ConferenceConference Proceedings IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition APEC · January 1, 2024
Multilevel converters with parallel connectivity, known for their flexibility and scalability, are extensively applied across diverse fields. Earlier studies presumed an ideal inverse relationship between the output impedance and the number of paralleled m ...
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ConferenceConference Proceedings IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition APEC · January 1, 2024
Multilevel converters are indispensable in power transmission and motor drivetrains, offering enhanced scalability and flexibility through parallel connectivity. This advancement offers beneficial features like sensorless voltage balancing and reduced impe ...
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Conference2024 IEEE Urucon Urucon 2024 · January 1, 2024
Computer-aided neuronavigation systems are a key component of several modern medical procedures, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Existing offerings require expensive, often proprietary hardware and software, limiting the widespread adopt ...
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ConferenceClin Image Based Proced Fairness AI Med Imaging Ethical Philos Issues Med Imaging (2023) · October 2023
The localization and tracking of neurocranial landmarks is essential in modern medical procedures, e.g., transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). However, state-of-the-art treatments still rely on the manual identification of head targets and require setti ...
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ConferenceNeuroimage · April 1, 2022
TMS has become a powerful tool to explore cortical function, and in parallel has proven promising in the development of therapies for various psychiatric and neurological disorders. Unfortunately, much of the inference of the direct effects of TMS has been ...
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ConferenceIECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference · January 1, 2022
The paper proposes an Asymmetrical Modular Multilevel Converter (AMMC) suitable for low/medium-voltage dc-ac conversions with very high output quality. The modules' dc-links of the AMMC are charged to a binary exponential sequence to produce a large number ...
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ConferenceIECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference · October 1, 2019
The Modular Multilevel Series Parallel Converter (MMSPC) not only allows dynamic interconnection among the modules in series connection, like the traditional Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC), but also in parallel connection. This extra switching state am ...
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Conference2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications EPE 2019 Ecce Europe · September 1, 2019
The modular multilevel series-parallel converter (MMSPC) was shown to provide advantages in several industrial applications, but the many individual switches may challenge its reliability. This paper proposes an effective fault diagnosis method (FDM) based ...
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Conference2019 21st European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications EPE 2019 Ecce Europe · September 1, 2019
This paper adopts the bilinear modeling method to design a coherent model for modular multilevel converters with parallel connectivity and proposes an optimized closed-loop control combining proportional resonant (PR) control, nearest level modulation, and ...
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ConferenceProceedings IECON 2017 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society · December 15, 2017
The star-configured modular multilevel converter is a promising topology for grid-connected storage as well as power-quality applications and motor drives. During operation, the ac output power generates substantial current pulsation at twice the output fr ...
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ConferenceProceedings IECON 2017 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society · December 15, 2017
The modular multilevel converter with series and parallel connectivity was shown to provide advantages in several industrial applications. Its reliability largely depends on the absence of failures in the power semiconductors. We propose and analyze a faul ...
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Conference2017 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Ecce 2017 · November 3, 2017
This paper presents a multi-step predictive control framework for modular multilevel converters with series/parallel connectivity - a more generalized topology of the H-bridge-based modular multilevel converters. The controller coordinates a wide range of ...
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Conference2017 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Ecce 2017 · November 3, 2017
Modular multilevel converters (MMC) have many advantages owing to their power-stage modularity. However, this modularity does not extend directly to the control. Particularly, the balancing control usually requires central coordination and increases in com ...
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Conference2017 IEEE 3rd International Future Energy Electronics Conference and Ecce Asia Ifeec Ecce Asia 2017 · July 25, 2017
This work will present a novel photovoltaic (PV) inverter with integrated short-term storage. The topology combines advantages of microinverter topologies, such as module-specific maximum-power-point tracking, failure-tolerance, safety due to limited volta ...
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ConferenceConference Proceedings IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition APEC · May 10, 2016
We present a control approach for the modular multilevel converter (MMC) with series and parallel module connectivity (MMSPC) that provides natural module balancing, reduced conduction losses, and enhanced robustness afforded by the parallel mode. In conve ...
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ConferenceAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · 2015
A significant limitation of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is that the magnetic pulse delivery is associated with a loud clicking sound as high as 140 dB resulting from electromagnetic forces. The loud noise significantly impedes both basic resear ...
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ConferenceAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · 2014
Mouse models are widely used in studies of various forms of transcranial electric stimulation (TES). However, there is limited knowledge of the electric field distribution induced by TES in mice, and computational models to estimate this distribution are l ...
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ConferenceAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc · 2014
Rodent models are valuable for preclinical examination of novel therapeutic techniques, including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). However, comparison of TMS effects in rodents and humans is confounded by inaccurate scaling of the spatial extent of ...
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ConferenceInternational IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering Ner · December 1, 2013
Recent studies revealed that transcranial stimulation with static magnetic field (SMF) at 0.1-0.15 T results in reduction of neural excitability in the human motor cortex. We explore the mechanisms of this phenomenon with patch-clamp recording in rat brain ...
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ConferenceInternational IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering Ner · December 1, 2013
We present the first topographical characterization of seizures induced by ultrabrief pulse width right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and magnetic seizure therapy (MST). Topographical electroencephalogram (EEG) was acquired during treatments i ...
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ConferenceInternational IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering Ner · December 1, 2013
Commercially available transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) devices provide very limited control over the pulse parameters. We present a third generation controllable pulse parameter device (cTMS3) that uses a novel full-bridge circuit topology with two ...
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