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Dr. C. S. Shankar Ram

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Professor, Department of Engineering Design

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

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PhD scholars

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Akhil Challa

PhD Scholar

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Harshal Patil

PhD Scholar

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Kesavan V S

PhD Scholar

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Pavel Vijay Gaurkar

Prime Minister's Research Fellow

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Radhika R

PhD Scholar

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Reenu George

PhD Scholar

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Shreya Y

PhD Scholar

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Vimal Kumar A R

PhD Scholar

MS scholars

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Karthik

MS Scholar

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Sudhakar S

Technician, MS Scholar

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Vaibhav Randive

MS Scholar

Post-Doc scholars

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Dr. Devika K.B.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Dual Degree students

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Deepak Prakash Kumar

Dual Degree Student

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Sidhanth Gupta

Dual Degree Student

Alumni

MASTER OF SCIENCE (M. S., by Research)

  1. P. Karthikeyan, Development and Modelling of an Electropneumatic Brake System for Commercial Vehicles, July 2010.

  2. Sonawane Dinesh Bhagawant, An Experimentally Corroborated Dynamic Model for the Mechanical Subsystem of an Air Brake, July 2011.

  3. Subhajit Mahanty, A Nonlinear Model Based Slip Controller for Heavy Commercial Vehicles, July 2011.

  4. Ameena Salim Padiath, Estimation of Spatial Traffic Variables using Location Based Data under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions, July 2012 (Co-Guide: Prof. V. Lelitha Devi).

  5. K. Mythreyi, Closed Loop Control of a Nonlinear Glucose-Insulin Regulatory System Considering Practical Delays, July 2014 (Co-Guide: Prof. R. Krishnakumar).

  6. K. Balasakthivel, Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Fuel-Lubrication Oil Mixing and Flow through Micro Clearances to Estimate Leakages in a Fuel Injection  Pump, July 2015.

  7. Vikas Gautam, Mathematical Modeling and Control an Electro-Pneumatic Braking System for Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles, July 2015.

  8. Shrikant Fulari Gurunath, Traffic State Estimation under Uncertain Sensor Data, July 2016 (Co-Guide: Prof. V. Lelitha Devi).

  9. M. Nagendran, Detection and Prevention of Untripped Rollover in Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles, July 2017 (Co-Guide: Prof. R. Krishna Kumar).

  10. D. Senthilkumar, Modeling and Analysis of Longitudinal and Lateral Dynamics of a Tele-Operated Unmanned Tracked Vehicle, July 2017 (Co-Guide: Prof. T. Asokan).

  11. Swagata Borthakur, Optimized Design and Analysis of a Modified Powertrain Configuration for a Series Hybrid Electric Road Vehicle, July 2018.

  12. Nithya Sridhar, Model-Based Antilock Braking System Design for Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles Considering Actuator Attributes, June 2019.

  13. Gurudatta M Anche, Robust Disturbance Force Attenuation for Pitch Plane Stability of a Tractor Considering Functional Constraints, September 2019.

  14. Sashidhar Palani, Component Sizing and Optimization of Fuel Cell-Battery Powertrain for Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles, September 2019.

DUAL DEGREE (B. Tech. and M. Tech.): Only a few representative projects are presented.

  1. Astitva Tripathi, Analysis of Indian traffic towards travel time and congestion prediction, May 2010.

  2. Vineet Bhandari, Development of an electronically controlled pneumatic suspension for commercial vehicles, May 2010.

  3. Y. S. R. Rajeev Kumar, A linear model for an electro-pneumatic brake system towards controller development, May 2010.

  4.  K. Srinidhi, Distributed parameter modelling of electro-pneumatic brakes and hysteresis analysis in brakes, May 2011.

  5. N. Jagga Raju, A controller to prevent rollover of heavy commercial vehicles, May 2011 (Co-Guide: Prof. R. Krishnakumar).

  6. Swapnil Jain, Design of 500 W biomass powered Stirling engine, May 2012.

  7.  G. G. Surya Teja Reddy, Longitudinal control of a vehicle using a nonlinear control strategy,May 2013.

  8. Patel Sanjay Amrutlal, Design of an endoscopy simulator mechanism with translational tracking and active force feedback, June 2014 (Co-Guide: Prof. M. Manivannan).

  9.  Krishna Kashampur, Modelling and control of rolling-lobe type air suspension, June 2015.

  10. Mani Hemanth D., Planar dynamics of an articulated four-wheeled vehicle, June 2015.

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