In2023 3rd International Conference on Energy, Power and Electrical Engineering (EPEE) 2023 Sep 15 (pp. 371-377). IEEE.
6. D. Das, N. Adhikary and S. Chaudhury, “Sensor fusion in autonomous vehicle using LiDAR and camera Sensor,” 2022 IEEE 10th Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), Hyderabad, India, 2022, pp. 336-341, doi: 10.1109/R10-HTC54060.2022.9929588.
7. Das D, Adhikary N, Chaudhury S. Sensor fusion in autonomous vehicle using LiDAR and camera sensor with Odometry. In2022 IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP) 2022 Jul 1 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
8. R. Bhattacharjee, A. Deb and N. Adhikary, “A Comparative Performance Analysis of P&O and ANN Algorithm Based MPPT Energy Harvesting in PV Systems,” 2023 7th International Conference on Computation System and Information Technology for Sustainable Solutions (CSITSS), Bangalore, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CSITSS60515.2023.10334115.
9. R. Bhattacharjee, S. Islam, A. Deb and N. Adhikary, “Exploring the Effectiveness of Different MPPT Algorithms for Thermoelectric Generator Optimization: A Comparative Study,” 2024 IEEE 13th International Conference on Communication Systems and Network Technologies (CSNT), Jabalpur, India, 2024, pp. 1136-1141, doi: 10.1109/CSNT60213.2024.10545924.
10. Chakraborty S, Kumar A, Adhikary N, Narula A. A Multilevel Switched Capacitor based High-Gain Non-Isolated Hybrid Switched Inductor Cascaded Boost DC-DC Converter. In2023 International Conference on Computer, Electronics & Electrical Engineering & their Applications (IC2E3) 2023 Jun 8 (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

BOOK CHAPTER

1. Gu J, Dey R, Adhikary N. Communication and Control for Robotic Systems. Editors: Jason Gu, Rajeeb Dey, Nabanita Adhikary, DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1777-5, Series Title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Springer Singapore (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811617768).
2. Adhikary N, Mathew J. Adaptive Backstepping-Based Non-singular Finite-Time Sliding Mode Controller for Suspension of Maglev Platforms. In Communication and Control for Robotic Systems 2022 (pp. 63-88). Springer, Singapore.
3. Adhikary N, Dey R, Asad MU, Gu J, Farooq U, Dutta R. Adaptive Robust Control of Tele-operated Master-Slave Manipulators with Communication Delay. In Communication and Control for Robotic Systems 2022 (pp. 123-140). Springer, Singapore.
4. Deori MJ, Adhikary N, Pallacherla KJ. Performance Comparison of EKF and UKF for Offshore Boom Crane System. Communication and Control for Robotic Systems.:291.
5. Asad MU, Gu J, Farooq U, Dey R, Adhikary N, Datta R, Chang C. A Multi-Master Single-Slave Teleoperation System Through Composite State Convergence. In Communication and Control for Robotic Systems 2022 (pp. 141-153). Springer, Singapore.
6. Cherfouh K, Gu J, Farooq U, Asad MU, Dey R, Adhikary N, Chang C. Performance Comparison Between Higher-Order Sliding Mode and Fixed Boundary Layer Sliding Mode Controller for a 10-DoF Bipedal Robot. In Communication and Control for Robotic Systems 2022 (pp. 45-62). Springer, Singapore.

PROJECTS

1. Co-PI of Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) project by MHRD on “Investigation and development of robust control strategy for nonlinear bilateral tele-operation system with delayed communication: An experimental validation for rehabilitation of stroke patients” in collaboration with Dalhousie University, Canada (2019 – 2022).
2. Co-PI of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India funded project “Development of three axes force and torque measurement device for monitoring and control of friction stir welding process”(2022-2025).
3. Recipient of fellowship for post-doctoral research at Lodz University of Technology, Poland from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India launched program SERB International Research Experience (SIRE) in 2022.

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

1. Coordinator of short term course on “Fractional Order Systems and Their Applications” organized in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, India (August, 2019).

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

1. Organizing Chair of International Symposium on Control, Communication and Embedded System for Robotics (SOCCER 2020), 3rd-4th October, 2020, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India.

PHD SCHOLARS

M.TECH. SCHOLARS