Email: beramk[at]nitrkl.ac.in| manas[at]ei.nits.ac.in | manas.bera[at]gmail.com
Date of Joining: 18/07/2016
Academic/Industrial Experience: 15+ years
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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- B. E. from the University of Burdwan, Burdwan
- M. E. from the Department of Electrical Engg., Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Ph.D. from IDP in Systems and Control Engineering (Syscon), IIT Bombay, Mumbai
EXPERIENCE
- Worked as Lecturer in the Department of Electronics & Communication Engg., Institute of Advanced Computer & Research, Rayagada, Orissa from July 27th, 2003 to June 26th, 2004.
- Worked as Lecturer in the Department of EIE, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, WB, from June 01st, 2006 to Aug. 11th, 2009.
- Worked as Senior Lecturer in the Department of EIE, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, WB, from Aug. 12th, 2009 to Oct. 10th, 2010.
- Worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of EIE, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, WB, from Oct. 11th, 2010 to July 12th, 2011.
- Worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of EIE, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, WB, from July 14th, 2014 to Jan 29th, 2016.
- Worked as a Professor in the Department of EIE, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, WB, from Jan 30th, 2016 to July 14th, 2016.
- Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-II (6000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from July 18th, 2016 to June 30th, 2018.
- Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-II (7000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from July 1st, 2018 to Nov 21st, 2019.
- Working as Assistant Professor, Grade-I (8000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from Nov 22nd, 2019 to June 27th, 2023.
- Working as Associate Professor in the Department of EE at NIT Rourkela from June 28th, 2023 to till date. (in lien from NIT Silchar)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Systems and Control
- Sliding Mode Control
- Adaptive Control, Neuro-adaptive Control
- Event-triggered Control/Cyber-Physical Systems
- Control of Multi-agent Systems
- Application areas: Robotics, Biological Systems, assistive robotics
- Modelling of Infectious Diseases like HIV, Covid-19, etc.
SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Dr. Manas Kumar Bera was born in Lakshya, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal. He completed his schooling at St. Xavier’s School, Haldia in 1999. He received his B. E in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from the University of Burdwan in 2003, Master in Control System Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University in 2006, and obtained Ph.D. degree from IDP in Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay, Mumbai in 2015.
PROJECTS
Sl No | Funding Agency | Project Title | Duration | Cost |
1. | Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India | Modelling and Analysis of Susceptible Asymptomatic Infected Removed (SAIR) Epidemic Model with Vaccination and Information-Dependent Vaccination: Application to Covid-19 Pandemic in India | 2022-25 | 6.6 Lakh |
PATENTS
Applied for a German patent on Event-Triggered Sliding-Mode Control of Two-Wheeled Mobile Robot: An Experimental Validation.
SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)
- Digital Electronics
- Control System-I
- Control System-II [Click here]
- Sensors & Transducers
- Industrial Instrumentation
- Process Control
- Linear and Nonlinear Control
- Logic and Distributed Control System [Click here]
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- Member, IEEE
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
- Serving as Head of the Department of EIE, NIT Silchar from 16.01.2021 to till date.
- Serving as Coordinator, Centre for Medical Imaging and Technology, NIT Silchar from 15.09.2022 to till date.
- Serving as one of the Board of Directors of the proposed Section-8 Company for Inclusive Technology Business Incubator (iTBI) at NIT Silchar since 01.09.2022
- Member of the board of studies of Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, an Autonomous Institute under MAKAUT, W.B. since 2019.
- Ex-Member, BoG, National Institute of Technology Silchar [2018-2020].
- Served as Head of the Department of E&IE, Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, West Bengal.
PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
- Ariful Mashud, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘A sliding mode observer-based robust fault-tolerant control allocation for descriptor systems’, Journal of Control and Decision, Taylor & Francis, 2023 (Accepted).
- Krishanu Nath, Manas Kumar Bera, Jagannathan Sarangapani, ‘Concurrent Learning-Based Neuro-Adaptive Robust Tracking Control of Wheeled Mobile Robot: An Event-Triggered Design’, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TAI.2022.3207133. [Click here]
- Krishanu Nath, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘Integral Sliding Mode Control of Networked Robotic Manipulator: A Dynamic Event-Triggered Design’, Advanced Robotics, Taylor & Francis, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2022.2123255.
