Christopher David Townsend

37 papers C 12Journal 22Unranked 3
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Observer-Based Distributed Control of Grid-Connected Cascaded Multilevel Converters.
IEEE Access
Geethu Asokkumar Seena, Christopher David Townsend, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Nestor Vazquez, Farzad Farajizadeh
2025 J jnl
Discontinuous PWM Operation of a Single-Phase PV Generator With Low-Voltage Energy Storage.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Ezequiel Rodriguez Ramos, Ramon Leyva, Qingxiang Liu, Sergio Vazquez, Glen G. Farivar, Christopher David Townsend, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Josep Pou
2024 J jnl
Distributed Power Reserve Control in Grid-Connected Cascaded H-Bridge Converter-Based Photovoltaic Systems.
IEEE Access
Mina Haghighat, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Mehdi Gholipour, Mehdi Niroomand, Christopher David Townsend, Nestor Vazquez Barajas, Gaowen Liang, Georgios Konstantinou, Josep Pou
2024 J jnl
Model Predictive Control for Intersubmodule State-of-Charge Balancing in Cascaded H-Bridge Converter-Based Battery Energy Storage Systems.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Gaowen Liang, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Glen G. Farivar, Enrique Nunes, Georgios Konstantinou, Christopher David Townsend, Ramon Leyva, Josep Pou
2024 J jnl
Optimal Decoupled Discontinuous Modulation for StatComs Based on the Cascaded H-Bridge Converter.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Qingxiang Liu, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Glen G. Farivar, Christopher David Townsend, Josep Pou, Ramon Leyva
2023 J jnl
Discretized Discontinuous Modulation Strategy for Cascaded H-Bridge StatCom.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Qingxiang Liu, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Glen G. Farivar, Josep Pou, Ramon Leyva, Christopher David Townsend
2023 C conf
Eliminating DC-Link Oscillations in Dynamic Power Reserve Control Through Interleaved Photovoltaic Strings.
IECON
Aditi Narang, Glen G. Farivar, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Christopher David Townsend, Josep Pou
2023 J jnl
Grid-Connected Energy Storage Systems: State-of-the-Art and Emerging Technologies.
Proc. IEEE
Glen G. Farivar, William Manalastas, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Salvador Ceballos, Alain Sanchez-Ruiz, Emma C. Lovell, Georgios Konstantinou, Christopher David Townsend, Madhavi Srinivasan, Josep Pou
2022 C conf
Decoupled Discontinuous Modulation for Cascaded H-Bridge StatCom with Star Configuration.
IECON
Qingxiang Liu, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Glen G. Farivar, Josep Pou, Christopher David Townsend, Ramon Leyva
2022 J jnl
Effect of Capacitor Voltage Ripples on Submodule Active Power Control Limits of Cascaded Multilevel Converters.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Gaowen Liang, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Glen G. Farivar, Josep Pou, Christopher David Townsend, Georgios Konstantinou, Salvador Ceballos
2022 J jnl
Unbalanced Active Power Distribution of Cascaded Multilevel Converter-Based Battery Energy Storage Systems Gobble.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Gaowen Liang, Glen G. Farivar, Salvador Ceballos, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Josep Pou, Christopher David Townsend, Georgios Konstantinou
2021 J jnl
Cascaded H-Bridge Low Capacitance Static Compensator With Modular Switched Capacitors.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Glen G. Farivar, Christopher David Townsend, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Young-Tae Jeon, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Josep Pou, Branislav Hredzak
2021 C conf
Dynamic Flexible Power Point Tracking in Photovoltaic Power Plants.
IECON
Aditi Narang, Glen G. Farivar, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Salvador Ceballos, Josep Pou, Christopher David Townsend, Georgios Konstantinou
2021 J jnl
Identifying Circulating Currents and Zero-Sequence Voltages for Reduction in Stored Capacitor Energy in Modular Multilevel Converters.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Christopher David Townsend, Graham C. Goodwin, Georgios Konstantinou, Nikola Petranovic, Galina Mirzaeva, Ghias Farivar, Josep Pou
2020 C conf
Analytical Constrained Model Predictive Control with Integral Action for a DC-DC H-Bridge Converter.
IECON
Ezequiel Rodriguez, Ramon Leyva, Christopher David Townsend, Glen G. Farivar, Josep Pou, Margarita Norambuena, José Rodríguez
2020 — conf
Existence of Initial Condition Independent Stabilising Switching Functions.
CDC
Christopher David Townsend, María M. Seron
2020 C conf
Flexible Power Point Tracking in Cascaded H-Bridge Converter-Based Photovoltaic Systems.
