Specialization

Control Systems

Email

sahaj.saxena@thapar.edu

Biography 

Dr. Sahaj Saxena is currently working as Associate Professor in the Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering Department, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. He received the B. Tech. degree from Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh in 2010, and the M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He was the Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Tel-Aviv University for a year in 2019.

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

IEEE, MSI

Service activities (within and outside of the institution)

• Placement Coordinator Biomedical Engineering Program.

Publications and other Research Outputs

Selected publications:  For a complete list, click  here

1. Sahaj Saxena and Emilia Fridman, Event-triggered load frequency control via switching approach, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 4484-4494, 2020.
2. Sahaj Saxena and Yogesh V. Hote, Robustly stabilizing PI controller for uncertain system under computational delay, Journal of Vibration and Control, 2020 (Online). 
3. Sakshi Bhonsle and Sahaj Saxena, A review on control-relevant glucose–insulin dynamics models and regulation strategies, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering, vol. 234, no. 5, pp. 596-608, 2019.
4. Sahaj Saxena, Load frequency control strategy via fractional-order controller and reduced-order modeling, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 104, pp. 603-614, Jan. 2019.
5. Manan Mittal, Birinchi Bora, Sahaj Saxena and Anshu Mli Gaur, Performance prediction of PV module using electrical equivalent model and artificial neural network, Solar Energy, vol. 176, pp. 104-117, Oct. 2018.
6. Sandeep D. Hanwate, Yogesh V. Hote and Sahaj Saxena, Adaptive policy for load frequency control, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 1142-1144, Jan. 2018.
7. Sahaj Saxena and Yogesh V. Hote, Load frequency control in power systems via IMC scheme and model-order reduction, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 2749-2757, Aug., 2013. [Impact factor=3.342]
8. Sharma, S. Saxena, S. Prakash, S. Dhundhara, and Y. Arya, "Frequency stabilization in sustainable energy sources integrated power systems using novel cascade noninteger fuzzy controller," Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 6213–6235, 2022.
9. Saxena and Y. V. Hote, "Design of robust fractional-order controller using the Bode ideal transfer function approach in IMC paradigm," Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 107, pp. 983-1001, 2022.
10. Saxena and S. Biradar, "Fractional-order IMC controller for a high-order system using reduced-order modeling via Big-Bang, Big-Crunch optimization," International Journal of Systems Science, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 168-181, 2022.
11. Kumar and S. Saxena, "Parameter Estimation in a System of Integro-Differential Equations with Time-Delay," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, 2023.
12. Ranjan, U. Mehta, and S. Saxena, "A comprehensive review of modified Internal Model Control (IMC) structures and their filters for unstable processes," Annual Reviews in Control, 2023.

Honors and Awards

1. Recipient of IETE MN Saha Memorial Award for the best application-oriented paper in 2020
2. Merit scholarship (under toppers' list) in B. Tech 1st year
3. College Topper in class 10th and 12th

Description of Research Interests

Mathematical Control Theory, Cybersecurity in Power Sytems, Artificial Pancreas, Model-order reduction

Sponsored Project

1. “Cyber Security Analysis of Artificial Pancreas Control System” " supervised by (PI/CoPI) received a Grant of amount RS 18.30 lacs by SERB for the period of Dec 2021 to Dec 2023.