Power Electronics & Drives, Electrical Machine Design. Electric Vehicle drivetrain.

Journals

1. U. R. Muduli, B. Chikondra, M. J. Akhtar, O. Al Zaabi, K. Al Hosani and R. K. Behera, "Comparison of SVPWM Techniques Under Switching Loss Control for Induction Motor Drive With LC Filters," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 1849-1862, March-April 2023, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2022.3231841.

2. M. J. Akhtar and R. K. Behera, “Space vector modulation for distributed inverter fed induction motor drive for electric vehicle application," IEEE Journal of  Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 379-389, Feb. 2021.

3. M. J. Akhtar and R. K. Behera, “Optimal design of stator and rotor slot of induction motor for electric vehicle applications," IET Electrical Systems in Transportation, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 35-43, 3 2019.

 Conferences

1. M. J. Akhtar, R. K. Behera, K. Al. Hosani, U. R. Muduli "H-Bridge Inverter with Optimum Phase-Angle Shift for Electric Vehicle Propulsion Motor Drive" IEEE Global Conference on Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Technologies (GlobConHT), Madives, 2023. (Accepted)
2. V. Raghuvanshi, N. Mishra and M. J. Akhtar, "Sawtooth Carrier-Based Modulation Technique for Harmonic Reduction in CHB Inverter," 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Future Electric Transportation (SeFeT), Hyderabad, India, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi:  10.1109/SeFeT55524.2022.9908944.
3. M. J. Akhtar and R. K. Behera, “An analytical design of an induction motor for electric vehicle application," in IEEE 12th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG 2018),  2018, pp. 1-6.
4. M. J. Akhtar, R. K. Behera, “Stability analysis of induction motor for variable speed application," National Symposium on Rotor Dynamics, (NSRD), IIT Patna, 2017
5.  M. J. Akhtar, R. K. Behera, and S. K. Parida, “Optimized rotor slot shape for squirrel cage induction motor in electric propulsion application," in IEEE 6th India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE), 2014, pp. 1-5.
6. M. J. Akhtar, R. K. Behera, and S. K. Parida, “Propulsion system design of electric vehicle," in 6^th International Conference on Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA), 2015, pp. 1-5.
7. A. Kumar, M. A. Hasan, M. J. Akhtar, S. K. Parida and R. K. Behera, "Design optimization of linear induction motor," 6th International Conference on Power Electronics Systems and Applications (PESA),  2015, pp. -1-5
8. R. Prakash, M. J. Akhtar, R. K. Behera, and S. K. Parida, “Design of a three phase squirrel cage induction motor for electric propulsion system," IFAC  Proceedings Volumes, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 801-806, 2014.

Member, IEEE

1. Title: Development of Fault-Tolerant Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive for Electric Vehicle

         Budget: 7.69 lakhs

Sponsoring agency : Asha & Sajjan Agarwal Foundation
Duration : 2 years (14-July-2025 to 13-July-2027)

Status: Ongoing

2. Title: Test bench development for investigating the performance of Battery energy storage as ancillary servicesTest bench development for investigating the performance of Battery energy storage as ancillary services

Budget: 43 lakhs

Sponsoring agency : Eastern Regional Load Despatch Centre (ERLDC), Grid-Controller of lndia Limited
Duration : 1.5 years (04-Dec-2023 to 03-June-2025)

Status: Completed 

1. R. K. Behera, M. J. Akhtar, S. K. Parida, “An improved squirrel cage induction motor with enhanced efficiency and wide range of operating speed for application in electric vehicle,” Indian Patent No. 354017, Application no. 201631013398 (Granted on 18/12/2020)