RAKSHA SHAKTI UNIVERSITY

Institute of Research & Development

(Established by Government of Gujarat and recognized by UGC)

Research Projects(Sponsored)
GUIDELINES

1. General

1.1. This programme of Research Projects (Sponsored) is a series of research projects

conducted simultaneously or sequentially on themes of critical significance and priority
to be notified by the RSU, from time to time.

1.2. The RSU expects that the research will develop new understanding and insight on the
issues which will become bench mark in terms of concept, theory, methodology and
research outcomes.

1.3. Such research studies will be commissioned by the RSU from identified experts and
research Institutions in a desired theme of study.

1.4. An institution/group of institutions, individual scholar of eminence or group of scholars

interested in carrying out a programme of research on any theme notified by RSU under
this programme having necessary facilities and expertise, may submit a proposal thereon
to the RSU.

1.5. The extent and scope of these studies will be more extensive and financial outlays will
also be higher as compared to normal responsive project grant.

1.6. Given the scale and nature of research under sponsored program, the RSU expects that
the research will ordinarily be inter-disciplinary in character and that researchers from
different discipline will constitute a team. Research teams may consist of more than one
department/Centre/institute. In some cases, individual researchers/Institutes will also be
considered.

2. Eligibility for Award

2.1. Proposal considered under Sponsored Research Study may be solicited by the RSU on
the recommendations of the Expert Committee, identifying the thrust areas suited to take
up the study. Alternatively, applications may be sought from
scientists/academicians/professionals/administrators from eminent institutions to send
proposals to the RSU. In either of the above cases, the prescribed application form will
be submitted to the RSU for further financial and administrative processing.
 2.2. Priority will be given to proposals forwarded by organizations/ institutions funded by
Central/State Government. Only outstanding proposals from privately (not funded by
Central/State Government) Social Science research institutions, will also be considered.

2.3. Separate allocation of Project Grant shall be made for the SC/ST/NER candidates as per
allocations made in the RSU Plan Grant. To achieve physical and financial targets under
these categories, relaxations in the guidelines may be permitted, as required.

3. How to apply

3.1. All applications for financial grant have to be made on the prescribed application form
for Research Projects (Sponsored), as attached with these guidelines, along with all the
following annexure and enclosures:-
Annexure-I Format of Research Proposal
Annexure-II Format for Bio-Data
Annexure-III Format of the Letter from Affiliating Institute
Annexure-IV The cost of the project
Annexure-VI Six Monthly Progress Report
Annexure-VII Form of fund Utilization Certificate

Duly attested SC/ST/OBC/PH certificate, if applicable Institutional Profile for

Applications forwarded by Non-Public funded Institutions, as per prescribed format.

3.2. All application forms have to be submitted in soft copy through e-mail followed by
submission of a hard copy of the proposal, which must be duly forwarded on the
prescribed format of the application form with signatures and seal of the Head of the
Institution from where the project grant is to be financially administered.

4. Duration and Financial Allocation

4.1. Normally a Sponsored Study will be required to be completed in two years, resulting in
a Major publication of RSU by a reputed publisher. Limited extensions of time may be
granted by the D.G./Director. However, any financial enhancement in the initially
sanctioned grant shall be done only by the Finance Committee on the recommendations
of the Director.

4.2. The Institute/individual scholar/group of scholars will have a large autonomy for framing
the budget subject to the following broad expenditure sub-heads:
 Distribution of Expenditure under the following heads:
Sr. Expenditure Head Percentage allocation to
No the total budget of the
study
1 Full time Research Staff/Part-time Not exceeding 50%
Assistance/Hiring Charges
2 Field work cost Travel/Logistics/ Not less than 37.5%
Boarding/ Source Materials/ Software/
Data Base etc.
3 Contingency 5%
4 Institutional Overheads 7.5%

5. Remuneration and Emoluments of Project Staff

5.1. Except for the field work staff, only an essential Secretarial core research staff should be
employed for the project.

5.2. Such staff could be engaged by the Project Director/Coordinator on a full time or part
time basis and the duration and consolidated monthly emoluments of their employment
may be decided by the project director within the limits of the sanctioned financial
allocation under this head.

