“Modelling and Analysis of Inter-turn Short-circuit Fault for Large-power SPM Wind Generators.”
Journal article.
In ‘Energies’.
Mei Z, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar Z.
“Space Harmonic Cancellation in a Dual Three-phase SPM Machine with Star-delta Windings.”
Journal article.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion’.
Rudden I, Li G-J, Kanu Padinharu D, Zhu Z-Q, Duke A, Clark R, Thomas A.
“Towards Population-based Structural Health Monitoring, Part V: Networks and Databases”.
Wickramarachchi CT, Brennan DS, Lin W, Maguire E, Harvey DY, Cross EJ, Worden K.
“On Generating Parametrised Structural Data Using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks.”
Tsialiamanis G, Wagg DJ, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Challenges for SHM from Structural Repairs: an Outlier-informed Domain Adaptation Approach.”
Gardner PA, Bull LA, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Heteroscedastic Gaussian Processes for Localising Acoustic Emission.”
Jones MR, Rogers TJ, Worden K, Cross EJ.
“Transferring Damage Detectors Between Tailplane Experiments.”
Bull LA, Gardner PA, Dervilis N, Papatheou E Haywood-Alexander M, Mills R S, Worden K.
“On the Application of Heterogeneous Transfer Learning to Population-based Structural Health Monitoring”.
Gardner PA, Bull LA, Dervilis N, Worden K.
6 Journal articles.
In ‘Data Science of Engineering’.
“Partially Supervised Learning for Data-driven Structural Health Monitoring.”
“Population-Based Structural Health Monitoring.”
Bull LA, Hughes AJ, Rogers TJ, Gardner P, Worden K, Dervilis N.
2 Journal articles.
In ‘Structural Health Monitoring Based on Data Science Techniques’.
Simpson T, Dervilis N, Couturier P, Maljaars N, Chatzi E.
“On Statistic Alignment for Domain Adaptation in Structural Health Monitoring”.
Journal article.
In ‘Structural Health Monitoring’.
Poole J, Gardner P, Dervilis N, Bull L, Worden, K.
“Reduced Order Modelling of Non-linear Monopile Dynamics via an AE-LSTM Scheme.”
Journal article.
In ‘Frontiers in Energy Research’.
Simpson T, Dervilis N, Couturier P, Maljaars N, Chatzi E.
“On the Application of Partial Domain Adaptation for PBSHM”.
Poole J, Gardner P, Dervilis N, Bull L, Worden, K.
“On the Use of Graph Kernels for Assessing Similarity of Structures in Population-Based Structural Health Monitoring”.
Wickramarachchi C T, Gosliga J, Cross EJ, Worden, K.
“A Bayesian Approach to Lamb-Wave Dispersion Curve Material Identification in Composite Plates”.
Haywood-Alexander M, Dervilis N, Worden K, Rogers TJ.
“Physical Covariance Functions for Dynamic Systems with Time-Dependent Parameters.”
Jones MR, Rogers TJ, Cross EJ.
“A Spatial Autoregressive Approach for Wake Field Prediction Across a Wind Farm.”
Lin W, Worden K, Cross E.
5 Journal articles.
In ‘European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring’.
“Sensorless Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Drives.”
Book.
Published by John Wiley and Sons and IEEE Press.
Zhu Z-Q, Wu X.
“A Conservation Law Consistent Updated Lagrangian Material Point Method for Dynamic Analysis”.
Journal article.
In ‘Computational Physics’.
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde CE, Sims B, Puigvert MM, Gutierrez JAR.
“In-depth Investigation of Inter-turn Short-circuit Faults of PM Machines with Series-parallel Coil Connections.”
Journal article.
In ‘IET Electric Power Application’.
Mei Z, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar A.
International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC 2023), San Francisco, California, USA, May 15- 18, 2023,
Conference proceedings/paper.
” Influence of tooth-tips on dual 3-phase modular permanent magnet machines with redundant teeth.”
Li Y, Zhu Z-Q, Thomas A, Lu QF.
“Modelling and analysis of inter-turn short-circuit fault of PM machines with parallel-connected coils.”
Journal article.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion’.
Mei Z, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar A.
XXV International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS 2022, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 29 Nov – 2 Dec 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
“Analysis of sensorless deadbeat predictive current control under parameter mismatches for permanent magnet synchronous machines.”
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q, Freire N.
“Actuator fault tolerant offshore wind turbine load mitigation control.”
