Recent Publications December 2012 Papers in refereed journals In Press 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. M. Popat, B.Wu and N. Zargari, "Fault Ride-Through Capability of Cascaded Current-Source Converter-Based Offshore Wind Farm," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, in press (available on IEEE Xplore), 2012. E. Al-Nabi, B. Wu, N. Zargari, and V. Sood, “Sensorless Control of CSC-Fed IPM Machine for Zero and Low Speed operation Using Pulsating HFI Method,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, in press(available on IEEE Xplore), 2012. M. Rivera, V. Yaramasu, A. Llor, J. Rodriguez, B. Wu, and M. Fadel, "Digital Predictive Current Control of a Three-Phase Four-Leg Inverter," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, in press (available on IEEE Xplore), 2012. J.C. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. R. Zargari, "Phase-Shifting Transformer Fed Multimodular Matrix Converter Operated by a New Modulation Strategy," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, in press (available on IEEE Xplore), 2012. S. Alepuz, A. Calle, S. Busquets, S. Kouro, and B.Wu, "Use of Stored Energy in PMSG Rotor Inertia for Low Voltage Ride-Through in Backto-back NPC Converter Based Wind Power Systems" IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, in press (available on IEEE Xplore), 2012. J.C. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. R. Zargari, "Indirect Space Vector Based Modulation Techniques for High-Power Multi-Modular Matrix Converters," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, in press (available on IEEE Xplore), 2012. Published 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. N. Zhu, D. Xu, B. Wu, N. Zargari, M. Kazerani, and F. Liu, "Common-Mode Voltage Reduction Methods for Current-Source Converters in Medium-Voltage Drives, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.28, No. 2, pp995-1006, 2013. W.H.Li, D.Xu, B.Wu, Y.Zhao, H.Yang, X.He, "Zero-voltage-switching dual-boost converter with multi-functional inductors and improved symmetrical rectifier for distributed generation systems", IET Power Electronics, Vol.5, Issue 7, pp.969–977, October 2012. M. Popat, B.Wu and N. Zargari, “A Novel Decoupled Interconnecting Method for Current Source Converter Based Offshore Wind farms,” IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, Vol.27, No.10, pp.4224-4233, Oct. 2012. S. Kouro, J. Rodríguez, B. Wu, S. Bernet and M. Leiva, “High Power Adjustable Speed Drives Topologies - Powering the Future of Industry,” IEEE Industrial Applications Magazine, Vol.18, Issue 4, pp.26-39, July/August 2012. M. Popat, B.Wu, F.R. Liu and N. Zargari, “Coordinated Control of Cascaded Current-Source Converter Based Offshore Wind Farm,” IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp.557-565, July 2012. F.R. Liu, B. Wu, M. Pande, N. Zargari, “Zero-speed operation of high-power PWM current-source-inverter fed induction motor drive,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol.27, No.6, pp.3020-3027, June 2012. I.M. Syed, B. Venkatesh, B. Wu, and A.B. Nassif, "Two-layer control scheme for a Supercapacitor Energy Storage System coupled to a Doubly Fed Induction Generator," Electric Power Systems Research (EPSR), Elsevier, Vol.86, pp.76–83, May 2012. W.H. Li, W.C. Li, X.N. He, D. Xu and B. Wu, “General Derivation Law of Non-Isolated High Step-Up Interleaved Converters with Built-In Transformer,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol.59, No.3, 1650–1661, March 2012. N. Zhu, J. Kang, D. Xu, B. Wu and Y. Xiao, “An integrated AC choke design for common-mode current suppression in neutral-connected power converter systems,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.27, No.3, pp1228-1236, March 2012. Z. