Power Electronics for Advanced Renewable Systems Laboratory
Yu-Kai Liao received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taipei University of Technology (NTUT), Taiwan, in 2022. He is a Masters student in the Electrical Engineering Department at National Taiwan University. His research interests include circuit analysis and improving converter efficiency.
Darsana Deo, F. Selin Bagci, and Katherine A. Kim, “Comparison of Controllable Photovoltaic Emulation Methods for Real-Time Hardware Experiments” International Conference on Power Electronics (ICPE 2023-ECCE Asia), Jeju Island, Korea, 2023, pp. 2468-2474, doi: 10.23919/ICPE2023-ECCEAsia54778.2023.10213934. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Prof. Katherine Kim gave a talk on May 16, 2023, at the English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) Happy Hour in her talk entitled “Ideas and Tools for Evoking Student Engagement in EMI Courses.” It was an excellent opportunity to share her experience with using flipped learning in electrical engineering classes and hear ideas from the attendees. A full article about the event was published by NTU’s Center for Bilingual Education here: https://www.facebook.com/NTUCBE/posts/pfbid0tqAM28xA9UtyTYqpK8JkBzjER2TdMJyTooP4ecAmuvkWryq4qM64MRJEQpBaHMLAl
Frede Blaabjerg, Yongheng Yang, Katherine A. Kim and Jose Rodriguez, “Power Electronics Technology for Large-Scale Renewable Energy Generation,” in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 111, no. 4, pp. 335-355, April 2023, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2023.3253165. (IEEE Xplore Link)
F. Selin Bagci, Richard Angsetya, Sean Logi, Katherine A. Kim, “Flexible PCB Connection Methods for Wearable Energy Harvesting Applications,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 1881-1887, doi: 10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131451. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Yu-Quan Chen, Iris Hui-Ru Jiang, Katherine A. Kim, “PV Inverter Control Algorithm Using Reinforcement Learning to Mitigate the Duck Curve Problem,” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Orlando, FL, USA, 2023, pp. 2293-2298, doi: 10.1109/APEC43580.2023.10131475. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Prof. Katherine Kim was honored to give a Plenary Talk on “Developing the Power Electronics Workforce Through MOOC Degree Programs and Public Educational Videos” with Dr. Robert W. Erickson at APEC 2023 in Orlando, Florida, USA on March 20, 2023. The recorded version of the talk is below.
These are resources for the article “System Analysis and Design for Multiconverter Electrical Power Systems in Nanosatellites” by Shang-You Chiu and Katherine A. Kim published in IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems.
Files to download Matlab GUI tool (zip file): NanosatTool.zip
If you use the above Nanosatellite tool or utilize knowledge from the article, please cite our work!
Citation (IEEE format):
Shang-You Chiu and Katherine A. Kim, “System Analysis and Design for Multiconverter Electrical Power Systems in Nanosatellites,” in IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 41-53, March 2023, doi: 10.1109/JMASS.2022.3221277.
Shang-You Chiu and Katherine A. Kim, “System Analysis and Design for Multiconverter Electrical Power Systems in Nanosatellites,” in IEEE Journal on Miniaturization for Air and Space Systems, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 41-53, March 2023, doi: 10.1109/JMASS.2022.3221277. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Link to Nanosatellite Electrical Power System (EPS) Design tool:
http://pearslab.net/2023/03/nanosateps/
[Legacy] http://katherinekim.net/wp/nanosateps/
Hsin-Hsuan Tsai is an incoming M.S. student in Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University (NTU). She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at NTU in 2023. She received the ITRI Power School Outstanding Project Proposal Award (電網學校暨人才發展聯盟獎學金) in 2022, as well as Dean’s List Award while at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU) in 2020. Her research interests include grid-tied inverters and electric vehicles.
Ying Jiun Chen received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Ilan University (NIU) in 2020. She received the M.S. degree in the Electrical Engineering in 2023 from National Taiwan University (NTU). Her research focus is on voltage balancing control of flying capacitor multilevel converters.
Papers:
Katherine A. Kim, F. Selin Bagci, and Kristen L. Dorsey, “Design considerations for photovoltaic energy harvesting in wearable devices,” in Scientific Reports, vol. 12, pp. 1-12, October 28, 2022, art. no. 18143, doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-22232-x. (Nature Link)
Taiwei Chen and Katherine A. Kim, “Nanosatellite Power System with A Variable DC Bus Voltage for Improved System Efficiency,” IET International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Applications (IET-ICETA), Changhua, Taiwan, Oct. 2022, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/IET-ICETA56553.2022.9971477. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Yu-Ting Yang received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Taiwan, in 2020. She received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2022. Her research interests include system control methods of bidirectional CLLC resonant converters for charging Li-ion batteries in an integrated photovoltaic microinverter.
Papers:
Chi Jui Lo received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2020 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2022. His research focuses on power converters and control development for photovoltaic systems.
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Shang-You Chiu received the B.S. degree in energy engineering from National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, in 2020, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2022. Since 2022, he has been with Hitachi Energy Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests include electrical power system design for CubeSat applications, dynamic analysis and control design of dc-to-dc power conversion system.
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Guan-Ru Li received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 2020 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2022. His research focus is on the verification and small-signal analysis of power factor correction (PFC) boost converters with average current mode (ACM) control in SIMPLIS.
Papers:
F. Selin Bagci, Katherine A. Kim, Yu-Chen Liu and Yi-Hua Liu, “Evaluation of Power Maximization and Curtailment Control Methods for Converters in Wearable Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Applications,” in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, pp. 508-520, August 2022, doi: 10.1109/OJPEL.2022.3194185. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Katherine A. Kim, Lauren E. Kegley, Stephanie Watts Butler, Christina DiMarino, Marium Rasheed, and Radha Sree Krishna Moorthy, “Women in IEEE PELS: Progress and Opportunities [Women in Engineering],” IEEE Power Electronics Magazine, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 74-81, June 2022. (IEEE Xplore Link)
Yu-Chen Liu, Chen Chen, Yu-Chen Chung, Meng-Chi Tsai, and Katherine A. Kim, “Integrated magnetics optimization process for an interleaved three-phase buck converter at 500 kHz,” IET Power Electronics, pp. 1-11, June 2022. (IET Digital Library Link)