Balasubramanian Esakki

About

Balasubramanian Esakki received Ph.D. in the field of Robotics and Control at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Presently he is working as Professor and Head for Centre for Autonomous System Research, Vel Tech University, Chennai, India. He has more than 20 years of research experience in carrying out consultancy projects for National agencies such as BARC, IGCAR, BEL, ISRO and Automobile sector. He has collaborated with Taiwan, Canada and Korea scientists under Indo-Taiwan, Indo – Canada and Indo –Korea research projects for the development of unmanned systems in bridges and heritage structures inspection and also water quality monitoring. His team developed UAVs for diverse applications including power line inspection, telecom tower inspection and radiation measurement, environmental monitoring, surveillance and aerial view inspection. His research interests are UAVs, robotics, control and sensors with online data acquisition systems.

Employment

• National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Professor
  2024 - Present
• National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research Chennai Associate Professor
  2023 - 2024
• Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R & D Institute of Science and Technolog Associate Professor
  2011 - 2023
• Concordia University Research Associate
  2007 - 2011
• Vellore Institute of Technology University Lecturer
  2006 - 2007
• College of Engineering, Guindy Teaching Research Associate
  2002 - 2006

Education

• Concordia University PhD
  2007 - 2011
• PSG College of Technology Masters
  2000 - 2002
• Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli Bachelors
  1996 - 2000

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (103)

• Fabrication of flapping-wing micromechanism assembly using selective laser melting and aerodynamic performance measures
  Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: Journal of Materials: Design and Applications 2025 2 citations DOI: 10.1177/14644207211035422
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• A High Sensitive Nanomaterial Coated Side Polished Fiber Sensor for Detection of Cardiac Troponin I Antibody
  IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience 2025 4 citations DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2025.3548823
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• Optimal energy efficient path planning of UAV using hybrid MACO-MEA* algorithm: theoretical and experimental approach
  Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 2023 22 citations DOI: 10.1007/s12652-022-04098-z
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• AWJC of NiTi interleaved r-GO embedded carbon/aramid fibre intermetallic laminates: Experimental investigations and optimization through BMOA
  Materials and Manufacturing Processes 2023 7 citations DOI: 10.1080/10426914.2022.2116040
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• Aerodynamic Evaluation of Flapping Wings with Leading-Edge Twisting
  Biomimetics 2023 6 citations DOI: 10.3390/biomimetics8020134
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• Fabrication of Flapping Wing Mechanism Using Various Polymer Based 3D Printing Techniques and Aerodynamic Performance Evaluation
  Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 2023 6 citations DOI: 10.1007/S11665-022-07216-2
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• Synergistic effect of r-GO on the mechanical, microstructural and high velocity impact behaviour of synthetic fibre reinforced NiTi intermetallic laminates
  Journal of Materials Research and Technology 2023 14 citations DOI: 10.1016/J.JMRT.2023.06.185
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• Intelligent Modeling and Multi-Response Optimization of AWJC on Fiber Intermetallic Laminates through a Hybrid ANFIS-Salp Swarm Algorithm
  Materials 2022 16 citations DOI: 10.3390/ma15207216
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• Desired tracking of delayed quadrotor UAV under model uncertainty and wind disturbance using adaptive super-twisting terminal sliding mode control
  ISA Transactions 2022 175 citations DOI: 10.1016/j.isatra.2021.06.002
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• DESIGN CONCEPTION AND EVALUATION OF AN UNMANNED AMPHIBIOUS AERIAL VEHICLE USING SYSTEMATIC APPROACH
  Aviation 2022 4 citations DOI: 10.3846/aviation.2022.16519
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