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Prof.Sukanta Das

Designation: Associate Professor

Department: Electrical Engineering

Email: asksukanta[at]iitism[dot]ac[dot]in

Contact Number: 3262235653

Office Number: +91-326-223-5653

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About Me: Dr. Sukanta Das received the Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, India, in 2002, and the Master of Engineering and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Bengal Engineering and Science University (now known as the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology), Howrah, India, in 2004 and 2013, respectively. Dr. Das is currently an Associate Professor & Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad, India. Apart from teaching regular courses on Electrical Machines & Drives, he is actively involved in Research & Development work. He has accomplished a few projects sponsored by SERB, DHI etc. and is also currently involved in other Industry projects with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. India. Till date, Prof. Das has guided 8 students towards their Ph.D degrees. Moreover, 26 students have completed their M.Tech. dissertations under his supervision. He has authored /coauthored about 65 publications in journals /conferences. His current research interests include fault-tolerant control of induction motor drives, energy efficient operation of induction motor drives, predictive control of machine drives, fast charging of electrical vehicles and other aspects of electrical machine drives. Presently, Dr. Das is a Senior Member of IEEE and Fellow of IEI.

Research Interest: Electric Vehicles, Brushless Machines, Electric Machine Control, High Performance Drives, Fast Battery Charging Technologies

Curriculum
Vitae
Publications

Teaching

  • Under-Graduate:

Sl. No.

Courses

Code

L-T-P

Program

1

Electrical Technology

EEC11102/12102

3-1-0

1st year B.Tech. (EE)

2

Electrical Technology Practical

EEC12201

0-0-3/2

3

Circuit Theory

EEC13111

3-1-0

2nd year B.Tech. (EE)

4

Circuit Theory Practical

EEC13211

0-0-3/2

5

Electrical Measurements Practical

EEC14211

0-0-3/2

6

Applied Electrical Engg.

EER14101

3-0-0

2nd year B.Tech. (MEC)

7

Electrical Machines-II

EEC15111

3-0-0

3rd year B.Tech. (EE)

8

Utilization of Electric Power

EEH16101

3-0-0

9

Power Electronics Practical

EEC16211

0-0-3/2

10

Power System Practical

EEC16212

0-0-3/2

11

Applied Electrical Engg.

EER16101

3-1-0

3rd year B.Tech. (MLE)

12

Special Purpose Electric Machines & Drives

EEC18115

3-0-0

4th year B.Tech. (EE)
  • Post-Graduate:

Sl. No.

Courses

Code

L-T-P

Program

1

Generalized Theory of Electrical Machines

EEC51101

3-0-0

1st year M.Tech. (PSE+PEED)

Academics

  • BE (Electrical Engg.) 2002 – Jalpaiguri Govt. Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, under University of North Bengal (NBU), West Bengal, India.
  • ME (Electrical Engg., Specialization in Power System) - 2004 &  Ph.D. (Engg.) 2013 – Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, Howrah (Erstwhile Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU), Shibpur, Howrah, India).

Position

   Employer

Position held

Duration in the post

Birbhum Institute of Engineering and Technology, Suri, Birbhum, West Bengal, India.

Lecturer

March 15, 2004 –August 31, 2008

Senior Lecturer

September 01, 2008-October 31, 2010

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.

Assistant Professor

November 01, 2010 – April 11, 2021

Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.

Associate Professor

April 12, 2021 – Continuing

Awards and Honors

Awards:

  • “Fault-Tolerant Strategy against Current Sensor Failures for DTC-SVPWM based Induction Motor Drives” authored by Deepak Kumar, Sukanta Das, Rajarshi Chakraborty is bestowed 3-RD POSITION for the Best Paper Award in the IEEE 3rd International Conference on “Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation” (SEFET-2023), organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technical Education & Research, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during 9th – 12th August, 2023.
  • Felicitated by IIT(ISM) on its 96th Foundation Day (Celebrated on December 9, 2021) for Making It to the Top 2% of Scientists in the Survey Conducted by Stanford University and Published by Elsevier (Elsevier's Database, 2021).
  • IET Premium Award 2017 for the Best Paper during 2015-17.
  • MHRD Fellowship (Govt. of India) for qualifying GATE in 2002 during 2002-2004.

