1. Title of Ph.D Thesis: " Robust Energy-Efficient Operating Strategies for High Performance Induction Motor Drives "...by Goutam Goswami

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: August 18, 2025

Key Publications:

[1]  Goutam Goswami, and Sukanta Das, "Inherently robust loss model controller for energy efficient operation of indirect rotor field-oriented induction motor drives," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 14951-14960, Nov. 2024. [Q1]

[2]  Goutam Goswami, and Sukanta Das, "An online efficient loss model controller for rotor-field oriented induction motor drives," IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 578-588, Mar. 2024. [Q1]

Present Engagement:

Assistant Professor on contract in the Dept. of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at NIT, Goa. 

2. Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Predictive Control Strategies for Speed Sensorless Induction Motor Drives "...by Adrish Bhaumik

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: September 23, 2022.

Key Publications:

[1] Adrish Bhaumik, and Sukanta Das, “Predictive torque control strategy for speed adaptive flux observer based sensorless induction motor drive in flux-weakening region,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 36, no. 12, pp. 14110-14118, June. 2021. [Q1]

[2] Adrish Bhaumik, and Sukanta Das, “Virtual voltage vector based predictive current control of speed sensorless induction motor drives," ISA Transactions, 14-July, 2022, ISSN 0019-0578, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2022.07.007. Early Access [Q1]

Present Engagement: 

Post Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of E&CE, National University of Singapore (LINK)

3. Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Sensorless Speed Control of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Motor Drive Utilizing Model Reference Adaptive Controller"... by Mukesh Kumar

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: May 23, 2022.

Key Publications:

[1] Mukesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Sensorless speed estimation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator using active power based MRAS,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 7878-7886, Aug. 2019. [Q1]

[2] Mukesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Model reference adaptive system based sensorless speed estimation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance generator for wind power application,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 14, pp. 2355-2366, Nov. 2018. [Q2]

Present Engagement: 

Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Government Engineering College Jamui  affiliated with Bihar Engineering University (LINK)

4. Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Sensor Fault-Tolerant Control of Induction Motor Drives Using Machine Model Based Observers"...by Murli Manohar 

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: February 14, 2022.

Key Publications:

[1] Murli Manohar, and Sukanta Das, “Direct torque controlled induction motor drive using modified five-level torque controller for reduction in torque ripple,” IET Power Electronics, Vol. 13, no. 9, pp. 1885-1892, July 2020. [Q2]

[2] Murli Manohar, and Sukanta Das, “Current sensor fault-tolerant control for direct torque control of induction motor drive using flux linkage observer,” IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 2824–2833, Dec. 2017. [Q1]

Present Engagement: 

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, Jharkhand (LINK)

5. Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Energy Efficient Operation of Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive Using Search Controller"....by Abhisek Pal

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: July 23, 2021.

Key Publications:

[1] Abhisek Pal, and Sukanta Das, “Search controller-based online efficiency optimisation strategy for induction motor drives using modified adaptive quadratic interpolation,” IET Power Electronics, Vol. 13, no. 18, pp. 4282-4290, Dec. 2020. [Q2]

[2] Abhisek Pal, Sukanta Das, and Ajit K. Chattopadhyay, “An improved rotor flux space vector based MRAS for field oriented control of induction motor drives,” IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 5131–5141, June 2018. [Q1]

Present Engagement: 

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology (LINK)

6. Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Limited Range Variable Speed Operation of Brushless Doubly-fed Reluctance Machine using Model Predictive Current Control Technique under Primary Flux Orientation"....by Karuna Kiran

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: March 15, 2021.

Key Publications:

[1]  Karuna Kiran, and Sukanta Das, “Variable speed operation of brushless doubly-fed reluctance machine drive using model predictive current control technique,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 8396-8404, Aug. 2020. [Q1]

[2] Karuna Kiran, and Sukanta Das, “Implementation of reactive power based MRAS for sensorless speed control of brushless doubly-fed reluctance motor drive,” IET Power Electronics,  vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 192-201, Jan. 2018. [Q2]

Present Engagement: 

Assistant Professor, SVERI College of Engineering Pandharpur

7. Title of Ph.D Thesis: "Model Reference Adaptive System Based Sensorless Speed Control of Doubly-Fed Induction Machine Drive under Different Control Regimes"....by Rahul Kumar

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: November 11, 2020.

Key Publications:

[1] Rahul Kumar, Sukanta Das, and Adrish Bhaumik,“Speed sensorless model predictive current control of doubly-fed induction machine drive using model reference adaptive system,” ISA Transactions, vol. 86, pp. 215-226, Jan. 2019. [Q1]

[2] Rahul Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “MRAS based speed estimation of grid-connected doubly-fed induction machine drive,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 726–737, July 2017. [Q2]

Present Engagement: 

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, Jharkhand (LINK)

8. Title of Ph.D Thesis: “Wavelet Transform and ANN Based Fault Diagnosis Scheme for Simultaneous Detection of Broken Rotor Bars and Bearing Damages in Squirrel Cage Induction Motor”…by Ashish Kumar Sinha 

(as co-guide with Prof. T. K. Chatterjee, MME)                                                        

