Faculty Details

Research Area

• Control Systems
• State Estimation
• Fault Diagnosis, Fault Tolerant Control

Professional Affiliations (Membership of Societies)

• Life Member – Indian Society of Technical Education (LM 97688)
• ISOI Life member
• IAENG Life Member

Publications

• M.Raghappriya, S.Kanthalakshmi, V. Manikandan, “Diagnosis of Faults using IMM Estimator”, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol.7, no.6, 780-786, 2012.
• S.Kanthalakshmi, M.Raghappriya, R Latha, “Fault Tolerant Control Design with Acceptable Performance Degradation”, ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol.10, no.2, 908-914, 2015.
• M.Raghappriya, S.kanthalakshmi, "Non-linear model-based stochastic fault diagnosis of 2 DOF helicopter", Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, vol. 22, no.3, 62-73, 2020.
• S.Kanthalakshmi, M.Raghappriya, "Active fault diagnosis of 2 DOF helicopter using particle filter based log-likelihood ratio", International Journal of Control, vol. 95, no. 11, 3148-3165, 2022. (Published online Aug 2021)
• M.Raghappriya, S.Kanthalakshmi,"Pitch and yaw motion control of 2 DoF helicopter subjected to faults using sliding-mode control", Archives of Control sciences, vol.32, no.2, 359-381, 2022.
• M.Raghappriya, S.Kanthalakshmi,"Sliding-mode observer-based fault detection for helicopter systems", Journal of Control and Decision, 2022.
• M Raghappriya, KM Devadharshini, S Karrishma, "Fuzzy logic based maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic system", Journal of Innovative Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 1, 49-60, 2022.

Conferences Attended

1. Presented a paper titled "Fault diagnosis of Non-linear system using Particle Filter" in the International conference on Automation, Signal Processing, Instrumentation and Control (iCASIC 2020) held on 27^th – 28^th February 2020, at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India.
2. Presented a paper titled "Fuzzy logic based maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic system" in the national conference on Electrical and Instrumentation systems (NCEIS’22) held on 28th April 2022, at Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India.

Book Chapters  

• M Raghappriya, S Kanthalakshmi, Fault Diagnosis of Non-linear System using Particle Filter, Lecture notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer, 2021.
• S Kanthalakshmi, M Raghappriya, Fault Tolerant Control Design for Linear Systems with Appropriate Performance Degradation using Eigen Structure Assignment, Advanced aspects of Engineering Research, B P International, 2021.

Faculty Development Programmes Attended

• Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Strategies for Pedagogy and Professional Communication” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore from 22.05.2013 to 28.05.2015
• Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Strategies for Effective Student-Teacher Interaction” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore from 29.05.2013 to 04.06.2015
• Participated in the MHRD Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Pedagogy for effective use of ICT in engineering education” conducted by IIT, Bombay from 12.06.2014 to 02.08.2014
• Participated in the AICTE Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Recent Trends and Advances on Programmable Automation Controllers” conducted by Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai from 20.04.2015 to 03.05.2015
• Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “LabVIEW – Core 1  2 Hardware Integration” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore from 14.10.2015 to 20.10.2015
• Participated in the TEQIP II Centre of Excellence on Alternate Energy Research Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Energy resources management in current scenario” conducted by Department of Mechanical engineering, GCT, Coimbatore from 04.04.2016 to 10.04.2016.
• Participated in the TEQIP II Centre of Excellence on Alternate Energy Research Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Solar PV and wind energy system design and applications with simulation software” conducted by Department of EEE, GCT, Coimbatore from 21.09.2016 to 27.09.2016.
• Participated in the TEQIP II Centre of Excellence on Alternate Energy Research Sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Smart grid and Smart City” organized by  GCT, Coimbatore from 09.11.2016 to 15.11.2016.
• Participated in the the TEQIP-II sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Emerging trends in pervasive and mobile computing” organized by the Department of CSE, GCT, Coimbatore from 27.02.17 to 05.03.2017.
• Participated in the AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programme on "Smart power grid technologies" organized by the Department of EEE, GCT, Coimbatore from 17.11.2017 to 30.11.2017
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Process Control, Instrumentation and Automation PCIA-2019” organized by the Department of EEE, National Institute of Technology, Calicut from 2.12.2020  to  07.12.2019.
• Attended a Three week Industrial Training on "Communication and Network Technologies" from 1.6.2020 to 21.6.2020 at BNSL, Erode. 
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored One week Faculty Development Program on "AI- The World of Prediction Machines" organized by Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, GCT, Coimbatore from 24.6.2020 to 30.6.2020.
• Participated and completed an AICTE Training and Learning (ATAL) Academy online FDP on "Internet of Things (IoT)"  organized by GCT, Coimbatore, from 07.12.2020 to 11.12.2020
• Participated in the TEQIP III course on "Introduction to Environmental Engineering" conducted by IIT Bombay from 14.12.2020 to 23.12.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP III course on "Open source tools for scientific computing: Scilab, Python, R and Latex" conducted by IIT Roorkee from 28.12.2020 to 01.01.2021.
• Participated in the NITTTR course on "Applications in PLC" conducted by NITTTR, Chennai  from 07.02.2022 to 11.02.2022.
• Participated in the Faculty Development Program on "Optimization Techniques and its Emerging Applications" organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, PSG College of Technology in association with PSG CARE, Coimbatore from 19.12.2022 to 23.12.2022.

