Dr. Munmun Khanra

April 20, 2022 by Munmun Khanra
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Munmun Khanra
Associate Professor
Email: munmun[at]ei[dot]nits[dot]ac[dot]in |
Date of Joining: 10/12/2014
Academic/Industrial Experience: 08+ years
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5tKH7h0AAAAJ&hl=en

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • B. Tech. from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal
  • M.Tech. from Jadavpur University, West Bengal
  • Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal

EXPERIENCE

  • Working as Associate Professor (9000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from July 2022 till date.
  • Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-I (8000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from July 2018 to July 2022.
  • Worked as Assistant Professor, Grade-II (6000 GPA) in NIT Silchar from Dec. 2014 to June 2018.
  • Worked as Assistant Professor in Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata from July 2004 to Jan. 2009.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Modelling
  • Estimation and Control
  • Batteries and Supercapacitors
  • Electric Vehicle
  • Energy Storage
  • Energy management
  • Renewable Energy
  • Wearable Devices
  • Fractional Order Systems and Applications

SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

  • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur in 2014.

EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS

  1. “Development of Health Diagnostic Framework for Onboard Electric Vehicle Batteries and Repurposing of Retired Batteries,” Duration:2022-2025. Sponsoring Agency: SERB, DST, GOI. Roll: PI.
  2. “Development of battery supercapacitor hybrid energy storage for standalone solar photovoltaic power systems.” Sponsored by: DST, GOI Duration: 2016-2021 Roll: PI

PUBLICATIONS

JOURNAL

  • Published
  1. S. S. Sinha, P. Nambisan and M. Khanra, “Improved Coupled Electrothermal Model of Lithium-ion Battery for Accurate Core Temperature Estimation at High Current,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 6463-6471, Nov. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCE.2024.3445769.
  2. P Nambisan, M. Khanra, “Optimal power-split of hybrid energy storage system using Pontryagin’s minimum principle and deep reinforcement learning approach for electric vehicle application,” Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 135, 108769, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108769. 
  3. S. Maity, M. Saha, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Fractional calculus-based modeling and state-of-charge estimation of supercapacitor,” Journal of Energy Storage, Vol. 81, 110317, 2024, doi: org/10.1016/j.est.2023.110317.
  4. S. Bansal, P. Nambisan, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Effect of Supercapacitor Modelling and Unit Cell Capacitance Selection Towards Economic Sizing of Energy Storage System in Electric Vehicle,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol.51, 2022.
  5. P. Nambisan and M. Khanra, “Optimal Energy Management of Battery Supercapacitor aided Solar PV Powered Agricultural Feed Mill using Pontryagin’s Minimum Principle,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2021.
  6. P. Nambisan, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Real-Time Optimal Fast Charging of Li-ion batteries with Varying Temperature and Charging Behaviour Constraints,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 41, 2021.
  7. P. Saha, V. Ramadesigan, M. Khanra, “An Experimental Study on the Effectiveness of Conventional State-of-Health Diagnosis Schemes for Second-use Supercapacitors,” 2021
  8. S. Bansal, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Energy Storage Sizing in Plug-in Electric Vehicles: Driving Cycle Uncertainty Effect Analysis and Machine Learning Based Sizing,” Journal of Energy Storage, vol. 41, 2021.
  9. P. Saha, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Second-Life Applications of Supercapacitors: Effective Capacitance Prognosis and Aging,” Journal of Power Sources, vol. 496, 2021.
  10. S. Dey and M. Khanra, “Cybersecurity of Plug-in Electric Vehicles:Cyber Attack Detection During Charging,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, 2020.
  11. P. Saha, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Accurate estimation of state-of-charge of supercapacitor under uncertain leakage and open circuit voltage map,” Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 434, 2019.
  12. P. Saha, S. Dey, and M. Khanra, “Modeling and State-of-Charge Estimation of Supercapacitor Considering Leakage Effect,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, January 2019
  13. A. Adhikary, M. Khanra, J. Pal and K. Biswas, “Realization of Fractional Order Elements – a Review,” INAE Letters, Springer, vol. 2, no.2, 2017.
  14. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Reduced order approximation of MIMO fractional order systems,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 451-458, 2013.
  15. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Use of squared magnitude function in approximation and hardware implementation of SISO fractional order systems,” Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 350, No. 7, pp. 1753-1767, 2013.
  16. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Rational approximation and analog realization of fractional order transfer function with multiple fractional powered terms,” Asian Journal of Control, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 723-735, 2013.
  • To be Published:
  1. J. Maity and M. Khanra, “An Improved Mathematical Model for State of Health Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicle under Fast Charging,” Journal of Energy Storage (Revision submitted).
  2. S. Maity, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Accurate SOP Prediction of Supercapacitor Using Fractional Calculus Framework,” Journal of Energy Storage (Revision submitted).

