Research Associate


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Dr.-Ing. Mohamed Abdelrahem

Technical University of Munich

Chair of High-Power Converter Systems (Prof. Heldwein)

Postal address

Postal:
Arcisstr. 21
80333 München

Research Interests

Mohamed Abdelrahem is currently the head of research group “Renewable Energy Systems” at EAL and his research interests are:

1-       Robust and sensorless control techniques for variable-speed wind generators.

2-       Advanced control techniques for photovoltaic (PV) energy generation systems.

3-       Power electronics and electrical drive systems.

4-       Energy storage systems.

Publications

More than 80 papers in high prestigious journals and conferences have been published. Some of the journal papers are listed below.

1-       M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, R. Kennel, “Finite Position Set-Phase Locked Loop for Sensorless Control of Direct-Driven Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generators”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 33, pp. 3097–3105, 2018.

2-       M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, Z. Zhang, R. Kennel, “Robust Predictive Control for Direct- Driven Surface-Mounted Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generators without Mechanical Sensors”, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 33, pp. 179–189, 2018.

3-       M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, R. Kennel and J. Rodriguez, “Efficient Direct-Model Predictive Control with Discrete-Time Integral Action for PMSGs”, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol. 34, pp. 1063–1072, 2019.

4-       M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, R. Kennel, J. Rodriguez, “Computationally-Efficient Finite Position Set-Phase Locked Loop for Sensorless Control of PMSGs in Wind Turbine Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, early access, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2020.3015575, 2020.

5-       X. Gao, M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, Z. Zhang, and R. Kennel, “Direct Predictive Speed Control with a Sliding Manifold Term for PMSM Drives”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 8, pp. 1258-1267, 2020

6-       M. Abdelrahem, R. Kennel, “Fault-Ride through Strategy for Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Generators in Variable-Speed Wind Turbines”, Energies, vol. 9, 1066, 2016.

7-       M. Abdelrahem, J. Rodriguez, R. Kennel, “ Improved Direct Model Predictive Control for Grid-Connected Power Converters”, Energies, vol. 13, 2597, 2020.

8-       M. Abdelrahem, R. Kennel, “Efficient Direct Model Predictive Control for Doubly-Fed Induction Generators”, Electric Power Components and Systems, vol. 45, no. 5, pp 574–587, 2017.

9-       M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, R. Kennel, “Simplified Model Predictive Current Control without Mechanical Sensors for Variable-Speed Wind Energy Conversion Systems”, Electrical Engineering, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 367–377, 2017.

10-     M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, and R. Kennel, “Implementation and experimental investigation of a sensorless field-oriented control scheme for permanent-magnet synchronous generators”, Electrical Engineering, vol. 100, no. 2, pp. 849–856, 2018.

11-     M. Abdelrahem, C. Hackl, R. Kennel, “Finite set model predictive control with on-line parameter estimation for active frond-end converters”, Electrical Engineering, vol. 100, no. 3, pp. 1497–1507, 2018.