Brief Bios Dr. B. K. Sarkar

Dr. B. K. Sarkar is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Professor in Charge, Centre for Robotics and Mechatronics, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, Shillong. He was Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya during 2017 to 2019. Dr. Sarkar Served various administrative responsibility in the Department and Institute. He obtained his B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), ME and Ph D degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. His major areas of research interests are, Mechatronics control, Robotics, Electrohydraulic system and control, Renewable energy system controller design. More specifically design of the advanced nonlinear control i. e. adaptive control position tracking of loaded electrohydraulic system. In renewable energy hydro power, wind power and solar energy system components design and control for enhance efficiency. In robotics system study the performance of parallel electrohydraulic manipulator, gripper system design and control. He has published 26 papers in reputed international journals, 32 papers in reputed national/international conferences 8 book chapters and 2 books. Dr. Bikash Kumar Sarkar guided ten (10) Masters students and one ongoing Masters student. He has guided 4 Ph D scholar and 4 ongoings. Dr. Sarkar received the National Doctoral fellowship award in the year of 2009. Dr. Sarkar completed three sponsored projects, one sponsored by DST-SERB and the other two sponsored by MHRD. He has organized one International conference and a large number of national workshops and training program in the department.  Dr. B. K. Sarkar served as a resource person for the various workshop ‘Technology Enabled through Sensor integration for robotics application’, organized by the Center for Robotics and Mechatronics, NIT Meghalaya, which was sponsored by TEQIP-III.  Dr. B. K. Sarkar is a life member of professional bodies like the National Society for Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power (NSFMFP) and Indian society for Heat and Mass Transfer (ISHMT). He is also member of American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Journal

1.     P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, A. Chatterjee,  Rotary-actuated Wind Turbine Pitch Control using Nonlinear-based Chaotic Harris Hawks Optimization Tuned Generalized Power Exponential Rate Reaching Law Terminal Sliding Mode Controller, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (Accepted)

2. Chullai, E.T., Maity, S. & Sarkar, B.K. Numerical Investigation on a Series of Parabolic Profiles to Arrive at an Optimum Design Based on the Savonius Wind Rotor. Arab J Sci Eng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-024-09747-3

3.  P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, and A. Chatterjee, “Harris hawks optimization tuned exponential reaching law based integral SMC for pitch control of linear hydraulic actuated wind turbines,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part C J. Mech. Eng. Sci., p. 09544062231193825, Sep. 2024, doi: 10.1177/09544062231193825.

4  P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, and A. Chaterjee, “Pitch control of electrohydraulic semi-rotary-actuated wind turbine with actuator and valve fault using generalized power-based exponential rate reaching law sliding mode controller,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., p. 095965182311546, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1177/09596518231154632.

5. N. Kumar, P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, and S. Maity, “Wind turbine electrohydraulic transmission system control for maximum power tracking with pump fault,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., p. 095965182311556, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1177/09596518231155691.

6. J. Vinod, B. K. Sarkar, and D. Sanyal, “Flow control in a small Francis turbine by system identification and fuzzy adaptation of PID and deadband controllers,” Renew. Energy, vol. 201, pp. 87–99, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2022.11.039.

7. P. Venkaiah and B. K. Sarkar, “Electrohydraulic proportional valve-controlled vane type semi-rotary actuated wind turbine control by feedforward fractional-order feedback controller,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., vol. 236, no. 2, pp. 318–337, Feb. 2022, doi: 10.1177/09596518211028417.

8. N. Kumar, R. Kumar, B. K. Sarkar, and S. Maity, “Performance Analysis of the Swashplate Axial Piston Pump with Hydraulic Fluid Temperatures,” vol. 80, p. 6, 2021.

9. P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Experimental and numerical analysis of solar air heater accoutered with modified conical vortex generators in a staggered fashion,” Renew. Energy, vol. 180, pp. 109–131, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.08.046.

