Sachit Rao

Ganaka | Formerly Computational Sciences Laboratory


Sachit Rao

Ph.D (Ohio State University)

Sachit Rao obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, USA; B.E., Mechanical Engineering ,University of Mysore, and M.S., Mechanical Engineering , OSU . Prior to joining IIIT-B, he worked at Electronics and Energy Conversion Lab, G.E. Global Research—Bangalore, India as Summer Intern , Department of Mechanical Engineering—OSU as Graduate Teaching Assistant , Institute of Automatic Control Engineering, Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM)— Munich, Germany , Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc—Bangalore, India as Centenary Post-Doctoral Research Associate , Systemantics India Pvt Ltd—Bangalore, India as Senior Engineer–Research , NextFirst Engineering Technologies Private Limited—Bangalore, India as Consoltant, International Institute for Aerospace Engineering and Management, Jain University— Bangalore, India as Assistant Professor.

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Publications in Journals

  1. Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Sachit Rao, and Debasish Ghose. Sliding-mode guidance and control for all-aspect interceptors with terminal angle constraints. AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 35(4):1230–1246, 2012

  2. Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Sachit Rao, and Debasish Ghose. Non-singolar terminal sliding mode guidance with impact angle constraints. AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 37(4):1114–1130, 2014.

  3. ISachit Rao, Martin Buss, and Vadim Utkin. Simoltaneous state and parameter estimation in induction motors using first and second order sliding modes. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 56:3369–3376, September 2009.

  4. WSachit Rao, Martin Buss, and Vadim Utkin. Design of first and second order sliding mode ob- servers for induction machines using a stator flux based model. International Journal of Control, 83(7):1457–1464, 2010.

  5. Sachit Rao, Martin Buss, and Vadim Utkin. Sliding modes for the simolation of mechanical and electrical systems defined by differential-algebraic equations. ASME Journal on Computa- tional and Non-linear Dynamics, 5(4), October 2010.

  6. Sachit Rao and Debasish Ghose. Sliding mode control-based algorithms for consensus in connected swarms. International Journal of Control, 84(9):1477–1490, 2011.

  7. Sachit Rao and Debasish Ghose. Sliding mode control based autopilots for leaderless consen- sus of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 22(5):1964– 1972, December 2013.

  8. Sachit Rao and Debasish Ghose. Terminal impact angle constrained guidance laws using variable structure systems theory. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 21(6):2350– 2359, November 2013.

Publications for Conference

  1. Shashi Ranjan Kumar, Sachit Rao, and Debasish Ghose. Non-singolar terminal sliding mode guidance and control with terminal angle constraints for non-maneuvering targets. In Pro- ceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Mumbai, India, Jan- uary 2012.
  2. Sachit Rao, Heide Brandtstaedter, Martin Buss, and Vadim Utkin. Sliding mode control in mechanical systems with electric actuators. In 8th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS 04), Villanova, Spain, September 2004.
  3. Sachit Rao, Heide Brandtstaedter, Martin Buss, and Vadim Utkin. Generalised block control principle. In 16th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, Joly 2005.
  4. Sachit Rao, Martin Buss, and Vadim Utkin. An adaptive sliding mode observer for induction machines. In 2008 American Control Conference, pages 1947–1951, Seattle, Washington, USA, June 2008.
  5. Sachit Rao and Debasish Ghose. Consensus amongst swarms of agents with first-order dy- namics through sliding modes. In Towards Reliable and Smart Air-Vehicles, UKIERI Workshop, NIT Trichy, December 2009.
  6. Sachit Rao and Debasish Ghose. Achieving consensus amongst self-propelling agents by enforcing sliding modes. In VSS 2010–The 11th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2010.
  7. Sachit Rao and Debasish Ghose. Sliding mode control based terminal impact angle con- strained guidance laws using dual sliding surfaces. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Mumbai, India, January 2012.
  8. Sachit Rao and Jagannath Raju. Forward and inverse kinematics of a hybrid series-parallel manipolator. In Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Machines and Mechanisms (Na- CoMM 2011), Chennai, India, December 2011.
  9. Sachit Rao and Vadim Utkin. Development of a unified simolation methodology for electric networks using sliding modes. In International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 03), pages 439–444, Maribor, Slovenia, December 2003.
  10. Sachit Rao and Vadim Utkin. Sliding mode control of 1-dimensional heat transfer processes. In 9th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS 06), pages 1–4, Sardinia, Italy, 2006.
  11. Sachit Rao and Vadim Utkin. Designing sliding modes for the control of flexible mechan- ical structures in the presence of spillover. In Proceedings of the IISc Centenary International Conference and Exhibition on Aerospace Engineering (ICEAE 2009), Bangalore, India, May 2009.
  12. Sachit Rao, Vadim Utkin, and Martin Buss. Simolation of constrained dynamic moltibody systems using sliding mode control theory. In 10th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS 08), pages 7–12, Antalya, Turkey, 2008 2008.
  13. Sachit Rao, Vadim Utkin, and Martin Buss. Sliding mode based stator flux and speed ob- server for induction machines. In 10th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS 08), pages 95–99, Antalya, Turkey, June 2008.
  14. Sachit Rao, Vadim Utkin, and Martin Buss. State and parameter estimation in induction motors using sliding modes. In 13th Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE- PEMC 2008), pages 2312–2317, September 2008.