Dr Suresh Perinpanayagam
Lecturer - Prognostics for Electronics and Electrical Machines
Location: Conway House, Cranfield Campus
E: suresh.nayagam@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x5754
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
Dr Suresh Nayagam currently works as a Lecturer at the Integrated Vehicle Health Monitoring (IVHM) Centre at Cranfield University. He works on the health monitoring of electrical machines, microelectronic and power electronic systems. He also manages a laboratory with distributed (wired and wireless) sensor networks, data acquisition, data-mining and data management capabilities for health management of aerospace, rail, critical infrastructure and renewable energy systems. This laboratory develops data-mining techniques for anomaly detection, diagnostics, prognostics, information fusion, predictive maintenance and logistical support for electro-mechanical systems from the above-mentioned industry sectors. His research themes also include the following:
- Self-cognisant electrical machines, microelectronic and power electronic systems
- Reliability, diagnostic and prognostic technologies’ development for electrical machines, microelectronic and power electronic systems
- Multi-domain (electrical, thermal, mechanical, etc.) failure model simulation for electrical machines, microelectronic and power electronic systems
- Novel power architecture development for electro-mechanical systems
- Uncertainty bounds and confidence development for health monitoring systems
- Software, hardware and communication architecture for health management systems
- Highly accelerated life test development for multi-domain failure models validation for electro-mechanical systems
- Real-time hybrid (model-based and data-driven) failure models for prognostics health monitoring
- Autonomous, intelligent and self-healing systems
- Sustainable electronics for low-carbon economy
Clients
- Thales Group
- Meggitt Systems
- Dynex Semiconductor Ltd
- Rolls-Royce
- EADS
- MOD
- EPSRC
- A*STAR's Science and Engineering Research Council (Singapore)
- Central Networks
- TSB
Background
Dr Suresh Nayagam graduated with a Master of Engineering from Imperial College London in 1996. He first started work with Ford Product Development Centre in the UK before pursuing his PhD programme at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre at Imperial College, London.
Prior to joining Cranfield, Suresh worked as an Associate Research Scientist at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), which is an A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) research institute in Singapore. Suresh was the project leader of a $1 million project funded by Boeing, EADS and Singapore’s Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) under the auspices of the SERC Aerospace Research Programme.
Suresh’s interests include research on health management systems for Avionics, Power Electronics, Electric Aircraft, Smart Grids, Electric Vehicles, Electric Railways and Power Transmission/Conversion for offshore energy harvesting devices such as wind or tidal turbines.
Selected publications
- Jaspreet Bhambra and S. Perinpanayagam, ‘Health Management of Aircraft Avionics Using Digitally-Controlled PWM Circuits’, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED11) in Bologna, Italy, 5-8 September 2011.
- Ryan Walker and S. Perinpanayagam, ‘Simulating Unbalance for Future IVHM Applications’, IMAC XXX A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Florida, 2012.
- Ryan Walker and S. Perinpanayagam, ‘Health Management of Rotating Machinery’ The Eighth International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Machinery Failure Prevention Technologies Conference, Cardiff, 2011.
- Ryan Walker and S. Perinpanayagam, ‘Physics-Based Simulation for Health Management of Rotating Machinery’, Prognostics and System Health Management Conference, Shenzhen, 2011.
- Ihab Samy, Ip-Shing Fan and Suresh Perinpanayagam, ‘Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Element Bearings Using an EMRAN RBF Neural Network – Demonstrated Using Real Experimental Data’, International Conference on Systems and Informatics, 2010.
- S. Perinpanayagam, ‘Sonic Inspection Techniques for In-Service Aircraft Inspection’, Challenges and Opportunities, Nanyang Technological University, 29 – 30 May 2007.
