Our Research Group consists of 16 RAs and PhD students.
Ranjan Gupta (now with GE) and Apurva Somani (a PhD candidate): chosen as the recipients of the 2011 Student Best Paper Award, The Industrial Electronics Society of the IEEE for the following paper: R.K. Gupta, K.K. Mohapatra, A. Somani, and N. Mohan, "Direct-Matrix-Converter-Based Drive for a Three-Phase Open-End-Winding AC Machine With Advanced Features," Trans. IE vol.57, no.12, pp.4032-4042, Dec. 2010.
Journals (published)
1. Gupta, R. K.; Mohapatra, K. K.; Somani, A.; Mohan, N. , "Direct-Matrix-Converter-Based Drive for a Three-Phase Open-End-Winding AC Machine With Advanced Features," Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.57, no.12, pp.4032-4042, Dec. 2010
Journals (accepted)
2. Elias Ayana, Paul Plahn, Krzysztof Wejrzanowski, and Ned Mohan "Active Torque Cancellation for Transmitted Vibration Reduction of Low Cylinder Count Engines", accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2010.
3. Saurabh Tewari, Charles J. Geyer and Ned Mohan "A Statistical Model for Wind Power Forecast Error and its Application to the Estimation of Penalties in Liberalized Markets", accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
Journals (submitted – not accepted yet)
4. Ranjan K. Gupta, K. K. Mohapatra and Ned Mohan, "Improvement of the voltage gain of a matrix-converter-based open-end-winding drive without output common-mode voltage" – under review, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
5. Apurva Somani, Ranjan Gupta, Ned Mohan, "On the Causes of Circulating Currents in PWM Drives with Open-End Winding AC Machines" to the Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
Conferences (published)
6. Shah, J.; Gupta, R.K.; Mohapatra, K.K.; Mohan, N.; , "Power management with a dynamic power limit by a power electronic transformer for micro-grid," Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.1-5, 25-29 July 2010.
7. Elias Ayana, Steve Seidlitz, Sze Kwan Cheah and Ned Mohan "Torque Impulse for Experimental Modal Analysis in Transmitted Vibration Study of Engine-generators", IEEE APEC, Palm Springs, CA, 2010.
8. Shabari Nath, K. K. Mohapatra and Ned Mohan, "Output Voltage Regulation in Matrix Converter fed Power Electronic Transformer for Power Systems application in Electric Ship", IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium, pp.203-206, 20-22 April 2009
9. Nath, S.; Mohapatra, K.K.; Basu, K.; Mohan, N.; , "Source based commutation in matrix converter fed power electronic transformer for power systems application," Power Electronics Electrical Drives Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM), 2010 International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.1682-1686, 14-16 June 2010
10. K.K. Mohapatra, Ned Mohan "Matrix converter fed open-ended power electronic transformer for power system application", Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Conversion and Delivery of Electrical Energy in the 21st Century, 2008 IEEE.
11. Ranjan K. Gupta, K. K. Mohapatra and Ned Mohan "A novel three-phase, switched multi-winding power electronic transformer", IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp 2696 - 2703 ECCE 2009, San Jose, California.
12. Ranjan K. Gupta, K. K. Mohapatra and Ned Mohan "Novel Topologies of Power Electronic Transformers with Reduced Switch-Count", proc. GCMS 2009, 2009 Conference on Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation (GCMS'09), Istanbul, Turkey
13. Ranjan K. Gupta, Gysler F. Castelsino, K. K. Mohapatra and Ned Mohan "A Novel Integrated Three-Phase, Switched Multi-Winding Power Electronic Transformer Converter for Wind Generation System", IECON 2009, 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Elec-tronics society, pp 4481-4486, Nov. 2009, Portugal.
14. Gupta, R.K.; Mohapatra, K.K.; Mohan, N., "Open-end winding AC drives with enhanced reactive power support to the grid while eliminating switching common-mode voltage," Industrial Electronics, 2009. IECON '09. 35th Annual Conference of IEEE , vol., no., pp.700-707, 3-5 Nov. 2009
15. Gupta, R.K.; Somani, A.; Mohapatra, K.K.; Mohan, N.; , "Space vector PWM for a direct matrix converter based open-end winding ac drives with enhanced capabilities," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), 2010 Twenty-Fifth Annual IEEE , vol., no., pp.901-908, 21-25 Feb. 2010
16. Basu, K.; Somani, A.; Mohapatra, K.K.; Mohan, N.; "A three-phase ac/ac power electronic transformer-based PWM ac drive with lossless commutation of leakage energy", SPEEDAM-IEEE, June 2010.
17. Basu, K.; Mohan, N.; "A Power Electronic Transformer for Three Phase PWM AC/AC Drive with Loss Less Commutation and Common-mode Voltage Suppression ", IECON-IEEE, November 2010.