- Ariful Mashud, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘Control Allocation Based Fault Tolerant Control of Descriptor System with Actuator Saturation’, ISA Transactions, 2021, ISSN 0019-0578,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2021.12.028.
- Krishanu Nath, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘Event-triggered neuro sliding mode control for an uncertain Euler Lagrange system: An impulsive dynamical system approach ‘, Elsevier International Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume 97, 2022, 107612, ISSN 0045-7906, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107612.
- Krishanu Nath, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘Design of neural network based sliding mode controller for a class of nonlinear system: An event-triggered framework’, International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Springer, Aug 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-021-00864-7
- Krishanu Nath, Anirban Nanda, Asifa Yesmin, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘Event-Triggered Sliding-Mode Control of Two Wheeled Mobile Robot: An Experimental Validation,’ in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 218-226, July 2021, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2021.3087965. [Click here]
- Asifa Yesmin, Abhisek K. Behera, Manas Kumar Bera, B. Bandyopadhyay, ‘Dynamic Event-triggering based design of sliding mode control., International Journal Robust Nonlinear Control, 2021;1–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/rnc.560
- Asifa Yesmin, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘Design of event-based sliding mode controller with logarithmic quantized state measurement and delayed control update ’, ISA Transactions, 2020, ISSN 0019-0578, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2020.07.014..
- Ariful Mashud, Manas Kumar Bera, “Robust fault tolerant control scheme for descriptor systems using fixed control allocation”, European Journal of Control, 2020, , ISSN 0947-3580, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcon.2020.02.008.
- Asifa Yesmin, Manas Kumar Bera, ‘Design of Event-triggered Sliding Mode Controller Based on Reaching Law With Time-Varying Event Generation Approach’, European Journal of Control, Elsevier, 48, pp. 30-41, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcon.2018.12.003.
- Manas Kumar Bera, Pintu Kumar, Rajkumar Biswas, “Robust Control of HIV Infection by Antiretroviral Therapy: A Super-twisting Sliding Mode Control Approach”, IET Systems Biology, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 120-128, 6 2019. doi: 10.1049/iet-syb.2018.5063
- Bhabani Shankar Dey, Manas Kumar Bera, Binoy Krishna Roy, “Nonlinear active control of a cancerous tumour”, International J. Engineering and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 2.21, 2018 (Scopus Indexed)
- Manas Kumar Bera, B. Bandyopadhyay, and A. K. Paul, ‘Variable Gain Super-Twisting Control of GMAW Process for Pipeline Welding’, ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement & Control, vol.137, pp. 074501-1-7, July 2015.
- Manas Kumar Bera, B. Bandyopadhyay, and A. K. Paul, ‘Output-feedback control of arc length for manual gas metal arc welding with higher order sliding modes’, Int. J. Modelling, Identification and Control, vol. 21, no. 4, pp.418–428, 2014.
CONFERENCES
- Akriti Ghosh, Krishanu Nath, Manas Bera, Shahedul Haque Laskar, “Design of Adaptive Gravity Compensation Controller for Upper Limb Exosuit: The Concurrent Learning-based Approach”, 2022 Eighth Indian Control Conference (ICC), IIT Madras, 14-16 Dec, 2022. (Accepted)
- Arjun Rajeev Warrier, Pranav Nedunghat, Manas Kumar Bera and Krishanu Nath, “Implementation of Classical Path Planning Algorithms for Mobile Robot Navigation: A Comprehensive Comparison,” ICECCME’22, Maldivas Natinational University (MNU), Male, Maldives, 16-18 Nov, 2022. (Accepted) [Click here]
- Krishanu Nath, Manas Kumar Bera, “Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control: An Event-Triggered Approach”, ACODS 2022, NIT Silchar, Assam, India, 22-25 Feb, 2022.
- Asifa Yesmin, Krishanu Nath, Manas Kumar Bera, “Design and performance analysis of different event-triggering policies with sliding mode control strategy”, 1st International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A 2021), NIT Silchar, 17th -19th Dec, 2021.
- Krishanu Nath, Asifa Yesmin, Manas Kumar Bera, “Sliding Mode Control for Stabilization of a Class of Nonlinear Systems: A Self-Triggered Design with Prescribed Performance Function”, INDICON 2021, IIT Guwahati, 19-21st December, 2021.
