Associate Professor and Head of the Department
18 Years and at NITK 14 Years.
1. Title of the project: Investigation on the Operation & Control of Multiple Distributed Generation resources in a Microgrid (Phase-I). Funding Agency: Ministry of Power, Govt. of India through Central Power Research Institute Bangalore (CPRI) Amount of Grant: 25 lakhs Period & Status: May 2011 to March 2013 & Completed Investigators: Dr. Dattatraya N. Gaonkar (PI) and Prof. Udaykumar R. Y.(co-PI)
2. Title of the project: Investigation on the Operation & Control of Multiple Distributed Generation resources in a Microgrid (Phase-II). Funding Agency: Ministry of Power, Govt. of India through Central Power Research Institute Bangalore (CPRI) Amount of Grant: 25 lakhs Period & Status: July 2016 to March 2018 & Completed Investigators: Dr. D. N. Gaonkar (PI) and Dr. D. Jena (co-PI)
3. Title of the project: FPGA Based Development of Different MPPT Algorithms for a standalone Photovoltaic system using Artificial Intelligence Funding Agency: Ministry of Power, Govt. of India through Central Power Research Institute Bangalore (CPRI) Amount of Grant: 25.07 lakh Period & Status: May 2014 to May 2016 & Completed Investigators: Dr. D. Jena (PI) and Dr. Dattatraya N. Gaonkar (co-PI)
4. Title of the project: Extraction of maximum power output from PV array using static reconfiguration scheme under non uniform irradiation conditions Funding Agency: Vision Group on Science and Technology (VGST), Govt of Karnataka Amount of Grant: 3 Lakh Period & Status: Nov 2021-Nov 2022 & ongoing Investigators: Dr. A. Karthikeyan (PI) and Dr. Dattatraya N. Gaonkar (Co-PI)
A. Patent
B. Books
C. Book chapters
D. International Journals:
E. IEEE/IEE/Other International and National Conferences:
Shaik Mahmmadsufiyan and Dattatraya N. Gaonkar, “The probabilistic reactive power reserve assessment in the presence of load and wind uncertainties considering correlation,” 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC 2021), Chouksey Engineering College (CEC), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India, 19th to 22ndDecember 2021.
Biji Varghese K.V and D.N. Gaonkar,” Matching Theory for Optimal Power Exchange in Distribution Networks”, IBSSC-2021 IEEE Bombay Section signature Conference Hybrid Event, November 18-20, 2021.
Ganesh Kudva, Kumar Shivam, Smita Prabhat, NS Jayalakshmi, D. N Gaonkar, Vinay Kumar Jadoun “Fuzzy logic based Inverter controller for stand-alone operation of PV/Battery system," 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), Bangalore India July 2021, pages 1-6.
Swathi Tangi, Dattatraya N Gaonkar, Singuluri Bhargav “Voltage Regulation of Smart Distribution Network using Sensitivity Analysis based DG placement” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), Bangalore India July 2021, pages 1-6,
Visited Energy Management and Microgrid Laboratory at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore for research interaction from 02 to 9th March, 2015.
Visited Energy Reliability & Security (ERISE) Laboratory at Michigan State University (MSU) U.S.A. for research interaction from September 29 to October 10, 2014.
Visited, the Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy New York for research interaction from December 5th to 16, 2011
Visiting scholar at the University of Saskatchewan Canada in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from November 14, 2008 to December 10, 2008.