B.Tech, M.Tech, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Engineering and Technology
 
Department: Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Phone: 9861075636
 

About Me

 PhD from BIT Mesra, Ranchi.

M.Tech in Power Control & Drives from NIT Rourkela.

B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from ITER, Bhubaneswar.

I have more than 12 years of teaching experience in the field of Electrical Engineering.
 
Research Fields

  • Control & Identification of Non-linear system

Teaching

  • Control System (Linear & Non-Linear)
  • Digital Control System
  • Electrical Machine
  • Network Theory
  • Measurement & Instrument
  • Data Analysis and Visualisation Using Python
  • Machine Learning

Expertise

  • MATLAB
  • Ms-Excel

Interests

  • Reading Articles

 
   

Research Fields

The Fractional calculus based Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller, i.e., fractional order Proportional-Integral-Derivative (FOPID) controller is emerging as a substitute to the most favored PID controller in industrial applications due to the presence of two extra parameters that effectively handle the highly non-linear higher order system. It helps in meeting some stringent specifications like uncertainty, robustness and output controllability in a more effective manner. It works on the principle of both fractional calculus and the PID control theory. The additional two parameters, i.e., fractional derivative and integral orders provide more flexibility to the FOPID controller.

 In this dissertation, an analytical method applying a Lagrangian based approach has been proposed and implemented for tuning the five parameters of the FOPID controller. The proposed Lagrangian based FOPID controller has been investigated for its closed-loop response for a second order system. The limitation of the Lagrangian based FOPID controller is that in case of a discontinuous function, the calculation of lagrange becomes complex. Additionally, if the function is not monotonic or non-convex, the lagrange method leads to multiple solutions. The magnetic levitation (Maglev) system considered in this dissertation is a highly non-linear and unstable system, in which there is a need for controlling the position of the steel ball in air.

To eliminate the above shortcomings of the Lagrangian based approach, one degree of freedom (1-DOF) and two degrees of freedom (2-DOF) structures of both the integer order PID (IOPID) and FOPID controllers have been implemented for the Maglev system. The parameters of the controllers have been optimized by using bio-inspired algorithms like the Genetic Algorithm (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Hybrid-PSO and JAYA algorithm. The robustness analysis has been carried out by considering significant disturbances, i.e., 20 percent of the amplitude of the input signal.

The physical presence of the Maglev system for conducting different experiments may not be feasible. Hence, an identified model, which behaves exactly like a real time Maglev system is highly required for an in-depth analysis. To meet the above objective, an evolutionary Functional Link Artificial Neural Network (FLANN) model, has been proposed, to identify the Maglev system. The weights of the FLANN model have been optimized through different bio-inspired algorithms, such as, Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Teaching Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) algorithms. Its performance and efficiency have also been compared with the Least Mean Square (LMS) - FLANN model. For validation, a Fuzzy-PID and a FOPID controller has been applied to control the real time Maglev system along with the identified model with proper choice of controller parameters. The responses of both the Maglev and the identified model are found to be replicas of each other, which validates the efficacy of the identified model.

Furthermore, a Recursive Neural Network (RNN) based Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network has also been proposed for the identification of the Maglev system. Non-parametric statistical test, i.e., Sign test, Wilcoxon signed rank test and Friedman’s test has also been applied to observe the performance ranking of the different proposed models used for the identification of the Maglev system.