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Acheson S, Theotokatos G, Abusara M, Findlay D, Djokic S. (2018) Experimental Evaluation of the Hydraulic Power Take-Off System of a Wave Energy Converter, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Series, EWTEC, Cork, Ireland, 27th Aug – 1st Sep 2018.
Matthew GS, Fitch-Roy OWF, Connor PM, Woodman B, Thies P, Hussain E, Mahmood H, Abusara M, Yan X, Hardwick J. (2018) ICE report T2.1.2 – ICE general methodology, INTERREG, University of Exeter, 52 pages. [PDF]
Faÿ F-X, Kelly J, Henriques J, Pujana A, Abusara M, Mueller M, Touzon I, Ruiz-Minguela P. (2018) Numerical Simulation of Control Strategies at Mutriku Wave Power Plant, ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Madrid, Spain, 17th – 22nd Jun 2018.
AlBadwawi R, Issa W, Mallick TK, Abusara M. (2018) Supervisory Control for Power Management of an Islanded AC Microgrid Using Frequency Signalling-Based Fuzzy Logic Controller, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, DOI:10.1109/TSTE.2018.2825655. [PDF]
Issa W, El Khateb A, Anani N, Abusara M. (2017) Smooth mode transfer in AC microgrids during unintentional islanding, Energy Procedia, volume 134, pages 12-20, DOI:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.592.
Anderlini E, Forehand DIM, Bannon E, Abusara M. (2017) Constraints implementation in the application of reinforcement learning to the reactive control of a point absorber, Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering – OMAE, volume 10, DOI:10.1115/OMAE2017-61294.
El-Khateb A, Issa W, Mallick T, Abusara M. (2017) Control Strategy for Uninterrupted Microgrid Mode Transfer during Unintentional Islanding Scenarios, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. [PDF]
Smith HCM, Fairley I, Robertson B, Abusara M, Masters I. (2017) Wave resource variability: Impacts on wave power supply over regional to international scales, Energy Procedia, volume 125, pages 240-249, DOI:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.202. [PDF]
Smith HCM, Fairley I, Robertson B, Abusara M, Masters I. (2017) Wave resource variability: Impacts on wave power supply over regional to international scales.
Anderlini E, Forehand DIM, Bannon E, Abusara M. (2017) Reactive Control of a Wave Energy Converter using Artificial Neural Networks, International Journal of Marine Energy’. [PDF]
Issa W, Sharkh S, Albadwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2017) DC link Voltage Control during Sudden Load Changes in AC Microgrids, ISIE, Edinburgh, 19th – 21st Jun 2017.
Smailes M, Ng C, Mckeever P, Shek J, Gerasimos T, Abusara M. (2017) Hybrid, Multi-Megawatt HVDC Transformer Topology Comparison for Future Offshore Wind Farms, Energies, volume 10, DOI:10.3390/en10070851.
Anderlini E, Forehand DIM, Bannon E, Abusara M. (2017) Control of a Realistic Wave Energy Converter Model Using Least-Squares Policy Iteration, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, volume 8, no. 4, pages 1618-1628, DOI:10.1109/TSTE.2017.2696060. [PDF]
Fairley I, Smith HCM, Robertson B, Abusara M, Masters I. (2017) Spatio-temporal variation in wave power and implications for electricity supply, Renewable Energy, DOI:10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.075. [PDF]
Anderlini E, Forehand D, Bannon E, Xiao Q, Abusara M. (2017) Reactive Control of a Two-Body Point Absorber using Reinforcement Learning, Ocean Engineering. [PDF]
Orfanoudakis, G.I., Yuratich, M.A. and Sharkh, S.M. (2013) Nearest-vector modulation strategies with minimum amplitude of low-frequency neutral-point voltage oscillations for the neutral-point-clamped converter. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 28, (10), 4485-4499. Download
Orfanoudakis, G. I., Yuratich, M. A. and Sharkh, S.M. (2013) Hybrid modulation strategies for eliminating low-frequency neutral-point voltage oscillations in the neutral-point-clamped converter. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 28, (8), 3653-3658. Download
Al Badwawi R, Issa W, Mallick T, Abusara M, IEEE. (2016) DC Microgrid Power Coordination Based on Fuzzy Logic Control, 2016 18TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS (EPE’16 ECCE EUROPE). [PDF]
Al Badwawi, Issa A, Mallick T, Abusara M. (2016) Power Management of AC Islanded Microgrids using Fuzzy Logic, IET international conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives PEMD, Glasgow, 19th Apr – 21st Jun 2016. [PDF]
Anderlini E, Forehand D, Stansell P, Xiao Q, Abusara M. (2016) Control of a Point Absorber using Reinforcement Learning, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY,. [PDF]
Harrold MJ, Bromley P, Clelland D, Kiprakis A, Abusara M. (2015) Evaluating the thrust control capabilities of the DeltaStream turbine, 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Nantes, France, 6th – 11th Sep 2015.
