Faculty details

Prof.Dushyant Sharma

Designation: Assistant Professor

Department: Electrical Engineering

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

Contact Number: 8800562560

Office Number: +91-326-223-+91-326-223-5159

Personal Page: Under Construction

Research Interest: Automatic Load Frequency Control, Renewable Energy Systems, Distributed Control In Power Systems, Microgrids, Grid Forming Inverter Control, and Active Power Control of Interconnected Power Systems

Teaching

Courses Taught at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad:

  • Basics of Electrical Engineering
  • Utilization of Electrical Energy
  • Networks Lab
  • Smart Grid Technology

Academics

Position

Important Positions Held at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad:

  • Faculty in-charge Infrastructure (Electrical)
  • Coordinator Infrastructure (Electrical) 
  • Warden, Jasper hostel
  • Member of various institute and department-level committees

Awards and Honors

  • Best paper award – awarded in ICSPER 2024
  • International Travel Support (ITS) to attend the 2023 American Control Conference, USA – given by SERB
  • POSOCO power system awards (PPSA)-2019 under the doctoral category – awarded by POSOCO
  • Research Excellence Travel Award – awarded by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2019)
  • Best Ph.D. student poster award – awarded in IEEE EEEIC 2019
  • Best paper award – awarded in IEEE TENCON 2017

Publications

Books Published

Book chapters:

  1. S. Mishra, D. Sharma, S. N. Singh, K. Y. Lee, M. M. Farsangi, H. Nezamabadi‐pour, EM Voumvoulakis, N. D. Hatziargyriou, X. Wu, and L. Ma, “Power System and Power Plant Control,” Chapter 4 of Applications of Modern Heuristic Optimization Methods in Power and Energy Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2020.
  2. S. Mishra and D. Sharma, “Control of Photovoltaic Technology,” Chapter 19 of Electric Renewable Energy Systems, Academic Press publications, 2016.

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

Refereed Journal Publications:

  1. F. Sadeque, M. Gursoy, D. Sharma and B. Mirafzal, “Autonomous control of inverters in microgrid,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 4313-4323, May-June 2024.
  2. V. Vaishnav, D. Sharma and A. Jain, “Quadratic-droop-based distributed secondary control of microgrid with detail-balanced communication topology,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17, no. 3, September 2023, pp. 3401-3412.
  3. S. Singh, V. Vaishnav, A. Jain and D. Sharma, “Bounded voltage regulation in a direct current microgrid using barrier lyapunov function with uncertain load current,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 991-996, 2023.
  4. V. Vaishnav, D. Sharma and A. Jain, “Control of heterogeneous battery energy storage systems-based microgrid connected via detail-balanced communication topology,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 733-738, 2023.
  5. M. S. Pilehvar, D. Sharma and B. Mirafzal, “Forming interphase microgrids in distribution systems using cooperative inverters,” CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 7, no. 2, June 2022, pp. 186-195.
  6. D. Sharma, F. Sadeque and B. Mirafzal, “Synchronization of inverters in grid forming mode,” IEEE Access, vol. 10, April 2022, pp. 41341-41351.
  7. A. Firdaus, D. Sharma and S. Mishra, “Dynamic power flow based simplified transfer function model to study instability of low frequency modes in inverter-based microgrids,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 14, no. 23, December 2020, pp. 5634-5645.
  8. D. Sharma and S. Mishra, “Disturbance-observer based frequency regulation scheme for low-inertia microgrid systems,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 14, no. 1, March 2020, pp. 782-792.
  9. D. Sharma and S. Mishra, “Non-linear disturbance observer-based improved frequency and tie-line power control of modern interconnected power systems,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 13, no. 16, August 2019, pp. 3564-3573.
  10. N. Nayak, S. Mishra, D. Sharma and B. Kumar Sahu, “Application of modified sine cosine algorithm to optimally design PID/fuzzy-PID controllers to deal with AGC issues in deregulated power system,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 13, no. 12, June 2019, pp. 2474-2487.
  11. D. Sharma, A. Dubey, S. Mishra and R. K. Mallik, “A frequency control strategy using power line communication in a smart microgrid,” IEEE Access, vol. 7, February 2019, pp. 21712-21721.
  12. D. Sharma and S. Mishra, “Power system frequency stabiliser for modern power systems,” IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, vol. 12, no. 9, May 2018, pp. 1961-1969.
  13. J. Nanda, D. Sharma and S. Mishra, “Performance analysis of automatic generation control of interconnected power systems with delayed mode operation of area control error,” IET The Journal of Engineering, vol. 2015, no. 4, April 2015, pp. 164-173.

