Avishkar Hyperloop Application (Power Systems)

K.V.S.Kesava EE21M026

1. My motivation to join the team comes from my undergraduate experience. Having

completed my under graduation at IIT Bhubaneswar, I have been a part of some
cultural clubs and fest management teams. From that, I have got a feel of team work
but however I always wanted to work on a technical project along with a team so that
we get to learn interdisciplinary things or I believe overall technical growth is better
when we work on something technical as a group which I never got a chance to. Seeing
the work and success of Team of Avishkar, I believe definitely everyone would love to
be a part of it. Coming to this particular subsystem, As M.Tech student of Power
systems and power electronics where I am currently learning all about electric vehicles
and power converters in a much deeper way in classroom, I believe the practical
experience or the knowledge which I will be getting if I am a part of this would develop
my designing skills or it will help me grow as an engineer I would say. I believe working
on a technical project will make us see a bigger perspective like advantages or
disadvantages of whatever we do on the whole system. Rather than a bunch of
courses being learnt, working on something which requires knowledge of all the
courses would help in understanding and designing the entire system.

2. During my under graduation, I have worked on simulation of Spacevector PWM based

DSTATCOM in MATLAB/SIMULINK as my B.Tech Project. First, I have developed a
simple Space Vector PWM based inverter (2 level) model. Then I have designed a
controller which calculates the required current references to be tracked by the
inverter such that functionality of DSTATCOM is satisfied. Using the controller and
Inverter I have generated the required currents to compensate the reactive and
unbalance components of the load currents by the DSTATCOM. The entire project was
a simulation. Other than this, During my Internship at POSOCO, I have written some
MATLAB algorithms for State estimation of an n bus power system. Other than this I
have done some simulations of Renewable energy systems(Solar working along with
battery and DC DC converters, DC AC converters) as part of coursework in
MATLAB/SIMULINK. To sum up I would say, I am decently aware of MATLAB, Simulink.