Centre

of Excellence (CoE)
in
Complex & Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
(CNDS)
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute
Matunga, Mumbai-400019

Thematic Areas,
Reserch,
Colabrations,
Activities
&
Achivements

Volume 1, Issue 1
1
September 2015
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From PI's Desk

Dear Readers,
Welcome to the first official COE-CNDS newsletter. The issue highlights the goals,
resources and ongoing research activities at the COE-CNDS, VJTI, Mumbai. The
motivation behind releasing a regular and completely community driven newsletter is to
provide a communication channel between the research group at the COE-CNDS and the
academic world, other research groups and laboratories, industries and the researchers of
the future.
This issue contains information on the multidisciplinary span of the research goals,
dedicated laboratory facilities and equipment available with the COE-CNDS. The industryinstitute interaction reserves prime importance for us. We as a group are very much
involved with the industry oriented projects, beneficial for both the development of our
students as well as keeping us at par with the latest research activities happening across
the globe.
In Indian context, giving opportunities to budding engineers and inspiring them to pursue
their careers in engineering and sciences by working on contemporary research problems
is one of the prime goal of COE-CNDS.
We, the COE-CNDS community present to you this issue with utmost gratitude.
Warm Regards,
Dr. Faruk A. S. Kazi
(PI & Coordinator, CoE-CNDS),

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About Us
VJTI is selected under TEQIP II (subcomponent 1.2.1) for
establishment of Centre of Excellence (CoE) in "Complex & Nonlinear
Dynamical Systems (CNDS)" with a funding of Rs 5 Crores by World
Bank through National Project Implementation Unit (NPIU), MHRD,
New Delhi. The main objective of the CoE CNDS is to act as a focal
point for the interdisciplinary research into the theory of complex and
nonlinear dynamical systems and its applications across science and
engineering branches. Main areas and application domains include
complex power grid/smart grid modeled as cyber physical system
(CPS), nonlinear dynamics & transient stability of electrical pulse
power & plasma systems, hybrid energy management systems for
clean renewable energy & nonlinear vibration analysis.
The proposed CoE is aimed at developing a rigorous and
unified framework for both theoretical and applied research in the area
of complex and nonlinear dynamical systems by interconnecting
scattered groups to create critical mass and complementarity.
Following are the key objectives:
i. To foster in both ways fundamental studies and applications by
collaborative research.
ii. To develop a basis for a unified framework harnessing complex and
nonlinear systems.
iii. To motivate and integrate multi-disciplinary approaches to complex
problems.
iv. To contribute in nation's growth - technologically & socially by
synthesising the obtained results and methodologies into unified
strategies, criteria and procedures for design of new devices and
processes.
v. Facilitate the interchange of scientific results and ideas between
various institutes, industries and research organizations within and
outside India.
vi. Promote use of open-source software in fundamental research
areas.
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Content
1.Thematic Areas of CoE-CNDS....................................................................................6
2.Activities of CoE-CNDS
2.1 Internship Programme......................................................................................7
2.2 Collaborative Effort
Academic Partners...........................................................................................8
Industrial Pratners...........................................................................................10
2.3 Workshops Conducted by CoE-CNDS
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Modeling & Analysis............................13
Synergy-in-Energy.....................................................................................14
Matrix Computation for Complex Systems.............................................15
Nonlinear State Estimation.......................................................................16
Introduction to Geometric Nonlinear Control Theory and
Applications...............................................................................................17
Perspectives in Dynamical system & control.........................................18
25 Years Of Passivity-Based Controls: New Vistas................................20
Cyber Security Framework for Smart Grid and Critical
Infrastructure..............................................................................................22
Smart Grid- Perspectives in Cyber Security............................................23
Faculty & Research Scholar Interaction Program on Bifurcation.........24
2.4 CoE-CNDS Laboratories.....................................................................................?
3.Achivements of CoE-CNDS........................................................................................25
3.1 Patents and/or prototypes developed
3.2 Commercialization outcomes
3.3 Achievement of expected research in thematic area of CoE-CNDS
3.4 Publication Details............................................................................................26
4.Members of CoE-CNDS...............................................................................................31

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Thematic Areas
CoE-CNDS is working in follwing Areas
Complex Power Grid
Smart Grid modeled as cyber-physical system (CPS)
Cyber-Security in Smart Grid Systems
Nonlinear dynamics & transient stability of electrical pulse power & plasma
systems
Hybrid energy management systems for clean renewable energy
Nonlinear vibration analysis etc.

