First International Conference onModern Trends inINSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL

nd rd2 and 3 September 2011@ PSG College of TechnologyCoimbatore

In Association withOrganised by

Department of Instrumentation and Control Systems EngineeringPSG College of Technology Coimbatore - 641004, Tamilnadu India. South India Section

ICIC 2011

Conference Committee

TECHNICAL & ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Dr. Arun K. TangiralaIIT Madras, Chennai

Mr. Anil BhatiaEmerson Process Management India Pvt Ltd., Mumbai

Dr. Baldev RajIndira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Chennai

Dr. Bijnan BandhopadhayIIT Bombay, Mumbai

Dr. Danijela Ristic DurrantUniversitat Bremen, Germany

Dr. Ganesh DevarajSoliton Automation, Bengaluru

Dr. Girija GopalrathanamNational Aerospace Laboratories Bengaluru

Mr. Jayaram PillaiNational Instruments, IndRA

Dr. Jeannie FalconAustin, Texas

Dr. Joydeep DuttaAIT, Thailand

Dr. P. KanagasabapathyMIT, Chennai

Dr. S. ParamasivamESAB Engineering Services Limited Chennai

Dr. Patamaporn SripadungthamKasetsart University, Thailand

Dr. P. RadhakrishnanPSG Institute of Advanced Studies Coimbatore

Commodore (Retd.) S. SaseendranFluid Control Research Institute Palakkad

Dr. N. Selvaganesan Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram

Dr. S.C. SrivastavaIIT, Kanpur

Dr. Subash Chandra MukhopadhyayMassey University, New Zealand

Dr. D. ThukkaramIISc, Bengaluru

Dr. M. UmapathyNIT, Trichy

Dr. Vijay K. VaradanUniversity of Arkansas, US

Dr. Waree KongprawechnonSIIT, Thailand

STEERING COMMITTEE

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Chief PatronShri. L. GopalakrishnanManaging Trustee PSG & Sons Charities

PatronShri. C.R. Swaminathan Chief Executive PSG Institutions

ChairmanDr. R. Rudramoorthy Principal, PSGCT

Organising SecretaryDr. Jovitha Jerome Professor & Head, I&CE, PSGCT

Joint Organising Secretaries

Ms. S. KanthalakshmiAsst. Professor (SG), I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. R. LathaAsst. Professor (SG), I&CE, PSGCT

Dr. J. ArunshankarAsso. Professor, I&CE, PSGCT

Dr. S. EsakkirajanAsst. Prof. (Sl.Gr), I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. D. SubbulekshmiAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Mr. K. SelvakumarAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. R.L. JosephineAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. A.S. Wncy Pon AnnalAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Mr. E. Vinodh KumarAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. T.K. VijayaAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. S. SaranyaAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. M. GeethaAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Mr. D. JayaprasanthAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Ms. M.P. AnbarasiAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Mr. S.NavaneethanAsst. Prof., I&CE, PSGCT

Contact :

Dr. Jovitha Jerome

Organising Secretary, ICIC'11

Department of Instrumentation and

Control Systems Engineering

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore 641004.

Tamilnadu, India. Phone : 0422 2572177, 4344777 Extn : 4256

Fax : 0422 2573833 Email : icic11@ice.psgtech.ac.in

Website : http:/www.psgtech.edu/idmtic/index.html

An attractive souvenir containing details of the programme, abstracts, sponsors list, exhibitors and advertisements will be published and distributed to all the delegates. The tariff for advertisements in the souvenir is as follows:

l Back Cover : Rs. 20,000/-

l Inside Front : Rs.20,000/-

l Inside Back : Rs.10,000/-

l Full Page : Rs. 5,000/-

l Half Page : Rs. 3,000/-

A wide range of Hotel Accommodation is available in Coimbatore city, close to the venue of the conference (for more details please visit the Conference Website). Limited accommodation is also available at the guest house of the college on a chargeable basis. Request for the same should be made in advance.

Delegates are invited to the Conference ndGala evening on 2 September to enjoy a

classical music concert, followed by a conference dinner.

The paper recommended by the review thcommittee and registered on or before 6

August 2011 will be published in the conference proceedings which will be available during the conference. Authors are requested to register for each accepted paper seperately. Extended version of selected papers will be published in the paper following journals:

* International Journal of Smart Sensing and Intelligent System.

* Technology Journal

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Delegates

Academia 100 USD Rs. 2000

Industry/ R&D 200 USD Rs. 3000

Students 50 USD Rs. 1000

Accompanying Guest/Spouse 50 USD Rs. 1000

Registration Deadline : August 20, 2011

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L PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE (01.09.2011)

REGISTRATION FEE FOR PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP

st1 September 2011 @ PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

Mr. Visweswaran JagadeesanAcademic Technical Consultant, National Instruments, India.

At National Instruments, he is currently working as Academic Technical Consultant and

handling the major responsibility as “Improving the quality of Engineering & Science

Education”. He has been a faculty for IUCEE 2010 representing NI at VIIT Pune and RVCE

Bengaluru. Visweswaran has travelled widely in India and he has delivered lectures in

various institutions and also visited more than 300 Indian Engineering Institutions. He

has delivered more than 500 Lectures on “Experiential Engineering Education" on varied

Technology Topics.