Harrold M, Bromley P, Broudic M, Kiprakis A, Abusara M. (2015) Assessment of an ADCPs capabilities in laboratory conditions, Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement (CWTM), St. Petersburg, 2nd – 6th Mar 2015, DOI:10.1109/CWTM.2015.7098099.
Al Badwawi, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2015) Speed control of synchronous machine by changing duty cycle of DC/DC buck converter, AIMS Energy, volume 3, pages 728-739, DOI:10.3934/energy.2015.4.728.
AL Badwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2015) A Review of Hybrid Solar PV and Wind Energy System, Smart Science, volume 3, pages 127-138, DOI:10.6493/SmartSci.
Issa W, Abusara M, Sharkh S, Mallick T. (2015) A small signal model of an inverter-based microgrid including DC link voltages, 2015 17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE-ECCE Europe 2015, DOI:10.1109/EPE.2015.7309119.
Harrold M, Bromley P, Broudic M, Clelland D, Kiprakis A, Abusara M. (2015) Assessment of an ADCP’s capabilities in laboratory conditions, 2015 IEEE/OES 11th Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement, CWTM 2015, DOI:10.1109/CWTM.2015.7098099.
Smailes M, Ng C, Fox R, Shek J, Abusara M, Theotokatos G, McKeever P. (2015) Evaluation of core loss calculation methods for highly non-sinusoidal inputs, IET Seminar Digest, volume 2015, no. CP654, DOI:10.1049/cp.2015.0005.
Abusara M, Sharkh S, Zanchetta P. (2015) Adaptive repetitive control with feedforward scheme for grid-connected inverters, IET Power Electronics, volume 8, no. 8, pages 1403-1410, DOI:10.1049/iet-pel.2014.0481. [PDF]
Qazalbash AA, Sharkh SM, Irenji NT, Wills RG, Abusara MA. (2015) Rotor eddy loss in high-speed permanent magnet synchronous generators, IET Electric Power Applications, volume 9, no. 5, pages 370-376, DOI:10.1049/iet-epa.2014.0300.
Al-Badwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick TK. (2015) Speed control of synchronous machine by changing duty cycle of DC/DC buck converter, Global Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development, Coventry, Uk, 24th Feb – 26th Apr 2015. [PDF]
Al Badwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick TK. (2015) Speed control of synchronous machine by changing duty cycle of DC/DC buck converter, Global Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development, Coventry, Uk, 24th Feb – 26th Apr 2015.
Abusara MA, Sharkh SM, Zanchetta P. (2015) Control of grid-connected inverters using adaptive repetitive and proportional resonant schemes, Journal of Power Electronics, volume 15, no. 2, pages 518-529, DOI:10.6113/JPE.2015.15.2.518.
Abusara MA, sharkh SM, Gurrero J. (2015) Improved Droop Control Strategy for Grid-Connected Inverters, Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, volume 1, pages 10-19.
Issa WR, Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2015) Control of Transient Power During Unintentional Islanding of Microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, volume 30, no. 8, pages 4573-4584, DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2014.2359792. [PDF]
Smailes M, Ng C, Shek J, Abusara M, Theotokatos G, McKeever P. (2014) Hybrid, multi-megawatt HVDC transformer for future offshore wind farms, IET Conference Publications, volume 2014, no. CP651, DOI:10.1049/cp.2014.0858.
Sawyer T, Daglish J, Williamson BJ, Kivlin O, Gatenby F, Abusara MA, Williams NC. (2014) Validation of NeutraSeal: A new lower energy cost mine water treatment process, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, volume 2, no. 4, pages 2306-2311, DOI:10.1016/j.jece.2014.10.009.
Issa WR, Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2014) Impedance interaction between islanded parallel voltage source inverters and the distribution network, 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, PEMD 2014. [PDF]
Qazalbash, A, Sharkh SM, Irenji N, Willis RG, Abusara MA. (2014) Rotor eddy current power loss in permanent magnet synchronous generators feeding uncontrolled rectifier loads, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, volume 50, no. 6, DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2013.2297391.
