Faculty Directory Madhumita Pal
Madhumita Pal

Madhumita Pal

Professor

Academic Information

I hold a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where my research focused on developing accurate and efficient algorithms for star sensor-based micro-satellite attitude and rate estimation. I completed my M.E. in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Control Systems from Jadavpur University, with research on robust controller design using linear matrix inequalities. I obtained my B.E. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from Vidyasagar University, with strong academic performance and a project on microprocessor-based frequency monitoring and control systems.

Research Interests

Design, development and control of Micro Air Vehicles, Modelling and Simulation of Dynamical System, Satellite dynamics and control, Optimal control of linear systems, Sliding mode control, Event triggered control, Reinforcement learning based control, Distributed control like Consensus control or Formation control application to Autonomous Vehicles, Multi Agent Systems to Search and Rescue Mission, Disaster Management, Cooperative Load Transport, Smart Agriculture problem, Estimation problems

Courses Taught

Control System, Nonlinear Control, Control System Design

Publications

Edited Book
1 (Editors)Madhumita Pal, Pierluigi Siano, Mohan Lal Kolhe, “Conference
Proceedings on Innovations in Energy Management and Renewable
Resources 2024”, to be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical
Engineering, 2025.
2 (Editors)Madhumita Pal, Josep M. Guerrero, Pierluigi Siano, Debapriya
Das, “Conference Proceedings on Innovations in Energy Management
and Renewable Resources 2023”, published by Springer Lecture Notes
in Electrical Engineering, 2024.
3 (Editors)Arun Kumar Bar, Madhumita Pal, Swetadri Ghosh,
Nirban Chakraborty, Swati Chowdhuri, Bikash Choudhury, Sudhir
Murmu, “2021 Innovations in Energy Management and Renewable
Resources”, IEEE IEMRE Conference Book Proceedings, 2021,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9386522

Book
1 Madhumita Pal ”Accurate and Efficient Algorithms for Star Sensor Based
Micro-Satellite Attitude and Attitude Rate Estimation.”LAP Lambert
Academic Publishing ( 2023-07-20 ), ISBN: 978-620-6-75179-3.
Patent
1. Madhumita Pal “Solar Panel Cleaning Drone”, Published to Indian Design
Patent, Application No.: 466478-001

2. Madhumita Pal “Autonomous Fire-Rescue UGV System”, Granted Indian
Design Patent, Application No.: 466476-001

Journals:
1. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal “Event-Triggered Implementation of
Variable Exponent based Fixed-Time Control for Quadrotor UAVs.”
Accepted in Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control.
2. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal “Event triggered finite time trajectory
tracking control for quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles.” Accepted in
S¯adhan¯a, Springer.
3. Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal and Santosh Sonar “Robust Fixed-Time
Event-Triggered Control for Multi-Group Leader–Follower Consensus
Using State-Dependent Variable Exponents.” accepted in Iranian Journal
of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering.
4. Nirban Kumar Saha, Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal et al. “Fixed-Time
Event-Triggered Control Strategy for Multi-Group Multi-Agent Average
Consensus.” accepted in Sage Journal of Measurement and Control.
5. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal and Santosh Sonar “A New Variable
Exponent Based Fixed-Time Control for Unmanned Surface Vehicle.”
Under review in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,
Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering
6. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal and Santosh Sonar “Homogeneity Based
Fixed-Time Path Following Control for USV with Uncertainties and
Asymmetric Actuator Saturation.” Under review in Iranian Journal of
Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering.
7. Santosh Sonar, Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal, “Advanced Bus
Clamping based Maximum Boost-Control Technique for Impedance
Source Inverter.” under review in Scientific Reports.
8. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal “A dynamic event triggered approach
based finite time trajectory tracking of UAV.” Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering 2025;0(0).
doi:10.1177/09544100251369103
9. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal, Arnab Basu “Trajectory tracking
control of quadrotor UAV with uncertainties and actuator saturation:
An event driven approach.” Measurement and Control. 2025;0(0).
doi:10.1177/00202940241312863.