- Krishanu Nath, Praveen Nambisan, Asifa Yesmin, Manas Kumar Bera, ”Event-triggered PI control of Buck Converter in Cyber-Physical Framework”, 2021 Seventh Indian Control Conference (ICC), IIT Bombay, 20-22nd December, 2021.
- Siddhartha Ganguly, Manas Kumar Bera, Prasanta Roy, ”Robust Non-overshooting Tracking and Model Following Controller using Multi-variable Super-twisting Algorithm”, 2019 Sixth Indian Control Conference (ICC), IIT Hyderabad, 18-20 December 2019.
- Gautham V S, Manas Kumar Bera, ”Event-triggered Sliding Mode Control Based Trajectory Tracking of Robotic Manipulators in a Cyber-Robotic Space”, TENCON 2019, Kochi, Kerala, 17-20 October 2019.
- Ariful Mashud, Manas Kumar Bera,”A Multivariable Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control of Descriptor Systems”, TENCON 2019, Kochi, Kerala, 17-20 October, 2019.
- Asifa Yesmin, Manas Kumar Bera, ”Event-triggered Integral Sliding Mode Control”, TENCON 2019, Kochi, Kerala, 17-20 October, 2019.
- Siddhartha Ganguly, Manas Kumar Bera, Prasanta Roy, “Robust Tracking and Model Following Controller based on Sliding Mode: An Experimental Validation with Magnetic Levitation System”, IEEE Sponsored 5th International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT) 2019, Pune, Maharashtra, India, 29-31 March 2019.
- Bhabani Shankar Dey, Manas Kumar Bera and Binoy Krishna Roy, “ Super Twisting Sliding Mode Control of Cancer Chemotherapy”, VSS 2018, Graz, Austria, pp. 343 – 348, 9-11 July, 2018
- Bhabani Shankar Dey, Manas Kumar Bera and Binoy Krishna Roy, “ Nonlinear Active Control of a Cancerous Tumour”, Control Instrumentation System Conference, CISCON 2017, November 3-4, 2017
- Manas Kr. Bera, “Modeling & Simulation of Hybrid Model for the Short-Circuit Mode of Transfer in GMAW Systems”, 2018 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (ICoIAs’2018), pp. 161-165, Singapore, March 1-3, 2018.
- A. K. Paul, Manas Kr. Bera and B. Bandyopadhyay “Practical SOSM Controller Design for Short-Circuit Mode of Transfer in GMAW using Two Sliding Surfaces”, IFAC International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical System, NIT Tirucirappalli, India, 1-5 February 2016, pp. 724-729.
- Manas Kr. Bera, B. Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Paul, “Integral Sliding Mode Control for GMAW Systems”, IFAC International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, Mumbai, India, 18-20 December 2013, pp. 337-342.
- 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.
- M. K. Bera, B. Bandyopadhyay and A. K. Paul, “Robust Nonlinear Control of GMAW Systems-A Higher Order Sliding Mode Approach”, IEEE ICIT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, 25-27 February 2013, pp. 175-180.
- S. Kamal, A. Chalanga, M. K. Bera, B. Bandyopadhyay, “State Estimation and Non-Vanishing Unmatched Disturbance Reconstruction using Modified Super Twisting Algorithm”, ICECE, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20-22 December 2012, pp. 941-944.
- Manas Kr. Bera, Saurabh Paul, “The Gauss Hermite Filter and the Central Difference Filter”, Proc. of International conference of Modeling & simulation, Dept. of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta, India, 3-5 December 2007.
BOOK
1. Peter Han Joo Chong, Akhtar Kalam, Antonio Pascoal, Manas Kumar Bera, Emerging Electronics and Automation, LNEE, volume 937, Springer Singapore, doi:10.1007/978-981-19-4300-3 [Click Here]
BOOK CHAPTER
- A. K Paul, M. K. Bera, M. Waman, B. Bandyopadhyay, “Industry Grade Robust Controller Design for Constant Voltage Arc Welding Process”, Emerging Trends in Sliding Mode Control –Theory and Application” edited by A. Mehta and B. Bandyopadhyay, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer Nature Singapore, 2020.
- A. Yesmin, M. K. Bera, ”Design of event-triggered integral sliding mode controller for systems with matched and unmatched uncertainty”, edited by A. Mehta and B. Bandyopadhyay, Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, Springer Nature Singapore, 2020.