Journal article.
In ‘Renewable Energy’.
Liu Y, Patton R, Shi S.
The 2022 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific 2022), Haining, Zhejiang, China, 28-31 October 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
” Comparison of Dual 3-phase Modular Permanent Magnet Machines with Overlapping/Non-overlapping Windings and Redundancy.”
Li Y, Zhu ZQ, Thomas A, Lu QF.
“A novel space vector PWM technique with duty cycle optimization through zero vectors for dual three-phase PMSM.”
Journal article.
In ‘ IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion’.
Xu, J, Odavic M, Zhu ZQ, Wu Z, Freire N.
International Federation on Automatic Control Conference Nantes, France, 22 – 24 June 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
“Monte Carlo Analysis of Bayesian Optimization-based Pitch Controller with Pitch Fault Compensation for Offshore Wind Turbine.”
Liu Y, Patton R, Shi S.
“A Bayesian Method for Material Identification of Composite Plates via Dispersion Curves.”
Journal article.
In ‘Sensors’.
Haywood-Alexander M, Dervilis N, Worden K, Mills R, Ladpli P, Rogers T.
“On Improved Fail-safe Sensor Distribution for a Structural Health Monitoring System”.
Wang T, Barthorpe R, Wagg D, Worden K.
“A Mapping Method for Anomaly Detection in a Localised Population of Structures.”
Lin W, Worden K, Maguire A, Cross E.
2 Journal papers.
In ‘Data-Centric Engineering’.
“Expert Q & A Article on the ROSEHIPS Project.”
Journal article.
In ‘The Engineer’.
Dervilis N, Cross E, Hester D, Brownjohn J, Worden K.
“On the Application of Kernelised Bayesian Transfer Learning to Population-based Structural Health Monitoring.”
Gardner P, Bull L, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“A Bayesian Methodology for Localising Acoustic Emission Sources in Complex Structures.”
Jones M, Rogers T, Worden K, Cross E.
“On Robust Risk-based Active-Learning Algorithms for Enhanced Decision Support”.
Hughes A, Bull L, Gardner P, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Bayesian Modelling of Multivalued Power Curves from an Operation Wind Farm.”
Bull L, Gardner P, Rogers T, Dervilis N, Cross E, Papatheou E, Maguire A, Campos C, Worden K.
“A Bayesian approach for shaft centre localisation in journal bearings.”
Lindley CA, Beamish S, Dwyer-Joyce RS, Dervilis N, Worden, K.
“A population-based SHM methodology for heterogeneous structures: Transferring damage localisation knowledge between different aircraft wings”.
Gardner P, Bull LA, Gosliga J, Poole J, Dervilis N, Worden, K.
“Constraining Gaussian processes for physics-informed acoustic emission mapping.”
Jones MR, Rogers TK, Cross EJ.
7 Journal papers.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing’.
“Domain-adopted Gaussian Mixture Models for Population-based Structural Health Monitoring.”
Journal article.
In ‘The Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring’.
Gardner P, Bull L, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Online Parameter Estimation for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: An Overview.”
Zhu Z-Q, Liang D, Liu K.
“An Online Position Error Correction Method for Sensorless Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine with Parameter Mismatch.”
Liu T, Zhu Z-Q, Shuang B, Wu Z, Stone D, Foster M.
“A Review of Transverse Flux Permanent Magnet Machines for Wind Power Applications”.
Kumar R, Zhu Z-Q, Duke A, Thomas A, Clark R, Azar Z, Wu Z.
“System-level Investigation of Multi-MW Direct Drive Wind Power PM Vernier Generators.”
Padinharu D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar Z.
4 Journal papers.
In ‘IEEE Access’.
International Federation of Automatic Control papers, on line.
“Asymmetrical Load Mitigation of Wind Turbine Pitch Actuator Faults using Unknown Input-based Fault-Tolerant Control.”
Liu Y, Patton R, Shi S.
“Modelling Variability in Vibration-Based PBSHM via a Generalised Popultaion Form”.
Dardeno T, Bull L, Mills R, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Informative Bayesian Tools for Damage Localisation by Decomposition of Lamb Wave Signals.”
Haywood-Alexander M, Dervilis N, Worden K, Dobie G, Rogers T.
2 Journal papers.
In ‘Journal of Sound and Vibration’.
“Wind turbines are already skyscraper-sized; is there any limit to how big they will get?”
Academic article.
In ‘The Conversation’.
