Control of Power Inverters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration

About Qing-Chang ZhongTomas Hornik

Qing-Chang Zhong received his Diploma in electrical engineering from Hunan Institute of Engineering Xiangtan China in 1990 his MSc degree in electrical engineering from Hunan University Changsha China in 1997 his PhD degree in control theory and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai China in 1999 and his PhD degree in control and power engineering (awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis Prize) from Imperial College London London UK in 2004 respectively. He holds the Chair Professor in Control and Systems Engineering at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield UK. He has worked at Hunan Institute of Engineering Xiangtan China; Technion¨CIsrael Institute of Technology Haifa Israel; Imperial College London London UK; University of Glamorgan Cardiff UK; The University of Liverpool Liverpool UK; and Loughborough University Leicestershire UK. He has been on sabbatical at the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics (CCSD) University of California San Diego USA; and the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) Virginia Tech Blacksburg USA. He is the author or co-author of Robust Control of Time-Delay Systems (Springer-Verlag 2006) Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time (Springer-Verlag 2010) and Control of Power Inverters in Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Integration (Wiley-IEEE Press 2013). His research focuses on advanced control theory and applications including power electronics renewable energy and smart grid integration electric drives and electric vehicles robust and H-infinity control time-delay systems and process control. He is a Specialist recognised by the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) a Senior Member of IEEE the Vice-Chair of IFAC TC 6.3 (Power and Energy Systems) responsible for the Working Group on Power Electronics and was a Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust UK (2009¨C2010). He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. Tomas Hornik received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1991 from the Technical CollegeVUzlabine Prague the BEng and PhD degree in electrical engineering and electronics from The University of Liverpool UK in 2007 and 2010 respectively. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the same university from 2010 to 2011. He joined Turbo Power Systems as a Control Engineer in 2011. His research interests cover power electronics advanced control theory and DSP-based control applications. He had more than ten years working experience in industry as a system engineer responsible for commissioning and software design in power generation and distribution control systems for central heating and building management. He is a member of the IEEE and the IET.