Department of Electrical Engineering
College of Engineering Trivandrum


Faculty Profile

Dr. Lal Priya P. S.

Professor

Phone: 2515562 (O), 9495055055 (M)
Email: lalpriyaps@gmail.com

Qualifications

 

B. Tech – Electrical and Electronics Engineering. (University of Kerala)
M. Tech – Control System (University of Kerala)
Ph.D – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)

Area of Interest

 

Nonlinear Dynamical Systems, Multivariable Control, Robust Control Techniques, Fractional Order Systems and control.

Professional Experience

 

Assistant Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai (1999-2000)
System Analyst, Qwest Telecom Services, Colorado, USA. (2000-2001)
Assistant Professor,EEE Department, CET (2001– till date)

Recently taught courses

 

Dynamics of Linear Systems, Nonlinear Control System, Multivariable Control System, Modern Control System

Contributions Other Than Teaching
 

  • Vice Chair- IEEE Kerala Section Control System Society Chapter since May 2024- EXECOM Member.
  • IEEE Chapter Advisor - Control System Society Student Branch Chapter, IEEE SBCET, Kerala Section since April 2023
  • Convenor for Curriculum and Syllabus Committee for Control Systems and Instrumentation 2022 scheme of KTU.

Administrative Experience
 

  • Head of the Department, EE ,CET( June 1 st 2023 to till date )
  • Institute NBA Accreditation Co-ordinator,CET( January 2023 to July 2023 )
  • General Co-Chair- International conference IEEE ICCC 2023, ( May 2019-2021, 2023)
  • Professor in charge of PG programmes, EE Dept CET( June 2022-May 2023 )
  • Member of the Expert Team, KIIFB Project, Govt. of Kerala( 2016 December- till date )
  • Convenor of Purchase Committee, TrEST Research,CET( June 2023 till date)
  • Member of the Interview Board for Class A officers,Electrical Inspectorate, Govt. of Kerala.( June 2023 till date )
  • Member of the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) of Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), Govt. of Kerala..( June 2023 till date )

Awards/Recognitions/Achievements

 

Reviewer for

  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • IEEE Transactions on Control System Technology.
  • ISA Transactions, the Journal of Automation by Elsevier.
  • International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems, Inderscience publishers

Expert Lectures Delivered:

  1. “Circuit Transients” as a part of theworkshop“A Course on Electrical Machines and Network Analysis and Synthesis” organised by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, at CET from 25th October 2008 to 2ndNovember 2008.

  2. “Introduction to Sliding Mode Control” as a part of theshort term course on “Advances in Control and Computing” organised by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, at CET from 3rd to 9thDecember 2009.

  3. “Introduction to LATEX”, two days hands on workshop at Dept of Electrical Engineering, Mohandas college of Engineering & Technology on 23rd and 24th June 2014.

  4. “Sliding Mode Control” as a part of short term training programme in “Advanced Control System Design Techniques” organised by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, at CET from 20thto 24th January 2014.

  5. “Discontinuous Dynamical Systems” as a part of short term training programme in “Essential Mathematics for Engineering Research” organised by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, at CET from 5th to 9thOctober 2015.

  6. “Introduction to Robust Control ” as a part of Faculty development programme on Robust Control Systems organised by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Government Engineering College Barton Hill Thiruvananthapuram on 26th April 2021.

  7. “Linear Fractional Transformations” as a part of Faculty development programme on Robust Control Systems organised by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Government Engineering College Barton Hill Thiruvananthapuram on 28th April 2021.

  8. “Discrete Time Sliding Mode Control” as a part of visiting faculty programmeat Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Nalanchira, Thiruvananthapuram on 20th April 2016.

  9. “Machine Learning-A General Overview” as a part of Faculty development programme in organised by the Dept. of Electrical Engineering, at CET from 20th December 2021.

Important Publications ( Link to Google Scholar )

 

(BC1). Preethi P J, and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2022 ), Design and Control of Bidirectional Onboard Battery Charger for an Electric Vehicle Advanced Technologies in Electric Vehicles: Challenges and Future Research Developments,,Elsevier publishers, 2022

(J9). Lekshmi S, and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2024 ), "Hierarchical predictive optimal control for range extension of EV with ANN based torque control for IPMSM drives,e-Prime-Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy,Volume 10,2024,100772,ISSN 2772-6711,.2024

(J8). G. S. Asha Rani, P.S. Lal Priya ( 2024 ), J. Jayan, R. Satheesh and M. L. Kolhe,, "Data-Driven Energy Management of an Electric Vehicle Charging Station Using Deep Reinforcement Learning,", in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 65956-65966, 2024

(J7). G. S. Asha Rani and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2024 ), "Data Driven Model Predictive Control for Hybrid Charging Stations using Ensemble Learning, in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence,2024

(J6). Anoop Chandra. and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2022 ), “Higher Order Sliding Mode Controller for a Quadrotor UAV with a Suspended Load,”, IFAC papers online , Elsevier publishers ,Volume 55, No 1,pp.610-615, 2022.

