Dr. Suraj Damodaran got his PhD (Robotics and Control) from National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India in 2020. He has received M.Tech. degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Calicut and B.Tech. degree in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation from the College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He has served as an Adhoc Lecturer with the National Institute of Technology (2009-2010, 2019-2020), Assistant Professor at the Vidya Academy of Science and Technology (2010-2013), Associate Professor in the Electronics & Communication Engineering Department at Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering & Technology Kalady and Associate Professor in the Mechatronics Engineering Department at Jyothi Engineering College, Cheruthuruthy. Since 2022 November, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Instrumentation of CUSAT. He had more than six years of teaching experience. He got a GATE percentile score of 98.1 in the ye

Fractional-Order Control, Genetic Algorithms, Model-Matching Control, Model-Order Reduction, The application of Control Theory to Robotic Systems

Generalized method for rational approximation of SISO/MIMO fractional-order systems using squared magnitude function, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, SAGE Publications Vol. 46, 2024

Design of suboptimal model-matching controllers using squared magnitude function for MIMO linear systems, Automatika, Taylor and Francis Ltd. Vol. 62, 2021

Model-Matching Fractional-Order Controller Design Using AGTM/AGMP Matching Technique for SISO/MIMO Linear Systems, IEEE Access, IEEE Vol. 7, 2019

ROS2 - Powered Autonomous Navigation for TurtleBot3: Integrating Nav2 Stack in Gazebo, RViz and Real-World Environments, 5th IEEE International conference on signal processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy systems (SPICES) 2024, 2024

Enhancing Mobile Robot Navigation in TurtleBot3 Burger: A ROS-Enabled Approach Focusing on Obstacle Avoidance in Real-world Scenario, 5th IEEE International conference on signal processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy systems (SPICES) 2024, 2024

ROS-Enabled Automated Fruit Sorting with YOLOv5 Object Detection and Navigation Integration on a Wheeled Mobile Robot, 1st IEEE Conference on Smart Power Control and Renewal Energy (ICSPCRE) 2024, 2024

Design and Implementation of Desired Interaction Yielding Fractional-Order Controller With Application to Wheeled Mobile Robot, 2021 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS), 2021

Design and Implementation of GA Tuned PID Controller for Desired Interaction and Trajectory Tracking of Wheeled Mobile Robot, Advances in Robotics (AIR '17), IIT DELHI, 2017

An evaluation of spatial mapping of indoor environment based on point cloud registration using Kinect sensor, 2015 International Conference on Control Communication & Computing India (ICCC), 2015

Best Paper Award – 5th IEEE International conference on signal processing, Informatics, Communication and Energy systems (SPICES) 2024 from IIIT Kottayam, in the year 2024

Judge- IEEE TechBurst project presentation from MSIGMA, in the year 2024

Session Chair – 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS) from Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady, Ernakulam, India , in the year 2023

Publication chair, reviewer, Chair of Robotics track from in 2021 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication, Embedded and Secure Systems (ACCESS) hosted by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady, Ernaku, in the year 2021