Dr. Praveen Kumar Agarwal



Dr. Praveen Kumar Agarwal

Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, India-211004
E-mail: pka[at]mnnit[dot]ac[dot]in
Telephone: +915322271522(O) +918081622278(M)


Thesis Supervised



S.No Research Topic Name of Student Completion/Registration Year
Ph.D. Completed:
1Optimization and Control of Active Magnetic BearingsAnand Shivanappa Reddy2016
2Modelling and Control of Conical Active Magnetic BearingArvind Katyayn2020
Ph.D. Ongoing
1Condition Monitoring of Gear SystemsSheo Kumar2017
2Design and Control of Hybrid Foil-Magnetic BearingNisha Singh2018
3AI based Condition MonitoringAnurag Srivastava2021
4Thermal Management of Battery PackRustam Khan2022
M.Tech Students
1Nonlinear control of spark ignition engine Lokesh Kumar Gupta (2006CC04)2008
2Fuzzy logic control of permanent magnet biased magnetic bearingsJagdish Prasad (2008DN12)2010
3Fault-Diagnosis of Active Magnetic BearingsAyaz Ahmed (2009CC08)2011
4Improved Design of Ergonomically-oriented WheelchairAmit Kumar Pal (2010PD03)2012
5Dynamic Analysis of Active Magnetic BearingsSwati Sachan (2010CC02)2012
6Optimized Design of Active Magnetic BearingsMohit Jain (2010CC08)2012
7B-spline based Optimized heterogeneous modellingAshish Murarka (2011PD14)2013
8B-spline surface reconstruction based on genetic algorithmDeep Chandra Chaurasiya (2011CC22)2013
9Fault detection and diagnosis of active magnetic bearing systemsMohammad Waseem (2011CC07)2013
10Fault Diagnosis of Journal Bearing SystemAshish Dwivedi (2012CC01)2014
11Fault Diagnosis of Roller Bearing SystemVivek Khare (2012DN02)2014
12Performance evaluation of Automated controlled EGR-VGT CI EngineApurva Tiwari (2012DN24)2014
13Fault Diagnosis of GearboxAnurag Srivastava (2013PD01)2015
14Neural Network based method for Surface ReconstructionShashank Shukla (2013PD14)2015
15Effect of Pole Geometry on Active Magnetic Bearing PerformanceVishnu Dev Mishra (2014CC13)2016
16Fault detection and diagnosis of Worm gear boxHarishanker Maurya (2015CC10)2017
17Evaluation of effect of geometric parameters on hybrid journal bearing performanceNisha Singh (2015CC11)2017
18Control of Twin Rotor systems and its implementationShashi Nath Mishra (2015CC07)2017
19Control of Rotary Inverted Pendulum systems and its implementationRoopak Varshney (2015CC02)2017
20Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Rotor-Ball Bearings systemPrince Shukla (2016CC04)2018
21Evaluation of Degradation of Automotive Components due to Road ConditionsArun Kumar Yadav (2017CC18)2019
22B-Spline based Modelling and Analysis of Wind Turbine BladeRajeev Kumar (2017CC21)2019
23Design and Analysis of Asymmetric GearsAseem Jain (2017DN11)2019
24Fault Detection and Diagnosis of BearingsTushar Pandey (2018PD13)2020
25Fault Detection and Diagnosis of GearsLovekesh Kumar (2018DN10)2020
26Design improvement of lithium-ion batteries for electric-vehicle applicationsRustam Khan (2019PD18)2021
27Deep-learning based fault detection and diagnosis of rotary mechanical systemsAtul Kumar (2019CC06)2021
28Static Analysis of Hybrid BearingsSukhdev Ashish (2019DN06)2021
29Evaluation of rail wheel impact responses caused by wheel and rail defectsDurgesh Kumar (2019PD03)2021
30AI based Diagnosis using Medical ImagingTushar Anand Sisodia (2020CC21)2022
31Hand Gesture recognition using Deep LearningSrishti Singh (2020DN22)2022
32AI based Fault Detection and DiagnosisZeeshan Ahmed (2020CC23)2022
33Fault Diagnosis of Rotary Systems with Multiple FaultsArghya Mitra (2021CC23)2023
34AI based Diagnosis using Medical ImagingNeeraj Rahi (2021CC29)2023