CONFERENCE

  1. S. Dutta, J. Maity, S. R. Mohapatra and M. Khanra, “Impedance Measurement Technique for Vehicle Battery Health Assessment Using On-Board CAN Signals,” 2024 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation, Energy & Communication (CIEC), Kolkata, India, 2024, pp. 378-383, doi: 10.1109/CIEC59440.2024.10468074. 
  2. H. Sarma, J. Maity and M. Khanra, “Data Acquisition of Battery Variables and Estimation of Battery State of Health,” 2023 IEEE Silchar Subsection Conference (SILCON), Silchar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SILCON59133.2023.10404979.
  3. A. Ray, P. Saha, D I Stroe, and M. Khanra, “A Comparative Study on the Various Aging Laws Governing Lithium-Ion Capacitor Cyclic Aging,” 3rd International conference on Emerging Electronics and Automation (E2A), Silchar, India, Dec. 2023. 
  4. J. Maity, S. Dutta and M. Khanra, “Constant Voltage Charging Curve Based Features and State of Health Estimation of Li-ion Batteries: A Comprehensive Study,” 2022 International Conference on Smart Generation Computing, Communication and Networking (SMART GENCON), Bangalore, India, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/SMARTGENCON56628.2022.10083827.
  5. M. Saha, P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Performance Comparison of Nonlinear State Estimators for State-of-Charge Estimation of Supercapacitor,” IEEE International Conference on Control, Measurement, and Instrumentation, Kolkata, India, Jan. 2021.
  6. P. Saha and M. Khanra, “Online Estimation of State-of-Charge, State-of-Health and Temperature of Supercapacitor,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS 2020), Oct. 2020.
  7. P. Nambisan, S. Bansal, and M. Khanra, “Economic Performance of Solar Assisted Battery and Supercapacitor based E-Rickshaw,” IEEE International conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Renewable Energy (PESGRE 2020), Cochin, Kerala, India, 2-4 January 2020.
  8. P. Saha, K. Roy, P. Nambisan, and M. Khanra, “Generalized self-discharge model for a series of supercapacitors,” TENCON, 17-20 October 2019, Kochi, Kerala, India.
  9. S. Dey, Y Shi, K Smith, and M. Khanra, “Safer batteries via active fault tolerant control,” in proceedings of American Control Conference, 2019.
  10. S. Bansal, P. Nambisan, and M. Khanra, “Optimal Sizing and Cost Analysis of Battery/Supercapacitor Alone and in Combination for E-Rickshaw Application,” in proceedings of Indian Control Conference, 2019
  11. P. Saha, and M. Khanra, “Equivalent Circuit Model of Supercapacitor for Self-Discharge Analysis – A Comparative Study,” International conference on Signal Processing, Communication, Power and Embedded System (SCOPES)-2016), Peralakhemundi, Odisha, India, Oct. 2-5, 2016
  12. M. Tripathy, M. Khanra, K. Biswas, and S. Sen, “Noise modelling of fractional capacitor and noise performance analysis of Fractional Order Filter,” International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA 2015), Hong Kong, China, Dec. 1-4, 2015
  13. A. Adhikary, M. Khanra, S. Sen, and K. Biswas, “Realization of a carbon nanotube based electrochemical fractor,” International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS-2015, Lisbon, Portugal, 24-27 May 2015
  14. M. Khanra, K. Biswas, and J. Pal, “Circuit proposition for realization of approximated fractional order systems,” IEEE International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (ICFDA’ 14), Catania, Italy, 23-25 June 2014.
  15. A. Adhikary, K. Biswas, M. Khanra, “Design of FPGA based digital controller for 2nd and higher order systems,” in Students’ Conference on Engineering and Systems, SCES-2012, Allahabad, India, 16-18 Mar. 2012.
  16. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Rational approximation and analog realization of fractional order differentiator,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Process Automation Control and Computing, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, India, 20-22 July 2011.
  17. M. Khanra, J. Pal, and K. Biswas, “Rational approximation of fractional operator – A comparative study,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Power, Control and Embedded Systems, Allahabad, India, 29th Nov. – 1st Dec. 2010.
  18. M. Khanra, B. Goswami, and K. Biswas, “ A comprehensive study on fractional order differentiator and integrator”, Proceedings of XXXII National Systems Conference (NSC08), IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India, 17 – 19 Dec., 2008.

