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Prof. V. T. Somasekhar

PhD (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)

Professor (HAG)

Department of Electrical Engineering

Room No: 354/4 +91-870-2462231
sekhar@nitw.ac.in
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Research Areas

 Fault Tolerant Drives

 Multilevel Inverters

 Open-End Winding AC Motor Drives

 PWM Strategies

 Renewable Energy Systems

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  • Additional Responsibilities
  • Electrical Networks Lab(EE204)
  • Power Electronic Simulation Lab(EE16009)
  • Applications of Digital Signal Processors(EE16005)
  • Advanced DSP Lab(EE16008)
  • Advanced Electric Drives(EE16004)
  • Applications of Digital Signal Processors(EE5103)
  • Power Electronic Simulation Lab(EE5106)
  • Advanced Electric Drives(EE5152)
  • Digital Signal Processing lab(EE5155)


Design and Development of Cacaded Quasi Z-Source Multilevel Inverter for Grid-connected Photo Voltaic System

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), INDIA
  • Duration 43 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 4109000
  • Status Completed

Development of a High-efficiency Single-phase Quasi-Z-Source Based Isolated DC/AC Converter for PV Application

  • Role Co-Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), INDIA
  • Duration 43 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 3337000
  • Status Completed

Implementation of Efficient Switching Algorithms with Digital Signal Processor for Multilevel Inverter Configuration with Open-end Winding Induction Motor

  • Role Principal Investigator
  • Type Research
  • Sponsor MHRD
  • Duration 24 Months
  • Project Cost (INR) 600000
  • Status Completed


KVVD Ramana Kumar

  • Area of Research: Fault-tolerant PMSM drive for EV applications
  • Dean, Research & Development (July, 2023 - June, 2024)