Dr. Amritesh Kumar

Assistant Professor (Grade -I)

Email: amritesh[at]ee[dot]nits[dot]ac[dot]in
Date of Joining: 18/06/2018
Academic/Industrial Experience: 12+ years
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Founder & In-Charge of APEC Laboratory (Research Lab) : https://www.apeclabnits.com/

 

AREA OF INTEREST AND SPECIALIZATION (INCLUDING RESEARCH AREA)

  • Electric vehicle charging infrastructure, Design and development of power converters/inverters and its application in renewable energy sources, Grid-connected photovoltaic systems, Multilevel systems, Power quality issues, High gain converters, Multiport solid state transformers, AC–DC microgrids, Distributed and coordinated control of microgrid.

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Amritesh Kumar, born in 1986 in Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, India. He completed his 10th grade at May Flower School, Patna, and his 12th grade at Delhi Public School, Ranchi, Jharkhand. In 2009, he earned a B.Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu, India. Continuing his education, he obtained an M.Tech degree in Power Electronics and Drives from BITS PILANI, India in 2011. Subsequently, he successfully completed his Ph.D. in 2017 at Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly known as Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi, India.In addition to his research endeavors, Dr. Kumar served as an Assistant Professor at Delhi Technological University (DTU) from 2013 to mid-June 2018. Following this, then he joined NIT Silchar, where he has been serving as an Assistant Professor since June 18, 2018.
Dr. Amritesh Kumar has completed two sponsored research projects as a Principal Investigator (PI). The first project, titled “Design and Development of Soft Interconnected for DC Microgrids using Power Electronics Interface for Improved Reliability of Power Supply,” has been successfully completed. The second project, titled “Feasible Coordinated Controlled Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Sourced DC based Fast Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicle: Design, Development, and Experimental Validation,” is has been successfully completed. Dr. Amritesh Kumar and his team have developed DAB DAB-based EV charger as a product and PCB cards like drivers, 3 phase converters etc (for more info visit the APEC LAB) .

 SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Power Electronics
  • Industrial Drives
  • Microprocessor and Microcontroller
  • Power electronics application to wind and solar energy system
  • Instrumentation
  • Advance Power Electronics and devices

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Member, IEEE
  • Secretary IEEE, IAS Chapter (Silchar Sub-Section)

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

  • Best paper award in 8th International Conference on Micro-Electronics, Electromagnetics and Telecommunications  (ICMEET-2023) organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,  National Institute of Technology, Mizoram during 06-07 October 2023.
  • Awarded POSOCO Power System (PPSA-2018) award under doctoral category for excellence in research work at Delhi Technological University.
  • Awarded under the Premium Research category at Delhi Technological University for the year 2018 for Publication in IEEE Transactions.
  • Awarded under the Commendable Research category at Delhi Technological University for the year 2017 for Publication in IEEE Transactions.
  • Awarded VEL TECH Merit Scholarship for excellence in academics at BITS PILANI in 2010.
  • Awarded GATE Merit Scholarship in academics at BITS PILANI in 2011.

