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Journals

 2021

  • G. Song, B. Cao, and L. Chang, “Advanced Soft Stall Control for Protection of Small-Scale Wind Generation Systems”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Top. Power Electron., DOI: 10.1109/JESTPE.2021.3101234, Early Access.
  • G. Song, B. Cao, L. Chang and R. Shao, “Advanced Decoupling Techniques for Grid-Connected Inverters with Multiple Inputs”, IEEE Access., vol. 9, Nov. 2021.
  • G. Song, B. Cao, and L. Chang, “Review of Grid-Forming Inverters for Supporting Power System Operation”, Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering., 2021.
  • P. Yazdkhasti, C. P. Diduch and A. Elkhateb, "A Methodology to Forecast the Control Capacity and Control Payback of a Population of Thermostatically Controlled Appliances in a Demand-Side Management," in IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 136-142, Spring 2021, doi: 10.1109/ICJECE.2020.2990185

2020

  • S. A. M. Saleh, E. Ozkop, E. Castillo, and P. Pijnenburg, “Developing and Testing a Unit Commitment-Based Controller of Bus-Split Aggregated Residential Electric Water Heaters,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., p. 1, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2019.2957432.

2019

  • S. A. M. Saleh, E. Ozkop, E. Castillo, and P. Pijnenburg, “Developing and Testing a Unit Commitment-Based Controller of Bus-Split Aggregated Residential Electric Water Heaters,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., p. 1, 2019, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2019.2957432.
  • X. Gong, J. L. C. Barrera, E. C. Guerra, B. Cao, S. Saleh and L. Chang, “Bottom-Up Load Forecasting with Markov-Based Error Reduction Method for Aggregated Domestic Electric Water Heaters”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 6401-6413, Nov.-Dec. 2019.
  • X. Gong, E. C. Guerra, J. L. C. Barrera, B. Cao, L. Chang and S. Saleh, “A Generic Load Forecasting Method for Aggregated Thermostatically Controlled Loads Based on Convolutional Neural Networks”, in 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Baltimore, MD, USA, 2019, pp. 495-502.       
  • C. Peng, L. Xu, X. Gong, H. Sun and L. Pan, “Molecular Evolution Based Dynamic Reconfiguration of Distribution Networks with DGs Considering Three-Phase Balance and Switching Times”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 1866-1876, April 2019.

2018

  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao, Liuchen Chang and Meiqin Mao, “Single-Phase Differential Buck-Boost Inverter with Pulse Energy Modulation and Power Decoupling Control”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE) vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 2060-2072, Dec. 2018.     
  • S. A. Saleh, P. Pijnenburg, E. Castillo-Guerra, and L. Chang, “A Modified Bus-Split Method for Aggregating Distributed Generation Units,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 1080–1091, Mar. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2017.2778162.
  • P. Pijnenburg and S. A. Saleh, “Testing the Performance of Bus-Split Aggregation Method for Residential Loads,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 39–49, Jan. 2018, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2017.2750633.
  • X. Gong, J. L. C. Barrera, L. Chang, E. C. Guerra, B. Cao and S. Saleh, “Integrated Multi-Horizon Power and Energy Forecast for Aggregated Electric Water Heaters”, in 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR, USA, 2018, pp. 2628-2635.
  • B. Cao, L. Chang, X. Gong, J. L. C. Barrera, T. Levy and R. Kilpatrick, “Probability Forecasting of Wind Power Ramp Events Using a Time Series Similarity Search Algorithm”, in 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR, USA, 2018, pp. 972-976.
  • Xin Zhao, Liuchen Chang, Riming Shao, and Katelin Spence, “Power System Support Functions Provided by Smart Inverters—A Review,” CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications, vol 3, pp. 25–35, 2018.

2017

  • S. A. Saleh, P. Pijnenburg, and E. Castillo-Guerra, “Load Aggregation From Generation-Follows-Load to Load-Follows-Generation: Residential Loads,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 833–842, Mar. 2017, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2016.2626261.
  • Xin Zhao, Liuchen Chang, “Active and Reactive Power Decoupling Control of Grid-Connected Inverters in Stationary Reference Frame”, Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering, vol 3, pp. 18-24, Dec. 2017.

