Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Amritapuri campus emphasizes on off-the-shelf research to create new knowledge and explore future challenges in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering domain. The department offers full-time and part-time Ph.D. program and Integrated Ph.D. program under the faculty of Engineering in the following research areas, but not limited to:
Admission Process
The department of Electrical and Electronics engineering has been offering Ph.D. programs since 2012. The diversity of academic interests is reflected in the breadth of theoretical and practical research activities of the faculty members. The discipline has a healthy mixture of young and experienced faculty members, all of whom display high levels of enthusiasm and dedication. In accession to teaching and research; the faculty members are actively involved in organizing technical workshops, faculty development programs, short courses in focus areas and visits of scholars to create an environment conducive to experiential learning. Further, the drive for learning doesn’t end here, the faculty gets involved in IEEE activities, creating an environment of industry-oriented learning by inviting the luminaries from various domains for expert lectures.
Research interests of the faculty include power electronics application in renewable energy technologies, power electronic drives, power management in electric vehicle, multilevel inverters, image processing, signal processing, robotics, embedded systems, VLSI, microgrid etc., Funded research labs are being set up in the few listed research areas through Amrita Internal Seed Funding and Extramural Grants received from VGST, and DRDO.
The Ph.D. program in Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, offered by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), Coimbatore campus, is a rigorous and comprehensive academic endeavour designed to cultivate advanced expertise and research capabilities since 2005. The program is tailored to meet the needs of aspiring scholars and researchers who seek to contribute significantly to advancing electrical engineering knowledge and its applications to various domains.
The department has a pool of outstanding faculty with doctorates from globally known institutions and universities who continuously engage in research with partners worldwide. The distinguished faculty members are experts in various areas of electrical and allied engineering, including but not limited to power systems, control systems, power electronic drives, smart grids and microgrids, electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies, energy conservation and management, deregulated power system, variable frequency drives, signal and image processing, microelectronics, artificial intelligence, hyperspectral image processing, robotics, sensor networks, automotive electronics, embedded systems, etc. These faculty members actively engage in cutting-edge research projects, providing students with opportunities to collaborate on groundbreaking research initiatives. Funded research labs are being set up in different research areas through extramural grants from DST, Vinnova, Microsoft, DHI, MSME, DRDO, CEFIPRA, Continental Autonomous Mobility, Rural Energy Systems, and many more.
The discipline has a healthy mixture of young and experienced faculty members with high enthusiasm and dedication. In accession to teaching and research, the faculty members are actively involved in organizing technical workshops, faculty development programs, short courses in focus areas, and visits of scholars to create an environment conducive to experiential learning. Further, the drive for learning does not end here; the faculty members are involved in activities such as securing funds to establish their research, high-quality publications in reputed journals and conferences, and creating an environment of industry-oriented learning by inviting luminaries from various domains for expert lectures.
The department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering has a blend of teaching and research activities pertinent to both electrical engineering and electronics engineering. The team of faculty share a common vision of imparting high-quality teaching interlaced with design, research and development. We firmly believe that research and teaching must maintain a symbiotic relationship to keep the academic atmosphere fresh and responsive to the rapidly rising scientific and technological advancements. The curriculum is devised in such a way, that the growing young technologists gets imbibed with solidity of time-tested ideas on which one can develop a niche and inclination towards learning technological advancements. At the same time, we are also acutely aware of the need to incorporate flexibility into the curriculum that allows a student to explore avenues through various subject electives that appeal to student.
The department offers B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics engineering since 2004, M.Tech in Power Electronics since 2010, M.Tech in Embedded Systems since and Ph.D. programme since 2012. The diversity of academic interests is reflected in the breadth of theoretical and laboratory courses that we offer and the research activities of the faculty members. The Electrical and Electronics Engineering discipline aims to impart a strong hands-on flavor to the courses, and it, therefore, places great emphasis on the laboratory component, internships, and projects. Most of our B. Tech. and M. Tech. students carry out summer internships at reputed industries in India and abroad.
The discipline has a healthy mixture of young and experienced faculty members, all of whom display high levels of enthusiasm and dedication. In accession to teaching and research; the faculty members are actively involved in organizing technical workshops, faculty development programmes, short courses in focus areas and visits of scholars to create an environment conducive to experiential learning. Further, the drive for learning doesn’t end here, the faculty members involve in IEEE activities, create an environment of industry oriented learning by inviting the luminaries from various domains for expert lectures.
Research interests of the faculty include power electronics application in renewable energy technologies, power electronic drives, power management in electric vehicle, multilevel inverters, image processing, signal processing, robotics, embedded systems, VLSI, microgrid etc., Funded research labs are being set up in the few listed research areas through extramural grants received from VGST, and DRDO.
