PREFACE

Abstract This publication consists of the peer-reviewed papers from the National Conference on Science, Engineering and Technology (NCSET 2020), which was organized by the School of Electrical Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai during the period from May 11-12, 2020. However, due to the COVID 19 pandemic the conference was held Online. The main objective of NCSET 2020 is to provide an opportunity for our research scholars to exchange their research outputs and innovative ideas in different domains of Science, Engineering and Technology, ably guided by our faculty members. This proceeding will include presentations on the niche research areas in the above disciplines. The inaugural session of the conference had the felicitation address by Dr.V.S.Kanchana Bhaaskaran, Pro-Vice Chancellor, VIT Chennai. The conference was inaugurated virtually through the zoom platform on May 11, 2020 by the Chief Guest of the event Mr.Balaji Selvaraju, Founder and Managing director Prominds Global Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad. The chief guest elaborated in detail on the long term skills to be acquired by post graduate engineers and research scholars especially under the prevailing Covid 19 pandemic situations. The conference had two keynote Speakers. The first keynote address was delivered by Mr.Karnam Sathiskumar, Managing Director, Engineering Par Formulations, Chennai. He shared about his experiences at VIT Vellore as an undergraduate student of Mechanical Engineering. The second keynote speech was by Mr.V.K.Arunshankar, who is a Trainee Engineer at Danfoss Electric Drives Division, Orgadam Chennai. This year NCSET 2020, had more than 175 participants from VIT Chennai. A total of 171 research articles were submitted and based on the double-blind peer review process 75 full length papers were accepted to be published with Journal of Physics IOP Conference Series. The evaluation of all the papers was performed based on the reports from anonymous reviewers. We would like to take this opportunity to deeply express our heartfelt appreciation to Dr. G. Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology; Dr. Sekar Viswanathan, Vice President, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai Campus; Dr. Sandhya Pentareddy, Executive Director, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai Campus; Dr. Anand A. Samuel, Vice Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology; Dr. V. S. Kanchana Bhaaskaran, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology Chennai Campus; Dr.A.Peer Fathima, Professor and Dean, School of Electrical Engineering; Our special thanks to all our Keynote Speakers, Session Chairs, all the Committee Members and Reviewers involved in the technical evaluation of conference papers. VIRTUAL DISCLAIMER FOR NCSET 2020: • As it was uncertain about when COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions across the globe would end, the conference was conducted in virtual mode considering the safety of the participants. • The conference was not postponed to a later period because the scientific community cannot share their research findings and there would have been a delay in publishing their research work. • The virtual conference was organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai during May 11&amp; 12, 2020 using video conferencing platforms like Microsoft Teams and Zoom. • The conference had 2 keynote speakers; each delivered their talk related to the theme of the conference. • The School of Computer Science and Engineering had a total of 22 Tracks, School of Mechanical and Civil Engineering - 6 Tracks, School of Electronics Engineering - 8 Tracks, Business and Management - 4 Tracks. • At the end of the keynote session, audiences were provided time to clarify their doubts with the speaker and a member from the organizing committee summarized and thanked the speaker. • With regard to the paper presentation, the panel members (session chairs) and audience were given the opportunity to ask questions to the authors regarding their research findings for a duration of 5 minutes. • NCSET2020 had 175 participants from VIT Chennai Campus and Eminent Keynote speakers from India. • All the submitted papers were initially screened for plagiarism using TURNITIN software and only those papers which had less than 10% plagiarism were selected for presentation in the conference. Moreover, all the presented papers were double blind peer reviewed by two reviewers and the authors were instructed to submit the revised manuscript based on the reviewers comments. • NCSET2020 has been conducted successfully during May 11 &amp; 12, 2020. The next edition of the NCSET2020 is planned on November 2020. Best Regards, Editors, Dr.A.Peer Fathima Dr.L.Premalatha Dr.N.Senthil Kumar