Dr. Prajwal K T

Sensors design and fabrication – Sensor and actuator design using computational tools such as ANSYS, COMSOL and Workbench

Control System – Fuzzy Logic controller design, optimal and linear controller design using MATLAB and other mathematical tools.

Energy Harvesting – Electromagnetic and electrostatic energy harvester design and fabrication

Energy Management system – Energy management in smart buildings and smart grids using Artificial Intelligence techniques.

Robotics and Control – Design and development of linear and nonlinear robotic control systems for various applications

• Swathy Nair., Prajwal K.T., Kiran Kumar B.M., S. Nagaraja Rao, (2021) Performance Analysis of a High Gain Quasi Z-Source Network based Cascaded H-Bridge Multi-Level Inverter. In: Sudhan Majhi, Rocio Perez de Prado, Chandrappa D.N., (eds) Distributed Computing and Optimization Techniques, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2281-7_64

• Received Best Paper award for the paper titled” Design and Analysis of a Miniaturized Vortex Induced Wind Turbine”, 2024 International Conference on Advances in Modern Age Technologies for Health and Engineering Science (AMATHE), PESITM, Shivamogga, India (Scopus Indexed Conference - IEEE).
• Received Topper Certificate from NPTEL for the course titled “Transducers for Instrumentation” organized by Indian Institute of Technology Madras from July 2023 – October 2023.
• Received Faculty Achiever award on RUAS Innovation Day organized by Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences in October 2023.
• Received Best Paper award for the paper titled” Design and Development of an Agirbot for Automatic Seeding and Watering Applications” in IEEE International Conference on Inventive Mechanisms for Industrial Applications held at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru(Scopus Indexed Conference - IEEE).
• Certificate of Merit in Engineering for being second topper in 6^th Semester and 8^th Semester.

Journal Papers

Scopus Indexed / Indian Citation Indexed (ICI) / UGC - CARE Journals

• Prajwal, K T., Manickavasagam, K., Malathi, S., (2024) Analytical Design and Simulation Studies of a Conical Energy Harvester for Enhanced Power Output, Engineering Research Express, 06(02), pp.01-10, IOP Publishing (SCOPUS – Q3, Cite Score – 2.2 )View Journal
• Prajwal, K.T., Alan, S., Rasheed, S.F., Laxmipriya, S. and Balmiki, V., (2023) Development of an apparatus for measuring electrical resistivity in concrete paste. Materials Today: Proceedings. Elsevier Ltd (SCOPUS – Q2, Cite Score – 4.9) View Journal
• Prajwal, K T., Manickavasagam, K., (2023) Modelling, Design and Parametric Analysis of a Levitation Based Energy Harvester, Energy Harvesting and Systems, 10(1), pp.35-48, Walter de Gruyter (SCOPUS - Q2, Cite Score – 6.9) View Journal
• Prajwal, K T., Manickavasagam, K., Suresh, R., (2022) A Review on Vibration Energy Harvesting Technologies: Analysis and Technologies. European Physical Journal: Special Topics, 231, 1359–1371 Springer (SCOPUS  - Q2, Impact Factor – 2.707) View Journal
• Vinay Kumar, T Naveen Kumar, Prajwal K. T., (2021) A Novel Current Sensor less MPPT based Approach for PV Applications Using PSO Technique, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2070(1), pp.1-8. (SCOPUS – Q4) View Journal
• Prajwal K. T., Pritam Bhat, (2020) Thermal Analysis of a Thermoelectric Generator (TEG) using FEM Analysis, IOP: Materials Science and Engineering, 1045(1), pp.1-7. (SCOPUS – Q4) View Journal
• Prajwal K. T., H Kajol, S Junaid, S Jain, A Chaudhary, (2019) Design and Development of a Voice Actuated Hospital Bed for Patient Care, International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 08(04), pp. 1751-1757. (SCOPUS - Q4)  View Journal
• Mamatha H., Ranjitha T., Vinutha R., Prajwal K. T. and Naveen Kumar T. (2019) Design and Development of Low-Cost IR based Home Automation System, SASTECH J., 18(01), pp. 33-36.      (ICI, UGC -CARE List Journal)
• Prajwal K. T. (2019) Economic Fuzzy Energy Controller for a Smart Home, Research Journal of Engineering and Technology, 10(02), pp. 83-93. (ICI, UGC -CARE List Journal) View Journal

Conference Papers

• Prajwal, K.T., Et al.  (2024), “Design and Analysis of a Miniaturized Vortex Induced Wind Turbine”, 2024 International Conference on Advances in Modern Age Technologies for Health and Engineering Science (AMATHE), PESITM, Shivamogga, India (Scopus Indexed Conference) View Paper
• Prajwal, K.T., Et al.  (2023), “Design and Development of an Intelligent Medicine Dispenser”, 7^th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology, RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore. (Scopus Indexed Conference)  View Paper 
• N. N. Kumar, S. Patil, Prabhudeva, S. Nair and K. T. Prajwal, "Design and Development of Smart Portable Gadget for Mobility," 2022 6th International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI), 2022, pp. 01-06. (Scopus Indexed Conference)View Paper
• Nikita, T., Prajwal, K.T. (2021) Electromagnetic Analysis of Dynamic Charging of Electric Vehicles, 5^th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology, RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore. (Scopus Indexed Conference) https://doi.org/View Paper
• Nikita, T., Prajwal, K.T. (2021) PID Controller Based Two Wheeled Self Balancing Robot, 5^th IEEE International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics, SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli. (Scopus Indexed Conference) View Paper
• Prajwal, K.T., Swathy Nair., Roopini, C. (2020) Shock Data Loggers for Transport Applications, 4^th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Communication and Aerospace Technology, RVS Technical Campus, Coimbatore. (Scopus Indexed Conference) View Paper 

• Graduate Student Member of IEEE India
• Lifetime Member of ISTE - LM - 136637

• Prajwal K. T., K. Manickavasagam, S Malathi and T Naveen Kumar, “Fuzzy Based Intelligent Controller for Voltage Enhancement from Energy Harvester”, Indian Patent Application: 202441041569, May 29, 2024. (Patent Filed)
• Prajwal K. T., K. Manickavasagam, Swathy Nair and Nikita T, “Vertical Coil-Magnet Stack Electromagnetic Energy Harvester”, Indian Patent Application: 202341004839, January 23, 2023. (Patent Filed).
• Prajwal, K. T. and Manickavasagam, K. “Fusion of Horizontal and Vertical Movement Electromagnetic Energy Harvester”, Indian Patent Application: 202241003995, January 24, 2022. (Patent Published).
• Prajwal K. T., K. Manickavasagam and T. Naveen Kumar “Conical shaped Electromagnetic Energy Harvester”, Indian Patent Application: 202041055630, December 21, 2020. (Patent Published and First Examination Report Received).
• Sitaram Gupta, V. V. S. N. and Prajwal, K. T. “Method and System for Continuous Power Supply System from Multiple Energy Source Based on Demand Management”, Indian Patent No: 536077, December 27, 2017. (Patent Granted).