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# IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

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• ### Overview of Control and Grid Synchronization for Distributed Power Generation Systems

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1398 - 1409
Cited by:  Papers (1690)  |  Patents (8)
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Renewable energy sources like wind, sun, and hydro are seen as a reliable alternative to the traditional energy sources such as oil, natural gas, or coal. Distributed power generation systems (DPGSs) based on renewable energy sources experience a large development worldwide, with Germany, Denmark, Japan, and USA as leaders in the development in this field. Due to the increasing number of DPGSs con... View full abstract»

• ### Power-Electronic Systems for the Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Sources: A Survey

Publication Year: 2006, Page(s):1002 - 1016
Cited by:  Papers (1519)  |  Patents (4)
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The use of distributed energy resources is increasingly being pursued as a supplement and an alternative to large conventional central power stations. The specification of a power-electronic interface is subject to requirements related not only to the renewable energy source itself but also to its effects on the power-system operation, especially where the intermittent energy source constitutes a ... View full abstract»

• ### Disturbance-Observer-Based Control and Related Methods—An Overview

Publication Year: 2016, Page(s):1083 - 1095
Cited by:  Papers (64)
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Disturbance-observer-based control (DOBC) and related methods have been researched and applied in various industrial sectors in the last four decades. This survey, at first time, gives a systematic and comprehensive tutorial and summary on the existing disturbance/uncertainty estimation and attenuation techniques, most notably, DOBC, active disturbance rejection control, disturbance accommodation ... View full abstract»

• ### Hierarchical Control of Droop-Controlled AC and DC Microgrids—A General Approach Toward Standardization

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):158 - 172
Cited by:  Papers (1014)
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AC and dc microgrids (MGs) are key elements for integrating renewable and distributed energy resources as well as distributed energy-storage systems. In the last several years, efforts toward the standardization of these MGs have been made. In this sense, this paper presents the hierarchical control derived from ISA-95 and electrical dispatching standards to endow smartness and flexibility to MGs.... View full abstract»

• ### Multilevel inverters: a survey of topologies, controls, and applications

Publication Year: 2002, Page(s):724 - 738
Cited by:  Papers (2503)  |  Patents (40)
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Multilevel inverter technology has emerged recently as a very important alternative in the area of high-power medium-voltage energy control. This paper presents the most important topologies like diode-clamped inverter (neutral-point clamped), capacitor-clamped (flying capacitor), and cascaded multicell with separate DC sources. Emerging topologies like asymmetric hybrid cells and soft-switched mu... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis, Experimental Results, and Range Adaptation of Magnetically Coupled Resonators for Wireless Power Transfer

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):544 - 554
Cited by:  Papers (584)  |  Patents (3)
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Wireless power technology offers the promise of cutting the last cord, allowing users to seamlessly recharge mobile devices as easily as data are transmitted through the air. Initial work on the use of magnetically coupled resonators for this purpose has shown promising results. We present new analysis that yields critical insight into the design of practical systems, including the introduction of... View full abstract»

• ### From PID to Active Disturbance Rejection Control

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):900 - 906
Cited by:  Papers (863)  |  Patents (1)
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Active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) can be summarized as follows: it inherits from proportional-integral-derivative (PID) the quality that makes it such a success: the error driven, rather than model-based, control law; it takes from modern control theory its best offering: the state observer; it embraces the power of nonlinear feedback and puts it to full use; it is a useful digital contr... View full abstract»

• ### Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of Multilevel Converters

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):2553 - 2580
Cited by:  Papers (1174)  |  Patents (7)
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Multilevel converters have been under research and development for more than three decades and have found successful industrial application. However, this is still a technology under development, and many new contributions and new commercial topologies have been reported in the last few years. The aim of this paper is to group and review these recent contributions, in order to establish the curren... View full abstract»