Papers in conference abstract volumes / presented

Refereed Conference Publications:

  1. F. Sadeque, D. Sharma and B. Mirafzal, “Seamless grid-following to grid-forming transition of inverters supplying a microgrid,” 2023 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 594-599.
  2. V. Vaishnav, D. Sharma and A. Jain, “Network-based finite-time secondary level control for critical bus voltage restoration and accurate reactive power-sharing,” 2022 22nd National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), New Delhi, India, 2022, pp. 584-589.
  3. V. Vaishnav, A. Jain and D. Sharma, “Finite-time stability analysis of a distributed microgrid connected via detail-balanced graph,” 2021 Seventh Indian Control Conference (ICC), Mumbai, India, 2021, pp. 365-370.
  4. T. Hossen, D. Sharma and B. Mirafzal, “Smart inverter twin model for anomaly detection,” 2021 IEEE 22nd Workshop on Control and Modelling of Power Electronics (COMPEL), Cartagena, Colombia, 2021, pp. 1-6.
  5. F. Sadeque, D. Sharma and B. Mirafzal, “Power-sharing between grid-forming and grid-following inverters,” 2021 IEEE 22nd Workshop on Control and Modelling of Power Electronics (COMPEL), Cartagena, Colombia, 2021, pp. 1-5.
  6. F. Sadeque, D. Sharma and B. Mirafzal, “Multiple grid-forming inverters in black-start: the challenges,” 2021 IEEE 22nd Workshop on Control and Modelling of Power Electronics (COMPEL), Cartagena, Colombia, 2021, pp. 1-6.
  7. D. Sharma, S. Mishra and A. Firdaus, “Computation of delay margin in a power system having open channel communication based automatic generation control using Pade´ approximation,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2019 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC/I&CPS Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, pp. 1-6.
  8. A. Firdaus, S. Mishra and D. Sharma, “Stability enhancement of inverter based autonomous microgrid using electric spring,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2019 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC/I&CPS Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, pp. 1-5.
  9. D. Sharma and S. Mishra, “Impacts of system non-linearities on communication delay margin for power systems having open channel communication based automatic generation control,” 2018 IEEMA Engineer Infinite Conference (eTechNxT), New Delhi, 2018, pp. 1-5.
  10. A. Firdaus, S. Mishra and D. Sharma, “Quadratic regulator based optimal state feedback controller for stability improvement of inverter based microgrids,” TENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Penang, 2017, pp. 2165-2170.
  11. D. Sharma, S. Mishra and A. Firdaus, “Multi objective gain tuning approach for time delayed automatic generation control,” TENCON 2017 - 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, Penang, 2017, pp. 2896-2900.
  12. A. Tomar, D. Sharma and S. Mishra, “An active power management strategy in a microgrid having static and rotating generators considering generation limits using water pumping loads,” 2017 International Conference on Computer, Communications and Electronics (Comptelix), Jaipur, 2017, pp. 484-488.
  13. S. Mishra, D. Sharma, Y. Kumar and D. Pullaguram, “Lyapunov based frequency independent current controller for grid connected single phase PV systems,” 2016 7th India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE), Patiala, 2016, pp. 1-6.
  14. D. Sharma, S. Mishra and J. Nanda, “Micro-grid operation and control of Photo-Voltaic power with canal based small hydro power plant,” 2016 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Singapore, 2016, pp. 1289-1293.
  15. D. Sharma, R. K. Mallik, S. Mishra, A. Dubey and V. Ranjan, “Voltage control of a DC microgrid with double-input converter in a multi-PV scenario using PLC,” 2016 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016, pp. 1-5.
  16. S. Mishra, R. Sharma and D. Sharma, “Coordinated active power control of wind, solar and diesel generator in a microgrid,” 9th IFAC Symposium on Control of Power and Energy Systems (CPES)-2015, New Delhi, IFAC-PapersOnLine, vol. 48, no. 30, 2015, pp.7-12.
  17. A. Dubey, D. Sharma, R. K. Mallik and S. Mishra, “Modeling and performance analysis of a PLC system in presence of impulsive noise,” 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Denver, CO, 2015, pp. 1-5.
  18. B. Sen, D. Sharma and B. C. Babu, “DSRF and SOGI based PLL-two viable scheme for grid synchronization of DG systems during grid abnormalities,” 2012 Students Conference on Engineering and Systems, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, 2012, pp. 1-6.
  19. D. Sharma, B. Sen and B. C. Babu, “Improved grid synchronization algorithm for DG system using DSRF PLL under grid disturbances,” 2012 Students Conference on Engineering and Systems, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, 2012, pp. 1-6.

Projects & Activities

Sponsored Research Projects (External Funded)

Ongoing:

  1. Investigations of interoperability of grid-forming assets in hybrid power system
    • Funded by: ANRF (erstwhile SERB)
    • Duration: 2 years
    • Budget: INR 3130600
    • Role: PI

Membership of Scientific Societies

Membership:

  • Member, IEEE
  • Member, IE(I)

Other Academic and Administrative Activities

Important Positions Held at IIT (ISM) Dhanbad:

  • Faculty in-charge Infrastructure (Electrical)
  • Coordinator Infrastructure (Electrical) 
  • Warden, Jasper hostel
  • Member of various institute and department-level committees

Guidance

Ongoing:

  • As supervisor: 02
  • As joint supervisor: 02