- Krishanu Nath, Asifa Yesmin, Manas Kumar Bera, ”Event-Triggered Integral Sliding Mode Control for an Uncertain Euler–Lagrange System with Actuator Saturation”, edited by Jason Gu, R. Dey & N. Adhikary, pp. 155-175, Communication and Control for Robotic Systems, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies book series, Springer, 2021.
WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED
- Organized One Day National Workshop on Design & Innovation sponsored by M/o MSME on 20.03.2023.
- Organized One Day National Awareness Program on Design & Innovation sponsored by M/o MSME on 21.03.2023.
- Organized (High-End Workshops) on “Control of Autonomous Mobile Robot: From Theory to Practice”, SERB, Govt. of India, from 16.01.2023 to 22.01.2023.
- Organized and acted as SPOC Toycathon 2021 (Online), 22nd-24th June 2021 under AICTE.
- Organized jointly with Dr. V. C. Pal one week FDP (webinar) on Nonlinear Systems: Modelling and Control, 01st-05th March 2021 under AICTE.
- Organized jointly with Dr. Koena Mukherjee one week FDP (webinar) on Robotics & Control (RoboCon) 2020, 15th – 19th July 2020 under TEQIP-III.
- Organized Talk/ Tutorial on Reinforcement Learning For Control Engineering, 21 – 22 January 2020 under TEQIP-III.
- Organized Winter School on Control and Estimation of Cyber-Physical Systems (CECPS 2018), 1st December to 5th December 2018 under TEQIP-III.Organized GIAN workshop awarded by MHRD, GOI to conduct Course ID: 171031D02, Course Name: Robustness, Fragility, Optimality and Modern PID Control by Prof. S. P. Bhattacharyya, Robert M. Kennedy Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA from 11th Dec to 20th Dec 2017.
- Organized jointly with Dr. Munmun Khanra National Workshop on Intelligent Sensing, Instrumentation and Control (ISIC 2017), 30th Jan to 3rd Feb 2017 under TEQIP-II.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZED
- Convenor, 2nd International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A 2022), 16-18 December 2022, NIT Silchar. http://e2a2022.nits.ac.in [Click here]
- General Chair, 1st International Conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A 2021), 17-19 December 2021, NIT Silchar. URL: http://e2a.nits.ac.in [Click here]
Ph.D SUPERVISION
Sl. No. | Name of the Scholar | Status | Thesis Title | Supervision |
1 | Asifa Yesmin | Completed | Event-Based Sliding Mode Control: Design and Analysis with Different Triggering Policies | Sole Supervisor |
2 | Ariful Mashud | Submitted | Design of Robust Fault Tolerant Controller for Descriptor Systems | Sole Supervisor |
3 | Krishanu Nath | Ongoing | Event-triggered Control of Nonlinear Systems | Sole Supervisor |
4 | Tara Swaraj | Ongoing | Event-triggered Control of Multi-agent Systems | Joint Supervisor |
M.TECH SUPERVISION
S.No | Student | Dissertation Topic | Status | Year |
1 | Bhabani Shankar Dey | Control of Cancerous Tumor Cell Growth By Chemotherapy | Completed | May 2018 |
2 | Pintu Kumar | Control of HIV/ AIDS Dynamics | Completed | May 2018 |
3 | Seema | Control of Rotary Inverted Pendulum | Completed | May 2018 |
4 | Gautham V. S. | Event-triggered Sliding Mode-based Trajectory Tracking Control of Robotic Manipulators in a Cyber-robotic Space | Completed | May 2019 |
5 | Kunal Kanti Das | State Feedback Control and Sliding Mode Control of Rotary Pendulum | Completed | May 2019 |
6 | Siddhartha Ganguly | Robust Tracking and Model Following Controller based on Higher Order Sliding Mode Control and Observations: with some experimental validations | Completed | May 2019 |
7 | Anirban Nanda | Robust Tracking Control of a Differential Drive Mobile Robot |
Completed | May 2020 |
8 | Sanjeev Ranjan | Quadrotor Modelling and Control | Completed | May 2020 |
9 | Mohd Wasim Siddiqui | Design of Sliding Mode Controller for Quadrotor UAV | Completed | May 2021 |
10 | Akriti Ghosh | Design of Controller for a Soft Wearable Arm Exosuit | Ongoing |
Awards and Recognitions
- Awarded financial assistance for grant-in-aid to conduct वृतिका (Training and Skill Internship), SERB, Govt. of India, from 15.12.2022 to 15.01.2023.
