Practical Guide to Instrumentation, Automation and Robotics

Pankaj Goel holds a PhD degree from Texas A&M University, College Station in Electrical Engineering. His research focusses on Process Control, Automation and Abnormal situation management. He has published several journal papers, presented his research at conferences and is currently writing two book chapters. He has received a Process Safety Engineering Certificate from MKOPSC. Pankaj has served as teaching assistant at Texas A&M University. Pankaj has 11 years of professional experience. He has worked with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) for six years, where he worked as Maintenance Engineer and Project Engineer for a Greenfield project. Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos is a distinguished chemical engineer and academic leader, currently serving as Director of the Texas A&M Energy Institute and holding the Dow Chemical Chair Professorship in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. He has been working at Shell Chemicals in Amsterdam. He has served as Professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, directing the Centre for Process Systems Engineering. His research focuses on process systems engineering, particularly multi-parametric programming, model predictive control, and integrated frameworks for designing, optimizing, and scheduling complex systems with applications in energy, manufacturing, and biomedical engineering.

Dr. Pistikopoulos is the lead developer of the PAROC framework and has authored hundreds of publications and several books. Professor Pistikopoulos is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, IChemE, and AIChE, and has received numerous honors, including the AIChE Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, the IChemE Sargent Medal, and the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Award. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering, underscoring his global leadership in advancing process systems engineering. Aniruddha Datta received the B. Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985, the M.S.E.E. degree from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in 1987 and the M.S. (Applied Mathematics) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California in 1991. In 1991, he joined Texas A&M University where he is currently the J. W. Runyon, Jr. '35 Professor II and Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering (CBGSE). His areas of interest include adaptive control, robust control, PID control and Genomic Signal Processing. He has authored or co-authored 5 books and over 200 journal and conference papers on these topics.