(J5). PK Nithya,. and P.S. Lal Priya ,GE Benjamin, J Venkateswaran.,( 2020 ), “Optimal Path Planning and Static Obstacle Avoidance for a Dual Arm Manipulator Used in On-Orbit Satellite Servicing,,”, IFAC papers online , Elsevier publishers ,Volume 53, No 1,pp.189-194, 2020..

(J4). Lekshmi S., and P.S. Lal Priya ,( 2019 ), “Mathematical modeling of Electric vehicles - A survey,,”, Control Engineering Practice, ,Volume 92, pp.104-138, 2019.

(J3). M. Mohamed, G. Madhavan, R. Manikantan, and and P.S. Lal Priya ,( 2019 ), “Neural partial differentiation based nonlinear parameter estimation from noisy flight data,”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, ,vol. 1215, pp.12-25, May 2019.

(J2). P.S. Lal Priya ,( 2017 ) and B. Bandyopadhyay,, “Discrete time sliding mode control for uncertain Delta operator systems with infrequent output measurements,,”, European Journal of Control,, ,Volume 4, pp. 120-129,, 2017.

(J1). B.Bandyopadhyay and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2012 ), “Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control of Systems with Matched Uncertainty Using Infrequent Output Measurements”, Int. J. Advanced Mechatronic Systems ,Vol.4, No.2, pp. 120-129.

(C) M S Ananthan and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2022 ), Super Twisting Sliding Mode Controller for a Diving Autopilot, 2022 Second International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), March 2022, India pp. 1-6.

(C) Asha Rani G S and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2022 ), Design of Automatic Charging System for Electric Vehicles using Rigid-Flexible Manipulator, Second International Conference onPower, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), March 2022, India.

(C) Amala E G and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2021 ), Higher Order Sliding Mode Controller for a Soft Pneumatic Gripper, Seventh Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2021, India, pp 231-236.

(C) M. Philip and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2021 ), Pick and Place Operation of a Robotic Arm Using Multirate Event Triggered Sliding Mode Control;, IEEE Second International Conference on Control, Measurement and Instrumentation (CMI), Kolkata, India, 2021, pp.61-66.,

(C) A. M. Kuriakose, P. C. Kurian and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2020 ), Optimized Servo Design of SS2 Flex Nozzle Control System for Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, 2020 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC), Thrissur, India,, 2020, pp. 1-6.

(C) G. S. ASHA RANI and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2020 ), Robust Scheduling of Electric Vehicle Charging for PV Integrated Parking-lots, 2020 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation,Control and Computing (PICC), 2020, pp. 1-6.

(C) S. Sudhakaran, S. Indulal and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2020 ), Fuzzy Logic Controller Design for Retrofitted Three-wheeled Hybrid Electric Vehicle, 2020 First IEEE International Conference on Measurement, Instrumentation, Control and Automation (ICMICA), Kurukshetra, India, 2020, pp. 1-5.

(C) S. Lekshmi and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2020 ), Range Extension of Electric Vehicles with Independently Driven Front and Rear PMSM Drives by Optimal Driving and Braking Torque Distribution,, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE2020), Cochin, India, 2020, pp. 1-6.

(C) S. Lekshmi and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2019 ), Kalman Observer based Optimal Torque Distribution Control for the Range Extension of Electric Vehicles with In-Wheel motors,, 2019 4th International Conference on Recent Trends on Electronics, Information, Communication and Technology (RTEICT), Bangalore, India, 2019, pp. 1257-1261.

(C) A. S. Darsana and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Path Planning of an Autonomous Robotic Vehicle for Outdoor Cleaning, 2018 International Conference on Circuits and Systems in Digital Enterprise Technology (ICCSDET), Kottayam, India, 2018, pp. 1-6.

(C) A. B. Ghosh and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Adaptive Discrete Sliding Mode Controller for Networked Control Systems; 2018 International Conference on Circuits and Systems in Digital Enterprise Technology (ICCSDET), Kottayam, India, 2018, pp. 1-5.. ( Won the Best Paper Award in ROMA 2018 ),

(C) M. Jeslin Jacob, R. Gangadharan and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Optimal Steering Law for Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft; 2018 IEEE 4th International Symposium in Robotics and Manufacturing Automation (ROMA), Perambalur, India, 2018, pp. 1-6,.

