Mahendra Kumar

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar

Effective planning, management, and control of industrial plants and processes have exploded in popularity to enhance global sustainability in recent decades. In this arena, computational predictive models have significantly contributed to plant performance optimization. In this regard, this research proposes an Improvised Grey Wolf Optimizer (IGWO...

In modern power system, phaser measurement units (PMUs) have been installed for information sharing between subsystems. Due to the large installation of PMUs, the time-delay occurs between control subsystems. In the presence of time-delay, power system network shows the instability in voltage and frequency. So, this paper proposes the robust, optim...

This paper proposes the mixed sensitivity constraint H∞based virtual inertia controller (VIC) design for load frequency control (LFC) of islanded AC microgrid (MG). Owing to the increasing integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) in the MG, the power electronic converters required to interface RESs into grid, does not support and maintain req...

The work addresses PID control design based on the velocity-pausing particle swarm optimization (VPPSO) technique. The suggested control design is utilized to develop a load frequency control (LFC) approach for an isolated microgrid (MG) with heat-pumps (HPs) and electric-vehicles (EVs). The efficiency and effectiveness of suggested control design...

This paper introduces a robust controller designed for load frequency control in a dual-area integrated power grid. Here, the suggested controller is a blend of a fuzzy logic controller with an integral controller. The parameters of the integral controller and frequency bias settings are optimized to enhance the dynamic response of the proposed con...

In recent decades, nature-inspired optimization methods have played a critical role in helping industrial plant designers to find superior solutions for process parameters. According to the literature, such methods are simple, quick, and indispensable for saving time, money, and energy. In this regard, the Modified Whale Optimization Algorithm (MWO...

One of the critical issues faced by the desalination plants is an accurate analysis of their real-time performance. Soft computing techniques are efficient in overcoming these issues and predicting accurate outcomes. In this paper, models based on the third version of the modified particle swarm optimization algorithm called autonomous groups parti...

The paper presents the comparative study between various PID-type controllers for the inertial stabilized platform. This platform is known as gimbal system, which has the gyro in feedback, so it forms the complex system. Besides, the angular velocity control in this system is the challenging task. The objective of this paper is to find the best PID...

The present era of advances in desalination plants revolves around the involvement of artificial intelligence techniques in ameliorating their modeling and operational performance. Among the two objectives, an accurate modeling of the plant’s behavior may certainly help the design engineers to operate the plant in more stable and controlled operati...

In this paper, we implement sustainable soft computing via application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to predict the desalination plant output more accurately. The proposed ANN models have been trained with a backpropagation (BP) algorithm. Motivated by the literature, an exhaustive modeling has been performed using an extended list of six ANN...

An accurate prediction of the performance of water treatment desalination plants could directly improve the global socio-economic balance. In this regard, many researchers have been engaged in the various artificial intelligence applied soft computing techniques to predict actual process outcomes. Inspired by the significance of such techniques, an...

This paper addresses the robust and resilient PIDA control design for frequency regulation of the cyber-physical power system. PIDA control design is carried-out using a recently develop supply demand optimization algorithm (SDOA). This SDOA inspires by the supply-demand mechanism in economics theory. Besides, SDOA is a global optimization algorith...

Desalination plants have an important concern regarding controlling the permeate flow rate and pH during operability. This paper proposes the proportional integral derivative (PID) control design using modified Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) techniques called autonomous groups PSO (AGPSO) in the two-input two-output (TITO) RO desalination plan...

This paper proposes an improved coefficient diagram method (CDM) for proportional integral derivative acceleration (PIDA) controller design. In the improved CDM, stability indices are obtained using a graphical approach based on the maximum sensitivity constraints. The stability indices play an important role in the designing of the controller and...

In this brief paper, we present the technical errors of “Optimal design of non‐fragile PID controller” (Elsisi, 2019), which is published in this journal. Besides, we give the solution of these technical errors. Further, we give the robustness fragility index (RFI) concept to analyze the nonfragile nature of the published controller.

Modeling, simulation, and optimization of the membrane performance of seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant using neural network and fuzzy based soft computing techniques a b s t r a c t One of the challenging tasks in desalination plants is to manage and optimize their real-time performance. In this direction, soft computing techniques have...

