Dr. Sheron Figarado

Designation : Associate Professor

Broad Area of Expertise : Electrical Engineering

Email : sheron{at}iitgoa.ac.in

Contact Number : 0832-2490-111

Address : F-19, 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
  • Motor control for robotic and exoskeleton applications.

Courses Taught

Sl. No.Course Name and Code
1EE 614 Power Electronic Lab ( Jan 2023-May 2023)
2EE613 Power Electronic Converters  ( Jan 2023-May 2023)
3EE 601 Linear System  (Aug 2022-Dec 2022 )
4EE 311 Power Electronics and Lab (Aug 2022-Dec 2022 )
5EE613 Power Electronic Converters ( Jan 2022-May 2022)
6EE 311 Power Electronics and Lab (Aug 2022-Dec 2022 )
7EE 101 Introduction to Electrical and electronic Engineering (April 2021)
8EE 102 Circuit Theory (April 2021)
9EE 613 Power Electronic Converters  (Jan 2021)
10EE 101 Introduction to Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Nov 2020- March 2021)
11EE 229 Power Electronics (Sep 2020)
12EE 101 Introduction Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Jan 2020)
13EE 102 Circuit Theory (Jan 2020) 
14EE 601 Introduction to Switched Electrical Circuits (July 2019)
15EE302 Control System (Jan 2019)
16EE324 Control System Lab (Jan 2019)
17EE222 Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (Jan 2019)
18EE 324 Electrical Machines Laboratory (Aug 2018)
19EE 309 Microprocessors (Aug 2018)

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)
  4. Associate Professor at IIT Goa (2023- present)

Recent Publications

Journal publications

  1. “Three-level inverter scheme with reduced power device count for an induction motor drive with common-mode voltage elimination”, S. Figarado, T. Bhattacharya, G. Mondal and K. Gopakumar, IET Power Electron., 2008, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 84–92.
  2. “Five-level inverter scheme for an open-end winding induction machine with less number of switches”, S. Figarado, K.Sivakumar, R.Ramchand, A.Das, C.Patel, K. Gopakumar, IET Power Electron., 2010,Vol.3,Iss.4,pp.637-647.
  3. “Eighteen-sided polygonal voltage space-vector-based PWM control for an induction motor drive”, S. Lakshminarayanan, K. Gopakumar, G. Mondal, S. Figarado and N.S. Dinesh, IET Electr. Power Appl., 2008, 2, (1), pp. 56–63.
  4. “A DC-link Capacitor Voltage Balancing with CMV Elimination using only the Switching State Redundancies for a Reduced Switch Count Multi-Level Inverter fed IM Drive” Gopal Mondal, F. Sheron, Anandarup Das, K. Sivakumar and K. Gopakumar, European Power Electronics(EPE) journal, ,Vol.19, No.1,March 2009.,pp.5-15.
  5. “A novel pre-processing procedure for enhanced feature extraction and characterization of electromyogram signals,” Omkar S. Powar, Krishnan Chemmangat, Sheron Figarado, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control,Volume 42,2018,Pages 277-286.
  6. "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.
  7. “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).
  8. "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.
  9. “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.
  10. “Maximum Efficiency Tracking using Active Shunt Compensation in Single-Stage Inductive Power Transfer for Constant Power Battery Charging with High Voltage Gain.” Rohan Burye, Sheron Figarado, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (Accepted)

Conference publications

  1. “Three-Level Inverter Fed Open- End Winding IM Drive With Common Mode Voltage Elimination And Reduced Power Device Count”, Sheron Figarado, K. Gopakumar, Gopal Mondal, K. Sivakumar and N.S Dinesh,The 33rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) Nov. 5-8, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan.
  2. " 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.
  3. " 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.
  4. “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.
  5. "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.
  6. "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.
  7. “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- 49thAnnual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, October 15-19, 2023  pp.1-6
  8. “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 pp.1-6
  9. "Investigation of Dominant Lower Order Harmonics Elimination using Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation," K. Panuganti, R. T. Arumalla, R. Burye and S. Figarado, 2023 11th National Power Electronics Conference (NPEC), Guwahati, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/NPEC57805.2023.10384959.
  10. "Modelling and Controller Design for Active Rectifier based Current-sourced Inductive Power Transfer System,", Harsha, R. Burye, K. Panuganti and S. Figarado, 2024 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Bristol, United Kingdom, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICIT58233.2024.10570084.
  11. "Load Matching and Zero Voltage Switching Implementation in Bidirectional Inductive Power Transfer System," R. Burye and S. Figarado, 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Hyderabad, India, 2024, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SEFET61574.2024.10718158.
  12. “Load Matching in Single-Stage Constant Power Series-Parallel Compensated Inductive Charging with High Voltage Gain”, Rohan Burye, Sheron Figarado, 11th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems PEDES 2024 2024, Surathkal, India, (Presented).

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