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Amit Patra

	Amit Patra Ph.D.(IIT Kharagpur) Dean, AA & IR Professor, Electrical Engineering
	Amit Patra joined the Institute in 1987

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Residence	A-2, IIT Campus, Kharagpur 721302
Phone (office)	+91 - 3222 - 283070
Phone (residence)	+91 - 3222 - 283071 (IIT Phone) +91 - 3222 - 277750 (Private Phone)
email	amit @ ee.iitkgp.ernet.in
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Research Areas

VLSI Design
DC-DC Power Converters
Fault Tolerant Control

Awards & Honours

INAE Young Engineers Award (1997)
INSA Young Scientist Award (1997)

Member of Professional Bodies

Member : IEEE, USA

Current Sponsored Projects

Project Title : Resolution Enhancement of Digital Pulse Width Modulators
Principal Investigator : A. Patra
Sponsor : Infineon Technologies AG, Austria
Project Title : Development of MEMS-based Capacitive Accelerometer
Principal Investigator : Prof. S. Sen
Co-Principal-Investigators : Prof. A. Patra, Prof. T. K. Bhattacharyya (Dept. of ECE)
Sponsor : Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India
Project Title : Design of an optimal control strategy for GSLV MK3
Principal Investigator : G. D. Ray
Co-Principal-Investigators : S. Sen and A. Patra
Sponsor : Indian Space Research Organization
Project Title : Educational Component of General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory
Principal Investigator : P. P. Chakrabarti and A. Patra
Sponsor : General Motors Corporation
Project Title : AVLSI Consortium
Principal Investigator : P. Dasgupta
Co-Principal-Investigators : P. P. Chakrabarti, A. Patra
Sponsor : Multiple Organizations in India and Abroad

On-going Consultancy Projects

Project Name : General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory
Client : General Motors India Science Laboratory
Consultant : Prof. P. P. Chakrabarti
Project Name : Design and Development of a Twenty MegaHertz Switcher
Client : National Semiconductor Corporation
Consultant : A. Patra

Patents

A Fast Response Energy Efficient Current Control Scheme for a DC-DC Converter with a Free-wheeling Switch : Filed. (Ref : 1766/KOL/2008 Dated 17/10/2008 )
A Control Scheme to Minimize the Dynamic Power Loss in an Unbalanced Voltage Regulator Module and its Method of Operation : Submitted to TIFAC. (Ref : IIT/SRIC/IPR/2009 Dated 4/3/2009 )

Member, Editorial Board

Member, Editorial Advisory Committee : International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education

Publications: 2008 - 2009

Resistance Estimation for Lateral Power Arrays through Accurate Netlist Generation by S. Das, S. Sural and A. Patra IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of VLSI Circuits, In Press) (2009)
A Current Controlled Tri-State Boost Converter with Improved Performance through RHP Zero Elimination by S. Kapat, A. Patra and S. Banerjee IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 24(3): 776-786 (2009)
Unified Technique for On-Line Testing of Digital Circuits : Delay and Stuck-at Fault Models by S Biswas, S Mukhopadhyay, A Patra and D Sarkar Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, (2008)
Automatic Generation Control of an Interconnected Power System With Coordinated Operation of SMES and TCPS by R. J. Abraham, D. Das and A. Patra European Transactions on Electrical Power, 1 (1-12) (2008)

Publications: 2007 - 2008

Effects of Active Q Enhancement on Oscillator Phase Noise - An Analysis by P. Saha, A. Dutta, T. K. Bhattacharyya and A. Patra, Journal of Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 52, No. 3, 99-107 (2007)
Image-based Classification of Defects in Frontal Surface of Fluted Ingots by A. Mukherjee, T. Ray, S. Chaudhury, P. K. Dutta, S. Sen and A. Patra, Measurement, 40, 6, 687-698 (2007)
Diagnosability Analysis of Discrete-Time Hybrid Systems by S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay, D. Sarkar, A. Patra, Asian Journal of Control, (In Press) (2007)
A Fast Exploration Procedure for Analog High Level Specification Translation by S. Pandit, S. K. Bhattacharyya, C. R. Mandal and A. Patra, IEEE Trans. on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, (In Press) (2008)
Feedback Linearizing Control of Variable Air Volume Air Conditioning Systems for Cooling Applications by A. Thosar, A. Patra and S. Bhattacharyya, ISA Transactions, (In Press) (2008)
AGC Study of a Hydrothermal System with SMES and TCPS by R. J. Abraham, D. Das and A. Patra, European Transactions on Electrical Power, 17 (1-12) (2008)