Professor Simon Hogg
XXV International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 2022, Valencia, Spain, 5-8 Sept. 2022.
3 Conference proceedings/papers.
“Sensorless based model predictive current control with PM flux-linkage immunity for permanent magnet synchronous machines.”
Wu X. Zhu Z-Q, Freire N.
“Analysis of sensorless deadbeat predictive current control under parameter mismatches for permanent magnet synchronous machines”
Wu X. Zhu Z-Q, Freire N.
“Effect of slot and pole number combinations on no-load airgap vibration forces of PMSM.”
Maravi-Nieto J, Zhu Z-Q, Thomas A, Clark R, Azar Z, Lemma E.
“Cooling Techniques in Direct-drive Generators for Wind Power Application.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Energies’.
Taras P, Nilifard R, Zhu Z-Q, Azar Z.
European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Palermo, Italy, 4-7 July 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
“A generalised form for a homogeneous population of structures using an overlapping mixture of Gaussian processes.”
Dardeno, T.
“Scaling Effect on Inter-turn Short-circuit Fault of PM Machines for Wind Power Application.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications’.
Mei Z, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar Z.
International Society for Optics and Photonics Conference, Strasbourg, France, 3-7 April 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
” Fibre Bragg gratings: monitoring of infusion process in liquid composite molding manufacturing.”
Allsop T, Tahir M, Bhavsar K, Zhang L, Webb D, Gilbert J.
https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/photonics-europe?SSO=1
“AC Losses in Form-wound Coils of Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Vernier Machines.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Magnetics’.
Padinharu Kumar D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar Z.
“Stator Optimization of Wind Power Generators with High-Temperature Superconducting Armature Windings and Permanent Magnet Rotor.”
Journal paper.
In “IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.”
Xue S, Thomas A, Zhu Z-Q, Huang L, Duke A, Clark R, Azar Z.
“Generation of a Conjoint Surface Plasmon by an Infrared Nano-Antenna Array.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Advanced Photonics Research’.
Allsop T, Mou C, Neal R, Kundrat V, Wang C, Kalli K, Webb D, Liu X, Davey P, Culverhouse P, Diego Aia-Castanon J.
“High Frequency Signal Injection Sensorless Control of Finite-control-set Model Predictive Control with Deadbeat Solution.”
Journal paper.
In “IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.”
Wu XM, Zhu Z-Q, Freire NM.
4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics (ISFOG) Austin, Texas, 28-31 August 2022.”
Conference paper.
“A review of drag anchor penetration models to inform cable burial risk assessment”.
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde CE, Puigvert MM, Gutierrez JAR, Cross E.
PEMD 2022 Conference, Newcastle, 21-23 June 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
“Assessment of Control Strategy For Wind Turbine Converter Reliability.”
Alsaadi, S.
“A Simple Sensorless Position Error Correction Method for Dual Three-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion’.
Liu T, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Stone D, Foster M.
UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference, Nottingham, 2-22 April 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
“A comparison of approaches for modelling poro-mechanics in the Material Point Method.”
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde CE.
“Utilisation of Grain Oriented Electrical Steel in PM Fractional-slot Modular Machines.”
“Effect of Tooth Tips on Electromagnetic Performance of PM Fractional-slot Modular Machines using Grain Oriented Electrical Steel”.
2 Journal papers.
In ‘IET Journal of Engineering’.
Nieto JM, Thomas A, Azar Z, Zhu Z-Q.
European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Science Engineering, Oslo, Norway, 5-9 June 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
‘A New Incompressibilty-compliant Stress-strain Relationship for Bi-phase Materials.’
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde CE.
UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference, Nottingham, 20-22 April 2022.
Conference proceedings/paper.
‘A Comparison of Approaches for Modelling Poro-mechanics in the Material Point Method’.
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde CE.
“Permanent Magnet Vernier Machines for Direct-drive Offshore Wind Power: Benefits and Challenges .”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Access.’
Padinharu Kumar D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar Z, Duke A.
“Effect of airgap length on electromagnetic performance of permanent magnet vernier machines with different power ratings.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications’.
Padinharu Kumar D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A.
“Generalised Predictive dc-Link Voltage Control for Grid-connected Converter.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics.’
Wang T, Zhu Z-Q, Freire NMA, Foster M, Stone D.
“Improved sensorless control method and asymmetric phase resistances determination for permanent magnet synchronous machines.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications’.
