Information
Key Notes
- Journal(s): 24
- Conference(s): 32
- Book Chapter(s): 1
- PhD: Current - 2 Awarded - 4
57
PUBLICATIONS6
DOCTORAL STUDENTS2
PROJECTSResearch Areas
Electrical Drives
Power Electronics, Renewable Energy Systems
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
| Degree | Institute | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor of Philosophy | National Institute of Technology, Warangal | 2013 |
| Master of Technology | National Institute of Technology, Warangal | 2005 |
| Bachelor of Technology | JNTU college of Engineering, Kukatpally, Hyderabad | 2001 |
COURSES HANDLED
| Course | L-T-P | Credit | Degree Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electric and Magnetic Fields(EE1101) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Electric and Magnetic Fields(EE152) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
| Electric Drives(EE353) | 3-0-0 | 3 | UG |
RESEARCH IDs
ORC ID
SCOPUS ID
Google Scholar ID
PUBLICATIONS
Journal(s)
An Odd-Even Column Major Order Approach for Optimal Shade Dispersion Over the Solar PV Arrays,
By B.S.S. Santosh , Gadiraju Harish Kumar Varma , Diwaker Pathak , Gourav Verma , B Venugopal Reddy Barry and Sanjeevikumar Padmanaban,
IEEE,
IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics,
vol.,
pp.,
2026
A Cross-Tied Trinary Sequence Multilevel Inverter with the Third HarmonicInjected SPWM Technique,
By Alluri Hemanth Kumar Raju , Venugopal Reddy Barry, S Mikkili, and Gadiraju Harish Kumar Varma,
IETE,
IETE Journal of Research ,
vol.71,
pp.3493–3505,
2025
A Direct Search Nelder Mead MPPT Based Induction Motor Drive for Solar PV Water Pumping System,
By Swetha K T, B Venugopal Reddy, Rohit Kumar Jain,
IEEE,
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications ,
vol.61,
pp.607 - 617 ,
2025
Robust and efficient control strategy for single-phase two-stage PV grid-tied system with improved power quality,
By Rohit Kumar Jain, B. Venugopal Reddy, G. Harish Kumar Varma ,
Elsevier ,
Renewable Energy Focus,
vol.48,
pp.1-12,
2024
Dual-objective accelerated linear convergence spotted hyena optimization for power enhancement in partially shaded PV arrays,
By K.T Swetha, B. Venugopal Reddy,
IEEE ,
CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications,
vol.9,
pp.253-262,
2024
An effective dual-objective optimization to enhance power generation in a two-stage grid-tied PV system under partial shading conditions,
By K.T Swetha, B. Venugopal Reddy,
Elsevier,
Energy,
vol.305,
pp.1-12,
2024
Dual-Objective Optimization for Maximizing Photovoltaic Output Power in a Two-Stage Single-Phase Grid-Tied System,
By Swetha K.T, Barry Venugopal Reddy, Rohit Kumar Jain,
Wiley ,
Energy Technology,
vol.12,
pp.1-19,
2024
An Effective Control Strategy for Single-Phase Single-Stage PV Grid-Tied Inverter under Abnormal Grid Conditions,
By RK Jain, Venugopal Reddy Barry, G Harish Kumar Varma,
IEEE,
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
vol.12,
pp.1249 - 1260,
2023
An innovative grey wolf optimizer with Nelder–mead search method based MPPT technique for fast convergence under partial shading conditions,
By KT Swetha, B Venugopal Reddy, A Robinson,
Elsevier,
Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments,
vol.59,
pp.1-12,
2023
A novel constraint-based improved equilibrium optimization for global peak tracking of photovoltaic system under complex shading conditions,
By Swetha KT, B. Venugopal Reddy,
Wiley,
International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications,
vol.51,
pp.2819-2838,
2023
A Novel Magic Square Based Physical Reconfiguration for Power enhancement in Larger Size Photovoltaic Array,
By G.H.K.Varma, B. Venugopal Reddy, Jain R.K,
Taylor and Francis Journal,
IETE Journal of Research,
vol.69,
pp. 4644–4657,
2023
An effective maximum power point tracking technique for partially shaded photovoltaic system under rapidly changing atmospheric conditions,
By Swetha K.T, B. Venugopal Reddy, Abin Robinson,
Wiley,
International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications,
