Dr. Venu  Sonti

Department Electrical Engineering
Designation Assistant Professor
Educational Qualification PhD (NIT Warangal)
E-Mail svenu.ee@nitrr.ac.in
Contact Number 9618832222
Areas of Interest

Multilevel Inverters, PWM Techniques, Renewable Energy

Publications

Journals

  1. Venu Sonti, S. Jain and S. Bhattacharya, "Analysis of the Modulation Strategy for the Minimization of the Leakage Current in the PV Grid-Connected Cascaded Multilevel Inverter," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 1156-1169, Feb. 2017. 
  2. S. Jain and Venu Sonti, "A Highly Efficient and Reliable Inverter Configuration Based Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for PV Systems," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 2865-2875, April 2017.  
  3. Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "DC Decoupling-Based Three-Phase Three-Level Transformerless PV Inverter Topology for Minimization of Leakage Current," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 8273-8278, Oct. 2019.     
  4. Venu Sonti, S. Dhara, P. Kukade, S. Jain and V. Agarwal, "Analysis for the Minimization of Leakage and Common Mode Currents in Cascaded Half-Bridge PV Fed Multilevel Inverter," IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 2443-2452, Dec. 2019.     
  5. Venu Sonti, S. Jain, V. Agarwal and S. Bhattacharya, "Terminal voltage analysis for the transformerless PV inverter topologies in a single-phase system," IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 13, no. 15, pp. 2723-2739, 18 11 2019.  
  6. Venu Sonti, S. Jain and V. Agarwal, "Analysis of Terminal Voltage in Single-Phase Extended Three-Phase Transformerless PV Inverter Topologies," IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 226-235, Jan. 2020.  
  7. Venu Sonti, S. Jain and B. S. K. R. Pothu, "Leakage Current Minimization Using NPC DC Decoupling Method for Three-Phase Cascaded Multilevel PV Inverter," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 3247-3251, Dec. 2020.
  8. S. V. S. P. K. Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "Gradual Electronic Pole Changing Technique to Minimize the Circulating Currents During Pole/Mode Transition in Induction Motor Drive," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 959-969, Jan.-Feb. 2023.
  9. S. Jain, SVS Phani Kumar Ch, Venu Sonti, Aditya Keskar,Jeremiah X. Johnson, Subhojit Ghosh, R. N. Patel "High-Performance Hybrid MPPT Algorithm Based Single-Stage Solar PV Fed Induction Motor Drive for Standalone Pump Application," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 7103-7115, Nov.-Dec. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2023.3310490.
  10. M. Vital, Venu Sonti, S. Padmanaban and S. Jain, "Common Mode And Terminal Voltages With Effect Of Device Junction Capacitance In FiveLevel Transformerless Pv Inverte," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics, doi: 10.1109/JESTIE.2024.3387694

