Udaykumar R Yaragatti

Designation: 

Professor

Date of Joining at NITK: 

Monday, July 1, 1991

Professional Experience: 

  • Professor (HAG), E&E Department, NITK, Surathkal, India. 2016(Oct) - Present
  • Professor, E&E Department, NITK, Surathkal, India. 2005 - 2016(Oct)
  • Assistant Professor, E&E Department, NITK, Surathkal, India. 1997 - 2005
  • Senior Lecturer, E&E Department, NITK, Surathkal, India. 1996 - 1997
  • Lecturer, E&E Department, NITK, Surathkal, India. 1990 - 1996
  • Lecturer, E&E Department, SDMCET, Dharwad, India. 1984 - 1990
Contact Details

E-mail: 

udaya@nitk.ac.in

Alternate E-mail: 

udaykumarry@yahoo.com

Telephone: 

+91-824-2474823, +91-824-2473453, +91-824-2473004

Mobile: 

+91-9448147806

Google Scholar: 

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=oo-u26YAAAAJ&hl=en

LinkedIn: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/udaykumar-r-yaragatti-559a1514?trk=nav_responsive_ta...
Faculty (author) Identifiers

ORCID iD: 

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0705-5277

Scopus Author ID: 

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6505900708

WoS/Publon Researcher ID: 

https://publons.com/researcher/1417358/prof-udaykumar-yaragatti/
Academic Background
  • Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), Powai, Energy Systems Engineering, 2000
  • M.Tech. KREC, Mangalore University, karnataka, Industrial Electronics, 1990
  • B.Tech. KREC, Mysore University, karnataka, Electrical Power Engineering, 1984
  • P.U.C. Govinda Dasa College, Mangalore, karnataka, PCMB, 1979
Areas of Interest
  • Renewable Energy Resources,
  • Power Electronics,
  • Energy Management,
  • Smart Grid 
Significant Projects
  • Cooperative Isolated Renewable Energy System for Enhancing Reliability of Power in Rural Areas, MI OFF-grid, DST India, 2.8 Crores (2019-Ongoing)
  • Cooperative Micro Grids Integrated Smart Elec- tric Transportation Systems (CMGISETS) Coordi- nated Technologies for Seamless Energy Management, SPARC -DST-MHRD India, 97 Lakhs, (2019-Ongoing)
  • Design and Implementation of Novel Grid-Tied Transformer-Less Boosting Inverter Topologies for Solar PV Applications, DST India, 2021-2024 (79 Lakhs)
  • Investigation on the Operation & Control of Multiple Distributed Generation resources in a Microgrid (Phase-I), Ministry of power Government of India through Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) Bangalore, May-2011 to March-2013.
  • Grid connected Photovoltaic Systems, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India.
  • DSP Based Embedded Controller for Multilevel Inverters, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India (Principal Investigator – Dr. A.R. Beig).
  • Photovoltaic Systems for Technical Educations, All India Council for Technical Education - Nationally Coordinated Project (NCP) on technical education.
Supervision of Ph.D
  • 16 <Completed>
  • 04 <On-going>
Significant Publications
JOURNALS/CONFERENCES/BOOKS: 240
 
