Power electronics

  • Modeling, control, and implementation of converters
  • Current-source converter-based Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) devices
  • Photo-voltaic grid-connected inverters
  • Fuel-cell inverter (residential and transportation)
  • Microturbine-based distributed power generation
  • Static frequency changers (cycloconverters and matrix converters)
  • Power quality, active power filter
  • Modeling and optimization of battery-electric, hybrid-electric and fuel-cell vehicles
  • Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) and Electric Vehicles (EVs)
  • Smart grid

Market interests

These issues are of great interest to power industry, in general, and power supply, motor drive, and power systems industries, in specific.   

Experimental setup of a current-sourced converter-based (static synchronous compensator) STATCOM
Experimental setup of a current-sourced converter-based (static synchronous compensator) STATCOM

Experimental setup of a current-sourced converter-based (static synchronous compensator) STATCOM