5.3. A re-appropriation up to 10% of any expenditure head into another existing/new

expenditure head shall be permissible, subject to approval by the RSU.

6. Procedure for award of sponsored research project

6.1. All the Sponsored Projects, whether on application or through solicitation, shall be
approved by the Council after due process of evaluation by the Experts Committee and
subsequent recommendation of the Research Committee.

6.2. The RSU may hold interactive sessions with the prospective recipients of sponsored
studies to finalize the academic and financial details.

6.3. All research proposals received, along with those selected for research grant, will be
placed before the Research Committee/Council for final approval.

6.4. Each Sponsored Research Study will have an average allocation broadly ranging between
Rs.1 to 15 lakh, approved by academic council (proposed 1 to 20 lakh) disbursed in three
installments of 50%, 40% and 10% of the grant, the last being released on completion of
the study and submission of report.

6.5. Installments subsequent to the first will be released on the basis of the receipt of progress
reports, including statement of expenditure incurred on the project.
7. Monitoring and Evaluation

7.1. Each sponsored study shall have an Advisory Committee constituted by the RSU in
consultation with concerned Project Director/Coordinator. This Advisory Committee
shall meet twice annually to monitor and sort out all the details pertaining to
administrative, financial and ethical issues.

7.2. The Formal minutes of these Advisory Committee meeting will constitute the Progress
Report of the research study.

7.3. The Project Director is required to submit three copies (two hard copies and a soft copy)
of the Project Report to the Council on completion of the project work.

7.4. All studies funded by RSU under sponsored projects are expected to acknowledge the
supportive contribution of RSU in all forms of dissemination of findings of the study both
in print and on electronic media.

8. Obligations of the Forwarding Institution

8.1. The forwarding institution, where the proposed research project is to be located and
administered has to provide, in the prescribed format contained in the Application Form,
an undertaking to administer and manage the RSU grant and provide logistical support
for study.

8.2. Such institution will be under obligation to ensure submission of the final report and
audited statement of accounts.

8.3. The affiliating institution shall make suitable arrangements for preservation of data such
as filled-in schedules, tabulation sheets, manuscripts, report etc, relating to the project.

8.4. The Committee reserves the right to demand raw data or such part of it as may be
specified to be transferred to the Committee.

8.5. All Rights will be vested with RSU.

Any violation of rules will entail refund of the entire research grant by the RSU.
Annexure I
Format of Research Proposal
Discipline of the Project:-
 Title: Implementing ‘Sine Wave Variable Voltage Variable Frequency (VVVF)
Inverter’ for industrial motor Drives and for low to medium power Uninterruptible
Power Supplies (UPS).
 Aim of the Project: The VVVF Inverters are commonly required for industrial AC
drives. However, the UPS requires supply fixed frequency and fixed voltage load.
Majority of inverters available to market are facing issues of higher cost and signal
qualities like Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). The aim of the project is to design and
implement the inverters with fair cost and practically acceptable THD. Moreover, the
aim is to provide sine wave voltage output rather than square wave output. The sine
wave inverters are preferred for many applications involving some biomedical
engineering applications.
 Statement of the Problem: The main problem in designing the inverter
system is to meet the requirements of accuracy and precision of the output
voltage and the capability of the system to handle the load disturbances.
Moreover, the protection of the system for any voltage spikes and over
current is also very important. The battery charging system need to be
designed carefully in case of UPS. Hence, for such system, the control
systems need to be designed which can address the problem of maintaining
voltage at desired level and provide robustness against load disturbances and
supply side variations and thus provide quality output.
 Overview of Literature: The following paragraphs present the overview of
literature.
In a monograph titled ‘Sliding mode controllers for power electronic
converters’, by Axaykumar Mehta and Brijesh Naik (2018), published as Lecture
Notes in Electrical Engineering by Springer Nature , Singapore, the idea of designing
the required type of inverter is outlined. The Zeta Converter was used as a pre-
stage/DC DC converter. The sliding mode controller was used for the system control.
Of course simulation results were presented but the implementation was not done. No
experimental study was yet conducted for the particular system. The more details of
the literature review is presented in the monograph.
Some other popular techniques for sine wave inverter design is the multilevel
inverters. It may use cascaded stages as per the power requirements. A research
article titled ‘A survey on cascaded multilevel inverters’ by
Mariusz Malinowski, et.al(2010), IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
presents a very good survey on such inverter systems. Moreover, an article
 ‘Extended-Boost Z-Source Inverters’ by Chandana Jayampathi Gajanayake (et.al,
2010) in IEEE transactions on Power Electronics presents simulation and
experimental results for the z-source inverters. In their article titled ‘A boost DC-AC
converter: analysis, design, and experimentation’,IEEE Transactions on power
electronics(2010) authors R O Caceres and I Barbi (et.al) have presented the basic
idea of design and control of DC-AC boost inverter with sliding mode control.

