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| COMPEL 2010 Summary |
| The 12th IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics, COMPEL 2010, was held on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder, June 28-30. The technical program consisted of 87 peer reviewed papers and 5 invited contributions arranged in nine oral presentation sessions and two poster/demo sessions. The Workshop attracted over 130 participants from over 20 countries. More than 40 participants were from industry. To allow the authors to present the very latest results, the final papers were due just two days before the start of the Workshop. Thanks to all authors for following the strict deadline, all papers were included on a memory stick handed out to the Workshop attendees. The high-quality contributions and the single-track Workshop format enabled lively exchanges of results and ideas on the latest advances in analysis, modeling, and control for power electronics. Breakfasts, lunches, breaks, a reception, and a banquet dinner offered more opportunbities to engage in interactive discusisons and to enjoy the venue. The Workshop concluded with three Best Paper Awards announced in the TESLA Motors showroom in downtown Boulder. |
Technical sessions were held in the Math 100 auditorium at the University of Colorado
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Five invited presenations attracted lots of attention. We thank the authors for the outstanding contributions to the COMPEL 2010 technical program! |
Dave Freeman and Brent McDonald, Texas Instruments, "Parametrization for Power Solutions." The paper was presented by Dave Freeman.
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Rob de Nie, NXP Semiconductors, "Design Challenges in the Development of Mixed-Signal Control IC's for Switch-Mode Power Supplies and Their Solutions." The paper was presented by Rob de Nie.
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John Hoversten and Zoya Popovic, University of Colorado, "System Considerations for Efficient and Linear Supply Modulated RF Transmitters." The paper was presented by Prof. Zoya Popovic and Dr. John Hoversten.
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Ljubisa Stevanovic, Kevin Matocha, Zachary Stum, Peter Losee, Arun Gowda, John Glaser, and Richard Beaupre, GE Global Research, "Realizing the Full Potential of Silicon Carbide Power Devices." The paper was presented by Dr. Ljubisa Stevanovic.
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Francesco Carobolante, Qualcomm, "The Future of Wireless Charging: Technology Will Enable Anytime, Anywhere Recharging." The paper was presented by Francesco Carobolante.
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| Poster/demo sessions were held in the Discovery Leraning Center of the University of Colorado |
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To offer a snapshot of the outdoors Boulder is famous for, the banquet dinner was held in the Red Lion restaurant, a short bus drive up the Boulder Creek Canyon, with a backdrop of the Flatirons mountains west of the city of Boulder. There was some drama associated with this well planned event: just three weeks before the Workshop, the restaurant saw their only access bridge wash into Boulder Creek. Some options offered by a restaurant manager, as reported by the news ("legally, you can kayak to our place, or tube"), did not find many takers among the COMPEL attendees. Fortunately, a temporary bridge was erected just in time, weather was cooperative, and the Workshop attendees enjoyed a nice evening in the mountains.
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For the first time, the Workshop presented Best Paper Awards. Three papers were selected based on their technical contributions and the presentations. No distinctions were made between oral or poster presentations, but an advantage was given to student presentations. The awards, presented in the TESLA Motors showroom in downtown Boulder Pearl Street, included test drive certificates for the all-electric Tesla Roadsters. Congratulations to the recipients!
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The Awards were presened by Regan Zane, the COMPEL 2010 Program Chair |
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COMPEL 2010 Best Paper Award presented to: Zhonghui Bing and Jian Sun, for the paper "Modeling and Analysis of Line Frequency Converters by Double Fourier Series Methods"
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COMPEL 2010 Best Paper Award presented to: Jason Neely, Ray DeCarlo and Steve Pekarek, for the paper "Real-Time Model Predictive Control of the Cuk Converter"
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COMPEL 2010 Best Paper Award presented to: Alexander M. Latham and Charles R. Sullivan, for the paper "Optimization of a Continuous-Time Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithm in the Presence of Noise"
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NREL tour: on Thursday July 1, a group of about 25 COMPEL attendees went on a tour of the the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) National Wind Technology Center (NWTC), and the Distributed Energy Resource Test Facility (DERTF).
Many thanks to Christian Wolf for the photos. |
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| Acknowledgements |
The COMPEL 2010 Organizing Committee would like to acknowledge and thank:
Amy Arenson and the ECEE staff for the outstanding help in organizing and running the Workshop
Student volunteers who helped immensely with organizing and running the Workshop: Aleksandar Bjeletic, Alexander Brisette, Jieyeon Choi, Daniel Costinett, Daniel Friedrichs, Sang Hee Kang, Anderson Hoke, Alexander Jensen, Sung Woo Moon, Hien Nguyen, Thurain Paing, Kamal Sabi, Ryan Schnell, and Dan Seltzer (all graduate students of the Colorado Power Electronics Center, University of Colorado at Boulder), as well as Pablo Fernandez and Miguel Rodriguez (graduate students from the University of Oviedo, Spain).
Special thanks to Ryan Schnell, Thurain Paing and Danny Costinett for producing the Workshop program memory sticks in record time on Saturday, June 26, and to Plexim for donating the sticks
Special thanks to Ryan Schnell for the Workshop photos.
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| COMPEL 2012 will be held in early June of 2012 at the Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, and chaired by Prof. Toshiji Kato |
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