IITKGP

Responsibilities

  • Dean, Infrastructure - Electrical, Electronics & Computing
  • Chairman, Computer Purchase and Network Maintenance Committee

Research Areas

Prof Aurobinda Routray has expertise in the area of signal processing and embedded systems. His research group team consists of about 25 research scholars (PhD & MS) working in algorithms and systems. They have over 100 international journals, several international conference papers with 5 patents. The primary focus of the group is to develop fast and accurate algorithms for signal detection, classification, information retrieval and then implementation on portable platforms. Many of the lab-models were converted to product prototypes. The major research interests are:
1. Human Monitoring:
The research group is developing devices for monitoring alertness, sleep, emotion, aggression etc. using EEG, ECG, EGG, voice, facial-thermal images, respiration rate and various psycho-motor scores. Several health monitoring devices are being developed which are standardized by experiments where multitude of signals are simultaneously collected from participants to validate each other for a particular condition. Some of the prototypes are: (a) Driver Drowsiness Detection System (b) Driver Drowsiness Detection Device (c)Operator Drowsiness Detection Device (d) Go-no-Go System (e) Portable Wireless Go-no-Go System (f) Unobtrusive Go-no-Go System (g) RADAR sleep (h) Pressure Sleep (i) Thermo Sleep. The research group is actively involved in studying the effect of meditation on the cognitive and emotional performance of human brain using an integrated signal and image based approach. Several multi-modal databases have been created which have been analyzed and reported.

2. Machine Diagnostics and Prognostics:
Using similar signal processing and analytic methods one of the research groups have developed a very novel system for diagnosis of very weak failure modes in Induction Motor drives. It has been converted into an IoT based networked diagnosis system for a typical industrial environment with many motors.
 
3. Other Products:
The group is also developing smart-meters, underground cable fault detectors, spark detection systems, portable hygiene monitors, city garbage monitors etc.
  • A Method for Detecting Half Broken Rotor Bar in lightly loaded Induction Motors using Current by Naha, Arunava Samanta, Anik Kumar Routray, Aurobinda Deb, Alok Kanti IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measuremen vol.65 ,IEEE 1614-1625 (2015)
  • Study of feature combination using HMM and SVM for multilingual Odiya speech emotion recognition by Swain, Monorama Sahoo, Subhasmita Routray, Aurobinda Kabisatpathy, P Kundu, Jogendra N International Journal of Speech Technology vol.18 ,Springer 387-393 (2015)
  • Automatic Facial Expression Recognition Using Features of Salient Facial Patches by Happy, SL Routray, Aurobinda IEEE transactions on Affective Computing vol.6 , IEEE 1-12 (2015)

Principal Investigator

  • AI-Enabled Cloud Platform for Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Health Management of On-Site Industrial Drives GAIL (INDIA) LIMITED
  • An AI Enabled Platfrom for Diagnosis Prognosis and Health Management of Mining Electrical Systems: A Case Study on the Drag Line CENTRAL MINE PLANNING AND DESIGN INSTITUTE LIMITED CMPDI
  • Design and Development of non-invasive interactive human monitoring systems. B.G.Shirke Construction Technology Pvt. Ltd.
  • Design, Development, Validation, and Upgradation of Personality Assessment KIOSK and Meditation KIOSK SHRIII- Sciences, Humanities, Resources and Industries Indianization Institute, a Unit of BHARATH AAP Technologies Private Limited
  • Proof Checking and Vetting of Detailed Traction, Auxiliary, Earthing Bonding and E and M System Drawings of already completed Section of RVNL of Kolkata Metro Railway Project and 2x25 kV Traction System project by RVNL Rail Vikas Nigam Limited
  • Vetting of design and drawing plans for the irrigation project (Handri Neeva Sujala Sravanthi) AEPL-SCL JV

Ph. D. Students

Amitava Hatial

Area of Research: Diagnostics and Prognostics of Electrical Machines

Biswajit Tripathy

Area of Research: Guidance of Aerospace Vehicles

Bivash Chakraborty

Area of Research: Machine Learning and Signal Processing

Bubai Maji

Area of Research: Speech Emotion Analysis

Gargi Panda

Area of Research: Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Haraprasad Badajena

Area of Research: Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Harshith B Nair

Area of Research: STEM Education, Educational Psychology, Neuropedagogy, Cognitive Science

Hirak Banerjee

Area of Research: Facial Thermal Imaging and Analytics

Mohamed Ismail Yasar Arafath K

Area of Research: Signal Processing

Partha Pratim Adhikari

Area of Research: Predictive Maintenance for Aerospace Systems

Prachi Joshi

Area of Research: Human Monitoring

Puspendu Gayen

Area of Research: AI and Computer Vision

Ranadeep Bhattacharjee

Area of Research: Rock Signal Processing

Saket Kumar

Area of Research: Meditative States and Bio-Feedback Mechanisms

Samya Deb Bhattacharya

Area of Research: AI enabled Sensor Swarms

Saptarshi Pal Chaudhuri

Area of Research: Diagnostics and Prognostics in HEV

Satarupa Uttarkabat

Area of Research: Human Monitoring

Soumitra Kundu

Area of Research: Human Computer Interface

Tanushri Adak

Area of Research: Personality Assessment

Tiash Ghosh

Area of Research: Signal and Image Processing

MS Students

Adarsha Mondal

Area of Research: Prognostics and Health Management of Industrial Systems

Anand Kumar

Area of Research: Signal Processing, Data Analytics, Block Chain