There are sufficient details available in the literature which can support the
research in the particular domain. The other references are also mentioned in the
‘References’ section of this application.
 Conceptual Framework: The following figure presents the outline of the idea of
implementation for the proposed inverter system.

Fig.1: Schematic block diagram of the inverter system with buck boost converter as a prestage. (Reference is a full wave
rectified sine wave, and the controller is a high speed Digital Signal Controller)

Here, the buck boost converter is a pre-stage for H Bridge inverter. The function of the
converter is to maintain the desired voltage for H-Bridge. No Pulse Width Modulation
(PWM/SPWM/SVPWM) technique is to be used. The buck boost converter is to be
controlled by digital signal controller with sliding mode technique to follow the full wave
rectified sine wave pattern. At every zero crossing of the sine wave pattern, the opposite pair
of MOSFET switches is triggered to produce sine wave output.

Research Questions or Hypothesis:

The buck boost converter like the zeta converter can be a suitable converter for designing an
inverter. Here the reference/desired voltage Vref for the zeta converter output is the full
wave rectified sine wave,
Vref = 230*sqrt(2)*abs(sin(2πft));
(Where abs denotes the absolute positive value). The output of the zeta converter is then
fed to the H-Bridge circuit using MOSFET or IGBT as switching devices shown in the Fig.
6.1.
The switching logic in the figure is to switch opposite pair of IGBT/MOSFET with the
sign or polarity of Vsine = sin(2πft). The Fig.3 shows the load voltage and reference
sine wave with 50.2 Hz frequency.
The Fig.4 shows the FFT analysis for the voltage wave. The THD in percentage is about
4.63 and it may be quite
acceptable.

Fig.2 : The inverter H-Bridge

Fig.3 : Simulation results of the sine wave output. (some more efforts need to be put for further improvements in the
quality of the output voltage).
Fig.4 : FFT Analysis of the load voltage.

Research Methodology:-
 Data Collection: The data collection will be through the experimentation and
simulations.
 Data Analysis: The data analysis can be done for load voltage, load current and
input power factor. The quality of the ac signals will be assessed by FFT analysis
and with THD values. Moreover, the performance will be tested with load
disturbance within particular range. Also, the switchover characteristics between the
main power lines and inverter in case of UPS type of applications will be assessed.

Implications:-
Not mentioned.

References:-
[1] Axaykumar Mehta, Brijesh Naik, ‘Sliding Mode Controllers for Power Electronic
Converters, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, Springer Nature Singapore, February 2018.

[2] Gui Jia Su, ‘Multi-level DC link inverters’, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications,
vol. 41, no. 3, May 2005.

[3] Ram´on O. C´aceres, Ivo Barbi, ‘A boost DC-AC converter: analysis, design and
experimentation, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.14, no.1, January 1999.

[4] Chandana J Gajanayake et.al., ‘Extended boost Z-source inverters’, IEEE Transactions on
power electronics, vol.25, no.10, October 2010.

[5] Mariusz Malinowski et.al., ‘A survey on cascaded multilevel inverters’, IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Electronics, vol.57, no.7, July 2010.

Duration of the Project:-

The duration of the project can be estimated depending upon the scope and size of the
project but should not exceed two years. It should indicate the time needed for various tasks
such as preparation of schedules, pilot study (if any), data collection, data analysis, report
writing etc.

