Staff Profile
Dr Andrew Smith
Lecturer
- Email: andrew.smith@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7208
- Address: Electrical Power Research Group
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
School of Engineering
Merz Court
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
EEE2008: Project and Professional Issues
EEE2012: Control and Electrical Machines
EEE3095/3096/3097: BEng Individual Project
EEE3011: Electric Drives
EEE8113: Stage IV Group Design Project
EEE8114: Stage IV Industrial Project
MEC3015: Instrumentation and Drive Systems
Postgraduate Teaching
EEE8097: Individual Project
EEE8084: Individual Project
EEE8014: Control of Electric Drives
Research
Andrew is a member of the Electrical Power Research Group and his profile can be viewed on Google Scholar
Research Interests
- Control of Electric Drives
- Sensorless Control of AC machines
- Wind Power Generation
- Photovoltaics
Publications
- Yildirim B, Elgendy M, Smith A, Pickert V. Evaluation and Comparison of Battery Cell Balancing Methods. In: 2019 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe. 2019, Bucharest, Romania: IEEE.
- Ethni S, Smith A, Khalfalla H, Shiref M. Open Circuit Stator Winding Fault Detection of Induction Machines from Transient Data Using Nature Inspired Optimization Algorithms. In: 53rd International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC). 2018, Glasgow, UK: IEEE.
- Smith AN, Gadoue SM, Finch JW. Improved Rotor Flux Estimation at Low Speeds for Torque MRAS-Based Sensorless Induction Motor Drives. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion 2016, 31(1), 270-282.
- Smith A, Gadoue SM, Armstrong M, Finch JW. Improved method for the scalar control of induction motor drives. IET Electric Power Applications 2013, 7(6), 487-498.
- Cao W, Tan Z, Xie Y, Zahawi B, Smith A, Jovanovic M. Analysis of wind power data for optimising DFIGs. In: 2nd International Symposium on Environment Friendly Energies and Applications (EFEA), 2012. 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne: IEEE.