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Alan Watson

Research Fellow, Faculty of Engineering

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Selected Publications

  • WATSON, A., MONDAL, G., DANG, H.Q.S., WHEELER, P. and CLARE, J, 2009. Construction and Testing of the 3.3kV, 300 kVA UNIFLEX-PM Prototype EPE Journal. 19(4), 59-64
  • WATSON, A., DANG, H.Q.S., WHEELER, P., CLARE, J., MONDAL, G., KENZELMANN, S., RUFER, A. and YALES, R DE NOVAES, 2009. Control Challenges and Solutions for a Multi-cellular Converter for User in Electricity Networks, EPE Journal. 19(4), 25-31
  • WATSON, A., DANG, HQS., MONDAL, G., CLARE, J. and WHEELER, P., 2009. Experimental Implementation of a Multilevel Converter for Power System Integration In: ECCE 2009.
  • WATSON, A. J., DANG, HQS., WHEELER, P., CLARE, J., MONDAL, G., RUFER, A.R., KENZELMANN, S. and DE NOVAES, Y., 2009. A Novel Multilevel Converter Structure Integrated into In: EPE 2009.
  • REYES, E, WATSON, A. J., CLARE, J. C. and WHEELER, P. W., 2012. Comparison of predictive control strategies for direct resonant high voltage DC power supply In: IET Power Electronics, Machines and Drives Conference 2012.
  • FELDMAN, R., CLARE, J. C., WHEELER, P. W., WATSON, A. J., TRAINER, D. and CROOKES, R., 2012. DC fault ride-through capability and statcom operation of a hybrid voltage source converter arrangement for HVDC power transmission and reactive power compensation In: IET Power Electronics, Machines and Drives Conference 2012.
  • AMANKWAH, E., WATSON, A. J., CLARE, J. C. and WHEELER, P. W., 2012. Cell capacitor voltage control in a parallel hybrid modular multilevel voltage source converter for HVDC applications In: IET Power Electronics, Machines and Drives Conference 2012.
  • AGBEDAHUNSI, A., SUMNER, M., CHRISTOPHER, E., WATSON, A. J. and COSTABEBER, A., 2012. Frequency control improvement within a microgrid, using enhanced STATCOM with energy storage In: IET Power Electronics, Machines and Drives Conference 2012.
  • TARISCIOTTI, L., WATSON, A. J., ZANCHETTA, P., CLARE, J. C., WHEELER, P. W. and BIFARETTI, S., 2012. An improved dead-beat current control for cascaded H-bridge active rectifier with low switching frequency In: IET Power Electronics, Machines and Drives Conference 2012.
  • EFFAH, F., WATSON, A. J., WHEELER, P. W. and CLARE, J. C., 2012. Optimised switching pattern for space vector modulated Z-source NPC inverter In: IET Power Electronics, Machines and Drives Conference 2012.
  • AMANKWAH, E., WATSON, A. J., CLARE, J. C. and WHEELER, P. W., 2012. Multi Carrier PWM of the Modular Multilevel VSC for Medium Voltage Applications In: Applied Power Electronics and Exposition.
  • BIFARETTI, S., ZANCHETTA, P., WATSON, A., TARISCIOTTI, L. and CLARE, J. C., 2011. Advanced Power Electronic Conversion and Control System for Universal and Flexible Power Management IEEE transactions on Smart Grid.
  • WATSON, A.J, CLARE J.C. and WHEELER P., 2011. Field Programmable Gate Array based control of Dual Active Bridge Converter for the UNIFLEX-PM project In: EPE'11 ECCE Europe Power Electronics and Adjustable Speed Drives.
  • FILCHEV T, WATSON A, CLARE J, WHEELER P and CARASTRO F., 2011. High Voltage High Frequency Power Transformer for Pulsed Power Applications Journal of Energy and Power Engineering.
  • WATSON A.J, FILCHEV T, CLARE J.C, WHEELER P.W and CARASTRO F., 2011. High Frequency, High Voltage Transformer for Long Pulse Applications In: Pulsed Power Symosium 2011. (In Press.)
