Dr Balasubramanian Esakki
Dr Balasubramanian Esakki
Dr Balasubramanian Esakki received PhD in the field of Robotics and Control at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He has published two books; more than 100 Journals and Conference papers and 7 patents have been in the verge of grant. He received grants from various Government of India funding programmers supported through DST, DRDO, ISRO, DBT. He has developed cost effective powder based selective inhibition sintering additive manufacturing system with the funding support of DRDO. He has also fabricated micro mechanism components of flapping wing aerial vehicle using metal based additive manufacturing technology. He is working on fabrication of patch antennas using 3D printing for UAV applications. He has collaborated with Taiwan scientists under Indo-Taiwan schema (2013-16) for the development of micro aerial flapping wing vehicles and formation control through image processing techniques. He has designed a table top test rig integrated with two load cells to measure the aerodynamic forces of flapping wing vehicles funded by DRDO – AR & DB. He has also collaborated with Canadian scientists in developing and deployment of UAVs for railway bridge inspection. He developed amphibious UAV for collection of water samples in remote water bodies under Indo-Korea research schemes funded by DST, Govt. of India. His team developed UAVs for diverse applications including power line inspection, telecom tower inspection and radiation measurement, environmental monitoring, surveillance and traffic monitoring etc. His team won the first prize of Rs 5 lakhs in a national level competition organized by Power Grid Corporation Limited and prestigious telecom sector Aegis Graham bell award in the category of best innovative business model 2014. His research interests are UAVs, robotics, control and sensors with online data acquisition systems.
