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An Integral Design of Ground Power Unit Supply for Aircraft Applications (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., Riveros, J. A., & Toledo, S. (2018). An Integral Design of Ground Power Unit Supply for Aircraft Applications. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC)

A new ground power unit configuration is introduced in this paper. The architecture comprises a six-pulse rectifier with active current injection in the input stage to achieve high-performance conversion with low polluted ac spectrum, whereas the out... Read More about An Integral Design of Ground Power Unit Supply for Aircraft Applications.

Artificial Intelligence Aided Automated Design for Reliability of Power Electronic Systems (2018)
Journal Article
Dragicevic, T., Wheeler, P., & Blaabjerg, F. (2019). Artificial Intelligence Aided Automated Design for Reliability of Power Electronic Systems. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 34(8), 7161-7171. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2018.2883947

© 1986-2012 IEEE. This paper proposes a new methodology for automated design of power electronic systems realized through the use of artificial intelligence. Existing approaches do not consider the system's reliability as a performance metric or are... Read More about Artificial Intelligence Aided Automated Design for Reliability of Power Electronic Systems.

Model-Predictive-Control for Dual-Active-Bridge Converters with Triple Phase Shift in Naval Shipboard DC Micro-grids Supplying Pulsed Power Loads (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Chen, L., Wang, Z., Shao, S., Tarisciotti, L., Dragicevic, T., & Wheeler, P. (in press). Model-Predictive-Control for Dual-Active-Bridge Converters with Triple Phase Shift in Naval Shipboard DC Micro-grids Supplying Pulsed Power Loads

Dedicated Energy Storage System (ESS) has been an integral part of the shipboard micro-grids in naval vessels. Dual-Active-Bridge (DAB) converters are often chosen to be the interface between the ESS and the medium voltage DC bus due to isolation cap... Read More about Model-Predictive-Control for Dual-Active-Bridge Converters with Triple Phase Shift in Naval Shipboard DC Micro-grids Supplying Pulsed Power Loads.

Analysis and Modeling of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, L., Yang, J., Ma, H., Wang, Z., Olanrewaju, K. O., & Wheeler, P. (2019). Analysis and Modeling of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 34(9), 8613-8625. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2018.2885145

Silicon carbide (SiC) junction field-effect transistor (JFET) based bi-directional switches (BDSs) have great potential in the construction of several power electronic circuits, including matrix converters, multi-level converters, solid state breaker... Read More about Analysis and Modeling of SiC JFET Bi-Directional Switches Parasitic Oscillation.

New Asymmetric Cascaded Multi-level Converter with Reduced Components (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Hosseinzadeh, M. A., Sarbanzadeh, M., Sarbanzadeh, E., Rivera, M., & Wheeler, P. (2018). New Asymmetric Cascaded Multi-level Converter with Reduced Components. . https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607383

Multi-level converters have been used in several industrial applications. The following work seeks to present a novel power inverter structure featuring a low amount of devices for a multi-level converter with an asymmetric cascaded connection. The s... Read More about New Asymmetric Cascaded Multi-level Converter with Reduced Components.

Predictive Control for MPPT in a Single-Stage Photovoltaic System (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Munoz, C., Rivera, M., Villalon, A., Riveros, J., Munoz, J., & Wheeler, P. (2018). Predictive Control for MPPT in a Single-Stage Photovoltaic System. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC). https://doi.org/10.1109/ESARS-ITEC.2018.8607529

Predictive control has risen as a plausible option in the control of power converters for photovoltaic utilisation. In this work, a predictive control scheme is proposed to obtain the maximum power point in a photovoltaic array coupled directly to a... Read More about Predictive Control for MPPT in a Single-Stage Photovoltaic System.

Design, Assembly and Startup of a Single-Phase Multi-Modular Matrix Converter for Grid Interconnection (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Castro, G., & Wheeler, P. (2018). Design, Assembly and Startup of a Single-Phase Multi-Modular Matrix Converter for Grid Interconnection. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIII Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA) - Proceedings (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICA-ACCA.2018.8609839

Power converters play a fundamental role in grid interconnection systems. In this article we present the design, assembly and start-up of a multimodular converter. The different stages and design components of the system are detailed. The main idea o... Read More about Design, Assembly and Startup of a Single-Phase Multi-Modular Matrix Converter for Grid Interconnection.

