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Soumya Ranjan Sahoo
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Research Interest
Nonlinear dynamical systems, Control of Unmanned vehicles, Coordinated Control, AC and DC microgrids, Discontinuous systems
Office
WL-216A, Western Labs, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208016
Education
M.Tech + PhD - Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay (2013)Thesis Title:Coordination problems with minimal sensing and coarse actuation Thesis Supervisor:Prof. Ravi N. Banavar and Dr, Arpita Sinha
B.Tech - Electrical Engineering, University College of Engineering, Burla, Odisha (2008)
Teaching Area
ESO 203A - Introduction to Electrical Engineering
EE 250A - Control Systems Analysis
EE 650A - Basics of Modern Control Systems
EE 651A - Nonlinear Systems
EE 698Y - Adaptive Control Theory
EE 698Z - Nonlinear Systems II
Selected Publications
S. De, S.R. Sahoo and P. Wahi, Tracking Protocol for Network of Double Integrator Systems with Heterogeneous Time Delays, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, --, doi:10.1109/TII.2020.3019235.
A. Sen, M. Kothari and S.R. Sahoo, Information-Rich Formation Tracking: A Unified Scheme of Cooperative Control and Localization, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, vol. 17, no. 8, August 2020, doi:10.2514/1.I010782.
S. De, S.R. Sahoo and P. Wahi, A Rendezvous Strategy with R2 Reachability for Kinematic Agents, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 369-374, January 2021, doi:10.1109/TAC.2020.2980927.
A. Das, A. Shukla, A.B. Shyam, S.Anand, J.M. Guerrero and S.R. Sahoo, A Distributed-Controlled Harmonic Virtual Impedance Loop for AC Microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, --, doi:10.1109/TIE.2020.2987290.
A. Sen, S.R. Sahoo and M. Kothari, Containment using Incomplete Agent Information over a Digraph, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 614-619, July 2020, doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2988162.
Shyam AB, S. Anand and S.R. Sahoo, Effect of Communication Delay on Consensus Based Secondary Controllers in DC Microgrid, IEEE transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 3202-3212, April 2021, doi:10.1109/TIE.2020.2978719.
B. Singh, A. Sen and S.R. Sahoo, Min-consensus for Heterogeneous Higher-order Integrators under Switching Digraph, IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 560-565, July 2020, doi:10.1109/LCSYS.2020.2973594.
S. De, S. R. Sahoo and P. Wahi, Communication Delay-dependent Rendezvous with Possible Negative Controller Gain in Cyclic Pursuit, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, --, doi:10.1109/TCNS.2019.2962308.
A. Sen, S.R. Sahoo and M. Kothari, Circumnavigation on Multiple Circles around a Non-stationary Target with Desired Angular Spacing, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, --, doi:10.1109/TCYB.2019.2935839.
M. Bhargavapuri, A.K. Shastry, H. Sinha, S.R. Sahoo and M. Kothari, Vision-based Autonomous Tracking and Landing of a Fully-actuated Rotorcraft, Control Engineering Practice, vol 89, pp. 113-129, June 2019, doi:10.1016/j.conengprac.2019.05.015.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor - Electrical Engg., IIT Kanpur (December 07, 2020 - present)
Assistant Professor - Electrical Engg., IIT Kanpur (November 11, 2016 - December 06, 2020)
Assistant Professor (on contract) - Electrical Engg., IIT Kanpur (June 30, 2014 - November 10, 2016)
Scientist Fellow - FMCD, National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore (Jan 2014 - June 2014)
Conferences
R. Yadav, S. De, S.R. Sahoo and S. Chakrabarti, Secondary Control Method for Standalone DC Microgrid with Improved Voltage Regulation, Load Sharing, and Line Loss, 2020 IEEE PES General Meeting, Montreal, Canada, August 2020.
A. Sen, S.R. Sahoo and M. Kothari, Distributed Algorithm for Higher-Order Integrators to Track Average of Unbounded Signals, IFAC 2020 World Congress, Berlin, Germany, July 2020, accepted.
S. Islam, S. De, S. Anand and S.R. Sahoo, Consensus based Ideal Current Sharing Controller for DC Microgrid, 14th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering, Setubal, Portugal, July 2020, accepted.