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Sukumar Kamalasadan

Sukumar Kamalasadan

Assistant Professor, Engineering and Computer Technology, University of West Florida

Phone: (850) 857-6451

11000, University Parkway, Pensacola, FL-32514

http://uwf.edu/skamalasadan

Education:

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, The University of Toledo, OH, USA, 2004

Research Interests:

Sukumar Kamalasadan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computer Technology at the University of West Florida. He received his B.Tech. degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering (1991) from the University of Calicut, India, M.Eng in Electrical Power Systems Management (1999) from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2004) from The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio.

Prior to joining UWF, Dr.Kamalasadan has held industrial positions for six years and has teaching and research experience for over three years. In the industry, he worked as a design and development engineer, executing projects for captive power plants/utilities before becoming an Assistant Manager for a refinery facility. As a researcher, initially he was involved in developing an approach on AI based voltage stability monitoring, control and assessment. Subsequently, he continued to develop intelligent control algorithms and formalized a new concept of supervisory loop based controller. Currently, he is working on a novel concept of intelligent agent, supervisory loop based adaptive controller for complex and Multimodal Dynamic systems control. His Research Interests are in Power and Energy Systems Devices, Modeling, Simulation and Control, Distributed energy system control and grid interface, Modeling, simulation and control of renewable energy and Distributed Energy Resources (DER), Intelligent and Adaptive Control, Computational Intelligence Approaches for energy system control, Real-time Embedded Systems, Power Systems Stability and Analysis, Control of other Dynamic systems
Dr. Kamalasadan has won several awards and scholarships including a prestegious NSF FACULTY EARLY CAREER AWARD. He is listed in who's who in the world, Who's who in America and who's who in science and engineering. He is also the recipient of Outstanding Teaching Award from the Graduate Student Association (2001- 2002) and from the College of Engineering (2002-2003) at the University of Toledo. Recently, he has also won travel awards (2004-05, 2005-06 & 2006-07) and Summer research award for his research activities at the University of West Florida. He is fully responsible for research analysis, student advising, development and implementation of several project related to power system voltage stability, intelligent control, simulation and analysis of energy devices, wide area monitoring and control, renewable energy based micro-grid and mega-grid interface and approaches in intelligent and adaptive control to robotics, avionics. These projects are supported by NSF and internal grants from the UWF.

Publications List:

A. Book Chapters

[B1]. S. Kamalasadan, Khalid S. Al-Olimat, Adel A. Ghandakly, "Design and Tuning of Intelligent Adaptive Power System Stabilizers Based on Supervisory Loop Concept", Invited book chapter; provisionally accepted in edited book "Intelligent techniques for power system generation", by IEEE PES Intelligent Control Systems Working Group and IEEE CIS Power System Applications Task Force.

[B2]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A. Ghandakly, "A Novel Intelligent Control Approach for Precise Tracking of Autonomous Robots", "Design and Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems", edited book by Springer "Studies in Computational Intelligence" Series, Vol. 177, pp. 227-254 ISBN: 978-3-540-89932-7 March 2009.

[B3]. S. Kamalasadan, Khalid S. Al-Olimat, "Fuzzy Logic Systems and Control", Invited Book Chapter, Encyclopedia of Computer science and Engineering, edited by Benjamin Wah. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, ISBN: 978-0-471-38393-2, Vol 2, pp. 1344-1355, January 2009.

B. Peer reviewed Journals

Published

[J1]. S. Kamalasadan, D. Thukaram, A.K. Srivastava, "A New Intelligent Algorithm for Online Voltage Stability Assessment and Monitoring", International Journal of Electric Power and Energy Systems, Vol.31, No. 2-3, pp.100-110, February-March 2009.

[J2]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A. Ghandakly, "A Novel Multiple Reference Model Adaptive Control Approach for Multi Modal and Dynamic Systems", Journal of Control and Intelligent Systems, Vol. 36, No. 2, pp.119-128, March 2008.

[J3]. Daniel Lamb, S. Kamalasadan, "A new design for Audio Clipping Pre-amplifier based on Silicon Control Rectifier", International Journal of Modern Engineering, Vol.8, No.1, pp.111-127, Fall 2007.

[J4]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A. Ghandakly, "A Neural Network Parallel Adaptive Controller for dynamic Systems Control", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, Vol.56, No.5, pp.1786-1796, October 2007.

[J5]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A.Ghandakly, "Multiple Fuzzy Reference Model Adaptive Controller Design for Nonlinear Fighter Aircraft Pitch-Rate Tracking", In Press, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, Vol.56, No.5, pp.1797-1808, October 2007.

[J6]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A. Ghandakly "A Fuzzy Logic based Multiple Reference Model Adaptive Control Approach for Multi Modal Systems", International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, Vol. 14, No.3, pp. 1-13, September 2007.

[J7]. S. Kamalasadan, "A Novel Multi-Agent Controller for Dynamic Systems based on Supervisory Loop Approach", Special Issue on Soft Computing on Artificial Intelligence, Web and Data Mining, Machine Learning, Journal of Engineering Letters, Vol.14, No.2, pp.81-88, June 2007.

[J8]. S. Kamalasadan, "An Adaptive Controller for Multimodal systems based on Fuzzy Multiple Reference Model Generator", Special Issue on Soft Computing on Artificial Intelligence, Web and Data Mining, Machine Learning, Journal of Engineering Letters, Vol. 14, No.1, pp. 222-236, March 2007.

[J9]. S. Kamalasadan "A Hybrid Adaptive Controller for Permanent Magnet Stepper Motors", International Journal of Computers, Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Vol.1, No.1, pp.1-18, March 2007.

[J10]. A. Hande, S. Kamalasadan, "An Electromechanical Transfer Circuit to Measure Individual Battery Voltages in Series Packs", Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 162, No. 1, pp. 719-726, November 2006.

[J11]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A. Ghandakly, K. S. Al-Olimat, "A Fuzzy Multiple Reference Model Adaptive Controller Design", International Journal of Fuzzy Systems, Vol.8, No.3, pp.165-172, September 2006.

[J12]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A. Ghandakly, D. Thukaram, "An artificial Neural Network Algorithm for Voltage Stability Monitoring and Assessment, International Journal of Computers and their Applications", Vol.12, No.2, pp.93-100, June 2005.

Under Review and Submission

[J13]. S. Kamalasadan, Adel A. Ghandakly, "A Neural Network Parallel Adaptive Controller for Nonlinear Fighter Aircraft Pitch-Rate Tracking", Revised and Resubmitted in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements.

[J14]. B. Annabathina, A.K. Srivastava, S. Kamalasadan "Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle and Policy Needed for Integration in Electricity Market", Under submission - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

[J15]. S. Kamalasadan, "High Performance Induction Motor Speed Control using Intelligent Supervisory Loops, Under Submission- International Journal of Emerging Power Systems.

[J16]. Gerald Swann, S. Kamalasadan, "An Intelligent design for excitation and speed control of Synchronous Generators", Under Submission.