Projects
1.Modeling &Analysis of Complex Power Grid as a Cyber-Physical System
2.Modeling & PIC Based Simulations of Relativistic Nonlinear Phenomenon in
Magnetron
3.Bifurcation Analysis of Cascade Failures in Power Grid: Northern Grid
Blackout Case Study
4.A System Theoretic Approach for Modeling and Sequencing the Execution of
Bomponent Models for Adapting Parallel Processing in Complex Process
Simulation Tool
5.Probabilistic Analysis of Cascade Failures
6.Deposition of High k Dielectric Thin Films Using Non-linear Dyn
Gaseous Plasma
7.Passivity-based Control of Under-actuated Non-linear Dynamical Systems
8.Synchronization Control of Nonlinear Heterogeneous Systems & Hybrid
Energy Management Systems
9.Development of Non-linear Control Law using Multilevel SVM for
Suppressing Inverter Non-linear Distortions with Low Harmonics
10.Development of Experimental UWB Systems

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Activities of CoE-CNDS
Internship Programme
To promote inter-disciplinary research in non-linear and complex dynamical systems
following internships were organized
i. Six week internship program:
This program is conducted from 1st June 3rd July, 2015and 26 undergraduate students
participated and were able to develop thier understanding about......
ii. Three week internship program:
This program was conducted from 9th - 27th December, 2013 and 5 undergraduate students
participated to in understand apply their knowledge......
iii. Six week internship program:
This program was conducted from 3rd June 12th July, 2013 and 15 undergraduate
students participate. Students were able to understand the...

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Na onal / Interna onal collabra on fo

HYCON2(Highly-complex and
networked control systems)
MoU signed on 12 May 2014
The FP7 NoE HYCON2, started in September
2010, is a four-year project coordinated by the
CNRS (Franoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue). It aims
at stimulating and establishing a long-term
integration in the strategic field of control of
complex, large-scale, and networked dynamical
systems. It focuses in particular on the domains of
ground and aerospace transportation, electrical
power networks, process industries, and biological
and medical systems.

IIT Bombay
MoU signed on 27 November 2012
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
(abbreviated IITB or IIT Bombay) is a public
engineering institution located in Powai, Mumbai,
India. In global rankings, IIT Bombay has emerged
as Indias top university. It is the second-oldest
institute of the Indian Institutes of Technology
system.

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or Research and Development ac vi es

IIT Madras
MoU signed on 16 May 2014
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT
Madras) is an autonomous public engineering
andresearch institution located in Chennai
(formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu. It is recognized as
an Institute of National Importance by the
Government of India. Founded in 1959 with
technical and financial assistance from the
government of the former West Germany, it was
the third Indian Institute of Technologythat was
established by the Government of India through an
Act of Parliament, to provide education and
research facilities in engineering and technology.

Institute of Chemical Technology

MoU signed on 12 January 2011
Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), formerly
the University Department of Chemical
Technology(UDCT), is a premier chemical
engineering research institute located in Mumbai,
Maharashtra, India. It is focused on training and
research in various branches of chemical
engineering, chemical technology, and pharmacy.
It was established in 1933 and was granted
deemed university status in 2008. It is the only
state-funded deemed university in India.

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Industrial P

Collabra on with industry for applicabl

Customized Energy Solutions
MoU signed on 8 December 2014
Established in 1998, Customized Energy Solutions assists clients in
managing and staying ahead of the changes in the wholesale and retail
electricity and natural gas markets. Serving hundreds of clients,
Customized Energy Solutions offers best-in-class hosted energy market
operations platforms and services.

BARC
MoU signed on 11 March 2010
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) is
India's premier nuclear research facility based in
Trombay, Mumbai. BARC is a multi-disciplinary
research centre with extensive infrastructure for
advanced research and development covering the
entire spectrum of nuclear science, engineering
and related areas.

India Smart Grid Forum

MoU signed on 13 September 2013
India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) is a public private partnership initiative of
Ministry of Power (MoP), Government of India for accelerated
development of smart grid technologies in the Indian power sector. ISGF
was set up in 2010 to provide a mechanism through which academia,
industry, utilities and other stakeholders could participate in the
development of Indian smart grid systems and provide relevant inputs to
the governments decision-making.

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le research and product development

Larsen & Toubro
MoU signed on 23 March 2011
L&T Electrical & Automation (E&A) business portfolio includes low voltage
switchgear products, electrical systems, marine switchgear, industrial and building
automation solutions, energy meters & relays. Its products and solutions cater to a
variety of segments like industries, utilities, infrastructure, building and agriculture.

PORTESCAP
MoU signed on 27 March 2014
Portescap is part of the Danaher
Corporation. Danaher is a Fortune 200,
NYSE-listed, science and technology
leader that designs, manufactures and
markets innovative products and
services to professional, medical,
industrial and commercial customers.

C-DAC
MoU signed on 20 December 2014
The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is a
research and development organization under the Department of
Electronics and Information Technology, Govt of India. The National
Centre for Software Technology (NCST), ER&DCI and CEDTI were
merged into C-DAC in 2003.