10. P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Experimentally validated 3D simulation and performance optimization of a solar air duct with modified conical vortex generators,” Sol. Energy, vol. 224, pp. 1040–1062, Aug. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2021.06.052.

11. L. Kushwaha, P. Venkaiah, and B. K. Sarkar, “PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE WITH OPTIMISED PITCH ANGLE VARIATION,” vol. 28, no. 2, p. 8, 2021.

12. N. Kumar, R. Kumar, B. K. Sarkar, and S. Maity, “Condition monitoring of hydraulic transmission system with variable displacement axial piston pump and fixed displacement motor,” Mater. Today Proc., vol. 46, pp. 9758–9765, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.327.

13. V. J and B. K. Sarkar, “Francis turbine electrohydraulic inlet guide vane control by artificial neural network 2 degree-of-freedom PID controller with actuator fault,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., vol. 235, no. 8, pp. 1494–1509, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1177/0959651820973797     .

14. M. K. Mondal, N. Biswas, A. Datta, B. K. Sarkar, and N. K. Manna, “Positional impacts of partial wall translations on hybrid nanofluid flow in porous media: Real Coded Genetic Algorithm (RCGA),” Int. J. Mech. Sci., p. 107030, Dec. 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2021.107030.

15.   P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Overall performance analysis and GRA optimization of solar air heater with truncated half conical vortex generators,” Sol. Energy, vol. 196, pp. 637–652, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2019.12.057.

16. Parag Jyoti Bezbaruah, Rajat Subhra Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Solar Air Heater with Finned Absorber Plate and Helical Flow Path: A CFD Analysis,” Appl. Sol. Energy, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 35–41, Jan. 2020, doi: 10.3103/S0003701X20010041.

17.  P. Venkaiah and B. K. Sarkar, “Hydraulically actuated horizontal axis wind turbine pitch control by model free adaptive controller,” Renew. Energy, vol. 147, pp. 55–68, Mar. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.127.

18.  [P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Thermo-hydraulic performance augmentation of solar air duct using modified forms of conical vortex generators,” Heat Mass Transf., vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 1387–1403, May 2019, doi: 10.1007/s00231-018-2521-1.

19.  R. K. Ranjan, N. Alom, J. Singh, and B. K. Sarkar, “Performance investigations of cross flow hydro turbine with the variation of blade and nozzle entry arc angle,” Energy Convers. Manag., vol. 182, pp. 41–50, Feb. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2018.12.075.

20. P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, and B. K. Sarkar, “Thermal and Fluid Flow Analysis of Miller Teeth Shaped Ribbed Solar Air Heater- A CFD Approach,” vol. 78, p. 5, 2019.

21. B. K. Sarkar, “Modeling and validation of a 2-DOF parallel manipulator for pose control application,” Robot. Comput.-Integr. Manuf., vol. 50, pp. 234–241, Apr. 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.rcim.2017.09.017.

22. P. Mandal, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “Designing an optimized model-free controller for improved motion tracking by rugged electrohydraulic system,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Part J. Syst. Control Eng., vol. 230, no. 5, pp. 385–396, May 2016, doi: 10.1177/0959651815622847.

23.  P. Mandal, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, A. Chatterjee, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “Real-time fuzzy-feedforward controller design by bacterial foraging optimization for an electrohydraulic system,” Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell., vol. 45, pp. 168–179, Oct. 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2015.06.018.

24.   B. B. Ghosh, B. K. Sarkar, and R. Saha, “Realtime performance analysis of different combinations of fuzzy–PID and bias controllers for a two degree of freedom electrohydraulic parallel manipulator,” Robot. Comput.-Integr. Manuf., vol. 34, pp. 62–69, Aug. 2015, doi: 10.1016/j.rcim.2014.11.001.

25.   S. Dasmahapatra, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, A. Chatterjee, S. Mookherjee, and D. Sanyal, “Design of an Adaptive Fuzzy-Bias SMC and Validation for a Rugged Electrohydraulic System,” IEEEASME Trans. Mechatron., vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 2708–2715, Dec. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2015.2393437.

