College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Soft Switching Single Stage Isolated Three Phase Bidirectional PFC Converter for Electric Vehicles charging
( IEEE , 2019 , Conference Paper)This paper proposes a bidirectional three phase single stage ac-dc converter for applications like Electric Vehicle (EV) chargers. AC side of the proposed converter consists of current fed half bridge converter for each ... -
Current rating analysis of a nine-switch based unified expandable power converter considering different configurations
( IEEE , 2020 , Conference Paper)Using low switch converters due to their cost-effectiveness has been an interesting topic in different applications such as grid integration of distributed generation systems and multi-machine drives. Recently, a nine-switch ... -
A Comparative Study of High-gain Cascaded DC-DC Converter Topologies
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)DC-DC boost converters are utilized to step-up the voltage level to match a certain application requirement. Although Conventional boost converter is simple and easy to be implemented, it has a low boosting capability and ... -
High-Gain Non-isolated Single-Switch DC-DC Converters in Power Factor Correction Rectifiers: A Performance Assessment
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)Conventional single-stage Power Factor Correction (PFC) rectifiers struggle with extreme duty ratio operation for low-voltage applications, like Low-speed Electric Vehicles (LSEV). This worsens the performance of the ... -
Efficient and fair Wi-Fi and LTE-U coexistence via communications over content centric networking
( Elsevier B.V. , 2020 , Article)With the increasingly huge mobile traffic, numerous mobile operators try to seek some ways to alleviate the situation, such as expanding the LTE (Long Term Evolution) system into unlicensed spectrums. However, LTE-U (LTE ... -
Time-Dependent Pricing for Bandwidth Slicing under Information Asymmetry and Price Discrimination
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)Due to the bursty nature of Internet traffic, network service providers (NSPs) are forced to expand their network capacity in order to meet the ever-increasing peak-time traffic demand, which is however costly and inefficient. ... -
An optimal uplink traffic offloading algorithm via opportunistic communications based on machine learning
( Springer , 2020 , Article)Opportunistic communications as an efficient traffic offloading method can be used to offload uplink traffic of cellular networks to Wi-Fi networks. However, because of its contact pattern (contact frequency and contact ... -
An intelligent data uploading selection mechanism for offloading uplink traffic of cellular networks
( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)Wi-Fi uploading is considered an effective method for offloading the traffic of cellular networks generated by the data uploading process of mobile crowd sensing applications. However, previously proposed Wi-Fi uploading ... -
A co-design-based reliable low-latency and energy-efficient transmission protocol for uwsns
( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)Recently, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have been considered as a powerful technique for many applications. However, acoustic communications in UWSNs bring in huge QoS issues for time-critical applications. ... -
A weighted real-time predictive controller for a grid connected flying capacitors inverter
( Elsevier , 2013 , Article)This paper proposes a new controller for a grid connected power conditioning unit (PCU). The PCU consists of a flying capacitors inverter (FCI) connected to the grid through an inductor and a step-up transformer. A hybrid ... -
Modeling, impedance design, and efficiency analysis of quasi-Z source module in cascaded multilevel photovoltaic power system
( IEEE , 2014 , Article)The quasi-Z source (qZS) cascaded multilevel inverter (CMI) (qZS-CMI) presents attractive advantages in application to photovoltaic (PV) power system. Each PV panel connects to an H-bridge qZS inverter (qZSI) to form a ... -
Dual Mechanical Port Machine Based Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Reduced Switch Converters
( IEEE , 2019 , Article)Due to the increased environmental pollution, hybrid vehicles have attracted enormous attention in today's society. The two most important factors in designing these vehicles are size and weight. For this purpose, some ... -
A novel control scheme for three-phase seven-level packed U-Cell based DSTATCOM
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)With the advent of SiC devices, the packed U-Cell converter has become a promising topology among the multilevel converters for medium voltage DSTATCOM application. It utilizes fewer components while achieving the maximum ... -
A battery health monitoring method using machine learning: A data-driven approach
( MDPI , 2020 , Article)Batteries are combinations of electrochemical cells that generate electricity to power electrical devices. Batteries are continuously converting chemical energy to electrical energy, and require appropriate maintenance to ... -
Differential Flatness-Based Performance Enhancement of a Vector Controlled VSC with an LCL-Filter for Weak Grids
( IEEE , 2021 , Article)In this paper, a novel single-loop flatness-based controller (FBC) is proposed to control the grid-side current in a shunt converter connected to a weak grid through an LCL-filter. After its mathematical description, the ... -
Reinforcement Learning Based EV Charging Management Systems-A Review
( IEEE , 2021 , Article)To mitigate global warming and energy shortage, integration of renewable energy generation sources, energy storage systems, and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) have been introduced in recent years. The application of ... -
A novel model predictive control with an integrated SOC and floating DC-link voltage balancing for 3-phase 7-level PUC converter-based MV BESS
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Compared to conventional multilevel topologies, the Packed U-Cell multilevel topology utilizes the minimum number of components and provides both maximum voltage levels and high reliability. When used in a battery energy ... -
Enhanced Deadbeat Control Approach for Grid-Tied Multilevel Flying Capacitors Inverter
( IEEE , 2022 , Article)This paper proposes an enhanced Deadbeat Controller (DBC) for a grid-tied Flying Capacitors Inverter (FCI). The proposed DBC guarantees the balancing of the capacitors' voltages while injecting current to the grid with ... -
A New Non-Isolated High-Gain Single-Switch DC–DC Converter Topology with a Continuous Input Current
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)An ultra-high step-up, non-isolated DC–DC converter with a continuous input current was developed as a result of this research. This converter’s architecture consists of a voltage multiplier cell (VMC), a positive output ... -
DwaRa: A Deep Learning-Based Dynamic Toll Pricing Scheme for Intelligent Transportation Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)In Internet-of-Vehicles (IoV) ecosystems, intelligent toll gates (ITGs) connect nearby metropolitan cities through smart highways. At ITGs, existing solutions integrate blockchain (BC) and deep-learning schemes to leverage ...
