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A/PROF GIRISH NARAYANAN NAIR



Contact Details

Organization: Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.ee.unimelb.edu.au/people/gnair/index.html

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Information and communication theory for networked feedback systems Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Japan Tokyo University Research
United States Boston University Research
Italy University of Padua Exchange, Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Engineering University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1994
Bachelor of Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1995
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-2000

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers 10-Aug-2004

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA. 11-Jul-2006
Prize UKACC International Conf. Control, Cambridge. 03-Sep-2000

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Design of large-scale interconnected dynamical systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2002
Towards an information theory for communication-limited control systems Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Control and safety monitoring systems for large scale irrigation networks Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
RUBICON SYSTEM AUST. PTY. LTD.		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
Distributed Estimation and Control under Communication Constraints Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Internal Stability of Dynamically Quantised Control for Stochastic Scalar Plants
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 17th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 17th IFAC World Congress
    Page numbers: 5197-5202
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Feedback control under data rate constraints: An overview
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Proceedings of the IEEE
    Volume: 95
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 108-137
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Cooperative Networked Stabilisability of Linear Systems with Measurement Noise
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Performance Analysis of Bit-Rate-Limited Stochastic Control Systems
    Year: 2007
    Event name: 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 15th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2006

Conference Publications/Papers

  • A data-rate limited view of adaptive control
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Conference Publication: Preprints of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Page numbers: 1109-1114
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
    Author(s):
  • Optimal infinite horizon control under a low data rate
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Conference Publication: Preprints of the 14th IFAC Symposium on System Identification
    Page numbers: 1115-1120
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
    Author(s):
  • Time to failure of quantized control via a binary symmetric channel
    Year: 2006
    Event name: 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006
    Page numbers: 2883-2888
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Networked sensor management and data rate control for tracking maneuvering targets.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
    Volume: 53
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1979-1991
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Systems engineering for irrigation systems: Successes and challenges
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annual Reviews in Control
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 191-204
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Detection of random targets in sensor networks with applications.
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Conference Publication: 16th IFAC World Congress 2005
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Oxford)
    Author(s):
  • Finite horizon LQ optimal control and computation with data rate constraints
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05
    Conference Publication: 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and European Control Conference ECC '05 Proceedings
    Page numbers: 179-184
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
    Author(s):
  • Systems engineering for irrigation systems: Successes and challenges
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress
    Conference Publication: 16th IFAC World Congress
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 191-204
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Stabilizability of stochastic linear systems with finite feedback data rates
    Year: 2004
    Journal: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 413-419
    Publisher: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics(Pennsylvania)
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  • Topological feedback entropy and nonlinear stabilization
    Year: 2004
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 1585-1597
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Achievable rate regions for decentralised stabilisation
    Year: 2004
    Event name: MTNS 2004
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the sixth international symposium on mathematical theory of networks and systems (MTNS) 2004
    Page numbers: 1-7
    Publisher: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven(Heverlee)
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  • Stabilising decentralised linear systems under data rate constraints
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 3992-3997
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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  • Topological feedback entropy for nonlinear stabilization
    Year: 2004
    Event name: NOLCOS 2004: 6th IFAC symposium on nonlinear control systems
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of NOLCOS 2004: 6th IFAC symposium on nonlinear control systems
    Volume: 1-3
    Page numbers: 1283-1288
    Publisher: International Federation of Automatic Control(Laxemburg)
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  • Topological feedback entropy for nonlinear systems
    Year: 2004
    Event name: The 5th Asian Control Conference 2004
    Conference Publication: The proceedings of the 5th Asian Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1-8
    Publisher: ACPA Asian Control Professors' Association(Seoul)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Exponential stabilisability of finite-dimensional linear systems with limited data rates
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Automatica
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 585-593
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Feedback data rates for nonlinear systems
    Year: 2003
    Event name: European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of European Control Conference ECC 2003
    Page numbers: 1-3
    Publisher: IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineering(Hertford)
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  • Infinum data rates for stabilising Markov jump linear systems
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 42nd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of 42nd IEEE conference on decision and control
    Page numbers: 1176-1181
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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Publications in 2002

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Communication-limited stabilisability of Jump Markov linear systems
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 15th International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
    Conference Publication: Electronic Proceedings of 15th International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
    Page numbers: 1-10
    Publisher: University of Notre Dame(Indiana)
    Author(s):
  • Exponential stabilisability of multidimensional linear systems with finite data rates
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
    Conference Publication: 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control
    Page numbers: 2753-2758
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Mean square stabilisability of communication-limited stochastic linear systems
    Year: 2002
    Event name: The 4th Asian Control Conference
    Conference Publication: The 4th Asian Control Conference
    Page numbers: 1290-1295
    Publisher: The 2002 Asian Control Conference
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  • Mean square stabilisability of stochastic linear systems with data rate constraints
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
    Conference Publication: 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Proceedings
    Page numbers: 1632-1637
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(New York)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Sensor adaptive target tracking over variable bandwidth networks
    Year: 2001
    Book: Model Identification and Adaptive Control
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(London)
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