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Nonlinear Dynamical
Systems
: Modeling & Analysis
27 May and 28 May 2013
This the first workshop activity
done by CoE-CNDS in VJTI ti
introduce our them and areas.
The concepts behind organising
this workshop was to learn and
understand the techniques
developed by mathematicians,
physicists, and engineers to
characterize and predict the
behavior of nonlinear
dynamical systems that has
several crucial areas of
applications.

Objectives:
Exposure to nonlinear dynamics.
Understand geometric aspects of nonlinear control.
Understand the role of energy and the
interconnections between subsystems.
Understand modeling issues in complex systems
and cyber-physical systems.

Resource Persons:
Dr R.N. Banavar (IIT Bombay)
Dr Madhu Belur (IIT Bombay)
Dr Vishwesh Vyavhare (IIT Bombay)
Dr Ramkrishna Pasumarthy (IIT Madras)

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Synergy-in-Energy
13 September 2013

The workshop was aimed at providing a

common platform to present the research,
industrial & academic developments focused on
the Smart Grid activities in India. People from
diverse backgrounds like industry, academia
and policy makers discussed on topics like
Smart Grid policy of Government of India, need
for smart grid in India, cyber security issues in
smart grid development and role of industry in
capacity building at educational institutes. MoU
was signed between VJTI and ISGF to work on
cyber security and communication aspects of
smart grid research.

Objectives:
Develop effective synergies on Smart Grid research
in academia and their applications in and utilization
by the industry to mutual advantage
Promote collaborative research between academia
and the industry.
Offer challenging real life problems faced by the
industry to research scholars.
Establish/modernize research facilities/laboratories in
active participation from industry Involvement of
industry for curriculum development.
Exploring possibility of offering short term training
programs for industrial manpower training.
Resource Persons:
Mr Reji Kumar Pillai (President ISGF);
Ms Bridgit Hartland-Johnson (MD, Energie Dynamique)
Dr S. S. Mantha (Chairman AICTE, New Delhi);
Mr Vijay L. Sonavane (MERC)
Mr U. S. Mane (Chief GM-IT, MSEDCL)
Mr Ram Pillai (TATA Power)
Dr. A. R. Abhyankar (IIT Delhi)
Dr. Ganesh Kumbhar (IIT Roorkee)
Mr Abraham Samson (JGM, L&T, Control & Automation and Chair-WG10, ISGF)
Mr. P.Pentayya (GM, WRLDC)
Dr. Shailendra Fuloria (Head, Smart Grid & Cyber Security, ABB)
Dr. Ramkrishna Pasumarthy (IIT Madras)
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Mr Vipin Varma (Lead, Enterprise Transformation, NTDG, TCS)
Mr. Pradeep Nair (Head, Energy & Power, National Instruments)
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Matrix Computation
for Complex Systems
16 December to 20 December 2013

A course on matrix computations is increasingly important due to many areas requiring

a sound understanding of the computation aspects of matrix operations. In particular,
numerical accuracy of computation, number of floating point operations (computational
effort), together with parallel/serial aspects of algorithms, is central for all engineers
and mathematicians who deal with matrix theory.

Objectives:
To focus on computation methods, and also on aspects of numerical accuracy and
computational effort.
To give exposure to the area of Singular Value Decomposition, Forward and
Backward stability algorithm, LU and QR factorization, Schur decomposition and
Least square solution for research work.
Resource Persons:
Dr. Madhu Belur, IITB
Prof. Harish K. Pillai, IITB

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Nonlinear State
Estimation
6 January to 10 January 2014

Energy Management Systems (EMS) play the all important role of monitoring and
control of the power systems and state estimation forms its backbone.This workshop
was organized to study Nonlinear State Estimation and its significance in electrical
network.

Objectives:
The course covered the concept of Kalman Filter, Unscented and Extended
kalman Filter.
Special attention to estimation in constrained systems.
Exposure to SCILAB, open source software, for the acadamic portions of the
course.
Resource Persons:
Prof. Ragunathan Regasamy, IIT Madras
Prof. Shankar Narasimhan, IIT Madras
Prof. Nirav Bhatta, IIT Madras
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Introduction to Geometric
Nonlinear Control Theory and
Applications
8 March to 13 March 2014

Objectives:
Exposure to nonlinear dynamics.
Understand geometric aspects of
nonlinear control.
Understand the role of energy
and the interconnections
between subsystems.
Understand modeling issues in
complex systems and cyberphysical systems.
Covered the concepts of
controllability, observability,
decoupling and equivalence in
the context of nonlinear control
system.
It introduced Geometric tools
like Lie Brackets, Distributions
and Codistribution, Integral
Manifolds and Frobenius
Theorem.
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The aim of the mini-course was two-fold. In

the first part we introduced basic notions,
tools, and results of geometric control theory.
We discussed the concepts of controllability,
observability, decoupling, and equivalence in
the context of nonlinear control systems. We
recalled and/or introduced geometric tools on
which the theory was based (Lie brackets,
distributions and co-distributions, integral
manifolds, Frobenius theorem etc.). We also
presented more recent results concerning
equivalence of control systems under statespace equivalence, feedback equivalence, and
dynamic equivalence. In particular, we
discussed feedback linearization, equivalence
of control-linear systems to the chained forms
(and their applications to nonholonomic
systems), flatness, and describe control
systems that admit a mechanical structure.
Throughout the mini-course we emphasized
the geometric character of nonlinear control
theory and its applications to various control
synthesis problems (stabilization, tracking,
nonlinear observers). We illustrated the course
by physical, mainly mechanical, examples.

