• Process Modelling and Control
• Controller Tuning
• Relay Feedback Tuning
• Multivariable Controller Design
• Priodic Operation of Reactors

Publications

• Nonlinear Process Control, John Wiley & Sons (1996) This book was also translated in Chinese in 2002 by Coal Industrial Publishing House (translated by Prof. JiaoLiucheng and Mr. S.Y. Zhung).
• Applied Process Control, Allied Publishers (1998)
• Computer control of processes, Narosa Pub (2002)
• Control of Unstable Systems, (Co-authored with Dr. R.Padma Sree) Narosa Pub, 2005.

• M.Chidambaram, Set point weighted PID controllers, Chem. Eng. Commun. 179 (2000), 1-13.
• S.N.Jyothi & M.Chidambaram, Identification of Hammerstein model for bioreactors with input multiplicities, Bioprocess Eng. 23 (2000) 323-326.
• S.N.Jyothi & M.Chidambaram, Nonlinear feed forward controller of bioreactor with input multiplicities, Bioprocess & Biosystem Engg, 24(2001) 123-129.
• M.K.Jhunjhunwala & M.Chidambaram, Tuning PI & PID controllers for unstable first order plus time delay systems, Chem. Engg. Commun. 185 (2001)91-113.
• M.Chidambaram & R. Padma Sree, A simple method of tuning PID controllers for integrator/dead time processes, Comp & Chemical Engg, 27 (2003) 211-215.

Countries visited

• Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, U.A.E

No PhD guided: 9

1. Studies on Transport reactor, S.Sivakumar I.I.T, Bombay, 1988
2. Nonlinear control of processes, J.Bhat I.I.T, Bombay, 1990
3. Nonlinear Control of Processes, Y.S.N.M.Rao I.I.T, Bombay, 1991
4. Nonlinear control of processes, G.P.Reddy I.I.T, Madras, 1995
5. Control of Nuclear reactors, M.Subramaniam I.I.T, Madras, 1998
6. Nonlinear control of processes, S.N.Jyothy I.I.T, Madras, 2001
7. Control of unstable systems, R.Padma Sree I.I.T, Madras, 2004
8. Improved relay tuning of controllers Vivek Sathe I.I.T, Madras, 2005
9. Time delay compensation & PID controller design A.Seshagiri Rao I.I.T, Madras. 2006

M.S thesis guided: 4

M.Tech Project guided: 30

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