Awards

PRIZE PAPER AWARDS

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.