First Prize Paper Award received in Milwaukee, USA (ECCE 2016)
Prize paper award from Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for paper "Permanent magnet temperature estimation in PM synchronous motors using low cost hall effect sensors" presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE’16), Milwaukee, USA
Prize paper award from Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for paper "Control and emulation of small wind turbines using torque estimators," presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE’15), Montreal, Canada
Prize paper award from Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for paper "Permanent Magnet Temperature Distribution Estimation in PMSMs Using BEMF Harmonics," presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE’15), Montreal, Canada
Prize paper award from Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for paper "Permanent magnet temperature estimation in PMSMs using pulsating high frequency current injection," presented at IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE’14), Pittsburgh PA, USA
Prize paper award from Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for paper “Sensorless control of doubly-fed induction generators based on rotor high frequency signal injection”, presented at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition ECCE’13, Raleigh, USA.
Prize paper award from Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for paper “Magnet Temperature Estimation in Surface PM Machines Using High Frequency Signal Injection”, presented at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition ECCE’09, Edmonton, Canada.
Prize paper award from the Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for the paper “Accuracy and Bandwidth Limits of Carrier Signal Injection-Based Sensorless Control Methods”, presented at the Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting IAS’06, Tampa, USA.
2005 Third Prize Paper Award of the IEEE Industry Applications Society for the paper “Comparison of Saliency-Based Sensorless Control Techniques for AC Machines”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol.: 40, nº 4, pp. 1107-1115, Jul. 2004.
Prize paper award from the Industrial Drives Committee (IEEE-IAS), for the paper “On-Line Diagnostics in Inverter-Fed Induction Machines Using High Frequency Signal Injection”, presented at the IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting IAS’2003, Salt Lake City, USA.
Prize paper award from the Industrial Power Converter Committee (IEEE-IAS), for the paper “Analysis and Design of Current Regulators Using Complex Vectors”, presented at the IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting IAS’97, New Orleans, USA.