Dr.M. Umapathy
Professor (Higher Administrtive Grade)

 Ph. D. Thesis Supervision Completed

 S.No.  Title of the Thesis  Ph.D. Scholar
 1  Design of meso and micro resonators with piezoelectric sensing and actuation  G. Uma (2009)
 2  Identification and multirate output feedback control of piezo actuated structures  D. Ezhilarasi (2009)
 3  Design, modeling and control of shape memory alloy actuated structures  K. Dhanalakshmi (2009)
 4  Analysis of uncertainty for instrumentation systems using interval methods  B.Vasuki (2009)
 5  Modeling and control of piezo actuated structures with uncertainties using interval arithmetic approach  S. Neduncheliyan (2009)
 6  Modeling and design of discrete time sliding mode control for smart structures  L.R. Karlmarx (2011)
 7  Control of piezo actuated structure using multisensor data fusion  J. Arunshankar (2011)
 8  Modeling and experimental investigation of coriolis flow meter using piezoelectric sensing and actuation  M. Shanmugavalli (2011)
9 Determination of accumulation value for the evaporator system of fossil fuel boilers and a novel control system  design  for fuel  switching S. Dharmalingam (2012)
10 Micro and meso scale piezo excited and sensed resonance sensor with electronics K. Suresh (2012)
11 Position control of shape memory alloy wire actuators using modulated adaptive controllers Senthilkumar P (2013)
12 Design and Modelling of MEMS based Logic Devices P. Pandiyan (2018)
13 Design and Analysis of Fractional Order Measurement System Mr. V. ParthaSarathi
14 Design, Modelling and Development of Vibration based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters S. Srinivasulu Raju
15 Design Development and Functional Evaluation of Sensors For Aero Gas Turbine Engine Application Mr.  T. N. Satish
16 Electronic interface circuits for piezoelectric energy harvesting system Mr.  S. Raghavendran
17 Design, Fabrication and Testing of MEMS Magnetic Field Sensor with an Emphasis on Permanent Magnetic Materials Mrs. S. Shereen (Co-guide)

Ph.D. Thesis Supervision Ongoing

S.No. Area of Research Work Ph.D. Scholar
1 Design of Embedded system for temperature sensors Ms. Ramya A
2 Design of Spin based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting with Storage system Mr. V. Raja
3 Modeling and Control Ms. MD Vasumathi

M.S.(By Research) Thesis Supervision Completed

                                                                                        
S.No.  Title of the Thesis M.S Scholar
1  Control of piezo actuated structure using embedded system  R.Maheswari
 2  Piezoelectric based systems for physical and mechanical quantities  U. Varun Kumar
 3  Design and evaluation of piezo laminated beam for the measurement of electrical quantities  B.V.M.P Santhosh Kumar

Post Graduate Project Guidance Completed

 Title of the Project work Project Period
Precision position control of shape memory alloy using inverse neural control and super twisting sliding mode control (Student Name: Vinod Sharma) Jan 2015-May 2015
Gain scheduled LQI controller for aero thermal turbofan engine model (Student Name:Jerrin Joseph) Jan 2015-May 2015
Non linear modeling of SMA using RNN with higher order gradient descent techniques and its position control (Students Name: Vinod Sharma) June 2014-Dec 2014
Modelling and identification of nonlinear aero thermal turbofan gas turbine engine(Student Name: Jerrin Joseph) June 2014-Dec 2014
Modeling and Performance test on Magnetorheological Damper (Student Name: Veena Mathew) Jan 2014- May 2014
Position Control of Shape Memory Alloy using Sliding Mode Control(Student Name: Veena Mathew) June 2013- Dec 2013
Control scheme for precipitation of uranium peroxide (Student Name: Manish Kumar) Jan 2013- May 2013
Controller design for ER semi active suspension system  (Student Name: V S Mohan) Jan 2013- May 2013
Design and fabrication of   ER damper (Student Name: V S Mohan) June 2012- Dec 2012
Design of Microcantilever sensor using sliding mode control (Student Name: Manish Kumar) June 2012- Dec 2012
Modeling of coriolis mass flow meter (Student Name: D Jyoti Swarup) Jan 2011-June 2011
Design of sliding mode controlle for ER damper base suspension system(Student Name: Naman Mittal) Jan 2011-June 2011
Design of measurement system using smart materials(Student Name: D Jyoti Swarup) June 2010- Dec 2010
Design and fabrication of ER damper (Student Name: Naman Mittal) June 2010- Dec 2010

