Control Design

Ashwin A Kadkol

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Denton, TX 76205. ************@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Talented Control Systems Engineer seeking a full time position in a challenging career in the Control & Automation sector.

SUMMARY

• 2 years of experience in all phases of the Product Development Life Cycle at Cognizant Technology Solutions

• Good analytical and problem solving skills that back a multidisciplinary engineering background

• Interested in work involving Embedded Systems, Mechatronics, Robotics, Instrumentation or Optimization.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Control Systems Engineering May 2010

(Interdisciplinary across Electrical & Computer, Mechanical & Aerospace & Chemical Engineering) GPA 3.5

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication June 2005

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, India GPA

3.3

ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant: Automation & Data processing lab, Mechanical & Aerospace Engg, OSU Jun 08 – May 10

• Involved in the design, construction, system dynamics analysis and testing of, “Continuous Autonomous Tester”

a mobile data acquisition robot for non-destructive testing of aero plane wings controlled using NI LabVIEW

• Implemented Path planning and autonomous navigation algorithms for “OSU rover” (MARS rover test bed) using

Genetic Algorithms with Visual Odometry as a feedback mechanism

Master’s thesis: Intelligent Systems and Control lab, Electrical & Computer Engg, OSU Jun 08 –

May 10

• Devised an Intelligent system to solve Constrained Multiple Objective Optimization in dynamic and uncertain

environments using Evolutionary Computation techniques.

• Utilized the intelligent system for PID controller tuning based on robust performance criteria for plants with time

varying characteristic behaviors.

• Involved in conceptualization & design of algorithms, programming, testing, proposal & research paper writing

Graduate Assistant: OSU Jan 09 – May 10

• Involved in the complete life cycle (design, development, testing & maintenance) of websites and databases

Graduate Research Assistant: Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, OSU Dec 07 - May 08

• Developed a GUI based 3D Sketch application for Truss design of buildings in VC++

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Programmer Analyst: Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bangalore, India Sept 05 - July 07

• Automated data processing applications. Involved in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle.

• Led CAD (a team building forum) comprising 45 members for 1 year and was an active member for 20 months

• Led 2-3 member modules and worked with teams from various cultural backgrounds

• Improved performance and optimized user interface based applications built on J2EE and Oracle

• Programmed in JAVA threads for performance improvement

Undergraduate intern/Design Project: Centre for Airborne Systems, DRDO, India Feb 05 - June 05

• Analysis of Magnetostrictive Materials for vibration control of Airborne Antennas – antenna design in MATLAB

AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Real time Embedded Systems - Finished in the top six on the world wide student technology competition -

Microsoft Imagine Cup (July 2009), in the Embedded Development category held at Cairo, Egypt. Designed &

developed ASHA(A reciprocative System for Health Automation) an electronically assisted, voice interactive vending

machine with client-server based real time remote sensing, data acquisition, control and diagnosis capabilities, on a

custom designed Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Operating System image and Windows Vista/Windows XP

environments. Dec 08 - July09

• Co-authored “A Reciprocative System for Health Automation”, International Conference on Instrumentation, Jan

2010, Pune, India by Instrument Society of India under “Virtual & Intelligent Instrumentation” category.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Chemical Process Instrumentation and Control

Control System design for a fatty Acid Process & a Sugar Refining Process – Designed instrumentation and control

systems with Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&ID) as per Instrument Society of America conventions,

Proportional & Integral (PI) controller design for a Single loop jacketed reactor

• Robotics : Built a differentially driven stepper motor based obstacle avoidance robot

• Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

1. Term Paper – Developed a Multi-Meme Memetic algorithm for Multi Objective Optimization in MATLAB

2. Term Report – “Directed Studies on Memetic algorithms” – Proposed a swarm intelligence and Nash Genetic

Algorithm based algorithm for addressing Multi objective optimization problems.

3. Neural Networks Term Project - Analyzed and simulated a research paper titled “A New Supervised Learning

Algorithm for Multilayered and Interconnected Neural Networks ” in MATLAB

• Optimization of Applications: Term Project - “Unconstrained Global Optimization” - Developed global optimization

algorithms to find the optima of unconstrained multimodal functions. The search was improved using direct and

indirect local optimization algorithms, coupled with a line search strategy.

• Communication Networks & BUS technologies Project (Senior level) : “Implementation of I2C protocol in

AT89C51 Microcontroller for hardware optimization”

• Senior year seminar presentation - “Gigabit Ethernet”

• Graduate Courses completed :

Control Systems and related - Linear Systems, Digital Control Systems, Chemical Process Instrumentation and

Control, Neural Networks, System Reliability Evaluation

Automation and In vehicle Networks - Mechatronics Design, Advanced Topics – Agricultural Electronics

Optimization - Optimization of Applications, Intelligent Systems, Directed Studies on Memetic Algorithms

SKILLSET

• Programming - C, MSExcel VBA, Assembly Level - 8085, 8086 microprocessors, PIC16F877 & 18F4520 and

Atmel 8051 microcontrollers, SQL, PL/SQL

• Object oriented languages & frameworks - JAVA, VC++, VC#, J2EE, Struts

• Real Time Operating Systems – Windows Embedded CE 6.0, VxWorks basics

• Controller Design - Loop Pro Control Station and MATLAB(Neural Networks, Optimization, Control System and

Simulink toolboxes), NI LabVIEW(Data Acquisition, Motion Control and Vision tools)

• Controllers: ICOP eBOX 4300(x86) as a real time controller, PIC and Motorola microcontrollers, AT89C51,

BrainStem General Purpose controller, Syren 25a and L293D Motor drivers

• Data Acquisition boards - NI USB DAQ 6216, Phidget Interface Kit

• PLCs - Allen Bradley Logix500, Logix5000, ICOP eBOX 4300(x86) based on WinCE 6.0

• HMI design - PoolEdit – open source Virtual terminal GUI design tool, Visual Studio 2005, NI LabVIEW

• Design Tools - AutoCAD

• Communication Networks & BUS technologies – CAN, ISO 11783, basics of NMEA2000, I2C & SPI

• Scripting & mark up languages - JSP, HTML, cURL, basic XML and UNIX Shell scripting

• Servers & Databases - IBM Websphere (application and clustered servers), LDAP Servers, Oracle 10g, MS

Access 2007, Oracle APEX based on Oracle 10g

• Integrated Development Environments & Tools – Keil µVision, MPLAB, IBM WSAD & RAD, Eclipse, Microsoft

VS 2005, MS Office, MS Visio, Quest TOAD, Crystal Reports 8(reporting), Erwin Data Modeler, Lotus notes, Visual

Source Safe (VSS), Concurrent Versioning Systems (CVS)

References will be provided on request

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