35Dynamic Hand Gesture Identification using Machine LearningVishal Kumar (2021DN20)2023
B.Tech Students
1Design and Development of a Bomb Disposal System Mandar Avinash Pawde (2003371) Ashish Gupta (2003325) Manas Tripathi (2003341) Sanjay Kumar Kamal (2003344)2007
2Design of magnetic bearing for operation near saturated region of magnetic bearing materialNeelarka Dutta (20041049) Himanshu Kesarwani (20047003) Vipul Jain (20047047) Alok Kumar (20047046)2008
3Evaluation of effect of design parameters of active magnetic bearing Apurva (20051019) Ravikant Singhania (20053037) Suraj Yadav (20058050) Soumya Soren (20043008)2009
4Modelling and control of a micro-electro-mechanical systemNitish Jarwal (20067059) Arnab Mukherjee (20067062) S Pankaj Kumar (20066012) J Yaswanth (20067048)2010
5Voice Identification using Neural NetworkBhavna Sharma (20073003) Anant Choudhary (20072014) Ankit Kaul (20073065) K. Avish (20053036)2011
6Redesigning of electric bicycleSandip Garg (20088032) Saambavi Karunakaran (20083096) Sagar Gera (20081042) Tushar Bhargava (20083081) Vishva Prakash (20083068) Ritesh Ranjan (20083063)2012
7Automatic car parking systemAshish Sajwan (20093101) Ashwani Agrawal (20093060) Deepak Upadhyay (20091043) Anup Chandra Gupta (20093030) Anubhav Kumar (20098035) Manoj Kumar (20093111)2013
8Design of Centralized Hydraulic Suspension System for Comfort RideManish Kumar Gautam (20103009) Mohammad Amir (20103019) Prakash Pun (20103120) Sagar Gupta (20108061) Rajeev Kumar Ram (20103025)2014
9Corner adapting headlights systemSiraj Mohammad (20113094) Sarvagya Katiyar (20113059) Bimal Kant Kamal (20103020)2015
10Hand tool design for better functionality and safetyPrabhat Kumar (20123100) Pawan Kumar (20125098)2016
11Design and fabrication of portable wind power generation systemAnubhav Gokhale (20133078) Anish Raj (20133083) Prateek Kumar (20133117) Anil Kumar (20133129) Arvind Kumar Dwivedi (20133073)2017
12Design and fabrication of a Dynamometer Shreya Agrawal (20136014) Prashant Yadav (20136028) Rohan Mehra (20136025) Rohitash Yadav (20136005) Ashish Kumar (20136013) Raja Ram Meena (20136051)2017
13Design and fabrication of Pneumatic Booster attachment for BicycleSundaram Chitransh (20143035), Ashish Rai (20141061), Vivek Jaiswal (20143112) and Vivek Kumar (20143133)2018
14Artificial Intelligence based navigation of a Mobile Robot in a cluttered environment Anand Mohan Dwivedi (20141045) Pratik Gyawali (20143013) Prasant Kumar (20142071) Tenzing Dhaden Gurung (20143007)2018
15Implementation of position control in Rotary Table and XY Positioning Table by using Arduino platformRajat Gautam (20153084) Saurabh Shukla (20153058) Sarwadhar Singh (20153033) Ravinder Singh (20153041)2019
16Development of an apparatus to determine bidirectional thermal conductivityAbhishek Pandey (20163003) Ch. Umashankar Shastry (20163075)2020
17Development of an FDM based 3D printerSoumya Khanna (20169040) Sonu Kumar (20163119) Md. Maaz Latifee (20163099)2020
18Design of a Semi-Active Suspension SystemVikram Pratap Singh (20173117) Suyash Gupta (20173039) Shivam Tulshyan (20173122)2021
19Design and Development of a VentilatorRishabh Tripathi (20173006) Rounak Gajbhiye (20173074) Ravi Nirajan Yadav (20173068)2021
20Prediction of Fault in Reciprocating Air Compressor using Machine LearningHarshit Gupta (20186056) and Portia Rani (20186045)2022
21Design of Bladeless Wind Turbine Ayush (20183056), Deeksha Verma (20183096) and Rajat Kamal (20183012)2022
22Design and development of Biometric System for AutomobilesAshish Chaurasia (20193030), Gunjan Singh (20193045), Ankit Kushawaha (20193052) and Aman Singh Gautam (20193056)2023