2016

  • P. Pijnenburg, S. A. Saleh, and P. McGaw, “Performance Evaluation of the ZIP Model-Phaselet Frame Approach for Identifying Appliances in Residential Loads,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 3408–3421, Jul. 2016, doi: 10.1109/TIA.2016.2535268.
  • Shuang Xu, Liuchen Chang and Riming Shao, “Evolution of Single-Phase Power Converter Topologies Underlining Power Decoupling,” Chinese J. of Electrical Eng. (CJEE), vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 24-39, June 2016.

2015

  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao, Liuchen Chang and Craig Church, “Energy Cost Estimation of Small Wind Power Systems – An Integrated Approach,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE), vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 945-956, Dec. 2015. 
  • Errouissi, J. Cardenas-Barrera, J. Meng, E. Castillo-Guerra, X. Gong and L. Chang, “Bootstrap prediction interval estimation for wind speed forecasting”, in 2015 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Montreal, QC, CAN, 2015, pp. 1919-1924.

Conferences

2021

  • P. Yazdkhasti and C. P. Diduch, "A Model-Based Short-term Load Forecast Methodology for Aggregated Power Consumption of Thermostatically Controlled Appliances in DSM," 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2021, pp. 727-732, doi: 10.1109/ECCE47101.2021.9595608.
  • P. Yazdkhasti and C. P. Diduch, "Design of a Smart Controller Agent for Demand-Side Management with Low Payback Effect," 2021 IEEE 9th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), 2021, pp. 42-47, doi: 10.1109/SEGE52446.2021.9535058.

2020

  • G. Song, B. Cao, and L. Chang, “A Novel Control Algorithm for Small-Scale Wind Generation System using Aerodynamic Torque Estimator”, 2020 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 69–76, Sep 2020. EI: 20152956.
  • G. Song, B. Cao, and L. Chang, “An Electrical Stall Control Algorithm for Small-Scale Wind Generation System using Aerodynamic Observer”, 2020 IEEE 11th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Dubrovnik, Croatia, pp. 77–84, Sep 2020. EI: 20152946.
  • P. Yazdkhasti and C. P. Diduch, "Demand Side Management using Model-Free Fuzzy Controller in a Direct Load Control Program," 2020 IEEE Electric Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), 2020, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/EPEC48502.2020.9320090.

2019

  • G. Song, B. Cao, L. Chang, and R. Shao, “Novel Nonlinear DC-Link Voltage Control for Small-Scale Grid-Connected Wind Power Converters”, 2019 IEEE 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 – ECCE Asia), Busan, Korea (South), May. 2019. EI: 18923037.
  • G. Song, B. Cao, L. Chang, and R. Shao, “A Novel Adaptive Observer-based DC-Link Voltage Control for Grid-Connected Power Converters”, 2019 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Xi’an, China, pp. 604-610, Jun. 2019. EI: 18941135.
  • G. Song, B. Cao, L. Chang, R. Shao and S. Xu, “A Novel DC-Link Voltage Control for Small-Scale Grid-Connected Wind Energy Conversion System”, 2019 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Anaheim, CA, USA, pp. 2461-2466, Mar. 2019. EI: 18720378.
  • Shuang Xu, Liuchen Chang, Riming Shao, “Pulse Energy Modulation for a Single-Phase Bridge Inverter with Power Decoupling Capability”, in Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Mar. 2019, pp. 305-312.
  • Ahmad Mohamad Mezher, Pedro Enrique Iturria Rivera, Carlos Lester Dueñas Santos, Julián Cárdenas-Barrera, Julian Meng, and Eduardo Castillo Guerra. 2019. Minkowski Distance Order Effect on the Optimization of Key Devices Positions in Large-Scale RF Mesh Networks. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 73–77. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3345860.3361516
  • Ahmad Mohamad Mezher, Nisha Rajendran, Pedro Enrique Iturria Rivera, Carlos Lester Dueñas Santos, Julian Meng, and Eduardo Castillo Guerra. 2019. Optimization of Key Devices Positions in Large-Scale RF Mesh Networks. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Wireless Ad Hoc, Sensor, & Ubiquitous Networks (PE-WASUN ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 67–72. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3345860.3361515
  • S. A. Saleh, E. Castillo-Guerra, P. Pijnenburg, and E. Ozkop, “Unit Commitment-Based Control of Bus-Split Aggregated Electric Water Heaters,” in 2019 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2019, pp. 1–10. 
  • Xun Gong, “Short-Term Load Forecasting for Aggregated Thermostatically Controlled Loads”, presented at the 26th UNB Graduate Research Conference, Fredericton, Canada, Mar 21-22, 2019.
  • P. Yazdkhasti and C. P. Diduch, "A PID controller for Direct Load Control of Thermostatically Controlled Appliances," 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2019, pp. 1913-1918, doi: 10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029166.
  • P. Yazdkhasti and C. P. Diduch, "A Methodology to Forecast the Control Capacity of a Population of Thermostatically Controlled Appliances in a Demand-Side Management," 2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2019, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861813.

