Current Research Projects
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Next-generation Commercially-viable High-efficiency High-bandwidth High-reliability Wave Energy Converter Power
Electronics and Energy Storage (sponsored
by DOE EERE WPTO) (2025-2029)
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CAREER: Universal Modeling of Real and Virtual Energy
Storage with Connected Power Electronics (sponsored
by NSF CAREER) (2022-2027)
Work is related to modeling, control, and design of complex
multi-physical power electronics based systems, including
energy storage, electromechanics, thermal, etc.
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Bi-Partisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) DOE Funding for activities at the National Marine Energy Centers. Subtopic: Reliability Modeling, Health Monitoring, and Predictive Maintenance for Wave Energy Converter and Current Energy Converter (sponsored
by DOE WPTO) (2024-2029)
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Dynamic Modular Microgrids (DyM-MGs): Real-Time and Packetized Microgrid Implementation (sponsored
by DOE OE) (2025-2027)
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Supertruck 3: Ultra-Efficient Long Haul Hydrogen Fuel Cell
Tractor (sponsored
by DOE EERE VTO) (2022-2027)
Work is related to high-power high-voltage SiC-based motor
drive design, including hardware and control.
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Modeling the Integration of Marine Energy into Microgrids
(sponsored
by DOE EERE WPTO) (2021-2026)
Our group models dynamic power electronics interfaced power
systems as part of the wave/hydrokinetic based microgrids.
This
work involves data-driven modeling, design optimization,
control verification through hardware-in-the-loop.
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A Unified Multiphysics Approach for Modeling, Control, and
Optimization of Wave Energy Converters (sponsored
by DOE EERE WPTO) (2021-2026)
Our group investigates an equivalent circuit modeling approach
of electro-mechanical-hydro relationship of the individual and
arrayed wave energy converters. This work involves modeling
and control including hardware validation.
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Hybrid Hydropower-Storage Units for Greater Operational
Flexibility
(sponsored by DOE EERE WPTO) (2023-2027)
This project’s goal is to demonstrate and quantify the value
of a hybrid hydroelectric-storage generation unit, which
combines a hydropower unit that does not have storage
capability with supercapacitors.
Co-development of computational power system and power electronics models and development of interfaces with high performance computing environments.