By Dr Georgios Konstantinou

Conference Papers

Ahmad A; Tafti HD; Konstantinou G; Hredzak B; Fletcher JE, 2021, 'Analysis on the Behavior of Grid-Connected Single-Phase Photovoltaic Inverters under Voltage Phase-Angle Jumps', in Proceedings of the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Asia Ecce Asia 2021, pp. 291 - 296, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE-Asia49820.2021.9479264

Beniwal N; Farivar GG; Dehghani Tafti H; Pou J; Ceballos S; Konstantinou G; Townsend CD, 2021, 'Average Neutral Point Current Control Strategy in Neutral-Point-Clamped Converters', in Proceedings of the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Asia Ecce Asia 2021, pp. 1250 - 1255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE-Asia49820.2021.9479072

Tafti HD; Ahmad A; Callegaro L; Konstantinou G; Fletcher JE, 2021, 'Sensitivity of Commercial Rooftop Photovoltaic Inverters to Grid Voltage Swell', in Proceedings of the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Asia Ecce Asia 2021, pp. 308 - 313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE-Asia49820.2021.9479029

Ndirangu K; Tafti HD; Fletcher JE; Konstantinou G, 2021, 'Validation of Solar Photovoltaic Inverter Behavior to Grid Disturbances through Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing', in Proceedings of the Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Asia Ecce Asia 2021, pp. 250 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE-Asia49820.2021.9479074

Sun P; Wickramasinghe HR; Konstantinou G, 2021, 'AC and DC Fault Analysis in Hybrid Multi-Converter DC Grids', in Proceedings of 2021 31st Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference Aupec 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AUPEC52110.2021.9597819

Yan HW; Farivar GG; Beniwal N; Gorla NBY; Tafti HD; Ceballos S; Pou J; Konstantinou G, 2021, 'Comparative Study of Coordinated Photovoltaic and Battery Control Strategies on the Battery Lifetime in Stand-Alone DC Microgrids', in 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Ecce 2021 Proceedings, pp. 1034 - 1039, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE47101.2021.9595374

Yan HW; Farivar GG; Beniwal N; Gorla NBY; Tafti HD; Ceballos S; Pou J; Konstantinou G, 2021, 'Control Strategy for Effective Battery Utilization in a Stand-Alone DC Microgrid with Solar Energy', in 2021 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Ecce 2021 Proceedings, pp. 1046 - 1051, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE47101.2021.9595777

Jiang S; Arraño-Vargas F; Konstantinou G, 2021, 'Impedance-based Stability Analysis of Current Controlled Alternate Arm Converter in dq Frame', in 2021 IEEE Pes Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Asia Isgt Asia 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISGTASIA49270.2021.9715692

Liu X; Sun P; Arrano-Vargas F; Konstantinou G, 2021, 'Provision of Synthetic Inertia by Alternate Arm Converters in VSC-HVDC Systems', in Proceedings of 2021 31st Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference Aupec 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AUPEC52110.2021.9597753

Arraño-Vargas F; Konstantinou G, 2021, 'Synthetic Grid Modeling for Real-Time Simulations', in 2021 IEEE Pes Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Asia Isgt Asia 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISGTASIA49270.2021.9715654

Sun P; Wickramasinghe HR; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2020, 'An LCC-AAC Hybrid High-voltage DC Transmission System', in 2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference Ipemc 2020 Ecce Asia, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), PEOPLES R CHINA, Nanjing, pp. 1516 - 1521, presented at 2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (IPEMC2020-ECCE Asia), PEOPLES R CHINA, Nanjing, 29 November 2020 - 02 December 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC-ECCEAsia48364.2020.9367720

Zhu Y; Ma K; Konstantinou G, 2020, 'Loss and Thermal Characterization Methods for Power Semiconductor Devices Based on H-bridge Circuit', in 2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference Ipemc 2020 Ecce Asia, pp. 3465 - 3469, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC-ECCEAsia48364.2020.9368230

Tian Y; Wickramasinghe HR; Li Z; Konstantinou G, 2020, 'Modular Multilevel Converter Sub-modules for HVDC Applications', in 2020 IEEE 9th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference Ipemc 2020 Ecce Asia, pp. 1510 - 1515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPEMC-ECCEAsia48364.2020.9368019

