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Mark Sumner

Professor of Electrical Energy Systems, Faculty of Engineering

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Biography

Dr Sumner received his BEng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Leeds University in 1986. He then worked for Rolls Royce Ltd in Ansty for a short time before embarking on research work in vector controlled induction motor drives at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Sumner received his PhD in 1990, and after working at Nottingham as a Research Assistant, was appointed Lecturer in October 1992, and Senior Lecturer in 2004.

Expertise Summary

Induction motor drives, power electronic systems

Research Summary

My research interests cover microprocessor control of power electronic systems. In particular I am involved with the sensorless control of induction motors and permanent magnet machines (and their… read more

Recent Publications

Current Research

My research interests cover microprocessor control of power electronic systems. In particular I am involved with the sensorless control of induction motors and permanent magnet machines (and their use in automotive and aerospace applications), power quality and control of active filters using system identification, and the development and use of new converter topologies for renewables and distributed generation.

Dr Sumner is currently researching

  • Sensorless control of induction motors and permanent magnet machines (and their use in industrial, automotive and aerospace applications)
  • Condition monitoring for motor drive systems
  • Power quality and fault location for power systems using identification techniques
  • The development and use of enhanced power converter functionality for mirogridsand distributed generation
  • HUA, Y., SUMNER, M., ASHER, G., GAO, Q. and SALEH, K., 2011. Improved sensorless control of a permanent magnet machine using fundamental pulse width modulation excitation IET Electric Power Applications. 5(4),
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., SUMNER, M. and GERADA, C., 2011. Winding condition monitoring schemefor a permanent magnet machine using high-frequency injection IET Electrical Power Applications. 5(1),
  • JASIM, O., SUMNER, M., GERADA, C. and ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., 2011. Development of a new fault-tolerant induction motor control strategy using an enhanced equivalent circuit model IET Electric Power Applications. 5(8),
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., SUMNER, M., GERADA, C. and BUCKLEY, G., 2011. Evaluation of the machine non-linearities as an aid to develop self-commissioning in sensorless drives In: EPE 2011.
  • ODAVIC, M., BIAGINI, V., SUMNER, M., ZANCHETTA, P. and DEGANO, M., 2011. Multi-sampled Carrier-Based PWM for Multilevel Active Shunt Power Filters for Aerospace Applications In: ECCE 2011 17-22 Sep.
  • GIANGRANDE, P., CUPERTINO, F., PELLEGRINO, G., RONCHETTO, D., GERADA, C. and SUMNER, M., 2011. Analysis of two-part rotor, axial flux permanent magnet machines In: ECCE 2011 17-22 Sept. (In Press.)
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J,, SUMNER, M., GERADA, C. and BUCKLEY, G., 2011. Detection of Inter-Coil Short Circuits in the Stator Winding of a PM Machine by using Saliency Tracking Schemes In: ECCE 2011 17-22 Sept.
  • SUMNER, M., CHRISTOPHER, E., THOMAS, D. and DE WILDT, F., 2011. Self Healing for a DC Zonal Distribution Architecture using Active Impedance In: ECCE 2011 17-22 Sep.
  • ODAVIC, M., BIAGINI, V., ZANCHETTA, P., SUMNER, M. and DEGANO, M., 2011. One-sample-period-ahead predictive current control for high-performance active shunt power filters IET Power Electronics. 4(4),
  • CUPERTINO, F., LAVOPA, E., ZANCHETTA, P., SUMNER, M. and SALVATORE, L., 2011. Running DFT-Based PLL Algorithm for Frequency, Phase, and Amplitude Tracking in Aircraft Electrical Systems IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 58(3), 1027-1035
  • GIANGRANDE, PAOLO, RONCHETTO, DAVIDE, PELLEGRINO, GIANMARIO, CUPERTINO, FRANCESCO, GERADA, CHRIS and SUMNER, MARK, 2011. Hybrid sensorless control of axial flux permanent magnet motor drives, including zero speed In: EPE 2011.
  • CHRISTOPHER, E., SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D. and DE WILDT, F., 2011. Fault location for a DC zonal electrical distribution systems using active impedance estimation In: 2011 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium (ESTS).
  • WANG, J, SUMNER, M, THOMAS, D.W.P and GEERTSMA, R, 2011. Active fault protection for an AC zonal marine power system IET Electrical Systems in Transportation. 1(4), 156-166
  • SALEH, K., SUMNER, M., ASHER, G. and GAO, Q, 2010. Sensorless control of high power induction motors using multilevel converters In: PEMD 2010.
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., GERADA, C., ASHER, G. and SUMNER, M., 2010. Inductance Characteristics of PMSMs and their Impact on Saliency-based Sensorless Control In: EPE-PEMC 2010.
  • JASIM, O, SUMNER, M., GERADA, C. and ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., 2010. FAULT RIDE THROUGH CONTROL FOR A DELTA CONNECTED INDUCTION MOTOR WITH AN OPEN WINDING FAULT BY CONTROLLING THE ZERO SEQUENCE VOLTAGE In: PEMD 2010.
  • ODAVIC, M., SUMNER, M., ZANCHETTA, P. and CLARE, J. C., 2010. A Theoretical Analysis of the Harmonic Content of PWM Waveforms for Multiple-Frequency Modulators IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 25(131-141),
  • LI, J., SUMNER, M., ARELLANO-PADILLA, J. and ASHER, G., 2010. CONDITION MONITORING FOR MECHANICAL FAULTS IN MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEMS USING THE RECIFIER INPUT CURRENTS In: PEMD 2010.
  • CHRISTOPHER, E., SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D., WANG, X. and DE WILDT, F., 2010. Fault location in a zonal DC marine power system using active imedance estimation In: ECCE 2010.
  • WANG, J., SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D., ODAVIC, M. and CHRISTOPHER, E., 2010. On-line fault diagnostic for AC zonal marine distribution systems In: Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion (ESARS), 2010, 19-21 Oct 2010.
  • SALEH, K., SUMNER, M., QIANG, G. and ASHER, G, 2010. A novel technique for sensorless control of high power induction motors using multilevel converters In: ECCE 2010.
  • CUPERTINO, F, LAVOPA, E, ZANCHETTA, P, SUMNER, M and SALVATORE, L, 2010. Running DFT-based PLL Algorithm for Frequency, Phase and Amplitude Tracking in Aircraft Electrical Systems IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
  • RAUTE, R., CARUANA, C., STAINES, C.S., CILIA, J., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2010. Sensorless Control of Induction Machines at Low and Zero Speed by Using PWM Harmonics for Rotor-Bar Slotting Detection IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 46(5), 1989-1998
  • SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D., ABUSORRAH, A., YAO, L., PARASHAR, R. and BAZARGAN, M., 2010. Intelligent Protection for Embedded Generation using Active Impedance Estimation In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems. 47 - 52
  • LAVOPA, E., ZANCHETTA, P., SUMNER, M. and BOLOGNESI, P., 2010. Improved voltage harmonic control for sensorless shunt active power filters In: 2010 International Symposium on Power Electronics Electrical Drives Automation and Motion (SPEEDAM).
