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Dr. Florence Gnana Poovathy J

Associate Professor

Research Center- Electric Vehicles Incubation

Name : Dr. J. Florence Gnana Poovathy
Designation : Associate Professor Gr. 1
Telephone/Mobile Phone : 8675462014
Email ID: florence.poovathy@vit.ac.in
Scopus ID : 56986444400

Research Focus

  • To contribute in the fields of Battery Management Systems in electric vehicles, AI, Robotics, Automation.

Expertise

  • Battery Management Systems for EVs, AI & Robotics, Image/Video Processing, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Control System, Recycling of Li

Recent Publications

S. No Recent Publication Details
1 Sradha N, Sruthi G, Poovathy JF. Estimation of essential battery state parameters for battery management systems (BMS) in Electric Vehicles using long short term memory (LSTM) and time series analysis combined with Extended Kalman Filter. IEEE Access. 2025 Aug 19.
2 Vishwapranav P, Gowthaman N, Saikrishna V, Florence Gnana Poovathy J. AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC DATA ACQUISITION FOR PEM ELECTROLYZER. Results in Engineering. 2025 Aug 20:106861./td>
3 Florence Gnana Poovathy J, Ashwin SR, Ramit M, Mohit M, Veeramani V. Testing and analysis of suitable compounds to design an air-tight dome to withstand high pressure for underwater applications. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing (IJIDeM). 2025 Aug;19(8):5723-35.
4 Florence Gnana Poovathy, J., Ashwin, S.R., Ramit, M. et al. Testing and analysis of suitable compounds to design an air-tight dome to withstand high pressure for underwater applications. Int J Interact Des Manuf (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-024-02164-8
5 Akshith SP, Rashmitha Mukka, Ashwin Karthik, Sandeep Krishna V, J. Florence Gnana Poovathy, & I. Divya. (2025). IOT Enabled Multi Factor Authentication Lock System. Journal Information and Technology Management (JISTM), 10(39). https://doi.org/10.35631/JISTM.1039013
6 J, Florence Gnana Poovathy and Dutta, Arnav and Pandian, Ganesan and Saiteja, Chinni, Implementation of Fuzzy Based Active Cell Balancing Algorithm for Battery Management Systems of Al-Air Batteries Used in Electric Vehicles. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4869158 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4869158Revision submitted to Journal of Energy Storage (IF 8.9), 2024.
7 John, Florence Gnana Poovathy, et al. “Wheeled wall climbing robot with suction chamber: Building process and analysis.” AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2898. No. 1. AIP Publishing, 2024.
8 Paramanandham, Nirmala, Kishore Rajendiran, Florence Gnana Poovathy J, Yeshwant Santhanakrishnan Premanand, Sanjeeve Raveenthiran Mallichetty, and Pramod Kumar. “Pixel Intensity Resemblance Measurement and Deep Learning Based Computer Vision Model for Crack Detection and Analysis.” Sensors 23, no. 6 (2023): 2954.
9 Poovathy, J. Florence Gnana, et al. “Magnetic Adhesion in Wall Climbing Robots using varied Electromagnet Arrangements.” Journal of Robotics and Control (JRC) 3.3 (2022): 354-360.
10 Florence Gnana Poovathy, J., and Radha Sankararajan. “Split–Process–Merge Technique-Based Algorithm for Accelerated Recovery of Compressively Sensed Images and Videos.” Wireless Personal Communications 118.1 (2021): 93-108.
11 Latha, M. Anna, E. Sathish, and Florence Gnana Poovathy. “Computational Approach to guide Mind Controlled Robotic Arm using BCI–A Review.” 2021 Seventh International conference on Bio Signals, Images, and Instrumentation (ICBSII). IEEE, 2021.
12 Eswaramoorthy, Sathish, and Florence Gnana Poovathy John. “Wheeled wall climbing robot with suction chamber: A study on forces and moments for stability.” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. Vol. 1055. No. 1. IOP Publishing, 2021.
13 Poovathy, John Florence Gnana, et al. “Modeling of a Suction Chamber based Wall Climbing Robot for Angular Stability.” 2020 IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC). IEEE, 2020.

Ongoing Funded Projects

S. No Title Cost in Lakh Duration

(months)

 Role as PI/Co-PI Agency
1 Design of Cost-Effective Hydrogen Generation Using Polymer Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzer 15 24 Co-PI VIT-UDG
 

2

 Earlier Determination of Membrane Electrode Assembly (MEA) Degradation using the Armed Movable System Coupled with Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Water Electrolyzer  

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VIT SEED Fund
 

3

 AI Based Barrel crawling bot inspection system  

4.95

  

24

 Co-Principal Investigator  

VIT-Seed Fund

Ongoing Consultancy Projects

S. No Details
1 Algorithm development for Battery Management System for HCL Technologies, Rs. 18,65,300 /- (including Phase I and Phase II). Initial amount of Rs. 2
2 Design and Development of Automatic Rover system, FLSmidth, Rs. 15,34,000/-, PO Number: 1030001830
3 Simulation and Testing of efficiency of Solid Oxide Electrolyer cell – Rs. 45000/-

Industry Collaboration

S. No Details
1 HCL – Consultancy project
2 Nanosol Energy Pvt. Ltd – Battery stacks and cell related activities
3 FLSmidth

Patents

S. No Details Type of Patent Application Number Status
1 System And Method For Detecting And Reporting Chuckhole- Census Data In Real-Time Utility 202441059963 Published
2 An interactive doll with touch-sensitive fabric and appropriate messages for sex education of children Utility 202441016166 Published
3 Robotic Inspection System For Crack Detection In Industrial Pipes Design 394686 -001 Granted
4 Thruster Attached Drone That Traverses In Air And Water Design 414280-001 Filed (under DRDO inspection)
3 Ring Shaped Device To Defend Oneself Design 405479-001 Granted

 Equipment available

  1. Texas Instruments’ BQ76952EVM Battery Management System Evaluation board
  2. RXN BMS evaluation board

Areas of specialization:

  1. Battery Management System (BMS) for Electric Vehicles
  2. Algorithm development for Battery Management Systems in Electric Vehicles
  3. Cell balancing and health monitoring of battery pack
  4. Parametric evaluation of battery status
  5. Robotics:
  6. Robotics for automatic detection of I and V in cell stacks – single cell, group of cells and whole stack combinations
  7. Design and Development of Automatic Rover system – FLSmidth
  8. Prediction Analysis of changes in parameters of performance of the cells with respect to the observed impedance and derived equivalent circuit.
  9. SLAM robot for automated path finding
  10. Early disease detection in plants using drones and deep learning
  11. Robotic drone which can be maneuvered in water and air
  12. Impedance analysis and Balance of Plant (BoP) for
  13. Water Electrolyzer
  14. Energy conversion devices (e.g., Hydrogen fuel cell)
  15. Energy Storage devices (e.g., Air batteries, Li-ion batteries etc.)
  16. IoT for plant management and prediction analysis

Skills:

  1. Algorithm Development for BMS
  2. Experience in Simulink
  3. Equivalent circuit formation
  4. Battery Assembly and spot welding
  5. Balance of plant construction (BoP)
  6. Automation of BoP

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