Staff Profile

Research interests:

- Power electronics control strategies for low and high-level converters 

- Modular multilevel converter 

- Online and offline estimation schemes 

- Health monitoring

- Battery management   

• Articles

  • Abushafa O SH M, Dahidah MSA, Gadoue S, Atkinson D. Submodule Voltage Estimation Scheme in Modular Multilevel Converters with Reduced Voltage Sensors Based on Kalman Filter Approach. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2018, 65(9), 7025-7035.
  • Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah MSA, Atkinson D, Missailidis P. Capacitor Voltage Estimation Scheme with Reduced Number of Sensors for Modular Multilevel Converters. IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics 2018, 6(4), 2086-2097.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah M, Atkinson D, Ethni S. Control Strategies for Capacitor Voltage Balancing in Modular Multilevel Converters. In: 7th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC). 2016, Hammamet, Tunisia: IEEE.
  • Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah M, Atkinson D. A New Scheme for Monitoring Submodule Capacitance in Modular Multilevel Converter. In: 8th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2016). 2016, Glasgow, UK: IET.
  • Abushafa O, Gadoue S, Dahidah M, Atkinson D. Capacitor voltage estimation in Modular Multilevel Converters using a Kalman filter algorithm. In: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology. 2015, Seville, Spain: IEEE.