Resource Persons:
Prof. W. Respondek, INSA de Rouen, France.

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Perspectives in Dynami
17 March to 21 March 2014

Objectives:
Establish international
linkages & cooperative
partnership in the
thematic area of
complex & nonlinear
dynamical systems.
Upgradation of
research knowledge
and research
competence.
International exchange
of credits, faculty &
students.
Joint publications,
research proposals.

Perspectives in Dynamical Systems and Control (PDSC

2014) was an international workshop jointly being
organized by Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute,
Matunga, Mumbai, and the Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay (Systems and Control group),
Mumbai, as part of various activities through World
Bank funding under their Technical Education Quality
Improvement Program (TEQIP), Phase-II. The purpose
of this workshop was to promote and develop
collaborative research activity in the area of nonlinear
dynamical systems and control.

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ical system & control

Resource
Persons:

The workshop featured a set of illustrious speakers,

each of whom has made fundamental contributions to
the field of Systems and Control. The talks ranged
between overviews and technically involved material,
with each speaker presented his/her perspective on the
subject. Amongst others, the topics of the talks
included pattern generation and nonlinear control,
geometry of collective control and dynamics, numerical
issues in nonlinear control, control of mechanical
systems.

Roger W. Brockett
,Harvard School of
Engineering and
Applied Sciences
D. E. Chang, University
of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. A. J. Krener, UC
DAVIS University of
California
Prof. P. S.
Krishnaprasad,
Department of electrical
and computer science,
University of Maryland
Prof. Tudor Ratiu,
Geometrical Analysis
EPFL, Switzerland
Prof. W. Respondek,
INSA de Rouen, France.
Mr. Sanjay P. Bhat,
Senior Consultant,
Advanced Technology
Center, TCS Hyderabad
Ramaprakash Bayadi,
National Aerospace
Laboratories, Bangalore
M. V. Dhekane, Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre,
Thiruvananthapuram
Prof. Harish K. Pillai,
Department of
Electrical Engg., IIT
Bombay
Amitabh Saraf

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25 Yars of Passivity Based

Control
19 May 2014 to 23 May 2014

Objectives:
To revisit the journey of passivity based control philosophy.
To explore new and challenging avenues like smart grid, micro grid, multiagent systems and cyber-physical systems in the passivity framework.

Details:
As a part of various TEQIP activities through Centre of Excellence (CoE) in
Complex & Non Linear Dynamical Systems (CNDS), one week workshop
on "25 Years of Passivity based Control: New Vistas" was organised. The
propsosed workshop was jointly organized with the HYCON (Highly
Complex and Networked Control Systems-Established through European
Union funding ) and European Embedded Control Institute (EECI).
Following are main oblectives of workshop.
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From Left: Dr. Ramkrishna Pasumarthy,IIT Madras; Dr. Viswanath Talasila, MSRIT,
Banglore, Dr. Arun D. Mahindrakar, IIT Madras; Dr Alexander Fradkov, Head, Control of
Complex System Lab, St. Petersburg University, Russia; Dr Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue,
Head HYCON & EECI; Prof. Romeo Ortega, Director of research CNRS; Prof. Dimitri Jeltsema,
Delft center for systems and control;Dr. Mark W. Spong, Dean, School of Engg &

Computer Sciences, University of Texas, D ll USA; Vijay M. IITM & Dr.F.S.Kazi,

VJTI.

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Cyber Security Framework for

Smart Grid and Critical
Infrastructure
7 July 2014

Objectives:
To create awareness about cyber
security in smart grid and critical
infrastructure.
Aims to arrive at a framework/
questionnaire to evaluate
preparedness of Indian utilities to
face any cyber attack.

Resource Persons:
One day workshop on is scheduled to
decide on cyber security framework. The
workshop is jointly proposed by VJTI &
ISGF in collaboration with NCIIPC.