Workshops Attended

• Participated in the workshop on “NPTEL” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore on 09.04.2013.
• Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored workshop on “Graphical System Design using LabVIEW” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore on 24.07.2013 & 25.07.2013.
• Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored workshop on “Innovative Techniques in the teaching learning process” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore on 22.08.2014 & 23.08.2014.
• Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored workshop on “Instructional Design” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore on 29.09.2014.
• Participated in the workshop on “Preparation of Journal Articles using Latex” conducted by Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai on 27.03.2015.
• Participated in the workshop on “How to write a technical paper for reputed journals” Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai on 28.03.2015.
• Participated in the TEQIP II Sponsored workshop on “Choice Based Credit System” conducted by GCT, Coimbatore on 10.07.2015 & 11.07.2015.
• Participated in the TEQIP II sponsored workshop on "System Identification" organized by PSG College of Technology on 27.08.2016 & 28.8.2016.
• Participated in the AICTE sponsored two day seminar on “Smart grid and Cyber Security” organized at GCT, Coimbatore on 06.12.2017 and 07.12.2017.
• Participated in the DST sponsored state level technical seminar on “Intellectual Property Rights”  jointly organised by GCT, Coimbatore, and Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology, Chennai on 27.09.2019.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored  workshop on “Question Paper Setting and Assesment Tools” organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, GCT, Coimbatore, on 3.10.2019.
• Participated in a TEQIP-III sponsored Faculty Development Programme on “Design, Develop and Deliver online courses through MOODLE platform" conducted in  through On-Line mode by Coimbatore Institute of Technology in association with State Project Implementation Unit, Tamilnadu on 23.4.2020 and 24.4.2020.
• Attended webinar on “Deep Learning for Modelling and Control of Bioprocess” organised by Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Easwari Engineering College on 22.6.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored  webinar on "E-resources for Teaching, Learning and Research " organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, GCT, Coimbatore.on 1.07.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored webinar on "Preparing Ourselves on Second Cycle of NBA Accreditation" organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, GCT, Coimbatore.on 11.07.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored Online workshop on "Teach 2 Influence" organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, GCT, Coimbatore.on 11.07.2020, 18.07.2020, 25.07.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored webinar on  "Institutional Project Funding Schemes and Proposal Preparation" organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, GCT, Coimbatore.on 14.07.2020.
• Participated a webinar on "Fault Diagnosis and Vibration Control of Rotating Machines" organised by Department of Mechanical Engineering, Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli on 15.07.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored workshop on "Mastering LATEX for technical and scientific documentation" organized by Department of Industrial Biotechnology, GCT, Coimbatore, on 10.08.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored webinar on " Digital Teaching – How to handle effective online classroom" organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell, GCT, Coimbatore.on 11.08.2020.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored webinar on "Traditional foods and flavours: Discovering the hidden treasure" organised by the Department of Industrial Biotechnology, GCT, Coimbatore, from 12.08.2020 to 14.08.2020.
• Participated in the webinar on "National Education Policy-2020" organised by the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation, GCT, Coimbatore, from 18.02.2021.
• Participated in the webinar on "Women Empowerment through legal protection
  " organised by the Women Empowerment Cell, GCT, Coimbatore, from 22.02.2021.
• Participated in the TEQIP-III sponsored webinar on "Product Development Workshop on Soap Making Processes" organised by the Department of Industrial Biotechnology, GCT, Coimbatore, from 10.03.2021.
• Participated in the webinar on "Outcome based Education - NBA Accreditation" organised by the Department of Electronics and Instrumentation, GCT, Coimbatore, on 12.03.2021 and 13.03.2021.
• Participated in the workshop on "COMOS for Industry 4.0" organised by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Industry Academia Cell, AVIT, on 27.07.2021 and 30.07.2021
• Participated in the workshop on "Design and Implementation of Curriculum as per National Education Policy 2020" organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell –Teaching Learning and Evaluation, GCT on 29.9.21 and 1.10.21.