Attendees

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Group publications, 2000 - 2001

Agenda

8:30 - 9:00 AM Coffee

9:00 - 9:15 AM Welcome and CoPEC news

• Agenda and program overview
• New faculty (Regan Zane)
• New professional certificate program in power electronics
• Remodeled lab facilities

Research results: Session 1

9:15 - 9:45 AM Digital control IC (National Semiconductor) - Art Zirger

• hardware demonstration of complete chip, operating in a 1MHz converter

9:45 - 10:15 AM Digital control of power factor correction supplies (Philips Research) - Jingquan Chen

• Digital average current control & Digital comb filter for wide-bandwidth output voltage (Chen & Prodic)

10:15 - 10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00 AM Digital control of a dc-dc converter (Tyco Power Systems) - Aleksander Prodic

• hardware demo of DSP-controlled 50 W 3.3 V power supply

11:00 - 11:30 AM Modeling and control of high-frequency DC-AC inverters for electronic ballasts (GE CR&D) - Yan Yin

• Design-oriented modeling and analysis of ballast systems
• Pspice simulation model
• Digital ballast control

11:30 AM - 12:00 AM Presentation and discussion of research proposal on digital control

• Results of EPRI workshop on switched-mode power supplies / Consortium for Electric Infrastructure to Support a Digital Society
• Discussion of proposed project: goals, path to commercialization, administration and role of CoPEC

12:00 - 1:00 PM Lunch

1:00 - 1:30 PM Lab tour and demonstrations

Research results: Session II

1:30 - 1:50 PM Soft switching SEPIC PFC for avionics applications (Rockwell Collins) - Praneet Athalye

• Issues in adapting active-clamp ZVS approach to PFC applications
• Pspice simulation model

1:50 - 2:10 PM Development of solid-state lamp driver (Philips Lighting) - Ying Chen

• approaches to low-cost control of multiple color channels

Other projects

2:10 - 2:30 PM Adaptive power management for digital VLSI (NSF and National Semiconductor) - Sandeep Dhar

• IC implementation

2:30 - 2:50 PM Novel power electronics systems for wind energy applications (NREL) - Sitthipong Angkititrakul and Giancarlo Lujan

• A new multilevel matrix converter
• Control and implementation

2:50 - 3:10 PM A new approach to engineering the magnetics of multiple-output flyback converters to achieve quantifiable cross-regulation performance - Kusumal Changtong

3:10 - 3:30 PM Discussion and conclusion

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