Specialization

Power System and Power Electronics

Email

amit.kumar2@thapar.edu

Biography

Amit Kumar received the Ph.D. degree in Power Electronics from Electrical Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha in 2019 and M. Tech degree in Power System Engineering (PSE) from Electrical Engineering Department, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology, Burla (Formerly known as UCE Burla) Odisha, India, in 2012. His current research interest includes Direct Power control of AC-DC converter, Development of power converter switching strategies, Application of soft computing techniques to power system and power electronics and Power quality etc. He is active member of IEEE [Membership no. 94114878] and IEEE-IAS, IEEE-IES and IEEE-PES Societies.

Education

1. Ph.D. in Power Electronics from NIT Rourkela in 2019
2. M. Tech in Power System Engineering from VSSUT Burla in 2012
3. B.E. in Electrical Engineering from BPUT Rourkela in 2010

Experience: Total Teaching Experience 1.5 years and Research Experience 1 year

1. From June 2012 – October 2012: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Silicon Institute of Technology Sambalpur, Odisha
2. From October 2012 – June 2017: Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha
3. From July 2018 – August 2019: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Silicon Institute of Technology Sambalpur, Odisha
4. From September 2019 – February 2020: Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
5. From October 2020 – February 2021: Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
6. From February 2021– present: Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology Patiala, Punjab

Teaching Interests:

1. Basic Electrical Engineering
2. Electromechanical Energy Conversion
3. Power Electronics
4. Power System Operation and Control

Research Interest:

1. Direct Power Control of Three-phase Active Rectifiers
2. Switching Techniques for Three-phase Power Converter Control
3. Application of Soft Computing Techniques to Power System and Power Electronics

Publications:

Journals

1. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Amit Kumar and Sidhartha Panda, “Frequency control in hybrid distributed power systems via type‐2 fuzzy PID controller,” IET Renewable Power Generation, Vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 1706-1723, 8^th June 2021., https://doi.org/10.1049/rpg2.12140 . [IF:3.894]
2. Abinash Rath, Amit Kumar, Srungavarapu Gopalakrishna, Monalisa Pattnaik, “Power quality improvement using 18 sector algorithm based direct power control,” Special Issue: International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Wiley, 07 January 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.12784. [IF:1.692]
3. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Amit Kumar and Sidhartha Panda, “Application of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy PID Controller for Frequency Regulation of AC Islanded Microgrid Using Modified Equilibrium Optimization Algorithm,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer, 9th April 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-05580-0. [IF:1.711]
4. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Amit Kumar and Sidhartha Panda, “A novel sine augmented scaled sine cosine algorithm for frequency control issues of a hybrid distributed two-area power system,” Neural Computing and Applications, 5^th April 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-021-05923-w. [IF:4.774]
5. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Amit Kumar and Sidhartha Panda, “A Novel Hybrid Shuffled Frog Leaping & Pattern Search Algorithm for Load Frequency Controller Design of a Two-Area Power System Composing of PV and Thermal Generator,” in International Journal of Numerical Modelling Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Wiley, Vol. 33, no. 1, January/February 2020. [IF:0.833]
6. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Amit Kumar and Sidhartha Panda, “A novel modified whale optimization algorithm for load frequency controller design of a two-area power system composing of PV grid and thermal generator,” in Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, Vol. 32, pp. 8205-8216, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s00521-019-04321-7. [IF:4.774]
7. ajendra Kumar Khadanga and Amit Kumar, “Hybrid Adaptive gbest Guided Gravitational Search and Pattern Search Algorithm for Automatic Generation Control of Multi Area Power System,” in IET Generation Transmission and Distribution, Vol. 11, no. 13, pp. 3257-3267, 2017. DOI: 10.1049/ietgtd.2016.1542.  [IF:2.862]
8. Amit Kumar and Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, “A Power Quality Enhanced Grid Voltage Sensorless Predictive DPC for Active Front End Rectifiers,” Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, Sage Publication, Vol. no. 40, Issue 13, pp-3809-3823, September 2018, (DOI:10.1177/0142331217732617). [IF:1.649]
9. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Sasmita Padhy, Sidhartha Panda and Amit Kumar, “Design and Analysis of Tilt Integral Derivative Controller for Frequency Control in an Islanded Microgrid: A Novel Hybrid Dragonfly and Pattern Search Algorithm Approach,” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Springer, Vol. 43, pp. 3103-3114, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-018-3151-0. [IF:1.711]
10. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga, Sasmita Padhy, Sidhartha Panda and Amit Kumar, “Design and analysis of multi-stage PID controller for frequency control in an islanded micro-grid using a novel hybrid whale optimization-pattern search algorithm,” in International Journal of Numerical Modelling Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Wiley, Vol. 31, no. 5, September/October 2018. [IF:0.833]
11. Hakan Acikgoz, Amit Kumar, Hamzeh Beiranvand and Mustafa Sekkeli, “Hardware implementation of type-2 neuro-fuzzy controller based direct power control for three-phase active front-end rectifiers,” in International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Wiley, Vol. no. 29, Issue 10, pp-1-14, October 2019, https://doi.org/10.1002/2050-7038.12066. [IF:1.692]
12. Rajendra Kumar Khadanga and Amit Kumar, “Analysis of PID controller for Load Frequency Control of Static Synchronous Series Compensator & Capacitive Energy Storage Source based HVDCAC Multi-Area Multi-Source Interconnected Power System,” International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation, Inderscience, Vol. 13, no.-2, pp-131-139, 2019. [IF:1.914]
13. Amit Kumar and Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, “TLBO Optimized FOPI Controller for Three-Phase Active Rectifier Using ZDPC Technique Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering, Springer, Vol. no. 44, pp-6951-6965, February 2019, DOI: 10.1007/s13369-019-03728-7. [IF:1.711]
14. Amit Kumar and Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, “An Algorithm based Direct Power Control of Active Front End Rectifiers,” IET Power Electronics, Vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 712-718, 2019., DOI: 10.1049/ietpel.2018.5256). [IF:2.672]