26.   P. Mandal, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, S. K. Acharyya, and D. Sanyal, “GA-Optimized Fuzzy-Feedforward-Bias Control of Motion by a Rugged Electrohydraulic System,” IEEEASME Trans. Mechatron., vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 1734–1742, Aug. 2015, doi: 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2352156.

Conference

1. VINOD J, PALADUGU VENKAIAH, NEERAJ KUMAR, BIKASH KUMAR SARKAR, FRANCIS TURBINE CONTROL WITH ELECTROHYD RAULIC INLET GUIDE VANE SYSTEM DYNAMICS 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENERGY, POWER AND ENVIRONMENT NIT Meghalaya, 2023
2. PALADUGU VENKAIAH, BIKASH KUMAR SARKAR, AMITAVA CHATTERJEE, HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE PITCH ACTUATION FAULT ANALYSIS AND CONTROL 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE  ENERGY AND FUTURE ELECTRIC TRANSPORTA TION (SEFET) 2023 SoA University, 2023
3. Jyotipriyam Baruah; Paladugu Venkaiah; Neeraj Kumar; Bikash Kumar Sarkar; Nur Alom, Offshore Wind Turbine Pitch Control with Aeroelastic Effect IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), Arad, Romania, 2022
4. AB KHELKAR, K SYRTI, R S DAS, BK SARKAR, AUGMENTING THE THERMAL PERFORMANC E OF SOLAR AIR HEATER WITH ABSORBER PLATE ROUGHENED WITH PINFINS 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING AND ROBOTICS RESEARCH (ICMERR 2022) KRAKOW, POLAND, 2022
5. B. B. Ghosh, B. K. Sarkar*, R. Saha, Positional error estimation of the parallel manipulator for control application 7th International Conference on Mechanica lEngineering and Robotics Research (ICMERR 2022) Krakow, Poland, 2022
6. Saroja Ranjan Pattanayak, Paladugu Venkaiah, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Bikash Pattanayak, Harish Chandra Das, Modelling and control of parabolic trough field system for feed water heating application, 26thNational and 4th International ISHMT-ASTFE Heat and Mass Transfer Conference  IIT Madras, Chennai-600036, Tamil Nadu, India, 2021
7. Nur Alom, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Effect of Exit Blade Angle on the Performance of Cross Flow Hydro Turbine: A Numerical Study, GTINDIA 2021-76037, V001T09A007; 7 pages, ASME Online, 2021
8.  Jaswant Singh, Nur Alom, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, COMPUTATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CROSS FLOW HYDRO TURBINE BY CHANGING THE ROTATIONAL SPEED,  8th International and 47th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power IIT Guwahati, 2020
9. P. Venkaiah, B.K. Sarkar, MODELLING AND CONTROL OF THE HYDRAULICALLY ACTUATED HORIZONTAL AXIS WIND TURBINE PITCH SYSTEM, ASME 2019 Gas Turbine India, 6th Biennial gas turbine India conference, 5th to 6th December 2019, IIT Chennai. (Revised paper submitted), Paper ID:GTINDIA 2019-2378 (Accepted).
10. Neeraj Kumar, Bikash Kumar Sarkar, Subhendu Maity, Leakage based condition monitoring and pressure control of the swashplate axial piston pump, ASME 2019 Gas Turbine India, 6th Biennial gas turbine India conference, 5th to 6th December 2019, IIT Chennai. (Revised paper submitted), Paper ID:GTINDIA 2019-2385(Accepted).
11. L. Kushwaha, P. Venkaiah, B. K. Sarkar, Performance analysis of vertical axis wind turbine with optimized pitch angle variation, 10th TSME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 10th– 13rd December 2019, Pattaya, Thailand (Abstract accepted, Final Paper submitted)
12. P. Kumar, Vinod J., B. K. Sarkar, Modelling of the multiple Francis turbine by velocity diagram for speed control application,  10th TSME International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, 10th– 13rd December 2019, Pattaya, Thailand (Abstract accepted, Final Paper submitted)
13. E. K. Mawsor, N. Kumar*, B. K. Sarkar, ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF THE WIND TURBINE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM FOR SMOOTH POWER GENERATION, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th  December 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
14. Neeraj Kumar, Bikash Kumar, Sarkar, Subhendu, Maity, , RECENT DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF THE HYDROSTATIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th  December 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
15. J. Vinod, B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, ACTIVE POWER CONTROL OF THE FRANCIS TURBINE SYSTEM BY MODEL FREE ADAPTIVE  CONTROLLER, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th  December 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