Twin-rotor two-input two-output (TITO) aerodynamical system (TRAS) is a highly non-linear system with a cross-coupling effect. The objective of the controller design in TRAS is to track the trajectory of azimuth and pitch angles, reach the desired azimuth and pitch angle positions, and stabilize TRAS in the presence of significant cross-coupling. T...

The frequency control is the mandatory task in a modern power system because of load demand variation and the integration of renewable energy sources (RESs). The main objective of automatic generation control (AGC) scheme is to maintain the balance between generation and load demand. This study proposes a graphical robust characteristic ratio assig...

The extensive practice of open communication links in the power system network introduces unavoidable communication time delays (CTDs). These CTDs demean the performance of the load frequency control (LFC) system, and in the worst condition, the LFC system becomes unstable. Thus, this brief proposes a robust proportional integral derivative double...

This paper addresses a practical PIDA controller design for an inertial stabilization platform which is also called a gimbal system. The gimbal system with gyro in feedback loop is a complex system, and the control of angular velocity is a critical issue. The main focus of this paper is to design controller for single-axis gimbal system. In additio...

This paper presents a novel digital image watermarking (DIW) scheme. This DIW scheme is based on a hybrid DWT-SVD transform domain and modified whale optimization algorithm (MWOA), making use of multiscale factors (MSFs) to control the trade-off between invisibility and robustness. The values of MSFs have been determined using MWOA, which is a natu...

The transient response control is one of the most important tasks in the control system design. The transient response has characterized based on the relationship between characteristic ratios and time domain specifications. The characteristic ratios are the design parameters of the characteristic ratio assignment (CRA) approach. This article prese...

A newly discovered colour watermarking approach is instigating in the paper, which is based on a modified whale optimisation algorithm (MWOA). YIQ colour space is more appropriate for the human visual system in the real-time applications, so the colour cover image is transformed from RGB to YIQ colour space.The combination of three-level discrete w...

A newly discovered color watermarking approach is instigating in this paper which is rely upon whale optimization algorithm. YIQ color space is more applicable for the human visual system in the real time applications so the color cover image is changed from RGB color transformation to YIQ color transformation. Moreover, perform three-level discret...

This paper presents the design and implementation of three-phase four-wire shunt active power filter (SAPF). It consists of insulated gate bipolar transistors, IGBT based current-controlled voltage source inverter (CC-VSI), series coupling inductor and self-supported DC bus. Power electronics based converters and non-linear loads generate waveform-...

Picture combination, otherwise called Image fusion, is a procedure used to coordinate the geometric subtle element of a high-determination panchromatic picture and the colour data of a low determination multispectral (MS) picture to deliver a high-determination MS picture. This strategy is especially essential for huge scale applications Research i...

This paper proposes a robust CDA-PIDA control scheme for load frequency control problem. The proportional integral derivative acceleration (PIDA) controller is a variant of PID and it is used to cope with large overshoot and settling time in higher order systems. The tuning of PIDA controller is based on coefficient diagram algorithm (CDA). The CDA...

This paper introduces a grey wolf optimization algorithm for image watermarking in the Wavelet Transform domain. Digital image watermarking (DIW) determine its proficiency in ensuring illegal confirmation of media. The visibility factor of the watermark is the main parameter that helps in enhancing the robustness, and perceptual transparency of the...

Whistle sound is a voice that is intended to echolocation, whistle sound is a major role in internal and inter-group communication. The objective research passive acoustic was to examine the power spectral patterns and fluctuations in sound based on the frequency of the sounds produced by male bottle nose dolphin and observing the position of male...

This paper presents control scheme for Load Frequency Control in a multi-area Power. A serious attempt has been undertaken aiming at investigating the load frequency control problem in a power system consisting of two power generation unit and multiple variable load units. The problem of controlling the real power output of generating units in resp...

In this work the system is Brushless DC (BLDC) Motor. In this motor problem is the position control. Apply conventional controller as PID to control position of BLDC motor. This controller has three parameters Kp, Ki and Kd needs to tune for better performance. Firstly, optimized these parameters using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Technique. I...

