Power Electronics is the vital part of industrial control and is a major thrust area for C-DAC, Thiruvananthapuram. The major activities of the group are focused on the Power Quality solutions using Custom Power Devices, Power Controllers for tapping optimum energy from Non-conventional energy sources like Wind, Solar etc., Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Automotive Electronics, Systems for Industrial Automation, Digital Controllers and Power Control Systems for Industrial application, Networking of Power Electronic systems and the Development of industrial control products like Variable Speed Drive systems, High Performance Uninterruptible Power Supply systems, High efficiency Switched Mode Power Converters, Remote Controlled Mobile platforms, etc. In addition to technology development projects, the group undertakes contract projects for specific applications from industries. The group works with a mission to evolve itself into a world-class Research centre in Power Electronics, and at the same time catering to meet national objectives with due consideration to industrial needs and opinion of field experts on future technology. The developments are targeted towards employing Power electronics for energy saving, eco friendly systems, quality and cost effective products, and finally to promote the use of non-conventional energy sources available locally.

Power Electronic Group at C-DAC(T) contributes to the national level technology development in Power Electronics by functioning as the Nodal Centre for the project National Mission on Power Electronics Technology < www.nampet.org > launched by Department of Information Technology, Govt. of India and as the lead agency for Custom Power Devices as identified by Ministry of Power, Govt. of India.

• Custom Power devices like STATCOM,UPQC for power quality solutions.
• AC Motor Drives with advanced control techniques.
• High Performance Uninterruptible Power Supplies.
• Power Converters for tapping Non-conventional energy sources.
• Power controller for induction motor driven Electric / Hybrid Vehicles.
• Front-end Converters.
• Real time High speed Digital Controllers for Power Electronic systems.
• FPGAs/ASICs for Power Electronic equipments.
• Networking of Power Electronic systems.
• Mechatronics based products like Remote Controlled Mobile Platforms.

The strength of the group is its expertise in power electronics and digital control techniques built over 30 years. The group has taken keen interest in updating the knowledge base in the frontier technologies with latest innovations to meet the technological revolution and to meet new challenging tasks in the field of Power electronics. A major asset of the group is the field experience of its engineers gained while execution of various projects developed for industries. The research team has kept track of the state-of-the-art technology in par with global scenario in power electronics in the development of products and systems. The group keeps close interaction with Academic institutions like Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs), while working in cutting edge technology development. The design and upgradation of power circuits are linked to advances in power semiconductor devices like MOSFETs, IGBTs, IGCTs etc, while digital controllers are continuously upgraded in tune with the latest trends. Currently the controllers are designed around Digital Signal Processors and Micro-controllers along with Field Programmable Gate Arrays(FPGAs) for implementation of programmable control algorithms with features like protection, supervisory control, diagnostics, data logging and man-machine interface.