Members of Professional bodies:

  • Member of Institution of Engineers (MIE), MIE: M-146872-8
  • Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-PEL, IAS, Membership No.: 90328531
  • Life Member of The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Life Membership No.: LM-88459
  • Life Member of System Society of India (SSI), Life Membership No.: LM-32066

Publications

List Of Research Publications (only in Peer-reviewed Journals)

  1. Goutam Goswami, and Sukanta Das, "Inherently robust loss model controller for energy efficient operation of indirect rotor field-oriented induction motor drives," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 14951-14960, Nov. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2024.3435959 [Q1].
  2. Rajarshi Chakraborty, and Sukanta Das, "Fault-tolerant technique against current sensors for model predictive control of induction motor drives," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 8506-8516, July 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2024.3381169  [Q1].
  3. Goutam Goswami, and Sukanta Das, "An online efficient loss model controller for rotor-field oriented induction motor drives," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 578-588, Mar. 2024. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2023.3313354  [Q1].
  4. Sukanta Das, and Murli Manohar, "A resilient current sensor fault tolerant strategy for vector-controlled induction motor drive," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 4313-4320, Aug. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3179319  [Q1]
  5. Adrish Bhaumik, and Sukanta Das, “Virtual voltage vector based predictive current control of speed sensorless induction motor drives," ISA Transactions, vol. 133, no. 2, pp. 495-504, Feb. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2022.07.007 [Q1]
  6. Mukesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Modified active power-MRAS for limited range variable speed sensorless brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine drive," The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 425-448, July. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-12-2021-0497 [Q4]
  7. Adrish Bhaumik, and Sukanta Das, “Predictive torque control strategy for speed adaptive flux observer based sensorless induction motor drive in flux-weakening region,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 14110-14118, June. 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2021.3089611  [Q1]
  8. Abhisek Pal, and Sukanta Das, “Search controller-based online efficiency optimisation strategy for induction motor drives using modified adaptive quadratic interpolation,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 13, no. 18, pp. 4282-4290, Dec. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2020.0206  [Q2]
  9. Karuna Kiran, and Sukanta Das, “Variable speed operation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine drive using model predictive current control technique,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 8396-8404, Aug. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2020.2964007 [Q1]
  10. Murli Manohar, and Sukanta Das, “Direct torque controlled induction motor drive using modified five-level torque controller for reduction in torque ripple,” IET Power Electronics, Vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 1885-1892, July 2020. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-pel.2019.1027 [Q2]
  11. Abhisek Pal, and Sukanta Das, “Development of energy efficient scheme for speed sensorless induction motor drive,” International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, e12448. https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.12448, May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.12448  [Q3]
  12. Mukesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Sensorless speed estimation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator using active power based MRAS,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 7878-7886, Aug. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2018.2882473 [Q1]
  13. Sukanta Das, Rakesh Kumar, and Abhisek Pal, “MRAS based speed estimation of induction motor drive utilizing machine's d- and q- circuit impedances,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 4286-4295, June 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2018.2860530 [Q1]
  14. Rahul Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Model reference adaptive system based sensorless speed control of grid-connected doubly-fed induction generator in wind energy conversion system,” Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transactions of Electrical Engineering, vol. 44, pp. 129-140, 25-Apr.2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40998-019-00196-5 [Q4]