vol.50,
pp.3986-4008,
2022
Improved Performance of PV Water Pumping System Using Dynamic Reconfiguration Algorithm under Partial Shading Conditions,
By G.H.K.Varma, B. Venugopal Reddy, Jain R. K,
IEEE,
CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications,
vol.7,
pp.206-215,
2022
A Total-Cross-Tied Based Dynamic Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration for Water Pumping System,
By G.H.K.Varma, B. Venugopal Reddy, Jain RK,
IEEE,
IEEE Access,
vol.10,
pp.4832 - 4843,
2022
An MMTES algorithm for dynamic Photovoltaic array reconfiguration to enhance power output under partial shading conditions,
By G.Harish Kumar Varma, B Venugopal Reddy, Rohit Kumar Jain, Devanand Kumar . ,
IET,
IET Renewable Power Generation,
vol.15,
pp.809-820,
2021
Model-based design and sliding mode control approach for two-stage water pumping system with reduced sensors,
By Rohit K Jain, Venugopal Reddy Barry, Harish K Verma,
IEEE,
IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
vol.10,
pp.3940 - 3949,
2021
Variable size Dynamic PV array for small and various DC loads,
By Manjunath Matam, Venugopal Reddy B,
Elsevier,
Solar Energy,
vol.163,
pp.581-590,
2019
Performance improvement of dynamic PV array under partial shade conditions using M2 algorithm,
By Manjunath Matam, Venugopal Reddy B and Brad Lehman,
IET,
IET Renewable Power Generation,
vol.13,
pp.1239 – 1249,
2019
Optimized reconfigurable pv array based photovoltaic water-pumping system,
By M. Manjunath, B. Venugopal Reddy, and Avinash Reddy G,
Elsevier ,
Solar Energy,
vol.170,
pp.1063 - 1073,
2018
Improved performance of dynamic photovoltaic array under repeating shade conditions,
By Manjunath Matam, B. Venugopal Reddy,
Elsevier,
Energy Conversion and Management,
vol.168,
pp.639-650,
2018
An SVPWM scheme for the Suppression of Zero-Sequence Current in a Four-level Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive with Nested Rectifier-Inverter,
By Barry Venugopal Reddy, Veeramraju Tirumala Somasekhar,
IEEE ,
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics,
vol.63,
pp.2803-2812,
2016
A Four-level Inversion Scheme for a 6-n Pole Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive for an Improved DC-link Utilization,
By V.T. Somasekhar, B. Venugopal Reddy, and K. Sivakumar,
IEEE,
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics,
vol.61,
pp.4565-4572,
2014
A Dual Inverter fed Four-level Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive with a Nested Rectifier-Inverter,
By Barry Venugopal Reddy, Veeramraju Tirumala Somasekhar,
IEEE ,
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics,
vol.9,
pp.938-946,
2013
Decoupled Space-vector PWM Strategies for a Four-level Asymmetrical Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive with Waveform Symmetries,
By Barry Venugopal Reddy, Veeramraju Timurala Somasekhar, and Yenduri Kalyan,
IEEE ,
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics,
vol.58,
pp.5130-5141,
2011
Conference(s)
Design of Novel Cross Tied Trinary Sequence Multi-level Inverter
By Hemanth Kumar Raju, B.Venugopal Reddy,
Social and Sustainable Innovations in Technology and Engineering SASI-ITE ,
2024
A Novel 9-Level Multilevel Inverter for Water Pumping System
By Hemanth Kumar Raju, B.Venugopal Reddy, Mikkili Suresh, G Harish Kumar Varma ,
International Conference on Power Electronic Drives (PEDES),
2024
Power Quality Improvement for PV Array Reconfiguration based Grid Tied System
By Rohit Kumar Jain, Venugopal Reddy B, G Harish Kumar Varma,
National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC),
2023
An Optimal Shade Dispersion Technique for Dynamic PV Array Reconfiguration to Mitigate the Partial Shading Conditions
By K.T Swetha; B Venugopal Reddy,
National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC) ,
2023
A Novel Explore - Harvest Monte Carlo Algorithm for Dynamic Reconfiguring PV Array-Based Electric Vehicles
By AR Anjan Krishna, Barry Venugopal Reddy,
International Conference on Advances in Energy Research,
2023
