Jagannathan Kanniah
My training is in power/control area. In Singapore I started my work in robotics and game robotics. I was involved in organizing student teams and training them to take part in robotics competitions. I have developed methods of drive selection and gear ratio design for robots. I have worked on wall climbing, pole balancing, and biped robots. I am particularly interested in dynamics of robots.
Subjects: Engineering - Electrical
Biography
Interests:Robotics: bipedal robot, wall climbing robot, pole balancing robot, mine avoidance robot, robotic soccer, cat & mouse robot game, micro-mouse, and obstacle avoidance robot.
Instrumentation: Non-intrusive flow meters, dynamic inclinometers, frequency error monitors
Control: Dual-rate sampling adaptive controllers
Activities:
2009- 2010- Designed, fabricated and tested a wall climbing robot using Bernoulli's principle
2007- 2008- Designed, programmed and tested a pole balancing robot with two-degrees of freedom
2005-2007-Developed techniques of computing ZMP compliant joint trajectories for biped robots
July’96- One of the founding members of the Robotics Games Society(Singapore).
Played an active role in their activities, like organizing robotics games(SRG) annually.
January’96-“Technology leader” for robotics in the Project II Management Team of the E.C.Dept, Singapore Polytechnic.
September ‘95: Acquired funding to the tune of $ 160,000 for a biped robot project; leading a team of 5 lecturers working on this project with an aim of designing, fabricating, and controlling a dynamic walking biped robot.
June’93-“Singapore Robotic Games Task Force Coordinator” of the Singapore Polytechnic involving a team of 20 lecturers, technical officers, and technicians.
June’91-Section Head for “Robotics and Digital Control” Section of the Electronics and Communication Eng. Dept. of the Singapore Polytechnic.
(1987-89)-Designed and fabricated a “Non-intrusive Flow-meter”, as a Singapore Polytechnic sponsored innovation project
1987- Designed and fabricated an error frequency monitor for power stations, as a consultancy work for a local company. For this work, an original error detector circuit was developed.
(1982-1983) Implemented adaptive “load frequency control” and developed a pseudo-state model for the analysis of multi-rate sampling self-tuning regulators.
(1978-1982)-Ph.D. Thesis: “Dual-rate sampling self tuning regulator and its implementation in excitation control”
Sabbaticals:
July-September ’99: Worked with Professor Gill Pratt, as a Visiting Scientist at Artificial Intelligence Lab (Leg Lab), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
January-March ‘92: Sabbatical at Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden; Worked on a DSP based fast adaptive regulator with pre- and post-filtering (predictive first order hold) jointly with Professor Karl Johan Astrom.
Book published earlier:
J.Kanniah, M.F.Ercan et.al. Bits and Bytes of Robotics. Pearson/Prentice Hall, Singapore. 2004
Education
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PhD, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
MSc.(Engg), Annamalai University, India
B.E(EEE),Annamalai University, India
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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System Analysis, Adaptive Control, Instrumentation, Biped Robotics, Game Robotics
Personal Interests
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Poetry, literature, photography
Books
Photos
Videos
Published: Oct 13, 2013
Walking Demo
Published: Oct 13, 2013
Pole Balancing Robot(two degrees of freedom)
Published: Oct 11, 2013
Uses Bernoulli's Principle
Published: Oct 11, 2013
Robot uses suction cups