  15. Rahul Kumar, Sukanta Das, and Adrish Bhaumik,“Speed sensorless model predictive current control of doubly-fed induction machine drive using model reference adaptive system,” ISA Transactions, vol. 86, pp. 215-226, Jan. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2018.10.025  [Q1]
  16. Karuna Kiran, Sukanta Das, Mukesh Kumar, and Abhijit Sahu,“Sensorless speed control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance motor drive using secondary flux based MRAS,” Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 701-715, Dec. 2018. [Q4]
  17. Mukesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Model reference adaptive system based sensorless speed estimation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator for wind power application,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 14, pp. 2355-2366, Nov. 2018. [Q2]
  18. Abhisek Pal, Sukanta Das, and Ajit K. Chattopadhyay, “An improved rotor flux space vector based MRAS for field oriented control of induction motor drives,” IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 5131–5141, June 2018. [Q1]
  19. Ashis Kr. Sinha, Sukanta Das, and Tarun Kr. Chatterjee, “Wavelet transform based ball bearing fault detection scheme for heavy duty mining electrical motors under supply frequency regulation using MCSA,” International Journal of Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 170-180, Jan. 2018. Scopus
  20. Ashis Kr. Sinha, Sukanta Das, and Tarun Kr. Chatterjee, “Empirical relation for broken bar determination in SCIM,” The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 242-265, Jan. 2018. [Q4]
  21. Sukanta Das, and Vikash Ranjan, “Wavelet transform based filter to remove the notches from signal under harmonic polluted environment,” J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. B (2017), vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 71-77, Feb. 2018. [Scopus]
  22. Karuna Kiran, and Sukanta Das, “Implementation of reactive power based MRAS for sensorless speed control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance motor drive,” IET Power Electronics,  vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 192-201, Jan. 2018. [Q2]
  23. Murli Manohar, and Sukanta Das, “Current sensor fault-tolerant control for direct torque control of induction motor drive using flux linkage observer,” IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 2824–2833, Dec. 2017. [Q1]
  24. Rahul Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “MRAS based speed estimation of grid-connected doubly-fed induction machine drive,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 726–737, July 2017. [Q2]
  25. Abhisek Pal, Rakesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Sensorless speed control of induction motor driven electric vehicle using model reference adaptive controller,” Energy Procedia, Elsevier, vol. 90, pp.540-551, Dec. 2016. [Scopus]
  26. Rakesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Eigenvalue based relative parameter sensitivity analysis for optimized performance of sensorless induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 723–734, Sept. 2016. [Q2]
  27. Ashis Kr. Sinha, Sukanta Das, and Tarun Kr. Chatterjee, “A case study of bearing fault monitoring techniques for induction motors,” Journal of Mines, Metals and Fuels, vol. 64, no. 5 & 6, pp. 249-255, May-June 2016. [Scopus]
  28. Rakesh Kumar, Sukanta Das, and Ajit K. Chattopadhyay, “Comparative assessment of two different MRAS schemes for speed sensorless control of induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 141-154, Feb. 2016. [Q2]
  29. Rakesh Kumar, Sukanta Das, Prasid Syam, and Ajit K. Chattopadhyay, “Review on model reference adaptive system for sensorless vector control of induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 496–511, July, 2015. [Q2]
  30. B. Bhattacharyya, V. K. Gupta, and Sukanta Das, “Evolutionary programming for reactive power planning using FACTS devices,” WSEAS Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 9, pp. 1-6, 2014. [Scopus]
  31. Sukanta Das, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, and Prasid Syam, “A real time solution for current transformer saturation detection by discrete Haar wavelet transform,” Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol. 12, edition 1, pp. 159-166, April, 2012. [Scopus]
  32. Sukanta Das, Prasid Syam, Gautam Bandopadhyay, and Ajit K. Chattopadhyay, “Application of wavelet transform in denoising synchronizing signal in line synchronised power electronics converters,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 281-292, March. 2012. [Q2]
  33. Sukanta Das, Gautam Bandyopadhyay, and Prasid Syam, “A solution to CT saturation by Gregory Newton's Backward Interpolation,” International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, vol. 12, no. 6, Article 1, Nov. 2011. [Scopus]

