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    Dr Bheemaiah Chikondra

    Assistant Professor
    Electrical and Electronics Engineering

    I am Dr Bheemaiah Chikondra, working as an Assistant Professor at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology (An Institute of National Importance GOVT of India) Jais, Amethi, UP. Prior to this appointment, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE in the dept. of electrical engineering and computer science from 2022-2023, and at Kyungpook National University, South Korea in the school of Electronics and IT from 2021-2022.  I received my B Tech and M Tech degree in electrical and electronics engineering from JNTUH Hyderabad, India, in 2012, and 2016, respectively, and received the PhD degree in the department of electrical engineering Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India, in 2021 under the supervision of Dr Ranjan Kumar Behera.

    I was the recipient of the 2022 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (https://iten.ieee-ies.org/journal-award-paper/2023/an-improved-open-phase-fault-tolerant-dtc-technique-for-five-phase-induction-motor-drive-based-on-virtual-vectors-assessment ). Infact, this paper was the first paper from India to receive the award since award was established in the year 1997.  Also, I received the best poster presentation award in RSD-2020 from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna.

                                                                                                                                                            
    Education
    PhD 2021 Indian Institute of Technology Patna
    M Tech 2016 JNTUH Hyderabad
    B Tech 2012 JNTUH Hyderabad 
    Experience
    July 2023 - Till Date Assistant Professor Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais
    July 2022 - June 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow  Khalifa University, UAE
    November 2021 - May 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow Kyungpook National University, South Korea
    June 2016 - January 2017  Assistant Professor St.Peters Engineering College, Hyderabad

     

    Even Semester
    • EEV201: Electrical Circuits and Measurements.
    • ECE102L: Basic Electronics Engineering Lab(EC & PE)
    Odd Semester
    • EEV211: Electrical Machines.
    • XXXX: Basic Electrical Engineering.
    • XXXX: Measurements and Transformers Lab.
    • XXXX: Fundamentals of Power Electronics Lab
    Research Interest
    • Power Electronic Converters
    • Modulation Techniques for Power Converters
    • Control of Electrical Drives
    • Modulation Strategies for Multiphase Motor Drives and Fault-Tolerant Direct Torque Control
    • Electric Vehicle Control and its Fault-Tolerant Operation
    • Fault-Prediction based on AI/ML
    • GaN/SiC based Converter Design for Multiphase Motor Drives
    Projects
    • Performance Evaluation of Wide Band Gap Device (SiC/GaN) Based Voltage Source Inverter fed Multiphase Traction Motor for EV Applications
      Funding Agency: Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology
      Amount: INR 12.50 lakhs
      Duration: 2 Years

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    Journal Publications

    U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, M. J. Akhtar, O. Al Zaabi, K. Al Hosani, and R. K. Behera, "Comparison of SVPWM Techniques Under Switching Loss Control for Induction Motor Drive With LC Filters," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1849-1862, March-April 2023, DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2022.3231841

    B. Chikondra, A. G. Yepes, O. A. Zaabi, K. A. Hosani, J. D. Gandoy, and R. K. Behera, "Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Three-Level NPC VSI-Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drives," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 2022(IF=5.462) DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3224529

    B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Improved DTC Technique for THL-NPC VSI fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive Based on VVs Assessment Over a Wide Speed Range," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (IF=6.153), vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 1972-1981, Feb. 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2021.3102963 

    U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, and R. K. Behera, " Space Vector PWM-Based DTC Scheme with Reduced Common Mode Voltage for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics (IF=6.153) vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 114-124, Jan. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2021.3092259 

    B. Chikondra,  U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "An Improved Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive Based on Virtual Vectors Assessment," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (IF=8.236), vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4598-4609, June 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2020.2992018 

    B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Performance Comparison of Five-Phase Three-Level NPC to Five-Phase Two-Level VSI," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications (IF=3.654), vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 3767-3775, July-Aug. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2020.2988014

    Conference Publications

    B. Chikondra, O. A. Zaabi, and K. A. Hosani, "Direct Torque Control of Five-Phase Induction Motor Drives with xy Current Regulation Under an Open-Phase Fault-Condition" 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Nashville, Tennessee, USA 2023 (Accepted).

    B. Chikondra, V. Gonuguntla, O. Al Zaabi, R. K. Behera and Kalyana C Veluvolu, “Multiswitch Fault-detection for VSI fed Multiphase Motor Drive Based on Machine Learning" PEDES-2022 Conference MNIT Jaipur in December 2022 (Accepted).