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. R. Zargari, "A current source converter based high-power high-speed PMSM drive with 420-Hz switching frequency," IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol.59, No.7, pp2970-2981, July 2012. A. Yafaoui, B. Wu, S. Kouro, “Improved Active Frequency Drift Anti-islanding Detection Method for Grid Connected Photovoltaic Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol.27, No.5, pp2367-2375, May 2012. E. Al-Nabi, B. Wu, N. Zargari, V. Sood, “Input Power Factor Compensation for High-Power CSC Fed PMSM Drive Using d-axis Stator Current Control,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol.59, No.2, pp752-761, February 2012. W.H. Li, L. Fan, Y. Zhao, X.N. He, D. Xu, and B. Wu, “High Step-Up and High Efficiency Fuel Cell Power Generation System with Active Clamp Flyback-Forward Converter,“ IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol.59, No.1, pp599-610, January 2012 M. Rivera, J. Rodriguez, B. Wu, J.R. Espinoza, and C.A. Rojas, “Current Control for an Indirect Matrix Converter with Filter Resonance Mitigation,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol.59, No.1, pp71-79, January 2012. J.C. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. R. Zargari, "MultiModular Matrix Converters with Sinusoidal Input and Output Waveforms," IEEE Trans. Industrial Electronics, Vol.59, No.1, pp17-26, January 2012. H. Geng, D. Xu, B. Wu and G. Yang, “Active Islanding Detection for Inverter-Based Distributed Generation Systems with Power Control Interface,” IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion, Vol.25, No.4, pp1063-1072, December 2011 J. Yuan, G. Liu, and B. Wu “Power Efficiency Estimation Based Health Monitoring and Fault Detection of Modular and Reconfigurable Robots”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 58, No. 10, pp4880-4887, October 2011. M. Rivera, C. Rojas, J. Rodriguez, P. Wheeler, B. Wu, and J. R. Espinoza, “Predictive Current Control With Input Filter Resonance Mitigation for a Direct Matrix Converter,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.26, No.10, pp2794-2803, Oct. 2011. H. Geng, G. Yang, D. Xu and B. Wu, “Unified Power Control for PMSG based WECS Operating under Different Grid Conditions,” IEEE Trans. Energy Conversion, Vol.26, No.3, pp822-830, Sept. 2011. 1 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. F.R. Liu, B. Wu, N. Zargari, and M. Pande, “An Active Damping Method Using Inductor-Current Feedback Control for High-Power PWM Current-Source Rectifiers,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol.26, No.9, pp.2580-2587, Sept. 2011. H. Geng, D. Xu, B. Wu and W. Huang, “Direct Voltage Control for Stand-alone Wind-driven Self-excited Induction Generator with Improved Power Quality,” IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, Vol.26, No.8, pp2358-2368, Aug. 2011 J.C. Wang, D. Xu, B. Wu, and Z. Luo, "A Low-cost Rectifier Topology for Variable-Speed High-Power PMSG Wind Turbines," IEEE Trans. Power Electronics, Vol.26, No.8, pp2192-2200, August 2011. S. Kouro, J.Y. Dai and B. Wu. “Current Source Converter Based Wind Energy Conversion Systems”, Power Electronics, China, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 3–10, August 2011. W.M. Fei and B. Wu, “Equal-area Theorem based Direct Digital Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation Method for Multilevel Voltage Inverters,” Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Vol.8 No. 2, pp129-136, August 2011. Z. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. Zargari, "Hybrid PWM for High Power Current source Inverter fed Drives with Low Switching Frequencies," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp1754-1764, June 2011. H. Geng, D. Xu and B. Wu, “A Novel Hardware-Based All-Digital Phase-Locked-Loop Applied to Grid-connected Power Converters,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 58, no. 5, pp1737-1745, May 2011. H. Geng, D. Xu, B. Wu and G. Yang, “Active Damping for PMSG based WECS with DC Link Current Estimation,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 58, no. 4, pp1110-1119, April 2011. W.M. Fei, B. Wu, and Y. Huang, “Half-Wave Symmetry Selective Harmonic Elimination Method for Multilevel Voltage Source Inverters,” IET Power Electronics, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 342–351, 2011. H. Geng, D. Xu, B. Wu and G. Yang, “Comparison of Different Power Control Strategies for Permanent Magnetic Synchronous Generator Wind Energy Conversion System,” Wind Energy, Vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 389-406, April 2011. J.Y. Dai, D. Xu, B. Wu, and N. R. Zargari, “Unified DC-Link Current Control for Low-Voltage Ride-Through in Current-Source-ConverterBased Wind Energy Conversion Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol.26, No.1, pp288-297, January 2011. W.M. Fei, X. Du and B. Wu, “A Generalized Half-wave Symmetry SHE-PWM Formulation for Multilevel