Sr. Activity/Task Duration

No.

1 On paper design and simulation 4 months

study.

2 Implementation with hardware 14 months

and system programming.

3 Trouble shooting and validation 4 months

of data and testing

Personnel:-
It should indicate the number and category of personnel needed for various tasks, their
qualifications and the man-months needed with adequate justification.

Personnel needed: 1 laboratory assistant

Qualifications: diploma (electrical/instrumentation/electronics). Skills required: design

PCB and troubleshooting hardware issues, familiarity with circuit testing.

Budget:-
This should indicate the cost personnel, travel (no. of days and places with justification),
data processing, stationary and printing, books, journals, equipment, contingency and any other
items.
Type of Expenditure total expenditure Justification
allowances for 1 lab considering salary of 2000 per
1 assistant 24000 month
as and when required. To
communicate with experts and their
2 Cost of travelling etc. 10000 guidance for project
3 cost of inverter card 10000
4 cost of DC DC converter 10000
5 PCB design 15000
 Battery and charging system
6 design 20000
7 Digital Signal Controller 25000
for component failures and to
replace/repair damaged items
8 contigency allowance 24000 during experimentation.
Component and
programming cost for
9 system protection 20000
Total budget in Indian
Rupees 158000

Summary:-
Five Copies of summary of the Research Proposal (about 500 words) indicating the
statement of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions or hypothesis or both,
sample size (if any) and research methodology should be provided.
Annexure II
Format for preparing Bio-Data by Scholars to Apply for a Research Project

1. Name in Full :BRIJESH BHAGIRATH NAIK _

2. Address (Permanent) :

6A JAGRUTI SOCIETY ,BARDOLI-394601, (DI-SURAT), GUJARAT

_
Address (Correspondence): INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL ENGG. DEPT.,
SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SURAT-395001

_
3. Phone: (office) 0261-2240146 (Residence)_ 02622221891 (9825940607)
4. E-Mail :pnaik04@gmail.com _
5. FAX: _
6. Date of Birth : DECEMBER 23, 1977
7. Sex: MALE _
8. Nationality : INDIAN
9. Whether -SC, ST or OBC (attach photocopy of the category certificate): NA _
10. Whether belongs to Northeast Region (NER): NA
11. Academic Qualification (in chronological order)
No. Course/Degree Subject (s) Class/Grade University/Board Year Passing
1 BE INSTRUMEN FIRST NORTH 2000
(INSTRUMENTATION) TATION MAHARASHTRA
ENGG UNIVERSITY,
JALGAON
2 M TECH (SYSTEMS & SYSTEMS & 8.1/10 INDIAN 2007
CONTROL) CONTROL INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY,
BOMBAY
3 PHD (POWER -- GUJARAT TECH 2018
ELECTRONI NOLOGICAL
CS& UNIVERSITY,
CONTROL) AHMEDABAD
12. Employees : Yes/No (If „Yes‟ please furnish information in chronological order in the
following format):
Position Held Institution From To Salary Drawn
LECTURER SARVAJANIK 2001 2009 AS PER RULES OF
COLLEGE OF VNSGU/AICTE
ENGG. & TECH. ,
SURAT
ASSISTANT SARVAJANIK 2009 2013 AS PER RULES OF
PROFESSOR COLLEGE OF GTU/AICTE
ENGG. & TECH. ,
SURAT
ASSOCIATE SARVAJANIK 2013 TILL DATE AS PER RULES OF
PROFESSOR COLLEGE OF GTU/AICTE
ENGG. & TECH. ,
SURAT
13. Publications in the last five years (Please indicate title, publisher and year of publication)
a. Books
Authored:--

Co-authored: SLIDING MODE CONTROLLERS FOR POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS BY

AXAYKUMAR MEHTA, BRIJESH NAIK, (LECTURE NOTES IN ELECTRICAL ENGG., BY
SPRINGER NATURE, SINGAPORE), 2018

Edited:--

b. Research Papers in peer-reviewed journals only (Give title, journal, year):

1. B.B. Naik, A.J. Mehta, Sliding mode controller with modified sliding function for DC-DC Buck
Converter, ISA Transactions, Elsevier, vol. 70, pp. 279- 287 (impact factor: 3.394), September 2017.,
ISSN: 0019- 0578.
2. B.B. Naik, A.J. Mehta, DC DC Buck Converter with Second Order Sliding Mode Control: Analysis
Design and Implementation , International journal of power electronics, Inderscience, (accepted for
publication), May 2018.

