Prof. Dr. Ishan Pendharkar

    Activities at FHNW

    Teaching

    • Electrical Drives with Laboratory
    • Fundamentals of control engineering
    • Energy and Drives with Laboratory
    • Control Systems Fundamentals
    • Control Systems Laboratory
    • Power Electronics and Drives

    Research

    • Control of power electronic systems
    • Energie topics in transportation (time- and energy optimization for railway systems, dimensioning of power converters, etc)
    • System Identification
    • Embedded Software Design (FPGA, DSP, Mikrocontroller) for safety critical applications
    • Mathematical Systems Theory

    Profile

    Since 2019
    Professor for Electrical Engineering, FHNW Institute for Electrical Energy Systems

    2016-2019
    Head, Basic Principles of Train Protection, Siemens Switzerland AG

    2011-2016
    Product Responsible and Control Expert, Bombardier Transportation Switzerland

    2007-2010
    Development Engineer, Bombardier Transportation Switzerland

    2006-2007
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute and TU Berlin

    2005-2006
    Development Engineer, ABB Research Center India

    2002-2005
    Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

    • Intelligente Steuerung von flexiblen Endkundenlasten für die Bewältigung von Strommangellagen (Martin Geidl, Thomas Tarnowski, Repower AG, EVULUTION) (2024-2027)
    • TCMS Deep Tester – Fehlerdiagnose von Leittechnik. Auftraggeber Vertraulich. (2023-2025).
    • «SWITONIC» - Pilot Demonstration of Energy Efficient ATO Algorithms (Dimitris Kouzoupis, Juxhino Kavaja, Francesco Corman, Stadler Signalling, Südost Bahn (SOB). (2023-2025)
    • «Produkte und Businessmodelle zur Vermarktung der Flexibilität einer E-Fahrzeugflotte gegenüber Verteilnetzbetreibern», Finanziert durch Innosuisse. Partner: EWZ, Primeo Energie, AEM, Mobility, Fachhochschule OST. Projektpartner – M. Geidl, T. Tarnowski, S. Strebel. (2022-2025)
    • Optipump – Untersuchung von SiC Converter für Pumpenanwendungen. Gefördertes Projekt, Bundesamt für Energie (2022-2025). Projektpartner – N. Schulz, T. Strittmatter, G. Traxler-Samek.
    • F&E in Automatic Train Operation, financed by NCCR Swiss National Foundation Projekt Partner Francesco Corman, (ETH). (2021-2023)
    • Entwicklung eines SiC Resonant Converters für Plasma Anwendung. Finanziert durch Aargauer Forschungsfonds. Projektpartner – T. Strittmatter, M. Thommen. (2021-2022)
    • Netzdienliche Lastoptimierung: Finanziert durch Innosuisse, Partner Repower AG Projektpartner – Martin Geidl, Nikolaos Efkarpidis, Flavia Sperati (2020-2022)
    • Dienstleistungen in der Zugsicherung (ETCS): Auftraggeber vertraulich (2019-2020)
    • F&E in Automatic Train Operation (ATO): Auftraggeber vertraulich (2021)
    • Cloudbasierte Plattform für Leistungselektronikversuche: Finanziert durch Lehrfonds 2020 der FHNW. Projektpartner – Tobias Strittmatter, Michel Heimgartner. (2020)
    • Infrastrukturaufbau für Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation: Finanziert durch Stiftung FHNW. Projektpartner – Silvia Mastellone. (2020-2021)