Gao M; Arraño-Vargas F; Konstantinou G; Arrano Vargas F, 2020, 'Real-time model of the simplified Australian 14-generator system in hypersim', in Proceedings 2020 International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems Sges 2020, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ELECTR NETWORK, pp. 789 - 794, presented at 2020 International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems (SGES), ELECTR NETWORK, 23 November 2020 - 26 November 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SGES51519.2020.00146

Samuel AT; Aldamanhori A; Ravikumar A; Konstantinou G, 2020, 'Stochastic modeling for future scenarios of the 2040 australian national electricity market using ANTARES', in Proceedings 2020 International Conference on Smart Grids and Energy Systems Sges 2020, pp. 761 - 766, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SGES51519.2020.00141

Wickramasinghe HR; Sun P; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2020, 'A Hybrid VSC-HVDC System based on Modular Multilevel Converter and Alternate Arm Converter', in IECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ELECTR NETWORK, pp. 4141 - 4146, presented at IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, ELECTR NETWORK, 19 October 2020 - 21 October 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254704

Tian Y; Wickramasinghe HR; Pou J; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2020, 'Impact of Power Factor Angle in the Sub-module Losses of Modular Multilevel Converters in HVDC Applications', in IECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ELECTR NETWORK, pp. 4096 - 4101, presented at IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, ELECTR NETWORK, 19 October 2020 - 21 October 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9255315

Ndirangu K; Callegaro L; Fletcher JE; Konstantinou G, 2020, 'Development of an Aggregation Tool for PV Inverter Response to Frequency Disturbances across a Distribution Feeder', in IECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference, pp. 4037 - 4042, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9255331

Tafti HD; Konstantinou G; Fletcher JE; Farivar GG; Ceballos S; Pou J; Townsend CD, 2020, 'Flexible Power Point Tracking in Cascaded H-Bridge Converter-Based Photovoltaic Systems', in IECON Proceedings Industrial Electronics Conference, pp. 1826 - 1830, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON43393.2020.9254409

Liang G; Tafti HD; Farivar GG; Pou J; Townsend CD; Konstantinou G, 2020, 'Analysis of the Inter-Submodule Active Power Disparity Limits of Modular Multilevel Converter-Based Battery Energy Storage Systems', in Ecce 2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, pp. 594 - 600, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9236261

Tafti HD; Konstantinou G; Townsend CD; Farivar GG; Ceballos S; Pou J; Fletcher JE, 2020, 'Comparative Analysis of Flexible Power Point Tracking Algorithms in Photovoltaic Systems', in Ecce 2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, pp. 110 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9236032

Sun P; Arrano-Vargas F; Wickramasinghe HR; Konstantinou G; Arrano Vargas F; Wickramasinghe H, 2019, 'Benchmark Models for HVDC Systems and DC-Grid Studies', in 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Icpes 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), AUSTRALIA, Perth, pp. 1 - 6, presented at 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES), AUSTRALIA, Perth, 10 December 2019 - 12 December 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPES47639.2019.9105548

Wang W; Wickramasinghe HR; Ma K; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2019, 'Real-time Co-Simulation for Electrical and Thermal Analysis of Power Electronics', in 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Icpes 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), AUSTRALIA, Perth, pp. 1 - 5, presented at 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES), AUSTRALIA, Perth, 10 December 2019 - 12 December 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPES47639.2019.9105352

Tafti HD; Farivar GG; Narang A; Townsend CD; Konstantinou G; Pou J, 2019, 'An Enhanced Hybrid Solar System and Energy Storage with Shaped DC-Link Voltage', in 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Icpes 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPES47639.2019.9105497

Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe HR; Zhang X, 2019, 'Loss Comparison and Thermal Performance of Modular Multilevel Converters under Discontinuous Pulse Width Modulation', in 2019 9th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Icpes 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPES47639.2019.9105422

Tafti HD; Konstantinou G; Townsend CD; Farivar GG; Sangwongwanich A; Yang Y; Pou J; Blaabjerg F, 2019, 'A Comparative Study of Flexible Power Point Tracking Algorithms in Photovoltaic Systems', in 2019 IEEE 4th International Future Energy Electronics Conference, IFEEC 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IFEEC47410.2019.9015107

