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Tarakanath Kobaku

Assistant Professor

Control Systems applications, Energy Storage Systems, Fuel cells, Power Electronic Converters and Their Control for EV Microgrid and RE Applications
Room No: CC-113, Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa: 403726, India.
tarakanathk@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
0832-2580-917

Journals, Book Chapters & Conferences

Journals

[12] Sai Lakshmi, R. Jeyasenthil, Tarakanath Kobaku, Vivek Agarwal  “Robust Motion Control of DC Servo Systems with Saturation Non-Linearity and Control Effort Constraint”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Accepted) (Impact Factor: 9.9)

[11] Sai Lakshmi, R. Jeyasenthil, Christophe.Jermann, Alexandre.Goldsztejn, Tarakanath Kobaku, Vinod Kumar Bussa, “Enhanced Simultaneous Automatic Synthesis (SAS) of 2-DOF QFT based Robust PID Controller Design for Servo Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (Accepted) (Impact Factor: 7.2)

[10] S. R. Kalvapalli, R. Jeyasenthil, Tarakanath Kobaku and V. Agarwal, "QFT-Based Robust Tracking Control of Nonminimum Phase Boost DC–DC Converter with Sensor Noise Suppression," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 6436-6441, May 2025. (Impact Factor: 6.7)

[9] Ram Prakash, Lokesh, Sivasubramani, Tarakanath Kobaku, and Vivek Agarwal  “Optimal DG Planning incorporating Energy Management for an Economical and Resilient Smart Distribution System”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1890-1901, Jan.-Feb. 2024. (Impact factor: 4.4)

[8] Tarakanath Kobaku, Rajesh Poola, and Vivek Agarwal, "Design of Robust PID Controller using PSO based Automated QFT for Non-minimum Phase Boost Converter " IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems –II: Express Briefs, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 4854-4858, Dec. 2022 (Impact factor: 4.4)

[7] Tarakanath Kobaku, R. Jeyasenthil, Subham Sahoo, Tomislav Dragicevic, “Experimental verification of robust PID controller under feedforward framework for a Non-minimum phase DC-DC Boost converter”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 3373-3383, June 2021. (Impact factor: 5.5)

[6] Tarakanath Kobaku, Jeyasenthil R, Sahoo, Subham, Rijil Ramchand and Dragicevic, Tomislav" Quantitative Feedback Design Based Robust PID Control of Voltage Mode Controlled DC-DC Boost Converter " IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems –II: Express Briefs, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 286-290, Jan. 2021. (Impact factor: 4.4)

[5] R. Jeyasenthil, Tarakanath Kobaku, “Quantitative synthesis to tracking error problem based on nominal sensitivity formulation”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems –II: Express Briefs, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 2483-2487, July 2021. (Impact factor: 4.4)

[4] Tarakanath Kobaku.;Rao, V., Patwardhan, S.; Agarwal, V., “Improved Set-point tracking and Disturbance Rejection of DC-DC Converters using Voltage-Mode Digital Control” IEEE Journal of Emerging Trends and Selected topics in Power  Electronics, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 3276-3286, June 2021. (Impact factor: 5.5)

[3] Kiran Kumar, G, Tarakanath Kobaku, Subham Sahoo, Bidyadhar Subudhi, Devaraj Elangovan, and Frede Blaabjerg, "An Overview of Fully Integrated Switching Power Converters Based on Switched-Capacitor versus Inductive Approach and Their Advanced Control Aspects" Energies 14, no. 11: 3250. (Impact factor: 3.2)

[2] Tarakanath Kobaku, S. C. Patwardhan and V. Agarwal, "Experimental Evaluation of Internal Model Control Scheme on a DC–DC Boost Converter Exhibiting Nonminimum Phase Behavior,"  IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 32, no. 11, pp. 8880-8891, Nov. 2017. (Impact factor: 6.7)

[1] V. S. Murthy, Tarakanath Kobaku, D. K. Mohanta and S. Gupta, "Insulator condition analysis for overhead distribution lines using combined wavelet support vector machine (SVM)," IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 89-99, Feb 2010. (Impact factor: 3.1)

 

 

Book Chapters

  • Jeyasenthil, Tarakanath Kobaku, Bidyadhar Subudhi, Subham Sahoo, Tomislav Dragicevic, “Design and Experimental validation of Robust PID control for a Power Converter in DC Microgrid Application”, in a book entitled “Microgrid Cyber-physical Systems” Elsevier, 2022. 

