Dr. Rakesh Kumar Panda

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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 Name

        		  Dr. Rakesh Kumar Panda
 Designation  Assistant Professor
 Mobile  +91-9198278168
 E-mail Id  rakeshp@nitt.edu, panda.rakesh1801@gmail.com
 Webpage https://sites.google.com/view/rakesh-kumar-panda/

Research Interests

  •   Stability, Modelling and Protection of Renewable resources based Power Network
  •   Nonlinear and Intelligent Control Applications in Power Systems
  •   High Performance Computing Applications in Power Systems Analysis and Control
  •   Power Network Digital Twin and Cyber Physical System

Academic Qualifications                                                            

Examination University Year Specialization
Ph. D. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 2020 Power Engineering
M. Tech. National Institute of Technology Warangal   2013 Power Systems Engineering
B. Tech. Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha    2010 Electrical Engineering

Employment Profile              

Job Title Employer From To
Assistant Professor National Institue of Technology Tiruchirappalli 03-JUN-2024 Till date
Power System Engineer Open Access Technical International 13-JUN-2022 31-MAY-2024
Research Associate I Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 01-DEC-2021 31-MAY-2022
Senior Project Engineer Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 09-AUG-2021 30-NOV-2021
Project Engineer Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 01-JAN-2021 08-AUG-2021
Assistant Professor Kanlinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Unversity 13-JUN-2013 21-DEC-2014

                                  

Course Taught

(PG/G: Postgraduate/Graduate, UG: Undergraduate, FA: Fall semester, SP- Spring semester)

  • EEPE10 - Power Generation System  (UG: FA2024)
  • EEOE14 - Digital Control Systems (UG: FA2024) 
  • EE611 - Power System Computational Lab (PG: FA2024)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Publications

I. Journals

  1. Atul Kumar Soni, Avinash Kumar, R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. N. Singh, "Adaptive Coordination of Relays in AC Microgrid Considering Operational and Topological Changes," in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 3071-3082, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSYST.2022.3227311.

  2. Sunil Kumar Maurya, R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and Ankush Sharma, "ΔV−ΔI Plane-Based Line Faults Detection and Classification in DC Microgrid," in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 1755-1767, June 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPWRD.2022.3222876.

  3. Avinash Kumar, Abheejeet Mohapatra, S. N. Singh, and R. K. Panda, "Space Vector Rotation-Based Controlled Decaying Current Injection for Islanding Detection of Inverter-Interfaced DG," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 4638-4650, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2022.3181422.
  4. Avinash Kumar, R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra, S.N. Singh, and S.C. Srivastava, "Mode of oscillation based islanding detection of inverter interfaced DG using ESPRIT", in Electric Power Systems Research, vol. 200, pp. 107479, 2021, ISSN 0378-7796, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2021.107479.

  5. R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra, and S. C. Srivastava, "Enhancing inertia of solar photovoltaic-based microgrid through notch filter-based PLL in SRF control". in IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 379-388, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-gtd.2018.7058.

  6. R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. C. Srivastava, "Online Estimation of System Inertia in a Power Network Utilizing Synchrophasor Measurements," in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 3122-3132, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2019.2958603. 

​II. Conferences Proceedings

  1. Atul Kumar Soni, R. K. Panda, Avinash Kumar, Abheejeet Mohapatra, S. N. Singh and S. C. Srivastava, "Impact of Control Parameters on Short-Circuit Capacity of Inverter Based Sources," 2022 IEEE IAS Global Conference on Emerging Technologies (GlobConET), Arad, Romania, 2022, pp. 1113-1118, doi: 10.1109/GlobConET53749.2022.9872458.

  2. R. K. Panda, Viresh. S. Patel, A. Mohapatra, Santanu Kumar Mishra and Narayana Prasad Padhy, "Propagation Delay Calculation in Power Hardware in Loop Simulation," 2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference (ITEC-India), New Delhi, India, 2021, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ITEC-India53713.2021.9932459.

  3. Chaman Lal Dewangan, Saikat Chakrabarti, S. N. Singh and R. K. Panda, "An Improved Automatic Power Factor Controller in the RES-Integrated Distribution System," 2021 International Conference on Control, Automation, Power and Signal Processing (CAPS), Jabalpur, India, 2021, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CAPS52117.2021.9730671.