  • CHRISTOPHER, E., SUMNER, M., SZABO, A. and INTROWICZ, E., 2010. Power Boost Unit for Automotive Electric Power Steering Systems In: PEMD 2010.
  • CHRISTOPHER, E., WANG, X., SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D., WANG, J. and DE WILDT, L.F., 2010. A DC distribution demonstrator incorporating Active Impedance Estimation for marine applications In: Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion (ESARS), 2010, 19-21 Oct 2010.
  • RAUTE, R., CARUANA, C., STAINES, C. S., CILIA, J., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G. M., 2010. Analysis and Compensation of Inverter Nonlinearity Effect on a Sensorless PMSM Drive at Very Low and Zero Speed Operation IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 57(12), 4065
  • ODAVIC, M., SUMNER, M., WHEELER, P. and LI, J., 2010. Real-time fault diagnostics for a permanent magnet synchronous motor drive for aerospace applications In: ECCE 2010.
  • RAUTE, R., CARUANA, C., STAINES, C.S., CILIA, J., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2010. Analysis and Compensation of Inverter Nonlinearity Effect on a Sensorless PMSM Drive at Very Low and Zero Speed Operation IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 57(12), 4065-4074
  • QIAN ZHOU, THOMAS, D. and SUMNER, M., 2010. Fault identification for “More Electric” Aircraft distribution systems, Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion In: Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway and Ship Propulsion (ESARS), 2010, 19-21 Oct 2010.
  • RAUTE, REIKO, CARUANA, CEDRIC, SPITERI STAINES, CYRIL, CILIA, JOSEPH and SUMNER, MARK, 2010. Design of a periphery control FPGA board for electric drive systems In: MELECON 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference.
  • RAUTE, R., CARUANA, C., STAINES, C., CILIA, J., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G, 2010. Sensorless Control of Induction Machines at Low and Zero Speed Using PWM Harmonics for Rotor Bar Slotting Detection IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
  • THOMAS, D., SUMNER, M., COGGINS, D., CHRISTOPHER, E., WANG, X. and GEERTSMA, R., 2009. DC Power System Fault Protection - Test of Novel Techniques In: Engine as a Weapon III (Organized by IMarEST), Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, UK. 23rd - 24th June 2009..
  • SALEH, K., ASHER, G., SUMNER, M., TOMASINI, M. and GAO, Q., 2009. Low Speed Sensorless Control of an Induction Motor Fed by Multilevel Converter to Reduce Current Distortion In: EPE 2009.
  • WANG, X., THOMAS, D. W. P., SUMNER, M., PAUL, J. and CABRAL, S. H. L., 2009. Numerical Determination of Jiles-Atherton Model Parameters COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 28(2), 493 - 503
  • GAO, Q., ASHER, G. M., SUMNER, M. and EMPRINGHAM, L, 2009. Position Estimation of a Matrix-Converter-Fed AC PM Machine From Zero to High Speed Using PWM Excitation IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 56(6),
  • ODAVIC, M., SUMNER, M. and ZANCHETTA, P., 2009. Control of a Multi-Level Active Shunt Power Filter for More Electric Aircraft In: EPE 2009.
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., SUMNER, M., GERADA, C. and JING, L., 2009. A Novel Approach to Gearbox Condition Monitoring by Using Drive Rectifier Input Currents In: EPE 2009.
  • GAO, Q., HUA, Y., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G, 2009. Comparison of Two Sensorless Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drives In: EPE 2009.
  • JASIM, O., GERADA, C., SUMNER, M. and ARELLANO-PADILLA, J, 2009. Operation of an induction motor with an open circuit fault by controlling the zero sequence voltage In: IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, 2009. 1426-1433
  • GERADA, C., PADILLA, J.A., SUMNER, M. and RAMINOSOA, T., 2009. Loading effects on saliency based sensorless control of PMSMs In: Elec International Conference on trical Machines and Systems, 2009. ICEMS 2009..
  • HUA, Y., SUMNER, M., ASHER, G. and GAO, Q., 2009. Sensorless Control for a PM Machine with Reduced Current Distortion using Space Vector PWM Excitation In: EPE 2009.
  • LENWARI, W., SUMNER, M. and ZANCHETTA, P, 2009. The Use of Genetic Algorithms for the Design of Resonant Compensators for Active Filters IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 56(8), 2852-2861
  • KEREKES, T., TEODORESCU, R., LISERRE, M., KLUMPNER, C. and SUMNER, M., 2009. Evaluation of Three-Phase Transformerless Photovoltaic Inverter Topologies IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 24(9), 2202-2211
  • QIANG GAO, ASHER, G. and SUMNER, M., 2009. Wide-speed range sensorless control of an AC PM motor using the PWM waveform of a matrix converter and without di/dt sensors In: IECON '09. 35th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics.
  • LAVOPA, E., ZANCHETTA, P., SUMNER, M. and CUPERTINO, F, 2009. Real-Time Estimation of Fundamental Frequency and Harmonics for Active Shunt Power Filters in Aircraft Electrical Systems IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 56(8), 2875-2884
  • OHYAMA, K., ASHER, G. and SUMNER, M., 2009. Low speed and regenerating operation of sensorless vector control system of induction motor using observer gain tuning and high frequency injection technique In: 13th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, 2009. EPE '09..
  • THOMAS, D., SUMNER, M., COGGINS, D., WANG, X., WANG, J. and GEERTSMA, LT. R., 2009. Fault Location for DC Marine Power Systems In: 2009 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium, Baltimore, USA, 20-22 April 2009.
  • CHRISTOPHER, E. and SUMNER, M., 2009. The control of NPC grid connected converter for interfacing to unbalanced DC link loads In: EPE 2009.
  • CURSON, A. and SUMNER, M., 2009. A comparison of low speed sensorless control techniques for low voltage PM machines In: EPE 2009.
  • THOMAS, DAVID, SUMNER, MARK, COGGINS, DAVID, WANG, XIAOHUI, WANG, JING and GEERTSMA, RINZE, 2009. Fault location for DC marine power systems In: IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium 2009. 456-460
  • RAUTE, R., CARUANA, C., SPITERI STAINES, C., CILIA, J., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G., 2008. Inverter Non-linearity Effects on a Sensorless PMSM Drive Without Additional Test Signal Injection and Zero Speed Operation In: 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics ISIE'08. 552-557
  • GAO, Q., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2008. Position estimation of a surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous motor controlled by a three-phase matrix converter using the space vector PWM waveform In: PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008.. 275-279 (In Press.)