16. P. J. Bezbaruah, R. S. Das, B. K. Sarkar, CFD BASED STUDYON THERMAL AND FLUID FLOW DYNAMICS DUE TO MILLER TEETH SHAPED RIBS OVER ABSORBER PLATE OF SOLAR AIR COLLECTOR, IC-RIDME 2018, 8th to 10th December, 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
17. J. Vinod, P. Venkaiah, B.K. Sarkar, FRANCIS TURBINE IGV CONTROL UNDER FORCE ESTIMATION, INCOM18, Period -4 t0 6 January 2018, Place -Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Page -769-772, 2018.
18. P. Venkaiah, K. Das, B.K. Sarkar, POWER CONTROL OF THE SMALL SCALE VARIABLE SPEED VARIABLE PITCH WIND TURBINE, INCOM18, Period -4 t0 6 January 2018, Place -Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Page -795-798, 2018.
19. P. Venkaiah, K. Das, E. K. Mawsor, B. K. Sarkar, WIND TURBINE PITCHING SYSTEM DESIGN AND CONTROLIN THE CONTEXT OF NORTH-EAST INDIA, 6th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER), Paper No. 251, IIT Bombay 12th to 14th December 2017.
20. P. J. Bezbaruah,, R. S. Das, B. K., Sarkar, Numerical Analysis of Solar Triangular Air Duct with Conical Turbulators, 2nd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Smart Technology (ICEPE), 2018, NIT Meghalaya.
21. Abhishek Kumar, Gupta, Parag Jyoti Bezbaruah, Rajat, Subhra Das, Bikash Sarkar, Numerical Investigation on Solar Air Heater with Hemispherical Roughness, 2nd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Smart Technology (ICEPE), 2018, NIT Meghalaya
22. 22.  P. Venkaiah B. K.. Sarkar, Position Control of the Hydraulically Actuated Francis Turbine Inlet Guide Vane, ASME 2017 Power Conference Joint With ICOPE-17 collocated with the ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, the ASME 2017 15th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2017 Nuclear Forum, Period -June 26–30, 2017, Place -Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Page -V002T09A004; 9 pages, 2017. http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2653650
23. 23.  B. K. Sarkar R Saha S. Mookherjee D. Sanyal, Speed Control of Hydraulically and Electrically Coupled Multiple Francis Turbines, 6th International and 43rd National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, Period -15th-17th December, 2016, Place -MANITA, Allahabad, 2016.
24. 24.  S. Chakrabarty, B. K. Sarkar, S. Maity, CFD Analysis of the Hydraulic Turbine Draft Tube to Improve System Efficiency., Second International Conference on Applied Mechanics, Thailand, Phuket, 27th -28th December, 2015.
25. 25.  B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Real-Time Pole Placement Control Of The Rugged Electrohydraulic System”, 41st National and 5th  International conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power. IIT Kanpur, 12th -14th December, 2014.  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1202.7609
26. B. Ghosh, B. K. Sarkar, R. Saha, “Performance Analysis of Different Controllers for a 2 DOF Electro-Hydraulic Motion Simulator”, 1st International and 16th National conference on machine and mechanics., IIT Roorkee., 16th -18th December, 2013 
27. B. K. Sarkar, P. Mandal, R Saha, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Comparison of a Combined PID Feefforward Controller with a Fuzzy Controller for an Electrohydraulic Actuation System” 38th  National conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power. MANIT Bhopal, 15th-17th December, 2011.
28. B. K. Sarkar, R Saha, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Feedback-Feedforward Control of an Electro-Hydraulic Actuator System Using Luenberger Observer” 37th  National and 4th  International conference on Fluid mechanics and Fluid Power. IIT Madras, 16th -18th December, 2010.
29. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee,  D. Sanyal, “Size Identification and Design of Speed Controller for a Francis Turbine from Nonlinear Modeling and Operational Characteristics”, 7th  International Fluid Power Conference Aachen, 22nd -24th  March, 2010.
30. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “System Identification of a Hydraulic Turbine From Steady State Performance Characteristics ”, 35th  National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power,  pp.535-541, PESIT Bangalore, 11th –13th  December, 2008.
31. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “Designing An Integrated Feedforward-Feedback Controller For Speed Governing Of Hydraulic Turbine”, 35th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, pp. 542 -548, PESIT Bangalore, 11th –13th December, 2008.
32. B. K. Sarkar, S. Mookherjee, D. Sanyal, “A New Approach Of Modeling The Dynamics of Hydraulic Reaction Turbines Based on Velocity Diagram”, 34th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, 2007, Paper No. -1101, pp. 777-785 BIT Mesra, 10th–12th December, 2007.

