National Center for Combustion Research and Development Indian Institute Of Technology Madras & Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Position: Assistant Professor Dept of Mechanical Engg., IITM
CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST: Instrumentation & Control system, Automotive Electronics / Engine Control System, Mechatronic & Embedded Systems, Mobile Robotics and Sensor Network.
CONTACT: Email: ****** PERSONAL HOME PAGE: http://mech.iitm.ac.in/PEIL%20HOME%20PAGE/Members/P.V.MANIVANNAN/pvm.htm SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: P.V. Manivannan, M. Singaperumal and A. Ramesh, Development of an idle speed engine model using in-cylinder pressure data and an idle speed controller for a small capacity port fuel injected SI Engine, International Journal of Automotive Technology (KSAE), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 11-20 (2011). P.V. Manivannan, M. Singaperumal and A. Ramesh, A new method for measurement air-fuel ratio based on the response time of a binary exhaust gas oxygen (BEGO) sensor for application in small spark ignition (SI) engines, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Vol. 36(2), 2014, pp. 175-183. P. Suresh and P.V. Manivannan, Neural Network Based Hybrid Adaptive Controller for an Autonomously driving Car using Thin Plate Spline Radial Basis Activation Function, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 592-594 (2014) pp 2184-2188. Bajwa Roodra Pratap Singh and P.V. Manivannan, Input shaping for feed forward control of a Flexible Polymethyl Methacrylate beam manipulator, Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 592-594 (2014) pp 2160-2164. PROFESSIONAL PROFILE: Visteon Power train Control Systems India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai and Caterpillar Inc.
AWARDS: Visiting research faculty in the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia – summer, 2012. Visiting faculty, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA – Summer, 2013 & 2014. Awarded with "DAAD Fellowship" to visit the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany – Winter, 2013. Recipient of "Teaching Fellowship" under the Erasmus Mundus Distinguished Lecture Series to teach in the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany – Summer, 2014. AFFILIATIONS: IIT Madras National Centre for Combustion Research And Development #J-18808-Ljbffr