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Leila Parsa
Associate Professor
Room 5006, Electrical, Computer and
Systems Engineering Department Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute Tel: (518) 276-6388 Fax: (518) 276-6261 Email: parsa@ecse.rpi.edu |
Research Interests:
· Renewable Energy Systems
· Energy
Harvesting
· Design, Modeling, Analysis and Digital
Control of Power Electronics Converters
· Design and Analysis of Special Purposed
Electromechanical Energy converters
· Adjustable Speed Drives
· Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles
· Fault Tolerant Electromechanical Energy
Converters and Power Electronics Systems
Awards:
- RPI School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, 2010
- Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, 2009
- IEEE-Industry Applications Society Outstanding Young Member
Award, 2007
- IEEE-Industry Applications Society Transactions Paper Award,
2006
Teaching:
- Advanced Electric Drive Systems, developed by L. Parsa,
Fall 2010
- Electrical Energy Systems, developed by L.
Parsa, Spring 2010, Spring 2011
- Renewable Energy and Sustainability, developed by L.
Parsa, Spring 2008
- Power Engineering Fundamentals, Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008
and Fall 2009
- Electromechanics, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, and Spring 2009
- Electric Circuits, Spring and Fall 2005
PhD Students:
- Suman Dwari (Graduated May 2010, now at United Technologies
Research Center)
- Lusu Guo
- Rohan Dayal
- Arun Gandhi
- Siavash Sadeghi
- Ali Mohammadpour
- Kumar Modepalli
Publications:
Journal Articles:
1.
R. Dayal, S. Dwari,
and L. Parsa, “Design and Implementation of a Direct AC-DC Boost Converter for
Low Voltage Energy Harvesting,” IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Electronics, volume 58, pages 2387-2396, June
2011.
2.
L. Guo and L. Parsa,
“Model Reference Adaptive Control of Five-phase IPM Motors Based on Neural
Network,” Accepted for publication, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
3.
S. Sadeghi, L. Guo, H.
A. Toliyat and L. Parsa, “Wide Speed Range Operation of Five-Phase Permanent
Magnet Machines by Using Different Winding Configurations,” Accepted for
publication, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.
4.
R. Dayal, S. Dwari
and L. Parsa, “A New Design for Vibration-based Electromagnetic Energy
Harvesting Systems Using Inductorless Single Stage AC-DC Converter,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, volume 47, pages 820-830, April 2011.
5.
A. Gandhi, T.
Corrigan and L. Parsa, “Recent Advances in Modeling and Online Detection of
Stator Inter-Turn Faults in Electrical Motors” IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Electronics, volume 58, pages 1564-1575, May 2011
6.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Design of Halbach Array Based Permanent Magnet Motor with High Acceleration
,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronic, volume 58, pages 3768-3775 , September 2011.
7.
S. Sadeghi and L.
Parsa, “Multiobjective Design Optimization of Five Phase Halbach Array
Permanent Magnet Machine,” IEEE
Transactions on Magnetics, volume 47, pages 1658-1666, June 2011.
8.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “An Efficient High Step-up Interleaved DC-DC Converter with a Common
Active-Clamp,” IEEE Transactions on Power
Electronics, volume 26, pages 66-78, January 2011.
9.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Fault-Tolerant Control of Five-phase Permanent Magnet Motors with
Trapezoidal Back-EMF,” IEEE Transactions
on Industrial Electronics, volume 58, pages 476-485, January 2011.
10.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “An Efficient AC-DC Step-up Converter for Low Voltage Energy Harvesting”
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics,
volume 25, pages 2188-2199, August 2010.
11.
R. Dayal, S. Dwari
and L. Parsa, “Maximum Energy Harvesting from Vibration-Based Electromagnetic
Microgenerator using Active Damping,” Electronics
Letters, volume 46, pages 371-373, March 2010.
12.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “An Optimal Control Technique for Multi-Phase PM Machines Under Open-Circuit Faults,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics,
volume 55, pages 1988-1995, May 2008.
13.
L. Parsa and L. Hao,
“Interior Magnet Motors with Reduced Torque Pulsation,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, pages 602-609,
February 2008.
14.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Sensorless Direct Torque
Control of Five-phase Interior Permanent Magnet Motor Drives,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications,
volume 43, pages 952-959, July/August
2007.