18. Basu, K.; Gupta, R.K.; Nath, S.; Castelino, G.F.; Mohapatra, K.K.; Mohan, N.; "Research in matrix-converter based three-phase power-electronic transformers", IPEC-IEEE, June 2010.
19. Kaushik Basu, Amod C Umarikar, Krushna K Mohapatra and Ned Mohan, "High-Frequency Transformer- Link Three-Level Inverter Drive with Common-Mode Voltage Elimination", PESC '08.
20. Kaushik Basu, Amod C Umarikar, Krushna K Mohapatra and Ned Mohan, "Loss Estimation in High Frequency AC Link Power Electronic Transformer by SABER Simulation", Proc. SCS Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation (GCMS'08), 2008, Edinburgh, Scotland
21. Basu, K.; Mohan, N.; "A Power Electronic Transformer for PWM AC Drive with lossless Commutation and Common-mode Voltage Suppression", PEDES-IEEE, December 2010.
22. G. Castelino, K. Basu, R. Gupta, and N. Mohan, "Power electronic transformer with reduced number of switches: Analysis of input clamp circuit and a modulation strategy to eliminate input snubber requirement", IECON, 2010
23. G. Castelino, K. Basu, and N. Mohan, "Power Electronic Transformer with Reduced Number of Switches: Analysis of Clamp Circuit for Leakage Energy Commutation", PEDES 2010.
24. Somani, A.; Gupta, R.K.; Mohapatra, K.K.; Mohan, N.; , "Circulating currents in open-end winding PWM ac drives," IECON 2010 - 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society , vol., no., pp.798-804, 7-10 Nov. 2010
Conferences (accepted)
25. Jalpa Shah, Bruce F. Wollenberg, and Ned Mohan, "Decentralized Power flow control for a Smart Micro Grid," accepted but not published yet at IEEE PES General Meeting, 2011
26. Jalpa Shah, Rashmi Prasad, ShabriNath, Ned Mohan; "A Novel Dynamic Power Limiter for smart micro grid," accepted but not published yet IEEE PSCE, 2011
27. Shabari Nath and Ned Mohan, "A Matrix Converter fed Sinusoidal Input Output Three winding High Frequency Transformer with Zero Common Mode Voltage", accepted in IEEE POWERENG May 2011
28. Shabari Nath and Ned Mohan, "A Solid Sate Power Converter with Sinusoidal Currents in High Frequency Transformer for Power System Applications", accepted in IEEE ICIT-SSST March 2011
Conferences (submitted – not accepted yet)
29. Saurabh Tewari and Ned Mohan, "Optimal Strategy to Dispatch Storage in Real-Time Markets", submitted for review to SCS Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation (GCMS'11)
30. Shabari Nath and Ned Mohan, "A Matrix Converter fed Sinusoidal Input Output High Frequency Transformer for Power System Applications", submitted for review to SCS Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation (GCMS'11)
31. Kaushik Basu, Shabari Nath and Ned Mohan, "Input Filter Design of a Current Source Inverter or a Front End Rectifier: Analysis and Simulation", submitted for review to SCS Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation (GCMS'11)
Poster Papers
Three posters at the IREE-sponsored E3 2010 Conference, St. Paul, MN Nov 30 – Dec 1, 2010
Several posters at the ONR/NSF Faculty Workshop – Tucson, Arizona Feb 2010
U.S. Patent Issued and pending:
1. Ned Mohan, Krushna K. Mohapatra, Satish Thuta, Gaurav K. Aggarwal and Philip Jose, "Carrier-based Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) Control for Matrix Converters," U.S. Patent No. 7,869,236, issued January 11, 2011.
2. Ned Mohan and Krushna Mohapatra, Open-Ended Control for Electrical Apparatus, US 2008/0049460 A1 (pending)
3. R. Gupta, K. Mohapatra, N. Mohan, G. Castelino, K. Basu And N. Weise, Soft Switching Power Electronic Transformer, Application Number: 61/224,790, Filing Date: July 10, 2009
Faculty Workshop - February 2012 - The workshop on "Electric Energy Systems Curriculum for Sustainability" was held from February 2 to 5 at Napa, California. More details here.
A 3-year ONR grant received to “Center for Developing and Disseminating a Graduate/Undergraduate Curriculum in Electric Energy Systems to Universities and Practicing Engineers”
ONR-NSF Faculty Workshop - August 2011- ONR-NSF Sponsored Faculty Development Workshop (August 10-13, Minneapolis, Minnesota). More details here.
Faculty Workshop - February 2011 - The workshop on Reforming Electric Energy Systems Curriculum was held from February 4 to 5 at Napa, California. More details here.