Ramachandran Nagarajan

Professor Dr Ramachandran Nagarajan received the following degrees: BE (Hons), University of Madras, India (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) M. Tech. Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (Control Engineering) PhD, University of Madras, India (Adaptive Control Systems) and Post Doctoral, Loughborough University of Technology, UK (Robot Control) under the main fi eld of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His main research fi elds are Robotics and Robotic Control. His teaching and research assignments are at PSG College of Technology, University of Madras, India Loughborough University of Technology (LUT), UK University of Basrah, Iraq University Sains Malaysia (USM) Osaka Prefecture University, Japan University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and University Malaysia Perils (UniMAP). He has published more than 200 research papers in Journals and Conferences. His additional contributions are of books, book chapters, special issues, monographs and edited proceedings. He has two years industrial experience in India where he was in-charge of developing Computer Numerical Control Systems. His memberships are as Life Fellow IE (India) and as Life Senior Member IEEE (USA). His assignments were in teaching and research supervising to Under Graduate, Master, Doctoral and Post-doctoral students, reviewer of Research Books, Journal and Conference papers, Examiner for Master and Doctoral Research, Member in Faculty Promotion Committees, Funded Research Evaluation Committees, Organizing Committees of International Conferences and Member in Academic Evaluation Committees. He has off ered several Professorial Lecture programmes, to site a few are Present and Future Trends in Robots (USM, 1996), Robots for Hospital and Healthcare Applications (UMS, 2002), Helping the Visually Impaired for their Autonomous Navigation (UniMAP, 2008) and Intelligent Control of Exo-thermal Process in Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan and India. He has received prestigious National and International Medals of Honor for Research Products, Memorial Prizes for best papers, University and National Research Fundings, Post-doctoral Fellowship in UK and in JSPS (Japan).