A New Topology of AC-AC Ground Power Unit for Aeronautical Applications (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., & Wheeler, P. (2018). A New Topology of AC-AC Ground Power Unit for Aeronautical Applications. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICA-ACCA.2018.8609736

Nowadays, electrical energy is the alternative to supply aircraft systems. In this paper a new converter for ground power units supply in aircraft applications is proposed. The topology consists in a rectifier with an active current injection circuit... Read More about A New Topology of AC-AC Ground Power Unit for Aeronautical Applications.

Advanced modulations for a current-fed isolated DC-DC converter with wide voltage operating ranges (2018)
Journal Article
Chen, L., Tarisciotti, L., Costabeber, A., Gao, F., Wheeler, P., & Zanchetta, P. (2019). Advanced modulations for a current-fed isolated DC-DC converter with wide voltage operating ranges. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 7(4), 2540-2552. https://doi.org/10.1109/jestpe.2018.2870827

An Active-Bridge-Active-Clamp (ABAC) topology with its associated switching patterns and modulation techniques is introduced in this paper. The topology has been designed to comply with stringent power quality requirements in a More Electric Aircraft... Read More about Advanced modulations for a current-fed isolated DC-DC converter with wide voltage operating ranges.

A Modulated Model Predictive Control Scheme for the Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Machine (2018)
Journal Article
Li, X., Peng, T., Dan, H., Zhang, G., Tang, W., Jin, W., …Rivera, M. (2018). A Modulated Model Predictive Control Scheme for the Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Machine. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, 6(4), 1681-1691. https://doi.org/10.1109/JESTPE.2018.2865668

© 2013 IEEE. Brushless doubly fed induction machines (BDFIMs) feature some important advantages, such as high reliability and low maintenance cost, over alternative solutions for brushless machine applications. This paper proposes a modulated model p... Read More about A Modulated Model Predictive Control Scheme for the Brushless Doubly Fed Induction Machine.

Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part I (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., & Riveros, J. A. (2018). Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part I. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON) (1-7). https://doi.org/10.1109/ARGENCON.2018.8646244

© 2018 IEEE. AC-DC three-phase converters are very well known for having enhanced power quality with unity displacement power factor, low total harmonic pollution on the AC side, and controllable DC output with unidirectional or bidirectional power f... Read More about Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part I.

Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part II (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., & Riveros, J. A. (2018). Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part II. In 2018 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON) (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1109/ARGENCON.2018.8646106

© 2018 IEEE. AC-DC Three-phase converters are highly well known for having enhanced power quality with unity displacement power factor, low total harmonic pollution on the AC side, and controllable DC output with unidirectional or bidirectional power... Read More about Three-Phase AC-DC Converters with Passive, Active and Hybrid Current Injection Circuits - Part II.

A New Ground Power Unit (GPU) Supply for Aircraft Applications (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Rivera, M., Faundez, D., Kolar, J., Wheeler, P., Besoain, F., & Riveros, J. A. (2018). A New Ground Power Unit (GPU) Supply for Aircraft Applications. In 2018 IEEE Biennial Congress of Argentina (ARGENCON) (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ARGENCON.2018.8646311

Nowadays, electrical energy is the alternative to supply aircraft systems. In this paper a new converter for ground power units supply in aircraft applications is proposed. The topology consists of a rectifier with an active current injection circuit... Read More about A New Ground Power Unit (GPU) Supply for Aircraft Applications.

A Modified Neutral Point Balancing Space Vector Modulation for Three-Level Neutral Point Clamped Converters in High-Speed Drives (2018)
Journal Article
Li, C., Yang, T., Kulsangcharoen, P., Lo Calzo, G., Bozhko, S., Gerada, C., & Wheeler, P. (2018). A Modified Neutral Point Balancing Space Vector Modulation for Three-Level Neutral Point Clamped Converters in High-Speed Drives. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 66(2), 910-921. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2018.2835372

© 2018 IEEE. This paper describes a high-performance neutral point voltage balancing technique for a neutral point clamped (NPC) converter. Conventional neutral point voltage balancing methods do not function well under low power factor, low pulse ra... Read More about A Modified Neutral Point Balancing Space Vector Modulation for Three-Level Neutral Point Clamped Converters in High-Speed Drives.