  • GAO, Q., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M, 2008. Zero speed position estimation of a matrix converter fed AC PM machine using PWM excitation In: Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2008. EPE-PEMC 2008. 2261-2268
  • JASIM, O., GERADA, C., SUMNER, M. and ARELLANO-PADILLA, J, 2008. Investigation of induction machine phase open circuit faults using a simplified equivalent circuit model In: 18th International Conference on Electrical Machines, 2008. 1-6
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, JESUS, SUMNER, MARK and GERADA, CHRIS, 2008. Condition monitoring for mechanical faults in fully integrated servo drive systems In: Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2008. EPE-PEMC 2008. 769-775
  • POLJUGAN, ALEN, SUMNER, MARK, GERADA, CHRIS and QIANG GAO, 2008. Modelling and simulation of a signal injection self-sensored drive In: Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2008. EPE-PEMC 2008. 1058-1063
  • CARASTRO, F., SUMNER, M. and ZANCHETTA, P., 2008. An Enhanced Shunt Active Filter with Energy Storage for Microgrids In: Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2008. 1-7
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., SUMNER, M. and GERADA, C, 2008. On-line detection of stator winding short-circuit faults in a PM machine using HF signal injection In: 18th International Conference on Electrical Machines, 2008. 1-8
  • JASIM, O., GERADA, C., SUMNER, M. and ARELLANO-PADILLA, J, 2008. A simplified model for induction machines with faults to aid the development of fault tolerant drives In: Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2008. EPE-PEMC 2008. 1173-1180
  • WANG, X., THOMAS, D.W.P., SUMNER, M., PAUL, J. and CABRAL, S.H.L., 2008. Characteristics of Jiles–Atherton Model Parameters and Their Application to Transformer Inrush Current Simulation IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 44(3), 340-345
  • RAUTE, REIKO, CARUANA, CEDRIC, CILIA, JOSEPH, STAINES, CYRIL SPITERI, SUMNER, MARK and ASHER, GREG, 2008. Impedance saliency detection for sensorless control of AC machines utilizing existing PWM switching harmonics In: PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008.. 557-561 (In Press.)
  • SRITHORN, P., SUMNER, M., YAO, L. and PARASHAR, R, 2008. A STATCOM with supercapacitors for enhanced power system stability In: PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008. PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on. 96-100 (In Press.)
  • ZHOU, Q., SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D. and , 2008. Fault Detection for Aircraft Power Systems using the Impedance at Third Harmonic Frequency In: IET 9th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection, 2008. DPSP 2008. 257-262
  • WANG, J., SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D.W.P. and GEERTSMA, R.D, 2008. Fast dault setection and location for a marine power ststem using system power converters, and active impedance estimation In: PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008.. 597-601 (In Press.)
  • ZHOU, QIAN, SUMNER, MARK and THOMAS, DAVE, 2008. Fault detection for the aircraft distribution systems using impedance estimation In: Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008. PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on. 666-670 (In Press.)
  • WANG, J., KADANAK, P., SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D.W.P. and GEERTSMA, R.D., 2008. Active Fault Protection for an AC Zonal Marine Power System Architecture In: Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2008. 1-7
  • KAZUHIRO OHYAMA,, ASHER, GREG and SUMNER, MARK, 2008. Experimental performance evaluation for low speed and regenerating operation of sensor-less vector control system of induction motor using observer gain tuning In: Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2008. EPE-PEMC 2008.. 2300-2305
  • VENTURINI, R.P., MATTAVELLI, P, ZANCHETTA, P and SUMNER, M, 2008. Variable Frequency Adaptive Selective Compensation for Active Power Filters In: IET - PEMD, York.
  • RAUTE, R., CARUANA, C., STAINES, C.S., CILIA, J., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G., 2008. Sensorless Control of Induction Machines by Using PWM Harmonics for Rotor Bar Slotting Detection In: Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2008.. 1-8
  • RAUTE, REIKO, CARUANA, CEDRIC, STAINES, CYRIL SPITERI, CILIA, JOSEPH, SUMNER, MARK and ASHER, GREG, 2008. Operation of a sensorless PMSM drive without additional test signal injection In: PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008.. 616-620 (In Press.)
  • WANG, J., THOMAS, DWP., SUMNER, M. and GEERTSMA, R.D, 2008. Fast Fault Detection and Location of a Zonal Marine Power System: Using Active Impedance Estimation In: IET 9th International Conference on Developments in Power System Protection, 2008. DPSP 2008. 490-494
  • SRITHORN, PHINIT, SUMNER, MARK, YAO, LIANGZHONG and PARASHAR, RAM, 2008. The control of a STATCOM with supercapacitor energy storage for improved power quality In: CIRED Seminar SmartGrids for Distribution, 2008. IET-CIRED. 1-4
  • SRITHORN, P., SUMNER, M., LIANGZHONG YAO and PARASHAR, R., 2008. Power System Stabilisation Using STATCOM with Supercapacitors In: Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 2008. 1-7
  • GAO, Q., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and MAKYŠ, P., 2007. Position estimation of AC machines over a wide frequency range based on space vector PWM excitation IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 43(4), 1001-1011
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K., SUMNER, M., ASHER, G. and ARELLANO-PADILLA, J, 2007. Permanent Magnet Synchronous machines for Saliency-based, Self-Sensored Motion Control In: 33rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2007. IECON 2007. 1038-1043
  • CAPONIO, A., CASCELLA, G.L., NERI, F., SALVATORE, N. and SUMNER, M., 2007. A fast adaptive memetic algorithm for online and offline control design of PMSM drives IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Part B:Cybernetics. 37(1), 28-41
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K. J., SUMNER, M., WHEELER, P. W., PICKERING, S. J., CLARE, J. C., WHITLEY, C. and TOWERS, G., 2007. The results do mesh Industry Applications Magazine, IEEE. 13, 62-72
  • ARIAS, A., EMPRINGHAM, L., ASHER, G. M., WHEELER, P. W., BLAND, M., APAP, M., SUMNER, M. and CLARE, J. C., 2007. Elimination of Waveform Distortions in Matrix Converters Using a New Dual Compensation Method: Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 54(4), 2079-2087
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K. J., SUMNER, M. and SEWELL, P., 2007. Evaluation and Modeling of Cross Saturation Due to Leakage Flux in Vector-Controlled Induction Machines: Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, IEEE Transactions on. 43(3), 694-702
  • SUMNER, M, TEODORESCU, R, KLUMPNER, C, FLORICAU, D, RODRIGUEZ, P and KEREKES, T, 2007. Evaluation of Three-Phase Transformerless Photovoltaic Inverter Topologies In: EPE 2007: 12th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.
