This book compiles the refereed papers presented during the 2nd Flexible Electronics for Electric Vehicles (FlexEV - 2021). It presents the diligent work of the research community on flexible electronics applications in different allied fields of engineering - engineering materials to electrical engineering to electronics and communication engineering. The theoretical research concepts are supported with extensive reviews highlighting the trends in the possible and real-life applications of electric vehicles. This book will be useful for research scholars, electric vehicles professionals, driving system designers, and postgraduates from allied domains. This book incorporates economical and efficient electric vehicle driving and the latest innovations in electric vehicle technology with their paradigms and methods that employ knowledge in the research community.
Sanjeev Singh is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) Bhopal. He received his M.Tech. degree from Devi Ahilya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Indore, India, and a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, in 2010. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Department of Electrical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec, Montréal, QC, Canada. His areas of interest include power electronics, electrical machines and drives, electric vehicles, energy management, optimization in electrical systems, power quality, microgrids, and renewable energy integration.
Sanjeet Dwivedi is working as Senior R&D Motor and Application Control Engineer in Danfoss Power Electronics A/S Denmark. He is an Adjunct Professor in Power Electronics at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He obtained his M.E. in power electronics and drive from IIT Roorkee M.Sc. Engineering in Innovation and Business from DK, and a Ph. D. degree from IIT Delhi. He was awarded the 9th Man on the Moon Global Innovation Award of Danfoss (2015) and IETE-Bimal Base Award (2017) for outstanding contribution in power electronics and drive.
Manish Tiwari received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) in Photonics from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur. He is currently a Professor and Head of the ECE department at Manipal University, Jaipur. He was a visiting researcher at City University, London in 2010 and 2011, and Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2016. His current research interests include micro/nano-structured photonic devices, fiber optics, numerical modeling, nonlinear optics, and photonic crystal fibers. He has published over 100 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has also authored/edited over 10 books and got 15 book chapters published to his credit.
Ashish Shrivastava earned his B.E. and M.Tech. degrees with honors in Electrical Engineering from the Govt. Engineering College, Rewa, and MANIT, Bhopal (MP), respectively. He is awarded a Ph.D. degree from IIT Delhi. He has been conferred with prestigious POSOCO POWER SYSTEM AWARD 2014 (PPSA-2014), under the Doctoral category for his outstanding research work focusing on “Low-cost energy-efficient electronic ballast/LED driver for low power lighting applications with power factor correction”. Dr. Srivastava is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Manipal University Jaipur. He has 21 years of experience in academics and has published over 60 research papers in international journals. He is presently supervising 6 research scholars from different universities. His areas of interest include power quality, power electronics, and drives, electric vehicles, high-speed energy storage devices, artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, solar PV, SMPS, custom power devices, PFC electronic ballast, PFC LED driver, and PFC DC/DC converters, etc.