    Journals

    • Dimitris Kouzoupis, Ishan Pendharkar, Jonathan Frey, Moritz Diehl, Francesco Corman, Direct multiple shooting for computationally efficient train trajectory optimization, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 152, 2023, 104170, ISSN 0968-090X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2023.104170.
    • Kouzoupis, D., Pendharkar, I. & Corman, F. TTOBench—an Open-Source Library for Train Trajectory Optimization. Oper. Res. Forum 4, 67 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43069-023-00248-x
    • Mäder, I. Pendharkar, R. Frik, Auslegung von Traktionsakkumulatoren für die Netzunterstützung, Elektrische Bahnen, 2-3 2023 
    • I.Pendharkar and J. Vrtek “A passivity based theory for low-frequency stability analysis in railway systems" Elektrische Bahnen, 114(2016) pp.622-630.
    • I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, “Application of Quadratic Di_erential Forms to constructing linear controllers for nonlinearities", Asian Journal of Control 2011.
    • I. Pendharkar, Harish K. Pillai;”A parametrization for dissipative behaviors { the matrix case", International Journal of Control, 82(2009) pp. 1006--1017.
    • I. Pendharkar, Harish K. Pillai, “Systems with sector bound nonlinearities: a behavioral approach", Systems and Control Letters, 57 (2008), pp 112--122.
    • I. Pendharkar, \Rltool for Scilab: A public domain tool for SISO system design", IEEE Control Systems Society Magazine, 25 (2005)pp 23-25.
    • I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, \The Kalman-Yakubovich lemma in the behavioral setting", International Journal of Control, 79 (2006), pp 327-337.
    • I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, \A parametrization for dissipative behaviors", Systems and Control Letters, 51 (2004), pp 123-132.

    Conferences

    • Kouzoupis, D., Pendharkar, I. & Corman, F. “Embedded Model Predictive Train Control” RailBelgrade 2023
    • Heimgartner, I.Pendharkar “Control engineering kit for powerelectronics with cloud connectivity”, Part of special issue: 13th IFAC Symposium on Advances in Control Education 2022
    • Strittmatter, I.Pendharkar, et. al “Hardware-in-the-Loop Development of a 30 kV / 100 kW / ≥150 kHz SiCBased Resonant Converter”, PCIM Europe, 2022
    • Diaz Reigosa, I.Pendharkar et. al “Reliability Analysis of a 22 kW full-SiC Converter for an On-Board
    • Charger in an Electric Vehicle Application”, PCIM Europe, 2020
    • Pendharkar, T.Strittmatter, P. Diaz Reigosa, N. Schulz “A loss compensated control scheme for SiC Dual Active Bridge Converter”, European Power Electronics Conference (EPE) 2020.
    • I.Pendharkar “A generalized Input Admittance Criterion for Resonance Stability in Electrical Railway Systems" European Control Conference, 2014.
    • I.Pendharkar “Resonance stability in electrical railway networks { a dissipativity approach" European Control Conference, 2013
    • I.Pendharkar, K.Wulff, J.Raisch, “On stability of switched di_erential algebraic systems conditions and applications" IFAC World Congress, 2008.
    • I.Pendharkar, K.Wulff, J.Raisch, “A Behavioral-theoretic Approach to Quadratic Stability of Switched Linear Systems" Proc 13th IEEE IFAC International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics, 2007.
    • I. Pendharkar, K. Wulff and J. Raisch, “sufficient condition for quadratic stability of switched linear systems with multiple component systems", Proc 46th IEEE Control and Decision Conference (CDC), 2007.
    • I. Pendharkar, H.K. Pillai, P. Rapisarda, “A behavioral view of Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation", Proc 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005.
    • I. Pendharkar, H.K. Pillai, P. Rapisarda, “Interpolation with bilinear di_erential forms", Proc 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005.
    • I. Pendharkar, H.K. Pillai, P. Rapisarda, “Vector exponential time-series modeling for polynomial J-spectral factorization", Proc 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2005.
    • I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai “On a behavioral theory for nonlinear systems", in Proc 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, 2004.
    • I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai, “Kalman-Yakubovich lemma in the behavioral setting", in Proc 10th IFAC symposium on large scale systems, 2004, Osaka, Japan.
    • I. Pendharkar and H.K. Pillai “On dissipative SISO systems: a behavioral approach", in Proc 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2002, Hawai, USA, pp-1616 - 1620.

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