Power Engineering and Intelligent Systems

Dr Vivek Shrivastava has approx. 20 years of diversified experience of scholarship of teaching and learning, accreditation, research, industrial, and academic leadership in India, China, and USA. Presently, he is holding the position of professor at National Institute of Technology Uttarakhand, India. Prior to his academic assignments, he has worked as System Reliability Engineer at SanDisk Semiconductors Shanghai China and USA. He has carried out research and consultancy and attracted significant funding projects from Ministry of Human Resources & Development, Government of India, and Board of Research in Nuclear Science (BRNS) subsidiary organization of Bhabha Atomic Research Organization. He has published over 80 journal articles, presented papers at conferences, and has published several chapters in books. He has supervised 05 Ph.D. and 16 Masters students and currently supervising several Ph.D. students.Dr. Jagdish Chand Bansal is Associate Professor (Senior Grade) at South Asian University New Delhi and Visiting Faculty at Maths and Computer Science, Liverpool Hope University UK. He also holds visiting professorship at NIT Goa, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematics from IIT Roorkee. Before joining SAU New Delhi, he worked as Assistant Professor at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior and BITS Pilani. His primary areas of interest are Swarm Intelligence and Nature Inspired Optimization Techniques. Recently, he proposed a fission-fusion social structure-based optimization algorithm, Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO), which is being applied to various problems in the engineering domain. He is also Associate Editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) and ARRAY published by Elsevier. He is General Secretary of the Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS). He has also received Gold Medal at UG and PG levels.Prof. Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi is Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi, India. Prior to joining IIT Delhi in 2005, he has served as Faculty in Electrical Engineering Department, UCE Burla, Odisha, India, from 1992 to 2005. He is Fellow of INAE, India. His research interest includes application of soft computing and evolutionary computing techniques to power system planning, operation, and control. He has been also working in the field of bio-medical signal processing and image processing. He has served as Editorial Board Member, Associate Editor, and special issue Guest Editor of different international journals. He is also associated with various international conferences in various capacities. He has published more than 100 research papers in various international and national journals.

• Chapter 1: Modeling the Drivers and their Linkages for Adoption of Virtual Reality Technology in Agriculture in Emerging Economies.- Chapter 2: Power Minimization Twisted Ring Counter Design Using Power Gating Technique.- Chapter 3: Smart Seating: The Smart Seating Solution for Crowded Public Transit.- Chapter 4: Comparative Study of Coil Shapes for Electric Vehicle Resonant Wireless Power Transfer System.- Chapter 5: A Case Study of Solar Photovoltaic and Biomass Based Hybrid Power System in Educational Institutes in Delhi-NCR.- Chapter 6: Comparative Analysis of Water Bodies Segmentation Techniques.- Chapter 7: Load Frequency Control in Hybrid Integrated Power Systems with Redox Flow Batteries using Dual-Mode Gain Scheduling method.- Chapter 8: Enhanced Discrete Cosine Transform Image Compression for Ultra-High-Resolution Imagery.- Chapter 9: Simulation and Analysis of 6T SRAM Cell in NGSpice: Exploring Performance and Stability .- Chapter 10: Design of Double Precision Floating Point Comparator for Multiple Numbers. etc.