Research Area · Department of Electrical Engineering · IIT Bombay
Control & Computing
The activities of the Control and Computing Group include Automatic control, Computational methods for systems theory, Graph and matroid decompositions, Cryptography and coding theory, Dynamical systems, Grobner basis methods.
Associated Research Labs
Control and Computation Laboratory
The control and computing group investigates the theoretical and algorithmic principles underlying modern electrical engineering in order to innovatively solve current day engineering problems faced by academia and industry. The lab tackles a wide spectrum of problems spanning automatic control theory, embedded control, large-scale circuit simulation, power system stabilization, and information security.
Stochastic Systems Laboratory
The research carried out in the Stochastic Systems Laboratory focuses on modelling, algorithm design, and performance evaluation issues in networks, online learning systems, and smart power grids. Research uses tools from applied probability, data science, optimization, control theory and game theory.
High Performance Computing Lab
At HPC Lab, the aim is to research and address future needs of high-end parallel computing. Rapid advancements in VLSI technology have ushered a new era in system design by integrating many systems in a single framework, making the whole system much more powerful. The vision is to develop high-performance, practical solutions and contribute to the needs of both the scientific and engineering community.
PC Lab
PC Lab provides general computing facilities to students of Electrical Engineering and Reliability Engineering. Both Windows and Linux machines are present in the lab. A load-balanced server (Rudra) is available for heavier computational use, with software packages like MATLAB, Lyx, Scilab, Spice, Ansys, Sequel, Grace, LaTeX, MySQL, and other standard Linux/Unix packages. PC Lab also provides a central mail service with 500MB storage to all students and faculty of the department. A team of System Administrators provides tech-end support and maintains all network infrastructure in the department.
Associated Research Projects
Distributed Spacecraft Formation Flight using Limited Information Exchange 2 faculty
Stable formation control and attitude synchronization laws for spacecraft using bearing-only, distance-only, or mixed neighbor information; analysis of achievable rigid formations across communication topologies; decoupling attitude synchronization from formation control; applications to space debris management, remote sensing, docking.
High Performance Computing using GPU, FPGA and Multicore Processors 4 faculty
Exploring HPC applications in electrical engineering, chemical engineering, and biophysics.
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Stabilizability of n-D Systems 1 faculty
Solved the open problem declared by N.K. Bose on stabilization of multidimensional systems; established algebraic-geometric conditions for feedback stabilizability, extended to the matrix case.
Boolean Equations and Algorithms for Their Solutions 1 faculty
IRCC funded project developing scalable parallel algorithms for solving large systems of Boolean equations arising in cryptology and Boolean dynamical systems.
Computational Equivalence of Discrete Log and Diffie-Hellman Problems 1 faculty
Proving the Diffie-Hellman conjecture by solving Boolean equations over finite fields of characteristic 2.
IIT Bombay Research Park 3 faculty
Sponsored by MHRD, 2014-2019