  • C.D. TOWNSEND, J. VODDEN, A.J. WATSON, T.J. SUMMERS, R.E. BETZ and J.C. CLARE, 2011. The effect of Space Vector Modulation on Capacitor Voltage Ripple in a Cascaded H-bridge STATCOM In: IEEE PEDS 2011: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems. (In Press.)
  • BIFARETTI, S., ZANCHETTA, P., WATSON, A., TARISCIOTTI, L., BELLINI, A. and CLARE, J., 2010. A modulation technique for high power ac/dc miltilevel converters for power system integration In: ECCE 2010.
  • BIFARETTI. S., ZANCHETTA, P., WATSON, A., TARISCIOTTI, L. and CLARE, J., 2010. Predictive Control for Universal and Flexible Power Management In: ECCE 2010.
  • WATSON, A., DANG, HQS., MONDAL, G., CLARE, J. and WHEELER, P., 2009. Experimental Implementation of a Multilevel Converter for Power System Integration In: ECCE 2009.
  • AREERAK, K., BOZHKO, S., DE LILLO, L., ASHER, G., THOMAS, D., WATSON, A. and WU, T., 2009. The Stability Analysis of AC-DC Systems Including Actuator Dynamics for Aircraft Power Systems In: EPE 2009.
  • WATSON, A. J., DANG, HQS., WHEELER, P., CLARE, J., MONDAL, G., RUFER, A.R., KENZELMANN, S. and DE NOVAES, Y., 2009. A Novel Multilevel Converter Structure Integrated into In: EPE 2009.
  • WATSON, A., WHEELER, P. and CLARE, J, 2009. A Phase Shift Selective Harmonic EliminationMethod for In: EPE 2009.
  • WATSON, A., DANG, H.Q.S., WHEELER, P., CLARE, J., MONDAL, G., KENZELMANN, S., RUFER, A. and YALES, R DE NOVAES, 2009. Control Challenges and Solutions for a Multi-cellular Converter for User in Electricity Networks, EPE Journal. 19(4), 25-31
  • WATSON, A., MONDAL, G., DANG, H.Q.S., WHEELER, P. and CLARE, J, 2009. Construction and Testing of the 3.3kV, 300 kVA UNIFLEX-PM Prototype EPE Journal. 19(4), 59-64
  • LEON, J.I., VAZQUEZ, S., WATSON, A.J., FRANQUELO, L.G., WHEELER, P.W. and CARRASCO, J.M, 2009. Feed-Forward Space Vector Modulation for Single-Phase Multilevel Cascaded Converters With Any DC Voltage Ratio IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 56(2), 315-325
  • LEON, J.I., VAZQUEZ, S., PORTILLO, R., FRANQUELO, L.G., CARRASCO, J.M., WHEELER, P.W. and WATSON, A.J., 2009. Three-Dimensional Feedforward Space Vector Modulation Applied to Multilevel Diode-Clamped Converters IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 56(1), 101-109
  • LEON, J.I., VAZQUEZ, S., WATSON, A., FRANQUELO, L.G., WHEELER, P. and CARRASCO, J.M., 2008. A simple and low cost modulation technique for single-phase multilevel cascade converters based on geometrical considerations In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2008.
  • LEON, J.I., VAZQUEZ, S., WATSON, A., WHEELER, P., FRANQUELO, L.G. and CARRASCO, J.M, 2008. Space vector modulation for multilevel single-phase cascade converters avoiding the negative effects of the DC voltage unbalance In: PEMD 2008. 4th IET Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, 2008.. 631-635 (In Press.)
  • WATSON, A.J., WHEELER, P.W. and CLARE, J.C, 2007. A Complete Harmonic Elimination Approach to DC Link Voltage Balancing for a Cascaded Multilevel Rectifier IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. 54(6), 2946-2953
  • WATSON, A.J., WHEELER, P.W. and CLARE, J.C., 2007. A Selective Harmonic Elimination system for restoring and equalising DC link voltages in a multilevel active rectifier In: EPE 2007: 12th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications.
  • WATSON, A. J., CLARE, J. C. and WHEELER, P. W., 2006. A Selective Harmonic Elimination approach to DC link balancing for a Multilevel Rectifier In: 12th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference. pp. 154-159

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