International journals (Last 4 years):
  1. Sangeeta Kumari , Arun Verma, N. Sandeep, Udaykumar R Y and H R Pota, A Five-Level Transformer-Less Inverter with Self-Voltage Balancing and Boosting Ability, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 6237-6245, 2021
  2. Sangeeta Kumari , Arun verma, N. Sandeep, Udaykumar R Y and H R Pota "An Eight-Switch Five-Level Inverter With Zero Leakage Current ", IET Power Electronics, vol. 14, no.3, pp. 590-610, 2021.
  3. Sangeeta Kumari , Arun verma, N. Sandeep, Udaykumar R Y and H R Pota "An Eight-Switch Five-Level Inverter With Zero Leakage Current ", IET Power Electronics, vol. 14, no.5, pp. 901-911, 2021.
  4. S Angadi, UR Yaragatti, Y Suresh, AB Raju, “Comprehensive review on solar, wind and hybrid wind-PV water pumping systems-an electrical engineering perspective” CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1-19, April 2021.
  5. S Angadi, UR Yaragatti, Y Suresh, AB Raju, “System Parameter Based Performance Optimization of Solar PV Systems with Perturbation Based MPPT Algorithms” Energies, vol. 14, no. 7, 2021.
  6. J S M Ali, N. Sandeep, Dafer A, and Udaykumar R Y,"A Five-Level Boosting Inverter for PV Application", IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, Decmeber, 2020.
  7. N. Sandeep, J S M Ali, Udaykumar R Y, Vijaykumar K, Arun Kumar Verma and H R Pota , "Common-Ground-Type Five-Level Transformerless Inverter Topology With Full DC-Bus Utilizaton", IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2020.
  8. P Kushwaha, R Bhakar, U Yaragatti, V Prakash, “PFR Constrained Energy Storage & Interruptible Load Scheduling under High RE Penetration”, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2020.
  9. K V L Narayana Santoshkumar H, Rajashekar Mandi,Swapna Mansani, Udaykumar R Y, “Agent Based Wireless Sensor System for V2G Aggregation in Smart Grid” Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2020.
  10. Santoshkumar, Suresh Chavan, Udaykumar R Y and Swapna M “Electric Vehicle Traffic Pattern Analysis and Prediction in Aggregation Regions/Parking Lot Zones to Support V2G Operation in Smart Grid: A Cyber-Physical System Entity” International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, 2020.
  11. N. Sandeep, J. S. M. Ali, Udaykumar R. Y and K. Vijayakumar, “Switched-capacitor based quadruple boost nine-level inverter” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 7147-7150, Aug. 2019.
  12. N. Sandeep, J. S. M. Ali, Udaykumar R. Y and K. Vijayakumar“A self-balancing five-level boosting inverter with reduced com- ponents” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. 6020-6024, July. 2019.
  13. Santoshkumar, Suresh Chavan and Udaykumar R Y “A Stochastic Model Based on Markov Chain to Support Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Operation in Smart Distribution Network ” International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems 20 (3), 2019.
  14. J. S. M. Ali, R. S. Alishah, N. Sandeep, S. H. Hosseini, E. Babaei, K. Vijayakumar and Udaykumar R. Y., “A new generalized multilevel converter topology based on cascaded connection of basic units” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, paper accepted, in press, 2018.
  15. B. Siva, N. Sandeep and Udaykumar R. Y., “Design and implementation of transformer-based multilevel inverter topology with reduced components,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, paper accepted, in press, 2018.
  16. N. Sandeep and Udaykumar R. Y., “A switched-capacitor-based multilevel inverter topology with reduced components,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 7, pp. 5538-5542, Jul. 2018.
  17. N. Sandeep and Udaykumar R. Y., “Operation and control of a nine-level modified ANPC inverter topology with reduced part count for grid-connected applications,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 4810-4818, Jun. 2018.
  18. B. Siva, N. Sandeep and Udaykumar R. Y., “A simplified transformer-based multilevel inverter topology and generalizations for renewable energy applications,” IET Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 708-718, Apr. 2018.
  19. N. Sandeep and Udaykumar R Y, “Operation and control of an improved hybrid nine-level inverter,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Early Access, 2017.
  20. N. Sandeep and Udaykumar R Y, “Design and implementation of active neutral-point-clamped nine-level reduced device count inverter: an application to grid integrated renewable energy sources,” IET Power Electronics, Early Access, 2017.