Publications: 2006 - 2007

Effect of TCPS on Oscillations in Tie-Power and Area Frequencies in an Interconnected Hydrothermal Power System by R. J. Abraham, D. Das and A. Patra, IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution, (In Press) (2007)
Automatic Generation Control of an Interconnected Hydrothermal Power System considering Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage by R. J. Abraham, D. Das and A. Patra, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, (In Press) (2007)
Broadband Scalable Model for Si-RF On-Chip Spiral Inductors with Substrate Eddy Current Effect by S. K. Mandal, S. Sural and A. Patra, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, (In Press). (2007)
Discrete Event System approach for Fault Detection and Diagnosis and On-Line Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits Part 1: Theory by S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay, A. Patra and D Sarkar, Journal of System Science and Engineering, (In Press) (2007)
A Discrete Event System approach for Fault Detection and Diagnosis and On-Line Testing of Digital VLSI Circuits Part 2: Case study of Digital VLSI Circuits by S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay, A. Patra and D. Sarkar, Journal of System Science and Engineering,, (In Press) (2007)
ANN and PSO based Synthesis of On-Chip Spiral Inductors for RFICs by Sushanta K. Mandal, Shamik Sural and Amit Patra, IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of VLSI Circuits, (In Press) (2007)

Publications: 2005 - 2006

Estimation of Tool Wear during CNC Milling using Neural Network based Sensor Fusion by N. Ghosh, Y. B. Ravi, A. Patra, S. Mukhopadhyay, S. Paul, A. R. Mohanty and A. B. Chattopadhyay, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing (In Press), (2006)
An Evolutionary Algorithm based approach to Automated Design of Analog and RF circuits using Adaptive Normalized Cost Functions by A. Somani, P. P. Chakrabarti and A. Patra, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation (In Press), (2006)
Image-based Classification of Defects in Frontal Surface of Fluted Ingot by A. Mukherjee, T. Ray, S. Chaudhuri, P. K. Dutta, S. Sen and A. Patra, Elsevier Measurement (In Press), (2006)

Publications: 2004 - 2005

Design and Analysis of Four Phase Synchronous Buck Converters for VRM Applications by H. N. Nagaraja, A. Patra and D. Kastha, Paritantra, 1 (2005) 61-68
An Object-based Coding Scheme for Frontal Surface of Defective Ingot by A. Mukherjee, S. Chaudhuri, P. K. Dutta, S. Sen and A. Patra, ISA Transactions, (2005)
Energy Based Switching Control of DC-DC Boost Converter Circuits by P. Gupta and A. Patra, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems - Part II, (2005)
A Formal Approach to On-Line Monitoring of Digital VLSI Circuits: Theory, Design and Implementation by S. Biswas, S. Mukhopadhyay and A. Patra, Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications, (2005)

Some Earlier Publications

Design and implementation of the control system for an inverter-fed synchronous motor drive by K. Alice Mary, A. Patra, S. Sengupta and N. K. De, IEEE trans. Control Systems Technology, 10 (2002) 853-859
Swing-up and stabilization of a cart-pendulum system under restricted cart track length by D. Chatterjee, A. Patra and H. K. Joglekar, System and Control letters, 47 (2002) 355-364
Review of An Introduction to Hybrid Dynamical systems by A. J. Van der Schaft and H. Schumacher by A. Patra and H. K. Joglekar, Paritantra, 6(1) (2001) 57-58
Fault Detection and Diagnosis of a Chemical Reactor by Direct Physical Parameter Estimation by B. K. Roy, A. Patra, S. Mukhopadhyay and D. C. Saha, Paritantra, 6(1) () 37-45

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