2015 IEEE 16th Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL 2015) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 12-15 July 2015 —gg, m mm mm IEEE ISBN: Catalog Number: CFP15COM-POD 978-1-4673-6848-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS LOSSLESS VOLTAGE REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE RESONANT SWITCHED- CAPACITOR DC-DC CONVERTER Li, Yongjun ; John, Mervin ; Poon, 1 Jason ; Chen, R. Jikang; Sanders, Seth ANALYTICAL CALCULATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR CURRENT STRESSES AND CONTROL OF STEP-UP MATRIX CONVERTER FOR THE INTEGRATION OF WIND ENERGY RESOURCES TO MICROGRIDS Kuseso, Onai; 8 Shishaye, Tsegazeab; Xiaohua, Wu; Nyarko, James K.N. AUTONOMOUS CONTROL OF SERIES-CONNECTED LOW VOLTAGE PHOTOVOLTAIC MICROINVERTERS 16 Lu, Fenglong; Choi, Beomseok; Maksimovic, Dragan ARCHITECTURE AND CONTROL OF A HIGH ENERGY DENSITY BUFFER FOR POWER PULSATION DECOUPLING IN GRID-INTERFACED APPLICATIONS Qin, Shibin ; Lei, Yutian ; Barth, Christopher; Liu, Wen-Chuen ; 22 Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C.N. 27.12MHZ GAN BI-DIRECTIONAL RESONANT POWER CONVERTER 30 Gu, Lei; Liang, Wei; Raymond, Luke C. ; Rivas-Davila, Juan NONLINEAR SUPERSETS TO DROOP CONTROL Sinha, Mohit; Dhople, Sairaj; Johnson, Brian ; 37 Ainsworth, Nathan ; Dorfler, Florian PEGO POWERPACK: A MODULAR POWER ELECTRONICS LEARNING PLATFORM Krosschell, Justin ; Li, Ye; Channegowda, Parikshith ; Gupta, Mahima ; 43 Venkataramanan, Giri SIMULATION OF SMART FUNCTIONALITIES OF PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTERS BY INTERFACING OPENDSS AND MATLAB Meghasai; Monger, S. Vega, ; 48 R. ; Krishnaswami, H. A DISTRIBUTED BI-DIRECTIONAL HYSTERESIS CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR SERVER- TO-VIRTUAL BUS DIFFERENTIAL POWER PROCESSING 53 Candan, Enver; Shenoy, Pradeep S.; Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C.N. VOLTAGE REGULATION OF A SERIES-STACKED SYSTEM OF PROCESSORS BY DIFFERENTIAL POWER PROCESSING Das, Dipanjan ; 61 Krein, Philip T. 13.56 MHZ HIGH VOLTAGE MULTI-LEVEL RESONANT DC-DC CONVERTER Raymond, Luke; Liang, Wei; Gu, Lei; Davila, UNIFYING DISTRIBUTED SYNCHRONY AND OPTIMALITY IN DC MICROGRIDS Moayedi, 68 Juan Rivas 76 S. ; Davoudi, A. AN ANALYTICAL METHOD TO EVALUATE FLYING CAPACITOR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS AND HYBRID SWITCHED-CAPACITOR CONVERTERS FOR LARGE VOLTAGE CONVERSION RATIOS 82 Lei, Yutian ; Liu, Wen-Chuen ; Pilawa-Podgurski, Robert C.N. ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER FLOW ANALYSIS OF A STATCOM WITH VIRTUAL SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE CONTROL Li, Chi; Burgos, Rolando ; 89 Cvetkovic, Igor; Boroyevich, Dushan A STEP-SUPERPOSITION BASED ANALYSIS APPROACH TO MODELING RESONANT CONVERTERS 97 Lu, Jie; Kumar, Ashish ; Afridi, Khurram K ANALYSIS OF CAPACITOR VOLTAGE RIPPLE MINIMIZATION IN MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER BASED ON AVERAGE MODEL Marzoughi, Alinaghi; Burgos, Rolando; Boroyevich, 104 Dushan ; Xue, Yaosuo ENHANCED-ACCURACY AUGMENTED STATE-SPACE APPROACH TO