Dr Damodharan P
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering



IIITD&M Kancheepuram
IIT Madras Campus
Chennai 600 036
India


+91-44-2257 8556


damodharan@iiitdm.ac.in

Research Interest
1. Power Electronics and Drives
2. Permanent magnet Brushless DC and AC Drives
Education
Ph D - IIT Madras
Professional Experience
1. Industry  - One Year
2. Research - 7 Years
3. Teaching - 3 Years
Areas of expertise
Power Electronics and Drives
Most recently published papers

[1] P. Damodharan and Krishna Vasudevan “Modeling and Simulation of BLDC Motor Drive System using SABER”, IEEMA Journal, Vol. 65, pp. 45-47, September 2004.

[2] P. Damodharan and Krishna Vasudevan “Line Voltage Based Indirect Back-EMF Zero Crossing Detection of BLDC Motor for Sensorless Operation”, International Journal of  Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 91-98, January 2008.

[3] P. Damodharan, R. Sandeep and Krishna Vasudevan “Simple Position Sensorless Starting Method for Brushless DC Motor”, IET Electr. Power Appl., Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 49-55, January 2008.

[4] P. Damodharan and Krishna Vasudevan “Sensorless Brushless DC Motor Drive Based on the Zero crossing Detection of Back-EMF from the Line Voltage Difference", IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. (Accepted for Publication)

Conference Papers

[1] P. Damodharan and Krishna Vasudevan “Indirect Back-EMF Zero Crossing Detection for Sensorless BLDC Motor Operation”, The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems, PEDS’05, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp.1107-1111, 2005.