Sliding Mode Controllers for Power Electronic Converters

Axaykumar Mehta received his Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering (1996), Master of Technology (2002) and Ph.D. (2009) degrees from Gujarat University Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur and Indian Institute of Technology Bombay respectively. He is currently acting as an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering, Institute of Infrastructure Technology Research and Management (IITRAM), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He has more than 21 years of teaching experience at UG and PG level at various premier Institution of the state. He has presented and published 60 research papers in national/international reputed conferences and refereed journals, and 3 monographs/books with Springer. He has also published 3 patents at Indian patent office, Mumbai. He is recipient of Pedagogical Innovation award 2014 from Gujarat Technological University (GTU). His research interests are sliding mode control and observer, networked control systems, multi-agent systems, and control of smart grids/micro-grids. He is senior member of the IEEE, member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) and Control System Society (CSS), life member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE), Institute of Engineers India (IEI), Systems Society of India (SSI), and Society of Power Engineers (SPE). Brijesh B. Naik has an M.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India and is pursuing his Ph.D. at Gujarat Technological University, India. Currently he is Associate Professor at the I&C Department of Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology, Surat, India. He has 16 years of teaching and research experience. He has taught courses on various subjects, including process instrumentation, modern digital control systems, measurement and instrumentation, biomedical instrumentation, industrial control systems and power electronics. He has also published a number of research papers in reputed journals and conferences.