  • ODAVIC, M, ZANCHETTA, P and SUMNER, M, 2007. A Low Switching Frequency High Bandwidth Current Control for Active Shunt Power Filter in Aircrafts Power Networks In: IECON, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • OKAEME, N., ZANCHETTA, P. and SUMNER, M, 2007. Robust Control Design through Experimental Load Identification for Variable Speed Drives In: Industry Applications Conference, 2007. 42nd IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2007 IEEE. 1257-1264
  • LAVOPA, E, SUMNER, M, ZANCHETTA, P, LADISA, C and CUPERTINO, F, 2007. Real-time estimation of fundamental frequency and harmonics for active power filters applications in aircraft electrical systems In: EPE 2007: 12th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.
  • LENWARI, W., SUMNER, M. and ZANCHETTA, P, 2007. Automated Design and Implementation of Resonant Controllers for Current Control of Shunt Active Filters In: 7th International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 2007. PEDS '07. 239-243
  • YAHAN HUA, ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and QIANG GAO, 2007. Sensorless Control of Surface Mounted Permanent Magnetic Machine Using the Standard Space Vector PWN In: 42nd IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Conference, 2007. 661-667
  • REIKO, R, CARUANA, C, CILIA, J, SPITERI STAINES, C and SUMNER, M, 2007. A Zero Speed Operation Sensorless PMSM Drive Without Additional Test Signal Injection In: EPE 2007: 12th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.
  • SILVA, C., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2006. Hybrid rotor position observer for wide speed-range sensorless PM motor drives including zero speed IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 53(2), 373-378
  • STAINES, C.S., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M, 2006. Rotor-position estimation for induction machines at zero and low frequency utilizing zero-sequence currents IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 42(1), 105-112
  • SUMNER, M., ABUSORRAH, A., THOMAS, D. and ZANCHETTA, P., 2006. Improved Power Quality Control and Intelligent Protection for Grid Connected Power Electronic Converters, using Real Time Parameter Estimation In: Industry Applications Conference, 2006.41st IAS Annual Meeting.Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE. 1709-1715
  • SUMNER, M., THOMAS, D. W. P. and ZANCHETTA, P., 2006. Power System Impedance Estimation for Improved Active Filter Control, using Continuous Wavelet Transforms. In: PES TD 2005/2006,. 653-658
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M., 2006. Control of an AC Dynamometer for Dynamic Emulation of Mechanical Loads With Stiff and Flexible Shafts Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 53, 1250-1260
  • CARASTRO, F., SUMNER, M. and ZANCHETTA, P., 2006. Shunt Active Filter for Voltage and Power Improvements within a Micro-grid In: 12th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference,. 1665-1670
  • OHYAMA, K., HAMAOKA, T., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M., 2006. Stability Improvement of Sensorless Vector Control System of Induction Motor Using Real Time Tuning of Adaptive Rotor Flux Observer Gain In: Industrial Electronics, 2006 IEEE International Symposium on,. 2134-2139
  • WANG, X., SUMNER, M. and THOMAS, D. W. P., 2006. Simulation of single-phase nonlinear and hysteretic transformer with internal faults In: Power Systems Conference and Exposition, 2006.PSCE '06.2006 IEEE PES,. 1075-1080
  • GAO, Q, ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and MAKYS, P., 2006. Sensorless Control of Induction Machines, including Zero Frequency using only Fundamental PWM Excitation In: 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2006. 793-798
  • SALTIVERI, D., ARIAS, A., ASHER, G. M., SUMNER, M., WHEELER, P. W., EMPRINGHAM, L., SILVA, C. A. and , 2006. Sensorless Control of Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors using Matrix Converters. Electrical Power Quality and Utilisation (Poland). 12(1), 75-83
  • CHRISTOPHER, E. and SUMNER, M., 2006. Voltage Balance Control for a Multilevel Interface for Renewable Energy Systems In: 12th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference,. 189-193
  • ODAVIC, M., ZANCHETTA, P., SUMNER, M. and JAKOPOVIC, Z., 2006. High Performance Predictive Current Control for Active Shunt Filters In: 12th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference,. 1677-1681
  • OKAEME, N., ZANCHETTA, P. and SUMNER, M., 2006. Automated Online Design of Robust Speed Digital Controllers For Variable Speed Drives In: Industry Applications Conference, 2006.41st IAS Annual Meeting.Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE,. 658-663
  • CARASTRO, F., SUMNER, M. and ZANCHETTA, P., 2006. Mitigation of Voltage Dips and Voltage Harmonics Within a Micro-Grid, Using a Single Shunt Active Filter with Energy Storage In: IECON 06.
  • LENWARI, W., SUMNER, M. and ZANCHETTA, P., 2006. A Novel High Performance Current Control for Shunt Active Filters In: 12th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference,. 1671-1676
  • GAO Q and ASHER G M, SUMNER M AND MAKYŠ, P, 2006. Position Estimation of AC Machines at all Frequencies using only Space Vector PWM based Excitation In: Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, Dublin, Ireland, Mar 2006. 61-70 (In Press.)
