【诚邀投稿】2024 IEEE国际电能转换系统与控制会议(IEEE IEECSC 2024)

Professor Faz Rahmanis the Head of the Energy Systems Research Group with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. His  research interests include:

Drive System Analysis and Design: DC servo drive, PM brushless DC and Synchronous motor drives, vector controlled 2 and 3 phase induction motor drives, wide speed range, field weakening PM and induction motor drives, Drive design for high dynamic response.

Power Electronic Circuits for Electrical Drives: Power electronic circuit topologies for application in drives and active filtering, performance analysis and characteristics, circuit modelling, design, modulation strategies, protection, power factor and efficiency issues.

Servo Motors and Servo Systems: Stepping motors, permanent magnet motors, brushless dc drives, induction motors, and drive techniques.

Motion Control Systems Design: Drive system modelling, drive data acquisition and signal processing for speed and other observers, motion control strategies, controller design.

Power Factor Correction Techniques/Active Filtering: Rectifier designs for high input power factor and low harmonic distortion, circuit design and control, dynamic and steady-state performance, system design.

Starting from a brief structural description of single-sided linear induction machines (LIMs), their main applications will be exposed with specific reference to transportation (such as linear metro, light railway, MAGLEV), launchers, actuators for industry, etc. As a first step, the main differences between rotating and linear induction motors will be highlighted, focusing on the aspects end effects in details. Design criteria of LIMs will be specifically discussed, emphasizing the main differences with the classic rotating induction motor design, caused by end effects, large air-gaps, half-filled slots, high leakage inductances, etc. Afterwards, in order to improve the working efficiency, it will share advancements in the accurate modelling, loss minimization control strategy, multi-objective optimization technique, etc., for LIMs and drives. Researchers and engineers from electrical, mechanical and information fields may find this speech very useful when dealing with transportation motor and drive related design, control, system integration, which can be extended to other industrial applications.

Prof. Wei Xu has mainly focused on design and control for linear machines and drives since 2005. He received the double B.E. degree from Tianjin University (TJU), China, in June 2002, and M.E. degree from TJU in February 2005, and the Ph.D. degree from Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), in July 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2008 to 2012, he made Postdoctoral Fellow with University of Technology Sydney, Vice Chancellor Research Fellow with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Japan Science Promotion Society Invitation Fellow with Meiji University, respectively. From October 2013 to December 2023, he was Professor with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Since January 2024, he has been Professor and Director for Key Laboratory with IEECAS. Prof. Xu has been one IEEE Fellow since 2024, and one IET Fellow since 2018. Prof. Xu is the General Chair for 2021 International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA 2021) and 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE 2023). He is the funding chair for Wuhan Chapter in IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and one International Steering Committee member for LDIA. He has been (associate) editor for 10 IEEE Journals, including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, and so on. Till May 2024, Prof. Xu has published over 170 journal papers in IEEE Series, and 11 books, and been granted for over 150 Invention Patents, which has been cited by over 9800 times with H-index 48 based on Google Scholar.

Electrical Machines and Drives