Dr.BALA UAV

1996-2000
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering

Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli
2000-2002
Masters in Engineering Design

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore
2007-2011
PhD (Robotics and Control)

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Design and Development of Autonomous Amphibious Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and UAV mountable water sampling devices for Water Based Applications
DST – GITA (Indo – Korea)

Design and Development of Ornithopter Test Rig
Institution of Engineers (IEI)

Design and Development of Remotely Piloted Aircraft for Collecting Aero Biological Samples Ministry of Micro
Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME)

“Energy efficient and optimal path planning strategies for SWARM of UAVs in real time localisation using deep learning based stereo vision system”
ISRO – Respond, 2019 – 2021, Rs. 23.01 lakhs
On-Going.

“Expansion of Activities of Biotech- KISAN Hub in Three Aspirational Districts (Kadapa, Vizaingaram and Visakhapatnam) of Andhra Pradesh”
DBT, 2019-2020, Rs. 77.50 lakhs
On-Going.

“Development of 3D Printed flexible patch antennas for enhancement of communication range in UAV”
DRDO, ARDB – Unmanned Aero System Panel, Rs 29.06 Lakh

“UAV Based In-situ Measurements and Hyper spectral Analysis for Water Quality Mapping and Developing Remediation Strategies”
DST- SERB – EQUITY, Rs 42.54 Lakh

“Seaweeds cultivation and utilization in Odisha coast including Chilika Lake for ecological restoration and livelihood generation”
DBT, INR1.88 crore, 2021-2024

1. TITLE : Robust Control Of Collaborative Manipulators -Flexible Object System

AUTHORS : Balasubramanian Esakki, Rama Bhat, Chun-Yi Su
CONF./ JOURNAL NAME : Intl. Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, Vol. 10
PAGE : pp. 1-18, 2013, IF:0.987

2. TITLE : Practical Flapping Mechanisms for 20cm-span Micro Air Vehicles

AUTHORS : Lung-Jieh Yang, Balasubramanian Esakki, Udayagiri Chandrasekhar, Kuan-Cheng Hung, Chieh-Ming Cheng
CONF./ JOURNAL NAME : Intl. Journal of Micro Aerial Vehicle, Vol. 7, No. 2
PAGE : pp.181-202, 2015, IF : 0.897

3. TITLE : Deterioration assessment of infrastructure using fuzzy logic and image processing algorithm

AUTHORS : D. C. Haran Pragalath, S. Sankar srinivasn, Harsh Rathod, Balasubramanian Esakki and Rishi Gupta
CONF./ JOURNAL NAME : ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, IF : 0.93, Accepted

4. TITLE : Effects of heat energy on morphology and properties of selective inhibition sintered high density polyethylene

AUTHORS : D. Rajamani and Balasubramanian Esakki
CONF./ JOURNAL NAME : Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Sciences, Accepted, ESCI.

5. TITLE : University Physics

AUTHORS : Rama Bhat, Jothi lakshmi Rajendran, Balasubramanian Esakki
PUBLISHER : Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd, ISBN 978-8184872699 and Alpha Science International Ltd, ISBN: 978-1842658130

Appln No. 2237/CHE/2014 – Power Line Inspection Robot, Applied
Appln No. 5037/CHE/2014 – Telecom Tower Inspection Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Applied
Appln No. 2016400361 – Vision Base Control of Multiple Flapping Wing Micro Aerial Vehicles and Formation Flight, Applied
Appln. No. 201641009924 – Adaptive traffic control and mapping using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Applied
Appln. No. 20174024946 - “Elevated Civil Infrastructure Health Assessment Using Rotary Wing UAVs”, Applied
PCT Intl. Appln.No. PCT/IN2018/050651,India :201741036299 - Amphibian Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Multi-terrain applications, Applied
Appln. No.201841029828 – “Medical assistive device for geriatric care and orthopedic rehabilitation”, Applied
Appln. No. 201841044458, Adjustable Frame Unmanned Amphibious Aerial Vehicle With Extended Floats, Applied
Appln. No. 201641009924, Adaptive traffic control and mapping using unmanned aerial vehicle, Granted -> View Patent

Awards/Prizes

Won (Shared with IIT Kanpur) First Prize of Rs. 5 Lakhs in a National Level Competition organized by Power Grid Corporation Ltd.
in GRIDTECH 2013 held at Delhi competing with various IITs and NITs

Dedicated faculty Award –Vel Tech University – 2013

International Travel Grant – 2014 (DST–SERB under International Travel Support Scheme)

Won prestigeous Aegis Graham Bell Award for the category of “ Best Innovative Businees Model 2014” organized by Aegis Business School,
Deloitte, COAI and TCOE competing with world class telecom sectors.

National Competition - VISAI 2015 - Won Best Project Award in Mechanical Stream competing over 50 Colleges / Universities, Feb. 2015

World Wide Competition - Secured 2nd Prize under the category of “Future of Technology”-Organized by Future Ideas Foundation, May, 2015

National Competition - VISAI 2017 – Won First Prize in Clean water Stream and Won Third Prize in Environmental theme, Feb. 2017

World Wide Competition

Won second prize under the category of “FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY “ in the world wide academic competition conducted by
Future ideas foundation.

5th International Engineering Project Competition & Exhibition on 23rd & 24th Feb 2015 - VISAI 2015

Won Best Project Award in Mechanical Stream competing over 50 Colleges / Universities.

VISAI – 2017

Clean water Stream - First Prize. Environmental theme - Third Prize.

