Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Rohini College of Engineering & Technology
Recognized Under Section 2(f) of University Grants Commission, UGC Act 1956
HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT
PROFESSORS
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FACULTY PROFILE
Dr. C. SOWTHILY
AICTE Faculty ID
:
1-43699815282
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Rohini College of Engineering & Technology
Qualification
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B.E. (Instrumentation and Control Engineering) - Saranathan College of Engineering, Tiruchirappalli - 2011.
M.E. (Control and Instrumentation Engineering ) - J.J College of Engineering and technology, Tiruchirappalli - 2016.
Ph.D. (INVESTIGATIONS ON EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC ARRAY UNDER PARTIAL SHADING CONDITIONS AND FAULT DETECTION SCHEMES) - National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli - 2023.
Total Years of Experience in Teaching :
7.7 Years
Google Scholar ID (with Link) :
Subject Expertise :
Biomedical Instrumentation, Transducer Engineering
Research Area :
Solar Photovoltaic systems, Optimization Techniques
Selected Publications (Any Three) :
- Sowthily C, Senthilkumar S, and Babu N , (2021), 'Current indicator-based fault detection algorithm for identification of faulty string in solar PV system', IET Renewable Power Generation, 15 (7), pp.1596-1611. https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi...
- 4. Sowthily Chandrasekharan, Senthilkumar Subramaniam & Anil Marneni , (2024), 'Falcon optimiser for optimal design of Even-Odd column for shaded PV array reconfiguration', International Journal of Ambient Energy, 45 (1), pp.. 10.1080/01430750.2024.2331673
- 5. S. Chandrassekaran and S. Subramaniam, (2024), 'Reconfiguration based Even-Odd Column Shifting to Achieve Maximum Power Output in Shaded PhotoVoltaic System', IEEE Conference Proceedings, (), pp.. doi: 10.1109/ICEPE63236.2024.10668898
- 6. Sowthily C, Senthilkumar S, Sridevi M, Muhilan P, (2023), 'Fault detection in solar PV array using I-V characteristics in Total-Cross-Tied Configuration', AIP Proceedings, (), pp..
- 7. C Sowthily, (2023), 'A New MPPT Design Using Honey Badger Optimization Technique for Photovoltaic System Under Partial Shading Conditions', Indian Journal of Technical Education, (), pp..
- 8. C. Sowthily, S. Senthil Kumar, (2023), 'Butterfly Optimization of MPPT for Solar PV under Shading Conditions', IEEE Explore Conference Proceedings, (), pp.. doi: 10.1109/ICEPE57949.2023.10201495.
- 9. Sowthily C, Senthil Kumar S, and Mythili C, (2022), 'Efficient Fault Detection and Diagnosis Procedure for Solar Photovoltaic Array based on Multiclass Support Vector Machine', Springer Nature in Scopus Indexed Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, (), pp..
- 10. C Sowthily, S Senthil Kumar, M Brindha, (2021), 'Detection and Classification of Faults in Photovoltaic System Using Random Forest Algorithm', Evolution in Computational Intelligence, Springer, (), pp.765-773.
- Sowthily C, Senthilkumar S, Malakonda Reddy, Veeramani V, , (2023), 'A Novel Opposition-based Border Collie Optimization approach for Fault detection in Solar Photovoltaic Array', Distributed Generation and Alternative Energy Journal, 38 (3), pp.1007–1032. https://journals.riverpublishers.com/index.php/...
- Sowthily C, Senthilkumar S and Veeramani V, (2023), 'Honey Badger Optimization Algorithm based Maximum Power Point Tracking for Solar Photovoltaic Systems', Elsevier Journal - Electric Power Systems Research, 221 (), pp.109393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsr.2023.109393
Awards / Achievements / Recognitions :
- I Rank in the department - M.E - II & IV Semester during the academic year 2014-2016
- Young Research Award for Women - NIT Megalaya 2024
- Young Researcher Award - Dhanalekshmi Srinivasan College of Arts and Science 2024
- Best Paper Award for the Title “Detection of Line-Line Fault and String Fault in Solar Photo-Voltaic Systems”, First International Interdisciplinary Conference on Energy, Nanotechnology and Internet of Things (ENT 2023) held at National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, India during February 2-4, 2023
- Women Researcher Award -Indian Scientist Awards 2023
Other Contributions :
- ANNA UNIVERSITY RECOGNIZED SUPERVISOR- 4330002
Professional Body Membership Details :
- IEEE Member