Ravi N. Banavar
Professor, Systems and Control, IIT Bombay
Guest Professor, IIT Gandhinagar
210, Systems and Control Engineering
(Near the Central Library)
I. I. T. - Bombay
Powai, Mumbai 400 076
Landline - Office : (91) - (22) - 2576 7888
Fax : (91) - (22) - 2572 0057
Email : banavarATiitb.ac.in
Research interests
Optimal control, nonlinear control
Geometric mechanics (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics)
Application areas - Mechanical and aerospace problems (robotics, launch vehicles, spacecrafts), low Reynolds number locomotion
Academic Background
Ph. D. (May 92) - University of Texas at Austin
M. S. (May 88) - Clemson University, Clemson
B. Tech. (July 86) - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Professional affiliations
Associate Editor, Systems and Control Letters, Elsevier Press
Associate Editor, International Journal of Control, Taylor and Francis.
A sketch of the content of courses offered
Linear systems theory, vector spaces, nonlinear systems and control, differential geometric methods in control,
geometric mechanics - symmetry and reduction.
Recent short course modules
A popular talk: Parallel parking, falling cats, spherical robots and differential geometry, Feb 2017 (RNB_IIT_GN_popular_talk)
Youtube link: https://youtu.be/TMlOUF5hxts
Two talks on Feedback Linearization delivered at IIT-Kanpur, September 2016
http://www.iitk.ac.in/tkic/v_control-techniques-and-applications.php
Talks on Nonlinear Controllability delivered at the Winter School on Control and Dynamical Systems, IIT Gandhinagar,
Feb 2016. notes1, notes2
Talks delivered in a research symposium in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, IISc, Feb 2016.
CMGs_arjun_banavar, sneha_banavar_multibody
Recent results
Attitude Tracking Control for Aerobatic Helicopters: A Geometric Approach
https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.08800
https://youtu.be/1zz71W__RNA
Upcoming events
A 10-day course on “Mechanics from a Geometric Viewpoint,” from Aug. 5th to Aug 16th, 2019 at IIT-Bombay
Instructors: Ravi N Banavar and D. H. S. Maithripala
Course for Monsoon 2019 at IIT-B:
Mathematical Structures in Systems and Control (SC 639/SC 201) (Wed and Fri - 9.30 AM to 10.55 AM, Slot 5)
TAs for the course: Shruti Kotpalliwar, Ashutosh Jindal, Sreya Das and Anant Joshi
Course outline