Mr Reji Kumar Pillai (President

ISGF)
Mr Sachin Burman (NCIIPC)
Mr M. Zaki (NCIIPC)
Mr Abraham Samson (L & T
Infotech)
Mr Subodh Belgi (ISGF)
Dr Shailendra Fuloria (ABB,
Bangalore)
Ms Pallavi Mhatre (L & T,
Automation)
Mr Hem Thukral (ISGF)

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Smart Grid- Perspectives in

Cyber Security
13 to 17 July, 2014

Objectives:
Upgradation of subject knowledge and research
competence in the area of Smart Grid and critical
infrastructure security.
Establish industrial linkages & cooperative partnership.
Awareness of the advances in knowledge, technologies
and research methodologies employed in the industry in
the thematic area.
Create a critical mass with potential for global research
and development.

Resource Persons:
One week workshop on "Smart
Grid- Perspectives in Cyber
Security" was conducted jointly by
VJTI and ISGF in technical
collaboration with C-DAC. Hands-on
sessions were conducted at C-DAC
Mumbai Centre for understanding
communication protocols like DNP
3, RTU/MTU communication and
security vulnerabilities. Following
were the main objectives of the
workshop.

Mr P. Pentayya General Manager, WRLDC, PGCIL,

Mumbai
Mr V. L Sonavane, Maharashtra Electricity
Regulatory Commission (MERC)
Mr. Aseem Mukhi, DSCI, NASSCOM
Dr Umesh Vaidya (IOWA State University, USA)
Dr Madhu Belur, IIT Bombay
Dr. Prashant Navalkar, General Manager, Power
Business Unit, TCE
Mr. Aseem Mukhi, DSCI, NASSCOM
Mr. BindhuMadhava, AD, C-DAC Bangalore
Dr Zia Saquib, Excecutive Director, C-DAC
Dr. Rominus Valsalam, AD, C-DAC Trivendrum
Dr. Shailendra Fuloria, Manager, Smart Grid &
Cyber Security, ABB Bangalore
Dr Amit Kalele, TCS, Pune

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Faculty & Research Scholar

Interaction Program on
Bifurcation
10 November 2014

As a part of various TEQIP

activities through Centre of
Excellence (CoE) in Complex &
Non Linear Dynamical Systems
(CNDS)," Faculty & Research
Scholar Interaction Program on
Bifurcation" was organised.
Main objectives of workshop
was as follows.

Objectives:
Create critical mass working in the area of Flight
Dynamics, Non-linear Systems, Bifurcation methods.
To provide platform for exchanging ideas and recent trends
of area of control of Nonlinear Systems

Resource Persons:
Dr.AnathKrishana, Director IDeA

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Achivements of CoE-CNDS
Patent:
One patent filed in the CoE thematic area of Plasma Dynamics by CoE team member Dr.
Dattatray Wavhal.
Title Covalently Functionalized Particles for Synthesis of New Composite Materials,
Submitted to United States Patent Application:20140011955 on January 9, 2014.

Commercialization outcomes:
i. Proof of concept of 4 research projects in collaboration with L&T have been approved
ii. 2 M.Tech students are selected for internship in L&T
iii. 1 M.Tech student is selected for internship in customised energy solutions
iv. One student was selected for internship in customised energy solutions and is now
offered position as regular employee
v. One student was selected for internship in L&T and is now offered position as regular
employee

Achievement of expected research in

thematic area of CoE-CNDS
i. 6 papers are published in various reputed journals
ii. 25 papers were published in international conferences
iii. 19 papers are submitted in various international journals and conferences

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Publica
Transactions/Journals
>>Alejandro Donaire, Rachit Mehra, Romeo Ortega, Sumeet Satpute, Jose Guadalupe Romero, Faruk
Kazi, N. M. Singh Shaping the Energy of Mechanical Systems Without Solving Partial Differential
Equations, IEEE Transaction on Automatic Control.
>>Gupta, S.; Kambli, R.; Wagh, S.; Kazi, F., "Support-Vector-Machine-Based Proactive Cascade
Prediction in Smart Grid Using Probabilistic Framework, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
vol.62, no.4, pp.2478,2486.
>>Sachin Umberkar, H. A. Mangalvedekar, Analysis of Half TEM Type Horn Antenna for High Power
Impulse Radiation Application, accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Plasma Science 2014
>>Saxena, A.; Singh, N.M.; Shambharkar, K.Y.; Kazi, F., "Modeling of Reflex Triode Virtual Cathode
Oscillator, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol.42, no.6, pp.1509,1514, June 2014.
>>Ayush Saxena, Raju Barakade, Navdeep M. Singh and Ankur Patel Comparative analysis of radial
and axial power output in relativistic magnetron and effect of dielectric side-walls introduced in the
resonator on dominant operating mode, International Journal of Microwave and Wireless
Technologies, 6, pp 645-651. doi:10.1017/S1759078714000269.
>>Dileep Kumar, S.K. Mahajan, H.A. Mangalvedekar, "Nano Nickel Catalytic Dehydrogenation of
Ammonia Borane", Springer Journal of Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Volume 2,
December 2013, pp. 1-7.
>>Deshpande A., Puranik B.: Effect of viscosity and wall heat conduction on shock attenuation in
narrow channels. Shock Waves, DOI 10.1007/s00193-015-0556-5 (2015)
>>Subramnian Sharanya, Swain P.K., Deshpande A.V., Satyamurthy P., Effect of Hartmann layer
resolution for MHD flow in a straight, conducting duct at high Hartmann numbers. Sadhana, DOI
10.1007/s12046-015-0350-1 9 (2015)
>>Swain P.K., Satyamurthy P., Bhattacharyay R., Patel A., Shishko A., Platacis E., Ziks A., Ivanov S.,
Deshpande A.V., 3D MHD leadlithium liquid metal flow analysis and experiments in a Test-Section of
multiple rectangular bends at moderate to high Hartmann numbers, Fusion Engineering and Design,
Volume 88, Issue 11,November 2013, PP 28482859