Madhumita Pal, Ayan Panja, Amartya Mukherjee, et al., “A Framework
for Optimal Agent Deployment and Opportunistic Routing in Flying
Ad-Hoc Networks for Precision Weather Forecasting.” Measurement and
Control. 2024;0(0). doi:10.1177/00202940241304568.
11. Madhumita Pal, “Finite-Time Consensus of Heterogeneous Unmanned
Aerial Agents in Network with Fixed and Switching Topology.” Institution
of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol.
238, No. 11, pp. 1120-1132. doi:10.1177/09544100241254411.
12. Abdelhamid Chriette, Franck Plestan, Herman Castaneda, Madhumita
Pal,“Adaptive Robust Attitude Control for UAVs - Design and
Experimental Validation.” International Journal of Adaptive Control and
Signal Processing, Vol.30, No. 8-10, pp. 1478 – 1493, 2016.
13. Madhumita Pal, M. Seetharama Bhat, “Star Sensor Based Micro-Satellite
Angular Rate Estimation Using Second Order Sliding Mode Observer.”
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal
of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 230, No. 2, pp. 244 - 258, 2016.
14. Madhumita Pal, M. Seetharama Bhat. “Autonomous Star Camera
Calibration Combined with Independent Spacecraft Attitude
Determination.” Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol.
79, No. 2, pp. 323 - 343, 2015.
15. Madhumita Pal, M. Seetharama Bhat, “Discrete Time Second Order
Sliding Mode Observer for Uncertain Linear Multi Output System.“
Published in Special Issue on Advances in Sliding Modes, Journal of the
Franklin Institute, Vol. 351, No. 4, pp. 2143 - 2168, 2014.

Conference Publications
1. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal, et al., “Event-Driven Fixed-Time
Control for Underactuated Nonlinear Systems: Application to Quadrotor
UAVs.” accepted in IEEE Sixth International Conference on Advances
in Electrical, Computing, Communications and Sustainable Technologies
(ICAECT 2026), 08 - 09, January 2026, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India.
2. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal, et al., “Event Driven Predefined Time
Terminal Sliding Mode Control Design for Quadrotor UAV.” accepted in
17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and
Communication Networks (CICN 2025), 20–21 Dec. 2025, NIT Goa, India.
3. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal, et al., “Nonsingular Fixed Time
Integral Sliding Mode Trajectory Tracking Control Design for Quadrotor.”
presented in 2nd International Conference on Recent Trends in Electrical,
Electronics and Computing Technologies (ICRTEECT 2025), 30-31 Oct.,
2025, Warangle, India.

4. Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal et al., “Robust Fixed-Time Static Event-
Triggered Control for Cluster Consensus in Directed Networks.” presented
in 10th International Conference on Communication and Electronics
Systems (ICCES 2025), 28-30 Oct. 2025, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.
5. Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal et al., “Robust Event-Driven Control with
Fixed-Time Convergence for Group Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems
over Directed Graphs.” presented in IEEE 2nd International Conference
on Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity (ISCS 2025), 14 - 15 Nov. 2025,
Gurugram, India.
6. Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal et al., “Robust Adaptive Prescribed-
Time Consensus in Directed Networks.” presented in 6th International
Conference on Smart Electronics and Communication (ICOSEC 2025),
24-26 Sept., 2025, Trichy, India.
7. Madhumita Pal, Amartya Mukherjee, Ayan Kumar Panja, Sanjoy Mondal,
“A Flying Ad-Hoc Networks Framework for Smart Farming and Precision
Agriculture.” presented in 3rd International Conference on Sustainable
Computing and Data Communication Systems (ICSCDS 2025), IEEE,
6th - 8th August, 2025, India.
8. Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal, Amal Barman, et al., “An overview on
control of Pressurized Water Reactor.” presented in 4th International
Conference on Recent Innovations in Energy Management and Renewable
Resources (IEMRE 2024), Springer LNEE, 20th - 22nd Sept., 2024, India.
9. Madhumita Pal, Sanjoy Mondal, et al., “Core Power Control of
a Pressurized Water Reactor Using Event Triggered PID Control,”
2025 IEEE 1st International Conference on Smart and Sustainable
Developments in Electrical Engineering (SSDEE), Dhanbad, India, 2025,
pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SSDEE64538.2025.10968556.
10. Sanjoy Mondal; Madhumita Pal et al. “Autonomous Navigation in
Dynamic Environments Using Modified Pure Pursuit, Vector Field
Histogram, and LiDAR-SLAM,” 2025 8th International Conference on
Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI), Tirunelveli, India, 2025,
pp. 1660-1664, doi: 10.1109/ICOEI65986.2025.11013201.

