Nilay Kant
Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering (ME), College of Engineering
Engineering Bldg, 428 S Shaw Ln Room 2328G
Biography
Nilay Kant received his B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India, in 2015. He pursued his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA in from 2015 to 2020. He was a visiting student researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. After getting his doctoral degree,
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he worked as a Senior Mechatronics and Control Engineer at Nexteer Automotive Corporation, Saginaw, Michigan and as a Senior Controls Engineer at Mainspring Energy, Menlo Park, California, USA.
Dr. Kant received the outstanding graduate student award for his doctoral research at Michigan State University. He has published more than 15 papers in top peer reviewed journals and conferences in robotics and control. His research interests include impulsive control, underactuated robots, dynamics and control of mechanical systems and energy efficient technologies. His hobbies are singing, playing flute and cricket.
Research area - Controls, Robotics, Impulsive Control, Underactuated Systems, Energy Efficient Technologies
Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Michigan State University 2020
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, Indian 2015
Awards
Outstanding Graduate student Award, Michigan State University, 2020
Publications
N. Kant, R. Mukherjee. Juggling a Devil-Stick: Hybrid Orbit Stabilization using the Impulse Controlled Poincare Map. IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, 2022
N. Kant. Damping Oscillation of Suspended Payload by Varying String Length. ASME Letters in Dynamic Systems and Control, vol. 3, no. 1, 2022.
N. Kant, R. Mukherjee. Orbital Stabilization of Underactuated Systems using Dead-Beat Impulsive Control. IEEE American Control Conference, 2022. (under review).
A. Khandelwal, N. Kant, R. Mukherjee. Nonprehensile Manipulation of a Stick Using Impulsive Forces. Nonlinear Dynamics, available online, 2022.
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