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: April 01, 2019

Key Publication:

[1] Ashis Kr. Sinha, Sukanta Das, and Tarun Kr. Chatterjee, “Empirical relation for broken bar determination in SCIM,” The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 242-265, Jan. 2018. [Q4]

Present Engagement: 

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering & Technology, GLA University-Mathura (LINK)

9. Title of Ph.D Thesis: “Low-Region Speed Control of Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives Using Model Reference Adaptive Controller” .....by Rakesh Kumar

Notified for the Award of Ph.D Degree: March 14, 2017

Key Publications:

[1] Rakesh Kumar, and Sukanta Das, “Eigenvalue based relative parameter sensitivity analysis for optimized performance of sensorless induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 723–734, Sept. 2016. [Q2]

[2] Rakesh Kumar, Sukanta Das, and A.K. Chattopadhyay, “Comparative assessment of two different MRAS schemes for speed sensorless control of induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 141-154, Feb. 2016. [Q2]

[3] Rakesh Kumar, Sukanta Das, P. Syam, and A.K. Chattopadhyay, “Review on model reference adaptive system for sensorless vector control of induction motor drives,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 496–511, July, 2015. [Q2]

Present Engagement: 

Assistant Professor in the Dept. of ECE at Indian Naval Academy

Academic session-2013-14: 01

1. "A Comparative Study on Different PWM Techniques and Assessment of Performance of Induction Motor Drives Using ANN Based Space Vector Pulse Width Modulated VSI"-- by Taneesha Bhandari

Academic session-2014-15: 03

2. "Phase-Disposition PWM Five-level Inverter Switch Fault Diagnosis using DWT MRA and ANN"-- by Anant Khalkho

3. "Estimation of Speed and Rotor Resistance for Speed Sensorless Induction Motor Drive Utilizing Reactive Power Based MRAS"-- by Murli Manohar

4. "Estimation of Speed and Rotor Resistance for Speed Sensorless Induction Motor Drive Utilizing Rotor Flux Based MRAS"-- by Senen James Purti

Academic session-2015-16: 03

5. "Design of Wavelet Notch Filter using Multi-Resolution Analysis" -- by Vikash Ranjan

6. "Sensorless Speed Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive Utilizing V*xI Model Reference Adaptive System" -- by Alok Kumar Bhoi

7. "Sensorless Vector Control of Induction Motor Drives Connected in Parallel" -- by Sandeep Kumar

8. Vector Control Technique for Speed Control of DFIM Drive Using Back-to-Back Converters -- by Nilesh Kumar

Academic session-2016-17: 04

9. "Space Vector Modulation Based Direct Torque Control of Induction Motor Drive" -- by Pasupuleti Sivakumar

10. "Comparative Performance Assessment of Different Multi-Level Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drive System" -- by Avinash Saw

11. "Correction of Current Transformer Secondary Current Distortion due to Saturation Using Artificial Neural Networks" -- by Rishabh Gaurav

12.  "A comparative Study of Different Advanced Speed Control Techniques of Induction Motor Drive" -- by Pooja Sharma

Academic session-2017-18: 05

13. "Different Model Predictive Control Based Advanced Speed Control Techniques for Induction Motor Drive" -- by Diksha Singh

14. "Application of on-line Loss Minimization Strategy in Direct Torque Controlled Induction Motor Drive" -- by Saurabh Nandy

15. "Development and Validation of Automatic Model Predictive Controller for UGV based Lane Centering System" -- by Parag Goyal

16. "Development of FOC based Speed Controllers for PMSM and IM Drives for Electric Vehicle Application" -- by Rachana Singh

17. "Model Predictive Control Based Supervisory Controller for Hybrid Electric Vehicle" -- by Anuradha Singh

Academic session-2018-19: 04

18. "Field Oriented Control of Multi-Phase Induction Machine" -- by Praveen Kumar

19. "Design of 10 kVA Two-Level Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverter Using IPM PMRSB120 for Three-Phase Induction Motor Drives" -- by Urbesh Sarkar

20. "Speed Control of Brushless Doubly-Fed Reluctance Machine Using Direct Torque Control" -- by Niraj Tiwary

21. "Speed Control of Induction Motor Drive Using Model Predictive Current Control" -- by Sunil Kumar

Academic session-2019-20: 02

22. "A Speed Sensorless Rotor Flux-MRAS Based Direct Torque Control Scheme for Induction Motor Drives" -- by Devjyoti Roy 

23. "Comparative Analysis of Speed Control of Brushless DC Motor Using Field Oriented Controller by Both SPWM And SVPWM Techniques" -- by Kurra Govardhan

Academic session-2020-21: 01

24. "Speed Control of Doubly Fed Induction Machine with Field-Oriented Control" -- by Akash Lal

Academic session-2021-22: 01

25. "Development of Bharat DC001 Standard Based Fast Charger for Electric Vehicle"-- by Sai Kiran S

Academic session-2022-23: 01

26. "Current Sensor Fault-Tolerant Strategy for IM Drives Operating under Model Predictive Control Regime"-- by Rajarshi Chakraborty