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)

Research Publications

Patents:

Shukla, M., Mayookh, M., Saraswati S. and Agarwal, P. K., “A Portable Diagnostic System for a Medical Condition using X-Ray Imaging of Lungs”, Patent No. 556978, Date of grant 27/12/2024.

Book Chapter:

Singh, N. and Agarwal, P.K., “Design of Hybrid Bearings and Its Development: A Review”, Advances in Engineering Design, Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (Springer), 41-60, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4018-3_5.

Srivastava, A. and Agarwal, P. K., "Effect of Operating Parameters on Condition Monitoring of Rotor-Bearing System Using Deep Learning", Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Development (1st ed.). CRC Press, 49-59, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003487012-7.

Journals:

Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Fault-tolerant control of three-pole active magnetic bearing”, Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Vol. 36, Issue 10, 12592-12604, 2009, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.052.

Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Fuzzy logic control of three-pole Active Magnetic Bearing system”, International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (Inderscience), Vol. 12, No. 4, 395-411, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMIC.2011.040083.

Saraswati, S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Neural networks and fuzzy logic-based spark advance control of SI engines”, Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier), Vol. 38, Issue 6, 6916-6925, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2010.12.032.

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Application of principal component analysis for the fault detection and diagnosis of active magnetic bearings”, International Journal of Advanced Mechatronic Systems (Inderscience), Vol. 7, No. 4, 245-255, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJAMECHS.2017.089608.

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Adaptive multipopulation genetic algorithm based self designed fuzzy logic controller for active magnetic bearing application”, International Journal of Dynamics and Control (Springer), Vol. 6, No. 3, 1392-1408, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-017-0357-z.

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Application of Artificial Neural Networks for the Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Active Magnetic Bearings”, International Journal of Mechatronics and Automation (Inderscience), Vol. 6, No. 2/3, 130-142, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMA.2018.094489.

Kumar, S. and Agarwal, P. K., "Condition monitoring of bevel gearbox under different operating conditions using Response Surface Methodology", NanoWorld Journal, 9(S1): S50-S55, 2023, https://doi.org/10.17756/nwj.2023-s1-011.

Shukla, P. and Agarwal, P. K., "Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Rotor-Ball Bearing System", NanoWorld Journal, 9(S1): S653-S659, 2023, https://doi.org/10.17756/nwj.2023-s1-126.

Acharya, S., Khan, R. and Agarwal, P. K., "Heat Transfer and Entropy Generation in a Lithium-ion Battery Pack against Battery Spacing and Discharge Rate", ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 145(11): 111801, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4062759.

Khan, R., Agarwal, P. K. and Acharya, S., "Thermo-economic analysis of a compact active coolant system for Lithium-ion battery pack", Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 39(1), 102-115, 2025, https://doi.org/10.2514/1.T6899.

Conference Proceedings:

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “An adaptive multipopulation genetic algorithm for the optimization of active magnetic bearings”, IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 691, 012009, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/691/1/012009.

Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Fuzzy logic control of four-pole active magnetic bearing system”, Proc. of IEEE 2010 International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control, Okayama, Japan, July 17-19, pp.533-538, 2010.

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Design of compact active magnetic bearing with higher load carrying capacity”, Proc. of IEEE 2012 Students Conference on Engineering and Systems, MNNIT Allahabad, March 16-18, pp.1-5, 2012.

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Optimization of active magnetic bearing using multipopulation genetic algorithm”, Proc. of International Conference on Innovations in Automation and Mechatronics Engineering (ICIAME-2013), G. H. Patel College of Engineering & Technology, Gujarat, February 21-23, 2013.

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Multiobjective optimization of active magnetic bearing using multipopulation genetic algorithm”, IEEE International Conference on Research and Development Prospects on Engineering and Technology (ICRDPET-2013), E. G. S. Pillay Engineering College, Tamilnadu. March 29-30, 2013.

Waseem, M., Reddy, A. S. and Agarwal, P. K., “Principal component analysis based fault detection and diagnosis of active magnetic bearing system”, Proc. of International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Pune, May 29-31, 2013.

Reddy, A. S., Agarwal, P. K. and Chand, S., “Genetic algorithm based optimal design of fuzzy logic controller for active magnetic bearings”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems (ICPCES-2014), MNNIT Allahabad, December 26-28, pp.1-6, 2014.

Katyayn A. and Agarwal, P. K., “Comparative analysis of conical and conventional active magnetic bearings for complete support of a 5-dof rotor system”, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Advances in Mechanical, Industrial, Automation and Management Systems, MNNIT Allahabad, Feb. 3-5, pp.53-58, 2017.

Katyayn, A. and Agarwal, P. K., “Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Controller for Conical AMB-Rotor system”, Proc. of IEEE 4th International Conference on Power, Control & Embedded Systems, MNNIT Allahabad, March 9-11, pp.1-6, 2017.

Gyawali, P. and Agarwal, P. K., “Fuzzy Behaviour Based Mobile Robot Navigation in Static Environment”, Proc. of 2018 IEEE Recent Advances in Intelligent Computational Systems (RAICS), Thiruvananthapuram, India, December 6-8, pp. 190-194, 2018.

Kumar, S. and Agarwal, P. K., “Fault diagnosis of Helical gearbox using Artificial Intelligence Techniques”, Proc. of International Conference on Innovative Engineering Design (ICOIED) 2020, Dehradun, India, January 18-20, 2020.

Jain, M., Agarwal, P. K. and Reddy, A. S., “Design and Optimization of Eight-Pole Active Magnetic Bearing (AMB)”, Proc. of National Conference on Advances in Manufacturing Technology, 2012, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training & Research, Chandigarh, March 15-16, pp.154-159, 2012.

Sachan, S. and Agarwal, P. K., “Fuzzy logic control of rotor-active magnetic bearing system”, Proc. of National Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical Engineering 2012, ITM University, Gurgaon, June 1, pp.252-259, 2012.

Murarka, A. and Agarwal, P. K., “B-spline based Optimized Heterogeneous Modelling”, Proc. of National Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Ghurdauri, July 8-9, 136-140, 2013.

Kumar, S. and Agarwal, P. K., “Fault diagnosis of Helical gearbox using Random Forest and Artificial Neural Networks”, International Conference on Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Development (TISD-2023), India, October 27-29, 2023 (accepted).

Srivastava, A. and Agarwal, P. K., “Effect of operating parameters on condition monitoring of rotor-bearing system using deep learning”, International Conference on Technologies and Innovations for Sustainable Development (TISD-2023), India, October 27-29, 2023 (accepted).