  21. Santoshkumar, Udaykumar R. Y, Suresh Chavan, and Anant Naik “Gridable Electric Vehicle (GEV) Aggregation in Distribution Network to Support Grid Requirements: A Communication Approach” , International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems, Berkeley Press, Early Access, 2017.
  22. N. Sandeep and Udaykumar R. Y, “Design and Implementation of a Sensorless Multilevel Inverter with Reduced Part Count” ,IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 6677-6683, 2017.
Achievements
  • Chairperson - NWRC Chandigarh since 22-11-2018.
  • Mentor Director, IIIT Kota (from oct 2016-present).
  • Director in-charge, NIT Goa (from 18-10-2016 to June 2017)
  • Chairman CSAB-2017, 2018, 2021.
  • Chariman CCMT, CCMN, DASA-2021.
  • Member- Expert groups for NEP 2020 implementation plan
  • Member - Executive committee AICTE.
  • Member - Committee constituted for implementation and support of ERP system in NITs.
  • Board member - JN Govt Engineering college Sundarnagar.
  • Member - CABE, New Delhi.
  • Member - Finance committee IIT Jammu.
  • Chairperson - External committee to examine and finalise the revised DPR of NITs.
  • Chief Patron - IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics held at MNIT Jaipur, 2018.
  • General Chair - IEEE Int. Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (IEEE-ICIIS) held at NITK, Surathkal, 2010.
  • Co-Chair - IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (IEEE-ICIIS) held at Peredeniya University, Srilanka, 2009.
  • Session Chair- IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (IEEE-ICIIS) held at Peredeniya University, Srilanka, 2009.
  • Regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Industrial Electronics, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics and IET Power Electronics and other international IEEE society peer-reviewed conferences.
  • One of the TWO Indians Selected and Invited to Participate in Global Development Program 2001 (GDP- 2001) on “Industrial Automation” organized by Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee, and MSOE Milwaukee USA. In the month of June – July 2001. Participants were from 25 countries.
  • Visited Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Victoria, Victoria BC, CANADA as Visiting Research Professor between 21st Nov to 9th Dec 2008.
  • Participated in 2nd IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems PEDES’98, 26th Nov. to 4th Dec. Perth, Western Australia.
  • Selected as Technical Paper Committee Reviewer for IEEE PELS society International Conference APEC 06 ( Applied Power Electronics Conference 2005 USA) and APEC 07 (Applied Power Electronics Conference 2006-07 USA).
  • Co-Chair for 34th National Systems Conference 2010 (NSC 2010) of Systems Society of India (SSI) at NITK Surathkal. from Dec 10th to 12th 2010.
  • Organized 15 Days AICTE-ISTE STTP on Solar Energy and Applications.
  • Expert Committee Member of NBA of AICTE – New Delhi.
  • Expert Committee Member of NAAC-UGC, Bengaluru.
  • Expert member (Examination paper) of UPSC, New Delhi and KPSC, Bengaluru, Karnataka.
  • Member- Board of Studies(BOS), Anna University, Guindy; Goa University,Goa; Kuvempu university, Karnataka.
  • Member- Board of Studies(BOS), BVBCET, Hubli during 2005-2008.
  • Member- Board of Studies(BOS), SDMCET,Dharwad during 2008-2012.
  • Advisor Committee Member for ME/M.Tech Programmes, SDMIT, Ujire, DK.
  • Organizer for Institute’s Technical festival (ENGINEER) and cultural festival (INCIDENT) since 1990.
  • Organizing member of Institute’s Technical International/National Conferences, IE and ISTE conventions.
  • Convener of NITK Alumini Association (AA) 10th Global Convention and active member of NITK-AA since 1990.
  • Organized and coordinated a National workshop on “Energy Audit”(Sponsored by TEQIP) during 19- 21, Dec-2005.
  • Appointed as Coordinator of Energy and Environmental Cell of TEQIP of the Institute.
  • Executive member of PAN-NIT Forum, New Delhi.
  • Keynote address/ Invited Talks/Lectures: 55, Courses/Events Organized : 15, Research Interactions Abroad: 05 ( USA, Canada and UAE), Senate Member, NITK since 2005.
  • Participated in Management Development Programme, MDI, Gurgaon during 2011.
  • Participated in e-Governance: Transforming Government Sector organized by National Productivity Council, Port Blaier, Novem- ber 2015.
  • Participated in Management Capacity Enhancement Programme organized by TEQIP organized by IIM Udaipur, June 2015.
Remarks

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