Intelligent Control and Design of Converters for Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Vehicle Applications

Ravi Raushan is currently working as an assistant professor, in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, at the National Institute of Technology Surathkal, Karnataka, India. His areas of research interest include multilevel inverters, power electronics, photovoltaic systems, and electrical drives. He has taught courses such as digital electronics, digital systems design, power electronics, and control systems. He has published research papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute.Md Waseem Ahmad is working as an assistant professor, in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, at the National Institute of Technology Surathkal, Karnataka, India. His areas of expertise include efficient power electronic converters, fault diagnostics, and condition monitoring of power electronic converters. He has published research papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute.Ranjan Kumar Behera is presently working as an associate professor, in the Department of Electrical Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. He has published research papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute. His areas of research include power electronics converters, electrical machines and high-performance drives, micro and smart grids, solar and wind energy integration, and solar tree design for rural electrification. He has taught courses such as FACTS controllers in power systems, control of electric drives, distributed energy resources, and power electronics.Ramani Kannan is working as a senior lecturer, in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, at the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. His areas of expertise include power electronics and drives, renewable energy, intelligent control techniques, and smart grid applications. He has published more than two hundred research papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute. He is a senior member of the IEEE Power Electronics and Power Energy and a life member of the Indian Society for Technical Education.Anubrata Das is presently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, India. He previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA. His areas of research include power electronics, inverters, voltage regulation, transformers, electrical machines, and power electronic applications. He has published research papers in journals and conferences of national and international repute.

• Chapter 1. Power Converter topologies for single-phase grid-tied PV Microinverters. Chapter 2. Adaptive Voltage Regulation in Inverter-Based Power Systems. Chapter 3. The Neutral Point Less (NPL-H) H-Type 3-Level Dual Inverter Topology for Renewable Energy Integration. Chapter 4. Machine Learning Control Techniques for DC-DC Converters. Chapter 5. Disturbance Rejection Controller of High Performance PMBLDC Motor Drives for Electric Vehicle Applications. Chapter 6. Mitigating Power Quality Challenges: MqSZS Grid-Tied Level-3 battery charger control with SVPWM for EV Charging Infrastructure. Chapter 7. Design and Implementation of Efficient EV Charger for CC and CV Mode of Operation while Maintaining Grid Code and Quality. Chapter 8. Mitigating Circulating Currents in Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Multiple Parallel-Connected Non-Identical Three-Phase Vienna Rectifiers. Chapter 9. Analysis of Vehicle-to-Grid as an Auxiliary Support for Grid Faults. Chapter 10. Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP): A Survey of Enabling Interoperability and Innovation in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure