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Distributed Control Strategy Based on a Consensus Algorithm for the Inter-cell and Inter-cluster Voltage Balancing of a Cascaded H-Bridge Based STATCOM (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Burgos-Mellado, C., Gutierrez, J., Pineda, C., Donoso, F., Watson, A., Sumner, M., …Mora, A. (2020). Distributed Control Strategy Based on a Consensus Algorithm for the Inter-cell and Inter-cluster Voltage Balancing of a Cascaded H-Bridge Based STATCOM. In 2020 IEEE 21st Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2020 (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL49091.2020.9265758

© 2020 IEEE. Cascaded H-bridge converters are widely used in the implementation of medium voltage static synchronous compensators (STATCOMs). This is because of the advantages of relatively high-power density and the improved utilisation of low-volta... Read More about Distributed Control Strategy Based on a Consensus Algorithm for the Inter-cell and Inter-cluster Voltage Balancing of a Cascaded H-Bridge Based STATCOM.

Zero-Current Switching (ZCS) for a High Step Ratio Modular Multilevel dc-dc Converter with wide voltage range operation (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Pineda, C., Pereda, J., Burgos-Mellado, C., Watson, A., & Rojas, F. (2020). Zero-Current Switching (ZCS) for a High Step Ratio Modular Multilevel dc-dc Converter with wide voltage range operation. In 2020 IEEE 21st Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/compel49091.2020.9265848

© 2020 IEEE. The rise of new dc technologies is pushing the development of highly efficient dc-dc converters, especially at high voltage and high step ratio. Modular multilevel converters (MMCs) are an attractive alternative because they can manage m... Read More about Zero-Current Switching (ZCS) for a High Step Ratio Modular Multilevel dc-dc Converter with wide voltage range operation.

A Series Chain-Link Modular Multilevel DC-DC Converter For High Voltage and High Power Applications (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Saleh, B. M., Costabeber, A., Watson, A. J., & Clare, J. C. (2020). A Series Chain-Link Modular Multilevel DC-DC Converter For High Voltage and High Power Applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPEL49091.2020.9265662

© 2020 IEEE. In high voltage and high-power applications, many modular multilevel DC-DC converter topologies have been proposed for DC voltage scaling applications. In most of those proposed a three phase transformer is required. The construction of... Read More about A Series Chain-Link Modular Multilevel DC-DC Converter For High Voltage and High Power Applications.

Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control of Isolated DC/DC Modular Multilevel Converter (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Akbar, S. M., Hasan, A., Watson, A., Wheeler, P., & Odhano, S. (2020). Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control of Isolated DC/DC Modular Multilevel Converter. . https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254434

© 2020 IEEE. Isolated DC/DC modular multilevel converters (MMC) consisting of two MMCs isolated by a transformer are one of the converter topologies being considered used for DC/DC conversion in HVDC transmission. Two level modulation can be used to... Read More about Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control of Isolated DC/DC Modular Multilevel Converter.

Single-phase consensus-based control for regulating voltage and sharing unbalanced currents in 3-wire isolated AC microgrids (2020)
Journal Article
Burgos-Mellado, C., Llanos, J., Espina, E., Saez, D., Cardenas, R., Sumner, M., & Watson, A. (2020). Single-phase consensus-based control for regulating voltage and sharing unbalanced currents in 3-wire isolated AC microgrids. IEEE Access, 8, 164882-164898. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3022488

A distributed control strategy is proposed to share unbalanced currents in three-phase threewire isolated AC Microgrids (MGs). It is based on a novel approach where, rather than analysing the MG as a three-phase system, it is analysed as three single... Read More about Single-phase consensus-based control for regulating voltage and sharing unbalanced currents in 3-wire isolated AC microgrids.