 Performance Enhancement of Resonant Systems with Strong Mechanical Coupling between two degrees of Freedom(Student Name: Suneel Kumar)

Jan 2007-June 2007
 Development of Algorithms for Sensor Fault Detection and Identification (FDI) for Industrial Control Loops (Student Name: D. Pardhasarathy) Jan 2006-June 2006
 Control Block Simulator (Student Name: M. Indumathy) Jan 2006-June 2006
 Control of Gyroscope stabilized Platform (Student Name:G. Kalpana) Jan 2006-June 2006
 Vibration Control of Cantilever Beam Using LABVIEW (Student Name: P.V. Challapathy) Jan 2006-June 2006
 Design of Output Feedback Compensator Using Quantitative Feedback Theory (Student Name: D. Pardhasarathy) June 2005-Dec  2005
 Design and Implementation of Variable Structure Control for Piezo Actuated Structures (Student Name: A. Girija) June 2005-Dec 2005
 Design and Implementation of H Infinity Controller for Flexible Structures (Student Name: Soudravalli) June 2005-Dec 2005
 Vibration Control in Electrorheological Fluid Actuated Vehicle Suspension System (Student Name: M. Indumathi) June 2005-Dec 2005
 Sensor Integration Using Communication Protocol TCP/IP(Student Name: P. Bhuvaneswari) June 2005-Dec 2005
 Modeling and Simulation of Acoustic Vector Sensor (Student Name: P.V. Challapathy) June 2004-Dec 2004
 Robust Vibration Control of Piezolaminated Smart Structure (Student Name: M. Sridevi) Jan 2004-June 2004
 Vector Sensor (Student Name: S. Anitha) June 2004-Dec 2004
 Finite Element Modeling for Active Control of Piezo-Integrated Plate Based on Higher Order Plate Theory (Student Name: Manikandan) Jan 2004-June 2004
 Design and Implementation of Periodic Output Feedback Control for PZT Integrated System Using dSPACE (Student Name: G. Krishnaveni) June 2003-Dec 2003
 Finite Element Modeling and Control of Piezoelectric Integrated Plate Structure (Student Name: Manikandan) June 2003-Dec 2003
 Design of Output Feedback Control for MIMO Smart Structure Models (Student Name: S. Sankarasubramanian) June 2002-Jan 2003
 Design of Variable Structure Control for Shape Memory Alloy Actuated Flexible Beam (Student Name: K.S. Jai Bhavani) June 2002-Jan 2003
 Design, Simulation and Optimization of Micro-accelerometer (Student Name: S. Sathya) Jan 2003-June 2003
 Design, Simulation and Optimization of Micro-gyroscope (Student Name: X. Femila Mary) Jan 2003-June 2003
 Design, Simulation and Optimization of Micro-mirror (Student Name: A. Suganya) Jan 2003-June 2003
 Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (Student Name: R. Aravindan) Jan 2002-June 2002
 Design and Implementation of Output Feedback Control (Student Name: C. Gomathi Saratha) June 2001-Jan 2002
 Modeling, Optimization and Control of Piezoelectric Integrated Structures (Student Name: G. Krishnaprasad) June 2001-Jan 2002
 Modeling and Control of Flexible Manipulators (Student Name: Mallikarjuna Reddy) June 2001-Jan 2002
 Design of Sliding Mode Control for Chemical Process System (Student Name: R. Balan) June 2001-Jan 2002
 Design and application of output feedback control to process control problems (Student Name: Nirmala) June 2000-Jan 2001
 Modeling and Output Feedback Control Design and Smart Structures (Student Name: Lakshmi Prathibha) June 2000-Jan 2001
 Object Oriented Design of Temperature Measurement System(Student Name: S. D. Padghan and N. G. Patel) 1995
 Vibration Control of Flexible Beam Through Smart Structure Concept (Student Name: Prasad Goud)ation 1995
 Acoustic Ranging System (ARS) for Structural Vibration Measurement (Student Name: H.R. Krishna and Ramakrishnanan) 1992
 Load Measurement Using Strain Gauges(Student Name: Sivaramakrishnan and Madhavan) 1991

Under Graduate Project Guidance

Guided over 40 projects in the area of Control and Instrumentation