Voltage Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp.3030-3038, September 2010. S. Kouro, M. Malinowski, K. Gopakumar, J. Pou, L. G. Franquelo, B. Wu, et al, “Recent Advances and Industrial Applications of Multilevel Converters,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 8, pp. 2553 – 2579, August 2010. M.H. Ali, B. Wu, J. Tamura, and R. A. Dougal, “Minimization of Shaft Oscillations by Fuzzy Controlled SMES Considering Time Delay,” Electric Power Systems Research, Elsevier, Vol. 80, No. 7, pp. 770-777, July 2010. M. H. Ali, B. Wu, and R. A. Dougal, “An Overview of SMES Applications in Power and Energy Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 38-47, April 2010. Z. H. Zhang, X. Huang, J. Jiang and B. Wu, “A Load-sharing Control Scheme for a Microgrid with a Fixed Frequency Inverter”, Electric Power Systems Research, Elsevier, Vol. 80, No. 3, pp 311-317, March 2010. Y.W. Li, M. Pande, N. Zargari, and B. Wu, “An Input Power Factor Control Strategy for High Power Current Source Induction Motor Drive with Active Front End,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 25, pp. 352-359, Feb. 2010. M.H. Ali, and Bin Wu, “Comparison of Stabilization Methods for Fixed-Speed Wind Generator Systems,” IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp 323 – 331, January 2010. Y.W. Li, M. Pande, N. Zargari, and B. Wu, “Power Factor Compensation for PWM CSR-CSI Fed High Power Drive System Using Flux Adjustment,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 24, pp.3014-3019, Dec. 2009. J.Y. Dai, Y.Q. Lang, Bin Wu, Dewei Xu, and Navid R. Zargari, “A Multisampling SVM Scheme for Current Source Converter with Superior Harmonic Performance,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp 2436-2445, November 2009. M.H. Ali, M. Park, In-Keun Yu, T. Murata, J. Tamura, and B. Wu, “Enhancement of Transient Stability by Fuzzy Logic-Controlled SMES Considering Communication Delay,” Int. Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, Vol. 31, No. 7-8, pp 402-408, September 2009. W.M. Fei, X. Ruan, and B. Wu, “A Generalized Formulation of Quarter-wave Symmetry SHE-PWM Problems for Multilevel Inverters,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 24, No. 7, pp 1758-1766, July 2009. A. Sadeghian, Z.M. Ye, and B. Wu, “Online Detection of Broken Rotor Bars in Induction Motors by Wavelet Packet Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks,” IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol.58, No.7, pp2253-2263, July 2009 C.W. Liu, B. Wu, N. Zargari, D.Xu and J.C. Wang, “A Novel Nine-Switch PWM Rectifier-Inverter Topology For Three-Phase UPS Applications,” Journal of European Power Electronics (EPE), Vol. 19, No. 2, pp 36-44, June 2009. C.W. Liu, B. Wu, N. R. Zargari, D. Xu and J.C. Wang, “A Novel Three-phase Three-leg AC/AC Converter Using Nine IGBTs,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Nov. 24, No. 5, pp 1151-1160, May 2009. Z.W. Zhang, B. Wu, J. Kang, and L. Luo, “A Multi-Purpose Balanced Transformer for Railway Traction Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp 711 – 718, April 2009. W.Q. Hu, Bin Wu, Navid R. Zargari, and Z.Y. Cheng, “A Novel Self-Powered Supply for GCT Gate Drivers,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Nov. 24, No. 4, pp 1093 – 1099, April 2009. J.Y. Dai, D. Xu, and Bin Wu, “A Novel Control Scheme for Current-Source-Converter-Based PMSG Wind Energy System,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp963-972, April 2009. A. Yafaoui, B. Wu, R. Cheung, “Photovoltaic Energy Systems—An Overview,” Part1, IEEE Canadian Review, Vol. 60, Spring Issue, pp812, 2009; Part II, Vol. 61, Fall Issue, pp14-17, 2009. Y. W. Li, M. Pande, N. Zargari, and B. Wu “DC-Link Current Minimization for High-Power Current-Source Motor Drives,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 24, pp. 232-240, Jan. 2009. 