  • MAKYS, P., ASHER, G., SUMNER, M., GAO, QIANG and VITTEK, J., 2006. Shaft Sensorless Speed Control of Induction Motor Drive In: 12th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference,. 337-342
  • MAKYS, P., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M., GAO, Q. and VITTEK, J, 2006. A low memory disturbance elimination method for sensorless control of induction motor drive using test vector injection In: 32nd Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics, IECON 2006. 1071-1076
  • SALVATORE, N., GERADA, C., CASCELLA, G. L. and SUMNER, M., 2006. Transient torque response improvement in presence of axial saturation due to skewing of rotor slots in induction motors In: Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion, 2006.SPEEDAM 2006.International Symposium on,. 396-403
  • CHRISTOPHER, E. and SUMNER, M, 2006. An interface for renewable energy sources using a murtilevel reectifier with enhanced DC link control In: PEMD 2006. The 3rd IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2006. 383-387
  • ARIAS, A., ASHER, G. M., SUMNER, M., WHEELER, P., EMPRINGHAM, L. and SILVA, C., 2005. Sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous motor using matrix converters In: IEEE Compatibility in Power Electronics. 46-52
  • GAO, Q., ASHER, G. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Sensorless position and speed control of induction motors using high frequency injection and without off-line pre-commissioning In: Industrial Electronics Society, 2005.IECON 2005.31st Annual Conference of IEEE,. 6
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G., 2005. Non-linear dynamic modelling of vector controlled PM synchronous machines In: Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on,. 10
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K. J., SUMNER, M. and WHEELER, P., 2005. Operating induction motor drives with turn-to-turn faults In: Electric Machines and Drives, 2005 IEEE International Conference on,. 770-776
  • GAO, Q., STAINES, C. S., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Encoderless Operation of Induction Motor using a MRAS Observer with Zero Drift Feedback Integrator In: Electric Machines and Drives, 2005 IEEE International Conference on,. 2002-2005
  • CUPERTINO, F., MARINELLI, M., ZANCHETTA, P. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Modelling and design of shunt active power filters using genetic algorithms In: Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on. 5
  • SALTIVERI, D., ASHER, G., SUMNER, M., ARIAS, A. and ROMERAL, L., 2005. Application of the matrix converter for the sensorless position control of permanent magnet AC machines using high frequency injection In: Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on,. 10
  • STAINES, C. S., CARUANA, C., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Sensorless control of induction Machines at zero and low frequency using zero sequence currents Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 53, 195-206
  • CARUANA, C., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Performance of HF signal injection techniques for zero-low-frequency vector control of induction Machines under sensorless conditions Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 53, 225-238
  • OHYAMA, K., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Comparative analysis of experimental performance and stability of sensorless induction motor drives Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on. 53, 178-186
  • GAO, QIANG, SPITERI, C. S., ASHER, G. M. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Sensorless speed operation of cage induction motor using zero drift feedback integration with MRAS observer In: Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on,. 9
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K. and SUMNER, M., 2005. Winding turn-to-turn faults in permanent magnet synchronous machine drives In: Industry Applications Conference, 2005.Fourtieth IAS Annual Meeting.Conference Record of the 2005,. 1029-1036 Vol. 2
  • CASCELLA, G. L., SALVATORE, N., SUMNER, M. and SALVATORE, L., 2005. On-line simplex-genetic algorithm for self-commissioning of electric drives In: Power Electronics and Applications, 2005 European Conference on,. 10
  • HACKE, P., GEE, J. M., SUMNER, M. W., SALAMI, J. and HONSBERG, C., 2005. Application of a boron source diffusion barrier for the fabrication of back contact silicon solar cells In: Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005.Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE,. 1181-1184
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2004. Impedance measurement for improved power quality - Part 1: the measurement technique IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 19(3), 1442-1448
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2004. Impedance measurement for improved power quality - Part 2: a new technique for stand-alone active shunt filter control IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. 19(3), 1457-1463
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K.J., SUMNER, M., WHEELER, P.W., CLARE, J.C., WHITLEY, C. and TOWERS, G., 2004. The Implications of Winding Faults in Induction Motor Drives In: CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE 2004 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE. 2506 - 2513
  • ARIAS, A., EMPRINGHAM, L., ASHER, G.M., WHEELER, P.W. and SUMNER, M., 2004. Elimination of Current Distortion in Matrix Converter Through a New Dual Compensation Method IEEE Transactions IES.
  • ARIAS, A., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M., WHEELER, P.W. and EMPRINGHAM, L., 2004. Application of the Matrix Converter for the Sensorless Control of a Permanent Magnet AC Machines using High Frequency Injection In: IEEE IECON.
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2004. Impedance Measurement for Improved Power Quality - Part 2: a New Technique for Stand Alone Active Shunt Filter Control In: Transactions on Power Delivery.
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2004. Impedance Measurement for Improved Power Quality - Part 1: the Measurement Technique In: Transactions on Power Delivery.
  • SUMNER, M., CLARE, J.C. and WHEELER, P.W., 2004. Control of Matrix Converters for AC Power Supplies using Genetic Algorithms In: PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE-ISIE 2004. 1429 - 1433
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2004. Control of an AC Dynamometer for the Dynamic Emulation of Mechanical Loads with Stiff and Flexible Shafts IEEE Transactions IES.
  • OHYAMA, K., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2004. Comparative Analysis of Experimental Performance and Stability of Sensorless Induction Motor Drives IEEE Transactions IES. 53.1, 178 - 186
  • SPITERI-STAINES, C., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2004. Sensorless Control of Induction Machines at Zero and Low Frequency Using Zero-Sequence Currents IEEE Transactions IES. 53.1, 195 - 206
  • ARIAS, A., FILKA, R., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2004. Application of the Matrix Converter for the Sensorless Control of a Permanent Magnet AC Machines using High Frequency Injection In: Proc. EPE-PEMC 2004.
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B., GREENHALGH, C., STORZ, O., FRIDAY, A., HUMBLE, J., SETCHELL, C., RANDELL, C. and MULLER, H.L., 2004. Modular Sensor Architecture for Unobtrusive Routine Clinical Diagnosis In: 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS WORKSHOPS. 451 - 454
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B., GREENHALGH, C., STORZ, O., FRIDAY, A., HUMBLE, J., SETCHELL, C., RANDELL, C. and MULLER, H.L., 2004. Modular sensor architecture for unobtrusive routine clinical diagnosis In: 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS WORKSHOPS. 451-454
  • PALETHORPE, B., SUMNER, M., CROUT, N., FOSTER, M., REID, T., BENFORD, S., GREENHALGH, C. and LAYBOURN-PARRY, J., 2004. Real-time physical data acquisition through a remote sensing platform on a polar lake In: LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS. 191-201
  • PALETHORPE, B., SUMNER, M., CROUT, N., FOSTER, M., REID, T., BENFORD, S., GREENHALGH, C. and LAYBOURN-PARRY, J., 2004. Real-Time Physical Data Acquisition Through a Remote Sensing Platform on a Polar Lake In: LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS. 191 - 201
  • ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2004. Rotor Position Estimation for Induction Machines at Zero and Low Frequency Utilising Zero Sequence Currents In: CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE 2004 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE. 1313 - 1320
  • DIANA, V., SUMNER, M. and MARINELLI, M., 2004. Non-Invasive Power System Impedance Monitoring for Improved Power Quality In: Proc IEE PEMD. 265 - 268
  • SUMNER, M., CUPERTINO, F., MARINELLI, M. and MININNO, E., 2004. On-Line and Off-Line Control Design in Power Electronics and Drives using Genetic Algorithms In: CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE 2004 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE. 864 - 871
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 2003. Analysis and suppression of high-frequency inverter modulation in sensorless position-controlled induction machine drives IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 39(1), 10-18
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K.J., SUMNER, M. and SEWELL, P., 2003. Evaluation and modelling of cross saturation due to leakage flux in vector controlled induction machines In: IEMDC'03: IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference. 1983-1989
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K.J., SUMNER, M. and SEWELL, P., 2003. Evaluation of a vector controlled induction motor drive using the dynamic magnetic circuit model In: Conference record of the 2003 IEEE Industry Applications Conference. 862-869
  • GERADA, C., BRADLEY, K.J., SUMNER, M. and SEWELL, P., 2003. Analysis of and compensation for cross saturation due to skew leakage in indirect field orientated induction motor drives In: EPE 2003.
  • ASHER, G.M., ARELLANO-PADILLA, J. and SUMNER, M., 2003. A Robust Fuzzy-Sliding Mode Position Controller for Motor Drives Systems Operating with Flexible Shafts In: EPE.
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2003. Robust Fuzzy Sliding Mode Position Control for Motor Drives Operating with Variable Loads In: Proceedings of the EPE 2003 Conference.