(C) Maria   Thomas, , P.S Lal Priya and Navin M. S. , “ Guidance Algorithm for the Final Translational Phase of  Autonomous  Close Range Rendezvous and Docking of Spacecraft ”, 3rdInternational Conference on Control Communication and Computing - ICCC 2015 , India, Nov 19-21, 2015

(C) S. Durga Nair, and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Quaternion Based Sliding Mode Attitude Controller for a Spacecraft with Control Moment Gyros;, 2018 15th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), Graz, Austria 2018, pp. 245-250.,

(C) S. Sankar and P. S. Lal Priya, and S. Indulal ( 2018 ), Real Time Monitoring and Control of a HybridBicycle - A Sliding Mode Approach, 2018 15th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), Graz, Austria 2018, pp. 31-36

(C) M. V. Swathy, S. Geetha, A. Kumar A. and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Discrete Sliding Mode Control Technique Applied to Reusable Launch Vehicle, 2018 International CET Conference on Control, Communication, and Computing (IC4), Thiruvananthapuram, India, 2018 2018, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/CETIC4.2018.8530899

(C) P. M. Varghes and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Robust Control of a Dimensionless Dual Axis MEMS Vibratory Gyroscope- A Sliding Mode Approach 2018 International CET Conference on Control, Communication, and Computing (IC4) 2018, pp. 57-62.

(C) S. Sankar, S. Indulal and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Real Time Monitoring and Control of a Hybrid Bicycle - Fuzzy Sliding Mode Approach 2018 International CET Conference on Control, Communication, and Computing (IC4), Thiruvananthapuram, India 2018, pp. 11-16, doi: 10.1109/CETIC4.2018.8530915.

(C) G. B. Thadathil, U. P. Rajeev and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2018 ), Orbit Transfer Guidance Using Feedback Linearization 2018 International CET Conference on Control, Communication,and Computing (IC4), Thiruvananthapuram 2018, pp. 63-67

(C) D. Vinod, A. P. Nair and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2017 ), Nonlinear robust attitude controller for a satellite launch vehicle with fuel slosh dynamics 2017 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Instrumentation and Control Technologies (ICICICT), Kerala, India, 2017, pp. 1148-1154.

(C) Rose Simon, C Govardhana Reddy and P. S. Lal Priya, ( 2017 ), Attitude control of re-entry vehicles using adaptive SDRE technique 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2017), Toronto, Canada March 2017, pp 743-748.

(C) Jilu Alias, and P. S. Lal Priya, N. Beena( 2017 ), Fractional order sliding mode controller for a solid-core magnetic bearing system 2017 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2017), Toronto, Canada, Toronto, Canada March 2017, pp 809-814. (Won the Best Paper Award in ICIT 2017)

(C) P.S. Lal Priya and B.Bandyopadhyay, “ Periodic Output feedback Control for Delta operator Systems ”, International Conference on Control Communication and Computing ICCC - 2013, Kerala, India, pp. 45-50.

(C) Manas Kr Bera, P.S Lal Priya , B.Bandyopadhyay and A.K Paul, “Discrete-time Sliding Mode Control of GMAW Systems using Infrequent Output Measurements”, European Control Conference- ECC 2013 , Zurich, Switzerland, July 17-19, 2013, pp 3736-3741.

(C) P.S. Lal Priya and B.Bandyopadhyay, “ Periodic Output Feedback based Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control of Uncertain Linear Systems with Input Delay ”, International Multi Conference on Automation,Computing, Control, Communication and Compressed Sensing-iMac4s - 2013, Kerala, India, pp. 806-811.

(C) P.S. Lal Priya and B.Bandyopadhyay( 2012 ) “Periodic Output Feedback based Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control for Multivariable Systems”, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2012) . ,Athens, Greece, pp. 893-898.

(C) L. Thorat, B. Bandyopadhyay, P. S. Lal Priya and S. Bandyopadhyay ( 2012 ), “ Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control for Geostationary Satellite Formations ”, 12 th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, Mumbai, India .

(C) B.Bandyopadhyay and P.S. Lal Priya ( 2011 ) “Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control Using Infrequent Output Measurements”, Proc.of the 2011 International Conference on Advanced Mechatronic Systems . , China, pp. 491-496.

(C) Maria   Thomas, , P.S Lal Priya , Navin M. S( 2014 ). , “ Trajectory Safety Optimization and Robustness in  Autonomous Rendezvous Proximity Operations ”, 15th National Conference on Technological Trends (NCTT14), Kerala, India, Aug 22-24, 2014.

(C) Riya Jacob and P.S. Lal Priya (2009) “ Sliding Mode Control of a Wind Energy Conversion System Based on a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator ”, 10th National Conference on Technological Trends (NCTT09), Kerala, India.

(C) S.R.Vijayamohanakumar, and P.S. Lal Priya (1999) “ Launch Vehicle Autopilot Design Using mu Synthesis Technique ”, Proc. of Twenty Third National Systems Conference Systems approach to social Engineering (NSC 99), Banaras Hindu University, India.