STEADY-STATE MODELING OF RESONANT CONVERTERS Kumar, Ashish ; 111 Lu, Jie; Afridi, Khurram K. THREE PHASE TRANSFORMATION FOR SIMPLIFIED SPACE VECTOR CONTROL OF MULTILEVEL INVERTERS Schafer, Markus ; Goetze, 117 Wolf; Hofmann, Martin ; Montesinos-Miracle, Daniel; Ackva, Ansgar MODELING AND CONTROL OF GRID-CONNECTED VOLTAGE-SOURCE CONVERTERS EMULATING ISOTROPIC AND ANISOTROPIC SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES 124 Cvetkovic, I.; Boroyevich, D.; Burgos, R.; Chi Li; Mattavelli, P. ASSESSMENT OF MEDIUM VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION FEEDERS UNDER HIGH PENETRATION OF PV GENERATION Tang, Ye; Burgos, Rolando ; Li, Chi; Boroyevich, Dushan 129 WIND POWER GENERATION WITH DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR FOR DC CONNECTED OFFSHORE WIND FARM So, Takahiro ; 135 Kimura, Noriyuki; Morizane, Toshimitsu; Omori, Hideki CONTROL OF FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS AS VIRTUAL SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES FOR MICROGRIDS 141 Pena-Alzola, Rafael; Campos-Gaona, David; Ordonez, Martin SIMULATION BASED OPTIMAL DESIGN AND SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT OF A VECTORCONTROLLED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE USING A MULTI-MODAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM Goharrizi, A. 148 Y. ; Filizadeh, S. ; Gole, A.M.; Singh, R. A BIDIRECTIONAL MULTI-PORT DC-DC CONVERTER WITH REDUCED FILTER REQUIREMENTS Han, Yuanzheng; Ranjram, Mike 153 ; Lehn, Peter W. GENERALIZED MULTIVARIABLE SMALL-SIGNAL MODEL OF THREE-PHASE GRID- CONNECTED INVERTER IN DQ-DOMAIN Messo, Tuomas ; Aapro, Aapo; Suntio, Teuvo 159 IMPACT OF DIFFERENTIAL POWER PROCESSING ON INTER-ROW SHADING IN SOLAR ARRAYS 167 Galtieri, Jason ; Krein, Philip T. SWITCHED LINEAR STATE SPACE MODELING OF SOFT FAULTS IN DC/DC CONVERTERS USING AN OBSERVER 175 Tsinetakes, John EFFECT OF ACTIVE DAMPING ON THE OUTPUT IMPEDANCE OF PV INVERTER 181 Aapro, Aapo ; Messo, Tuomas ; Suntio, Teuvo DESIGN OF RESONANCE DAMPING VIA CONTROL SYNTHESIS Zhang, Richard Y.; Avestruz, Al-Thaddeus; White, Jacob K.; Leeb, 189 Steven B. SKIP-DUTY CONTROL METHOD FOR MINIMIZING SWITCHING STRESS IN LOW-POWER MULTI-LEVEL DC-DC CONVERTERS 198 Vukadinovic, Nenad; Prodic, Aleksandar; Miwa, Brett A. ; Arnold, Cory B.; Baker, Michael W. HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP SIMULATION OF PV SYSTEMS IN MICRO-GRIDS USING SYSML MODELS Gutierrez, A. ; 205 Chamorro, H.R. ; Jimenez, J.F. ; Villa, L.F.L.; Alonso, C. PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION OF PARAMETRIC AVERAGE-VALUE MODEL OF LINECOMMUTATED RECTIFIERS UNDER UNBALANCED CONDITIONS 210 Ebrahimi, Seyyedmilad; Amiri, Navid; Atighechi, Hamid; Jatskevich, Juri; Wang, Liwei A SINGLE-SOURCED TRANSFORMER-LESS ASYMMETRIC MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER 216 Ahmed, Ashraf; Irfan, Mohammad Sameer; Park, Joung-Hu MODELLING AND CONTROL OF SINGLE-INPUT AND MULTIPLE-OUTPUT MODULAR CONVERTER SYSTEMS 222 Ye Li; Yehui Han ON-LINE REDUCTION OF SWITCHING LOSSES AND COMMON-MODE VOLTAGES OF MULTI-LEVEL PWM INVERTER BY A NEW