Liu TY, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Stone D, Foster M.
“A Position Error Correction Method for Sensorless Control of Dual 3-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.’
Liu TY, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Stone D, Foster M.
“Analytical Modelling and Optimization of Output Voltage Harmonic Spectra of Full-bridge Modular Multilevel Converters in Boost Mode.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics’.
Thakur S, Odavic M, Allu A, Zhu Z-Q, Atallah K.
“Modelling and Optimization of Low-capacitance Half-bridge Modular Multilevel Converters Operated with Average Sub-module Voltage Control.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.’
Thakur S, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q.
IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo, 10-14 Oct 2021, virtual.
3 Conference proceedings/papers.
‘Comparative study of transverse flux permanent magnet machines for wind power application.’
Kumar R, Zhu Z-Q, Duke A, Thomas A, Azar Z.
‘Analysis of rotor eccentricity effects on saliency tracking based sensorless control of PM synchronous machine.’
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q, Chen Y, Wu ZY.
‘High frequency signal injection sensorless control of finite-control-set model predictive control with deadbeat solution.’
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q, Freire NMA.
“An Online Position Error Correction Method for Sensorless Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine with Parameter Mismatch .”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Access.’
Liu TY, Zhu Z-Q, Shuang B, Wu ZY, Stone DA, Foster MP.
“A Generalized Decomposition Model of Dual Three-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Considering Asymmetric Impedances and Compensation Capability.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions in Industry Applications’.
Xu J, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Freire N.
“Modulation Restraint Analysis of Space Vector PWM for Dual Three-phase Machines under Vector Space Decomposition.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions in Power Electronics.’
Xu J, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Freire N.
“Displacement Controlled Arc-Length Solution Scheme.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Computers and Structures’.
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde C.
“The Significance of Bypass Transition on the Annual Energy Production of an Offshore Wind Turbine.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Wind Energy.‘
Duffy A, Ingram G, Hogg S.
“On Sensor Optimisation for Structural Health Monitoring Robust to Environmental Variations.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Wind Energy Science’.
Wang T, Wagg DJ, Worden K, Barthorpe R.
“Structured Machine Learning Tools for Modelling Characteristics of Guided Waves.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.‘
Haywood-Alexander M, Dervilis N, Worden K, Cross EJ, Mills RS, Rogers TJ.
“Bayesian Localisation of Acoustic Emission Sources for Wind Turbine Bearings.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems’.
Jones MR, Rogers TJ, Martinez IE, Cross EJ.
“Probabilistic Inference for Structural Health Monitoring: New Modes of Learning from Data.”
Journal paper.
In ‘ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems.’
Bull LA, Gardner P, Rogers TJ, Cross EJ, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Decomposition of Multi-mode Signals Using Dispersion Curves and Bayesian Linear Regression.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems’.
Haywood-Alexander M, Dervilis N, Worden K, Dobie GB, Rogers TJ.
“The Transfer of Damage Detectors Between Structures: An Experimental Case Study.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Journal of Sound and Vibration.‘
Bull LA, Gardner PA, Dervilis N, Papatheou E.
“Damage Detection in Operational Wind Turbine Blades Using a New Approach Based on Machine Learning.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Renewable Energy’.
Chandrasekhar K, Stevanovic N, Cross EJ, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Overcoming the Problem of Repair in Structural Health Monitoring: Metric-informed Transfer Learning.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Journal of Sound and Vibration.‘
Gardner P, Bull LA, Dervilis N, Worden K.
International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, 17-20 May 2021, virtual.
2 Conference proceedings/papers.
‘A position error correction method for sensorless control of dual three-phase PM synchronous machines’.
Liu TY, Zhu Z-Q, Wu XM, Wu ZY.
‘Scaling effect on inter-turn short-circuit of PM machines for wind power application’.
Mei Z, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar Z.
UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference, 14-16 April 2021, virtual.
Conference proceedings/paper.
‘A Comparison of Implicit Time-discretisation Techniques for the Material Point Method‘
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde CE.
Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, 25-28 May 2021, virtual.
Conference proceedings/paper.
‘Displacement Controlled Arc-Length Solution Scheme.’
Pretti G, Coombs WM, Augarde CE.
“Online Parameter Estimation for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines: an Overview.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Access.‘
Zhu Z-Q, Liang DW, Liu K.
“Switching-Table-Based Direct Torque Control of Dual Three-Phase PMSMs with Closed-Loop Current Harmonics Compensation.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions, Power Electronics’.