PATENTS

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

1. Member DPPC, DPC since Dec. 2023.

2. DPPC Secretary since Aug. 2020 till Nov 2023

3. Advance Power Electronics and Energy Conversion laboratory lab-in charge

4. Joint secretary IEEE Silchar section for the year 2021 and 2022.

5.  Secretary IAS joint chapter Silchar subsection and kolkata section.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. G. Chilakalapudi, Kumar, A, “Minimum Inductor current Tracking in DAB-based Isolated DC/DC Converter for Q Control with Harmonic Analysis Approach Employing FOGI Filter for EV applications,” in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 2024 doi: 10.1109/TTE.2024.3362532.
  2. Panchbhai A, Kumar A. Simplified control of TAB converter for scalable multibattery charging system. Int J Circ Theor Appl.  (Wiley) 2024; 1-20. doi:10.1002/cta.3953
  3. A. K. Dubey, A. Kumar and J. P. Mishra, “Robust Adaptive Active Islanding Detection With alpha- Axis Disturbance Injection Under High Impedance Fault, Unbalanced Loading & Phase Failure in Grid Tied PV System,” in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2023.3281254. (2023)
  4. G. Chilakalapudi, Kumar, A. Optimal reactive power control for dual-active-bridge converter using improved dual-phase-shift modulation strategy for electric vehicle application. Int J Circ Theory Appl. (Wiley) 2022.
  5. A. K. Dubey, J. P. Mishra and A. Kumar, “Modified CCF based Shunt Active Power Filter Operation with Dead-Band Elimination for Effective Harmonic and Unbalance Compensation in 3-phase 3-wire System,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2021.3104828.
  6. Dubey, AK, Mishra, JP, Kumar, A. Performance improvement of shunt active power filter under variable grid frequency condition using complex coefficient filter-frequency locked loop. Int J Circ Theor Appl .(Wiley) 2021; 49: 1164– 1181, Feb 2021.
  7. A. Kumar and V. Verma, “Performance Enhancement of Single Phase Grid Connected PV System under Partial Shading using Cascaded Multilevel Converter,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1, Jan 2018. Impact factor : 2.937.
  8. A. Kumar and V. Verma, “Analysis and control of improved power quality single-phase split voltage cascaded converter feeding three-phase OEIM drive,” in IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 903-910, July 2017. Impact factor : 3.547
  9. V. Verma and A. Kumar, “Cascaded Multilevel Active Rectifier Fed Three-Phase Smart Pump Load on Single-Phase Rural Feeder,” in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 32, no. 7, pp. 5398-5410, July 2017. Impact factor : 7.151.
  10. A. Kumar and V.Verma, “Photovoltaic-grid hybrid power fed pump drive operation for curbing the intermittency in PV power generation with grid side limited power conditioning,” in International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (Elsevier) Volume 82, Pages 409-419, November 2016. Impact factor : 3.289.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. P. A V V N, G. Chilakalapudi, A. Panchbhai, and A. Kumar, “A Real-time design and analysis of Dual Active Bridge DC-DC converter for EV applications,” 2023 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Silchar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SILCON59133.2023.10404787
  2. L. K. Dangeti, G. Chilakalapudi and A. Kumar, “An improved Hybrid switched inductor and switched capacitor based DC-DC Converter to reduce the voltage stress across the switch,” 2023 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Silchar, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SILCON59133.2023.10404832.
  3. A. Panchbhai, G. Chilkalpudi and A. Kumar, “Analysis of Circulating Power in Triple Active Bridge Converter: Impact of SPS and DPS Control,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PESGRE58662.2023.10404809.