Qazalbash A, Sharkh SM, Irenji N, Willis RG, Abusara MA. (2014) Calculation of No-Load Rotor Eddy-Current Power Loss in PM Synchronous Machines, Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on, volume 50, no. 9, DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2014.2318681.
Abusara MA, Geurrero J, Sharkh SM. (2014) Line Interactive UPS for Micorgrids, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron, volume 61, no. 3, pages 1292-1300.
Abusara, M.A., Guerrero, J.M. and Sharkh, S.M. (2013) Line interactive UPS for microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 61, (3), 1292-1300. Download
Hussain, B., Sharkh, S.M., Hussain, S. and Abusara, M.A. (2013) An adaptive relaying scheme for fuse saving in distribution networks with distributed generation. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 28, (2),669-677. Download
Abusara, M. A and Sharkh, S.M. (2013) Design and control of a grid-connected interleaved inverter. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 28, (2), 748-764. Download
Jamil, M., Sharkh, S.M. and Abusara, M. A. (2011) Current regulation of three-phase grid connected voltage source inverter using robust digital repetitive control. International Review of Automatic Control,4, (2), 211-219. Download
Sharkh, S.M. and Lai , S.H. (2010) Design optimization of a slotless PM brushless motor with helical edge wound laminations for rim driven thrusters. High Technology Letters, 16, (1), 70-79. Download
Abu-Sara, Mohammad and Sharkh, Suleiman (2010) Digital control of a three-phase grid connected inverter. International Journal of Power Electronics (2011). Download
Diao, L., Du, H., Liu, Z., Shu, Z., & Sharkh, S. (2018). A comparative study between AI-HM and SPD-HM for railway auxiliary inverter with pulsating DC-Link. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 65(7), 5816-5825. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2782199
Dimitrov, B., Krishna, M., Cruden, A., Sharkh, S., & Elkhateb, A. (2018). Analysis, design, and experimental validation of a primary side current-sensing flyback converter for use in a battery management system. Electronics, 7(4), [43]. DOI: 10.3390/electronics7040043
Renedo Anglada, J., Sharkh, S. M., & Yuratich, M. A. (2018). Calculation of rotor losses in PM machines with retaining sleeves using transfer matrices. IET Electric Power Applications. DOI: 10.1049/iet-epa.2017.0863
Shepherd, S., Lima, M. A. P., Oliveira, E. E., Sharkh, S. M., Jackson, C. W., & Newland, P. L. (2018). Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields impair the cognitive and motor abilities of honey bees. Scientific Reports, 8(1), [7932]. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26185-y
Wang, L., Sharkh, S., & Chipperfield, A. (2018). Optimal decentralized coordination of electric vehicles and renewable generators in a distribution network using A∗ search. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems, 98, 474-487. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2017.11.036
Yan, X., Shu, Z., Sharkh, S., Wu, Z-G., & Chen, M. Z. Q. (2018). Sampled-data control with adjustable switching frequency for DC-DC converters. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2018.2878116
Moshrefi-Torbati, M., Lang, T. V., Hendijanizadeh, M., Le, T. B., & Sharkh, S. M. (2017). A novel hybrid energy harvester with increased power density. Procedia Engineering, 199, 3498-3503. DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.464
Moshrefi-Torbati, M., Hendijanizadeh, M., & Sharkh, S. M. (2017). Adaptive inertia tuning of an energy harvester for increasing its operational bandwidth. Procedia Engineering, 199, 3492-3497. DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2017.09.463
Diao, L., WANG, L. U., & Sharkh, S. (2017). AI-HM based zero portion effects and phase-shift optimization for railway auxiliary inverter with pulsating DC-link. IEEE Access. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2700723
Renedo Anglada, J., & Sharkh, S. (2017). An insight into torque production and power factor in transverse-flux machines. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2017.2665344
Renedo Anglada, J., & Sharkh, S. M. (2017). Analysis of transverse flux machines using a virtual mutual inductance approach. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion. DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2017.2768298
Renedo Anglada, J., & Sharkh, S. M. (2017). Analytical calculation of the torque produced by transverse flux machines. IET Electric Power Applications. DOI: 10.1049/iet-epa.2016.0759
Dimitrov, B., Cruden, A., Sharkh, S., Ponce De Leon Albarran, C., Bryden, T. S., & Hilton, G. (2017). Design process for a parallel LLC resonant converter for powered electric vehicle charging systems. International Journal of Health Sciences and Research (IJHSR).