SPACE VECTOR MODULATION 230 Kato, Toshiji; Inoue, Kaora; Aki, Ariyasu; Azabu, Masashi STABILITY ANALYSIS FOR GRID-CONNECTED THREE-PHASE INVERTER WITH LCL FILTERS 236 Kato, Toshiji; Inoue, Kaoru; Akiyama, Yusuke; Ohashi, Koki POWER-FLOW SENSITIVITIES IN DC DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS Purba, Victor; Chen, Yu Christine ; 243 Dhople, Sairaj V. SMALL-SIGNAL MODELING OF COMBINED PHASE SHIFT AND PULSE WIDTH UNIFORMLY SAMPLED MODULATORS Scandola, Luca; Corradini, Luca ; 248 Spiazzi, Giorgio MINIMUM-TIME WITHIN A DEVIATION-CONSTRAINED HYBRID CONTROLLER FOR BOOST CONVERTERS Kirshenboim, O.; Peretz, 255 M.M. A GENERALIZED CONTROL DESIGN APPROACH FOR A REPETITIVE CONTROLLER ON CURRENT HARMONICS Schulting, P. ; van 261 der Broeck, CM. ; De Doncker, R. W. NOVEL MODULATION CONCEPT OF THE SWISS RECTIFIER PREVENTING INPUT CURRENT DISTORTIONS AT SECTOR BOUNDARIES Schrittwieser, L. ; Kolar, J.W.; Soeiro, T.B. 269 SYNTHESIS OF SWITCHED-CAPACITOR POWER CONVERTERS: AN ITERATIVE ALGORITHM Karadi, 277 Ravi MULTI-HARMONIC SMALL-SIGNAL MODELING OF DIGITALLY CONTROLLED DC-DC SERIES RESONANT CONVERTERS 281 Scandola, Luca; Corradini, Luca; Spiazzi, Giorgio ENERGY EFFICIENT DC TO AC POWER CONVERSION USING ADVANCED CONTROLLERS AND NOVEL VOLTAGE TRAJECTORIES 289 Mohebbi, Mohammad; Mclntyre, Michael L. ; Latham, Joseph VEHICLE TO GRID UTILIZING A BACKSTEPPING CONTROLLER FOR BIDIRECTIONAL FULL-BRIDGE CONVERTER AND FIVE LEVEL ACTIVE NEUTRAL POINT INVERTER Mohebbi, Mohammad; Mclntyre, Michael L. ; 297 Latham, Joseph NONLINEAR CURRENT OBSERVER FOR BACKSTEPPING CONTROL OF BUCK-TYPE CONVERTERS 304 Mclntyre, M.L. Mohebbi, M.; Latham, J. ; REDUCED DYNAMIC MODEL OF A MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER IN POWERFACTORY Spallarossa, 311 C.E. ; Merlin, M.M.C. ; Pipelzadeh, Y. ; Green, T.C. DYNAMIC MODELING OF SELF-OSCILLATING RESONANT CONVERTERS Olalla, Carlos; Bonache-Samaniego, Ricardo; Martinez-Salamero, 318 Luis IMPLEMENTING ADAPTIVE DIGITAL CONTROL ON AN EXISTING LLC DC-DC RESONANT CONVERTER Lei, Yubo Kevin ; 326 Dunford, William; Craciun, Marian ; Gautam, Deepak A CL-LC FILTER FOR HIGH-POWER PWM CURRENT-SOURCE DRIVE SYSTEMS POWER 334 Yun Wei Zhang, Ye; Li, QUALITY IMPROVEMENT USING AN ADVANCED CONTROL OF A FOUR-LEG MULTILEVEL CONVERTER 342 Vechiu, Ionel; Etxeberria, Aitor; Tabart, Quentin USING THE ARDUINO UNO TO TEACH DIGITAL CONTROL OF POWER ELECTRONICS 348 Muller, Lukas ; Mohammed, Masihuddin ; Kimball, Jonathan W. CONCEPT OF SYNTHESIZING MODULAR POWER SUPPLY FOR INTERFACING DIVERSE ENERGY SOURCES AND LOADS Tong, Yajian ; 356 Shan, Zhenyu; Ho, Carl N.M. ; Jatskevich, Juri PARAMETRIC AVERAGE VALUE MODELING OF HIGH POWER AC/AC CYCLO CONVERTERS 361 Ebrahimi, Seyyedmilad; Amiri, Navid; Atighechi, Hamid; Jatskevich, Juri; Wang, Liwei FLYBACK-CONVERTER-BASED SOURCE IDENTIFICATION FOR INVESTIGATION OF DYNAMIC STABILITY WITH CONSTANT POWER LOADS 367 Pizniur, Oleksandr; Shan, Zhenyu; Jatskevich, Juri 100 MHZ ISOLATED DC-DC RESONANT CONVERTER USING SPIRAL PLANAR PCB TRANSFORMER 374 Sepahvand, Alihossein ; Zhang, Yuanzhe; Maksimovic, Dragan HIGH POWER TRANSFER DENSITY