Conferences

[16] Syed Nikhat Asfia, R. Jeyasenthil, Tarakanath Kobaku, V. Bussa, “Robust Virtual Inertia Control of a  Microgrid Using Quantitative Feedback Theory”, IEEE North-East India International Energy Conversion Conference and Exhibition (NE-IECCE), NIT silchar, 4-6th July, 2025

[15] Pratik Kumar Singh Venkata Ramana Kasi, Tarakanath Kobaku, R. Jeyasenthil, Vivek Agarwal, “Identification of Li-ion Battery Parameters Using Neural Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Surathkal, India, 18th -21st, Dec, 2024.

[14] Chandrasekhar Azad Narlapati, R. Jeyasenthil, Tarakanath Kobaku, Vivek Agarwal, “Robust PID Controller for DC-DC Boost Converter Feeding CPL”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Surathkal, India, 18th -21st, Dec, 2024.

[13] Sai Lakshmi, R. Jeyasenthil, Tarakanath Kobaku, Vivek Agarwal, “Simultaneous Automatic Synthesis of 2-DOF QFT for Unstable Maglev system”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Surathkal, India, 18th -21st, Dec, 2024.

[12] Vinod B, T. Roa, Vinusha B, Naveen Y, Tarakanath Kobaku, and R. Jeyasenthil, “An improved quasi z sourec DC-DC  Converter with Conintuous Input and Output Currents”, 3rd IEEE  International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control, Bhubaneswar, India, 10-13th Dec 2023.

[11] Srikanth Reddy, R. Jeyasenthil and Tarakanath Kobaku, “QFT Approach to Robust Control of DC-DC Buck Converter”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 14-17th, Dec, 2022.

[10] Naveen Baghel, Tarakanath Kobaku, R. Jeyasenthil, P. Ghorai and C. Rajahans, “Augmentation of State Feedback Control with Integral Action for Stabilization Issues Islanded DC Microgrid,” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, Jaipur, India, 14-17th, Dec, 2022.

[9] Sheetal Cyriac, Tarakanath Kobaku, and Rijil Ramchand, “Comparative Analysis of Continuous Time Small Signal Models of Single Phase Shift Modulated Dual Active Bridge Converter,” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 16-19th, Dec. 2020.

[8] Sheetal Cyriac, Haritha B, Tarakanath Kobaku, and Rijil Ramchand, “Virtual Impedance based Stabilization of Dual Active Bridge DC-DC Converter Cascaded with LC Filter”, IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 16-19th, Dec. 2020.

[7] Anil Siddavatam, Tarakanath Kobaku, R. Jeyasenthil and V. Agarwal, "Application of internal model control to control the output voltage of isolated dual active bridge DC-DC converter,“ IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 16-19th, Dec. 2020.

[6] Haritha B, Tarakanath Kobaku , M Nawaz and V. Agarwal, "Stability Enhancement of Cascaded Power Converters using Parallel Virtual Impedance via Shaping Output Impedance of Source Converter,“ IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), Jaipur, India, 16-19th, Dec. 2020.

[5] Anudeep Pregada, Tarakanath Kobaku, R. Jeyasenthil, and D. K. Mohanta, “Improved Load Frequency Disturbance Rejection with Two Port IMC Structure”, IEEE INDISCON, Vizag, India, 25-26th July. 2020.

[4] Tarakanath Kobaku, Yadav, P., and Agarwal, V, “Hardware in the Loop Simulation of Direct Synthesis Based Two Degree of Freedom PID (2DOF-PID) Control for DC-DC Boost Converter Using Real Time Digital Simulation in FPGA”, IEEE PEDES-2014, Mumbai, India, Dec. 2014.

[3] Rao, V., Tarakanath Kobaku, Patwardhan, S., More, D. and Agarwal, V., "Comparative Evaluation of Digital Control Algorithms for DC-DC Boost Converter Exhibiting Inverse Response" 1st International Conference on Power Electronics, Intelligent Control and Energy Systems, Delhi, India, 2016.

[2] Tarakanath Kobaku, Patwardhan S. and Agarwal, V., "Implementation of an internal model controller with anti-reset windup compensation for output voltage tracking of a non-minimum phase DC-DC boost converter using FPGA" 2nd IEEE Annual Southern Power Electronics Conference (SPEC), Auckland, New Zealand, 5th -8th , Dec. 2016.

[1] Tarakanath Kobaku.; Patwardhan, S.; Agarwal, V., "Internal model control of dc-dc boost converter exhibiting non-minimum phase behavior," IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), pp.1-7, Bombay, India, 16th -19th, Dec. 2014.

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