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The faculty have been actively involved in research activities and there has been a successive progress in publishing their work in international conferences and journals. During the last 5 years, the department has close to 250 papers published in scopus/SCI indexed international journals and international conferences.
B. Tech / M. Tech in any Engineering discipline.
M Tech in related engineering discipline
BTech / M. Tech in any Engineering Discipline.
Four types of applicants are eligible to apply for admission to the Ph.D. program:
Applicants holding a master’s degree are eligible to apply for admission. Examples of master’s degree include:
All applicants are expected to have strong academic records.
Applicants with a full-time appointment at the University or another academic/R&D organization can apply for part-time admission. Other eligibility requirements for such applicants are the same as for full-time applicants. Part-time students can proceed at a slower pace in completing their doctoral requirements.
Exceptional students pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree here at Amrita can apply for the Integrated Ph.D. program subject to the requirement that he or she completes all the requirements of the bachelor’s or master’s degree before ‘advancement to candidacy.’
Exceptional students who satisfy the eligibility requirements of Amrita and Amrita’s International Partner University (IPU), as stated in the Dual Ph.D. MoU signed between Amrita and the IPU are eligible for admission to the Dual Ph.D. program. Full time PhD scholars are eligible for Dual Degree Program.
Digital twin for smart grid.
Cyber resilience in Smart grids
Energy markets and peer to peer energy trading.
EV integration in smart grids and ancillary services.
Sustainable and green energy: Integration and impact analysis
Optimal Energy management system for Microgrid with Energy storage and Electric vehicles
Coordinated energy system with V2G support for isolated DC Microgrid
Intelligent Energy transactions and policies for sustainable society
Process Dynamics Systems, & Control Systems
Data driven modelling and control of aerial vehicles
Intelligent aerial vehicles
Sustainable and resilient smart homes
Control applications in Biomedical Engineering
Automated drug infusion pumps
Detection and prevention of Parkinson’s Disease
Model based Control systems
Explainable AI based modelling
AI based controller for grid integration in a smart microgrid system
e-Mobility
Smart Grid
Control Systems
Biomedical applications
Signal and Image Processing
Condition Monitoring of Drives using AI and IoT
Renewable Energy Assessment and Forecasting
Cybersecurity, Bigdata Analytics and AI Applications to Smart Grid
Energy Conservation, Management and Market Operation of Microgrid
Electric Vehicles (EV)
Battery Management Systems
Drives and control for EV and Renewable Energy
Embedded Solution for Agriculture, and Smart Grid
Low-power Embedded System Development
Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Drones, and Robots
Cybersecurity in Connected Systems
AI/ML/TinyML/IoT solutions to Embedded Systems
Power Electronics
Power Converter Development
Variable Frequency Drives using Soft Computing/Machine Learning
Heat Transfer Characteristics in Parabolic Trough Collector using Finite Element Method
FPGA for Control Applications
Controls and Instrumentation
Controls and Instrumentation
Signal and Image Processing for Agriculture and Medical Applications
Wireless Sensor Networks
| Title of the Project | Funding Agency |
| Cyber resilience and privacy preservation in smart grid using Machine learning techniques | Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Digital India Corporation, Govt of India |
| Development of an Onboard Integrated Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) traction drive for Electric Vehicles (EVs). | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Internal Seed Grant) |
| Design and development of a scalable laboratory model of a decentralized battery pack management system. | Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Internal Seed Grant) |
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Title of the Project |
Funding Agency |
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A Micro-Grid Test-bed Laboratory – with a view: Transition towards Smart-Grid Knowledge center |
VGST |
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Measurement of light scatter in the anterior chamber of the eye for objective quantification of intraocular inflammation |
VGST |
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Single-sided Matrix Converter Fed BLDC Motor for Energy Conservation |
DRDO – ARDB |
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Autonomous E-Mobility Centre |
Amrita Internal seed funding |
| Title of the Project | Funding Agency |
| Cost-effective Standalone Solar Smart Light for Village Roads | SEG, Rural Energy System Unnat Bharat Abhiyan |
| Light Weight & Simplified Deep Learning Techniques for Radar Sensor Damping Class Estimation | Continental Autonomous Mobility India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Analyzing the Coimbatore District Sukanya Samridhi Yojana Scheme: An Integrated Approach using SPSS and Artificial Intelligence Prediction | Indian Council of Social Science Research Projects (RP Division) |
| Design and development of a
Scalable laboratory model of a Decentralized Battery Pack Management System |
Amrita Seed Grant 2022
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| Distributed Energy Resources
Market Management with Cyber Physical Co-Simulation Framework for Effective Electric Grid Resilience |
Amrita Seed Grant 2022
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| An Intelligent Intrusion Detection System to detect Anomalies in the Industry 4.0 Smart Grid Systems | Amrita Seed Grant 2022
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| Med2disp – Right Medication at Right Time with Right Monitoring | MSME
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| Aqueous battery | MSME
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| Electric Vehicle Multipurpose Tractor | MSME
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| Smart EV Sharing Infrastructure with Solar Powered EV Battery
Swapping/Charging Stations |
MSME
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| Making Smart Irrigation Affordable for Small Farmers via Machine Learning | CEFIPRA
Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research |
| Condition Monitoring of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for Electric Vehicles | Consultancy – Bosch Global Software Technologies |
| Development of Multi-Phase Permanent Magnet Starter/Generator (PMS/G) with Bi-directional DC-AC Converter for More Electric Aircraft (MEA) | Aeronautics R&D Board (AR&DB)
DRDO, Ministry of Defence |
| Name of the Research Lab |
| Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles Research Lab |
| Power Systems and Simulation Lab |
| Electrical Machines Lab |
| Energy Engineering Lab |
| Embedded Systems and Robotics Lab |
| Control and Automation Lab |
The Department is housed in spacious blocks with laboratories, classrooms, seminar room, staff room and department library for reference reading provide areas for learning and study. The following laboratories are sufficiently furnished with the latest equipment and software to meet the requirements of students for conducting experiments.