This research paper contains an elaborate presentation of control scheme for ‘Load Frequency Control’. Various attempts have been taken to investigate the load frequency control scenario, because of the main problem of controlling the real power output of generating units according to change in system frequency and tie-line power interchange within...

This paper is about the hybrid filter which is used to reduce total harmonics distortion as well as to improve power quality of system. In modern era, the consumer load is based on power electronics devices which pollute power quality and also produce harmonics in supply system, hence supply becomes distorted. This paper presents a series passive a...

Mostly the pollution issues created in power system is because of nonlinear nature of loads. line current harmonics cause increase in losses, instability, and also voltage distortion. Development of power electronics device, the non-linear load that consume non-sinusoidal current have increased significantly. Hence it has become very essential to p...

This research work describes synchronous reference frame (SRF) based control algorithm for shunt active power filter (SAPF) to mitigate harmonics and improve power quality. System consists with a non-linear load, coupling inductor, a three phase three-leg current controlled voltage source inverter (CC-VSI) with a DC link capacitor. Increasing appli...

In this paper a saras typeimage-fusion technique using hybrid Curve let and SOMA is used. The method shows fusion of images and can be used for fusion of multi model image. It is concluded that fusion with advanced single levels offers better fusion quality. This method provides a comparative study between proposed & literature techniques and valid...

In this paper a saras-type image-fusion technique using hybrid SPIHT and SOMA. This method shows fusion of images and can be used for fusion of multi model image. It is concluded that fusion with advanced single levels offers better fusion quality. This method provides a comparative study between proposed & literature techniques and validation of t...

The paper deals with 5 different techniques for feature extraction of face. First-step in face recognition systems is face detection, with purpose of localizing and extracting the face region from the background. SelfOrganizing Map (SOM) Neural Network has been used for training of database and simulation of FR system. The algorithm developed for t...

In this paper a fuzzy-type-image-fusion technique using hybrid SPIHT and SOMA. This method shows fusion of images and can be used for fusion of multi model image. It is concluded that fusion with advanced single levels offers better fusion quality. This method provides a comparative study between proposed & literature techniques and validation of t...

A image fusion method using various image compression techniques is described in this paper. This method shows fusion of images and can be used for fusion of multi model image. It is concluded that fusion with advanced single levels offers better fusion quality. The future algorithm Curvelet transform is very straight forward, effortless to execute...

This paper describes a fuzzy type image fusion technique using various image compression techniques. This technique can be used for fusion of fuzzy images as well as multi model image fusion. It is concluded that fusion with higher single levels provides better fusion quality. The proposed algorithm is very simple, easy to implement and could be us...

A fuzzy type image fusion method using various image compression techniques is described in this paper. This method shows fusion of fuzzy images and can be used for fusion of multi model image. It is concluded that fusion with advanced single levels offers better fusion quality. The future algorithm Curvelet transform is very straight forward, effo...

This paper presents a novel optimization method for digital images in the Digital image watermarking system. Digital image watermarking has proved its efficiency in protecting illegal authentication of data. The visibility factor of the watermark is the significant parameter that helps in improving the perceptual transparency and robustness of wate...

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The paper presents various controllers for damping low frequency oscillations in a single-generator infinite-bus (SMIB) electrical power system. The intent of the Fuzzy Logic based UPFC controller systems are to dampout low frequency oscillations. UPFC controller based ahead amplitude modulation index of exciter mE has been intended. System respons...

This paper presents a fuzzy type image fusion technique using Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees (SPIHT). It is concluded that fusion with higher single levels provides better fusion quality. This technique can be used for fusion of fuzzy images as well as multi model image fusion. The proposed algorithm is very simple, easy to implement and co...

The peak to average power ratio of the time domain envelope is an important parameter at the physical layer of the communication system using OFDM signalling. The signals must maintain a specified average energy level in the channel to obtain the desired Bit-error-rate. The peak signal level relative to that average defines the maximum dynamic rang...