14. Details of the projects (Not Available)

Sponsored/ Report
Sr. Year of Budget
Title of the Project Duration Funded by the Submitted
No. Completion Sanctioned
Institute / Year

Current Project being Conducted : Yes/No (If yes, please furnish the details in the following format)

Whether any proposal submitted for a project to other agencies for consideration : Yes/No (If yes, Please indicate
the details in the following format)

15. Please indicate the name and address of the institution where the scholar want to affiliate
this project and reasons thereof:
The project shall be carried out to the following institute:
SARVAJANIK COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, SURAT
DR. R K DESAI MARG, ATHWALINES, SURAT-395001, GUJARAT
www.scet.ac.in
contact: 0261-2240146

Reasons for affiliating the project with the above mentioned institute:
1. The employer of the applicant
2. Good research environment and laboratory support.
3. Can work for extra time if required.
 16. Any other relevant information in support of the proposal:

Not applicable.

Date:
Signature of the Applicant
Annexure III
Format of the letter from Affiliating Institute

To,
The Director
Institute of Research &
Development,
Raksha Shakti University,
At Lavad, Ta Dahegam,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat-382305.

Project Proposed by:

Subject: Proposal for finance Support from RSU.

I forward the proposal for financial support to the RSU.

The institution agrees to:

1. Administer and manage the finances;
2. Provide accommodation and furniture required for the project;
3. Make available all its research facilities such as library, laboratory and other
equipment;
4. Provide the material and managerial assistance for the project

For this purpose, it is understood that our institute/university will receive 7.5% of the
total sanctioned amount of the project.

If the scholar, directing the project leaves our institution to join some other institution
after part of the sanctioned grant has been received, we would have no objection to the transfer
of the project to a new institution, if the Director, R & D, RSU so desires. The institution,
however, shall continue to be responsibility for submitting the audited statement of accounts
and utilization certificate for the grant received by it, for this purpose.

Date: Signature
Annexure IV
The cost of the project is to be estimated in terms of total man-months and the facilities
needed. Calculate it under the following headings:
1. Personnel Requirement in the format given below (the approved emoluments for project
staff are given at the end):
Position No. of Persons Emoluments Duration Amount
Required

2. Travel:
3. Data Processing :
4. Stationary & Printing:
5. Books, Journal, etc. (Expenditure not be exceeded 55 of the total Budget):

6. Contingency Expenses including postage (Expenditure not be exceed 5 5 of the total

Budget):

7. Any other: Equipment* - not to exceeds 10% of the Budget to a celling of Rs. 50,000/-,
Internet Charges – not to exceeds Rs. 5000/-
8. Overhead Charges (7.5% of the cost i.e. the sum of 1 through 7, where applicable.
9. Grand Total :
While preparing budget estimates for the research proposal, the project Director should take
into account the time, funds as well as various steps involved in the conduct of the research
proposal. The rational for the allocation of time and money for the various item of budget
estimate must be furnished.

Approve Emoluments for Project Staff

Assistant Director/Assistant Professor
Research Officer/Research Associate
Research Assistant/Research Investigator
Typing Assistant/Computer Operator
Annexure V
Format for profile of Affiliating Institute (only for NGO*)

1. Name and Address:

2. Attested copy of registration certificate:
3. Thrust of the Institute (Please tick appropriate column):
a. Social Science Research
b. Action Research
c. Development
d. Any other (Please Specify)

4. Faculty: (Please indicate the number, their manes, qualifications, specializations and
major publications):
a. Status of research Faculty: (Regular/Temporary/Part Time/Honorary)
b. Status of Administrative Staff: Regular/Temporary/part time/Honorary)

5. Infrastructural Facilities:
a. Building: owned/Rented/(Number of rooms with covered area)
b. Library : Yes/No (if yes, number of books, journals, periodicals)
c. No. of Computers available :
6. Major activities undertaken during the last five years (please give details):
a. Seminars/Conferences
b. Projects
c. Training

This information is to be compulsorily supplied by NGOs and other registered societies.