PV Array Reconfiguration for Three Level PV Water Pumping System
By Rohit Kumar Jain, Venugopal Reddy B, G Harish Kumar Varma,
International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES),
2022
A Direct Search Nelder Mead MPPT based Induction Motor Drive for Solar PV Water Pumping Systems
By K.T Swetha, B Venugopal Reddy, Rohit Kumar Jain
,
National Power Systems Conference (NPSC),
2022
A Novel Spotted Hyena Optimization algorithm for MPPT under Partial Shading Conditions
By K.T Swetha, Venugopal Reddy B, Abin Robinson, Rohit Kumar Jain,
IECON,
2021
An Improved Crow Search Algorithm to Control MPPT Under Partial Shading Conditions
By K.T Swetha, Abin Robinson, Venugopal Reddy Barry, Harish Kumar Varma,
IEEE International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS),
2021
Modified Jaya Algorithm for Photovoltaic Power Tracking under Partial Shading Conditions
By K.T Swetha, Venugopal Reddy B,
National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC),
2021
Reconfiguration TCT Array Strategy for Superior Performance of PV Water Pumping System
By G Harish Kumar Varma, Venugopal Reddy B, Rohit Kumar Jain,
National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC),
2021
A Current Controlled MPPT with Sliding Mode Control to Improve the Performance of Two Stage Water Pumping System
By Rohit Kumar Jain, G Harish Kumar Varma, Venugopal Reddy B,
Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES),
2020
High Performance MPPT Controller based on Adaptive Sliding Mode Control
By Rohit Kumar Jain, Harish Kumar Varma G, Venugopal Reddy B, Saidi Reddy P,
National Power Systems Conference (NPSC),
2020
Improved ODD-EVEN Technique for Effective Shade Dispersion in TCT Configuration
By D. Kumar, H. K. Varma Gadiraju and B. Venugopal Reddy,
IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES),
2020
Self Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Based Global Maximum Point Tracking Algorithm for Photovoltaic Systems
By Devanand Kumar, H. K. Varma Gadiraju and Venugopal Reddy,
India Council International Conference (INDICON),
2020
Reconfiguration Based Single Stage PV Water Pumping System
By H. K. V. Gadiraju, B. Venugopal Reddy and R. K. Jain,
National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC),
2019
Dynamic Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration for Standalone PV Water Pumping System
By H. K. Varma Gadiraju, Venugopal Reddy Barry, and I. Maraka,
International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS),
2019
On-line GMPP identification of solar PV plants
By Matam Manjunath, B. Venugopal Reddy, Ye Zhao, Brad Lehman,
IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC),
2018
Converter-less MPPT for rural area applications
By M.Manjunath, B.Venugopal Reddy,
International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES),
2018
Single phase seven level cascaded multilevel inverter fed induction motor
By Swetha K.T, B.Venugopal Reddy,
International Conference on Power and Energy Systems ,
2018
The Generation, Propagation and Absorption of Photons
By Nithin Kumar Goona, Priya Singh, Saidi Reddy Parne and Venugopal Reddy Barry,
SPIE conference ,
2017
On-line Monitoring of PV plants
By M.Manjunath, B.Venugopal Reddy, Ye Zhao and Brad Lehman,
IEEE international conference on Energy Conversion Congress Expo(ECCE),
2017
Multiport Switch based MPPT for stand-alone Photovoltaic Power Systems
By K. Prakash, V. Pradeep, B Venugopal Reddy,
IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems (ICPEICES),
2016
Optimized reconfigurable solar PV battery charger using relay switch matrix
By Matam Manjunath, B. Venugopal Reddy and G Avinash Reddy,
National Power Electronics Conference(NPEC-2015),
2015
A SVM based Four-level Open-end Winding-Induction Motor Drive with Voltage Balancing of DC-link Capacitors using SVM based HCC Front-end Converter
By B. Venugopal Reddy, V.T. Somasekhar,
INIDICON,
2011
A Space Vector based PWM Switching Algorithm for a Four-Level Dual Inverter fed Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive
