Electrical Energy Engineering

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Publications in Google scholar 

* Third Best Paper Award: "Model predictive pulse pattern control for the five-level active neutral point clamped inverter," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

* Four Prize Paper Awards at IEEE conferences

development of new control methods that:

* fully utilize the hardware capability (and/or)

* reduce the hardware requirement

of power electronic systems

1. I. Koukoula, P. Karamanakos, and T. Geyer, "Optimal pulse width modulation of three-level converters with reduced common-mode voltage," IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, 2024, in press.

2. M. A. W. Begh, P. Karamanakos, and T. Geyer,"Gradient-based predictive pulse pattern control of medium-voltage drives—Part I: Control, concept, and analysis," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 37(12): 14222–14236, Dec. 2022.

3. P. Karamanakos, M. Nahalparvari, and T. Geyer, "Fixed switching frequency direct model predictive control with continuous and discontinuous modulation for grid-tied converters with LCL filters," IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 29(4): 1503–1518, Jul. 2021.

4. P. Karamanakos and T. Geyer, "Guidelines for the design of finite control set model predictive controllers," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 35(7): 7434–7450, Jul. 2020

5. P. Karamanakos, E. Liegmann, T. Geyer, and R. Kennel, "Model predictive control of power electronic systems: Methods, results, and challenges," IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications, vol. 1: 95–114, 2020.

6. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, and R. Kennel, "On the choice of norm in finite control set model predictive control," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 33(8): 7105–7117, Aug. 2018

7. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, and R. Kennel, "A computationally efficient model predictive control strategy for linear systems with integer inputs," IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 24(4): 1463–1471, Jul. 2016

8. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, N. Oikonomou, F. D. Kieferndorf, and S. Manias, "Direct model predictive control: A review of strategies that achieve long prediction intervals for power electronics," IEEE Industrial Electronics Mag., vol. 8(1): 32–43, Mar. 2014

9. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, and S. Manias, "Direct voltage control of dc-dc boost converters using enumeration-based model predictive control," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 29(2): 968–978, Feb. 2014

10. N. Oikonomou, C. Gutscher, P. Karamanakos, F. D. Kieferndorf and T. Geyer, "Model predictive pulse pattern control for the five-level active neutral-point clamped inverter", IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, vol. 49(6): 2583–2592, Nov./Dec. 2013