Xu J, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Freire N.
Wind Energy Science Conference, 25-28 May 2021.
3 Conference proceedings/papers.
‘Application of Fibre Optic Sensors in Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades.’
‘Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades using Fibre Optic Sensors.’
Sarma AS, Gilbert JM, Allsop T.
‘A Grey-box Model for Environmental Mapping.’
Lin W, Worden K., Maguire A. and Cross E.
Health Monitoring of Structural and Biological Systems XV, Long Beach, California, USA, 22-26 March 2021.
Conference proceedings/paper.
‘Decomposition of multi-mode signals using dispersion curves and Bayesian linear regression.’
Haywood-Alexander M. Worden K, Rogers T.J, Dervilis, N.
“Structured Machine Learning Tools for Modelling Characteristics of Guided Waves.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.’
Haywood-Alexander M, Dervilis N, Worden K, Cross EJ, Mills RS, Rogers TJ.
“A novel initial rotor position detection method for surface-mounted permanent magnet synchronous machine.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion.”
Wu X, Zhu Q-Z, Wu ZY.
Supergen ORE Hub General Assembly, 18-22 January 2021.
Conference poster.
‘Structural Performance and Fatigue Damage Assessment for Wind Turbine Blades based on the FSI Model.’
Zhang, C.
“A review on transverse flux permanent magnet machine for wind power application.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Access.‘
Kumar R, Zhu Q-Z, Duke A, Thomas A, Clark R, Azar Z.
10th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives. Nottingham, 15-17 December 2020.
Conference papers.
Our researchers presented six papers to this conference;
‘Impact of interphase magnetic coupling in transverse flux permanent magnet machines for wind power application.’
Kumar R, Huang L, Kumar D, Zhu Z-Q, Duke A, Clark R, Thomas A, Li G-J, Odavic M, Griffo A, Foster M, Stone D.
‘Comparative study of rotor initial position estimation.’
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q.
‘Multivariable generalised predicitive speed control for permanent magnet synchronous machine with enhanced luenberger speed observer.’
Wang T, Freire N, Zhu Z-Q, Foster M, Stone D, Griffo A, Odavic M, Li G-J.
‘A simple voltage pulse selection strategy for rotor initial position estimation.’
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q.
‘Mechanical modelling of stator and rotor assemblies of an external rotor PM wind power generator.’
Maravi-Nieto J, Chandrasekhar K, Zhu Z-Q, Thomas A, Azar Z, Clark R.
‘Extended-EMF based sensorless control for permanent-magnet synchronous machine drives considering resistance asymmetry.’
Liu T, Zhu Z-Q, Wu Z Y, Stone D, Foster M, Odavic M, Griffo A, Li G-J.
29th International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering (ISMA 2020), Leuven, Belgium, 7-9 September 2020.
Conference proceedings/papers.
‘Constraining gaussian processes for grey-box acoustic emission source localisation.’
Jones MR, Rogers TJ, Gardner PA, Cross EJ.
‘Power mapping: A wind turbine performance indicator in population-based structural health monitoring.’
Lin, W, Worden, K, Maguire A, and Cross, EJ.
“Influence of coil location and current angle in permanent magnet wind power generators with high-temperature superconducting armature windings.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.’
Xue S, Thomas A, Zhu ZQ, Huang L, Duke A, Clark R, Azar Z.
IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2020-ECCE Asia), November 29 – December 2, 2020.
Conference proceedings/papers.
‘Comparative Study of Parameter Mismatch on Different Model Predictive Controls for PMSM Drives.’
Wang T, Freire N, Zhu Z-Q, Foster M, Stone D, Griffo A, Odavic M, Li G-J.
8th International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics, Leuven, Belgium, 7-9 September 2020.
Conference proceedings/paper.
‘Lamb wave mode separation using dispersion curves.’
Haywood-Alexander M, Worden K, Dobie G, Rogers TJ, Dervilis N.
IFAC World Congress, 11-17 July 2020.
Conference proceedings/papers.
‘Asymmetrical Load Mitigation of Wind Turbine Pitch Actuator Faults using
Unknown Input-based Fault-tolerant Control.’
Liu Y, Patton R J and Shuo S.
This was an invited paper presented at a special session of the event.
“Towards semi-supervised and probabilistic classification in structural health monitoring.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.’
Bull L.A, Worden K, Dervilis N.
