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Biography

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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Total Projects Completed

78

Postgraduate Students Guided

40 (27 completed, 13 running)

Doctoral Students Guided

368

Total Publications

$4.2M

Total Project Funding

5212

Total Citations

  • January 2021 - Present

    Professor

    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

    Professor (HAG)

    Department of Electrical Engineering
    IIT Kanpur

  • Dec 2010 - July 2017

    Professor

    Department of Electrical Engineering
    IIT Kanpur

  • Dec 2005 - Nov 2010

    Associate Professor

    Department of Electrical Engineering
    IIT Kanpur

  • Dec 2001 - Dec 2005

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Electrical Engineering
    IIT Kanpur

  • July 1995 - June 1999

    Assistant Professor

    Center of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
    BITS Pilani

  • July 1990- July 1991

    Lecturer

    Department of Electrical Engineering
    REC Rourkela

  • Jan 2021- Present

    Director

    Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

  • Jan 2018- Jan 2019

    Convenor

    Department Faculty Search Committee
    IIT Kanpur

  • Jan 2016 - Jan 2019

    Member

    DFAC
    IIT Kanpur

  • Jul 2010 - Jan 2015

    Coordinator

    FIST Grant
    IIT Kanpur

  • Jan 2010 - Dec 2012

    Member

    Library Committee
    IIT Kanpur

  • Jan 2005 - Jul 2007

    In-charge

    EE Department Time-table
    IIT Kanpur

  • Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

    Convenor

    DPGC, Department of Electrical Engineering
    IIT Kanpur

  • Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

    In-charge

    EE Department Seminar
    IIT Kanpur

  • Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

    Advisor

    Graduate Advisor
    BI Mumbai

  • Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

    Coordinator

    Centre for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
    BITS Pilani

  • Jan 1996 - Jan 1999

    Member

    Doctoral Counselling Committee
    BITS Pilani

  • Jan 2000- Jan 2001

    Post-doctoral Studies

    Evolutionary Computation and Multi-agent Systems
    German National Center for Information Technology, GMD, Germany

  • Jul 1991 - Jul 1996

    Ph.D.

    Deprtment of Electrical Engineering
    IIT Delhi

  • Jul 1998 - Jan 1990

    M.Sc(Engg.)

    Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
    REC Rourkela

  • Jul 1984 - Jul 1988

    B.Sc.(Engg.)

    Department of Electrical Engineer
    REC Rourkela

Intelligent Systems and Control Laboratory (ISCon Lab)

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.

Robot Manipulator

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Computer Vision

Brain/ Sleep Studies

Autonomous Ground Vehicle

Control Application in Power

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Ongoing Projects

Listed below are some of the ongoing projects in the ISCon Lab

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Industrial Collaborations

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.

TATA Consultancy Services

Development of robotics assisted ware-house automation system.

Nissan Renault

Vision and drone aided driver assistance system

ADNOC, Abu Dhabi

Drone Enabled Pipeline Inspection