International Faculty Exchange

Delivered short term course on “Robot Manipulator kinematics and Dynamics” as a visiting faculty to Tamkang University,
Taiwan during Oct. – Nov. 2015.

International Visits for Research Collaboration

Visited Tamkang University, Taiwan to discuss the Indo – Taiwan collaborative research project progress during 4th Nov. to 3rd Dec., 2013

Visited Tamkang University, Taiwan to discuss the Indo – Taiwan collaborative research project progress during 29th Oct. 29 to 9th Nov., 2014

Visited Tamkang University, Taiwan to discuss the Indo – Taiwan collaborative research project progress during 1st to 27th Oct., 2015

Visited University of Victoria, Canada to discuss the Indo-Canada collaborative research project progress during 24th May to 9th Jun., 2016.

Visited University of Victoria, Canada to discuss the Indo-Canada collaborative research project progress during 1st to 9th Aug., 2017.

Visited Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea to discuss the Indo – Korea
collaborative research project progress during 21st to 28th Mar., 2018.

Invited Talks

Delivered a talk on “Research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles an Overview” during the Ornithopter mechanism assembly and
real time flying workshop conducted at ESCI, Hyderabad on Aug. 6, 2014.

Delivered a talk on “Design & Development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” to the Final Year students of Vel Tech
MultiTech Engineering College,
Chennai on Sept. 24, 2014

Invited key note speaker- “ UAV – Multidisciplinary Perspective” on the 2nd International Conference on Multi-Disciplines of Engineering
on Advanced Technology and Environmentalism Design at National University of Tainan, Taiwan on Oct.31,2014

Delivered a talk on “Industrial Robotics” for Student Skill Development Activities at Vel Tech University on 29 Jan., 2015

Delivered a talk on “UAV and its Applications”, in a workshop on rubber powered flapping wing MAV and zonal competition for Aerocarnival
2015 held at Vel Tech University on 30 Jan., 2015

Invited Key note speaker- “Glimplses on the Development of UAVs for Diverse Applications” on the International Conference on Biomimetics
and Ornithopters, Tamkang University, Taiwan on 28-30 June,2015

Invited Speaker- Inspire Science Camp funded by DST – Govt. of India Organized by Vel Tech University
“Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles” - Aug. 2015
Delivered a talk on “Micro Aerial Vehicles applications and assembly of Ornithopters” at Vel Tech University on 20 Aug. 2016
Invited Speaker – Tamilnadu Archaeological Department -“Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Heritage Structure Inspection and Monitoring”
on 29 Sept. 2016
Delivered a talk on “ Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and its applications” at Mekapatti Rajamohan Reddy Institute of Technology and Science,
Udayagiri, Nellore on Oct 28, 2016
Delivered a talk on “Ornithopter and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle“, at Dhanalaksmi Srinivasan Institute of Technology, Trichy on 7th Feb., 2017
Delivered a talk on “Ornithopter and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle“, at Imayam Engineering College , Trichy on 8th Feb., 2017
Delivered a guest lecture on “Development of UAVs for Industrial Applications” to UG students of Mining and Machinery Department,
IIT – Dhanbad (ISM), Dhanbad on 28 th Aug. 2018.
Invited Speaker : “Unmanned aerial vehicles for inspecting railway bridges and heritage structures”, Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Unmanned Systems,
Tamkang University, Taiwan on 21-24 Aug., 2017.
Invited Speaker: “Application of UAVs and future perspective” at National summer program organized by iSPARK Smart Solutions in association
with The Institution of Engineers (India) during 4 -13 June, 2018 at Chennai.
Invited Speaker: “Selective inhibition sintering : Low cost powder based additive manufacturing”, NAFEMS 18 India Conference on
Engineering analysis, modeling, simulation and 3D Printing, held at Bangalore on 20-21 July, 2018.
Invited Speaker- Inspire Science Camp funded by DST – Govt. of India Organized by Vel Tech University “Micro Aerial Vehicles” – August, 2018
Delivered a guest lecture titled “Development of UAVs for Industrial Applications” to UG students of Mining and Machinery Department,
IIT – Dhanbad (ISM), Dhanbad on 28th Aug. 2018.
Delivered a guest lecture titled “Insight on the development of UAVs for multifaceted applications”, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering,
Chennai on 9th Jan. 2019.
Delivered a guest lecture titled “Applications of UAV: Glimpses of UAV Development”, Siddhartha Engineering College,
Vijayawada on 8th March 2019.
“UAVs Present and Future – Applications”, in Time 4.0 – 2019, National Conference on Unmanned Vehicles and Robotics
held at Dr MGR Educational and Research Institute on 20th March, 2019.
“Development of Multirotor systems for diverse applications and future prospects in Wild life monitoring”,
in the workshop on Roles of UAVs for animal census and surveillance in sathyamangalam forest region at
Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam on 28th March 2019
supported by Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology (TNSCST).
Key Note Speaker: “Role of UAVs in Civil and Societal Missions”, NCHU International Partnership Forum &
Bilateral Conference on Engineering Technology”,
National Chung Hsing University (NCHU) on 25 and 26th of April 2019, Taichung City, Taiwan.
“Development of UAVs for Industrial Applications”, Drone Club – Inauguration, Karpagam College of Engineering,
Coimbatore on 20th Sep. 2019.
“Insights on UAV development for Multifaceted Environments and Industrial Applications”,
in the 5th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Renewable Energy (ICMERE), 2019 on 11th - 13th December,
2019 held at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Chittagong, Bangladesh.