IECON
Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Georgios Konstantinou, John E. Fletcher, Glen G. Farivar, Salvador Ceballos, Josep Pou, Christopher David Townsend
2020 J jnl
Medium Voltage Large-Scale Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems Using Cascaded H-Bridge and Modular Multilevel Converters: A Review.
IEEE Access
Ahmed Ibrahim Elsanabary, Georgios Konstantinou, Saad Mekhilef, Christopher David Townsend, Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Alex Stojcevski
2020 J jnl
Optimization Methods to Reduce Capacitor Stress in Modular Multilevel Converters.
IEEE Access
Nikola Petranovic, Antonio Cantoni, Christopher David Townsend, Georgios Konstantinou
2020 — conf
Switched mRPI Sets are Strictly Contained in Time-Delay mRPI Sets.
ANZCC
Christopher David Townsend, Sorin Olaru, María M. Seron, José A. De Doná
2019 C conf
An Algorithm for Fast Flexible Power Point Tracking in Photovoltaic Power Plants.
IECON
Aditi Narang, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Christopher David Townsend, Glen Farivar, Josep Pou, Georgios Konstantinou, Sergio Vazquez
2019 C conf
Load Adaptive Cascaded H-Bridge Low Capacitance StatCom with Modular Capacitors.
IECON
Glen Farivar, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Christopher David Townsend, Ezequiel Rodriguez, Josep Pou
2019 C conf
Passivity Control in Multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Converters: A Variable Gain Approach.
IECON
Ezequiel Rodriguez, Ramon Leyva, Glen Farivar, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Christopher David Townsend, Josep Pou
2018 J jnl
A modified relay autotuner for systems having large broadband disturbances.
Autom.
Graham C. Goodwin, María M. Seron, Christopher David Townsend
2018 J jnl
Flexible Control of Photovoltaic Grid-Connected Cascaded H-Bridge Converters During Unbalanced Voltage Sags.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Ali Iftekhar Maswood, Georgios Konstantinou, Christopher David Townsend, Pablo Acuña, Josep Pou
2018 C conf
Low-Capacitance StatCom with Thyristor Switched Filter Inductor.
IECON
Glen Farivar, Christopher David Townsend, Josep Pou
2018 J jnl
Optimality of Unconstrained Pulse Inputs to the Bergman Minimal Model.
IEEE Control. Syst. Lett.
Christopher David Townsend, María M. Seron
2018 J jnl
Short-Horizon Model Predictive Modulation of Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverters.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Christopher David Townsend, Galina Mirzaeva, Graham C. Goodwin
2017 J jnl
Delta-Connected Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Converters for Large-Scale Photovoltaic Grid Integration.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Yifan Yu, Georgios Konstantinou, Christopher David Townsend, Ricardo P. Aguilera, Vassilios G. Agelidis
2017 J jnl
Predictive Control of Cascaded H-Bridge Converters Under Unbalanced Power Generation.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Ricardo P. Aguilera, Pablo Acuña, Yifan Yu, Georgios Konstantinou, Christopher David Townsend, Bin Wu, Vassilios G. Agelidis
2016 J jnl
Heuristic Model Predictive Modulation for High-Power Cascaded Multilevel Converters.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Christopher David Townsend, Roberto A. Baraciarte, Yifan Yu, Daniel Tormo, Hector Zelaya de la Parra, Georgios D. Demetriades, Vassilios G. Agelidis
2015 C conf
Capacitance minimisation & alleviation of per-phase power imbalances in cascaded PV converters.
IECON
Christopher David Townsend, Yifan Yu, Georgios Konstantinou, Vassilios G. Agelidis
2015 C conf
Delta-connected cascaded H-bridge multilevel photovoltaic converters.
IECON
Yifan Yu, Georgios Konstantinou, Christopher David Townsend, Ricardo P. Aguilera, Branislav Hredzak, Vassilios G. Agelidis
2015 C conf
Heuristic model predictive modulation in high power multi-level converters.
IECON
Christopher David Townsend, Roberto Alves Baraciarte, Daniel Tormo, Hector Zelaya de la Parra, Georgios D. Demetriades, Vassilios G. Agelidis
2015 J jnl
Phase-Shifted Carrier Modulation Techniques for Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Converters.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Christopher David Townsend, Terrence J. Summers, Robert Eric Betz
2014 — conf
A state-dependent switching law to quadratically stabilise switched linear systems.
AuCC
Christopher David Townsend, María M. Seron, José A. De Doná
2014 J jnl
Impact of Practical Issues on the Harmonic Performance of Phase-Shifted Modulation Strategies for a Cascaded H-Bridge StatCom.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.
Christopher David Townsend, Terrence J. Summers, Robert Eric Betz