Dr. Narendrababu A
Brief Bio
| Brief Bio |
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| Currently working as Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering department, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology Nagpur, India since 06th July 2022. |
| Courses Taught: |
| EEL408 Advanced Power Electronics; EEL302 Electrical Machine-II; EEL330 Microcontrollers; EEL421 Power Quality |
Education
Contact Details
| Phone: | Email: | Address: |
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| 7122802335 | anbabu@eee.vnit.ac.in | Room No. 502, New Academic Block, VNIT |
| 8630381828 | babu.narendra26@gmail.com |
Research Interest
| Research Interest |
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| Power electronic converters, Multilevel inverters, Pulse width modulation techniques, Electric vehicular systems, and Renewable and hybrid energy systems |
| Sr. No. | Title | Funding Agency | Role | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| 1 | Sustainable Learning Environments: Design of an Off-GridDistributed Energy System Integrating an Intelligent WaterManagement Pump in the Eruvapalem Village School Premises | DST | PI | 2025-27 | 85.96 |
| Sr. No. | Title | Funding Agency | Role | Year | Amount (in Lakhs INR) |
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| Sr. No. | Patent Title | Application No. | Date | Present Staus |
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| 1 | NPA: A Multi-level high power factor AC-DC converter | 201911014389 | 21/11/2023 | Granted |
| Description | Author(s) | Publisher | ISBN | Year |
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| BOOK: Recent Advances in PowerElectronics and Drives; Chapter: Three-Phase Neutral-Point-Clamped(NPC)-Based High-Power Factor | Narendrababu A | SpringerNature | Print ISBN 978-981-97-6090-9 | 2025 |
| Sr. No. | Responsibility | Year |
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| 1 | Department UG Coordinater | 2022 Onwades |
| 2 | Faculty Advisor | 2023-24 Admited batch |
| 3 | Website Coordinator | 2024 Onwards |
| Year | Awards |
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| 2024 | Best conference paper award for the paper “Three-Phase Neutral-Point-Clamped (NPC) based High Power Factor Converter with Matrix-Based Modulation” in EPREC-2024. |
| 2018 | Got the DST, Government of India Scholarship through Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)-International TravelScheme (IST) program for participating in the 9th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems(PEDG 2018), Charlotte, USA, 25-28 June. 2018 |
| Title | Funding Agency | Host Institute | Dates | No. of Participants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multilevel Inverters: Control Techniques and Mitigation of its Practical Issues | Self | VNIT | 29-31 Oct 2022 | 25 |
| Hands-on Experience on TexasInstruments DSPTMS320F28379D | Self | VNIT | 3-7 May 2023 | 20 |
| IEEE PELS Day Expert Talks | IEEE | VNIT | 20th June 2023 | 30 |
| Power Electronics Technology for SelfReliant and Viksit Bharat | E&ICT MeitY | VNIT | 24 Feb to 06 March 2025 | 45 |
| S.No. | Paper Citation |
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| 1 | Narendrababu A and P. Agarwal, “Nearest and Non-Nearest Three Vector Modulations of NPCI Using Two-Level Space Vector Diagram—A Novel Approach,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 2400-2415, May-June 2018. |
| 2 | Narendrababu A and P. Agarwal, “Hybrid modulation strategy for eliminating low-frequency NP voltage oscillations in NPC using redistribution of NTV duty ratios,” in IET Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 1504-1517, 10 6 2017. |
| 3 | Narendrababu A and Agarwal P. “Response to Discussion on “Nearest and Non-Nearest Three Vector Modulations of NPCI Using Two-Level Space Vector Diagram—A Novel Approach”,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 55, no. 5, pp. 5495-5496, Sept.-Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2019.2922929. |
| 4 | Naveen Yalla, Narendrababu A, Pramod Agarwal, “A New Three-Phase Multipoint Clamped 5L-HPFC With Reduced PSD Count and Switch Stress,” in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 2532-2543, April 2020, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2019.2910030. |
| 5 | N. Yalla, V. K. Bussa, A. V. J. S. Praneeth, P. Agarwal, A. N. Babu and Y. S. Rao, “Reduced Switching State Five-Level Rectifier,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 612-621, Jan.-Feb. 2022 |
| 6 | Narendrababu A, V. G. krishna A, N. S. Sai C., N. Yalla and N. K. S. Naidu, “Hybrid Clamped Four-Level T-Type Inverter with Capacitor Voltage Balancing Algorithm,” in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2023.3344414 |
| S.No. | Paper Citation |
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| 1 | A. Narendrababu and P. Agarwal, “A five level diode clamped rectifier with novel capacitor voltage balancing scheme,” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Mumbai, India, 16-19 Dec. 2014.doi: 10.1109/PEDES.2014.7041989 |
| 2 | A. Narendrababu and P. Agarwal, “Space vector modulation for three-level NPC inverter using two-level space vector diagram,” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Trivandrum, India 14-17 Dec. 2016.doi: 10.1109/PEDES.2016.7914563 |
| 3 | A. Narendrababu, Naveen Yalla and P. Agarwal, “A Modified T-type Single Phase Five-Level Inverter with Reduced Switch Voltage Stress” International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC), Thrissur, India, 18-20 Jan. 2018. |
| 4 | A. Narendrababu and P. Agarwal, ” Virtual Vector Modulated Hybrid 2/3-Level Z-source VSI for PV Applications,” IEEE 9th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Charlotte, USA, 25-28 June. 2018. |
| 5 | Naveen Yalla, A. Narendrababu, and P. Agarwal,” A New 5L-UHPFC with reduced part count for wind energy integration,” IEEE 9th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Charlotte, USA, 25-28 June. 2018. |
| 6 | A. Narendrababu, N. Yalla and P. Agarwal , “Hybrid 2/3L Inverter with Unequal PV Array Voltages”, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana from March 15-19, 2020. |
| 7 | N. Yalla, A. Narendrababu, and P. Agarwal, “A New MPC-5LRSS High Power Factor Converter” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana from March 15-19, 2020. |
| 8 | A. Narendrababu, N. Yalla, S. Pannala, S. Halder and P. Agarwal, “A Triple Voltage Boost Frontend Hybrid T-Type Converter,” 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo (ITEC), 2022, Anaheim, CA, USA from June, 15-17, 2022. |
| 9 | A. Narendrababu, A. Vijay Gopi Krishna, S. S. C. Naga, N. Yalla and N. K. Swami Naidu, “Hybrid Clamped Four-Level T-Type Inverter with Capacitor Voltage Self-Balancing,” 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFeT), Hyderabad, India from August 04-06,2022. |
| 10 | V. Kalandhar, A. V. Reddy, G. Y. Tejasree, G. Udith, R. G. Charan and N. A, “Analysis of Hybrid Inverter with Solar Battery Charging System,” 2023 7th International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC), Erode, India, 2023, pp. 93-97. |
| 11 | Narendrababu. A, N. Yalla and A. Ghosh, “Reduced Part Count Multiplexed Five-Level Inverters: Effect of Varied Modulation Index,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, pp. 1-6. |
| 12 | N. Yalla, Narendrababu. A and N. K. SwamiNaidu, “Performance Analysis of Five Level Reduced Device Count AC-DC Converter,” 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy (PESGRE), Trivandrum, India, 2023, pp. 1-6. |
| 13 | Narendrababu. A , “Three-Phase Neutral-Point-Clamped (NPC) based High Power Factor Converter with Matrix-Based Modulation ”, accepted in the Springer Conference “5th Electric Power and Renewable Energy Conference (EPREC-2024), NIT Jamshedpur, India |