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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Invite for Sept 25 Webinar: Power Converter Controller Design for Smart Grid Power Electronics

25 September 2012
Power Converter Controller Design for Smart Grid Power Electronics
TIME: 2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT / 18:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour)
DESCRIPTION: Just say no to trial and error when designing your next smart grid power converter or flexible AC transmission control system. Learn how to fool proof your design cycle by applying appropriate validation and control synthesis techniques. New methods will be demonstrated through the design of two FPGA-based control systems: 1. A classic field-oriented control and space-vector PWM inverter with novel algorithm to extend IGBT lifetime, and 2. The automatic synthesis of a piecewise affine state-feedback controller for a buck-boost converter with strong guarantees of closed-loop performance. Join us for demo based introductions to the proposed techniques, including:
  • New developments in set theory to automatically synthesize low complexity control laws,
  • Power electronics co-simulation tools for automated testing of FPGA control software,
  • Real-time simulators and miniature-scale grids for rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop verification, and
  • Deployment-ready inverter stacks and FPGA control boards for high volume commercialization.

PRESENTER: Brian MacCleery,
Product Manager for Clean Energy Technology at National Instruments
Brian’s mission is to facilitate the design, prototyping and deployment of advanced embedded systems technologies that will help make clean energy less expensive and more abundant than fossil fuels. Brian works with green engineering companies worldwide to help them accelerate their commercialization process through the use of high-level graphical programming software and cutting edge reconfigurable embedded instrumentation and control hardware.

MODERATOR: Dexter Johnson
Sr. Analyst at Cientifica, a business intelligence company for emerging technologies
Author and Editor of several market reports on nanotechnology
Contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum’s Tech Talk
Program Director for numerous international conferences on nanotechnology, fiber optic telecommunications and IT



Register Here
Power Converter Controller Design for Smart Grid Power Electronics
September 25, 2012
2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT / 18:00 GMT

(Duration: 1 hour)
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