2 Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. Hussain Athab, Amir Yazdani, Bin Wu, Dylan D.C. Lu, "A Single-Switch Single-Stage Quasi-Active PFC Converter with Bus Voltage Following Peak Input Voltage," IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), Montreal, pp3742-3747, Nov. 2012. Anping Hu, David Xu, Jianhui Su, Bin Wu, "DC-link Current Balancing and Ripple Reduction for Direct Parallel Current- Source Converters," IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), Montreal, pp4955-4960, Nov. 2012. Marco Rivera, Samir Kouro, Jose Rodriguez, Bin Wu, Jose Espinoza, “Predictive Control of a Current Source Converter Operating with Low Switching Frequency,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), Montreal, pp674-679. Nov. 2012. Marco Rivera, Jose Rodriguez, Jose Espinoza, Bin Wu, "Reduction of Common-Mode Voltage in an Indirect Matrix Converter with Imposed Sinusoidal Input/Output Waveforms,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), Montreal, pp6105-6110, Nov. 2012. M. Rivera, J. Rodriguez, V. Yaramasu, and B. Wu, "Predictive Load Voltage and Capacitor Balancing Control for a Four-Leg NPC Inverter," European Power Electronics Conference (EPE - PEMC), Novi Sad, paper #734, Sept. 2012. V. Yaramasu, B. Wu, M. Rivera, and J. Rodriguez, "Enhanced Model Predictive Voltage Control of Four-Leg Inverters with Switching Frequency Reduction for Standalone Power Systems," European Power Electronics Conference (EPE - PEMC), Novi Sad, paper #204, Sept. 2012 A.Yaramasu, Y.Cao, G.Liu and B.Wu, "Intermittent Wiring Fault Detection and Diagnosis for SSPC Based Aircraft Power Distribution System" The 2012 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics Kaohsiung, Taiwan, pp.1117 – 1122, July 11-14, 2012. M. Popat, B. Wu and N. Zargari, "Fault Ride-Through of PMSG-based Offshore Wind Farm Connected Through Cascaded Current Source Converter-based HVDC", IEEE Power Electronics and Machines in Wind Applications (PEMWA), July 16 – 18, Denver, USA. S. Rivera, S. Kouro, B. Wu, et al, “Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Converter Topology and Three-phase Balance Control for Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems,” IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems(PEDG'12), June 2012. J.C. Wang, Bin Wu, Dewei Xu, Navid R Zargari, “A Three-Level Indirect Space Vector Modulation Scheme for Multi-Modular Matrix Converters,” IEEE ISIE2012, Hangzhou, May 2012, China, Accepted. V. Yaramasu, B. Wu, M. Rivera, J. Rodriguez, and A, Wilson, “Cost-Function based Model Predictive Voltage Control of Three-Phase Four-Leg Inverters using Two Step Prediction Horizon for Standalone Power Systems,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), pp.128-135, 5-9 Feb. 2012. W. Srirattanawichaikul, Y. Kumsuwan, S. Premrudeepreechacharn, B. Wu, “A Carrier-Based PWM Strategy for Three-Level NeutralPoint-Clamped Voltage Source Inverters,” IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS), Singapore, pp 948-951, December 2011. V. Yaramasu, and B. Wu, “Three-Level Boost Converter based Medium Voltage Megawatt PMSG Wind Energy Conversion Systems,” 3rd IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), pp. 561-567, September 17-22, 2011. J.C. Wang, J.Y. Dai, Bin Wu, Dewei Xu, and Navid R. Zargari, “Megawatt Wind Energy Conversion System with Diode Rectifier and Multilevel Current Source Inverter,” 3rd IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), pp. 871-876, September 17-22, 2011. N. Zhu, Bin Wu, D. Xu, and N. Zargari, “Common-Mode Voltage Reduction Methods for Medium-Voltage Current Source Inverter-Fed Drives”, 3rd IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), pp. 3136-3143, September 17-22, 2011. F.R. Liu, B. Wu, N. Zargari and M. Pande, “Zero-Speed Operation of CSI-Fed Induction Motor Drive,” IEEE ECCE 2011, 3rd IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition (ECCE), pp. 3603-3607, September 17-22, 2011. M. Duran, S. Kouro, B. Wu, E. Levi, et al, “Six-phase PMSG Wind Energy Conversion System Based on Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converter,” The 14th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), Birmingham, UK, Aug. 30 – Sept. 1, 2011, pp. 1-10. J.I. Leon, L. G. Franquelo, S. Vazquez, S. Kouro, and B. Wu, “Simple Modulator with Voltage Balancing Control for the Hybrid Five-Level Flying-Capacitor Based ANPC Converter,” IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Gdansk, Poland, June 27 to 30, 2011, pp. 1887-1892. S. Rivera, S. Kouro, B. Wu, J. I. Leon, J. Rodriguez, L. G. Franquelo, “Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Converter Multistring Topology for Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems,” IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Gdansk, Poland, June 27 to 30, 2011, pp. 1837-1844. J.I. Leon, L.G. Franquelo, S. Vazquez, S. Kouro, and