Dr. Nabanita Adhikary

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Assistant Professor
Email: nabanita[at]ee[dot]nits[dot]ac[dot]in
Date of Joining: 27/06/2018
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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

  She 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)

  • Signals and System (UG 3rd Semester), Modeling of Dynamical System (PG 1st Semester), Modern Control System (UG), Intelligent Control (UG and PG), Basic Electrical Engineering (UG), Analog Electronics (UG)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, IEEE

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. Member of the institute examination cell. 2. Associate Lab In-charge of the Control Systems Laboratory, Depart- ment of Electrical Engineering, 3. Associate Lab In-charge of the Measurement Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering.
  • Previous Position: 1. Associate Warden of Girls’ Hostel -1 of NIT Silchar.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. 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)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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.

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. Investigation and development of robust control strategy for nonlinear bilateral teleoperation system with delayed communication: An experimental validation for rehabilitation of stroke patients. (AS CO PI)

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

PHD SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Research Area Supervision
1 Ongoing Sole Supervisor
2 Ongoing Sole Supervisor
3 Ongoing Sole Supervisor
4 Ongoing Sole Supervisor
5 Ongoing Sole Supervisor

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of Scholar Status Thesis Title Supervision