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Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

Associate Professor

PhD  from IIT Bombay, Control and Computing group, Electrical department, in December 2014

044-2257 4487

rachel@ee.iitm.ac.in

  • I obtained my PhD from IIT Bombay, Control and Computing group, Electrical department, in December 2014. I was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo from April 2015 to November 2016. I am with IIT Madras since December 2016.
  • My research interests are broadly in System theory, Control, Optimization and Energy systems. Students interested in a Phd, MS or Project assistant position can write to me.

  • Distributed Optimisation.
  • Control of complex dynamical systems.
  • Networked control systems.
  • Learning based control.
  • Robust control of LIGO.
  • Optimization of energy in HVAC systems.
  • Singular control systems.
  • Graph theoretic techniques (Bipartite graphs and matching theory).
  • Numerical linear algebra.
  • Model predictive control.
  • Optimization.
  • Energy systems.
  • Optimization and Control of Complex Dynamical Systems, funded by DST, 2017-2022.
  • Ligo R & D for India - Advanced controls, 2018-2022.
  • New Faculty Initiation Grant, funded by IIT Madras, 2019-2021.
  • New Faculty Seed Grant, funded by IIT Madras, 2022-2025

    Current Courses

  • July 2022: EE3004 - Control Engineering.
  • January 2023: EE6433 - Distributed Optimization for Control.

    Previous Courses

  • July 2017: EE5413 - Linear dynamical systems.
  • January 2018 : EE5121 - Optimization for signal processing and communication.
  • July 2018: EE5413 - Linear Dynamical systems.
  • January 2019: EE5121 - Convex Optimization.
  • July 2019: EE3004 - Control Engineering.
  • January 2020: EE5121 - Convex Optimization.
  • July 2020: EE3004 - Control Engineering.
  • January 2021: EE6433 - Distributed Optimization for Control.

Journals

  • R K Kalaimani, M N Belur and D Chakraborty, Singular LQR control, PD Controllers and inadmissible initial conditions, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 58, no 10, pp 2603-2608, Oct 2013.
  • R K Kalaimani, M N Belur and Sivaramakrishnan Sivasubramanian, Generic pole-assignability, structurally constrained controllers and unimodular completion, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol 439, pp 4003-4022, 2013.
  • R K Kalaimani, C Praagman, and M N Belur, Impulse controllability: from descriptor systems to higher order DAEs, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2016.
  • S C Jugade, D Pal, R K Kalaimani and M N Belur, Fast modes in the set of minimal dissipation trajectories, to appear in Systems & Control Letters, 2016.
  • R Kalaimani, M Jain, S Keshav, and C Rosenberg, On the Interaction between Personal Comfort Systems and Centralized HVAC Systems in Office Buildings, J Advances in Building Energy Research, V7:p 1-29, August 2018.
  • M Jain, R Kalaimani, S Keshav, and C Rosenberg, Using Personal Environmental Comfort Systems to Mitigate the Impact of Occupancy Prediction Errors on HVAC Performance, Energy Informatics, December 2018.
  • M V Srighakollapu, R K Kalaimani, R Pasumarthy, Optimizing driver nodes for structural controllability of temporal networks, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2021.
  • M V Srighakollapu, R K Kalaimani, R Pasumarthy, Optimizing network topology for average contollability, Systems and Control letters, 2021.
  • M V Srighakollapu, R K Kalaimani, R Pasumarthy, On strong structural controllability of temporal networks, IEEE Control systems letters, 2021.
  • K Rokade and R K Kalaimani, Distributed computation of fast consensus weights using ADMM, Automatica, 2022.
  • S Bhattacharya, K Rokade and R K Kalaimani, Distributed Estimation over Directed Graphs Resilient to Sensor Spoofing, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023.

Conference Proceedings

  • R K Kalaimani and M N Belur, Singular LQR control, impulse-free interconnection and optimal PD controller design, In Proceedings of 50tth IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, Orlando, USA, 2011.
  • R K Kalaimani and M N Belur, Generic pole assignability of DAE systems with controller structural constraints, In Proceedings of Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamic Systems ACODS, Bangalore, India, 2012.
  • R K Kalaimani and M N Belur, Minimal controller Structure for generic pole placement, In Proceedings of European Control Conference, Zurich, Switerland, 2013.
  • S C Jugade, D Pal, R K Kalaimani and M N Belur, Stationary Trajectories, Singular Hamiltonian systems and ill-posed interconnection, In Proceedings of European Control Conference, Zurich, Switerland, 2013.
  • M.Singh, R K Kalaimani, M N Belur and S V Iyer, Decentralized controllability of multi-inverter microgrids, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Cape Town, South Africa, 2013.
  • R K Kalaimani, Distance of a pencil from having a zero at infinity, In Proceedings of International Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications, IIT Guwahati, 2013.
  • A Kothyari, R K Kalaimani and M N Belur, Nearest singular descriptor system having impulsive initial conditions, In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2014.
  • A Kotoky, A Mahajan, A Arulselvan, R K Kalaimani and M N Belur, Minimum controller substructure for generic arbitrary pole placement: a multicommodity flow and TSP based formulation, Proceedings of the IEEE European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 29 June-1 July, 2016.
  • R K Kalaimani, S Keshav, and C Rosenberg, Multiple Time-scale Model Predictive Control for Thermal Comfort in Buildings, Poster in ACM e-Energy 2016.
  • K Rokade and R K Kalaimani, D-stability under Channel Capacity Constraints, In Proceedings of American Control Conference 2019, Philadelphia, USA, 2019.
  • K Rokade, G K Kamath and R K Kalaimani,Scheduling for stabilization over capacity constrained channnels, In Proceeding of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019.
  • M V Srigakollapu, R K Kalaimani and R Pasumarthy, Optimizing Average controllability of Newtworked Systems, In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, 2019.
  • R Jose, and R K Kalaimani Optimization of Sensor Placement for Broadband Newtonian Noise Cancellation in GW Detectors, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Romania, 2021.
  • A Gokhale, M V Srighakollapu, R K Kalaimani, R Pasumarthy, Optimizing controllability metrics for target controllability, In Proceedings of Indian Control Conference (ICC), India, 2021.
  • R Jose, and R K Kalaimani, Reinforcement Learning based Multi-objective Optimization for Broadband Newtonian Noise Cancellation in GW Detectors, In Proceedings of Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Greece, 2022.
  • S Sahoo, A Gokhale, R K Kalaimani, Online Optimization with Byzantine Adversarial Agents, In Proceedings of American Control Conference 2022, USA, 2022.
  • S Chatterjee and R K Kalaimani, Distributed Optimization of Average Consensus Containment with Multiple Stationary Leaders, In Proceedings of European Control Conference 2022, London, 2022.
  • A Paul, A M Mahindrakar and R K Kalaimani, Distributed Online Mirror Descent Algorithm with Event Triggered Communication, In Proceedings of 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Germany, 2022.
  • A Paul, A M Mahindrakar and R K Kalaimani, An almost sure convergence analysis of Zeroth-Order Mirror Descent Algorithm, In Proceedings of American Control Conference 2023, USA, 2023.
  • V Prinse and R K Kalaimani, ADMM based Distributed State Observer Design under Sparse Sensor Attacks, In Proceedings of American Control Conference 2023, USA, 2023.

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