  4. A. K. Dubey, A. Kumar, J. P. Mishra and C. N R, “PV Source Integration through Grid -tied Shunt Active Power Filter Operation with Second Order Sequence Filter-Frequency Locked Loop based Synchronization,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids (ETFG), Wollongong, Australia, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ETFG55873.2023.10407488
  5. A. Kane, S. Kane and A. Kumar, “Modeling of Thermoelectric Module for Generating Power,” 2023 International Conference on Computer, Electronics & Electrical Engineering & their Applications (IC2E3), Srinagar Garhwal, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/IC2E357697.2023.10262477
  6. S. Chakraborty, A. Kumar, N. Adhikary and A. Narula, “A Multilevel Switched Capacitor based High-Gain Non-Isolated Hybrid Switched Inductor Cascaded Boost DC-DC Converter,” 2023 International Conference on Computer, Electronics & Electrical Engineering & their Applications (IC2E3), Srinagar Garhwal, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IC2E357697.2023.10262407
  7. A. Panchbhai, R. Ranjan, G. Chilkalpudi and A. Kumar, “Power Decoupling Using Inductor In Triple Active Bridge,” 2023 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC), Thrissur, India, 2023, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PICC57976.2023.10142490
  8. F. Hassan, A. Kumar and A. Pati, “Analysis of Single-Phase Second Order Generalized Integrator Based Phase-Locked Loop And Derivative Element Based Phase-Locked Loop Under Weak Grid Condition,” 2022 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Silchar, India, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/SILCON55242.2022.10028956.(2022)
  9. Das, Saikat, Nirakar Nayak, and Amritesh Kumar. “Dynamic Power Flow Control Using Dual-Input Single-Output Non-Isolated DC-DC Converter for Renewable Energy Applications.” International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Springer, Singapore, 2022.
  10. Chakraborty, Soham, and Amritesh Kumar. “A Multilevel Based High Gain Switched Inductor Quadratic DC-DC Boost Converter.” IFAC-PapersOnLine 55.1 (2022): 448-453.
  11. Alok Kumar Dubey, Jyoti Prakash Mishra, Amritesh Kumar,” Comparative Analysis of ROGI based Shunt Active Power Filter under Current Fed and Voltage Fed Type Non-Linear Loading Condition”, vol.55, Issue 1, 2022, pp.156-161, doi: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2022.04.026.
  12. Ranjan Ravi, Anand Panchbhai, and Amritesh Kumar. “Decentralized Primary Control of PV-Battery System Integrated with DC Microgrid in Off-Grid Mode.” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE). IEEE, 2022.
  13. F. Hassan, A. Kumar and A. Pati, “Recent Advances in Phase Locked Loops for Grid Connected Systems: A Review,” 2022 IEEE Delhi Section Conference (DELCON), New Delhi, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/DELCON54057.2022.9752810.
  14. P. Kumar and A. Kumar, “Analysis and Design of a Switched-Capacitor and Switched-Inductor Network based High-gain DC-DC Converter,” 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies (GUCON), 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/GUCON50781.2021.9573650.
  15. Prabhat Kumar and Amritesh Kumar, ” Analysis and Design of a Parallel Switched-Inductor DC-DC Converter,” 2nd International Conference on “Advances in Electronics, Electrical & Computational Intelligence” (ICAEEC-2021), 9th March, 2021, Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad, Prayagraj, INDIA.
  16. R. Aryan, R. Ranjan and A. Kumar, “Primary Control Strategies for Power Sharing and Voltage Regulation in DC Microgrid: A Review,” 2020 3rd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Clean Energy Technologies, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICEPE50861.2021.9404516. Date: March 2021.
  17. A. Dubey, J. P. Mishra, A. Kumar and A. A. Dongre, “MSOGI-FLL based Robust Harmonics Compensation under Distorted Grid Voltage Condition,” 2020 3rd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Clean Energy Technologies, 2021, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICEPE50861.2021.9404424. Date: March 2021.