  • SILVA, C., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2003. An HF Signal Injection Based Observer for Wide Speed Range Sensorless PM Motor Drives Including Zero Speed In: Proceedings of the EPE 2003 Conference.
  • SILVA, C., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2003. Sensorless Rotor Position Control in a surface Mounted PM Machine using HF Voltage Injection EPE Journal. 13, 12 - 18
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B., THOMAS, D.W.P., ZANCHETTA, P. and DI-PIAZZA, M.C., 2002. A Technique for Power Supply Harmonic Impedance Estimation using a Controlled Voltage Disturbance IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 17(2), 207 - 215
  • CARUANA-MIFSUD, C., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 2002. Effect of Motor Type on Performance of Sensorless Induction Motor Control using HF Injection In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS, MACHINES AND DRIVES. 515 - 521
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2002. Experimental Evaluation of Active Filter Control Incorporating On-Line Impedance Measurement In: 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HARMONICS AND QUALITY OF POWER. 501 - 506
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2002. Robust Fuzzy Sliding Mode Position Control for Motor Drives Operating with Variable Loads In: Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 02.
  • ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2002. Reduction of Secondary Saliencies for Improved Sensorless Control of Induction Motors using HF Injection In: Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 02.
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B. and LECCI, A., 2002. A Novel Voltage Control for Active Shunt Power Filters In: ISIE 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2002 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS. 924 - 929
  • TURL, G., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2002. A Synchronised Multi-Motor Control System using Sensorless Induction Motor Drives In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS, MACHINES AND DRIVES. 38 - 43
  • SILVA, C., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2002. Sensorless Rotor Position Control in a Surface Mounted PM Machine Using HF Voltage Injection In: Proceedings of the 10th Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference: EPE-PEMC 2002.
  • SILVA, C., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2002. Influence of Dead-Time Compensation on Rotor Position Estimation in Surface Mounted PM Machines using HF Voltage Injection In: PCC-OSAKA 2002: PROCEEDINGS OF THE POWER CONVERSION CONFERENCE. 1279 - 1284
  • CAMPBELL, J. and SUMNER, M., 2002. Practical sensorless induction motor drive employing an artificial neural network for online parameter adaptation IEE Proceedings. Electric Power Applications. 149, 255-260
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 2001. Encoderless position estimation for symmetric cage induction machines under loaded conditions IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 37(6), 1793-1800
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, S., 2001. Robust Sliding Mode Control for Motor Drives In: Proceedings EPE 2001 Conference.
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., BRADLEY, K.J. and SUMNER, M., 2001. Analysis and Suppression of Inverter Clamping Saliency in Sensorless Position Controlled Induction Machine Drives In: CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE 2001 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE. 2629 - 2636
  • PALETHORPE, B., SUMNER, M. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2001. Power System Impedance Measurement in the Presence of Non-Linear Loads In: Proceedings of EPE 2001.
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 2001. Encoderless Position Control of Induction Machines Proceedings EPE 2001 Conference. CDROM,
  • ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2001. Robust Fuzzy-Sliding Mode Control for Motor Drives Operating with Variable Loads and Pre-Defined System Noise Limits Proceedings EPE 2001 Conference. CDROM,
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 2001. Sensorless Position Control of Induction Motor Drives Under Loaded Conditions IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 37, 1793 - 1800
  • TURL, G., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2001. A Hybrid Sensorless Induction Motor Control Strategy for High Performance Drive Applications In: PESC 2001: 32ND ANNUAL POWER ELECTRONICS SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE. 20 - 25
  • CAMPBELL, J.A. and SUMNER, M., 2001. An Improved Sensorless Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive Employing Artificial Neural Networks for Stator Resistance Estimation In: Proceedings of EPE 2001.
  • TURL, G., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2001. Sensorless Induction Motor Drive for Speed Synchronous Applications In: Proceedings EPE 2001 Conference.
  • TURL, G., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2001. A Multi-Induction-Motor Drive Strategy Operating in the Sensorless Mode In: CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE 2001 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE. 1232 - 1239
  • ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M., CUPERTINO, F. and LATTANZI, A., 2001. Direct Flux Control of Induction Motors Proceedings EPE 2001 Conference. CDROM,
  • SUMNER, M., PALETHORPE, B. and DI-PIAZZA, M.C., 2001. Estimation of Power Supply Harmonic Impedance using a Controlled Voltage Disturbance In: PESC 2001: 32ND ANNUAL POWER ELECTRONICS SPECIALISTS CONFERENCE. 522 - 527
  • TURL, G., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2001. A High Performance Sensorless Induction Motor Drive for use in Multi-Motor Speed Synchronised Applications In: Proceedings of EPE 2001.
  • VANNA, E. and SUMNER, M., 2001. Direct Harmonic Voltage Control for Shunt Power Filters In: Proceedings of IASTED, Power and Energy Systems.
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 2000. Suppression of Saturation Saliency Effects for the Sensorless Position Control of Induction Motor Drives Under Loaded Conditions IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 47, 1142 - 1150
  • HEWSON, C.R., SUMNER, M., ASHER, G.M. and WHEELER, P.W., 2000. A Dynamic Mechanical Load Emulation Test Facility to Evaluate the Performance of AC Inverters IEE Power Engineering Journal. 14(1), 21 - 28
  • PALETHORPE, B., SUMNER, M. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2000. System Impedance Measurement for use with Active Filter Control In: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES. 24 - 28
  • PALETHORPE, B., SUMNER, M. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2000. Power System Impedance Measurement using a Power Electronic Converter In: NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HARMONICS AND QUALITY OF POWER PROCEEDING. 208 - 213
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., BRADLEY, K.J. and SUMNER, M., 2000. Sensorless Position Estimation for Symmetric Cage Induction Machines under Loaded Conditions In: Proc IEEE 35th Annual Meeting of Industrial Applications Society (IAS). 1835 - 1841
  • SUMNER, M., ASHER, G.M., CUPERTINO, F. and LATTANZI, A., 2000. Benchmark Testing for Experimental Comparison of Induction Motor Control Strategies In: PEMC Conference 2000. 110 - 115
  • OHYAMA, K., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 2000. Comparative Testing of High Performance Sensorless Induction Motor Drives In: Proceedings of IEEE IPEC2000. 386 - 391
  • DI-PIAZZA, M.C., SUMNER, M. and THOMAS, D.W.P., 2000. Estimation of Load Impedance in a Power System In: Proceedings of IEEE PES ICHQP 2000. 520 - 525
  • CAMPBELL, J.A. and SUMNER, M., 2000. An Improved Sensorless Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive Employing Artificial Neural Networks for Stator Resistance Estimation In: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES. 274 - 279
  • TURL, G., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 2000. Use of Adaptive Notch Filtering for Accurate Speed Holding in a Sensorless Induction Motor Drive In: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES. 268 - 273
  • WHEELER, P.W., CLARE, J.C. and SUMNER, M., 1999. A Bi-Directional Rectifier for Use with a Voltage Fed inverter in a High Performance Drive System Journal of European Power Electronics. 8, 50 - 54
  • SUMNER,M., WHEELER,P.W. and CLARE,J.C., 1999. A Bi-Directional Rectifier for use with a Voltage Fed Inverter in a High Performance Variable Speed AC Motor Drive System Journal of European Power Electronics. 8(1/2), 50-54
  • WHEELER, P.W., CLARE, J.C. and SUMNER, M., 1999. High Performance Drive System with Bi-Directional Rectifier for Regeneration Journal of European Power Electronics. 8, 50 - 54
  • TESKE, N., ASHER, G.M., BRADLEY, K.J. and SUMNER, M., 1999. Sensorless Rotor Position Estimation for Multiple Salient Induction Motors under Full Load Conditions In: Proc EPE''99 Conference.