• ### New Perspectives on Droop Control in AC Microgrid

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):5741 - 5745
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Virtual impedance, angle droop, and frequency droop control play important roles in maintaining system stability, and load sharing among distributed generators (DGs) in microgrid. These approaches have been developed into three totally independent concepts, but a strong correlation exists. In this letter, their similarities and differences are revealed. Some new findings are established as follows... View full abstract»

• ### General Airgap Field Modulation Theory for Electrical Machines

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6063 - 6074
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This paper proposes a general field modulation theory for electrical machines by introducing magnetomotive force modulation operator to characterize the influence of short-circuited coil, variable reluctance, and flux guide on the primitive magnetizing magnetomotive force distribution established by field winding function multiplied by field current along the airgap peripheral. Magnetically anisot... View full abstract»

• ### Advanced Control Architectures for Intelligent Microgrids—Part I: Decentralized and Hierarchical Control

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1254 - 1262
Cited by:  Papers (393)
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This paper presents a review of advanced control techniques for microgrids. This paper covers decentralized, distributed, and hierarchical control of grid-connected and islanded microgrids. At first, decentralized control techniques for microgrids are reviewed. Then, the recent developments in the stability analysis of decentralized controlled microgrids are discussed. Finally, hierarchical contro... View full abstract»

• ### A Family of Zero-Voltage-Switching Magnetic Coupling Nonisolated Bidirectional DC–DC Converters

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6223 - 6233
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This paper proposes a family of magnetic coupling nonisolated bidirectional dc-dc converters, which can achieve soft-switching operation in both power flow directions with a simple auxiliary circuit. Compared with conventional zero-voltage-transition converters, the additional resonant inductor is eliminated and magnetic core number is reduced. Therefore, both high efficiency and low cost are achi... View full abstract»

• ### Advanced Control Architectures for Intelligent Microgrids—Part II: Power Quality, Energy Storage, and AC/DC Microgrids

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1263 - 1270
Cited by:  Papers (225)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper summarizes the main problems and solutions of power quality in microgrids, distributed-energy-storage systems, and ac/dc hybrid microgrids. First, the power quality enhancement of grid-interactive microgrids is presented. Then, the cooperative control for enhance voltage harmonics and unbalances in microgrids is reviewed. Afterward, the use of static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) in... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Dynamic Programming-Based Optimal Control Scheme for Energy Storage Systems With Solar Renewable Energy

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):5468 - 5478
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In this paper, a novel optimal energy storage control scheme is investigated in smart grid environments with solar renewable energy. Based on the idea of adaptive dynamic programming (ADP), a self-learning algorithm is constructed to obtain the iterative control law sequence of the battery. Based on the data of the real-time electricity price (electricity rate in brief), the load demand (load in b... View full abstract»

• ### A Decentralized Dynamic Power Sharing Strategy for Hybrid Energy Storage System in Autonomous DC Microgrid

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):5930 - 5941
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Power allocation is a major concern in hybrid energy storage system. This paper proposes an extended droop control (EDC) strategy to achieve dynamic current sharing autonomously during sudden load change and resource variations. The proposed method consists of a virtual resistance droop controller and a virtual capacitance droop controller for energy storages with complementary characteristics, su... View full abstract»

• ### A Survey of Fault Diagnosis and Fault-Tolerant Techniques—Part I: Fault Diagnosis With Model-Based and Signal-Based Approaches

Publication Year: 2015, Page(s):3757 - 3767
Cited by:  Papers (123)
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With the continuous increase in complexity and expense of industrial systems, there is less tolerance for performance degradation, productivity decrease, and safety hazards, which greatly necessitates to detect and identify any kinds of potential abnormalities and faults as early as possible and implement real-time fault-tolerant operation for minimizing performance degradation and avoiding danger... View full abstract»

• ### Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Challenges, Design Principles, and Technical Approaches

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):4258 - 4265
Cited by:  Papers (562)  |  Patents (1)
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In today's competitive industry marketplace, the companies face growing demands to improve process efficiencies, comply with environmental regulations, and meet corporate financial objectives. Given the increasing age of many industrial systems and the dynamic industrial manufacturing market, intelligent and low-cost industrial automation systems are required to improve the productivity and effici... View full abstract»