Research institute funded by RSU, Universities, other autonomous institutes fully funded
by state or central government, IIM, IITs need not provide this information.

7. Research Projects:
a. Completed
Sr. Title Project Director Amount Details Funding Year of
No. Agency Completion
 b. On-going
Sr. Title Project Director Amount Details Funding Year of
No. Agency Completion

c. Under Consideration
Sr. Title Project Director Amount Details Funding Year of
No. Agency Completion

8. Name(s) and Address(es) of the Governing members:

9. Name(s) and Address(es) of the Advisory Committee.(Please submit a copy of the

minutes of the meeting)

10. A copy of the M.O.A of organization.

11. Details of Audited Statement of Accounts and Annual Reports
(Please enclose documents for last three years):

12. Whether the organization is recognized by any university/state/central government for

training/research purposes/financial assistance : Yes/No (If „Yes‟ please give the
details):

13. Details of publication year wise brought out by the organization during the last five years:

14. Photocopy of Income tax exemption certificate issued to your organization.

15. Any other relevant information (Please enclose in different sheet) :

Date:

Signature of Head of the Institute with stamp

Name & Designation (In Block Letters)
 Annexure VI
Six Monthly Progress Report

1. Title of the Research Project:

2. Period of the report: From: To:

3. Progress Report of the work Done on the project:

(Please prepare a detailed and self-contained not less than 1000 words) of the work done
on the project during the period under review and enclosed with this report)

4. Personnel at work during the period:

Sr. Name Designation Scale of Total Total period for which
No. pay employed and period
during which the persons
worked on the project

5. Statement of expenditure incurred during the period: The following expenditure is

incurred during the period and review:
Sr. Item Amount Expenditur Expenditur Total Balance of
No. approved in e incurred e incurred expenditure the grant
accordance at during during the at the end still
of the available
with the the period period
period
sanction under under under
order review review review
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Certified that the expenditure of the scheme has been incurred in accordance with the
budget approved by Raksha Shakti University (RSU).
a. Total amount sanctioned for the project:
b. Amount received from the RSU as at the beginning of the period under review:
c. Amount received from the RSU during the period under review:
d. Total amount received from the RSU at the end of the period under review:

Sr. Item Anticipated expenditure during the next

No. period of six months (From To _

Amount now asked for from the RSU Rs.

Certified that no change has been made in the project as approved by the RSU

Signature of the Project Director

Counter Signature of the Administrative Head of the Institution/University

Annexure VII
Form of fund utilization certificate
(projects/schemes)

Name of the Nodal Institution:

Department of Organization:

Name of the Project Scheme:

Certified that out of Rs. of Grant-in-aid sanctioned during the

financial year in favour of

On the subject project for the_ (first/second/third

year Raksha Shakti University as per sanctioned order No. Date
and Rs. Unspent balance of the previous year a sum of Rs. has been
utilized during the current financial year _.

On the project/scheme and the balance amount of Rs. _ remaining

unutilized as the end of the project will be adjusted towards the grant-in-aid payable for
the next year The unspent balance is on completion of the project will
be/was surrendered to Pay and Accounts Officer, Raksha Shakti University duly
supported by consolidated Audited statement of account, reports, papers, compendium
of data analysis etc. (Cheque/DD No. _ Date

Project Investigator Head of Institution Registrar/Auditor

Investigator (with seal) Finance Officer (with Seal)

(To be filed by the Raksha Shakti University)

Certified that I have satisfied myself that the conditions on which the grant-in-
aid was sanctioned during the financial year have been duly fulfilled and that I have
exercised the checks as are found necessary to ensure that the money was actually
utilized for the purpose for which it was sanctioned as per data is furnished above.

Registrar
Raksha Shakti University
Gandhinagar