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

  1. N. K. Ray, S. Das and G. Goswami, "Active Power Based MRAS for Estimation of Rotor Resistance in Field-Oriented Control of Induction Motor Drive," 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, India, 2024.
  2. G. Goswami and S. Das, "MTPA Based Energy Efficient Strategy for Scalar Control of Induction Motor Drives," 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, India, 2024.
  3. K. Kiran, S. Das, A. Pal and S. Anand, "Sensorless Speed Control of Brushless Doubly-fed Reluctance Machine Drive: A Simplified Model Predictive Control Approach," 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, India, 2024.
  4. A. Pal, S. Das and K. Kiran, "Optimized Power Control Strategy for Sensorless Induction Motor Drive Used in Electric Vehicle Applications," 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, India, 2024.
  5. Deepak Kumar, S. Das, and Rajarshi Chakraborty, "Fault-Tolerant Strategy against Current Sensor Failures for DTC-SVPWM based Induction Motor Drives," IEEE 3rd International Conference on “Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET-2023), SOA-Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India during 9th – 12th August, 2023.
  6. R. Chakraborty and S. Das, "Sensor Fault ToleranCurrentt Strategy for Model Predictive Control of Induction Motor Drive," in IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, 2022. 
  7. Kumar, M., and Das, S., “Speed Control of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Generator under MTPIA and UPPF Conditions for Wind Power Application,” International Conference on Computational Performance Evaluation (ComPE), NEHU Meghalaya, India, 1−3 December 2021.
  8. Kumar, M., and Das, S., “Design and Finite Element Analysis of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Machine for Variable Speed Application,” 2nd IEEE International Conference on Electrical Power and Energy Systems (ICEPES 2021), MNIT Bhopal, India, 10 -11  December 2021. 
  9. Bhaumik, A., and Das, S., “Predictive Torque Control Scheme without Weighting Factors for Speed Sensorless Induction Motor Drive,” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Energy (ICPEE), Bhubaneswar, India, Jan. 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPEE50452.2021.9358475.
  10. Bhaumik, A., and Das, S., “MRAS Based Speed Sensorless Model Predictive Torque of Induction Motor Drive,” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy System Conference, IIT Madras, India, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES.2018.8707501.
  11. Kumar, M., Das, S., and Sinha, A. K., “Sensorless Speed Control of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Machine for Pump Storage and Wind Power Application,” in Proceedings of  IEEE IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT), Delhi, India, 13-14 Mar. 2018.
  12. Kiran, K., Das, S., and Singh, D., “Model predictive field oriented speed control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance motor drive,” in Proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC-2018), Thrissur, India, 18-20 Jan., 2018.
  13. Kumar, R., and Das, S., “Sensorless DTC-SVM strategy for doubly-fed induction machine drive using model reference adaptive system,” in Proceedings of  14th IEEE India Council International Conference 2017 (INDICON-2017), IIT Roorkee, India, 15-17 Dec. 2017.
  14. Tiwari, V., Das, S., and Pal, A., “Sensorless speed control of induction motor drive using extended Kalman filter observer,” in Proceedings of 9th IEEE Asia Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC’17), Bangalore, India, 8-10 Nov. 2017.
  15. Manohar, M., Das, S., and Kumar, R., “A robust current sensor fault detection scheme for sensorless induction motor drive,” in Proceedings of 9th IEEE Asia Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC’17), Bangalore, India, 8-10 Nov. 2017.
  16. Das, S., Pal, A., and Manohar, M., “Adaptive quadratic interpolation for loss minimization of direct torque controlled induction motor driven electric vehicle,” in Proceedings of  IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN2017), Emden, Germany, pp. 641-646, 24-26 July 2017.
  17. Kiran, K., Das, S., and Sahu, A., “Sensorless speed estimation and control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine drive using model reference adaptive system,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES 2016), Trivandrum, India, 14-17 Dec. 2016. 
  18. Kumar, R., Das, S., and Manohar, M., “Sensorless control of grid-connected doubly-fed induction machine drive using model reference adaptive controller,” in Proceedings of 3rd IEEE UP Section International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Electronics Engineering (UPCON-2016), IIT (BHU) Varanasi, India, 9-11 Dec. 2016. 