Narang A; Tafti HD; Townsend CD; Farivar G; Pou J; Konstantinou G; Vazquez S, 2019, 'An Algorithm for Fast Flexible Power Point Tracking in Photovoltaic Power Plants', in IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference), pp. 4387 - 4392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2019.8927083

Aguilera RP; Acuna P; Rojas CA; Konstantinou G; Pou J, 2019, 'Instantaneous Zero Sequence Voltage for Grid Energy Balancing under Unbalanced Power Generation', in 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Ecce 2019, pp. 2572 - 2577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2019.8912472

Arrano-Vargas F; Konstantinou G; Arrano Vargas F, 2019, 'Real-time models of advanced energy conversion systems for large-scale integration studies', in Pedg 2019 2019 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), PEOPLES R CHINA, Xian, pp. 756 - 761, presented at 2019 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), PEOPLES R CHINA, Xian, 03 June 2019 - 06 June 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2019.8807460

Feng Y; Konstantinou G; Hredzak B; Fletcher J; Sun K, 2019, 'Topologies for reduction of second harmonic ripple in battery energy storage systems', in Pedg 2019 2019 IEEE 10th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems, pp. 414 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PEDG.2019.8807611

Yi Z; Chen H; Sun K; Fletcher J; Konstantinou G; Hredzak B, 2019, 'Analysis and Mitigation of Oscillations in Bi-directional CLLC Resonant Converters', in 2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia), IEEE, pp. 1 - 7, presented at 2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia), 27 May 2019 - 30 May 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8797133

Yi Z; Chen H; Sun K; Fletcher J; Konstantinou G; Hredzak B, 2019, 'Analysis and Mitigation of Oscillations in Bi-directional CLLC Resonant Converters', in ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia - 10th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia, Busan, Korea, pp. 1736 - 1742, presented at ICPE, Busan, Korea, 27 May 2019 - 30 May 2019

Wickramasinghe HR; Wang W; Ma K; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2019, 'Thermal Performance of Modular Multilevel Converters in HVDC Applications under Offset PWM', in ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia - 10th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Busan, Korea, pp. 1842 - 1847, presented at ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia, Busan, Korea, 27 May 2019 - 30 May 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/icpe2019-ecceasia42246.2019.8796916

Zhang R; Hredzak B; Konstantinou G, 2019, 'Distributed Control for Microgrid Batteries Communicating over Network with Aperiodically Sampled Data with Time Delays', in ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia - 10th International Conference on Power Electronics - ECCE Asia, Busan, Korea, pp. 2629 - 2634, presented at 2019 10th International Conference on Power Electronics and ECCE Asia (ICPE 2019 - ECCE Asia), Busan, Korea, 27 May 2019

Zhang H; Wickramasinghe HR; Li J; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2019, 'Modular Multilevel Converter Operation in Passive Networks under Unbalanced Loads', in 2019 IEEE Pes Gtd Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia Gtd Asia 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), THAILAND, Bangkok, pp. 362 - 367, presented at 2019 IEEE PES GTD Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia (GTD Asia), THAILAND, Bangkok, 19 March 2019 - 23 March 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GTDAsia.2019.8715923

Wickramasinghe HR; Wang W; Ma K; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2019, 'Thermal characterization of the alternate arm converter for hvdc applications', in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, pp. 556 - 561, presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), AUSTRALIA, Melbourne, 13 February 2019 - 15 February 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2019.8755183

Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe HR; Townsend CD; Ceballos S; Pou J; Wickramasinghe H, 2018, 'Estimation methods and sensor reduction in modular multilevel converters: A review', in 2018 8th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems Icpes 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), SRI LANKA, Colombo, pp. 23 - 28, presented at 2018 8th International Conference on Power and Energy Systems (ICPES), SRI LANKA, Colombo, 21 December 2018 - 22 December 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPESYS.2018.8626987

Jamborsalamati P; Moghimi M; Hossain MJ; Taghizadeh S; Lu J; Konstantinou G, 2018, 'A Framework for Evaluation of Power Grid Resilience Case Study: 2016 South Australian Blackout', in Proceedings 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2018 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe Eeeic I and Cps Europe 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/EEEIC.2018.8494216