  4. Avinash Kumar, R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. N. Singh, "Lissajous Parameters based Islanding Detection of Multiple DGs in Microgrid," 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281787.

  5. Garvis Garg, Abheejeet Mohapatra, Saikat. Chakrabarti, Avinash Kumar and R. K. Panda, "Optimal Day-Ahead Load Scheduling for Voltage and Frequency Regulation in an Islanded Microgrid," 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281686.

  6. Sai Sowmya Nagam, R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and Sandeep Anand, "Gaussian Process Regression based Fault Location in DC Microgrid," 2020 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC48276.2020.9042542.

  7. R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra, S. C. Srivastava and Mladen Kezunovic, "Energy Function based Approach for Online Inertia Estimation Utilizing Synchrophasor Measurements," 2020 IEEE Texas Power and Energy Conference (TPEC), College Station, TX, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/TPEC48276.2020.9042566.

  8. Shivam Kumar Srivastva, R. K. Panda, Sai Sowmya Nagam and Abheejeet Mohapatra, "Current Derivative based schemes for Fault Location in DC Microgrid," 2019 8th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), Jaipur, India, 2019, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICPS48983.2019.9067619.

  9. Avinash Kumar, Bandi Ravi Kumar, R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. N. Singh, "Phaselet Approach for Islanding Detection in Active Distribution Networks," 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Atlanta, GA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973438.

  10. R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. C. Srivastava, "Application of Indirect Adaptive Control Philosophy for Inertia Estimation," 2019 IEEE PES GTD Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia (GTD Asia), Bangkok, Thailand, 2019, pp. 478-483, doi: 10.1109/GTDAsia.2019.8715940.

  11. R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. C. Srivastava, "Impact of VSG Parameters on Transient Performance of Solar PV based System," 2018 20th National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), Tiruchirappalli, India, 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC.2018.8771855.

  12. R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. C. Srivastava, "An Effective Inertia Control Scheme for Solar PV Systems with Conventional dq Controller," 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), Portland, OR, USA, 2018, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/PESGM.2018.8585529.

  13. R. K. Panda, Abheejeet Mohapatra and S. C. Srivastava, "A Lyapunov based controller for boost converter to integrate solar photovoltaic source," 2016 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT-Asia), Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 2016, pp. 599-604, doi: 10.1109/ISGT-Asia.2016.7796452.

  14. O. V. S. R. Varaprasad, D. V. S. S. Siva Sarma and R. K. Panda, "Advanced windowed interpolated FFT algorithms for harmonic analysis of electrical power system," 2014 Eighteenth National Power Systems Conference (NPSC), Guwahati, India, 2014, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPSC.2014.7103877.

  15. O. V. S. R. Varaprasad, R. K. Panda and D. V. S. S. S. Sarma, "A novel synchronous sampling algorithm for power system harmonic analysis," 2013 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON), Mumbai, India, 2013, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/INDCON.2013.6726111.  

III. Book Chapters

  1. Avinash Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Panda, Kamakshi Swain, P Naga Yasasvi, and Abheejeet Mohapatra, “Simulation Tools for Power Systems Applications”, in Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Power Engineering, Elsevier, 2023, Pages 517-532, ISBN 9780128232118, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821204-2.00075-1.

       

​Workshops/ Short term courses/ FDPs/ Internships/ Seminars Organized                                                                                                                                                                             

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Invited Talks / Guest Lectures Delivered

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​Membership of Professional Bodies      

  • Member - IEEE 

Awards and Achievements

  • Extreme Ownership Award 2024 by Open Access Technical Int. (OATI) on the Annual Day, 2024.

  • Best outstanding PhD thesis award by IIT Kanpur on 54th convocation, 2021.

  • Power System Operation Cooperation Ltd. (POSOCO) Power Systems Award (PPSA), best PhD dissertation, Mar 2021.

  • Winner of Software edition of Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2019 for the best software implementation of the problem statement "To locate the fault in distribution network for ad-hoc maintenance" given by ABB GIS Pvt. Ltd., Mar 2019.

Contact Details

Dr. Rakesh Kumar Panda
Assistant Professor,
Office: # EEE F13,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirappalli - 620 015.
Tamil Nadu - India.
Email: rakeshp@nitt.edu
Mobile: +91- 9198278168