  19. Sahu, A.,  Kiran, K., and Das, S., “Particle swarm optimization based tuning of brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine drive for speed control applications,” in Proceedings of  IEEE First International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES 2016), DTU, Delhi, India, 4-6 July, 2016.
  20. Pal, A., and Das, S., “A new sensorless speed estimation strategy for induction motor driven electric vehicle with energy optimization scheme,” in Proceedings of. IEEE First International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES 2016), DTU, Delhi, India, 4-6 July, 2016.
  21. Pal, A, Kumar, R., and Das, S., “A new sensorless speed control technique for induction motor driven electric vehicle using model reference adaptive controller,” in Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Advances in Energy Research (ICAER 2015), IIT Bombay, Powai, India, 15-17 December, 2015.
  22. Sinha, A. K., Das, S., and Chatterjee, T. K., “A case study of bearing fault monitoring techniques for induction motors,” in Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on Mining Equipment: New Technologies, Challanges & Applications (MENTCA), Dhanbad, 2015, pp. 371-377.
  23. Das, S., Pal, A., Kumar, R., and Chattopadhyay, A.K., “An improved rotor flux based model reference adaptive controller for four-quadrant vector controlled induction motor drives,” in Proceedings of IEEE TENCON, Macau, 01-04 November, 2015.
  24. Kumar, R., Das, S., and Chattopadhyay, A.K., “Comparison of Q- and X-MRAS for speed sensorless induction motor drive on common experimental rig,” in Proceedings of Michael Faraday IET International Summit-2015, Kolkata, 12-13 September 2015.
  25. Manohar, M., and Das, S., “Combined speed and rotor resistance estimation for speed sensorless induction motor drive using reactive power based MRAS,” in Proceedings of Michael Faraday IET International Summit-2015, Kolkata, 12-13 September 2015.
  26. Khalkho, A.M., Das, S., and Chattopadhyay, A.K., “Phase disposition PWM five-level inverter short switch diagnosis using DWT and ANN,” in Proceedings of Michael Faraday IET International Summit-2015, Kolkata, 12-13 September 2015.
  27. Purti, S. J., Kumar, R., and Das, S., “Performance assessment of rotor flux and reactive power based MRAS for speed sensorless induction motor drive in a common test rig,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication & Control, Indore, 10-12 September 2015.
  28. Kumar, R., and Das, S., “A comparative performance assessment of conventional and ANN based SVPWM controller for VFI induction motor drive,”  in Proceedings of IEEE  International Conference on  Signal Processing And Communication Engineering Systems (SPACES), 2015, Vaddeswaram, AP, India, 2-3 January, 2015, pp. 77-81.
  29. Kumar, R., and Das, S., “A modified approach to both conventional and ANN based SVPWM controllers for Voltage Fed Inverter in Sensorless Vector Control IM Drive,” in Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES 2014), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, 16-19 December, 2014.
  30. Bhandari, T., Kumar, R., and Das, S., “Comparative study of different PWM techniques on the performance of induction motor,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Engineering and Technology (ICAET-2014), Chandigarh, 7-8 Feb., 2014, pp. 139-145.
  31. Das, S., Syam, P., and Bandopadhyay, G., “Application of Wavelet Transform for extraction of slip frequency component from SVPWM signal,” in Proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES 2012), Bengaluru, India, 16-19 December, 2012.
  32. Das, S., Syam, P., and Bandopadhyay, G., “Simulation of wavelet transform based PWM inverter output filter to improve the transient performance of induction motor drives," in Proceedings of national seminar on Mining Equipment-New Technologies, Challenges & Applications (MENTCA-2012), Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India, 19-21 January, 2012, pp. 257-268.
  33. Das, S., Bandyopadhyay, G., and Syam, P., “Current transformer saturation detection by Wavelet Transform and compensation by Newton's Forward Interpolation," in Fifteenth National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), IIT Bombay, 16-18 December 2008, vol. 15, pp. 334-339.
  34. Das, S., Syam, P., Bandopadhyay, G., and Chattopadhyay, A. K., “Wavelet transform application for zero-crossing detection of distorted line voltages in weak A.C. systems," in Proceedings of IEEE India Ann. Conf. (IEEE-INDICON 2004), IIT Kharagpur, 20-22 December, 2004, vol. 1, pp. 464-467.

