National Center for Combustion Research and Development Indian Institute Of Technology Madras & Indian Institute of Science, BangalorePosition: Assistant Professor, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, IITM CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST Instrumentation & Control Systems, Automotive Electronics / Engine Control Systems, Mechatronic & Embedded Systems, Mobile Robotics, and Sensor Networks. CONTACT Email: Personal Home Page: SELECTED PUBLICATIONS P.V. Manivannan, M. Singaperumal, and A. Ramesh, Development of an idle speed engine model using in-cylinder pressure data and an idle speed controller for a small capacity port fuel injected SI Engine, International Journal of Automotive Technology (KSAE), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. (2011).P.V. Manivannan, M. Singaperumal, and A. Ramesh, "A new method for measurement of air-fuel ratio based on the response time of a binary exhaust gas oxygen (BEGO) sensor for application in small spark ignition (SI) engines", Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Vol. 36(2), 2014, pp. 175-183.P. Suresh and P.V. Manivannan, "Neural Network Based Hybrid Adaptive Controller for an Autonomously Driving Car using Thin Plate Spline Radial Basis Activation Function", Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 592-594 (2014) pp .Bajwa Roodra Pratap Singh and P.V. Manivannan, "Input shaping for feed forward control of a Flexible Polymethyl Methacrylate beam manipulator", Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 592-594 (2014) pp. PROFESSIONAL PROFILE Experience at Visteon Powertrain Control Systems India Pvt. Ltd, Chennai, and Caterpillar Inc. AWARDS Visiting research faculty at the University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia - Summer, 2012.Visiting faculty at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA - Summer, 2013 & 2014.Awarded "DAAD Fellowship" to visit the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany - Winter, 2013.Recipient of "Teaching Fellowship" under the Erasmus Mundus Distinguished Lecture Series to teach at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany - Summer, 2014. AFFILIATIONS IIT MadrasNational Centre for Combustion Research and Development