Abhisek K. Behera Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Roorkee 247667, Uttarakhand, India Office: Room 312, 2nd Floor, EED Lab: Room 304, 2nd Floor, EED Email: abhisek@ee.iitr.ac.in Tel(O): +91 1332 285129

• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, 2020–To date
• Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the University of Haifa, Israel, 2019–2020
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea, 2017–2019
• Research Associate, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2017

• Ph.D in Systems and Control Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 2017
• M.Tech in Power Control and Drives, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India, 2011
• B.Tech in Electrical Engineering, Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha, India, 2008

• sliding mode control and observation;
• sampled-data systems;
• networked control systems;
• cyber-physical systems;
• autonomous and multi-vehicle systems.

• Dr. Sushil Sharma New Faculty Fellowship, IIT Roorkee, 2020–2023
• Award for Excellence in Thesis Work, IIT Bombay, 2018

I am looking for students strongly inclined towards applied mathematics, control theory, and real-world control applications such as autonomous and multi-vehicle systems (knowledge of ROS, C/C++, and hands-on experience are preferred). If you find this an exciting opportunity and are highly motivated, please write to me with your CV. Also, follow the admission portal of IIT Roorkee for more information regarding the Ph.D program.

Ph.D

1. Nikita Sanjay Raut, 2019–To date
   (Jointly with Dr. Sohom Chakrabarty)
   Area: Sliding Mode-Based Secure Control Strategies for Cyber-Physical Systems
2. Ashutosh Kumar Singh, 2024–To date
   Area: Security of Cyber-Physical System

Ph.D

1. Saikat Mondal, 2019–2024
   Thesis: Event-Based State Estimation via Sliding Mode Observer
   Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Ecole Centrale De Nantes, France with Prof. Franck Plestan
   Previously a CV Raman Postdoctoral Fellow at IISc, Bengaluru, India with Dr. Kiran Kumari

M.Tech

1. Thet Paing Oo, 2020–2022
   Thesis: Multirate Output Regulation via Internal Model Principle
   Joined back the Naval Force in Myanmar
2. Nitin Kumar Singh, 2021–2023
   Thesis: Robust State Estimation via Twisting Observer
   Joined CNH Industrial in India

1. B. Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Behera, “Event-Triggered Sliding Mode Control–A New Approach to Control System Design,” Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, vol. 139, p. 149, 2018.

1. A. K. Behera, B. Bandyopadhyay, N. Xavier, and S. Kamal, “Event-triggered sliding mode control for robust stabilization of linear multivarible systems,” in Recent Advances in Sliding Modes: From Control to Intelligent Mechatronics, X. Yu and M. Ö. Efe, (Eds.), Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, vol. 24, pp. 155–175, 2015.
2. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Discrete event-triggered sliding mode control,” in Advances in Variable Structure Systems and Sliding Mode Control–Theory and Applications, S. Li, X. Yu, L. Fridman, Z. Man, and X. Wang, (Eds.), Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, vol. 115, pp. 289–304, 2018.
3. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Design of periodic event-triggered sliding mode control,” in Emerging Trends in Sliding Mode Control–Theory and Application, A. Mehta and B. Bandyopadhyay, (Eds.), Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer International Publishing, Singapore, vol. 318, pp. 161–180, 2021.
4. K. Kumari, A. K. Behera, B. Bandyopadhyay, and J. Reger, “A reduced-order model-based design of event-triggered sliding-mode control,” Sliding-Mode Control and Variable Structure Systems–The State of the Art, T. R. Oliveira, L. Fridman and L. Hsu, (Eds.), Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer International Publishing, Cham, Switzerland, vol. 490, pp. 417–435, 2023.

1. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Steady-state behaviour of discretized terminal sliding mode,” Automatica, vol. 54, pp. 176–181, Apr. 2015.
2. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Self-triggering-based sliding-mode control for linear systems,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 9, no. 17, pp. 2541–2547, 2015.
3. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Event-triggered sliding mode control for a class of nonlinear systems,” International Journal of Control, vol. 89, no. 9, pp. 1916–1931, 2016.
4. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Robust sliding mode control: an event-triggering approach,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II: Express Briefs, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 146–150, 2017.
5. P. R. Kumar, A. K. Behera, and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Robust finite-time tracking of Stewart platform: a super-twisting like observer-based forward kinematics solution,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 5, pp. 3776–3785, 2017.
6. A. K. Behera, A. Chalanga, and B. Bandyopadhyay, “A new geometric proof of super-twisting control with actuator saturation,” Automatica, vol. 87, pp. 437–441, Jan. 2018.
7. K. Kumari, A. K. Behera, and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Event-triggered sliding mode based tracking control for uncertain Euler-Lagrange systems,” IET Control Theory & Applications, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 1228–1235, 2018.
8. A. K. Behera, B. Bandyopadhyay, and X. Yu, “Periodic event-triggered sliding mode control,” Automatica, vol. 96, pp. 61–72, Oct. 2018.
9. A. K. Behera, A. Chalanga, and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Corrigendum to “A new geometric proof of super-twisting control with actuator saturation”,” Automatica, vol. 96, p. 398, Oct. 2018.
10. A. K. Behera and H. Shim, “Robust feedback stabilization using high-gain observer via event-triggering,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 2097–2112, 2020.
11. D. Khimani, M. Patil, B. Bandyopadhyay, and A. K. Behera, “Reduced-order sliding function design for a class of nonlinear systems,” Asian Journal of Control, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1437–1446, 2020.
12. K. Kumari, B. Bandyopadhyay, J. Reger, and A. K. Behera, “Event-triggered sliding mode control for a high-order system via reduced-order model based design,” Automatica, vol. 121, 109163, pp. 1–10, Nov. 2020.
13. A. K. Behera, B. Bandyopadhyay, M. Cucuzzella, A Ferrara, and X. Yu, “A survey on event-triggered sliding mode control,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 206–217, 2021.
14. A. Yesmin, A. K. Behera, M. K. Bera, and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Dynamic event-triggering based design of sliding mode control,” International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 5910–5925, 2021.
15. A. K. Behera, S. Mondal, and B. Bandyopadhyay, “A decoupled design of a robust sliding mode observer,” Automatica, vol. 148, 110799, pp. 1–5, Feb. 2023.
16. S. Mondal and A. K. Behera, “Robust global output feedback stabilization with sliding mode control: a separation principle approach,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 3235–3240, 2023.
17. N. K. Singh and A. K. Behera, “Robust state estimation via twisting observer,” Automatica, vol. 160, 111433, pp. 1–6, Feb. 2024.
18. S. Tripathi, A. Jain, and A. K. Behera, “A partially distributed fixed-time economic dispatch algorithm with Kron's modeled power transmission losses,” IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 498–509, 2024.
19. S. Mondal and A. K. Behera, “Practical state estimation with event-triggered sliding mode observer,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 2461–2468, 2024.

1. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Event based robust stabilization of linear systems,” In the Proceedings of 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Dallas, USA, pp. 133–138, Oct.-Nov. 2014.
2. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Event based sliding mode control with quantized measurement,” In the Proceedings of International Workshop on Recent Advances in Sliding Modes, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1–6, Apr. 2015.
3. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “Decentralized event-triggered sliding mode control,” In the Proceedings of 10th Asian Control Conference, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, pp. 1–5, May-Jun. 2015.
4. A. K. Behera, B. Bandyopadhyay, and J. Reger, “Discrete event-triggered sliding mode control with fast output sampling feedback,” In the Proceedings of 14th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Nanjing, China, pp. 148–153, Jun. 2016.
5. K. Kumari, B. Bandyopadhyay, A. K. Behera, and J. Reger, “Event-triggered sliding mode control for delta operator systems,” In the Proceedings of 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Florence, Italy, pp. 148–153, Oct. 2016.
6. A. K. Behera and B. Bandyopadhyay, “On stability of event-triggered systems with sliding mode control,” In the Proceedings of 15th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems , Graz, Austria, pp. 427–431, Jul. 2018.
7. K. Kumari, B. Bandyopadhyay, J. Reger, and A. K. Behera, “Event-triggered discrete-time sliding mode control for higher-order systems via reduced-order model approach,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 6207–6212, 2020. (In the Proceedings of 21st IFAC World Congress, Berlin, Germany, pp. 6207–6212, Jul. 2020.)
8. A. K. Behera, B. Bandyopadhyay, and S. K. Spurgeon, “Arbitrary pole placement with sliding mode control,” In the Proceedings of 16th International Workshop in Variable Structure Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp. 272–277, Sep. 2022.
9. S. Mondal and A. K. Behera, “Event-triggered fault reconstruction using sliding mode observer,” IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 96–101, 2023. (In the Proceedings of 12th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, Canberra, Australia, pp. 96–101, Jan. 2023.)