control and instrumentation

About the Division

The Division of Control & Instrumentation engg. was started in the year 1988 as a regular AICTE approved programme to offer Post-Graduation in Control & Instrumentation. This course is offered as Full-time programme, to encourage fresh Non-Gate & 5 Gate candidates and industry sponsored practicing engineers. The curriculum is designed to cater to the state of art technology that could support the industrial requirement for design of controller for electrical power apparatus and systems.

The faculties are involved in providing expert consultancies to small scale industries around Tamil Nadu on design validation of instrument transformers, power switches etc.

Vision Setting Research facilities with lab infrastructure and Manpower Development to create exposure and proficiency in design of controllers for power industries on electrical apparatus and rotating machines. The division has a vision of setting a state of art lab for Non-Destructive testing of electrical machines using advanced transducers and signal analysis techniques to serve the small scale industries around Tamil Nadu.

About the Curriculum
The curriculum was designed by expert research group, industrialists and academicians, to meet the today’s demands of the Industry as well as Research Groups. The syllabus is focusing on various areas like Adaptive and robust control, Stability analysis, study of non linear dynamics, advanced courses on Instrumentation, industrial field bus etc.

Infrastructural Facility
The Control & Instrumentation Division has invested over Rs.2.0 crores to develop a fully equipped laboratory to meet the requirement of Research & Development in this area. The lab is equipped with Target board supported software packages like LABVIEW 8 with NI-ELVIS, WANDERWARE and licensed version of MATLAB 7.0.1, MATHCAD, DSPACE & MAPPLE. Sophisticated test and measuring equipments as high speed DAQ systems, DSO’s programmable ac and dc sources, PLC, current probe, multi channel data logger, arbitrary function generator, DSP processor kits etc.

About the Students, Placement and Industrial visits
The statistical observation on the department placement profile is 80% of placement in core and IT industries and the rest 20% as teaching faculties and research peer. The companies and organizations include ISRO, DRDO, CVRDE, Accenture, Wipro, Tata Elaxi, L&T, Honeywell, HP HCL, TCS, IBM, CTS etc. The students have undergone industrial visits to NLC, NTPC, ISRO, CSIR, FORD etc., to gain industrial knowledge.

Research
The department is engaged with research activities in various domains of Control & Instrumentation. The division now has 8 Research Scholars working in Full-Time and Part-Time. The research areas include robust control, Network Control System, Signal Processing, Process Control System, Implementation of control Architecture, Fuzzy and Neuro controllers, Virtual Instrumentation etc.

Ongoing Research
The department is currently engaged in pursuing the design, development of power modules for Anna University Micro satellite (ANUSAT). The testing of the flight model is in progress under the leadership of Prof.B.Umamaheswari.

The NaMPET project is a government funded project that has the team involved in design, analysis, development of system interfaces for rotating electrical machines and control.


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	About the Division The Division of Control & Instrumentation engg. was started in the year 1988 as a regular AICTE approved programme to offer Post-Graduation in Control & Instrumentation. This course is offered as Full-time programme, to encourage fresh Non-Gate & 5 Gate candidates and industry sponsored practicing engineers. The curriculum is designed to cater to the state of art technology that could support the industrial requirement for design of controller for electrical power apparatus and systems. The faculties are involved in providing expert consultancies to small scale industries around Tamil Nadu on design validation of instrument transformers, power switches etc. Vision Setting Research facilities with lab infrastructure and Manpower Development to create exposure and proficiency in design of controllers for power industries on electrical apparatus and rotating machines. The division has a vision of setting a state of art lab for Non-Destructive testing of electrical machines using advanced transducers and signal analysis techniques to serve the small scale industries around Tamil Nadu. About the Curriculum The curriculum was designed by expert research group, industrialists and academicians, to meet the today’s demands of the Industry as well as Research Groups. The syllabus is focusing on various areas like Adaptive and robust control, Stability analysis, study of non linear dynamics, advanced courses on Instrumentation, industrial field bus etc. Infrastructural Facility The Control & Instrumentation Division has invested over Rs.2.0 crores to develop a fully equipped laboratory to meet the requirement of Research & Development in this area. The lab is equipped with Target board supported software packages like LABVIEW 8 with NI-ELVIS, WANDERWARE and licensed version of MATLAB 7.0.1, MATHCAD, DSPACE & MAPPLE. Sophisticated test and measuring equipments as high speed DAQ systems, DSO’s programmable ac and dc sources, PLC, current probe, multi channel data logger, arbitrary function generator, DSP processor kits etc. About the Students, Placement and Industrial visits The statistical observation on the department placement profile is 80% of placement in core and IT industries and the rest 20% as teaching faculties and research peer. The companies and organizations include ISRO, DRDO, CVRDE, Accenture, Wipro, Tata Elaxi, L&T, Honeywell, HP HCL, TCS, IBM, CTS etc. The students have undergone industrial visits to NLC, NTPC, ISRO, CSIR, FORD etc., to gain industrial knowledge. Research The department is engaged with research activities in various domains of Control & Instrumentation. The division now has 8 Research Scholars working in Full-Time and Part-Time. The research areas include robust control, Network Control System, Signal Processing, Process Control System, Implementation of control Architecture, Fuzzy and Neuro controllers, Virtual Instrumentation etc. Ongoing Research The department is currently engaged in pursuing the design, development of power modules for Anna University Micro satellite (ANUSAT). The testing of the flight model is in progress under the leadership of Prof.B.Umamaheswari. The NaMPET project is a government funded project that has the team involved in design, analysis, development of system interfaces for rotating electrical machines and control.