11. Sanjoy Mondal; Madhumita Pal; Santosh Sonar, “Neural Network-Based
Finite-Time Control for Solar Tracking Systems,” 2025 8th International
Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI), Tirunelveli,
India, 2025, pp. 274-279, doi: 10.1109/ICOEI65986.2025.11012994.
12. Sanjoy Mondal; Madhumita Pal; Santosh Sonar, “An Indirect Voltage
Regulation for Boost Converters Using Robust Adaptive Sliding Mode
Control,” 2025 8th International Conference on Trends in Electronics
and Informatics (ICOEI), Tirunelveli, India, 2025, pp. 280-285, doi:
10.1109/ICOEI65986.2025.11013763.

13. Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal et al., “On Road Wireless Electric
Vehicle Charging Prototype using Solar Panel,” 2025 IEEE
International Students.” Conference on Electrical, Electronics and
Computer Science (SCEECS), Bhopal, India, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi:
10.1109/SCEECS64059.2025.10941239.
14. Sanjoy Mondal, Madhumita Pal, Santosh Sonar, et al. “Wind Power
Based Impedance Source Inverter for constant output voltage,” 2024
12th International Conference on Internet of Everything, Microwave,
Embedded, Communication and Networks (IEMECON), Jaipur, India,
2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IEMECON62401.2024.10845982.
15. Rajdeep Kundu, Neelbrata Roy, Madhumita Pal, Ashoke Sutradhar,
Anindita Sengupta, “Evolutionary Algorithm Based Controller
Design for Multivariable Coupled Tank System.” 2024 5th
International Conference on Recent Trends in Computer Science
and Technology (ICRTCST), Jamshedpur, India, 2024, pp. 399-405, doi:
10.1109/ICRTCST61793.2024.10578415.
16. Madhumita Pal, Sayantan Chanda, ...,“A Robust Flight Control Design
of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle using Harmony Search.” 3rd International
Conference on Recent Innovations in Energy Management and Renewable
Energy (IEMRE 2022), 2023, published as Book Chapter in Taylor and
Francis, India.
17. Madhumita Pal, “A Sliding Mode based Finite-Time Consensus Protocol
for Heterogeneous Multi Agent UAS.” 2022 IEEE International IOT,
Electronics and Mechatronics Conference (IEMTRONICS), 2022, Canada.
18. Madhumita Pal, Subhojit Das, ...,“Terminal Sliding Mode Control
(TSMC) based Cooperative Load Transportation using Multiple Drones.”
2022 IEEE International IOT, Electronics and Mechatronics Conference
(IEMTRONICS), 2022, Canada.
19. Madhumita Pal, Swetaleena Guha, Avik Paul, Maitreyee
Banerjee,“Terminal sliding mode control technique for flight control
design of quadrotor.” 2nd International Conference on Industrial
Electronics, Mechatronics, Electrical & Mechanical Power (IEMPOWER-
2021 ), 2021, India.
20. Madhumita Pal, Titas Bera,“A Probabilistically Robust Eigenstructure
Assignment Tech-nique for Flight Control Design of UAVs.” IEEE
Aerospace Conference, March 2021, Montana, USA.
21. Gaurav Kumar, Amal Barman, Madhumita Pal,“License plate tracking
using gradient based segmentation.” TENCON 2019 IEEE Region 10
Conference (TENCON), 2019, India.

22. Sangramjit Sarkar, Madhumita Pal, Aparajita Sengupta,“An Application
of Randomized Algorithm in Robust Controller Design.” International
Conference on Intelligent Control Power and Instrumentation, Oct 2016,
Kolkata, India.
23. Madhumita Pal, Franck Plestan, Abdelhamid Chriette, “Discrete-
time second-order-sliding-mode observer for state and unknown input
estimation: application to a 3DOF helicopter.” European Control
Conference, Jul 2015, Linz, Austria.
24. Madhumita Pal, M. Seetharama Bhat,“Least Square Estimation of
Spacecraft Attitude along with Star Camera Parameters.” 3rd
International Conference on Advances in Control and Optimization of
Dynamical Systems, Indian Institute of Kanpur, India, pp. 20-25, 2014.
25. Madhumita Pal, M. Seetharama Bhat,“Star Sensor Based Spacecraft
Angular Rate Estimation Independent of Attitude Determination.” IEEE
Multi-conference on Systems and Control, Hyderabad, India, pp. 580-585,
2013.
26. Madhumita Pal, M. Seetharama Bhat, “Star Camera Calibration
Combined with Independent Spacecraft Attitude Determination.”
American Control Conference. St. Louis, Missouri, USA, pp. 4836-4841,
2009.