Advances in Automation, Signal Processing, Instrumentation, and Control : Select Proceedings of i-CASIC 2020

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Automation, Signal Processing, Instrumentation and Control (i-CASIC) 2020. The book mainly focuses on  emerging technologies in electrical systems, IoT-based instrumentation, advanced industrial automation, and advanced image and signal processing. It also includes studies on the analysis, design and implementation of instrumentation systems, and high-accuracy and energy-efficient controllers. The contents of this book will be useful for beginners, researchers as well as professionals interested in instrumentation and control, and other allied fields.

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.