  18. R. Aryan, R. Ranjan and A. Kumar, “Distributed Primary and Secondary Control Strategy for Power Sharing and Voltage Restoration in a DC Microgrid,” 2020 3rd International Conference on Energy, Power and Environment: Towards Clean Energy Technologies, 2021, pp.1-6, doi:10.1109/ICEPE50861.2021.9404419. Date: March 2021.
  19. A. K. Dubey, J. P. Mishra and A. Kumar, “Flexible Distributed Power Converter with Harmonic Compensation and Seamless Passive Islanding Detection,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379616. Date: December 2020
  20. Y. Rama Siva Narayana, A. Kumar and D. C. Das, “Improved High Voltage Gain Non-Isolated Switched Inductor Quasi Z-Source DC-DC Converter for Zero energy DC Homes Application,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379572. Date: December 2020
  21. A. Kumar, A. Narula and V. Verma, “Low Voltage Ride Through (LVRT) Strategies for Single Phase Grid Connected PV Fed Cascaded Multilevel Inverter,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379534.Date: December 2020
  22. G. Chilakalapudi and A. Kumar, “Multi-Mode Power Management for Grid- Connected Photovoltaic System using Indirect Current Control Strategy,” 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PEDES49360.2020.9379799. Date: December 2020
  23. A. Sen, S. Pradhan and A. Kumar, “A Novel Curve Scanning Based Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm Under Partial Shading Conditions,” 2020 IEEE First International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC49749.2020.9297794.
  24. G. Chilakalapudi and A. Kumar, “Design and Analysis of an Indirect control Strategy for Reactive VAR Compensation in single-phase AC Microgrid system,” 2020 International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICE3), Gorakhpur, India, 2020, pp. 59-64
  25. V. Verma and A. Kumar, “Grid coupled maximum power point tracked photovoltaic system with selective power conditioning capability,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon), Kota Kinabalu, 2012, pp. 886-891
  26. V. Verma and A. Kumar, “Grid coupled maximum power point tracked photovoltaic system with selective power conditioning capability,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power and Energy (PECon), Kota Kinabalu, 2012, pp. 886-891
  27. V. Verma, D. Bhardwaj and A. Kumar, “Power equalized hybrid control of PV fed induction motor pump,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Bengaluru, 2012, pp. 1-5
  28. V. Verma and A. Kumar, “Power balanced cascaded multilevel inverter fed scalar controlled induction motor pump sourced from photovoltaic source,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Bengaluru, 2012, pp. 1-6
  29. V. Verma and A. Kumar, “Grid connected single phase rooftop PV system with limited reactive power supply,” 2013 International Conference on Power, Energy and Control (ICPEC), Sri Rangalatchum Dindigul, 2013, pp. 39-43
  30. A. Kumar, D. Kumar and D. R. Meena, “SRF based modeling and control of cascaded multilevel active rectifier with uniform DC-buses,” 2014 Recent Advances in Engineering and Computational Sciences (RAECS), Chandigarh, 2014, pp. 1-5
  31. A. Kumar, E. Kochhar and K. Upamanyu, “Photovoltaic and wind energy hybrid sourced voltage based indirect vector controlled drive for Water Pumping System,” 2015 IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT), Coimbatore, 2015, pp. 1-5.
  32. A. Kumar and V. Verma, “Performance enhancement of single phase grid connected PV system under partial shading using cascaded multilevel converter,” 2016 IEEE 1st International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES), Delhi, 2016, pp. 1-6
  33. V. Verma and A. Kumar, “Smart parking for PHEV/EV using solid state split voltage bidirectional converter at UPF with V2G/G2V capability,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Trivandrum, 2016, pp. 1-6.