• ### Digitally Implemented Charge Control for LLC Resonant Converters

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6159 - 6168
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This paper proposes a digitally implemented charge control for LLC resonant converters. By analyzing the small-signal characteristics of the resonant capacitor, it is revealed that the resonant capacitor has exactly the same functionality as a resettable integrator in the charge control for a PWM converter. Based on the analyzed results, the proposed charge control is implemented simply by sensing... View full abstract»

• ### Power Electronics and Motor Drives in Electric, Hybrid Electric, and Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2008, Page(s):2237 - 2245
Cited by:  Papers (461)  |  Patents (2)
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With the requirements for reducing emissions and improving fuel economy, automotive companies are developing electric, hybrid electric, and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Power electronics is an enabling technology for the development of these environmentally friendlier vehicles and implementing the advanced electrical architectures to meet the demands for increased electric loads. In this pape... View full abstract»

• ### Synchronverters: Inverters That Mimic Synchronous Generators

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):1259 - 1267
Cited by:  Papers (286)  |  Patents (2)
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In this paper, the idea of operating an inverter to mimic a synchronous generator (SG) is motivated and developed. We call the inverters that are operated in this way synchronverters. Using synchronverters, the well-established theory/algorithms used to control SGs can still be used in power systems where a significant proportion of the generating capacity is inverter-based. We describe the dynami... View full abstract»

• ### Distributed Energy Management in Smart Grid With Wind Power and Temporally Coupled Constraints

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6052 - 6062
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This paper investigates the problem of distributed energy management for both generation and demand sides in a smart grid by formulating the economic dispatch and demand response in a united framework. Our main contribution is to formulate a social welfare maximization problem for a more practical scenario by taking wind power, and temporally coupled constraints of the demands into account. The co... View full abstract»

• ### Multiple-Vector Model Predictive Power Control for Grid-Tied Wind Turbine System With Enhanced Steady-State Control Performance

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6287 - 6298
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Direct model predictive control (DMPC) is a promising alternative for power electronics and electric drives. It takes the switching nonlinearity of the power converters and system constraints into consideration, without using an extra modulator. However, its one-switching-vector-per-control-interval character leads to big ripples of the control variables. Therefore, with a similar sampling frequen... View full abstract»

• ### A Virtual Inertia Control Strategy for DC Microgrids Analogized With Virtual Synchronous Machines

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6005 - 6016
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In a dc microgrid (DC-MG), the dc bus voltage is vulnerable to power fluctuation derived from the intermittent distributed energy or local loads variation. In this paper, a virtual inertia control strategy for DC-MG through bidirectional grid-connected converters (BGCs) analogized with virtual synchronous machine (VSM) is proposed to enhance the inertia of the DC-MG, and to restrain the dc bus vol... View full abstract»

• ### A Simple Braking Method for Six-Phase Induction Motor Drives With Unidirectional Power Flow in the Base-Speed Region

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6032 - 6041
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Induction motor drives supplied from diode front-end rectifiers are commonly used in industrial applications due to their low cost and reliability. However, the two-quadrant operation of such a topology makes the regenerative braking impossible. Braking resistors can be used to dissipate the braking power and provide enhanced braking capability, but additional hardware is then necessary. Alternati... View full abstract»

• ### A Single-Phase Transformerless Inverter With Charge Pump Circuit Concept for Grid-Tied PV Applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):5403 - 5415
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This paper proposes a new single-phase transformerless photovoltaic (PV) inverter for grid-tied PV systems. The topology is derived from the concept of a charge pump circuit in order to eliminate the leakage current. It is composed of four power switches, two diodes, two capacitors, and an LCL output filter. The neutral of the grid is directly connected to the negative polarity of the PV panel tha... View full abstract»

• ### A Novel Single-Stage Single-Phase Reconfigurable Inverter Topology for a Solar Powered Hybrid AC/DC Home