2018

  • Shuang Xu, Meiqin Mao, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang, “Voltage-Reference Active Power Decoupling Based on Boost Converter for Single-Phase Bridge Inverter”, in 2018 IEEE International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-ECCE Asia), May 2018, pp.1-6.
  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang, “Single-Phase Voltage Source Inverter with Power Decoupling and Minimum Voltage Stress Modulation”, in 2018 IEEE 9th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), June 2018, pp.1-6.
  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang, “Single-Phase Voltage Source Inverter with Pulse Energy Modulation for Power Decoupling”, in 2018 IEEE 9th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), June 2018, pp.1-6.
  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang, “Single-Phase Voltage Source Inverter with Active Power Decoupling Based on Buck-Boost Converter”, in Proc. IEEE Energy Convers. Congress and Expo. (ECCE), Sept. 2018, pp. 6725-6732
  • P. Yazdkhasti, S. Ray, C. P. Diduch and L. Chang, "Using a Cluster-Based Method for Controlling the Aggregated Power Consumption of Air Conditioners in a Demand-Side Management Program," 2018 International Conference on Smart Energy Systems and Technologies (SEST), 2018, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/SEST.2018.8495749.
  • P. Yazdkhasti and C. P. Diduch, "A Mathematical Model for the Aggregated Power Consumptions of Air Conditioners," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering (SEGE), 2018, pp. 244-248, doi: 10.1109/SEGE.2018.8499491.

2017

  • P. Pijnenburg and S. A. Saleh, “The bus-split method for residential load aggregation,” in 2017 IEEE/IAS 53rd Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I CPS), 2017, pp. 1–10, doi: 10.1109/ICPS.2017.7945113.
  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang, “Single-phase voltage source inverter with voltage-boosting and power decoupling capabilities”, in 2017 IEEE 8th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), April 2017, pp.1-8.
  • Shuang Xu, Liuchen Chang, Riming Shao and Haider Mohomad AR, “Power decoupling method for single-phase buck-boost inverter with energy-based control”, in Proc. IEEE Applied Power Electron. Conf. and Expo. (APEC), Mar. 2017, pp. 3426-3431.

2016

  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao, Liuchen Chang and Shuying Yang, “Modified Pulse Energy Modulation of a Three-switch Buck-Boost Inverter,” in Proc. IEEE Energy Convers. Congress and Expo. (ECCE), Sept. 2016, pp. 1-6.

2015

  • Shuang Xu, Shuying Yang, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang, “Closed-Loop Pulse Energy Modulation of a Three-switch Buck-Boost Inverter,” in Proc. IEEE Energy Convers. Congress and Expo. (ECCE), Sept. 2015, pp. 2485-2489.

2014

  • Shuang Xu, Craig Church, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang, "Energy Cost Estimation of Small Wind Power Systems - An Integrated Approach," 2014 IEEE 5th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), June 2014, pp.1-7.

PhD/MSc theses

  • X.Gong, "Aggregated Load Forecast and Control for Creating Alternative Power System Resources Using Thermostatically Controlled Loads", 2021
  • S.Xiang, "Domestic Electric Water Heater Control for Peak Shaving & Frequency
    Control", 2021.
  • C. Richard, "LQR Control of Dual-Active Bridge DC-DC Power Electric Converters", 2020.
  • P. Pijnenburg, "Modified Bus Split Aggregation and Control of Residential Loads", January 2020.
  • N. Rajendran, "Performance Evaluation of Optimal Geometry of Interconnecting Devices for AMI Smart Grid Networks", October 2019.
  • S. Xu, “Single-Phase Power Inverters with Buck-boost and Power Decoupling Capabilities”, November 2018.

Patents

  • Shuang Xu, Riming Shao, Liuchen Chang, “Single-Phase Voltage Source Inverter with Power Decoupling, and Control Methods,” US 15/840,529, application filed on Dec. 13th, 2017.
  • Shuang Xu, Meiqin Mao, Riming Shao and Liuchen Chang “Single-Phase Differential Buck-Boost Inverter with Power Decoupling Control,” cn 201710283032.0, Issued on May 31st, 2019.