Conferences

  1. Sonti, Venu, Sachin Jain, and Vivek Agarwal. "A new low cost and high efficiency cascaded half-bridge multilevel inverter with reduced number of switches." Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2014.
  2. Sonti, Venu, Sachin Jain, and Subhashish Bhattacharya. “A new modulation strategy for the grid connected cascaded multi-level PV inverter to minimize the leakage current.”National Power Electronics Conference(NPEC), 2015.
  3. PiyushaKukkade, Venu Sonti and Sachin Jain. “ A Cascaded HERIC based Multilevel Inverter for Reducing Leakage Current in the PV Applications.” IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), 2017.
  4. A. Chaudhury, Venu Sonti, A. Hota, A. R. Saxena and S. Jain, "A New Single-Phase Five-Level Neutral Point Clamped Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for Minimization of Leakage Current in PV Systems," 2021 International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), 2021.
  5. A. Hota, Venu Sonti, S. Jain and V. Agarwal, "Common Mode Voltage Elimination in Single-Phase Multilevel Inverter using a 3rd Leg," 2021 International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), 2021.
  6. A. Hota, Venu Sonti, S. Jain and V. Agarwal, "A Novel Single-Phase Switched-Capacitor Based 5-level Inverter Topology Featuring Voltage Boosting Capability and Common Mode Voltage Reduction," 2021 International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), 2021.
  7. A. Hota, Venu Sonti, S. Jain and V. Agarwal, "A Novel Single-Phase Switched-Capacitor Transformer-less 5-level Inverter Topology with Voltage Boosting," 2021 International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), 2021.
  8. S. V. S. P. Kumar.Ch, S. Jain, A. Hota and Venu Sonti, "Performance analysis of Closed Loop Hysteresis Control of a PV based 8/6 Pole and 10/8 Pole Switched Reluctance Motor for EV Application," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), 2020.
  9. M. L. N. Vital, Venu Sonti, P. V. R. L. Narasimham and S. Jain, "An Improved Pulse Width Modulation Technique for the Attenuation of Leakage Current in Five-Level Transformerless PV Cascaded Multilevel Inverter," 2020 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems (PEDES), 2020.
  10. S. V. S. P. Kumar Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "Gradual Pole Changing Technique for Elimination of Circulating Current in Pole-Phase Modulated Induction Motor Drive during Transition," 2021 International Conference on Communication, Control and Information Sciences (ICCISc), 2021.
  11. S. V. S. P. Kumar Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "Modified Interleaved Transformerless Inverter Configuration for Performance Improvement of a Pole-Phase Modulated Induction Motor Drive," 2021 International Conference on Communication, Control and Information Sciences (ICCISc), 2021.
  12. A. Chaudhury, Venu Sonti and A. R. Saxena, "A New Single-Phase Nine-Level Cascaded Multilevel Inverter for Alleviation of Leakage Current in Grid Connected PV Systems," 2021 IEEE International Power and Renewable Energy Conference (IPRECON), 2021.
  13. S. V. S. P. Kumar Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "Performance Enhancement of Induction Motor Drive by Modified Interleaved Inverter Configuration with Gradual Pole Changing Technique in EV Applications" 2021 Second International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy & Control (STPEC), 2021.
  14. M. Thalari, A. R. Saxena and Venu Sonti, "Event-Trigger Super-Twisting Sliding ModeControl of Bidirectional DC-DC Converter for Low Voltage DC Nanogrid," 2021 IEEE 2ndInternational Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control(STPEC), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India, 2021.
  15. A. R. Saxena, M. Thalari, Venu Sonti and P. Chaturvedi, "Design and Power Management ofLow Voltage DC Nanogrid for Solar PV/Fuel Cell fed Residential Complexes," 2021 IEEE2nd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control(STPEC), Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India, 2021. 
  16. S. V. S. P. K. Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "Pole-phase Modulated Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive with Gradual Pole Changing Technique for EV Application," Second International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), 2022.
  17. M. L. N. Vital, Venu Sonti, P. V. R. L. Narasimham and S. Jain, "Switched Capacitor Based Transformerless Five-Level Inverter for the Minimization of Leakage Current in PV Systems," Second International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), 2022.
  18. R. Giridhar Balakrishna, Venu Sonti, P. V. R. L. Narasimham and S. Jain, "Switched Capacitor Based High-Gain DC-DC Converter for Low-Voltage Power Generation Application," Second International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), 2022.
  19. A. Chandrakar, S. V. S. P. K. Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "Gradual Pole Changing based Field Oriented Control Technique for Pole-Phase Modulated Induction Motor Drive," IEEE 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFeT), 2022.
  20. S. V. S. Phani Kumar Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "A New Inverter Topology to Improve the Performance of Pole-phase Modulated Induction Motor Drive by Minimizing Circulating/Common Mode Currents," 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFeT), Hyderabad, India, 2022.
  21. M. C. Bade, S. Peddapati and Venu Sonti, "A Single Phase Transformerless CSI InverterTopology for Minimization of Leakage Current in Grid Integrated PV Systems," 2022 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future ElectricTransportation (SeFeT), Hyderabad, India, 2022. 
  22. S. D. Ratrey, A. Hota, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "A New Three-Phase Three-Level InverterObtained From Two-Level Inverter By Considering the Effect of Device JunctionCapacitance Across the Switch," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on SustainableEnergy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023. 
  23. H. Dewangan, S. V. S. P. Kumar Ch, S. Venu and S. Jain, "Modelling and Implementationof Space Vector Modulation Based Direct Torque Control in Stator Flux ReferenceFrame for Induction Motor Drive," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference onSustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SEFET), Bhubaneswar, India,2023.
  24. S. P. K. Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "Design of Robust and Parameter Insensitive PI Controllers for Field Oriented Controlled Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive in EV Applications," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10431059.
  25. A. Sharma, Venu Sonti and S. Jain, "An Accurate Fractional Order Model of Lithium-ion Battery," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10431150.
  26. S. Jain, S. V. S. P. K. Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Kumar, "Direct Torque Control Technique of Nine-Phase Induction Motor by Aligning the Stator d-axis with the Stator Flux-linkage Vector," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10431214.
  27. S. Jain, S. V. S. P. K. Ch, Venu Sonti and S. Kumar, "Multicarrier Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation for Enhanced Performance of Field Oriented Controlled Open End Winding Induction Motor," 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies for Power, Energy and Control (STPEC), Bhubaneswar, India, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/STPEC59253.2023.10431019.
  28. Venu Sonti, "Single-Phase Single-Stage Transformerless PV Inverter Used for the Minimization of Leakage Current in the Grid Connected Systems," 2024 Third International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), Raipur, India, 2024, pp. 594-598, doi: 10.1109/ICPC2T60072.2024.10474915.
  29. 2024 Third International Conference on Power, Control and Computing Technologies (ICPC2T), Raipur, India, 2024, pp. 657-662, doi: 10.1109/ICPC2T60072.2024.10474940.

Sponsered Projects

1. Design and Development of Single-Stage Grid Tied Transformerless PV Inverters for the Alleviation of Leakage Current in Single-Phase and Three-Phase Systems

Funding Areas: NIT Raipur

Amount: 4.9 Lakhs

Role: PI

 

2. Design and Development of Multilevel Inverter for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive to Minimize the Conducted Electro Magnetic Interference in Marine Applications

Funding Areas: NRB DRDO

Amount: Rs. 49,20,797/-

Role: PI

Status: Ongoing

 

Other Info.
Awards:
  1. Selected For Prestigious Bhaskara Advanced Solar Energy (BASE) Internship Funded By DST, Govtof India and IUSSTF.
  2. Recieved Best Paper Award in IEEE ICPC2T 2024.