“Foundations of population-based SHM, Part III: Heterogeneous populations–Mapping and transfer.”
Journal article.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing’
Gardner P, Bull LA, Gosliga J, Dervilis N, Worden K.
“Foundations of population-based SHM, Part I: Homogeneous populations and forms.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.’
Bull LA, Gardner PA, Gosliga J, Rogers TJ, Dervilis N, Cross EJ, Papatheou E, Maguire AE, Campos C, Worden K.
“Modelling of guided waves in a composite plate through a combination of physical knowledge and regression analysis.”
Journal article.
In ‘Rotating Machinery, Optical Methods & Scanning LDV Methods’
Haywood-Alexander M, Rogers TJ, Worden K, Barthorpe RJ, Cross EJ, Dervilis N.
“A brief introduction to recent developments in population-based structural health monitoring.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Built Environment.’
Worden K, Bull LA, Gardner P, Gosliga J, Rogers TJ, Cross EJ, Papatheou E, Lin, W Dervilis, N.
“Machine learning at the interface of structural health monitoring and non-destructive evaluation.”
Journal article.
In ‘Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society’
Gardner P, Fuentes R, Dervilis N, Mineo C, Pierce SG, Cross EJ and Worden K.
“Autonomous ultrasonic inspection using Bayesian optimisation and robust outlier analysis.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.’
Fuentes R, Gardner P, Mineo C, Rogers TJ, Pierce SG, Worden K, Dervilis N, Cross E.J.
“Wind turbine asymmetrical load reduction with pitch sensor fault compensation.”
Journal article.
In ‘Wind Energy 2020’
Liu, Y, Patton, R J, Shi, S.
“System-level investigation of multi-MW direct-drive wind power PM Vernier generators.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Access.’
Padinharu DKK, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Clark R, Thomas A, Azar Z.
“A new simplified fundamental model based sensorless control method.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. IET Electric Power Applications’
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY.
“A novel rotor initial position detection method utilizing DC-link voltage sensor.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.’
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY.
“Multivariable generalized predictive control with measurement noise rejection and speed ripple mitigation for PMSM Drives.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Proc. IET Power Electronics.’
Wang T, Zhu Z-Q, Freire N, Wu Z, Odavic M, Foster M, Stone D.
“Study on noise and disturbance issues of generalized predictive speed control for PMSM.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IET Proc. Electric Power Applications.’
Wang T, Zhu Z-Q, Freire N, Wu Z, Foster M, Stone D
“Generic slot and pole number combinations for novel modular permanent magnet dual 3-phase machines with redundant teeth.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion’
Li Y, Zhu Z-Q, Thomas A.
2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 11-15 October 2020, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Conference proceedings/papers.
‘Frequency-domain based windings voltage distribution modelling for converter-fed electrical machines.’
Wei Y, Griffo A, Gonzalez F, Bhide R, Samanta S, Clark R, Thomas A, Zhu Z-Q.
“Improved Sensorless Control Method for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines Considering Resistance Asymmetry and Temperature Variation.“
Liu T, Zhu Z-Q, Wu Z Y, Stone D, Foster M.
“A Simple Sensorless Position Error Correction Method for Dual Three-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion’
Liu T, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Stone D, Foster M.
“Detection of nitrous oxide using infrared optical plasmonics coupled with carbon nanotubes.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Nanoscale Advances.’
Allsop T, Al Araimi M, Neal R, Wang C, Culverhouse P, Ania-Castañón J, Webb D, Davey P, Gilbert J, Rozhin A.
“Analysis and suppression of rotor eccentricity effects on fundamental model based sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous machine.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications’
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q, Wu ZY, Liu T, Li Y.
IEEE International Conference on Electrical Machines.
23rd – 26th August 2020, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Two conference proceedings/papers.
‘Influence of air gap in transverse flux permanent magnet machines for wind power applications.’
Kumar D, Zhu Z-Q, Duke A, Thomas A, Clark R.
‘Effect of airgap length on electromagnetic performance of surface mounted permanent magnet Vernier machines’.
Kumar D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Azar Z, Clark R, Thomas A.
“Investigation of scaling effect on power factor of permanent magnet Vernier machines.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IET Electrical Power Applications’
Kumar D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Azar Z, Clark R, Thomas A.
IMAC XXXVIII – The 38th International Modal Analysis Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, 10-13 February 2020.
Two conference proceedings/papers.
