Vivek Muralidharan, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Fl, Us

Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

* Developing autonomous control strategies for satellite rendezvous leveraging vision-based pose observations. * Conduct hardware-in-the-loop validation for testing real-time operation by integrating the control algorithm with a robotic testbed facility; satellite mockups mounted at the end-effector of robots mimic the motion of the chaser and target satellite. * The controller includes coupled orbit and attitude dynamics. * Applications include both near-Earth and cislunar missions, and with tumbling non-cooperative targets.

Lafayette, Indiana Area

Investigating nonlinear dynamical flow along the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHOs) in the Earth-Moon system. Applications include x-axis crossing control stationkeeping strategy and transfer trajectory design.

Lafayette, Indiana Area

Managing the Academic Success Center at the Purdue Minority Engineering Program targeted towards increasing retention rate among the underrepresented minority students in Purdue Engineering.

Lafayette, Indiana Area

Thesis: Orbit Maintenance Strategies for Sun-Earth/Moon Libration Point Missions: Parameter Selection for Target Point and Cauchy-Green Tensor ApproachesAdvisor: Prof. Kathleen C. HowellURL: https://engineering.purdue.edu/people/kathleen.howell.1/Publications/Masters/2017_Muralidharan.pdf

Lafayette, Indiana Area

Taught Engineering freshmen to build GoKarts and Race Engineering. Organized and Supervised Race events. Collaborated with Race Teams across Indiana, USA.Managed technical resources and finances. Program: Academic Boot Camp Organization: Purdue Minority Engineering Program

Lafayette, Indiana Area

Taught MATLAB programming language to 40 Incoming Engineering Freshmen as a part of Academic Boot Camp Program organized by Purdue Minority Engineering Program.

Greater Boston Area

Guidance, navigation and control of spacecraft on Earth-Moon halo orbits with coupled orbit determination and station-keeping algorithm. Sequential Kalman filter is used to estimate spacecraft states and optimal control is ensured by Linear Quadratic Regulator.

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

Studied Differential Evolution technique for optimization in Circular Restricted Three Body Problem and applied the concept for Halo orbit Station Keeping.Supervisor: Dr. R.V. RamananScientist/Engineer 'H', Vikram Sarabhai Space CenterAdjunct Professor, Dept, of Aerospace Eng., IIST

Mangalore Area, India

Team Management, Supervise Subsystem heads, Handle administrationManaged a team of 30 undergraduate students from various majors of different years, The team organization comprised of Marketing, Chassis, Engine, Suspension and Electronics subsystems. All subsystem heads were accountable to me. Supervised their works and provided feedback on regular basis. Was responsible for getting permission to use various laboratories and access to required equipment. Dealt with cash inflows from Sponsor's fund. Successfully handled and motivated team during event at Formula Student China event in Xiangyang, China in Oct 2014.https://www.facebook.com/nitkracing

Surathkal, Mangalore, India

Group management of the chassis subsystem. Besides cooperating with fellow sub-teams for collaborative workflow. Design, analysis and fabrication of chassis.Validated structural rigidity using test setup and compared with simulation values. Successfully participated at Student Formula Racing at Chennai, India in July 2014.

Mangalore Area, India

Design optimization and evaluation. Analysis of design. Report writing.

Thiruvananthapuram Area, India

"Aerodynamic Instabilities and Flutter Analysis"Performed research studies and simulations to correlate and analyze theoretical calculations to simulated models.

Vadodara Area, India

Learning fabrication of turbines like the Francis turbine, the Kaplan turbine and the Pelton turbine.Sustaining to Environment, Health and Safety.Lean management and Total Productivity Management.

Thiruvananthapuram, India

Group project to Design and Fabricate test setup to calculate performance of Micro Air vehicle using whiling beam test setup. Design optimization.Data analysis.Project management.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Aerospace, Aeronautical And Astronautical/Space Engineering, 4.0/4.0

Specialization in Astrodynamics and Space Applications. Dissertation: Stretching Directions in Cislunar Space: Stationkeeping.

Master’S Degree, Aeronautics And Astronautics, 4.0/4.0

Activities and Societies: Activity Crew at 20th Purdue Space Day. Program Manager, GoKart Project, Academic Boot Camp, Minority.

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering, 9.08/10

Activities and Societies: Captain at NITK Racing, Executive Member at Flying Club, Convener at National Service Scheme

Cbse 12Th Grade