Madhu N. Belur

• Control theory
• Behavioral theory control
• Graph theoretic methods
• Dissipative systems
• Decentralized control
• Fault diagnosis

• EE225 Network Theory
• EE302 Control Systems
• EE342 Control and Communication (Minor)
• EE429 Sampled Data and Digital Control
• EE613 Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
• EE714 Behavioral Theory of Systems
• EE636 Matrix Computation
• SC801 Special topics (Riccati Equation)

• B. Tech in Mechanical Engg from IIT Bombay, 1997
• Ph.D. in Systems Theory, Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 2003

• Junior Engineer in Tata-Motors, Pune, 1997-98
• Project Engineer in IIT-Bombay, 1998-99
• Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Dept, IIT Bombay, 2003-2011.
• Associate Professor, Electrical Engg Dept, IIT Bombay, since 2011

Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Bombay, Powai
Mumbai 400 076, India
Email : belur[AT]ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone (Internal(O)) : (0091 22) - 2576 7404
Office room no: EE-main 237A (on the second floor)
Fax: (0091 22) - 25723707

1. M.N. Belur and S. Sivaramakrishnan, Structural controllability and unity elementary divisors in the generic Smith normal form, submitted.
2. D. Pal and M.N. Belur, Nyquist plots, finite gain/phase margins and dissipativity, submitted

1. S. Karikalan, R.Abdulrazak and M.N. Belur, Uncontrollable dissipative systems: observability and embeddability, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Control.
2. S.R. Khare, H.P. Pillai and M.N. Belur, Computing the radius of controllability for state space systems Systems & Control Letters, vol 61, January 2012, pages 327-333, 2012 (Copyright rests with Elsevier).
3. D. Pal and M.N. Belur, Improper L-infinity optimal/suboptimal controllers to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, likely in : May, 2012 (Copyright rests with IEEE).
4. M.N. Belur and C. Praagman, An efficient algorithm to compute the H-infinity norm, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 56, no. 7, pages 1656-1660, 2011 (Copyright rests with IEEE).
5. S. Iyer, M.N. Belur and M.C. Chandorkar, Analysis and mitigation of voltage offsets in multi-inverter microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol 26, no. 1, pages 354-363, 2011 (Copyright rests with IEEE).
6. K. Chavan, R.G. Kumar, M.N. Belur and A. Karandikar, Robust active queue management for wireless networks, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol 19, no. 6, pages 1630-1638, 2011. Copyright rests with IEEE
7. S. Iyer, M.N. Belur and M.C. Chandorkar, A generalized computational method to determine stability of a multi-inverter microgrid, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol 25, no. 9, pages 2420-2432, 2010. Copyright rests with IEEE
8. H. Vinjamoor and M.N. Belur, Impulse free interconnection of dynamical systems, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 432, pages 637-660, 2010. Copyright rests with Elsevier
9. D. Pal and M.N. Belur, Dissipativity of uncontrollable systems, storage functions and Lyapunov functions, SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization, volume 47 (6), pages 2930-2966, 2008.PDF (Copyright rests with SIAM)
10. M.N. Belur, H.K. Pillai and H.L. Trentelman, Synthesis of dissipative systems: a linear algebraic approach, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 425, pages 739-756, 2007. PDF (Copyright rests with Elsevier)
11. A.A. Julius, J.C. Willems, M.N. Belur and H.L. Trentelman, The canonical controllers and regular interconnection, Systems & Control Letters, volume 54, no. 8, pages 787-797, 2005.PDF (Copyright rests with Elsevier)
12. M.N. Belur and H.L. Trentelman, Algorithmic issues in the synthesis of dissipative systems, Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems (MCMDS), volume 8, no. 4, pages 407-428, 2002.PDF (Copyright rests with MCMDS)
13. M.N. Belur and H.L. Trentelman, The strict dissipativity synthesis problem and the rank of the coupling QDF, Systems & Control Letters, volume 51, no. 3-4, pages 247-258, 2004.PDF (Copyright rests with Elsevier)
14. M.N. Belur and H.L. Trentelman, Stabilization, pole placement and regular implementability, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, volume 47, no. 5, pages 735-744, 2002.PDF (Copyright rests with IEEE)