Publications (Conferences)
2015
>>V. Rampurkar, H.A.Mangalvedekar, F.S.Kazi, P.Pentayya, Synchrophasor based validation of
Power System Stabilizer, IYCE 2015 5th International Youth Conference on Energy, Pisa, Italy.
>>Alejandro Donaire, Rachit Mehra, Romeo Ortega, Sumeet Satpute, Jose Guadalupe Romero, Faruk
Kazi, N. M. Singh Shaping the Energy of Mechanical Systems Without Solving Partial Differential
Equations, American Control Conference.
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>>Sudha Gupta, Faruk Kazi, Sushama Wagh, Ruta Kambli, Neural Network based Early Warning
System for an Emerging Blackout in Smart Grid Power Networks, Intelligent Distributed Computing,
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2015, pp 173-183
>>Manas Mejari, Faruk Kazi and Navdeep M Singh Absolute Stability of Fuel Cell-Super Capacitor
Hybrid Power Source using Lure Lyapunov Formulation for Load Variations, International Confernce
on Industrial Instrumentation and Control 2015.
>>Sneha Mane, Faruk Kazi and Dr. Navdeep Singh, Fuel Cell and Ultra-Capacitor Based Hybrid
Energy Control Using IDA-PBC Methodology, International Confernce on Industrial Instrumentation
and Control 2015.
>>Dhiraj Arun Patil, Manish Y. Upadhye, F. S. Kazi, N. M. Singh, "Multi Robot Communication And
Target Tracking System With Controller Design And Implementation Of SWARM Robot Using Arduino",
International Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC 2015).
>>Pushpak Jagtap, Pranoti Raut, G. N. Pillai, N. M. Singh, F. S. Kazi, "Extreme-ANFIS: A Novel
Learning Approach for Inverse Model Control of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, IEEE International
Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control, Pune, May 2015.
>>Mulla, A.Y.; Yerunkar, A.; "Convergence of Wireless Sensor Network with Smart Grid Environment
Based on IPv6 Protocol", International Conference on Communication System and Network
Technologies (CSNT) 2015, vol., no., 4-6 April, 2015.
>>Sriniva Doddi, Rahul G. Mixed potential Function For the class of memristive circuit, International
Conference on Industrial Instrumentation and Control (ICIC 2015).
>>S.M. Mane, R.A. Kambli, F.S. Kazi, N.M. Singh "Hand Motion Recognition From Single Channel
Surface EMG Using Wavelet & Artificial Neural Network" Procedia
Computer Science, ICAC3 2015