15.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Fault Tolerant Interior Permanent Magnet Motors for Hybrid Electric
Vehicle Applications,” IEEE Transactions
on Vehicular Technology, volume 56,
pages 1546-1552, July 2007.
16.
L. Parsa, H. Toliyat
and A. Goodarzi, “Five-Phase Interior Permanent Magnet Motor with Low Torque
Pulsation,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, volume 43, pages 40-46, January/February 2007.
17.
L. Parsa, and H.
Toliyat, “A Fault Resilient IPM Motor Drive for Wide Speed Range Operation,” Naval Engineers Journal, volume 117,
number 4, Fall 2005.
18.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Multi-Phase Permanent Magnet Motor Drives,” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, volume 41, pages 30-37,
January/February 2005.
Conference Articles:
19.
R. Dayal and L.
Parsa, “Low Power Implementation of Maximum Energy Harvesting Scheme for
Vibration-based Electromagnetic Microgenerators,” Accepted for Publication, IEEE
Applied Power Electronics Conference, February 2011.
20.
R. Dayal and L.
Parsa, “Implementation and Modeling of Low Power AC-DC Converter with Indirect
Feedback, IEEE Industrial Electronics
Conference, pages 505-5010, November
2010
21.
R. Dayal and L.
Parsa, “A New Single Stage AC-DC Converter for Low Voltage Electromagnetic
Energy Harvesting,” IEEE Energy
Conversion Congress and Exposition, pages 4447 – 4452, September 2010.
22.
S. Sadeghi and L.
Parsa, “Design and Dynamic Simulation of Five Phase Interior Permanent Magnet
Machine for Series Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” IEEE Green Energy, pages 1-6, April 2010.
23.
S. Dwari, L. Parsa
and K. J. Karimi, “Design and Analysis of Halbach Array Permanent Magnet Motor
for High Acceleration Applications,” IEEE
Electric Machines and Drives Conference, pages 1100-1104, May 2009.
24.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Low Voltage Energy Harvesting Systems Using Coil Inductance of
Electromagnetic Microgenerators,” IEEE
Applied Power Electronics Conference, pages 1145-1150, February 2009.
25.
L. Guo and L. Parsa,
“Torque Ripple Reduction of the Modular Interior Permanent Magnet Machines
using Optimum Current Profiling Technique,” IEEE
Electric Machines and Drives Conference, pages 1094-1099, May 2009.
26.
L. Guo and L. Parsa,
“Effects of Magnet Shape on Torque Characteristics of Interior Permanent Magnet
machines,” IEEE Electric Ship
Technologies Symposium, pages 93-97, April 2009.
27.
L. Guo and L. Parsa,
“Torque Improvement of Synchronous Reluctance Machines by Utilizing Orthogonal
Experimental Design Methodology,” IEEE
Industrial Electronics Conference, pages 1427-1432, November 2008.
28.
S. Dwari, R. Dayal
and L. Parsa “A Novel Direct AC/DC Converter for Efficient Low Voltage Energy
Harvesting,” IEEE Industrial Electronics
Conference, pages 484-488, November 2008.
29.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Open-circuit Fault Tolerant Control of Five-phase Permanent Magnet
Motors with Third-Harmonic Back-EMF,” IEEE
Industrial Electronics Conference, pages 3114-3119, November 2008.
30.
S. Dwari, R. Dayal,
L. Parsa and K.N. Salama, “Efficient Direct AC-to-DC Converters for Vibration-Based Low Voltage Energy
Harvesting,” IEEE Industrial Electronics
Conference, pages 2320-2325, November 2008.
31.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Efficient Low Voltage Direct AC/DC Converters for Self-powered Wireless
Sensor Nodes and Mobile Electronics,” IEEE
International Telecommunications Energy Conference, pages 1-7, September
2008.
32.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Optimal Current Calculation for Open-circuit Fault Tolerant Control of
Five-phase Permanent Magnet Motor Drive,” IEEE
Power Engineering Society Annual Meeting, pages 1-5, July 2008.
33.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Disturbance Free Operation of a Permanent Magnet Motor Drive Under
Short-circuit Fault Using Center-Split Windings,” IEEE Industry Applications Conference, pages 1329-1334, September
2007.
