Control System

4.5 years of teaching and 4 years of research experience before joining VSSUT

Industrial Electronics and Control System, Renewable System control, Application of Adaptive Controllers,Micro grid Design and Control

1. Member in Ph.D. research progress assessment expert committee of O P Jindal University (OPJU) from 2018 to 2021.
2. Reviewer of CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems
3. Reviewer of International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Elsevier)
4. Reviewer of many international conferences
5. Organizing committee member 6th WCASET, 2018, Goa, India
6. Received best technical paper award in National System Conference (NSC), 2010.
7. Faculty in-charge of Control and Instrumentation Lab, VSSUT Burla
8. NRTS scholarship
9. GATE-2005 and 2006 qualified
10. Best Technical Paper Award in NSC, 2010, NIT, Surathkal, Karnataka
11. Certificate of Excellence in Workshop, IIT, Bombay

International Publications

1. A New Adaptive Maximum Power Point Controller for a Photovoltaic System, IEEE transactions on Sustainable Energy,accepted to be published (online available).
2. Bacterial Foraging Optimization Approach to Parameter Extraction of a Photovoltaic Module, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 9 (1), 381-389, 2018(cited by-12).
3. A comparative study on maximum power point tracking techniques for photovoltaic power systems, IEEE transactions on Sustainable Energy 4 (1), 89-98, 2013.(cited by-858)
4. Double Integral Sliding Mode MPPT Control of a Photovoltaic System, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 24 (1), 285-292, 2016. (cited by-23)
5. Design and real-time implementation of a new auto-tuned adaptive MPPT control for a photovoltaic system, International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems (Elsivier) 64 (1), 792–803, 2015. (cited by-22)
6. A comparative study on solar array parameter extraction methods, International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology (Inderscience),3 (3), 295-315, 2012. (cited by-19)
7. An Adaptive Predictive Error Filter based Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm for a Photovoltaic System, The Journal of Engineering 1, 1-28, 2016 (cited by-1).
8. Adaptive double-integral-sliding-mode-maximum-power-point tracker for a photovoltaic system, The Journal of Engineering 1 (1), 2015.
9. Development of RANK Indicators for Transmission Lines and Generators to Forecast Voltage Stability Status of Power System in Presence of SVC, AMSE, 83 (3), 2010.
10. Voltage Control Analysis Applying Advanced SVC model, International Journal on Electronics & Electrical Engineering (IJEEE), 4 (6), 2009.
11. R Pradhan, B. Soreng, P. Behera, Design of A Grid Integrated PV System with MPPT Control and Voltage Oriented Controller usingMATLAB/PLECES, IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017.
12. K. Sharma and R. Pradhan, Design of A Novel Feed-Forward Control Strategy for A Non-Minimum Phase System, IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017.

International Conferences

1. S. S. Pradhan, R. Pradhan and B Subudhi, Design and Analysis of an H∞ Controller for a Single Phase Grid Connected Photovoltaic System with Parametric Uncertainties, ICACCP-2019 (February 25-28), SMIT, Sikkim.
2. S. Mohanty and R. Pradhan, A Comparative Analysis Between H-Type and T-Type Multilevel Inverters, International Conference on Clean and Renewable Energy (ICCARE 2019) 10-12th July, 2019, Durgapur, West Bengal, India.
3. K. Sharma and R. Pradhan, Design and Application of a Self-tuning based Feed-forward Control for a Non-minimum Phase System, Accepted in IEEE Conference on ICRIEECE-2018, 27th – 28th July 2018, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
4. R. Pradhan and A. Kiran, A Genetic Algorithm Based Parameter Extraction Method for a PV Module, Accepted in IEEE Conference on ICRIEECE-2018, 27th – 28th July 2018, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
5. R. Pradhan and D. Mohanty,Modelling and Control of a Photovoltaic System, Accepted in IEEE International conference on technologies for smart city energy security and power(ICSESP-2018), C.V. Raman University, Orissa, India.
6. R. Pradhan and P. S. Dash, Performance Analysis of an Advanced Five-Level Inverter for A Photovoltaic System, Recent Advances on Engineering, Technology and Computational Sciences (RAETCS-2018), Allahabad, India.
7. K. Sharma and R. Pradhan, Design of A Novel Feed-Forward Control Strategy for A Non-Minimum Phase System, ICMAEM-2017, Hyderabad, India.
8. S.S Pradhan, R Pradhan, B Subudhi, Design of sliding mode controller for three phase grid connected photovoltaic system, Signal Processing, Communication, Power and Embedded System (SCOPES), 2016
9. R Pradhan, B. Soreng, P. Behera, Design of A Grid Integrated PV System with MPPT Control and Voltage Oriented Controller usingMATLAB/PLECES, ICMAEM-2017, Hyderabad, India.
10. B. Soreng, R. Garnayak and R. Pradhan, A Synchronous Reference Frame based PLL control for a Grid-tied Photovoltaic System, ICECCT, 2017, Bangalore, India.
11. A. Mohapatra and R. Pradhan, “Modelling and Control of a Photovoltaic System”, RAPEC, VSSUT, Burla, Orissa, India, 11-12 April 2015.
12. R. Pradhan and A. Mohapatra, “A RLS-APEFC based Maximum Power Point Tracker for Photovoltaic System”, ICORE-2013, KIIT, Orissa, India, 27-29 December 2013.
13. R. Pradhan, B. Subudhi and P.K. Ray, “A Real-time Linearized Maximum Power Point Tracker for Photovoltaic System”, IEEE PEDS-2013, 22-25 April 2013, Kitakyushu, Japan.
14. R. Pradhan and B. Subudhi, “An Adaptive Prediction Error Filter for Photovoltaic Power Harvesting Applications”, IEEE INDICON-2012, Kochi, Kerala, 7-9 December, 2012.
15. R. Pradhan and B. Subudhi, “A Steepest-Descent based Maximum Power Point Tracking Technique for a Photovoltaic Power System”, IEEE ICPCES-2012, MNNIT, Allahabad, UP, 17-19 December 2012.
16. R. Pradhan and B. Subudhi, “A New Digital Double Integral Sliding Mode Maximum Power Point Tracker for Photovoltaic Power Generation Application”, ICSET-2012, Kathmandu, Nepal, 24-27 September 2012.
17. B. Subudhi and R. Pradhan, “Characteristics Evaluation and Parameter Extraction of a Solar Array Based on Experimental Analysis”, IEEE PEDS-2011, Singapore, 5-8 December 2011.
18. B. Subudhi and R. Pradhan, “A Comparative Study on Solar Parameter Extraction Methods”, NSC-2010, Surathkal, Karnataka, 10-12 December, 2010.
19. R. Pradhan and S. Panda, “Application of Genetic Algorithm based PSS for Two-Area AGC System in Deregulated Scenario”, International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computational Application (BICA), Bhubaneswar, 2009.
20. R. Pradhan, S. Halder and G. Panda, “Integrated Advanced SVC models for Power System Contingency Assessment in terms of Voltage Stability”, National Conference on PPPPDSOC, 2009, Chandigarh.

1. R. Pradhan, Development of new parameter extraction schemes and maximum power point controllers for photovoltaic power systems, 2014.
2. R. Pradhan and J. Sahoo, Smart Rain Water Management: New Technologies and Innovation, Smart Urban Development, IntechOpen, 2019.

1. Warden of Visakha Ladies Hostel (since Nov. 2018)
2. Faculty in-charge of time-table of Electrical Department
3. Faculty in-charge of Control and Instrumentation Laboratory