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2820 - 2828
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This paper suggests a reconfigurable single-phase inverter topology for a hybrid ac/dc solar powered home. This inverter possesses a single-phase single-stage topology and the main advantage of this converter is that it can perform dc/dc, dc/ac, and grid tie operation, thus reducing loss, cost, and size of the converter. This hybrid ac/dc home has both ac and dc appliances. This type of home helps... View full abstract»

• ### Fixed-Frequency PWM-Controlled Bidirectional Current-Fed Soft-Switching Series-Resonant Converter for Energy Storage Applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6190 - 6201
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A fixed-frequency pulse width modulation (PWM) controlled bidirectional current-fed series-resonant converter is proposed in this paper. The proposed bidirectional resonant converter is derived based on integration of a bidirectional boost/buck converter and a dual-active-bridge series-resonant converter. The most attractive feature of the proposed bidirectional resonant converter is that its volt... View full abstract»

• ### Review of Nonisolated High-Step-Up DC/DC Converters in Photovoltaic Grid-Connected Applications

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):1239 - 1250
Cited by:  Papers (320)
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The photovoltaic (PV) grid-connected power system in the residential applications is becoming a fast growing segment in the PV market due to the shortage of the fossil fuel energy and the great environmental pollution. A new research trend in the residential generation system is to employ the PV parallel-connected configuration rather than the series-connected configuration to satisfy the safety r... View full abstract»

• ### A review of single-phase improved power quality AC-DC converters

Publication Year: 2003, Page(s):962 - 981
Cited by:  Papers (549)  |  Patents (1)
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Solid-state switch-mode rectification converters have reached a matured level for improving power quality in terms of power-factor correction (PFC), reduced total harmonic distortion at input AC mains and precisely regulated DC output in buck, boost, buck-boost and multilevel modes with unidirectional and bidirectional power flow. This paper deals with a comprehensive review of improved power qual... View full abstract»

• ### Energy Storage Systems for Transport and Grid Applications

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):3881 - 3895
Cited by:  Papers (365)  |  Patents (1)
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Energy storage systems (ESSs) are enabling technologies for well-established and new applications such as power peak shaving, electric vehicles, integration of renewable energies, etc. This paper presents a review of ESSs for transport and grid applications, covering several aspects as the storage technology, the main applications, and the power converters used to operate some of the energy storag... View full abstract»

• ### Design and Implementation of Shaped Magnetic-Resonance-Based Wireless Power Transfer System for Roadway-Powered Moving Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):1179 - 1192
Cited by:  Papers (190)
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In this paper, the design and implementation of a wireless power transfer system for moving electric vehicles along with an example of an online electric vehicle system are presented. Electric vehicles are charged on roadway by wireless power transfer technology. Electrical and practical designs of the inverter, power lines, pickup, rectifier, and regulator as well as an optimized core structure d... View full abstract»

• ### An Improved Resonant Frequency Based Systematic LCL Filter Design Method for Grid-Connected Inverter

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6412 - 6421
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Resonant frequency of an LCL filter in a grid-connected inverter is an important factor for control stability and grid-injected current quality. However, the constraints on resonant frequency are usually considered as an afterthought in conventional filter design methods. The fact that resonant frequency is affected by both internal and external factors during operation makes it even more critical... View full abstract»

• ### Grid Adaptive Power Management Strategy for an Integrated Microgrid With Hybrid Energy Storage

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):2884 - 2892
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The penetration of growing microgrid systems within the ac distribution network is leading to several challenges to have a safe and reliable operation of the power system. For the utility system, it is mandatory to maintain the voltage and frequency within the prescribed limits at the local bus under diverse conditions of the renewable energy sources (RESs), loads, and grid. With these conditions,... View full abstract»

• ### Development of Autonomous Car—Part I: Distributed System Architecture and Development Process

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):7131 - 7140
Cited by:  Papers (21)
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An autonomous car is a self-driving vehicle that has the capability to perceive the surrounding environment and navigate itself without human intervention. For autonomous driving, complex autonomous driving algorithms, including perception, localization, planning, and control, are required with many heterogeneous sensors, actuators, and computers. To manage the complexity of the driving algorithms... View full abstract»

• ### Evaluation of the Main MPPT Techniques for Photovoltaic Applications

Publication Year: 2013, Page(s):1156 - 1167
Cited by:  Papers (363)
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This paper presents evaluations among the most usual maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques, doing meaningful comparisons with respect to the amount of energy extracted from the photovoltaic (PV) panel [tracking factor (TF)] in relation to the available power, PV voltage ripple, dynamic response, and use of sensors. Using MatLab/Simulink and dSPACE platforms, a digitally controlled boost d... View full abstract»

• ### A Comparative Study of Energy Management Schemes for a Fuel-Cell Hybrid Emergency Power System of More-Electric Aircraft

Publication Year: 2014, Page(s):1320 - 1334
Cited by:  Papers (71)
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This paper presents a comparative analysis of different energy management schemes for a fuel-cell-based emergency power system of a more-electric aircraft. The fuel-cell hybrid system considered in this paper consists of fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, and supercapacitors, along with associated dc/dc and dc/ac converters. The energy management schemes addressed are state of the art and are most... View full abstract»

• ### Control of a Single-Phase Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems

Publication Year: 2009, Page(s):4399 - 4406
Cited by:  Papers (272)  |  Patents (1)
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This paper presents a single-phase cascaded H-bridge converter for a grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) application. The multilevel topology consists of several H-bridge cells connected in series, each one connected to a string of PV modules. The adopted control scheme permits the independent control of each dc-link voltage, enabling, in this way, the tracking of the maximum power point for each str... View full abstract»

• ### Torque Ripple and Harmonic Current Reduction in a Three-Level Inverter-Fed Direct-Torque-Controlled Five-Phase Induction Motor

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):5265 - 5275
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In a switching-table-based direct torque control method (ST-DTC), the torque ripple reduces with increasing number of levels of the torque comparator. The number of levels is decided by the availability of the number of voltage vectors according to the topology of the inverter. This paper proposes the seven-level torque comparator to reduce the torque ripple in the DTC-controlled five-phase induct... View full abstract»

• ### A Survey on Neutral-Point-Clamped Inverters

Publication Year: 2010, Page(s):2219 - 2230
Cited by:  Papers (520)
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Neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverters are the most widely used topology of multilevel inverters in high-power applications (several megawatts). This paper presents in a very simple way the basic operation and the most used modulation and control techniques developed to date. Special attention is paid to the loss distribution in semiconductors, and an active NPC inverter is presented to overcome th... View full abstract»

• ### Extended State Observer-Based Integral Sliding Mode Control for an Underwater Robot With Unknown Disturbances and Uncertain Nonlinearities

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6785 - 6795
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This paper develops a novel integral sliding mode controller (ISMC) for a general type of underwater robots based on multiple-input and multiple-output extended-state-observer (MIMO-ESO). The difficulties associated with the unmeasured velocities, unknown disturbances, and uncertain hydrodynamics of the robot have been successfully solved in the control design. An adaptive MIMO-ESO is designed not... View full abstract»

• ### Parameter Estimation of Asymmetrical Six-Phase Induction Machines Using Modified Standard Tests

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6075 - 6085
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In multiphase machine drives, accuracy of the estimated machine parameters is crucial for effective performance prediction and/or control. While a great amount of work has been done on parameter estimation for three-phase machines, corresponding discussions for six-phase machine remain scarce. It has been proven in the literature that the effect of mutual leakage inductance between different windi... View full abstract»

• ### Model Predictive Control for Power Converters and Drives: Advances and Trends