- Awarded financial assistance for grant-im-aid to conduct कार्यशाला (High-End Workshops) on “Control of Autonomous Mobile Robot: From Theory to Practice”, SERB, Govt. of India, during 16.01.2023 to 22.01.2023.
- Session chair for the 7th IFAC ACODS 2022, NIT Silchar, Feb 22-25, 2022.
- Session chair for the 6th Students’Conference on Engineering and Systems, Dept. of EE, MNNIT, Allahabad, July 10-12, 2020.
- Session chair for the Sixth Indian Control Conference, IIT Hyderabad, India, Dec. 18-20, 2019.
Invited Talks
- Delivered invited lecture at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, WB under Student Development Program, TEQIP-II, 31 March 2016.
- Delivered a Keynote speech at National Seminar on Emerging Trends in Robotics in Industrial Automation under TEQIP-II, Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering, Bankura, WB, 22nd to 24th October 2016.
- Delivered invited lecture at CEC short-term course “Modern Technologies in Nonlinear Robust Control”, IIT Roorkee, 07th to 11th August 2017.
- Delivered invited lecture at FDP “Modern Control Systems: Theory and Applications”, Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala, 04th to 08th December 2017.
- Delivered invited talk at the National Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, Faculty of Engineering & Technology SRMIST, Chennai, 12th-13th March 2020.
- Invited speaker at TEQIP-III sponsored “National Faculty Development Webinar on Modern Control System for Industrial Application”(NFDWMCSIA) organized by the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering of DUMKA ENGINEERING COLLEGE from 9th July – 11th July 2020.
- Invited speaker at TEQIP-III sponsored Online Webinar on “Recent Research Trends in Control, Instrumentation & Allied Engineering: A Multidisciplinary Approach” (RRTCIA)-2020 organized by Department of EIE, NIT Silchar from 04th to 08th September 2020.
- Invited speaker at AICTE sponsored Online STTP on “Recent advances in Industrial Robotics and applications” organized by Shree Ramchandra College of Engineering, Pune from 30th November to 5th December 2020.
- Invited speaker at “Recent Trends in Control System Engineering” jointly organized by the Electrical Engineering Department and Electronics & ICT Academy, NIT Patna under the “Scheme of financial assistance for setting up of Electronics and ICT Academies” by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India from 22nd to 28th June 2020.
- Invited speaker at AICTE sponsored Online Faculty Development Program on “Recent Advances in Control Systems” (RACS-2020) organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology Gorakhpur-273010, (U.P) INDIA during October 17- 21, 2020. [Click here] [Click here]
- Invited speaker at AICTE sponsored Online Faculty Development Program (Series-I) on “Fractional order robust control system design” organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad during 26th – 31st October 2020.
- Invited speaker at AICTE-sponsored Online Faculty Development Program (Series-II) on “Fractional order robust control system design” organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad from 23rd – 28th November 2020.
- Invited speaker at AICTE-sponsored Online Faculty Development Program (Series-III) on “Fractional-order robust control system design” organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad from 15th – 20th March 2021.
- Invited speaker at AICTE sponsored Online Faculty Development Program on “Control System Design- Classical & Modern with Hands-on” organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, Pune from 22nd -27th March 2021.
- Invited speaker at online FDP on “Recent Trends in Control System Engineering (ReTreCSE-2021)” jointly organized by Electrical Engineering Department and Electronics & ICT Academy, NIT Patna from 31st May-6th June 2021.
- Invited speaker at Short Term Course on “Development of Autonomous Electric Wheel Chairs for Disabilities”, which is a technology innovation hub on interdisciplinary data analytics and predictive technology (IDAPT) under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical System (NM-ICPS) at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi from 1st-5th Dec 2021.
- Invited speaker at AICTE Sponsored ATAL FDP on “NonLinear System: Dynamics and Control” at Government Engineering College, Thrissur, Kerala from 13th-17th Dec 2021.
- Invited speaker at EIE-Progressive Research’ Talks (Virtual) -Series 4_2022 on “Concurrent Learning-Based Neuro-Adaptive Robust Tracking Control of Wheeled Mobile Robot: An Event-Triggered Design” at Dept of EIE, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur on 27th Sept. 2022.