AND HIGH EFFICIENCY 100 MHZ CAPACITIVE WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEM Sepahvand, Alihossein ; Kumar, Ashish ; 382 Afridi, Khurram; Maksimovic, Dragan OUTPHASING CONTROL OF GALLIUM NITRIDE BASED VERY HIGH FREQUENCY RESONANT CONVERTERS Madsen, Mickey P. ; 386 Knott, Arnold; Andersen, Michael A.E. ; Perreault, David J. MODELING AND SIMULATION OF DC POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS USING HARMONIC STATE SPACE (HSS) METHOD Wang, Xiongfei; Bak, Claus Leth ; Blaabjerg, Kwon, Jun Bum ; 393 Frede MODEL REFERENCE CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR STABILIZING CONSTANT POWER LOADS IN AN OFFSHORE MEDIUM VOLTAGE DC MICROGRID Grainger, B.M. ; Reed, G.F.; 401 Zhi-Hong Mao REAL-TIME PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANT MAXIMUM POWER POINT ESTIMATION FOR USE IN GRID FREQUENCY STABILIZATION Hoke, Anderson ; 409 Muljadi, Eduard; Maksimovic, Dragan REAL-TIME STUDIES ON AN IMPROVED MODULAR STACKED TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Amitkumar, KS. ; Ilamparithi, 416 T. INTERLEAVED FLYBACK BASED MICRO-INVERTER FOR RESIDENTIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATION IN REMOTE AREAS 424 Umuhoza, Janviere; Zhang, Yuzhi; Liu, Yusi; Moquin, Joe ; Farnell, Chris; Mantooth, H.Alan MODELING AND CONTROL OF A STEP-DOWN COMPOSITE DC-DC CONVERTER 430 Schultheis, Friedrich ; Maksimovic, Dragan FUNDAMENTAL EXAMINATION OF MULTIPLE POTENTIAL PASSIVE COMPONENT TECHNOLOGIES FOR FUTURE POWER ELECTRONICS Kyaw, Phyo Aung; Sullivan, Charles 436 R. ESTIMATING SWITCHING LOSS AND CORE LOSS IN DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGE DC-DC 445 CONVERTERS Juri Zhang, Kai; Shan, Zhenyu; Jatskevich, PERTURBATION OPTIMIZATION OF MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING OF PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS BASED ON PRACTICAL SOLAR IRRADIANCE DATA 451 Du, Yang; Li, Xingshuo ; Wen, Huiqing; Xiao, Weidong POWER LOSS ANALYSIS WITH HIGH PRIMARY CURRENT IN MAGNETIC ENERGY 456 HARVESTERS Moon, Jinyeong; Leeb, Steven B. COMPARISON OF PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERTER CONFIGURATIONS FOR WEARABLE 464 APPLICATIONS Lee, Hyunji; Kim, Katherine A. PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF STEADY-STATE AND TRANSIENT OPERATION OF OFFSHORE WIND FARM HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION 470 Safaeian, Reza; Ebrahimi, Seyyedmilad; Parniani, Mostafa CONTROL OF A SERIES-INPUT, PARALLEL-OUTPUT CELL BALANCING SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY PACKS 477 Rehman, M.Muneeb Ur; Zhang, Fan ; Evzelman, Michael; Zane, Regan ; Maksimovic, Dragan HIGH-FREQUENCY RESONANT GATE DRIVER FOR GAN HEMTS 484 Yan, Yue ; Martinez-Perez, Antonio ; Castellazzi, Alberto EXPLOITING CLOUD COMPUTING IN THE MULTI-PHYSICS DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES Simpson, 490 N. ; Mellor, P.H. DESIGN ASPECTS OF MULTI-PHASE INTERLEAVED RESONANT SWITCHED-CAPACITOR CONVERTERS WITH MM-SCALE AIR-CORE INDUCTORS 498 Schaef, Christopher; Reese, Bradley; Sidlivan, Charles R. ; Stauth, Jason T. A CONTROL TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE A LOW COST FLICKER-FREE SINGLE STAGE 503 LED DRIVER WITH POWER FACTOR CORRECTION White, Brian ; Liu, Yan-Fei; Liu, Xiaodong RESONANT AND MULTI-MODE OPERATION OF FLYING CAPACITOR MULTI-LEVEL DCDC CONVERTERS 509 Kesarwani, Kapil; Stauth, Jason T. APPLICATION OF THREE-PHASE UNFOLDER IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE DRIVETRAIN Chen, W. Warren ; 517 Zane, Regan OSCILLATORY PHENOMENA BETWEEN WIND FARMS AND HVDC SYSTEMS: THE 525 IMPACT OF CONTROL Amin, Mohammad; Molinas, Marta ; Lyu, Jing EVALUATION OF ACTIVE FREQUENCY DRIFT ANTI-ISLANDING METHODS WITH A SINGLE-PHASE GRID-TIE PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTER Reis, Marcos V.G. Ruppert, ; Villalva, Marcelo G. ; Barros, TarcioA.S. ; Moreira, Adson B. 533 ; Nascimento, F.Paulo S.; F.Ernesto DAMPING OF SUBSYNCHRONOUS RESONANCE INVOLVING TYPE-III WIND TURBINES 540 Vieto, Ignacio ; Sun, Jian SOFT-STARTING PROCEDURE FOR DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGE CONVERTER 548 Giuliani, Francesco; Delmonte, Nicola; Cova, Paolo; Costabeber, Alessandro; Castellazzi, Alberto MODEL-BASED DESIGN OF A MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER WITH MINIMIZED 554 DESIGN MARGINS Mehrabadi, Niloofar Rashidi; Burgos, Rolando; Boroyevich, Dushan ; Roy, Christopher ONLINE SPECTROSCOPIC DIAGNOSTICS IMPLEMENTED IN AN EFFICIENT BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 561 Din, Eric; Schaef, Christopher; Moffat, Keith ; Stauth, Jason T. SIMULINK BASED HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP RAPID PROTOTYPING OF AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE BATTERY BALANCING CONTROLLER Hongjie Wang; Rehman, M.M.U.; Evzelman, M. ; Zane, R. 568 LOW POWER ALL DIGITAL ACOUSTIC NOISE SUPPRESSION TECHNIQUE FOR SWITCHING VOLTAGE REGULATORS 574 Matthew, George E; Krishnamurthy, Harish K; Ravichandran, Krishnan ; Proefrock, Wayne; Kumar, Pavan Weng, Sheldon ; Sankarnarayan, Karthik; Gullbrand, Jessica; Beltman, Willem Marco ; CONTROL AND DESIGN OF FULL-BRIDGE THREE-LEVEL CONVERTER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES Yao, Zhilei; Xu, Jing; Guerrero, Josep M. 580 POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR MICROBIAL FUEL CELL POWERED WATER QUALITY MONITORING SYSTEM 586 Gao, Hongwei; Chen, Qi; Yang, Qing STRATEGY FOR MODELING A 3-PHASE GRID-TIE VSC WITH LCL FILTER AND CONTROLLING THE DC-LINK VOLTAGE AND OUTPUT CURRENT CONSIDERING THE FILTER DYNAMICS Filho, Paulo Sergio Nascimento ; dos Santos Barros, Tarcio Andre ; Reis, Marcos Vinicios Gomes Marcelo Gradella; Filho, Ernesto Ruppert ; 592 Villalva, FAULT MODELING AND SIMULATION FOR MORE-ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS 600 Sridharan, Christopher Mak Srikanthan; Krein, Philip T. STATE-OF-CHARGE ESTIMATION BASED ON MICROCONTROLLER-IMPLEMENTED SIGMA-POINT KALMAN FILTER IN A MODULAR CELL BALANCING SYSTEM FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY PACKS Zhang, Fan ; Rehman, M.Muneeb Ur; Maksimovic, Dragan Author Index 606 Wang, Hongjie; Levron, Yoash ; Plett, Gregory; Zane, Regan ;