34.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “A Novel High Efficiency High Power Interleaved Coupled-Inductor Boost
DC-DC Converter for Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle,” IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference,
pages 399-404, September 2007.
35.
S. Dwari, L. Parsa
and T.A. Lipo, “Optimum Control of a Five-phase Permanent Magnet Integrated
Modular Motor under Normal and Open-Circuit Fault Condition,” IEEE Power Electronics Specialists
Conference, pages 1639-1644, June 2007.
36.
Y. Gao and L. Parsa,
“Modified Direct Torque Control of Five-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous
Motor Drives,” IEEE Applied Power
Electronics Conference, pages 1428-1433, February 2007.
37.
S. Dwari and L.
Parsa, “Optimum Fault-Tolerant Control of Multi-phase Permanent Magnet Machine
for Open-Circuit and Short-Circuit Fault,” IEEE
Applied Power Electronics Conference, pages 1417-1422, February 2007.
38.
L. Parsa and T. Kim,
“Reducing Torque Pulsation of Multi-Phase Interior Permanent Magnet Motors,” IEEE Industry Applications Conference,
pages 1978-1983, October 2006.
39.
T. Kim, H. Lee, L.
Parsa and M. Ehsani, “Optimal Power and Torque Control of a Brushless DC (BLDC)
Motor/Generator Drive in Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” IEEE Industry Applications Society
Conference, pages 1276-1281, October 2006.
40.
L. Parsa, “On
Advantage of Multi-Phase Machines,” IEEE
Industrial Electronics Conference, pages 1574-1579, November 2005.
41.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Five-Phase Interior Permanent Magnet Motor with Low Torque
Pulsation,” IEEE Industry Applications
Conference, pages 1770-1775, October 2005.
42.
L. Parsa, H. Toliyat
and A. Goodarzi, “Five-Phase Interior Permanent Magnet Motor for Hybrid
Electric Vehicle Application,” IEEE
Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, pages 631-637, September 2005.
43.
L. Parsa, N. Kim and
H. Toliyat, “ Field Weakening Operation of a High Torque Density Five Phase
Permanent Magnet Motor Drive,” IEEE
International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, pages 1507-1512, May
2005.
44.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Five-Phase Permanent Magnet Motor Drives for Ship Propulsion Applications,”
IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium,
pages 371-378, July 2005.
45.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Sensorless Direct Torque Control of Five-phase Interior Permanent
Magnet Motor Drives,” IEEE Industry
Applications Society Conference, pages 992-999, October 2004.
46.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Fault-Tolerant Five-Phase Permanent Magnet Motor Drives,” IEEE Industry Applications Conference,
pages 1048-1054, October 2004.
47.
L. Parsa, and H.A.
Toliyat, “A Low Cost DSP-Based Control System for IPM Motor Drives,” presented
at the TI Developer Conference, 2004.
48.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “A Fault Resilient IPM Motor Drive for Wide Speed Range Operation,” ASNE Electric Machines Technology Symposium,
January 2004.
49.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “A Fault-Tolerant Multi-Phase Permanent Magnet Motor Drive for
Propulsion Applications,” ASNE Electric
Machines Technology Symposium, January 2004.
50.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “Multi-Phase Permanent Magnet Motor Drives,” IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference, pages 401-408,
October 2003.
51.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “A Self Reconfigurable Electric Motor Controller for Hybrid Electric
Vehicle Application,” Invited paper,
IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference,
pages 919-924, November 2003.
52.
L. Parsa, L. Hao and
H. Toliyat, “Optimizing the Cogging and Average Torque in Interior Permanent
Magnet Motors,” IEEE Industry Applications Society Conference, pages 417-424,
October 2002.
53.
L. Parsa and H.
Toliyat, “A New Five-Phase Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor for Vehicle
Application,” Future Car Congress,
June 2002.
54.
L. Parsa, L. Hao and
H. Toliyat, “Reducing the Cogging Torque in Interior Permanent Magnet Motors,” IEEE International Conference on Electrical
Machines, August 2002.
55.
L. Parsa and H. Toliyat,
“A Novel Five Phase Brushless Permanent Magnet Motor for High Power
Application,” North American Power
Symposium, October 2001.
56.
L. Parsa and M.
Masoum, “A Fast Algorithm for Large Signal and Steady State Analysis of DC/DC
Power Converters,” Iranian Electrical Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, 2000.