Name                           :           Dr.K.Senthilkumar

Designation                :            Professor

                                                 & Director Incharge,CASR

Contact Details          :           Department of Aerospace Engineering

                                                 Madras Institute of Technology

                                                 Anna University

                                                 Chromepet , Chennai-600044

                                                 India

                                                 Phone: 044 – 22516334

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Expertise                    :           Avionics, UAV systems, Aircraft

                                                 Guidance and Control

• Academic Qualification

  Sl.No	Degree	Institute/University	Year of passing
  1	Ph.D	MIT, Anna University	2009
  2	M.E (Avionics)	MIT, Anna University	2002
  3	B.E (EEE)	Madras University	1999

   

   

• Professional Experience

  Period	Post Held	Name of the institution	Nature of Duties
  26.07.2012-till date	Associate Professor	MIT Campus Anna University,Chennai-44	Teaching and Research Consultancy
  9.9.2009-25.7.2012	Assistant Professor(Senior Grade)	MIT Campus Anna University,Chennai-44	Teaching and Research Consultancy
  28.10.2008-8.9.2009	Senior Lecturer	MIT Campus Anna University,Chennai-44	Teaching and Research
  09.07.2004-27.10.2008	Lecturer	MIT Campus Anna University,Chennai-44	Teaching and Research
  20.02.2003-08.07.2004	Lecturer	Jerusalem College of Engineering, Chennai	Teaching and Research

   

• Publications

  12.      Dr. Senthil Kumar K, Krishnakumar R, and Anand T, 2014, ‘Design and Development of Vertical Takeoff and Horizontal Transition Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’, Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 1016, pp. 436-440.

  11.      Dr. Senthil Kumar K, Krishnakumar and Siva E, 2015, ‘Design Development and Endurance comparison of Quadrotor and Flying wing  Hybrid UAV’, International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, Vol. 10, No. 9,  pp. 8056-8060.

  10.      Dr. Senthil Kumar K and Krishnakumar R, 2015, ‘Analysis of Transition from Vertical Takeoff and Landing to Horizontal Flight of Cross Type and X type Mini UAV’, Information Journal, Vol. 18, No. 13,  pp. 1011-1018.

  9.      Dr. Senthil Kumar K, Krishnakumar R and Mohamed Rasheed  A, 2015, ‘ Enhanced Hover Control of Quad Tilt Frame UAV under Windy Conditions’,   International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 12, No. 146, pp. 1- 14.

  8.      Senthil Kumar, K & Mohamed Rasheed, A  2013,  ‘Development of Rotary Wing Mini UAS for Civilian Applications’,  Unmanned Systems, vol.1, no.02, pp. 247-258.

  7.      Senthil Kumar, K, Mohamed  Rasheed, A, Krishna Kumar, R & Giridharan, M 2013, ‘Dhaksha, the Unmanned Aircraft System in its New Avatar-Automated Aerial Inspection of INDIA'S Tallest Tower’,  ISPRS-International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences,  vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 241-246.

  6.      Thillainayagi, R, Mohamed Rasheed, A,  Senthil Kumar, K & Athilingam, R 2014, ‘Object  detection  using  novel  YIQ  model  based  image  fusion  for  UAV  aerial surveillance’, International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 6 no. 3, pp. 1386  -1393.

  5.      Athilingam, R, Mohamed Rasheed, A,  Senthil Kumar, K, Kaviyarasu, A & Thillainayagi, R 2014, ‘Target Tracking with Background Modeled Mean Shift Technique for UAV Surveillance videos’,  International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 6 no. 2, pp. 805 – 814.

  4.      Mohamed Rasheed, A & Senthil Kumar, K 2015, ‘Dhaksha: Adventure in Crowdsourcing UAVForge Flyoff Challenge at USA Military Base Station’, Information An International Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 18, no. 5(A),  pp. 1795-1806.

  3.  Chandrashekar, VS, Shashidara, BP, Sadasivan, S, Uthirabalan, R, Senthil Kumar, K, Mohamed Rasheed, A & Kaviyarasu,A 2011, ‘Onboard and Far Field Aero Acoustic Environment of a Hex Rotor MAV - Measurement and Analysis’, ADA, Bangalore, vol 2, no.89, pp.667-671.

  2.  Mohamed Rasheed, A, Kaviyarasu, A & Senthil Kumar, K 2011, ‘Design and Development of Quad-Rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’, ADA, Bangalore, vol 2, no.91, pp.686-692.

  1.  Senthil Kumar, K, Mohamed Rasheed, A & Anand, T 2014, ‘Design and Development of Unmanned Tilt T-Tri Rotor Aerial Vehicle’, 2nd International Conference on Research in Science, Engineering and Technology (ICRSET’2014), Dubai, pp.108-113.

   

• Patents

   1.      Senthil Kumar, K & Mohamed Rasheed, A 2012, ‘Rotary wing unmanned Aircraft system, Guidance & Control, Method thereof’, Indian patent 5535

  2.      Thamarai Selvi, S, Senthil Kumar, K, Kannan, G &  Mohamed Rasheed, A  2012, ‘Cloud based control, guidance and management of Anin’, Indian patent 5536

     

• Contribution to Department/Institute

   

  • Director Incharge for Centre for aerospace Research

  • Chief Superintdent for UG Exams

  • Member of University Anti-Ragging Squad
  • Member of Vigilance Squad for University Examinations
  • Handled research project funded by CTDT, Anna university.
  • Faculty Advisor
  • Class committee chairman of PG students.

   

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