Ms. R. MahalakshmiExecutive Manager, Customer Service Division, Yokogawa India Ltd., Bengaluru.

She started her career at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay as a nuclear scientist.

She was involved in the design, installation and testing of instrumentation for various

nuclear testing facilities. Currently she is heading the Corporate Training Center of M/s

Yokogawa India Limited. Yokogawa is a pioneer in the industry of Process Control and

Instrumentation. It's headquarters is at Japan and affiliates are all over the world.

Yokogawa training programs address a variety of segments starting from students,

fresher's, operators, process engineers, instrumentation engineers and senior executives

of various organizations both in India and Abroad.

Mr. A. Senthil

Customer Education & Training - Support Engineer, Agilent Technologies, Chennai.

With over 16 years of experience in measurement engineering, he currently addresses spectrum of customers ranging from Engineering education to Atomic Energy Units. He is specialized in analog and digital communication measurement engineering to RF and Microwaves. His bandwidth of exposure spans between DC to 20GHz.

8:30 - 9:00 a.m Registration

9:00 a.m FPGA Based Embedded Control System DesignMr. Visweswaran Jagadeesan National Instruments, Bengaluru.

10:30 a.m Tea

11.00 a.m FPGA Based Embedded Control System DesignMr. Visweswaran Jagadeesan, National Instruments, Bengaluru.

12.30 p.m Lunch

1.30 p.m Introduction to Distributed Control SystemMs. Mahalakshmi Yokogowa, Bengaluru

3:00 p.m Tea

3.15 p.m Embedded Measurement Mr. A. Senthil Measurement Science Engineering Agilent Technologies, Chennai.

4.45 p.m End

Rs.1000/- (includes the Lunch, Snacks and Workshop Notes)

The Registration Fee is to be paid by Demand Draft drawn in favour of "Organizing Secretary ICIC-11", PSG College of Technology, Payable at Coimbatore.

SPEAKERS

Dr. Vijay K. Varadan

Endowed Chair in Nano-and Bio-Technology and Medicine, and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering (College of Engineering) University of Arkansas, USA.

Prof. Vijay K. Varadan holds honorary doctorate degrees in Nano, and Bio-Technologies and Medicine. He is also serving as the PSG Endowed Chair in Engineering and Medicine at PSG College of Technology. He is the President of Global Institute of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine (GINTEM). He has concentrated on the design and development of various electronic, acoustic and structural composites, smart materials, structures, and devices including Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), synthesis and large scale fabrication of carbon nanotubes, NanoElectroMechanical Systems (NEMS). He has developed neurostimulator, wireless microsensors and systems for sensing and control of Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, glucose in the blood and Alzheimer's disease. He has published more than 500 papers in various journals and 14 books. He has 13 patents pertinent to conducting polymers, smart structures, smart antennas, phase shifters, carbon nanotubes, and implantable device for Parkinson's patients, MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes.

Dr. Arun K. Tangirala Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, Chennai, India.

Prof. Arun K. Tangirala obtained his Doctoral degree in Process Control & Monitoring from the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, and Edmonton, Canada in the year 2001. Continuing as a Post-Doctoral Fellow for a short period, he joined as a Research Manager in the Industry-Govt. sponsored Chair Program at the same department. He was in-charge of this position until Dec. 2004. He is presently serving as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering; IIT Madras. He is a passionate teacher and researcher with interests spanning the fields of process control and monitoring, identification, applied signal processing and fuel cell systems. He has taught several full-term and short-term courses on process control, system identification, Theory and applications of wavelet transforms, Random processes and fuel cell systems.

Dr.Tom Lee Chief Education Officer, Quanser,Adjunct Professor, Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Dr. Lee has been an active contributor in the global engineering and control systems community for over twenty years. As Chief Education Officer at Quanser, a leader in realtime control and mechatronics solutions for education, research, and industry, Dr. Lee develops and implements the company's strategy for enriching and increasing the educational effectiveness of technology in the modern engineering education context. Prior to his appointment at Quanser, Dr. Lee was Vice President of Applications Engineering at Maplesoft, creators of the renowned Maple mathematical software system. In that capacity, he helped the company transform the mathematical technology to a complete engineering modeling and simulation solution. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, noted for its leadership in engineering, computer science, and mathematics.

Mr.S. Joseph WinstonScientific Officer, Robotics and Remote Handling Section,Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakam, Chennai, India.

With 17 years of research experience in Department of Atomic Energy, Mr.S.Joseph Winston has handled many research projects and guided many academic students in their projects. He has focused on the Design and Analysis of Nuclear Reactor core components, Nuclear Reactor Fuel pin thermo-mechanical modeling and simulation and Numerical simulation of fluid dynamics extended to Tsunami Analysis. Currently he is working in the field of Robotics, and has developed projects related to Robotics and Automation for Remote Handling , Robotic Control System development, Spatial Hyper Redundant robots and Obstacle avoidance and path planning of Robots.

INVITED SPEAKERS FOR THE CONFERENCE