Ph D

M. Tech

B. Tech Project

 Summer Project:

1.      HoD, Mechanical Engineering Department, September, 2017 to June 2019.

2.      PIC, Center for robotics and Mechatronics, October 2018 to till date.

3.      Chairman, Library committee, March 2017 to June 2019.

4.      DRC, member, Department of Mechanical engineering.

5.      DRC, Allied Member, Department of Mathematics

6.      Member to monitor and approve the evaluation & grading, ME Deptt. Jan to May 2016

7.      Grade Screening Committee, EE Department, Jan to May 2016

8.      External Member of DRC, (Electrical Engineering Department), 2016

9.      Departmental Advisory Committee (DAC) External Member (Chemistry Department), 2016.

10.  Faculty-in- charge Strength of Material lab, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

11.  Faculty-in- charge Mechanical Workshop, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

12.  Member, Library Committee, NIT Meghalaya 2015.

13.  Member, Student Appeal Committee, ME Department, NIT Meghalaya 2015.

14.  Coordinator, Result Maintenance Committee, 2014-2015.

15.  Member, Departmental Advisory Committee (DAC), ME Department, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

16.  Member, Academic Probation Committee, ME Department, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

17.  Member, Students Counseling Cell, NIT Meghalaya, 2014.

18.  Chairman, Student Branch Change Committee, NIT Meghalaya, 2014-2015.

19.  Member, Departmental Research Committee, NIT Meghalaya

Workshop/Seminar Organized

Conference organized

1.      International Conference on Recent Innovations and Developments in Mechanical Engineering, NIT Meghalaya, 8th -10th November 2016, Worked as chairman.

2.      2016 IEEE First International Conference on Control Measurement and Instrumentation, January 8-10 2016, Kolkata, India, (Worked as Member), November 8-10, 2018, Worked as member

Lecture Organized

Conference:

Workshop:

Seminar:

• Reviewer-Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering. (SAGE), , from From 2016, (International)
• Reviewer-Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering. (SAGE), , from From 2016
• Reviewer-Advances in Mechanical, Industrial, Automation and Management Systems (AMIAMS-2017), MNITA, Allahabad., , from 2016
• 4. NCPDM-2015, MINT Allahabad, , from 2015
• 5. 5th International and 26th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference AIMTDR 2014, IIT Guwahati, , from 2014