By B. Venugopal Reddy, V.T. Somasekhar,
Centenary Conference - EE,
2011
A New Four-level Dual Inverter fed Open- end Winding Induction Motor Drive
By V. T. Somasekhar, B. Venugopal Reddy,
International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 2011),
2011
A constant Switching Decoupled Space Vector PWM Scheme for a Four-level Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive
By B.Venugopal Reddy, V.T, Somasekhar,
ICETECT-2011,
2011
International Conference on Emerging Trends in Electrical and Computer Technology(ICETECT-2011)
By B. Venugopal Reddy, V.T. Somasekhar,
Thermal Evaluation of Space Vector PWM Based Four- level Dual Inverter Fed Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive,
2011
A Four-level Inverter with Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive with a Decoupled Space Vector PWM Scheme
By Barry Venugopal Reddy, V.T. Somasekhar,
National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC-2010),
2010
A Decoupled SVPWM Technique for a Dual Inverter Four-level Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive with Voltage Balancing of DC-link Capacitors
By B. Venugopal Reddy, V.T. Somasekhar,
Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) 2010 ,
2010
PWM Switching Strategy for the Elimination of Common Mode Voltage of a Two-level Inverter Drive with an Open-end Winding Induction Motor Configuration
By P. Srinivasan, B. Venugopal Reddy, V. T. Somasekhar,
Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES) & 2010 Power India,
2010
Book Chapter(s)
IoT Based Water Quality and Sustainable Photovoltaic Water Pump ing System for Inland Aquaculture
By G. Harish Kumar Varma, B. Venugopal Reddy, A. Hemanth Kumar Raju, Rohit Kumar Jain, T. Vamsi Nagaraju, and G. Sri Bala in
Inland Aquaculture Sustainability and Effective Water Management Strategies ,
Springer Nature Link ,
Book Chapter,
2025
PROJECT / CONSULTANCY
Development of Nature and Bio-inspired Metamaterials for Stealth Technology Applications
Role:
Co-Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: Core Research Grant, SERB, DST
Project Cost (INR): 3552692
Date of Commencement: 15-03-2024
Duration: 36 Months
Status: Ongoing
Type: Research
Sponsor: Core Research Grant, SERB, DST
Project Cost (INR): 3552692
Date of Commencement: 15-03-2024
Duration: 36 Months
Status: Ongoing
Design and Development of a Dynamic Photovoltaic Array fed Single-Stage PV Water Pumping System using an Open-End Winding Induction Motor
Role:
Principal Investigator
Type: Research
Sponsor: Core Research Grant, SERB, DST
Project Cost (INR): 2157871
Date of Commencement: 20-05-2019 Date of Completion: 19-07-2022
Duration: 38 Months
Status: Completed
Type: Research
Sponsor: Core Research Grant, SERB, DST
Project Cost (INR): 2157871
Date of Commencement: 20-05-2019 Date of Completion: 19-07-2022
Duration: 38 Months
Status: Completed
RESEARCH FELLOWS / PhD STUDENTS
Current PhD Students
Mr. Deepak Sai Duvvapu(FT)
Area of Research:
Integrated Onboard Battery Charger for EVs
Mr. K. Srinivas (PT)
Area of Research:
Bidirectional AC–DC Converter for On-Board Battery Charger
Previous PhD Students
Rohit Kumar Jain
(2024)
Area of Research:
Design and Implementation of Robust Control Algorithms for Solar PV Energy Conversion System
Swetha K T
(2024)
Area of Research:
MPPT and Dynamic PV Array Reconfiguration for Solar PV Systems under Partially Shaded Conditions
G Harish Kumar Varma
(2022)
Area of Research:
Shade Dispersion Techniques for TCT PV Array
Matam Manjunath
(2018)
Area of Research:
Dynamic Solar Photovoltaic Array Reconfiguration Strategies
CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP / SYMPOSIUM / SHORT TERM COURSE / FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME / GIAN
ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Faculty Advisor for B.Tech II year (Continuing from December, 2024)
- Warden, Kakatiya HoR & International Students HoR (Continuing from July, 2024)
- Member, Students Grievance Committee (Continuing from March, 2024)
Last updated on April 9, 2026