1. S. Krishnan, M. Laxman, M.N. Belur, M.Bhushan, A.P. Tiwari, M.G. Kelkar and M. Pramanik, Flux estimation from Vanadium and Cobalt Self Powered Neutron Detectors (SPNDs): nonlinear exact inversion and Kalman filter approaches, Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, 2012.
2. S. Datta, D. Chakraborty and M.N. Belur, Minimum order controller with regional pole placement, Proceedings of the IEEE American Control Conference (ACC), Montreal, Canada, 2012.
3. A. Krishnamurthy, M.N. Belur and D. Chakraborty, Comparison of various linear discriminant analysis techniques for fault diagnosis of Re-usable Launch Vehicle, Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, USA, 2011.
4. M.N. Belur and C. Praagman, Impulsive solutions, inadmissible initial conditions and pole/zero structure at infinity, Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, USA, 2011.
5. Rachel Kalpana K and M.N. Belur, Singular LQR Control, Impulse-Free Interconnection and Optimal PD Controller Design, Proceedings of the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Orlando, USA, 2011.
6. S. Karikalan and M.N. Belur, Uncontrollable dissipative dynamical systems, Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, Milan, Italy, 2011.
7. S. Khare, H.K. Pillai and M.N. Belur, Numerical algorithm for structural low rank approximation problem, Proceedings of the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Budapest, Hungary, 2010.
8. S. Iyer, M.N. Belur and M.C. Chandorkar, Application of graph theory in stability analysis of meshed microgrids, Proceedings of the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Budapest, Hungary, 2010.
9. D. Pal and M.N. Belur, Finite gain/phase margins and dissipativity conditions, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Maryland, USA, 2010.
10. S. Iyer, M.N. Belur and M.C. Chandorkar, Decentralized control of a line-interactive uninterruptible power supply (UPS), Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Maryland, USA, 2010.
11. D. Pal, S. Sinha, M.N. Belur and H.K. Pillai, New results in dissipativity of uncontrollable systems and Lyapunov functions, Proceedings in the IEEE CDC, Shanghai, China, 2009.
12. M.N. Belur and D. Chakraborty, Graph theoretic methods in the study of Structural issues in Control, Proceedings of the ICCAS-SICE International Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, 2009.
13. D. Pal, S. Sinha, M.N. Belur and H.K. Pillai, New results in optimal quadratic supply rates, Proceedings in the IEEE CDC, Cancun, Mexico, 2008.
14. H. Vinjamoor and M.N. Belur, “Regular feedback implementability of behaviors”, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Kos, Greece, July 2007.
15. M.N. Belur and C. Praagman, “Efficient computation of the H-infinity norm”, Proceedings of the 5th IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND), Toulouse, France, July, 2006.
16. A.A. Julius and M.N.Belur, “Behavioral control in the presence of disturbances”, Proceedings of the IEEE CDC-ECC conference, Seville, Spain, pages 155-160, 2005.
17. M.N.Belur, H.K. Pillai and H.L. Trentelman, “Dissipative systems synthesis: a linear algebraic approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE CDC-ECC conference, Seville, Spain, pages 161-166, 2005.
18. M.N. Belur, “Stability margin of the dissipativity property”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Control of Dynamical Systems (NCCDS), Mumbai, India, 2005.
19. M.N. Belur and H.L. Trentelman, “Synthesis of dissipative behaviors with dynamics in the weighting matrices”, Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) Leuven, Belgium, 2004.
20. J.C. Willems, M.N. Belur, A.A. Julius and H.L. Trentelman, “The canonical controller and its regularity”, Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Hawaii, USA, pages 1638-1644, 2003.
21. M.K. C¸amlıbel, J.C. Willems and M.N. Belur, “On the dissipativity of uncontrollable systems”, Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Hawaii, USA, pages 1645-1650, 2003.
22. M.K. C¸amlıbel, M.N. Belur, A.J. Sasane and J.C. Willems, “On a class of timevarying behaviors”, Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) Notre Dame, USA, 2002.
23. H.L. Trentelman and M.N. Belur, “Synthesis of strictly dissipative systems and the strictly suboptimal state space H-infinity control problem”, Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Notre Dame, USA, 2002.
24. M.N. Belur, H.L. Trentelman and J.C. Willems, “Regular implementability and its application to stabilization of system behaviors”, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Orlando, USA, pages 3479-3484, 2001.
25. M.N. Belur, R.N. Banavar and A.D. Mahindrakar, “Active noise cancellation using H-infinity control techniques”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Goa, India, pages 192-195, 2000.

1. Swanand R. Khare (defence in July 2011, guided with Harish Pillai) Title: Numerical issues in univariate polynomial matrices
2. Shivkumar V. Iyer (defence in March 2011, guided with Mukul C. Chandorkar) Title:Stability and operational issues in the decentralized control of an isolated microgrid
3. Vijaykumar K. Jadhav (defence in February 2011, guided with Mahesh Patil) Title: A multi-model approach for efficient model building and simulation of transient behaviour of MEMS devices

1. Manav Kataria, ECG synthesizer, 2011
2. Krishnan S, Fault diagnosis of SPNDs, 2011
3. Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Minimal polynomial basis: structural analysis, 2011
4. Akilez Krishnamurthy, Fault diagnosis of RLV, 2011
5. Pradeep Kumar, Discretization of ARE, 2010
6. Karikalan Selvaraj, Unobservable storage functions, 2010
7. Laxman Mutyam (guided with Mani Bhushan), Fault diagnosis of SPNDs, 2010
8. Pramit H. Mehta, Hybrid dynamical systems, 2010
9. Pawan Kumar, Risk sensitive optimal control, 2009
10. V. Venkataraghavan, Fault diagnosis using DES, 2007
11. Chavan, Kanchan (guided with Abhay Karandikar), Robust queue management, 2007
12. Debasattam Pal, Optimal control, 2007
13. Harsh Vinjamoor, Impulse free interconnection, 2007
14. Kashyap Bhargava, Traffic systems control, 2007
15. P. Viyayanand, Adaptive control, 2006
16. Shaik Fiaz, Fault diagnosis of hybrid dynamical systems, 2006
17. Swapnil A. Shegaonkar, Satellite formation control, 2005
18. Mahesh D. Barve (guided with Harish Pillai), Control of communication networks, 2005