Lin Y; Wickramasinghe HR; Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe H, 2018, 'Hardware-in-the-loop implementation of a hybrid circuit breaker controller for MMC-based HVDC systems', in Asia Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference Appeec, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), MALAYSIA, Kota Kinabalu, pp. 19 - 24, presented at 2018 IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), MALAYSIA, Kota Kinabalu, 07 October 2018 - 10 October 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APPEEC.2018.8566399

Wickramasinghe HR; Konstantinou G; Pou J; Wickramasinghe H, 2018, 'Zero-Current Switching for the Alternate Arm Converter through On-Load Tap Changers', in 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition Ecce 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), OR, Portland, pp. 1342 - 1347, presented at 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), OR, Portland, 23 September 2018 - 27 September 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2018.8557788

Sandano R; Nurdin H; Konstantinou G; Farrell M, 2018, 'A communication-less cooperative dc voltage control technique for a multi-terminal HVDC transmission system using H^∞ control', in 2018 20th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2018 ECCE Europe, IEEE, Riga, LATVIA, presented at 2018 20TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS (EPE'18 ECCE EUROPE), Riga, LATVIA, 17 September 2018 - 21 September 2018, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8515653

Xia B; Li Y; Li Z; Konstantinou G; Gao F; Wang P, 2018, 'Dual Phase Shift PWM-CSCs Based Hybrid HVDC Transmission System', in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp. 378 - 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2018.8433782

Konstantinou G; Yusuf M, 2018, 'Smart Grid Education: A Review of Global Course Offerings and the UNSW Sydney Approach', in Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching Assessment and Learning for Engineering Tale 2018, pp. 850 - 854, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2018.8615233

Wickramasinghe HR; Konstantinou G; Pou J; Wickramasinghe H, 2018, 'Energy Balancing of the Alternate Arm Converter under Parameter Variations', in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), AUSTRALIA, Cairns, pp. 389 - 394, presented at 2018 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), AUSTRALIA, Cairns, 13 June 2018 - 15 June 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2018.8433658

Konstantinou G; Wickramasinghe HR; Ceballos S; Pou J; Wickramasinghe H, 2018, 'Submodule Voltage Balancing and Loss Equalisation in Alternate Arm Converters Based on Virtual Voltages', in 2018 International Power Electronics Conference IPEC Niigata Ecce Asia 2018, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), JAPAN, Niigata, pp. 3117 - 3122, presented at 2018 International Power Electronics Conference (IPEC-Niigata 2018 -ECCE Asia), JAPAN, Niigata, 20 May 2018 - 24 May 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/IPEC.2018.8507725

Dehghani Tafti H; Sangwongwanich A; Yang Y; Konstantinou G; Pou J; Blaabjerg F, 2018, 'A general algorithm for flexible active power control of photovoltaic systems', in Conference Proceedings IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition APEC, pp. 1115 - 1121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2018.8341156

Jiang Z; Konstantinou G; Zhong Z; Acuna P, 2018, 'Real-Time digital simulation based laboratory test-bench development for research and education on solar pv systems', in 2017 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference Aupec 2017, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AUPEC.2017.8282471

Abeywardana DBW; Hredzak B; Fletcher JE; Konstantinou G, 2017, 'A cascaded boost inverter based battery energy storage system with reduced battery ripple current', in Proceedings IECON 2017 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pp. 2733 - 2738, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2017.8216460

Zhao C; Li Y; Konstantinou G; Li Z; Wang P; Lei M; Xu F; Liu Z, 2017, 'Energy storage requirements of full-bridge modular multilevel converter with zero sequence voltage injection', in Proceedings IECON 2017 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, pp. 4512 - 4517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2017.8216777

Konstantinou G; Epps J, 2017, 'Facilitating online casual interactions and creating a community of learning in a first-year electrical engineering course', in Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Teaching Assessment and Learning for Engineering Tale 2017, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), HONG KONG, Educ Univ Hong Kong, Tai Po, pp. 128 - 133, presented at 2017 IEEE 6th International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE), HONG KONG, Educ Univ Hong Kong, Tai Po, 12 December 2017 - 14 December 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TALE.2017.8252317

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