Education within Power Electronic Control, Reliability and System Optimization 

The group of Power Electronic Control, Reliability and System Optimization (PESYS) strives to create and maintain an active learning environment that encourages exploration, evaluation, understanding, application, and synthesis of the material presented. PESYS also serves in a discipline with professionals and scholars who seek continuous improvement in the education and supervision of developing researchers and educators.

Selected courses

• Understand how to write good papers for high level journals (Industrial PhD Course, 2014-Present)
• Generators and their control (Industrial PhD Course, 2014-Present)
• Reliability Assessment in Electric Power Systems (Industrial PhD Course, 2020-Present)  
• Cyber Security of Microgrids (Industrial PhD Course, 2020-Present)
• Energy Markets and Analytics (Industrial PhD Course, 2020-Present) 
• Advanced Optimization Techniques for Energy Systems Planning and Operation (Industrial PhD Course, 2020-Present) 

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Ongoing PhD projects

• Multi-timescale Modelling of Power Electronic Based Power Systems (Martin Bendix Fogsgaard)
• Reliability-Oriented Design of A Microgrid System (Monika Sandelic)
• Modeling and control of solid-state synchronous generator (Meng Chen)
• Multisampling control of grid-connected inverters (Shan He)
• Stability Analysis of Wind Turbines Under Small and Large Disturbances (Dimitrios Dimitropoulos) 
• System-level reliability modelling and evaluation in power electronic based generation systems (Amirali Davoodi)
• Stability and Control of Wind Generation System Connected to Weak Grid (Liang Huang)
• Stability and Reliability Validation of a Microgrid System (Yubo Song)
• Condition Monitoring of Power Electronic Converters Using Machine Learning (Afshin Loghmani Moghaddam Toussi)
• Lifetime Modeling of Key Components in Power Electronic Based Power Systems (Martin Vang Kjær)

Completed PhD projects

• Model Predictive Control of Multilevel Power Electronic Converters: design, optimization and performance evaluation (Mateja Novak)
• Grid-Friendly High-Reliability Photovoltaic Systems (Ariya Sangwongwanich)
• Modeling of Large-Scale Power Electronics Based Power System (Shih-Feng Chou)
   

Master projects

• PED2-841, 2021: Fault-Tolerant Control for Multilevel Inverters
• PED2-840, 2020: Design of Wind Turbine Converter Test-Bench for Reliability Testing
• PED3-944, 2020: Fault-Tolerant Operation for Grid-Connected Power Converters
• PED3-940, 2019: Design of Multiport Bi-directional GaN DC-DC Converter for Nano Satellite Systems
• EPSH4-1032, 2019: Hybrid Generation Solution for Mining Site