  • SUMNER, M., CAMPBELL, J.A. and CURTIS, K.M., 1999. A Stator Resistance Estimator for Sensorless Vector Controlled Drives using Artificial Neural Networks In: Proc EPE''99 Conference.
  • BUTT, D., SUMNER, M. and CLARE, J.C., 1999. Harmonic Compensation in Active Shunt Filters using Controllers Employing Rotating Frames of Reference In: Proc EPE''99 Conference.
  • OHYAMA, K., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1999. Comparison of the Pratical Performance and Operating Limits of Sensorless Induction Motor Drive Using a Closed Loop Flux Observer and a Full Order Flux Observer In: Proc EPE''99 Conference.
  • OHYAMA, K., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1999. Comparative Experimental Assessment for High Performance Sensorless Induction Motor Drives In: IEEE Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society. 386 - 391
  • NEWTON, C. and SUMNER, M., 1999. Novel Technique for Maintaining Balanced Internal DC Link Voltages in Diode Clamped Five-Level Inverters IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications. 146, 341 - 349
  • PEREIRA, O., KASSICK, E. and SUMNER, M., 1999. Harmonic Distortion in a Low Voltage Electrical System: Passive Filtering In: Proceedings of 5th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference.
  • KASSICK, E., PERIN, A. and SUMNER, M., 1999. Passive filtering of harmonics in an industrial plant: a documented case In: Proceedings of 5th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference.
  • FERRAH, A., BRADLEY, K. J., HOGBEN-LAING, P. J., WOOLFSON, M. S., ASHER, G. M., SUMNER, M., CILIA, J. and SHULI, J., 1998. A Speed Identifier for Induction Motor Drives Using Real-Time Adaptive Digital Filtering IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. VOL 34(NUMBER 1), 156-162
  • SHULI, J., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M., BRADLEY, K.J. and CILIA, J., 1998. Dynamic Tracking of Induction Motor Speed using Rotor Slot Harmonics and the Recursive Maximum Likelihood Method In: PEMC Conference 1998. 179 - 183
  • CILIA, J., SHULI, J., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 1998. The Estimation of the Fundamental Frequency in Sensorless Vector Controlled Drives using a Real-Time Adaptive Filter In: ICEM 98. 1017 - 1021
  • CLARE, J.C., SUMNER, M., BUTT, D. and PALETHORPE, B., 1998. Combined Power Electronic and Control Loop Simulation: Why and How? In: IEE Colloquium on Power Electronic Simulation.
  • CILIA, J., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 1998. Dynamic Studies for MRAS-based Speed and Flux Observers in High Performance Sensorless Induction Motor Drives In: PEMC Conference 1998. 70 - 75
  • CILIA, J., SHULI, J., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 1998. Tuning of MRAS Based Speed and Flux Observer Using Slot Harmonics Derived from Real-Time Adaptive Filtering In: Proc ICEM''98.
  • CILIA, J., ASHER, G.M., SHULI, J., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 1998. The Recursive Maximum Liklelihood Algorithm for Tuning the Rotor Time Constant in High-Performance Sensorless Induction Motor Drives In: ICEM 98. 926 - 930
  • HEWSON, C.R., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1998. Practical Emulation of the Dynamic Characteristics of Mechanical Loads In: PEMC Conference 1998. 52 - 57
  • ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1998. A Dynamic Mechanical Load Emulation Test Facility to Evaluate the Performance of AC Inverters In: Proc IEE PEVD''98 Conference. 206 - 211
  • HEWSON, C.R., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1998. Dynamometer Control for Emulation of Mechanical Loads In: CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE 1998 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE. 1511 - 1518
  • ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1998. Emulation of Mechanical Loads for Off-Site Commissioning of Electrical Drives In: Proceedings of Drives Motors and Controls Conference. 53 - 58
  • BUTT, D., SUMNER, M. and CLARE, J.C., 1998. A Novel Control Technique for High Power Active Shunt Filters In: PEMC Conference 1998. 19 - 24
  • NEWTON, C. and SUMNER, M., 1998. Multi-level Convertors a Real Solution to Medium/High-Voltage Drives? Power Engineering Journal. 12, 21 - 26
  • NEWTON, C. and SUMNER, M., 1998. A Novel Arrangement for Balancing the Capacitor Voltages of a Five Level Diode Clamped Inverter In: SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND VARIABLESPEED DRIVES. 465 - 470
  • SUMNER, M. and NEWTON, C., 1998. Arrangements for Balancing the Capacitors in a 5 level Diode Clamped Inverter In: PEMC Conference 1998. 131 - 136
  • CILIA, J., ASHER, G.M., BRADLEY, K.J. and SUMNER, M., 1997. Sensorless Position Detection for Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives using an Asymmetric Outer-Section Cage IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. 33, 1162 - 1169
  • SUMNER,M., CLARE,J.C. and WHEELER,P.W., 1997. High Performance drive system with bidirectional rectifier for regeneration 4(July), 50-54
  • NEWTON, C. and SUMNER, M., 1997. Neural Point Control for Multi-Level Inverters: Theory, Design and Operational Limitations CONFERENCE RECORD OF THE 1997 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONSCONFERENCE / THIRTY-SECOND IAS ANNUAL MEETING. 1-3, 1336 - 1343
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G. M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K. J., 1996. Dynamic performance limitations for MRAS based sensorless induction motor drives. Part 1: Stability analysis for the closed loop drive IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications. VOL 143(NUMBER 2), 113-122
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 1996. Performance of FFT-rotor slot harmonic speed detector for sensorless induction motor drives IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications. 143, 258 - 268
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G. M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K. J., 1996. Dynamic performance limitations for MRAS based sensorless induction motor drives. Part 2: On-line parameter tuning and dynamic performance studies IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications. VOL 143(NUMBER 2), 123-134
  • WHEELER, P.W., CLARE, J.C. and SUMNER, M., 1996. The Integrated Control of a Bi-Directional Rectifier and a Vector Controller Inverter for Variable Speed AC Motor In: Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference Budapest.