B. Wu, “Novel Modulator for the Hybrid Two-cell Flying-Capacitor Based ANPC Converter,” 2011 International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives (POWERENG), Malaga, Spain, pp. 1-6, May 11-13, 2011. F.R. Liu, B. Wu, N. Zargari, and M.Pande, “Inductor Current Feedback Control Based Active Damping for High Power PWM Current Source Rectifier,” IEEE International Electrical Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), Niagara Falls, Canada, pp. 485-489, May 1518, 2011. M. Popat, B. Wu and N. Zargari, “A novel decoupled interconnecting method for current source converter based offshore wind farms,” IEEE International Electrical Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 15-18, 2011, pp. 721-726. M. Popat, B. Wu and N. Zargari, “DC link current control of cascaded current source converter based offshore wind farms,” IEEE International Electrical Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 15-18, 2011, pp. 817-822. N. Binesh and B. Wu, "5-Level Parallel Current Source Inverter for High Power Application with DC Current Balance Control," IEEE International Electrical Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 15-18, 2011, pp. 514- 519. E. Al-nabi, B. Wu, N. Zargari, V. Sood, “Power Factor Compensation for CSC-Fed PMSM Drive Using d-axis Stator Current Control,” IEEE International Electrical Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 15-18, 2011, pp. 763-768. N. Zhu, J. Kang, D. Xu, B. Wu and Y. Xiao, “A novel integrated AC choke for common-mode voltage suppression in power converter 3 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. systems,” IEEE International Electrical Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), Niagara Falls, Canada, pp. 1021-1026, May 2011. J.Y. Dai, J.C. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. R. Zargari, "Low Cost Current Source Converter Solutions for Variable Speed Wind Energy Conversion Systems," IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC 2011), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2011. X.T. Tan, J. Dai and B. Wu, “A Novel Converter Configuration for Wind Applications Using PWM CSI with Diode Rectifier and Buck Converter,” IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC 2011), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2011. W.H. Li, Y. Zhao, X.N. He, D. Xu and B. Wu, “Interleaved ZVS Flyback-Forward Converter with Reduced Output Voltage Stress on Secondary Rectifier Diodes,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), pp1915 – 1919, March 2011. E. Al-Nabi, B. Wu, V. Sood, J. Dai, “High Power CSI-Fed IPM drive System Control with Minimum DC-Link Current,” Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) Phoenix, USA, Nov. 7-10, 2010 , pp. 857-863. B. Gong, D. Xu, and B. Wu, “Cost Effective Method for DFIG Fault Ride-through During Symmetrical Voltage Dip,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), pp. 3263-3268, November 2010. Ahmad Yafaoui, Bin Wu, and Samir Kouro, “Improved Active Frequency Drift Anti-islanding Method with Lower Total Harmonic Distortion,” IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), pp. 3210-3215, Phoenix, US, November 2010. Bing Gong, Dewei Xu, and Bin Wu, “Network Damping Capability of DFIG-based Wind Farm,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 4083-4090, September 2010. Jahangir Afsharian, Bin Wu and Navid Zargari, “A Special High-Frequency Soft-Switched High-Voltage Isolated DC/DC Power Supply for Multiple GCT Gate Drivers,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 2445-2441, September 2010. J. Rodriguez, B. Wu, M. Rivera, C. Rojas, V. Yaramasu, A. Wilson, “Predictive Current Control of Three-Phase Two-Level Four-Leg Inverters,” 14th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE/PEMC), pp. 106-110, Sept 2010. D. Jovcic and B. Wu, “Fast Fault Current Interruption on High-Power DC Networks,” IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Minneapolis, 6 pages, July 2010. Z. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. R. Zargari, "Dynamic capacitor voltage control of high power current source converter fed PMSM drives for LC resonance suppression," IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 792-797, Bari Italy, July 2010. Z. Wang, B. Wu, D. Xu, and N. R. Zargari, "A high-speed CSC based PMSM drive with a switching frequency of 420 Hz," IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 1169-1174, Bari Italy, July 2010. S. Alepuz, A. Calle, S. Busquets-Monge, J. Bordonau, S. Kouro, and B. Wu “Control Scheme for Low Voltage Ride-through Compliance in Back-to-back NPC Converter Based Wind Power Systems,” IEEE International Symposium of Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 2357-2362, Bari Italy, July 4-7, 2010. V. Yaramasu, J. Rodriguez, B. Wu, M. Rivera, A. Wilson, C. Rojas, “A Simple and Effective Solution for Superior Performance in TwoLevel Four-Leg Voltage Source Inverters: Predictive Voltage Control,” IEEE International Symposium of Industrial Electronics (ISIE), pp. 3127-3132, July 4-7, 2010. H. Geng, G. Yang, D. Xu and B. Wu, “Model Predictive Control for Transformerless Shunt Hybrid Power Filters,” IEEE International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), pp. 2265-2270, 21-24 June 2010. Jose Rodriguez, Bin Wu, Marco Rivera, Alan Wilson, Venkata Yaramasu, and Christian Rojas, “Model Predictive Control of Three-Phase Four-Leg Neutral-Point-Clamped Inverters,” International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC), Sapporo, pp.3112-3116, June 21-24, 2010. S. Kouro, K. Asfaw, R. Goldman, R. Snow, B. Wu, and J. Rodriguez, “NPC Multilevel Multistring Topology for Large Scale Grid Connected Photovoltaic Systems,” The 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Hefei, China, pp. 400-405, June 2010. H. Geng, D. Xu, B. Wu and G. Yang, “Comparison of active frequency drifting islanding detection methods for different DG interface controls,” IEEE International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), pp.459-465, 16-18 June 2010. S. Rivera, S. Kouro, P. Cortes, S. Alepuz, M. Malinowski, B. Wu, and J. Rodriguez, “ Generalized Direct Power Control for Grid Connected Multilevel Converters,” IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (IEEE-ICIT), pp. 1351-1358, Chile, March 2010. W.M. Fei, Xiaoli Du, and Bin Wu, “Half-wave Symmetry SHE-PWM Method for Multilevel Voltage Inverter”, IEEE 25th Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), pp 1732-1735, February 2010. W.M. Fei, Yanli Zhang, and Bin Wu, “A Novel Direct Digital SPWM Method for Multilevel Voltage Source Inverters”, IEEE 25th Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), pp 1034-1037, February 2010. H. Geng, D. Xu, B. Wu and G. Yang, “Active damping for torsional vibrations in PMSG based WECS,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference & Exposition (APEC), pp.2126-2131, 21-25 Feb. 2010. S. Kouro, A. Moya, E. Villanueva, P. Correa, B. Wu, and J. Rodriguez, “Control of a Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Converter for Grid Connection of Photovoltaic Systems,” IEEE 35th Industrial Electronics Conference (IECON), pp 3976 – 3982, Porto Portugal, November 3-5, 2009. J.C. Wang, B. Wu, and N.R. Zargari, "High-power multi-modular matrix converters with sinusoidal input/output waveforms," Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2009), pp.542-547, Nov. 2009. D. Andler, S. Kouro, M. Perez, J. Rodriguez, and Bin Wu, “Switching Loss Analysis of Modulation Methods Used in Neutral Point Clamped Converters,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp 2565-2571, San Jose, USA, September 20-24, 2009. J.C. 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Ali and Bin Wu, “Comparison among Stabilization Methods of Fixed Speed Wind Generator System,” IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp 2667-2674, San Jose, USA, September 20-24, 2009. I. Lizama, J. Rodriguez, B. Wu, P. Correa, M. Rivera, and M. Perez, “Predictive Control for Current Source Rectifiers Operating at Low Switching Frequency,” IEEE 6th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC), pp 1630 – 1633, May 17-20, 2009. M. Rivera, J. Rodriguez, B. Wu, J.R. Espinoza, and C.A. Rojas, “Current Control for an Indirect Matrix Converter with Filter Resonance Mitigation,” IEEE 6th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC), May 17-20, 2009. Y.Q. Lang, Bin Wu, and Navid R. Zargari, “Dumping Resistor Schemes for Low Voltage Ride Through in CSC based PMSG Wind Energy System,” Power Electronics and Intelligent Motion Conference (PCIM), pp 77-82, Shanghai, May 2009. J. Afsharian, Bin Wu, and N. 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