Patents

Title: “Model-Predictive-Current-Control for Speed Regulation of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Generator”

Inventors: Sukanta Das, and Karuna Kiran

Indian Patent Application No. 201731030886, dated 31.08.2017.

Date of Filing: August 31, 2017.

Date of Publication: March 01, 2019.

Date of Grant: March 15, 2024.

Patent Number: 527930. 

Title: “Low-Cost 10 kVA Intelligent-Power-Module Based Inverter for AC Machines”

Patentee: CIIE, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad.

Inventors: Sukanta Das, Abhisek Pal, and U. Sarkar

Indian Patent Application No. 202131000212.

Date of Filing: January 04, 2021.

Date of Publication: July 08, 2022.

Date of Grant: December 18, 2023.

Patent Number: 484624. 

Title: “A System for Volt/Hertz Speed Control of Squirrel Cage Induction Motor for Minimum Current Operation”

Inventors: Goutam Goswami, and Sukanta Das

Indian Patent Application No. 202331002547.

Date of Filing: January 12, 2023.

Date of Publication: June 23, 2023.

Title: “Multi-Phase Synchronous Buck Converter for the Charging Stage of an Offboard Electric Vehicle Charger”

Inventors: Amit Kumar, A. Ghoshal, and Sukanta Das

Indian Patent Application No. 202331074730.

Date of Filing: November 02, 2023.

Date of Publication: February 23, 2024.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

Sl. No.

Title of the project

Sponsored by  & Project No.

Project

Cost (Rs.)

Duration

Status

1.

Design and Implementation of Wavelet Transform based Notch Filter to Denoise Synchronizing Signal in Power Electronics Converters under Harmonics Polluted Environment.

IIT(ISM) Dhanbad

FRS(35)/2012-2013/EE

10,00,000/-

Three years

Completed

2.

Hardware Feature Enhancement of Existing MCK28335 Kit C Pro-S (IM) for Conducting Research Activity in Industry Standard Vector Control Drive Applications

Minor Research Project under TEQIP-II

(vide letter dated 22.07.2013)

1,00,000/-

One year

Completed

3.

Sensorless Speed Control of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Motor Drive Utilizing Model Reference Adaptive Controller

SERB (DST)

File No. YSS/2015/001670

DST(SERB)(134)/2015-2016/458/ Electrical Engg.

30,84,750/-

Three years

Completed

4.

Execution of a Common Approach for Current Sensor Fault-Tolerant Control of Induction Motor Drives in Different Control Regimes

SERB (DST), File No. CRG/2019/00384 [DST(SERB)(249)/2019-2020/696/ EE]

46,86,264/-

Three years

Completed

5.

Development of Energy Efficient Control Scheme for Induction Motor Drive Used in EV and HEV

Department of Heavy Industries in Collaboration with Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. [7(11)/2019-AEI (20739)]

84,37,000/-

Three years

On-going

6.

FIST Engineering Sciences – Project

[Involves 3 Co-PIs]

DST (FIST)

DST(FIST)/2024-2025/1114/EE

2,03,00,000/-

Five Years

On-going

7.

Center of Excellence by ReNEW Power Foundation

ReNEW Power Foundation

SCOE0007I

1,00,00,000/-

One Year

On-going

Membership of Scientific Societies

  • Fellow of Institution of Engineers (FIE), FIE: F-1314390
  • Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Membership No.: 90328531
  • Life Member of The Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Life Membership No.: LM-88459
  • Life Member of System Society of India (SSI), Life Membership No.: LM-32066

Guidance

1

Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Predictive Control Strategies for Speed Sensorless Induction Motor Drives "...by Adrish Bhaumik

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: September 23, 2022.

Key Publications:

  1. Adrish Bhaumik, and Sukanta Das, “Predictive torque control strategy for speed adaptive flux observer based sensorless induction motor drive in flux-weakening region,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 14110-14118, June. 2021. [Q1]
  2. Adrish Bhaumik, and Sukanta Das, “Virtual voltage vector based predictive current control of speed sensorless induction motor drives," ISA Transactions, 14-July, 2022, ISSN 0019-0578, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2022.07.007. Early Access [Q1]

Present Engagement:

Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of E&CE, National University of Singapore

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Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Sensorless Speed Control of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Motor Drive Utilizing Model Reference Adaptive Controller"... by Mukesh Kumar

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: May 23, 2022.

