Intelligent Systems and Control, Cognitive Robotics, Nano-robotics, Vision based Control, Soft Computing, Information Retrieval in music and language, Semantic Information Processing, Physics of Complex Systems, Cyber Physical Systems, Formation Control of UAVs, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Sanskrit Computational Linguistics.
Professor Laxmidhar Behera is currently serving as the Director of IIT Mandi since January 2021, on deputation from IIT Kanpur. Prior to assuming the role of Director, he was associated with the Department of Electrical Engineering as a Professor specializing in Control and Automation. He leads the Intelligent Systems and Control Laboratory (ISCON) at IIT Kanpur, where he extensively focuses on developing automation solutions for industrial and domestic problems.
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January 2021 - Present
School of Computing and Electrical Enginnering (SCEE), Indian Knowledge System and Mental Health Applications Centre (IKSMHA), Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robitics (CAIR)
IIT Mandi
Auguest 2017 - January 2021
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
Dec 2010 - July 2017
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
Dec 2005 - Nov 2010
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
Dec 2001 - Dec 2005
Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
July 1995 - June 1999
Center of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
BITS Pilani
July 1990- July 1991
Department of Electrical Engineering
REC Rourkela
Jan 2021- Present
Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
Jan 2018- Jan 2019
Department Faculty Search Committee
IIT Kanpur
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019
DFAC
IIT Kanpur
Jul 2010 - Jan 2015
FIST Grant
IIT Kanpur
Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
Library Committee
IIT Kanpur
Jan 2005 - Jul 2007
EE Department Time-table
IIT Kanpur
Jan 2003 - Jan 2005
DPGC, Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Kanpur
Jan 2002 - Jan 2003
EE Department Seminar
IIT Kanpur
Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
Graduate Advisor
BI Mumbai
Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
BITS Pilani
Jan 1996 - Jan 1999
Doctoral Counselling Committee
BITS Pilani
Jan 2000- Jan 2001
Evolutionary Computation and Multi-agent Systems
German National Center for Information Technology, GMD, Germany
Jul 1991 - Jul 1996
Deprtment of Electrical Engineering
IIT Delhi
Jul 1998 - Jan 1990
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
REC Rourkela
Jul 1984 - Jul 1988
Department of Electrical Engineer
REC Rourkela
The Intelligent Systems and Control Laboratory, headed by Prof. Laxmidhar Behera, is responsible for developing several industrial applictions involving robotics, control and artificial intelligence. The lab specilises in classical, modern, robust and intelligent control of robotic systems. Given below is a brief description of the various divisions in the lab. To know more, please visit the official page of the lab by clicking on the link below.
Listed below are some of the ongoing projects in the ISCon Lab
To be updated soon
The ISCon lab has handeled several projects that have had a large impact on the industry. Below are a list of industrail collaborations that the Laboratory has.