Control Applications in Modern Power Systems

Adaptive Discrete Extended Kalman Filter for Parameter Estimation in IRFOC-based IMD with Optimized Gains.- Modal Analysis of Series Compensated DFIG Based Windfarm with LQR controller for Damping of SSR oscillations.- Optimal Scheduling of Microgrid using GAMS.- Design of an On-grid Floating Solar Photovoltaic System: A Case of Vaigai Dam in Tamil Nadu.- Selection And Design of Energy Harvesting Circuit For Microbial Fuel Cell For Low Power Applications.

Shailendra Kumar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai. He received his B.Tech. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India, in 2010, and the M.Tech. Degree in power electronics, electrical machine, and drives (PEEMD) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 2015. He completed his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India in May 2019. He has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Petroleum Institute of Research Centre Khalifa University from May 2019 to November 2019. He has also worked as an Assistant Professor at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal from June 2020 to May 2023. His research interests include charging stations for EVs, power quality, grid integration of renewable energy resources, custom power devices, and microgrids. Dr. Kumar was the recipient of the prestigious POSOCO power system award (in Master as well as Doctoral categories) in 2016 and 2019. He is also a recipient of Prof. Som Nath Mahendra's Student Travel Awards for the IEEE PEDES 2018 conference and the IEEE UPCON Best Paper Award in 2016 and 2018. Dr. Kumar is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of INAE Societies. 

Dr. Manoj Tripathy received his B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India, in 1999, the M.Tech. degree in instrumentation and control from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, in 2008. He is currently working as a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. He is an IEEE senior member, a Member of the Institution of &Technology (IET), and a Life member of the Institution of