Advances in Automation, Signal Processing, Instrumentation, and Control

Dr. Venkata Lakshmi Narayana K received his Bachelors in instrumentation engineering from the Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India, his Masters in electrical engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT), Allahabad, India, and his Ph.D in instrumentation engineering from the Andhra University, Visakhapatnam. He has authored about 45 research papers and published in various journals and conferences of international repute. He has reviewed a good number of research papers of IET Science, Measurement & Technology, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC) and Recent Advances in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore, India. He is a senior member of IEEE. His interests are in the area of sensors and signal conditioning, measurements, process instrumentation, wirelesssensor networks and virtual instrumentation.Dr. N. Sivakumaran is currently a professor at the Department of Instrumentation and Control, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli. He obtained his B.E. (Electronics and Instrumentation) from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, and M.E (Process Control and Instrumentation) from Annamalai University and Ph.D from National Institute of Technology, Trichy. His major areas of research interests include process control, biomedical instrumentation, physiological control system and intelligent systems. He has published 40 papers in respected international/national journals and 51 papers in conferences.. Dr. Sivakumaran received the young faculty research fellow, Visvesvaraya Research Programme, MeitY in 2018. He is a principal investigator for three ongoing research projects funded by AICTE, Ministry of electronics & IT and DST-IPHEE.Dr. Santoshkumar Hampannavar received his Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Karnatak University, Dharwad, Karnataka, India and his Masters in Digital Electronics from the Amravati University, Maharashtra, India in 2003. He received his Ph.D. from National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal in 2016. He is presently Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Adama Science and Technology University, Adama, Ethiopia. He has published more than 13 papers in international journals and presented more than 13 papers at various conferences. His interests are in the area of power system, smart grid communication, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), deregulated power system, energy market, cyber physical systems for power distribution networks, DSP for power system applications.

• Application of Differential Evolution Algorithm for Substation Expansion Planning Problem of Tamil Nadu – A Real-Time Investigation.- A Survey on Sentiment Analysis for Depression Detection.- White Blood Cell Components Separation for Haematological Disease Detection.- Performance Comparison of Conventional IC and Dragon Fly based MPPT for Solar PV Systems under Partial Shading Conditions.- Tagging of Weakly Labelled Acoustic Data Using Skip Layer Connection Detection Classification Model.- Lifetime Estimation of Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor Modules Used for Industrial Application.- Reduction of Rain and Snow within the Image using Image Processing.- Design of Wearable Textile Based Microstrip Patch Antenna by using Defected Ground Plane.- Comparison and Suitability of Motors for Propulsion in Electric Vehicles.- Enhancing Performance of an Electric Vehicle on Slope Using Super Capacitor.