Dr. Sheron Figarado

Designation : Associate Professor

Broad Area of Expertise : Electrical Engineering

Email : sheron{at}iitgoa.ac.in

Contact Number : 0832-2490-111

Address : EE lab, IIT Goa

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Educational Qualifications

  1. PhD: CEDT, IISc Bangalore (2009)
  2. B.Tech: Dept of Instrumentaion, CUSAT (2004)

Areas of Research

  • Induction Motor drives, Multilevel Inverters, PWM Techniques for VSIs, Modular Multilevel inverters
  • Inductive Power transfer for EV applications
  • Real-time Suspension Control for vehicles
  • Motor control for robotic and exoskeleton applications.

Courses Taught

EE 309 Microprocessors (Semester I,2018-19)
EE234 Electrical Machines Laboratory (Semester I,2018-19)
EE222 Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (Semester II,2018-19 )
EE302 Control Systems (Semester II,2018-19)
EE324 Control Systems Lab (Semester II,2018-19)

Professional Appointments

  1. Assistant Professor at BITS-Pilani K.K Birla Goa Campus (2009-2015).
  2. Assistant Professor at NIT Karnataka (2015-2018).
  3. Assistant Professor at IIT Goa (2018-2023)

Recent Publications

Journal publications

  1. "Dodecagonal Voltage Space Vector Based PWM Techniques for Switching Loss Reduction in a Dual Inverter fed Induction Motor Drive," Ravi Teja. A, S. Figarado and N. Harishchandrappa, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 182-191, Oct. 2020 doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2020.2999583.
  2. “Design and Performance Comparison of Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-Based Control for Vibration Suppression in Active Suspension Systems.” Sistla, Pramod, Sheron Figarado, Krishnan Chemmangat, Narayan Suresh Manjarekar, and Gangadharan Kallu Valappil Journal of Vibration and Control, (June 2020).
  3. "Selective Lower Order Harmonic Elimination in DC-AC Converter using Space Vector Approach," R. T. Arumalla, S. Figarado, K. Panuganti and N. Harischandrappa, in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, doi: 10.1109/TCSII.2021.3069552.
  4. “Design and implementation of passivity-based controller for active suspension system using port-Hamiltonian observer.”, Sistla P, Chemmangat K, Figarado S., Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering. 2023.

Conference publications

  1. " A Bus-Clamping Pulse Width Modulation Method for a Dodecagonal Space Vector generation scheme for 3-phase Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drives," Ravi Teja Arumalla, and Sheron Figarado, IECON 2017 – 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, October 29th -Nov 1st 2017.
  2. " Harmonic and Switching Loss Analysis for Two-Level Space Vector Based Pulse Width Modulation Schemes," Pooja Krishna M.R, Ravi Teja Arumalla, Sheron Figarado and Krishnan CMC,  IECON 2017 – 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, October 29th -Nov 1st 2017.
  3. “Analysis and Experimental Investigation of Double Switching Active Vector Sequences in Dodecagonal Space Vector Structure”, Ravi Teja Arumalla, Sheron Figarado, Nagendrappa Harishchandrappa, IECON 2020 - 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, October 18- 21, 2020.
  4. "Variable Slope Trapezoidal Circulating Current Injection to Attenuate Capacitor Voltage Ripple in Modular Multilevel Converter Based Variable Speed Motor Drives Application," K. Panuganti, R. S. Burye and S. Figarado, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Shanghai, China, 2022, pp. 1-6.
  5. "Investigation of Torque Ripple in Voltage Source Inverter driven Induction Motor Drive operated with Space Vector based Harmonic Elimination Pulse Width Modulation Scheme", R. S. Burye, R. T. Arumalla and S. Figarado, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Shanghai, China, 2022, pp. 1-6.
  6. “A Novel Operation Scheme for a Series-Parallel compensated Inductive Power Transfer System for Coupling-Independent Compensation and Reduced Circulating Current” , Rohan.S. Burye, and S. Figarado, IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, October 15-19, 2023
  7. “Development of Double Clamping and Quad Clamping PWM Techniques in Dodecagonal Space Vector Structure”, R. T. Arumalla, R. S. Burye, K. Panuganti  and S. Figarado, IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, October 15-19, 2023 

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