‘Modelling of Guided Waves in a Composite Plate Through a Combination of Physical Knowledge and Regression Analysis.’
Haywood-Alexander M, Rogers TJ, Worden K, Barthorpe R, Cross EJ, Dervilis, N.
‘Towards population-based structural health monitoring, Part VII: EoV fields: environmental mapping.’
Lin W, Worden K, Maguire A, Cross EJ.
“Scaling effect on electromagnetic performance of surface mounted permanent magnet Vernier machine.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Magnetics’
Kumar D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Foster MP, Stone DA, Griffo A, Clark R, Thomas A.
“Theoretical Harmonic Spectra of PWM Waveforms Including DC Bus Voltage Ripple – Application to a Low-Capacitance Modular Multilevel Converter.”
Journal paper.
In ‘IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics’.
Thakur S, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q, Ahmed A, Atallah K.
“Wind turbine asymmetrical load reduction with pitch sensor fault compensation.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Wind Energy’ 11 March 2020
Liu Y, Patton R, Shuo S.
“Review of the Numerical Modeling of Compression Molding of Sheet Molding Compound.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Processes’ 8(2): 179 5 Feb 2020.
Alnersson G, Tahir M W, Ljung A-L, Lundström T S.
“A review: Evolution and diversity of optical fibre plasmonic sensors.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Sensors’
Allsop T, Neal R.
IEEE-Energy Conversion Congress and Expo.
29th September – 3rd October 2019, Baltimore, USA.
Two conference proceedings/papers.
‘An advanced harmonic compensation strategy for dual three phase permanent magnet synchronous machines considering different angle displacements’.
Xu J, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q.
‘Interactions of capacitor voltage ripple with the closed-loop controllers in low-capacitance modular multilevel converters’.
Thakur S, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q.
12th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring.
10-12th September 2019, Stanford, USA.
Four conference proceedings/papers.
‘Gaussian processes for structural health monitoring of wind turbine blades’.
Chandrasekhar K, Stevanovic N, Cross EJ, Dervilis N, Worden K.
‘Applying the concept of complexity to structural health monitoring’.
Worden K, Dervilis N, Farrar CR.
‘Assessing the likelihood of damage at the start of a structural health monitoring campaign’.
Jones MR, Rogers TJ, Dervilis N, Worden K, Cross EJ.
‘Health monitoring of composite structures by combining ultrasonic wave data’.
Haywood-Alexander M, Worden K, Barthorpe R, Fuentes R, Rogers TJ, Dervilis N.
IEEE International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems.
11th – 14th August 2019, Harbin, China.
Conference proceedings/paper.
‘Influence of demagnetization on selecting the optimum slot/pole number combination for 3MW surface mounted permanent magnet Vernier machine’.
Kumar D, Li G-J, Zhu Z-Q, Foster M, Stone D, Griffo A, Odavic M, Clark R, Thomas A.
This was awarded the Best Paper Award at the conference.
13th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures.
9-10th July 2019, Porto, Portugal.
Conference proceeding/paper.
‘A Gaussian process form for population-based structural health monitoring’.
Bull LA, Worden K, Dervilis N.
“Probabilistic active learning: An online framework for structural health monitoring.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing’
Bull LA, Rogers T, Wickramarachchi C, Cross E, Worden K, Dervilis N.
“Probabilistic modelling of wind turbine power curves with application of heteroscedastic Gaussian Process recognition.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Renewable Energy’
Rogers T, Gardner P, Dervilis N, Worden K, Maguire A, Papatheou E, Cross E.
“Outlier ensembles: A robust method for damage detection and unsupervised feature extraction from high-dimensional data.”
Journal paper.
In ‘Journal of Sound and Vibration’
Bull LA, Worden K, Fuentes R, Manson G, Cross E, Dervilis N.
“A Sampling Based Approach for Information-Theoretic Inspection Management.”
Journal papers.
In ‘Proceedings. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences’
Bull L, Dervilis N, Worden K, Cross E, Rogers T.
AURA Energy Breakfast.
2019.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“Smart wind turbine fault tolerance and load balancing”.
Patton R, Liu Y.
“Comparison of modular dual 3 phase PM machines with overlapping/non-overlapping windings.”
“Novel modular fractional slot permanent magnet machines with redundant teeth.”
Journal papers.
In ‘IEEE Transactions and Industry Applications’
Li YX, Zhu Z-Q, Thomas A, Wu Y, Wu X.
