Staff Profile

Saleh Abdusalam Ali holds a BSc degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Benghazi University, Libya. He earned his Master's degree with honours in electrical power engineering from Newcastle University in 2016. He was awarded a doctorate in electrical power engineering by the School of Engineering at Newcastle University in 2022. His research interests include dynamic road charging, charging infrastructure, and onboard power drive trains for electric vehicle applications. He has extensive experience working as an electrical and electronic engineer in a wide range of electrical engineering specializations. Additionally, he has a solid background in mechanical engineering and project management.

• Articles

  • Ali SA, Pickert V, Alharbi MA, Li H, Patsios H. Wheel Hub Active Power Collection Unit for Dynamic Conductive Road Charging. IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification 2023, 9(1), 1927-1936.
  • Li H, Ali S, Gulati I, Li H, Pickert V, Dlay S. The Design and Testing of a Novel Leader-following Automatic Guide Vehicle. ES General 2023, 1, 864.
  • Li H, Wu H, Gulati I, Ali S, Pickert V, Dlay S. An Adaptive Fuzzy Control Technique for a High-Speed Vehicular Platoon Experiencing Communication Delays. IET Intelligent Transport Systems 2023. In Press.
  • Ali S, Pickert V, Alharbi M, Li H, Patsios H. Active Power Collection Unit Operation and Control for Roadside Dynamic Conductive Road Charging. IET Electrical Systems in Transportation 2023. In Press.
  • Alharbi MA, Dahidah MSA, Ali SA, Ethni S, Pickert V. Ripple-free Multiphase Interleaved Stacked Converter for High-power Applications. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 2022, 37(12), 14770-14780.
  • Li H, Wu H, Gulati I, Ali S, Pickert V, Dlay S. An improved sliding mode control (SMC) approach for enhancement of communication delay in vehicle platoon system. IET Intelligent Transport Systems 2022, 16(7), 958-970.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Ali S, Pickert V, Alharbi M, Lee H. Using Wheels as a Concept for Dynamic Conductive Road Charging. In: 2023 JSAE Annual Congress (Spring). 2023, Yokohama: JSAE.
  • Alharbi M, Dahidah MSA, Ali S, Ethni S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. A Phase Shedding Control Technique for Ripple Minimisation for EV Fast DC Charging Applications. In: 23rd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE'21 ECCE Europe). 2021, Ghent, Belgium: IEEE.
  • Alharbi M, Dahidah M, Ethni S, Ali S, Kadandani N, Pickert V. A Fast DC Charger for Electric Vehicles with Minimised Ripple through Phase-Shedding of Multiphase Interleaved Converters. In: The 11th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2020, IEEE. Submitted.
  • Ali S, Pickert V, Al-harbi M, Patsios H, Li H. Tracked Electric Vehicle (TEV) project. In: 28th Aachen Colloquium October 7th – 9th, 2019. 2019, Aachen Germany. In Preparation.
  • Ali S, Pickert V, Alharbi M, Patsios H. Load analysis of ground-powering systems for electric vehicles. In: International Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS32). 2019, Lyon, France: EVS (Electric Vehicles Symposium).
  • Alharbi M, Dahidah M, Ali S, Ethni S, Pickert V. Current Ripple Minimisation Based on Phase-Shedding of DC-DC Interleaved Converters for EV Charging System. In: IECON 2019 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 2019, Lisbon, Portugal: IEEE.
  • Ali S, Pickert V, Patsios H. Grid demand reduction for high-speed dynamic road charging by narrowing inter-vehicle distance. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC). 2018, Nottingham, UK: IEEE.