In addition, the department has setup the following research labs through grants obtained from organisations like VGST and DRDO
Name of the investigators: J. Ramprabhakar, Anand R.
Funding Agency: VGST
Scheme: K-FIST (Level 1) Government of Karnataka
Total amount allotted for the scheme: Rs. 20 Lakhs
Ongoing Projects
Facilities Available
Name of the investigators: Dr. Manjula G. Nair
Funding Agency: DST- SERC
Total amount allotted for the scheme: Rs. 19.5 Lakhs
Name of the investigators: Surekha Paneerselvam, Abhilash Ravikumar o
Funding Agency: VGST
Scheme: K-FIST (Level 1): Government of Karnataka
Total amount allotted for the scheme: Rs. 15 Lakhs
Ongoing Projects
Facilities Available
Software
| Name of the Research Lab | Major Facilities / Equipment Details | |
| Electrical Machines Lab | DSPACE Controller
Power Quality Analyser |
dSPACE real-time controller is a powerful computing platform designed for real-time simulation, rapid control prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
Identify and diagnose issues such as voltage fluctuations, harmonics, transients, and other disturbances that may impact the performance of electrical systems and equipment. |
| Renewable Energy Lab | IEEE 5 bus Micro Grid Test Bed System with ICT enabled.
Solar/Wind Emulator EV Emulator Softwares: DigSILENT Power Factory, MATLAB, WaSP, WindPRO, Ansys Maxwell. |
Monitor, operate, and control the micro grid with communication infrastructure
Solar PV array configuration with MPPT controller and PMSG-based wind resource assessment and development Test the behaviour and performance of EV motor based on drive cycle performance |
| Embedded Systems Lab | Nao Robot
NetSim Embedded Processors |
Humanoid robot that can be programmed for various navigation and daily
For networking simulations Facilitate IoT based applications |
| Power Electronics Lab | OpalRT – Power Electronics Testing HIL based on eHSx32 FPGA Solver
FPGA:
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Hardware in Loop Analysis for Power Electronics Applications
FPGA enable real-time control, high-speed processing, and efficient implementation of intricate algorithms for Power electronics applications |
| Drives & Control Lab | FPGA Based Controller
DSPACE DS1104 R & D Controller, PLC Motor with stator and Rotor faults Software: ANSYS and MATLAB |
Closed loop speed control and Vector control strategies for IM, PMSM, SRM, and BLDC.
Special Electrical Machine Design employing various control strategies using Ansys Maxwell and MATLAB Fault analysis of Electrical machines used in EVs. |
| Power Systems Lab | IEEE 5 -bus Test Best System
LabVIEW-based DAQ system for state estimation Numerical Relay Software: ETAP, PSCAD, LabVIEW |
To perform the operation, control, protection and stability analysis in real power system with cloud connectivity.
To develop Phasor Measurement Unit and to perform transient analysis and control To develop protection for power components and systems |
| Control & Instrumentation Lab | Elvise board
MyDAQ and MyRIO |
NI ELVIS II prototyping board is an incredibly useful tool to test your circuits before you go through all the work of soldering.
Real-time monitoring and control using LabVIEW platform |
The top reasons to choose Amrita for your career
Dr. Preetha P K
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
Amrita School of Engineering, Amritapuri.
Dr. Vidya H. A.
Chairperson,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
School of Engineering, Bengaluru
ha_vidya@blr.amrita.edu
Dr. Surekha P
Assistant Professor (Sl. Gd.),
Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
School of Engineering, Bengaluru
p_surekha@blr.amrita.edu
Dr. Anju Pillai S.
Associate Professor,
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering,
School of Engineering, Coimbatore