2014
>>Sumeet Satpute, Rachit Mehra, Faruk Kazi and N. M. Singh "Geometric -PBC Approach for Control
of Circular Ball and Beam System", 21th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of
Networks and Systems (MTNS 2014), Netherland.
>>S Khushu, F Kazi ; "Multi-output radial basis function interpolation of saturated steam table for full
scope simulator design, Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2014 Seventh International Conference pp595 to 600 ISSN no-978-1-4799-5172-7.
>>M Datar, V Ketkar, M Mejari, A Gupta, N Singh, F Kazi; "Motion Planning for the Three Wheel Mobile
Robot Using the Reachable Set Computation under Constraints, Advances in Control and
Optimization of Dynamical Systems, Vol-3 pp-787 to 793. Systems; pp-593 to 598
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>>Mejari, A Gupta, V Ketkar, M Datar, N Singh, F Kazi; "Stabilization of 2-D Spider Crane with Non
Convex State Constraints Using MPCM, Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems;
pp-593 to 598.
>>Dagur D. ;Parimi, M. ; Wagh, S.R.; "Prediction of Cascade Failure Using Probabilistic Approach with
AC Load Flow , Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia), 2014 IEEE pp-542 to 547.
>>S.R.Gupta, FS Kazi, SR Wagh, NM Singh; "Probabilistic framework for evaluation of smart grid
resilience of cascade failure, Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-Asia (ISGT Asia), 2014 pp- 255 to
260.
>>Bajaria, Pratik; Pandey, Abhishek; Yerudkar, Amol; Kazi, Faruk; Singh, N.M., "LMI based loop
shaping control of biological circuits, Control and Automation (MED), 2014 22nd Mediterranean
Conference of , vol., no., pp.1267,1272, 16-19 June 2014.
>>Umbarkar, S.B.; Bindu, S.; Mangalvedekar, H.A.; Saxena, A.; Singh, N.M.; Sharma, A.; Saroj, P.C.;
Mittal, K.C., "Particle in cell simulation of peaking switch for breakdown evaluation, Discharges and
Electrical Insulation in Vacuum (ISDEIV), 2014 International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.297,300,
Sept. 28 2014-Oct. 3 2014.
>>Rachit Mehra, Venkatesh Chinde, Navdeep Singh, Faruk Kazi "Feedback linearization of Single Input
and Multi-Input Control System, 19th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic
Control (IFAC 2014), Cape Town, South Africa.
>>Rachit Mehra, Sumeet Satpute, Faruk Kazi, and N.M.Singh "Geometric-PBC based Control of 4 DOF
Underactuated Overhead Crane System, 21th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of
Networks and Systems (MTNS 2014), Netherland.
>>Mulla, A.Y.; Baviskar, J.J.; Kazi, F.S.; Wagh, S.R., "Implementation of ZigBee/802.15.4 in Smart Grid
communication and analysis of power consumption: A case study, India Conference (INDICON), 2014
Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.1,7, 11-13 Dec. 2014.

2013
>>V. Rampurkar, F. Kazi, H. Mangalvedekar, P. Pentayya, C. Kumar, "PMU based identification of low
frequency oscillations - A case study, in Innovative Smart Grid Technologies-Asia (ISGT Asia) 2013,
pp-1 to 5.
>>A Kulkarni, F Kazi, N Singh, "Multiagent synchronization under delay in position and velocity with
application to formation control", in Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI)
2013, pp-1981 to 1986.
>>I Wasnik, R Sawlekar, F Kazi, N Singh ; "Dual quaternion applications to bioinformatics for
kinematical analysis of Protein Backbone", in Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
(ICACCI), 2013 International conference 2013, pp-2043 to 2048.
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>>JK Philip, F Kazi, H Mangalvedekar; "Mathematical Modeling of Steam-Water-Vapor-Space with

Mfact-Vfact Approach Using Combined Steam Properties, in Modelling Symposium (AMS), 2013 7th
Asia 2013, pp-252 to 257.
>>M Mejari, A Gupta, NM Singh, F Kazi; "Trajectory Tracking of Quadrotor with Bounded Thrust using
Model Predictive Control", in Proceedings of Conference on Advances In Robotics 2013, pp-1 to 6.
>>A.S. Deshpande, A. Saxena, S.B. Umbarkar, H.A. Mangalvedekar, F.S. Kazi, N.M. Singh, A.N.
Cheeran; "Electrodynamic analysis and characterisation of void discharge using particle in cell code,
in Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) 2013 19th IEEE, pp-1 to 6.>>R Mehra, V Patel, F Kazi, NM Singh,
SR Wagh; "Modes preserving wavelet based multi-scale PCA algorithm for compression of smart grid
data", in Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), 2013, pp-817 to 821.

Publications (Submi ed)