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):935 - 947
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Model predictive control (MPC) is a very attractive solution for controlling power electronic converters. The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the latest developments in MPC for power converters and drives, describing the current state of this control strategy and analyzing the new trends and challenges it presents when applied to power electronic systems. The paper revisits the operati... View full abstract»

• ### Energy Management and Operational Planning of a Microgrid With a PV-Based Active Generator for Smart Grid Applications

Publication Year: 2011, Page(s):4583 - 4592
Cited by:  Papers (320)  |  Patents (3)
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The development of energy management tools for next-generation PhotoVoltaic (PV) installations, including storage units, provides flexibility to distribution system operators. In this paper, the aggregation and implementation of these determinist energy management methods for business customers in a microgrid power system are presented. This paper proposes a determinist energy management system fo... View full abstract»

• ### Multilevel Voltage-Source-Converter Topologies for Industrial Medium-Voltage Drives

Publication Year: 2007, Page(s):2930 - 2945
Cited by:  Papers (879)  |  Patents (10)
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This paper presents a technology review of voltage-source-converter topologies for industrial medium-voltage drives. In this highly active area, different converter topologies and circuits have found their application in the market. This paper covers the high-power voltage-source inverter and the most used multilevel-inverter topologies, including the neutral-point-clamped, cascaded H-bridge, and ... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive Integral Sliding Mode Control With Time-Delay Estimation for Robot Manipulators

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6796 - 6804
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This paper presents an adaptive robust controller for robot manipulators using adaptive integral sliding mode control and time-delay estimation (TDE). The proposed controller employs TDE to estimate robot dynamics with uncertainties such as parameter variations and disturbances, an integral sliding surface to eliminate the reaching phase together with the noise-sensitive switching action used in t... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis of Square and Circular Planar Spiral Coils in Wireless Power Transfer System for Electric Vehicles

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Nowadays, wireless power transfer (WPT) has attracted great attention of researchers because it is a safe, convenient and reliable way for recharging electric vehicles. Square and circular coils are most commonly used in WPT systems. However, there is few analysis of comparing these two geometry windings in detail. In this paper, two analytical models of both square and circular planar spiral coil... View full abstract»

• ### Current control techniques for three-phase voltage-source PWM converters: a survey

Publication Year: 1998, Page(s):691 - 703
Cited by:  Papers (1010)  |  Patents (2)
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The aim of this paper is to present a review of current control techniques for three-phase voltage-source pulsewidth modulated converters. Various techniques, different in concept, have been described in two main groups: linear and nonlinear. The first includes proportional integral (stationary and synchronous) and state feedback controllers, and predictive techniques with constant switching frequ... View full abstract»

• ### Battery Charging Profile-Based Parameter Design of a 6.78-MHz Class $E^2$ Wireless Charging System

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s):6169 - 6178
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Wireless power transfer (WPT) working at several megahertz (MHz), 6.78 or 13.56 MHz, is widely considered to be a promising candidate for charging electronic devices. The so-called Class E2 converters combining the soft-switching-based Class E power amplifier (PA) and Class E rectifier are known to be suitable for high-frequency applications with improved efficiency. However, the chargi... View full abstract»

• ### Design considerations for a contactless electric vehicle battery charger

Publication Year: 2005, Page(s):1308 - 1314
Cited by:  Papers (533)  |  Patents (10)
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This paper overviews theoretical and practical design issues related to inductive power transfer systems and verifies the developed theory using a practical electric vehicle battery charger. The design focuses on the necessary approaches to ensure power transfer over the complete operating range of the system. As such, a new approach to the design of the primary resonant circuit is proposed, where... View full abstract»

• ### Predictive Current Control of a Voltage Source Inverter

Publication Year: 2007, Page(s):495 - 503
Cited by:  Papers (566)
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This paper presents a predictive current control method and its application to a voltage source inverter. The method uses a discrete-time model of the system to predict the future value of the load current for all possible voltage vectors generated by the inverter. The voltage vector which minimizes a quality function is selected. The quality function used in this work evaluates the current error ... View full abstract»

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