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The Rebirth of the Current Source Inverter: Advantages for Aerospace Motor Design (2019)
Journal Article
Madonna, V., Migliazza, G., Giangrande, P., Lorenzani, E., Buticchi, G., & Galea, M. (2019). The Rebirth of the Current Source Inverter: Advantages for Aerospace Motor Design. IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, 13(4), 65-76. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIE.2019.2936319

© 2007-2011 IEEE. It is well known and widely accepted that the voltage source inverter (VSI) now dominates the world of electrical drives. Its success is probably due to its simplicity, high efficiency, and the widespread availability of VSs. This p... Read More about The Rebirth of the Current Source Inverter: Advantages for Aerospace Motor Design.

Quantitative phase and polarization imaging through an optical fiber applied to detection of early esophageal tumorigenesis (2019)
Journal Article
Gordon, G. S. D., Joseph, J., Alcolea, M. P., Sawyer, T., Williams, C., Fitzpatrick, C. R. M., Jones, P. H., Di Pietro, M., Fitzgerald, R. C., Wilkinson, T. D., & Bohndiek, S. E. (2019). Quantitative phase and polarization imaging through an optical fiber applied to detection of early esophageal tumorigenesis. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 24(12), Article 126004. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.24.12.126004

© The Authors. Published by SPIE under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. Distribution or reproduction of this work in whole or in part requires full attribution of the original publication, including its DOI. Phase and polarization... Read More about Quantitative phase and polarization imaging through an optical fiber applied to detection of early esophageal tumorigenesis.

The potential of exploiting non-symmetric structures in electrical machines (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nuzzo, S., Marfoli, A., Papini, L., Bolognesi, P., Gerada, C., & Galea, M. (2019, October). The potential of exploiting non-symmetric structures in electrical machines. Presented at 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2019), Lisbon, Portugal

Typically, electrical machines feature rotor and stator winding configurations and core structures which comply with both simplicity and cost requirements. Such constraints limit the design search space and degrees of freedom, thus leading to exploit... Read More about The potential of exploiting non-symmetric structures in electrical machines.

Modulated Model Predictive Current Control for PMSM Operating With Three-level NPC Inverter (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Q., Rivera, M., Riveros, J. A., & Wheeler, P. (2019, December). Modulated Model Predictive Current Control for PMSM Operating With Three-level NPC Inverter. Presented at 15th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 5th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (COBEP/SPEC 2019), San Paolo, Brazil

In finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) strategy only one basic voltage vector is to be selected in per periodic time, which causes big current ripple as well as the torque ripple of permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM). To solv... Read More about Modulated Model Predictive Current Control for PMSM Operating With Three-level NPC Inverter.

Multi-modular scalable DC-AC power converter for current injection to the grid based on predictive voltage control (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toledo, S., Rivera, M., Maqueda, E., Ayala, M., Pacher, J., Romero, C., Gregor, R., Dragicevic, T., & Wheeler, P. (2019, December). Multi-modular scalable DC-AC power converter for current injection to the grid based on predictive voltage control. Presented at 15th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 5th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (COBEP/SPEC 2019), Sao Paolo, Brazil

Increasing world electrical energy demand make necessary to develop new efficient and reliable schemes for power injection to the existing grid under distributed generation frames. In this work a novel DC-AC control scheme is proposed, which is based... Read More about Multi-modular scalable DC-AC power converter for current injection to the grid based on predictive voltage control.

Reliability Analysis of aircraft starter generator drive converter (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harikumaran, J., Buticchi, G., Galea, M., Costabeber, A., & Wheeler, P. (2019, December). Reliability Analysis of aircraft starter generator drive converter. Presented at 2019 - 15th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 5th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (COBEP/SPEC), Sao Paolo, Brazil

Under the more electric aircraft (MEA) theme, many aircraft systems are being electrified. In a previous research work, an electric starter generator system for aircrafts was implemented. This paper presents the reliability of the drive converter-a 3... Read More about Reliability Analysis of aircraft starter generator drive converter.

Integrating a Single Z-Source Network with a Modular Multilevel Converter for Voltage Boosting (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khera, F. A., Wheeler, P. W., & Klumpner, C. (2019, December). Integrating a Single Z-Source Network with a Modular Multilevel Converter for Voltage Boosting. Presented at 15th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 5th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (COBEP/SPEC 2019), Sao Paolo, Brazil

This paper proposes the integration of a Z-source network with the modular multilevel converter (MMC) to add voltage boosting capability to a voltage step down converter. To limit the increase in complexity, the proposed Z-source modular multilevel c... Read More about Integrating a Single Z-Source Network with a Modular Multilevel Converter for Voltage Boosting.

Predictive Voltage Control Operating at Fixed Switching Frequency of a Neutral-Point Clamped Converter (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Herrera, F., Cárdenas, R., Rivera, M., Riveros, J. A., & Wheeler, P. (2019, December). Predictive Voltage Control Operating at Fixed Switching Frequency of a Neutral-Point Clamped Converter. Presented at 2019 IEEE 15th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 5th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference (COBEP/SPEC), Sao Paulo, Brazil

Uninterruptible power supply units are system formed by power electronics converters to supply sinusoidal voltages to feed critical loads. In this paper, a fixed switching frequency model predictive control strategy is presented for the control of th... Read More about Predictive Voltage Control Operating at Fixed Switching Frequency of a Neutral-Point Clamped Converter.

An Improved Control Strategy for Switched Reluctance Generator System in More Electric Aircraft (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Velmurugan, G., YEOH, S. S., Yang, T., & Bozhko, S. (2019, December). An Improved Control Strategy for Switched Reluctance Generator System in More Electric Aircraft. Presented at 5th IEEE Southern Power Electronics Conference & 15th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference (COBEP/SPEC 2019)), Sao Paulo, Brazil

Switched Reluctance Machines (SRM) has emerged as an important possible technology for usage in More Electric Aircraft (MEA) in particular as a starter/generator. As a starter/generator, the SRM operates as a generator as well as a motor (starter). T... Read More about An Improved Control Strategy for Switched Reluctance Generator System in More Electric Aircraft.

Predictive Voltage Control of the Direct Matrix Converter applied to Grid Current Injection (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Toledo, S., Rivera, M., Dragicevic, T., Caballero, D., Wheeler, P., & Gregor, R. (2019, November). Predictive Voltage Control of the Direct Matrix Converter applied to Grid Current Injection. Presented at IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON 2019)), Valparaiso, Chile

Predictive control applied to direct matrix converter provide a feasible option to control the output voltage of a generation system with good performance. In this work a predictive voltage control strategy is proposed as the inner loop control of an... Read More about Predictive Voltage Control of the Direct Matrix Converter applied to Grid Current Injection.