Anglada, J. R., Sharkh, S. M., & Qazalbash, A. A. (2017). Influence of curvature on air-gap magnetic field distribution and rotor losses in pm electric machines. COMPEL – The International journal for Computation and Maths in Electrical and Electronic Eng, 36(4), 871-891. DOI: 10.1108/COMPEL-05-2016-0200
Broderick, S. R., Cruden, A., Sharkh, S., & Bessant, N. (2017). Technique to interconnect and control co-simulation systems. IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 11(12), 3115-3124. DOI: 10.1049/iet-gtd.2016.1569
Wang, L., Sharkh, S., Chipperfield, A., & Cruden, A. (2016). Dispatch of vehicle-to-grid battery storage using an analytic hierarchy process. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 1-13. DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2016.2591559
Wyszkowska, J., Shepherd, S., Sharkh, S., Jackson, C., & Newland, P. (2016). Exposure to extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields alters the behaviour, physiology and stress protein levels of desert locusts. Scientific Reports, 6(36413), 1-9. DOI: 10.1038/srep36413
Issa, W., Sharkh, S., Malik, T., & Abusara, M. (2016). Improved reactive power sharing for parallel-operated inverters in islanded microgrids. Journal of Power Electronics, 16(3), 1152-1162. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2016.16.3.1152
Wang, L., Sharkh, S., & Chipperfield, A. (2016). Optimal coordination of vehicle-to-grid batteries and renewable generators in a distribution system. Energy, 113, 1250-1264. DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2016.07.125
Abusara, M., Sharkh, S. M., & Zanchetta, P. (2015). Adaptive repetitive control with feedforward scheme for grid-connected inverters. IET Power Electronics, 1-8. DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2014.0481
Abusara, M., Sharkh, S. M., & Zanchetta, P. (2015). Control of grid-connected inverters using adaptive repetitive and proportional resonant schemes. Journal of Power Electronics, 15(2), 518-528. DOI: 10.6113/JPE.2015.15.2.518
Hendijanizadeh, M., Sharkh, S. M., & Moshrefi-Torbati, M. (2015). Design guidelines for optimization of an inertially coupled energy harvesting generator from boat motion. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 7(4), 43123. DOI: 10.1063/1.4928174
Kiaee, M., Cruden, A., & Sharkh, S. M. (2015). Estimation of the cost savings from participation of electric vehicles in Vehicle to Grid (V2G) schemes. Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 3(2), 249-258. DOI: 10.1007/s40565-015-0130-2
Newland, P., Al Ghamdi, M., Sharkh, S., Aonuma, H., & Jackson, C. (2015). Exposure to static electric fields leads to changes in biogenic amine levels in the brains of Drosophila. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, 1-23. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1198
Kokaew, V., Sharkh, S. M., & Moshrefi-Torbati, M. (2015). Maximum power point tracking of a small scale compressed air energy storage system. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 63(2). DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2015.2477344
Dubas, A. J., Bressloff, N. W., & Sharkh, S. M. (2015). Numerical modelling of rotor–stator interaction in rim driven thrusters. Ocean Engineering, 106, 281-288. DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2015.07.012
Qazalbash, A., Sharkh, S. M., Irenji, N., Wills, R. G. A., & Abusara, M. (2015). Rotor eddy loss in high-speed permanent magnet synchronous generators. IET Electric Power Applications, 9(5), 370-376. DOI: 10.1049/iet-epa.2014.0300
Zhang, C., Jiang, J., Zhang, W., Wang, Y., Sharkh, S. M., & Xiong, R. (2014). A novel data-driven fast capacity estimation of spent electric vehicle lithium-ion batteries. Energies, 7(12), 8076-8094. DOI: 10.3390/en7128076
Sharkh, S. M., Hendijanizadeh, M., Moshrefi-Torbati, M., & Mohammad, A. (2014). A novel Kalman filter based technique for calculating the time history of vertical displacement of a boat from measured acceleration. Marine Engineering Frontiers (MEF), 2, 24-30.
Qazalbash, A., Sharkh, S. M., Irenji, N. T., Wills, R. G. A., & Abusara, M. A. (2014). Calculation of no-load rotor eddy current power loss in PM synchronous machines. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 1-11. DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2014.2318681
Issa, W., Abusara, M., & Sharkh, S. M. (2014). Control of transient power during unintentional islanding of microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2359792
Hendijanizadeh, M., Sharkh, S. M., & Moshrefi-Torbati, M. (2014). Energy harvesting from a rotational transducer under random excitation. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 6. DOI: 10.1063/1.4892452