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M., CILIA, J. and BRADLEY, K.J., 1996. Field Weakening at High and Low Speeds for Sensorless Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives In: Proceedings IEE PEVD''96 Conference. 258 - 261
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G.M., SUMNER, M. and BRADLEY, K.J., 1996. The Performance of the FFT-Rotor Slot Harmonic Speed Detector for Sensorless Induction Motor Drives IEE Proceedings Part B. 143, 258 - 268
  • WHEELER, P.W., CLARE, J.C. and SUMNER, M., 1996. The Integration of a Bi-Directional Rectifier and a Voltage Fed Inverter in an Optimised High Performance Variable Speed AC Motor Drive System In: Proceedings of PEVD96 Nottingham UK IEE Conf No 429.
  • BUTT, D., SUMNER, M. and CLARE, J.C., 1996. Investigation of a Low Cost Power Factor Correction Circuit for use with Voltage Source Induction Motor Drives In: Proceedings of PEVD96 Nottingham UK IEE Conf No 429. 114 - 119
  • NEWTON, C., SUMNER, M. and ALEXANDER, T., 1996. The Investigation and Development of a Multi Level Voltage Source Inverter In: Proceedings of PEVD96 Nottingham UK IEE Conf No 429. 317 - 321
  • WHEELER, P.W., CLARE, J.C. and SUMNER, M., 1995. A Bi-Directional Rectifier for use with a Voltage Fed Inverter in a High Performance Drive System In: Proceedings of EPE 1995.
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1995. Rotor Time Constant Identification in Sensorless Vector Controlled Drives using Rotor Slot Harmonics In: Proceedings of EPE''95. 1.083 - 1.088
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1995. A New Method of Stator Resistance Estimation for Enhanced Dynamic Performance of Sensorless Vector Control Drives In: Proceedings of EPE 1995.
  • CONROY, B.P., SUMNER, M. and ALEXANDER, T., 1995. Application of Encoderless Vector Control Techniques in a Medium performance Induction Motor drive In: IEE Colloquium, Advances in Control Systems for Electric Drives. 2.1 - 2.4
  • SUMNER, M. and ALEXANDER, A., 1995. Evaluation of Encoderless Vector Control Techniques for Induction Motor Drives In: Proceedings of IEEE ISIE''95. 315 - 320
  • SUMNER, M., 1995. Estimation of the Magnetising Curve of a Cage Induction Motor using an Extended Kalman Filter In: Proceedings of IEEE ISIE''95. 321 - 326
  • CONROY, B.P., SUMNER, M. and ALEXANDER, T., 1995. Evaluation of Encoderless Vector Control Techniques in a Medium performance Induction Motor drive In: Proceedings of EPE 1995.
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1994. SPEED MEASUREMENT OF INVERTER FED INDUCTION MOTORS USING THE FFT ANDTHE ROTOR SLOT HARMONICS In: FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND VARIABLE-SPEEDDRIVES. 470 - 475
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1994. Non-Intrusive Real-Time Speed Measurement of Inverter Fed Induction Motors Using Spectral Estimation and Rotor Slot Harmonics In: UPEC 94. 569 - 572
  • BLASCO-GIMENEZ, R., SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1994. SENSORLESS VECTOR CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES USING AN INTEL-I860 CONNECTED TO A TRANSPUTER NETWORK In: TRANSPUTER APPLICATIONS AND SYSTEMS ''94 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1994 WORLDTRANSPUTER CONGRESS. 657 - 671
  • SUMNER, M., ASHER, G.M. and PEÑA, R.S., 1993. THE EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF ROTOR TIME CONSTANT IDENTIFICATION FOR VECTOR CONTROLLED INDUCTION-MOTOR DRIVES DURING TRANSIENT OPERATING-CONDITIONS In: FIFTH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS. 51 - 56
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1993. Parallel Processing for Vector Control of Induction Motors In: Proceedings of EPE 1993. 219 - 228
  • SUMNER, M., ASHER, G.M. and AKSU, I., 1993. Rotor Time Constant Identification for Indirect Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives for Dynamic Operating Conditions. In: Proceedings of IEEE ISIE''93. 96 - 101
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1993. AUTOCOMMISSIONING FOR VOLTAGE-REFERENCED VOLTAGE-FED VECTOR-CONTROLLEDINDUCTION-MOTOR DRIVES IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications. 140, 187 - 200
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1993. The Development of a Complete Self-Commissioning Self-Optimising Indirect Vector Controlled Drive In: Proceedings IEE Colloquium on developments in real-time control for induction motor drives. 16 - 22
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1993. Experimental Performance of Rotor Parameter Identification for Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives During Transient Operating Conditions. In: Proceedings of EPE 1993. 51 - 56
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1992. Self-Commissioning for Voltage-Referenced Voltage-fed Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drives. In: Proc. Power Electronics Specialists Conference PESC-92. 139 - 144
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1991. The Experimental Investigation of Multiparameter Identification Methods for Cage Induction Motors In: Proc 4th European Conf. on Power Electronics and Applications, (EPE). Florence. 389 - 394
  • ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1990. Parallel Processing for the Vector Control of AC Induction Motors In: III Seminario Electronica de Potencia IEEE.
  • ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1990. PARALLELISM AND THE TRANSPUTER FOR REAL-TIME HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONTROL OF AC INDUCTION-MOTORS IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications. 137, 179 - 188
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1990. Transputer Control of High Performance AC Induction Motor Drives In: Transputer Control Research Studies Press Limited London,1990.
  • ASHER, G.M. and SUMNER, M., 1989. Real Time Motor Control Using A Transputer Parallel Processor Network In: 3rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications,, (EPE). 433 - 438
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1988. PWM Induction Motor Drive using the INMOS Transputer Parallel Processor. In: Proceedings IEE, Power Electronics and Varible Speed Drive Conference (PEVD). 130 - 133
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1988. PWM Induction Motor Drive using the INMOS Transputer Parallel Processor In: Proceedings of IEEE APEC 1988. 121 - 129
  • SUMNER, M. and ASHER, G.M., 1988. PWM Inverter Control Using the INMOS Transputer In: Parallel Processing in Control: The Transputer and other Architectures. 158 - 182
  • JASIM, O, SUMNER, M., GERADA, C. and ARELLANO-PADILLA, J., FAULT RIDE THROUGH CONTROL FOR A DELTA CONNECTED INDUCTION MOTOR WITH AN OPEN WINDING FAULT BY CONTROLLING THE ZERO SEQUENCE In: PEMD 2010.

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