Xiu Yao
PhD
Specialty/Research Focus
Power electronics; microgrid control and protection; high voltage dc transmission, high voltage engineering
Selected Publications
- J. Li, X. Han, Z. Liu, X. Yao, Y. Li,"PD characteristics of oil-pressboard insulation under AC and DC mixed voltage." IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation vol. 23, no.1 pp: 444-450, 2016.
- S. Yang, M. Wu, X. Yao, and J. Jiang, "Load modeling and identification based on ant colony algorithms for EV charging stations," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1997-2003, July 2015.
- B. Chen, Y. Chen, C. Tian, J. Yuan, and X. Yao, "Analysis and suppression of circulating harmonic currents in a modular multilevel converter considering the impact of dead time," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 3542-3552, July 2015.
- L. Herrera, C. Li, X. Yao, and J. Wang, "FPGA based detailed real-time simulation of power converters and electric machines for EV HIL applications," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 1702-1712, Mar.-Apr. 2015.
- X. Yao, L. Herrera, S. Ji, K. Zou, and J. Wang, "Characteristics study and time domain-discrete wavelet transform based hybrid detection of series dc arc faults," IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 3101-3115, June 2014.
- X. Yao, Y. Huang, F. Guo, and J. Wang, "Advanced concepts for vertical stability power supply in fusion devices," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 761-768, March 2012.
- X. Zhao, X. Yao, Z. Guo, J. Li, W. Si, and Y. Li, "Characteristics and development mechanisms of partial discharge in SF6 gas under impulse voltages," IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 668-674, Feb 2011.
- X. Zhao, X. Yao, Z. Guo, Y. Wang, J. Li, and Y. Li, "Partial discharge characteristics and mechanism in voids at impulse voltages,"Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 22, no. 3, 2011.
- J. Li, Q. Hu, X. Zhao, X. Yao, Y. Luo, and Y. Li, "Partial discharge characteristics of free spherical conducting particles under AC condition in transformer oils," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery , vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 538-546, Apr 2011.
- J. Li, W. Si, X. Yao, and Y. Li, "Partial discharge characteristics over differently aged oil/pressboard interfaces," IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1640-1647, Dec 2011.
- I. Lee, K. Zeng, U. Singisetti, and X. Yao, ''Modeling and power loss evaluation of ultra wide band gap Ga2O3 devices for high power applications,'' accepted and to be presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE), Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 1-5, 2017.
- L. Herrera, and X. Yao, ''Modeling Computation of stability metrics in dc power systems using sums of squares programming, '' in the proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL), Stanford, CA, July 9-12, 2017.
- L. Herrera, B. Palmer, X. Yao, and B. Tsao, ''Controller design of dc microgrids with multiple sources and constant power loads,'' accepted and to be presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE), Cincinnati, OH, Oct. 1-5, 2017.
- X. Yao, ''Study on dc arc faults in ring bus dc microgrids with constant power load,'' in proceedings of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, Sep. 18-22, 2016.
- L. Herrera, X. Yao, and J. Wang, "HIL platform design and controller verificaiton for MMC based HVDC networks," in proceedings of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE), Milwaukee, WI, Sep. 18-22, 2016.
- X. Yao, J. Wang, and D. Schweickart, "Review and recent developments in dc arc fault detection," presented at IEEE International Pulse Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC), San Francisco, CA, July 5-9, 2016.
- L. Yue, I. Lee, and X. Yao, "Tokamak vertical stabilization coil power supply based on modular multilevel converter," presented at IEEE International Pulse Modulator and High Voltage Conference (IPMHVC), San Francisco, CA, July 5-9, 2016.
- X. Yao, L. Herrera, and J. Wang, "Impact evaluation of series dc arc faults in dc microgrids," in proceedings of IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), pp. 2953-2958, Charlotte, NC, Mar. 15-19, 2015.
- X. Yao, L. Herrera, and J. Wang, "Modulation and control of MMC based multiterminal HVDC," in the proceedings of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE), pp. 499-504, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 14-18, 2014.
- L. Yang, P. Fu, X. Yao, and J. Wang, "A module based self-balanced series connection for IGBTs," in the proceedings of IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE), pp. 1953-1958, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 14-18, 2014.