This paper presents a fuzzy type image fusion technique using hybrid discrete Cosine transform (DCT) – Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based laplacian pyramid. It is concluded that fusion with higher level of pyramid provides better fusion quality. This technique can be used for fusion of fuzzy images as well as multi model image fusion. The prop...

This paper presents a fuzzy type image fusion technique using hybrid discrete Cosine transform (DCT) – Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) based laplacian pyramid. It is concluded that fusion with higher level of pyramid provides better fusion quality. This technique can be used for fusion of fuzzy images as well as multi model image fusion. The prop...

This paper deals with 4 different techniques for feature extraction of image. Face detection is a necessary first-step in face recognition systems, with the purpose of localizing and extracting the face region from the background. The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) Neural Network has been used for training of database and simulation of FR system. Th...

In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a cover image in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortions caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or malicious attacks in an unfriendly environment. This work provides Digital Image Watermarking based on Hybrid DWT-FFT wit...

This paper presents a DCT based pyramid transform watermarking scheme for ownership verification of digital images. In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a cover image in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortions caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or malic...

This paper deals with 4 different techniques for feature extraction of image. Face detection is a necessary first-step in face recognition systems, with the purpose of localizing and extracting the face region from the background. The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) Neural Network has been used for training of database and simulation of FR system. Th...

This paper presents a DCT based pyramid transform watermarking scheme for ownership verification of digital images. In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a cover image in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortions caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or malic...

In digital watermarking, a watermark is embedded into a cover image in such a way that the resulting watermarked signal is robust to certain distortion caused by either standard data processing in a friendly environment or malicious attacks in an unfriendly environment. This work provides Digital image watermarking based on Fractional Fourier trans...

The Complexity of higher order linear systems are large and order of matrices are higher. Matrices of higher order are difficult to deal with. The main objectives of order reduction is to design a controller of lower order which can effectively control the original high order system so that the overall system is of lower order and easy to understan...

Recently, works are completely based on the internet, so authentication is required to protect the content of the data because owner never wants to degrade the quality of his data. Information hiding via digital watermarks for the multimedia data is the compatible way to provide the protection of data. Watermarks are imperceptible and it is predefi...

Unit-1 1. DIP Stands: a) Digital image processing b) Digital information processing c) Digital induction process d) None of these 2. What is image? a) Picture b) Matrix of pixel c) Collection of pixel d) All of these 3. What is digital image? a) When x, y, and the amplitude values of f are all finite, discrete quantities, we call the imge a digital...

Recently, works are completely based on the internet, so authentication is required to protect the content of the data because owner never wants to degrade the quality of his data. Information hiding via digital watermarks for the multimedia data is the compatible way to provide the protection of data. Watermarks are imperceptible and it is predefi...

Unit-1 1. What do you mean by Digital Image processing (DIP) and explain advantages and application of DIP. 2. Explain Components of digital Image Processing System. 3. Explain elements of visual perception. 4. Explain Piecewise-Linear Transformation Functions. 5. Explain the image enhancement using Arithmetic/Logic Operations. 6. Propose a method...

Unit-1 1. You have a 1 mF capacitor with Q's worth of charge on it. A dielectric whose dielectric constant is 5 is carefully slipped between the plate of the capacitor. Which statement is FALSE? a) The new capacitance will equal 5C b) The new charge on the plates is 5Q c) The new voltage across the plates is a fifth what it was d) The new electric...

Recently, works are completely based on the internet, so authentication is required to protect the content of the data because owner never wants to degrade the quality of his data. Information hiding via digital watermarks for the multimedia data is the compatible way to provide the protection of data. Watermarks are imperceptible and it is...

This paper deals with 3 different techniques for feature extraction of image. Face detection is a necessary first-step in face recognition systems, with the purpose of localizing and extracting the face region from the background. The Self-Organizing Map (SOM) Neural Network has been used for training of database and simulation of FR system. Th...

Face recognition (FR) is a challenging issue due to variations in pose, illumination, and expression. The search results for most of the existing FR methods are satisfactory but still included irrelevant images for the target image. We have introduced a new technique uses an image-based approach towards artificial presents a new technique fo...