Key Publications:

  1. Mukesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Sensorless speed estimation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator using active power based MRAS,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 7878-7886, Aug. 2019. [Q1]
  2. Mukesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Model reference adaptive system based sensorless speed estimation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator for wind power application,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 14, pp. 2355-2366, Nov. 2018. [Q2]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Government Engineering College Jamui  affiliated with Bihar Engineering University

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Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Sensor Fault-Tolerant Control of Induction Motor Drives Using Machine Model Based Observers"...by Murli Manohar

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: February 14, 2022.

Key Publications:

  1. Murli Manohar, and Sukanta Das, “Direct torque controlled induction motor drive using modified five-level torque controller for reduction in torque ripple,” IET Power Electronics, Vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 1885-1892, July 2020. [Q2]
  2. Murli Manohar, and Sukanta Das, “Current sensor fault-tolerant control for direct torque control of induction motor drive using flux linkage observer,” IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 2824–2833, Dec. 2017. [Q1]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, Jharkhand

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Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Energy Efficient Operation of Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive Using Search Controller"....by Abhisek Pal

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: July 23, 2021.

Key Publications:

  1. Abhisek Pal, and Sukanta Das, “Search controller-based online efficiency optimisation strategy for induction motor drives using modified adaptive quadratic interpolation,” IET Power Electronics, Vol. 13, no. 18, pp. 4282-4290, Dec. 2020. [Q2]
  2. Abhisek Pal, Sukanta Das, and Ajit K. Chattopadhyay, “An improved rotor flux space vector based MRAS for field oriented control of induction motor drives,” IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 5131–5141, June 2018. [Q1]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology

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Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Limited Range Variable Speed Operation of Brushless Doubly-fed Reluctance Machine using Model Predictive Current Control Technique under Primary Flux Orientation"....by Karuna Kiran

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: March 15, 2021.

Key Publications:

  1. Karuna Kiran, and Sukanta Das, “Variable speed operation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine drive using model predictive current control technique,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 8396-8404, Aug. 2020. [Q1]
  2. Karuna Kiran, and Sukanta Das, “Implementation of reactive power based MRAS for sensorless speed control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance motor drive,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 192-201, Jan. 2018. [Q2]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor, SVERI College of Engineering Pandharpur

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Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Model Reference Adaptive System Based Sensorless Speed Control of Doubly-Fed Induction Machine Drive under Different Control Regimes"....by Rahul Kumar

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: November 11, 2020.

Key Publications:

  1. [Rahul Kumar, Sukanta Das, and Adrish Bhaumik,“Speed sensorless model predictive current control of doubly-fed induction machine drive using model reference adaptive system,” ISA Transactions, vol. 86, pp. 215-226, Jan. 2019. [Q1]
  2. Rahul Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “MRAS based speed estimation of grid-connected doubly-fed induction machine drive,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 726–737, July 2017. [Q2]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, Jharkhand

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Title of Ph.D Thesis: “Wavelet Transform and ANN Based Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Simultaneous Detection of Broken Rotor Bars and Bearing Damages in Squirrel Cage Induction Motor”…by Ashish Kumar Sinha

(as co-guide with Prof. T. K. Chatterjee, MME)                                                       

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: April 01, 2019

Key Publication:

  1. Ashis Kr. Sinha, Sukanta Das, and Tarun Kr. Chatterjee, “Empirical relation for broken bar determination in SCIM,” The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 242-265, Jan. 2018. [Q4]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering & Technology, GLA University-Mathura

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Title of Ph.D Thesis: “Low-Region Speed Control of Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives Using Model Reference Adaptive Controller” .....by Rakesh Kumar

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: March 14, 2017

Key Publications:

  1. Rakesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Eigenvalue based relative parameter sensitivity analysis for optimized performance of sensorless induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 723–734, Sept. 2016. [Q2]
  2. Rakesh Kumar, Sukanta Das, and A.K. Chattopadhyay, “Comparative assessment of two different MRAS schemes for speed sensorless control of induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 141-154, Feb. 2016. [Q2]

[3] Rakesh Kumar, Sukanta Das, P. Syam, and A.K. Chattopadhyay, “Review on model reference adaptive system for sensorless vector control of induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 496–511, July, 2015. [Q2]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor in the Dept. of ECE at Indian Naval Academy
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