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What Just Happened? Exploring Drivers’ Behaviour in Response to Minimal Risk Condition – A Qualitative Driving Simulator Study (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Automated vehicles (AVs) are expected to improve road safety by reducing the number of collisions and safety critical events [1,2]. In the event of a failure of the automated driving system (ADS), or if it reaches the limit of its capability, action... Read More about What Just Happened? Exploring Drivers’ Behaviour in Response to Minimal Risk Condition – A Qualitative Driving Simulator Study.

Mechanism Designs for Solar Tracking (2021)
Conference Proceeding

In this paper, mechanism design for solar trackers is discussed in terms of serial and parallel architectures that are analyzed to characterize the feasible performance of mechanism solutions that can fully track the sun during its diurnal east-to-we... Read More about Mechanism Designs for Solar Tracking.

Unified Cost Function Model Predictive Control for a three-stage Smart Transformer (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The massive integration of power electronics-based renewable energy sources has profoundly changed the electrical grid. In this scenario, the smart transformer, which is a solid-state transformer with advanced control and communication features, has... Read More about Unified Cost Function Model Predictive Control for a three-stage Smart Transformer.

Historical and Technical Analysis of Harmonic Drive Gear Design (2021)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents a historical and technical analysis of the Harmonic Drive Gear Design by taking into consideration the original patent by Clarence Walton Musser, the inventor of “Strain Wave Gear” and by studying a performance evaluation of it. T... Read More about Historical and Technical Analysis of Harmonic Drive Gear Design.

Design and Analysis of a Double Coaxial Magnetic Coupling to Improve Torque Density (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Coaxial magnetic couplings are an attractive alternative to traditional mechanical machine couplings which bring several desirable advantages but are limited by their relatively low torque density and torque to mass ratio. The optimum magnetic design... Read More about Design and Analysis of a Double Coaxial Magnetic Coupling to Improve Torque Density.

Active Rectifier Control for Selective Fuse Tripping in a DC Microgrid (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Distributed energy resources and new loads such as fast charging stations for electric vehicles are often dc-based. By using low-voltage dc microgrids to connect such systems to the grid, conversion stages can be omitted and higher efficiencies can b... Read More about Active Rectifier Control for Selective Fuse Tripping in a DC Microgrid.

Trapezoidal operation of modular multilevel DC-DC converter for HVDC interconnections (2021)
Conference Proceeding

High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) grids are becoming a preferred option for the expansion of the traditional electrical networks as a result of their potential economic, technical and environmental benefits. Developing HVDC grids includes the linkin... Read More about Trapezoidal operation of modular multilevel DC-DC converter for HVDC interconnections.

Distributed Predictive Control using Frequency and Voltage Soft Constraints in AC Microgrids including Economic Dispatch of Generation (2021)
Conference Proceeding

This paper proposes a distributed predictive secondary controller to tackle together frequency and voltage regulation, realize the economic dispatch and reactive power sharing of generation units in isolated AC microgrids. Contrary to most approaches... Read More about Distributed Predictive Control using Frequency and Voltage Soft Constraints in AC Microgrids including Economic Dispatch of Generation.

Influence of the Magnetic Load on High Speed Synchronous Reluctance Machines Design (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Synchronous reluctance machines are becoming a widespread solution in many engineering areas thanks to their simple rotor structure, the absence of rare-earth permanent magnets and high efficiency. The design of such machines is a widely investigated... Read More about Influence of the Magnetic Load on High Speed Synchronous Reluctance Machines Design.

Sound pressure levels in close proximity to sound-reinforcement speakers (2021)
Conference Proceeding

A Stable and Robust DC Power System for More Electric Aircraft (2021)
Conference Proceeding

More Electric Aircraft’ (MEA) is a trend for medium and long haul airliners, in which all functions except propulsion are powered by engine-driven electrical generators. Power systems for MEA are in the process of rapid development. Constant Power Lo... Read More about A Stable and Robust DC Power System for More Electric Aircraft.

Modelling, Analysis and Design Considerations of Multi-Phase Bearingless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (2021)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents a general multi-harmonics analytical model able to predict both torque and force behaviour of a multi-phase permanent magnet synchronous machine. This machine topology can be adopted in bearingless applications and in application... Read More about Modelling, Analysis and Design Considerations of Multi-Phase Bearingless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine.

A Simple PWM Strategy for Three-Level NPC Converters in Aircraft Electric Starter/Generator System With Improved DC-Link Voltage Utilization and Reduced Common-Mode Voltage (2021)
Conference Proceeding

Due to the employment of three-level neutral-point-clamped (3L-NPC) converters in the aircraft electric starter/generator (ESG) systems, the pulse-width-modulation (PWM) strategy plays a significant role in the converter-fed PMSM drives. However, the... Read More about A Simple PWM Strategy for Three-Level NPC Converters in Aircraft Electric Starter/Generator System With Improved DC-Link Voltage Utilization and Reduced Common-Mode Voltage.

Reconfigurable Cascaded Multilevel Converter: A New Topology For EV Powertrain (2021)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents a novel cascaded multilevel converter topology with reconfigurable battery modules able to merge the power conversion and the battery management functionalities for electric powertrain application. In the proposed topology, each b... Read More about Reconfigurable Cascaded Multilevel Converter: A New Topology For EV Powertrain.

A Direct Model Predictive Control Strategy for High-Performance Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives (2021)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents a finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) method that improves the performance of a synchronous reluctance machine drive. As shown, when a high sampling-to-switching frequency ratio is used with FCS-MPC, the stator c... Read More about A Direct Model Predictive Control Strategy for High-Performance Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drives.

Model predictive Control of a Double Stage AC-DC Converter for Grid-Interface of Vanadium Flow Batteries (2021)
Conference Proceeding

This paper presents a multi-objective model predictive control algorithm to implement the control of a bidirectional double stage ac-dc power conversion system, used to interface a Vanadium redox flow battery with a power grid. The converter topology... Read More about Model predictive Control of a Double Stage AC-DC Converter for Grid-Interface of Vanadium Flow Batteries.

Global Rate-distortion Optimization of Video-based Point Cloud Compression with Differential Evolution (2021)
Conference Proceeding

In video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC), one geometry video and one color video are generated from a dynamic point cloud. Then, the two videos are compressed independently using a state-of-the-art video coder. In the Moving Picture Experts Gro... Read More about Global Rate-distortion Optimization of Video-based Point Cloud Compression with Differential Evolution.

Optimised hybrid shielding and magnetic field control for emerging quantum technologies (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The accurate control of magnetic fields is a cornerstone of multiple emerging quantum technologies. These technologies often require passive high permeability magnetic shielding and internal active field-generating coils to create their own bespoke m... Read More about Optimised hybrid shielding and magnetic field control for emerging quantum technologies.

Model-Free Simplified Predictive Current Control of PMSM Drive with Ultra-Local Model-Based EKF (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The importance of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) is increasing day by day due to trends in the electrification of transportation and the use of wind farms. The predictive current control (PCC) strategy has been widely applied to the co... Read More about Model-Free Simplified Predictive Current Control of PMSM Drive with Ultra-Local Model-Based EKF.

Model-Based Rate-Distortion Optimized Video-Based Point Cloud Compression with Differential Evolution (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) video-based point cloud compression (V-PCC) standard encodes a dynamic point cloud by first converting it into one geometry video and one color video and then using a video coder to compress the two video seque... Read More about Model-Based Rate-Distortion Optimized Video-Based Point Cloud Compression with Differential Evolution.