Title	Intelligent Systems for Flight Control
Speaker	Prof. Narasimhan Sundararajan
Chair	Sundaram Suresh

Abstract
This talk presents the recent developments in the area of intelligent systems for flight control of aerospace vehicles. Use of intelligent systems methods in flight controller development enhance their robustness (tolerance to large uncertainty), fault-tolerance capability (for single and multiple failures of sensors/actuators etc.), performing agile (highly nonlinear) maneuvers etc. In this talk, we will be concentrating mainly in the use of neural networks and fuzzy systems which have the capabilities for adaptive learning and reconfiguration, approximate reasoning which are similar to the human intelligence that can be effectively used. These intelligent systems are commonly used in aiding the conventional controllers or replacing them in the loop. This talk will highlight their effective use in the development of intelligent flight controllers for aircrafts that include UAVs, helicopters and satellites.

Biography
Narasimhan Sundararajan received the B.E in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honors from the Alagappa Chettiar College of Engg. &Tech., Karaikudi, University of Madras in 1966, M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 1968 and Ph.D. In Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1971.

From 1972 to 1991, he was working in the Indian Space Research Organization, Trivandrum, India starting as a Control System Designer to Director, Launch Vehicle Design Group contributing to the design and development of the Indian satellite launch vehicles SLV3, ASLV, PSLV and GSLV. He worked as the Project Engineer (Mission) for the first Indian Satellite Launch Vehicle project SLV3 team working directly under Dr. Kalam. He was also a NRC Research Associate at NASA - Ames in 1974 and a Senior NRC Research Associate at NASA Langley in 1981-86 under the National Academy of Sciences, USA program. From February 1991, he was working in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, as a Professor and has retired from that position in July 2010. Currently, he is an emeritus professor visiting Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India. He was a Prof. I. G. Sarma Memorial ARDB Professor (an endowed visiting professor) during Nov. 2002 – Feb. 2003, at the School of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

His research interests are in the areas of aerospace control, machine learning, neural networks and applications and computational intelligence and have more than 250 papers and also five books in the area of neural networks.

Dr. Sundararajan is a Fellow of IEEE, an Associate Fellow of AIAA and also a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, (IES) Singapore.

He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, IFAC Journal on Control Engineering Practice (CEP), IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and for Control - Theory and Advanced Technology (C-TAT), Japan. He was also a member of the Board of Governors (BoG) for the IEEE Control System Society (CSS) for 2005. He has contributed as a program committee member in a number of international conferences and was the General Chairman for the Sixth Intl. Conf. On Automation, Robotics, Control and Computer Vision - ICARCV 2000 held in Singapore on Dec. 2000.

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