    P. Pal, R. K. Behera, B. Chikondra, O. A. Zaabi and K. A. Hosani, "Modified Single Phase Shift Control of DAB Converter for Fast Dynamic Response Under Various Disturbances," IECON 2022 – 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/IECON49645.2022.9968770.

    U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra,  and R. K. Behera, Novel Model Predictive DTC for Three-to-Five Phase Direct Matrix Converter Fed Induction Motor Drive, IEEE 2021 - Energy Conversion Congress &Exposition - Asia (ECCE Asia 2021), 2021, pp. 1505-1510.

    U. R. Muduli,  B. Chikondra, and R. K. Behera, Direct Torque Control of 3x5 Matrix Converter Fed Five-Phase IM Drive using Virtual Vector Concept,'' 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), Phoenix, AR, 2021, pp. 765-770.

    B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant Direct Torque Control for Five-Phase Three-Level NPC VSI fed Induction Motor Drive.," 2020IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6.

    R. K. Behera, B. Chikondra, P. Sanjeevikumar, Z. Leonowicz, and D. W. Gao, "Implementation of a High Power PMSG for Wind Power Interface using TLNPC Converter," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2020 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe, Madrid, Spain, 2020, pp. 1-6.

    U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra,  and R. K. Behera, Virtual Vector based DTC with CMV Reduction for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive,’’ 2020 3rd International Conference on Power, Energy and Environment: Towards Smart Technology (ICEPE), Shillong, India, 2020, pp. 1-6.

    U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, and R. K. Behera, "Continuous and Discontinuous SVPWM with Switching Loss Control for Five-Phase Two-Level VSI fed Induction Motor Drive" 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 2020, pp. 1-6.

    B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "An Improved DTC Technique for Three-Level NPC VSI Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive to Eliminate Common-Mode Voltage," 2019 National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2019, pp. 1-6.

    B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. Kumar Behera, "Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-phase Three-Level NPC Inverter-fed Induction Motor Drive with an Open-Phase Fault," 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2019, pp. 5281-5287.

    B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for an Inverter-Fed Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive with an Open-Phase Fault," 2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE '19 ECCE Europe), Genova, Italy, 2019, pp. P.1-P.10.

    B. Chikondra, U. R. Muduli, and R. K. Behera, "Performance Comparison of Five-Phase Three-Level NPC to Five-Phase Two-Level Voltage Source Inverter," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Chennai, India, 2018, pp.1-6.

    • Member, EWS Committee from December 2023 to till date
    • Member, DUGC, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from November 2023- till date
    • Member, DPGC, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from November 2023- till date
    • Member, Working Committee KidZee School at RGIPT September 2023- till date
    1. 2023: Our publication entitled "Comparison of SVPWM Techniques Under Switching Loss Control for Induction Motor Drive with LC Filters" is listed in the top 1 (popular articles-50) among all published articles in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.  Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=28  May-2023
    2. 2022 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (First Indian research paper Since Award EST:1997)
      Prize: Research, education, and innovation prizes
      Description:
      The outstanding paper award for 2022 in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. It is one of the most impactful journal publishes papers with experimentally verified applications of electronics, controls, instrumentation, and computation for the enhancement of industrial systems and processes. Included are power electronics and electric motor drives, system control, signal processing, fault detection and diagnosis, power electronics in renewable energy and power systems, instrumentation, measurement and testing, modeling and simulation, motion control, applications in mechatronics and robotics, sensors and actuators, and applications of artificial intelligence in industrial electronic systems.
      They presented with this award during the 48th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON-2022), to be held October 17-20 at the congress center SQUARE, Brussels, Belgium. Being selected for this award is a high honor and a tribute to the fine research quality, presentation, and potential impact that the research has on the field.
      The paper entitled "An Improved Open-Phase Fault-Tolerant DTC Technique for Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive Based on Virtual Vectors Assessment" was selected out of 1,176 papers published and some 10,000 papers that were submitted to the journal. The selection process for this prize paper was rigorous and went through multiple review levels and votes before the paper was selected for the award.
      Awarded date: 19 Oct 2022
      Degree of recognition: International
      Granting Organization: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
    3. EU- Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Sheffield 2022 (Not availed)
    4. Best poster presentation award in Research Scholars Day (RSD)-2020 held at IIT Patna-2020
    5. Scholarship from MHRD, India, to pursue M.tech and Ph.D. 2013-2021
    6. Secured 3rd rank in the class during masters with 77.5% in 2016.
    7. Secured 4th rank in the class during graduation with 79.18% in 2012
    8. Received the cash prize for the top scorer during 2010-2011 in B.tech 

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