 Book Chapters

  1. S. Bansal, A. Khandelwal, and M. Khanra, “Energy storage system optimum sizing in battery electric vehicle: The role of battery modelling” pp. 273-291, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. 
  2. A. Ray, P. Saha, D I Stroe, and M. Khanra, “A Comparative Study on the Various Aging Laws Governing Lithium-Ion Capacitor Cyclic Aging,” Select Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference, E2A 2023, Volume 2, Conference proceedings Feb 2025.

SUBJECTS TAUGHT (INCLUDING SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING)

  • Power Electronics (UG)
  • Renewable Energy Systems (UG)
  • Modern Control Systems (PG)
  • Optimization Methods in Engineering (UG)
  • Power Plant Instrumentation (UG)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • Senior Member, IEEE

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY

  •  Member OF DPC, DPPC EIE

 

WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED

• One week Workshop on “Energy Storage for Sustainable Development,” funded by ATAL-AICTE, 26-30 Sept. 2020.
• One week Workshop on “Technology and the (Post-) Human Condition,” 03-07 Dec 2018.
• One week Workshop on “Intelligent Sensing, Instrumentation & Control,” Jan. 2017.
• Special session “Fractor and Fractional Order Systems” in International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) at Lisbon, Portugal, 24-27 May 2015.
• ne week training program on Industrial Process Operators’ Simulator by Sim Infosystems, Chennai at NIT Silchar, August 2015.

Ph.D. SUPERVISION

Sl. No. Name of the Scholar Status Thesis Title Supervision
1 Pankaj Saha Completed Modeling and Estimation of Supercapacitors Munmun Khanra
2 Praveen Kumar Nambisan T. M Completed Optimal Energy Management of Battery and Supercapacitors storage based system Munmun Khanra
3 Sakshi Bansal Completed Sizing of Energy storage System in Electric vehicles Munmun Khanra
4 Suparna Maity Ongoing Modelling and Estimation of supercapacitors using Fractional Calculus Munmun Khanra
5 Jayabrata Maity ongoing Development of health diagnosis framework for onboard EV Batteries Munmun Khanra
6 Arunabh Ray Ongoing  Modelling and Estimation of Lithium-ion Capacitors Munmun Khanra

M.TECH SUPERVISION

S.No Student Dissertation Topic Status Year
8 Dixita Sarkar Sensing and measurement in batteries Ongoing -
7 Sayandeep Dutta Battery health diagnostic framework Completed 2023
6 Shiv Shankar Sinha “Improved coupled electrothermal model of Lithium-ion battery” Completed 2022
5 Nitika Jaggi  “Design and control of medical aid delivery drone”, 2020 Completed 2021
4 Diptanu Debnath    “Optimal fast charging of lithium ion batteries” Completed 2020
3 Kakali Roy   “Emperical and equivalent circuit modelling of supercapacitor” Completed 2019
2 Prabhat Ranjan “Current-sensorless maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic systems” Completed 2018
1 Avaneet Kumar “Development of ultracapacitor energy storage based photovoltaic power system” Completed 2017

Awards and Recognitions

  • 2013 – 2014 & 2014 – 2015: Research Associate Fellowship from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), India.
  • Jan. 2009 – Dec. 2012: Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, India
  • 2015: Organiser (along with Prof. Karabi Biswas, IIT Kharagpur) of Special Session “Fractor and Fractional Order Systems” in ISCAS’15; and Session Chair: ISCAS’15.
  • 2016, 2021: DST sponsored project

Invited Talks

  • “Sustainable Energy Systems for India,” organized by CLD/BHEL Noida for Bharat Heavy Electric Limited (BHEL) employees on 24th 2021.
  • “Solar Assisted E-rickshaw towards Sustainable Development,” organized by Pailan Technical Campus, Kolkata, June 2021.
  • “Fractional Order Modelling of Supercapacitors,” in workshop on Fractional Order Systems’ 2020 (FOS’20), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 15-19 Feb. 2020.
  • “Solar Assisted Battery-Supercapacitor Storage based Electric Vehicle,” National Webinar on Power Electronics & Energy Systems, Dumka Engineering College, Jharkhand, July 2020.
  • “Modelling, Sizing and Control of Energy Storage Systems,” in Faculty Development Program on Modern Control Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bhilai, 24-26 Jan. 2020.
  • “Fractional Order Systems: Modelling, Approximation and Realization,” NIT Uttarakhand, Dec. 2019.
  • “Fractional order systems – Introduction, approximation and realization,” in workshop on Fractional Order Systems’2018 (FOS’18), Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, 16-20 Feb. 2018.
  • “Design and Implementation of Fractional Order Control,” in short term course on Advances in Industrial Control, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Patna, Nov. 27- Dec 01, 2015.
  • “Fractional order control,” in GE Global Research, Bangalore, Open house program for Women in Technology and Science, Nov. 2011.