Ameer K. Mulla

Research Associate, Control and Computing

Ameer Mulla 

Advisor: Prof. Debraj Chakraborty

Contact

Control and Computing Lab (Room No. 238),
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Powai, Mumbai-400076, India

Email: ameerkm[at]ee.iitb.ac.in,
           ameerkm[at]iitb.ac.in

Research Interests

  • Co-operative Control

  • Multi-agent Systems

  • Differential Games

  • Optimal Control

Educational Background

Teaching assistant for:

  • 2010-11

    • Spring: (EE 302) Control Systems

  • 2011-12

    • Autumn: (EE 101) Introduction to Electrical and Electronics Circuits

    • Spring: (EE 324) Control Systems Lab

  • 2012-13

    • Autumn: (EE 615) Control and Computational Laboratory

    • Spring: (EE 622) Optimal Control Systems

  • 2013-14

    • Autumn: (EE 749) Decentralized Control of Complex Systems

    • Spring: (EE 636) Matrix Computations

  • 2014-15

    • Autumn: (EE 635) Applied Linear Algebra

    • Spring: (EE 636) Optimal Control Systems

  • 2015-16

    • Autumn: (EE 749) Decentralized Control of Complex Systems

Work Experience

Publications

Journal

  • Ameer K. Mulla and Debraj Chakraborty, “Communication preserving min-max time consensus tracking”, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

  • Deepak U. Patil, Ameer K. Mulla, Debraj Chakraborty and Harish Pillai, “Computation of feedback control for time optimal state transfer using Groebner basis”, Systems and Control letters, Vol. 79, pp.1-7, May, 2015.

  • Ameer K. Mulla, Deepak U. Patil and Debraj Chakraborty, “Time optimal consensus for multi-agent systems”, under revision, International Journal of Control.

Conference

  • Ameer K. Mulla, Rakesh U. Chavan and Debraj Chakraborty, “A Model for Lane-less Traffic with Local Control Laws”, accepted for publication in the proceedings of Indian Control Conference, Guwahati, India, 4-6 Jan., 2017.

  • Ameer K. Mulla, Deepak U. Patil and Debraj Chakraborty, “An \(O(N^2)\) Algorithm for Computation of the Minimum Time Consensus”, accepted for publication in the proceedings of \(55^{th}\) IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, USA, 12-14 Dec., 2016.

  • Rakesh U. Chavan, Ameer K. Mulla, Debraj Chakraborty and D. Manjunath, “A Model for Lane-less Traffic with Local Control Laws”, in the proceedings of European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 29 June-1 July 2016, pp. 2447-2452.

  • Apurva Joshi, Narendra Limbu, Indrajit Ahuja, Ameer K. Mulla, Hoam Chung and Debraj Chakraborty, “Implementation of Distributed Consensus On Outdoor Testbed”, in the proceedings of European Control Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 29 June-1 July 2016, pp. 2146-2151.

  • Ameer K. Mulla, Gurulingesh Raravi, R. P. Jagadeesh Chandra Bose, Rajasubramaniam Thangaraj and Koustuv Dasgupta, “Efficient Task Allocation in Services Delivery Organizations”, accepted for the publication in the proceedings of \(13^{th}\) IEEE Conference on Services and Computing, San Francisco, USA, 27 June-2 July, 2016.

  • Ameer K. Mulla and Debraj Chakraborty, “Communication Preserving Min-Max Time Consensus Tracking”, in the proceedings of European Control Conference, Linz, Austria, 15-17 July 2015, pp. 1712-1717.

  • Ameer K. Mulla, Deepak U. Patil and Debraj Chakraborty, “Distributed Computation of Minimum Time Consensus for Multi-Agent Systems”, in the proceedings of \(53^{rd}\) IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Los Angeles, California, USA, 15-17 Dec. 2014, pp. 5554-5559.

  • Ameer K. Mulla, Sujay Bhatt H. R., Deepak U. Patil and Debraj Chakraborty, “Min-max Time Consensus Tracking Over Directed Trees”, in the proceedings of the \(21^{st}\) International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen, The Netherlands, 7-11 July, 2014, pp. 530-537.

    preprint
  • Deepak U. Patil, Ameer K. Mulla, Debraj Chakraborty and Harish Pillai, “Gröbner basis computation of feedback control for time optimal state transfer”, in the proceedings of \(52^{nd}\) IEEE Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Florence, Italy, 10-13 Dec. 2013, pp. 3243-3248.

Patents

  • Ameer K. Mulla, Gurulingesh Raravi, R. P. Jagadeesh Chandra Bose, Avantika Gupta and Koustuv Dasgupta, “Method and System for Auto-Allocation of Tasks to Resources of an Organization”, US patent applied in Aug., 2016.