Wind Energy Science Conference
16-20 June 2019, Cork, Ireland.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“A new machine learning approach to identify damage on operational wind turbine blades”.
Chandrasekhar K, Stevanovic N, Cross E, Dervilis N, Worden K.
IEEE 10th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems
3-6 June 2019, Xian, China.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“A vector selection based common mode voltage reduction strategy for three phase permanent magnet synchronous wind power generators considering harmonic suppression”.
Xu J, Odavic M, Zhu ZQ, Wu Z.
International Operational Modal Analysis Conference
13-15 May 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“A non-linear robust outlier detection approach for SHM”.
Dervilis N, Zhang T, Bull L, Cross E, Rogers T, Fuentes R, Dertimanis V, Abdallah I, Chatzi E, Worden K.
International Electric Machines and Drives Conference
12-15 May 2019, San Diego, USA.
Conference proceedings/papers.
“A novel rotor intial position detection method utilizing dc-link voltage sensor”.
“A simple mechanical rotor position estimation method based on rotor eccentricity”.
Wu X, Zhu Z-Q.
Institute of Physics, Fibre Optic Shape and Deformation Sensing: An Emerging Technology.
5 May 2019, London, UK.
Conference proceeding/paper.
” Real-time fibre optic three-dimensional corporal shape sensing and reconstruction scheme for human cardiovascular and respiratory plethysmography applications“.
Allsop, T.
“Influence of stator topologies on average torque and torque ripple of fractional-slot PM machines with closed-slots.”
Journal paper.
In “IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications”.
Li Y, Zhu Z-Q, Li G-J.
Intermag 2019, 14-18 January 2019, Washington DC, USA.
Conference proceeding/paper.
” A 2.5D calculation method of magnet eddy current loss for permanent magnet electrical machine“.
Xue S, Zhu Z-Q, Duke A, Azar Z, Clark R, Thomas A, Li G-J, Odavic M, Griffo A, Foster M, Stone D.
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Forum
20 November 2018, London, UK.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“High efficiency and power density wind power generator systems with increased reliability and lower cost”.
Zhu Z-Q.
Prof. Zhu gave an invited poster presentation to over 100 participants, including Fellows of Royal Academy of Engineering, Research Chairs, Research Fellows. It sparked many questions and discussion afterwards, followed by a research seminar on 6 December 2018 at the University of Sheffield on “Fully superconducting machines for future electric aircraft” given by Dr Min Zhang, RAE Research Fellow, from Strathclyde University, as arranged by Professor Steve Williamson, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering. Future co-operation on superconducting machines for wind power application between Sheffield and Strathclyde was discussed.
ISMA-USD International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering
September 2018, Leuven, Belgium.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“Outlier analysis under uncertainty: applications to structural health monitoring”.
Nikos Dervilis presented a conference paper on data analysis and compress sensing in active health monitoring of wind turbine blades using outlier analysis uncertainty.
UKACC Conference “Control 2018”
September 2018, Sheffield, UK.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“Wind Turbine Load Mitigation Using MPC with Gaussian Wind Speed Prediction”.
Liu Y, Patton RJ.
Yanhua gave a presentation in a session “Energy and Power Systems” which provided an excellent forum for discussion with other researchers working on Power and Energy Systems in a wider context.
IFAC Safeprocess Conference
August 2018, Warsaw, Poland.
Conference proceeding/paper.
“Fault-tolerant Individual Pitch Control using Adaptive Sliding Mode Observer”.
Liu Y, Patton RJ.
Yanhua presented at an invited special session about “Fault tolerant control of wind turbines”. The session organised by Prof Ron Patton and Dr Silvio Simani (University of Ferrara) provided an excellent forum for discussion with other researchers working on this subject. The other session presenters are world experts in this subject.
The 9th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, PEMD2018
17 – 19 April 2018. Liverpool, UK.
Three conference proceedings/papers.
“Performance of superconducting generators with different machine topologies under fault conditions”.
Guan Y, Vedreno-Santos, F, Azar Z, Thomas A, Li G-J, Odavic M, Zhu Z-Q
“Utilisation of grain oriented electrical steel in PM fractional-slot modular machines”.
Nieto JM, Thomas A, Azar Z, Zhu Z-Q
“Effect of tooth tips on electromagnetic performance of PM fractional-slot modular machines using grain oriented electrical steel”.
Nieto JM, Thomas A, Azar Z, Zhu Z-Q