Satish Thuta
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Satish Thuta is from Palo Alto, CA. Satish works in the following industries: "Automotive". Satish is currently Sr. Manager, Power Electronics at Tesla Motors, located in Palo Alto, CA. In Satish's previous role as a Manager, Power Electronics at Tesla Motors, Satish worked in Palo Alto, CA until Nov 2015. Prior to joining Tesla Motors, Satish was a Staff power electronics engineer at Tesla Motors and held the position of Staff power electronics engineer at Palo alto. Prior to that, Satish was a Power electronics R&D Engineer at Ford Motor Company from Jan 2008 to Mar 2010. Satish started working as Power Electronics Engineering Intern - Part Time at Makani Power Inc in May 2007. From May 2007 to Aug 2007, Satish was Power Electronics R & D Engineering Intern at Cummins Power Generation.
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In depth knowledge and experience on topics related to power electronics converters. Some of the projects accomplished as a part of this position are: Component level optimization of 3-Phase Voltage Source Inverters, Novel PWM strategies, Switching Characterization of IGBT, Loss Characterization, Converter Topologies with multiple functions for HEV, PHEV & EV's.
Project Title: Simulate and Design a Brushless DC motor servo controller. • Built a model of the actual brushless dc machine model and simulated the closed servo drive performance with a PID outer position control loop and an inner PI current control loop using Simulink toolbox in Matlab. • Designed the schematic and completed the PCB layout of the power board and the control card for the real-time implementation of the servo controller using PCAD software package.
Project Title: "Power Electronics Topology Investigation for variable speed operation of generators" Tasks Accomplished: • Studied the application requirements of the existing Consumer and Commercial Generator business lines. • Investigated different power electronics converter topologies that can be used for the various applications based on functional requirements for the variable speed operation of generators. • Compared various topologies based on the converter attributes using a selection matrix method. • Proposed appropriate converter topologies to be used for various products depending on their application requirements and other attributes such as, Noise and Vibration, Cost sensitivity, Efficiency, EMI and Cooling.