Biography

Parth S Thakar is a research associate at Interdisciplinary Program in Systems and Control Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. His research interests are mainly in the areas of sliding mode control, nonlinear systems and control, underactuated systems and mechatronics.

Education and Experience

Course Work

  • Modelling of Dynamical Systems

  • System Theory

  • Cooperative Control of Multiagent Systems

  • Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

  • Optimal Control

  • Large Scale Systems

Short Term Courses

  • Workshop on Perspectives in Dynamical Systems and Control, Systems and Control Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, March 2014.

  • Winter School on Control and Dynamical Systems

Services

Reviewer

  • IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

  • IFAC Journal of Systems and Control

  • Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON, 2017

  • Australian Control Conference (AUCC), 2015

  • International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), 2014

  • International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of Dynamical Systems (ACODS), 2014

  • International Conference on Control Communication and Computing (ICCC), 2013

  • National Systems Conference (NSC), 2013

  • International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems (VSS), 2012

Talks

  1. " Sliding mode control for underactuated slosh-container system using collocated and non-collocated linearization " , at Indian Control Conference (ICC), 2016

  2. " Introduction to Adaptive Control and Optimal Control " at V.E.S. Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India, 2015

  3. " Sliding mode control for a class of underactuated systems using feedforward normal form: A slosh-container system " at Nantes, France, 2014

Grants

  • Institute Travel Grant to attend the 13th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems, France