BOOK CHAPTER

  1. S. Rahman, and A. Kumar, “High Gain Voltage Lift Based Interleaved Cascaded Boost DC-DC Converter,” ICMEET-2023, Mizoram, India, 2023.
  2. Das, S., Nayak, N., Kumar, A. (2022). Dynamic Power Flow Control Using Dual-Input Single-Output Non-Isolated DC-DC Converter for Renewable Energy Applications. In: Mekhilef, S., Shaw, R.N., Siano, P. (eds) Innovations in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. ICEEE 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 893. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1742-4_24.
  3. Verma, A., Prasad, S.K., Kumar, A. (2022). Comparative Study of PID and Model Predictive Control with Boost Converter. In: Mekhilef, S., Shaw, R.N., Siano, P. (eds) Innovations in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. ICEEE 2022. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 893. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1742-4_15.
  4. Kumar, Prabhat and Amritesh Kumar. “Analysis and Design of a Parallel Switched-Inductor DC-DC Converter.” Computational Methodologies for Electrical and Electronics Engineers, edited by Rajiv Singh, et al., IGI Global, 2021, pp. 93-110. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-3327-7.ch008. Date: March 2021.

PROJECTS

  1. Design and Development of Soft Interconnect for DC Microgrids using Power Electronics Interface for Improved Reliability of Power Supply” SERB under SRG, Oct 2019. (Role –PI). Grant amount: 3 million. (Completed).
  2. Feasible Coordinated Controlled Grid-connected Photovoltaic Sourced DC based Fast Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicle: Design, Development and Experimental Validation. SERB under IMPRINT-II (c), June 2019. (Role –PI). Grant amount: 18.9 million. (Completed).
  3. “Design and Demonstration of Off-grid Self-Healing & Sustainable DC Community Energy Solutions” DST under Mission Innovation (MI), Nov, 2018 (Role –CO PI). Grant amount: 22.25 million. (Completed)

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

1. One week AICTE sponsored workshop Programme on “Advances in Renewable Energy and Electric Vehicles” held in March 26-11th , 2022 at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT SILCHAR, Silchar

2. One week TEQIP-111 sponsored workshop Programme on “Power Electronics Application to Industrial Systems” held in Sep 07-11th , 2020 at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT SILCHAR, Silchar

3. One week TEQIP-111 sponsored workshop Programme on “Challenges in Operation and Control of Distributed Energy Resources (COCDER’19)” held in July 26-30th , 2019 at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT SILCHAR, Silchar

4. One week TEQIP-111 sponsored workshop Programme on “Fractional Order Systems and Their Applications (FOSTA – 2019)” held in Aug 16-20th , 2019 at Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT SILCHAR, Silchar

CONFERENCE ORGANIZED

  • Organizing Secretary, IEEE SILCON 2022
  • Organizing Chair , IEEE SILCON 2023

PHD SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Research Area Supervision
1 Alok Kumar Dubey Completed  Multifunctional and Flexible Power Converter Application for Power Quality Improvement of a Microgrid in Robust Grid-Tied Mode and Islanded Operation Co- Supervisor
2 Ganesh Chilakalapudi Completed  Modeling and Control of Isolated DC-DC Dual active bridge based Isolated DC-DC Converter for EV Application Sole Supervisor
3  Ravi Ranjan Ongoing  Investigation of Primary and Secondary Coordinated Control Strategy for DC-Microgrid System Sole Supervisor
4  Lakshman Kumar Dengati Ongoing  Design and Analysis of Non-Isolated Multiport Converter Sole Supervisor
5  Faridul Hassan Ongoing  Investigation on Improved Synchronization Technique For Grid-Connected Single-Phase EV Charging System Sole Supervisor
6 Raj Aryan Ongoing Distributed Primary and Secondary Control Strategy for Power Sharing and Voltage Restoration in DC Microgrid Sole Supervisor
7 Nirakar Nayak Ongoing Design of Multiport CLCC Resonant Converter Sole Supervisor
8 Anand Panchbhai Ongoing Multiport Isolated DC-DC Converter Sole Supervisor
9 Anem Veera Venkata Nagaphanindra Ongoing Investigation and Development of fast charging Infrastucture of an EV Sole Supervisor

M.TECH. SCHOLARS

Sl. No. Name of Scholar Status Thesis Title Supervision
 1  G. Yaswanth R. S. Narayan  Completed  Switched Inductor Based Quasi Z-Source DC-DC Converter for Rooftop PV Applications  Co-Supervisor
 2  Raj Aryan  Completed  Distributed Primary and Secondary Control Startegy for Power Sharing and Voltage Regulation in a DC MIcrogrid  Supervisor
 3  Prabhat Kumar  Completed  Design and Development of Switched Inductor Switched  Capacitor based High-gain Multiport DC-DC Converter for PV Application  Supervisor
 4  Soham Chakraborty  Completed  Switched Mode POwer Converters Topologies  Supervisor
 5  Saikat Das  Completed Renewable Energy Based Non-Isolated Multiport DC-DC Converter  Supervisor
 6  Md Saiyed Anisur Rahman  Completed  Design and Development of High Gain Non-Isolated DC-DC Converter for Grid-Tied Application  Supervisor