>>Waghmare S., Kazi F., and Singh N., Data Driven Approach to Attack Detection In a Substation
Automation System of a Smart Grid, IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, 2015.
>>Waghmare S., Kazi F. ,Singh N. and Pasumarthy R., "A data analytics based intrusion detection
system for smart grid cyber security, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics 2015.
>>Pushpak Jagtap, A. Deshpande, N. M. Singh, Faruk Kazi, Arun D. Mahindrakar, "Complex Laplacian
based Cascade Formulation for Formation Control of Large Multiagent Network with Control Input
Constraints, IEEE transaction on Industrial Electronics.
>>V. Rampurkar, H.A.Mangalvedekar, F.S.Kazi, P.Pentayya, Prony Based Soft Computing Tools for
Fault Location in Smart Grid, International Journal for Electrical Power & Energy Systems.
>>V. Rampurkar, H.A.Mangalvedekar, F.S.Kazi, P.Pentayya, Synchrophasor based Fault Diagnosis of
Indian Power Grid Blackout and Cascade Failure: A Signal Processing Viewpoint, International
Journal for Electrical Power & Energy Systems.
>>Vaishali Rampurkar, P.Pentayya H.A.Mangalvedekar,F.S. Kazi, Analysis of Indian Grid Blackout,
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery.
>>Vaishali Rampurkar, P.Pentayya H.A.Mangalvedekar,F.S. Kazi ,Bifurcation study for Indian power
grid, Special Issue on :Theory of Complex Systems with Applications to Smart Grid Operations.
>>Yogesh Ankurkar, Navdeep M. Singh, Faruk Kazi, "Securing Smart Grid by Identifying & Protecting
Sensitive Links via Anomaly Detection", IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, 2015.
>>P Dey, M Parimi, S R Wagh, and N M Singh, Real-time Model Formation for the Prediction of
Cascade Propagation using Branching Process, Special Issue on IEEE Transaction on Power
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>>M Parimi, P Dey, S Kulkarni, B Gupta, S R Wagh, and N M Singh, Estimation of State variables
Triggering cascade in Real-time : A Preventive Approach , IEEE Transaction on Power delivery.
>>Priyanka Dey, Rachit Mehra, Faruk Kazi, Sushama Wagh, and N M Singh, Impact of Topology on
the Propagation of Cascade Failure in Power Grid, Special Issue on IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid.
>>M Parimi, S Kulkarni, S R Wagh Real-time Control Coordination of FACTS Devices for Transient
Stability Enhancement using PMU, in Special issue on IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
>>S Kulkarni, M Parimi , S R Wagh Real-time Controller Coordination of FACTS Devices for Transient
Stability Enhancement, in Special issue on IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
>>R. Meshram, V. Pagrut, B. Gupta, S. R. Wagh, N. M. Singh, Synchronous Generator Internal State
Variable Estimation using External Measurements for Smart Grid Operation, IEEE Transaction on
Smart Grid 2015.
>>S. Kotpalliwar, S. Satpute, R. Meshram, N. Pande, S. Wagh, Stability of Inverter Based Microgrid
with Input Delay: Lur'e System and LMI Approach, IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 2015.
>>B.Gupta, Kazi F.,S.R. Wagh, Singh N DSP-FPGA Based Control of Inverters for Micro Grid &
Industrial Drives, IEEE Transaction on Smart Grid 2015.
>>S.N. Meshram, R.V.Meshram, S.S. Kotpalliwar "Harmonic balance method for prediction of chaos in
DC-DC buck converter", IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Special Issue on Frontiers of Power
System Protection2015.
>>Pushpak Jagtap, A. Deshpande, N. M. Singh, Faruk Kazi,"Complex Laplacian based Algorithm for
Output Synchronization of Multi-agent Systems using Internal Model Principle," submitted to IEEE
Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC-2015), Sydney, Australia
>>Sneha Mane, Pushpak Jagtap, Faruk Kazi, N. M. Singh, "Model Predictive Control of Complex
Switched Mode FC-UC Hybrid Structure," submitted to Indian Control Conference 2016.

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Members of CoE-CNDS
Center of Excellence (CoE) in "Complex and Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (CNDS)" group has 10
core faculty members and about 5 Research Fellows having diverse research backgrounds working
together to contribute effeciently towards the researching society. The average doctoral strength is
around 10-15 scholars working full time/part time towards their PhD in the relevant areas of CoE
CNDS. The group has a keen focus in the research domains ranging from power grid to smart grid
modeled as cyber-physical system (CPS), nonlinear dynamics & transient stability of electrical
pulse power & plasma systems, hybrid energy management systems for clean renewable energy &
nonlinear vibration analysis.

Faculty

Dr. Faruk A. S. Kazi

(PI & Coordinator, CoE-CNDS),
Professor, Department of Electronics
Engineering,VJTI.

Dr. N. M. Singh
(PI & Coordinator, CoE-CNDS),
Professor, Department of Electronics
Engineering,VJTI.

Dr. R. N. Awale
(TEQIP II Co-ordinator),
Professor & HOD of

Dr. H. A. Mangalvedhekar
Professor, Department of Electrical
Engineering

Electrical,Electronics, Electronics &

Telecommunication,VJTI.

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Dr. Sushama Wagh

Asst. Professor, Department of Electrical
Engineering,VJTI.

Dr. A. N. Bambole
Professor, Department of Structural
Engineering ,VJTI.

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Dr. K. K. Sangle
Professor & HOD, Department of
Strutural Engineering, VJTI.

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Dr. D. S. Wavhal
Professor & HOD, Department of
Physics Engineering,VJTI.

Prof. A. V. Deshpande
Asst. Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, VJTI.

Dr. V. M. Phalle
Associate. Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, VJTI.

PhD Scholars

Sneha Mane

Aniket Deshpande

Madhavi Paremi

Sangram Patil

Prashant Bhopale

Research Engineers

Sushant W. Bahadure
Senior Research Fellow
(SRF)

Ruta Ashok Kambli

Senior Research Fellow
(SRF)

Pushpak Jagtap
Senior Research Fellow
(SRF)

Pranoti Naresh Raut

Junior Research Fellow
(JRF)

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Yogesh Kailas Ankurkar

Senior Research Fellow
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