International Conferences:

1. Amit Kumar, Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, “Power Quality Assessment of Table Based Direct Power Control for Active Front-end Rectifiers”, IEEE First International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control, and Energy Systems,” ICPEICES, 4^th-6^th July 2016, Delhi Technological University, Delhi. DOI: 10.1109/ICPEICES.2016.7853471. [Scopus Indexed]
2. Hamzeh Beiranvand, Esmaeel Rokrok, Mahmoud Raza Shakarami, Amit Kumar, Srungavarapu Gopalakrishna and Sanjeeb Mohanty, “MatSim: A Matpower and Simulink based tool for Power System Dynamics Course Education,” in Proceedings of 31^st International Power System Conference, Tehran Iran, October 2016, No. E-16-PSS-1247.
3. Amit Kumar, Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, Hamzeh Beiranvand and Esmaeel   Rokrok, “A Novel Approach for Automatic Generation Control of Multi Area Power Systems with Nonlinearity Using General Relativity Search,” 13^th IEEE India Conference INDICON 2016, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. DOI: 10.1109/INDICON.2016.7838989. [Scopus Indexed]
4. Amit Kumar and Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, “A Novel Voltage Sensorless DPC Approach of AFE Rectifier Based on Virtual Flux and Dynamic DC Link Reference Design,” 13^th IEEE India Conference INDICON 2016, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. DOI: 10.1109/INDICON.2016.7838891. [Scopus Indexed]
5. Hamzeh Beiranvand, Esmaeel Rokrok, Behrooz Rezaeealam and Amit Kumar, “Optimal Design of Medium-Frequency Transformers for Solid-State Transformer Applications,” 8^th IEEE Annual Power Electronics, Drive Systems, and Technologies Conference, PEDSTC 14-16 Feb 2017, Mashhad Iran. DOI: 10.1109/PEDSTC.2017.7910407. [Scopus Indexed]
6. Ranjeeta Patel, Anup Kumar Panda and Amit Kumar, “Real-time Analysis of Fuzzy controlled 2C Dual Buck Half-Bridge Shunt APF with different MFs for Dynamic Unbalanced Load Applications,” IEEE International conference on Technologies for Smart city energy security and power, ICSESP-2018, 28-30^th March 2018, Bhubaneswar, India. (Best paper of the conference (First Prize)). [Scopus Indexed]
7. Hamzeh Beiranvand, Esmaeel Rokrok and Amit Kumar, “Robust and Global Asymptotic Stable Controller for Boost AC-DC converter,” 10^th IEEE Annual Power Electronics, Drive Systems, and Technologies Conference, PEDSTC 12-14 Feb 2019, Shiraz, Iran. [Scopus Indexed]
8. Amit Kumar, Sukumar Mishra and Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, “Virtual Flux based Enhanced Predictive DPC Technique for Grid Connected Converter with Improved Power Quality Performance,” 9^th IEEE Power India International conference, PIICON-2020, Feb 28^th-1^st March 2020, Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, Murthal, Haryana, India. [Scopus Indexed]
9. Amit Kumar, Sukumar Mishra, “Three-Phase AC-DC Converter with Algorithm based Adaptive Direct power Control Technique and Backstepping Controller,” 3^rd IEEE International conference, on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Clean Energy Technologies, ICEPE-2021, 5^th -7^th March 2021, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India. [Scopus Indexed]

National Conferences:

1. Amit Kumar, Gopalakrishna Srungavarapu, “A Comparative Study of MPPT algorithms P&O and dp-P&O under Fast-Changing Environmental Conditions for PV Arrays,” in Proceedings of 1^st National Conference on Power Electronics & Applications, PESA-2013,16^th-17^th March 2013, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela.

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions

1. Best paper, first Prize in IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Smart city Energy Security and Power, ICSESP-2018, 28-30^th March 2018, Bhubaneswar, India.
2. MHRD Scholarship for Doctoral degree studies
3. Organized a Special Session on “Protection and Control of Modern Power System” in IEEE- ICPEE conference 2021 held at KIIT University.
4. Session Chair at IEEE-ICPEE-2021 Conference held at KIIT University on 2^nd and 3^rd January 2021.
5. Delivered Expert Lecture at OP Jindal University, Chhattisgarh
6. Newsletter Editor Joint Chapter IEEE-IES Society Kolkata Section and Bhubaneswar Subsection (June 2020- January 2021)
7. Vice Chair Newsletter Joint Chapter IEEE-IES Society Kolkata Section and Bhubaneswar Subsection (January 2021 onwards)
8. Chartered Engineer (Institution of Engineers, India)

Sponsored Project

1. “Development and Validation of Power Control Philosophy for Three-Phase Grid Interfaced Inverter under Weak Grid Conditions” Supervised by (PI) received a Grant of amount Rs 7.20 lacs by TIET, Patiala SEED Project from March 2023 to March 2025”

2. “Enhancing Electric Vehicle Security- AI-Powered Detection and Prevention of Cyber Attacks” Supervised by (PI) a Grant of amount Rs 36.18 lacs by C3iHub IIT Kanpur, DST Project for the period of March 2023 to March 2025”.

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