Keynote Speaker

Inverse Model Predictive Control for Power Electronic Converters

Haitham Abu-Rub

Abstract

Advanced power electronic converters are increasingly required to perform multiple functions, such as grid support, power quality improvement, and energy management across different power sources. These capabilities necessitate adaptive and multi-objective control techniques that can accommodate fast dynamics, multiple control goals, and system uncertainties.

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been widely explored for such applications due to its ability to predict system behavior and enforce constraints. However, its practical implementation is often limited by its high computational complexity. To address this challenge, Inverse Model Predictive Control (IMPC) was introduced as an alternative approach that preserves the benefits of MPC while significantly lowering computational complexity.

This presentation will provide an overview of IMPC, followed by an introduction to system’s modeling and parameters identification, which are essential for the practical implementation of the control strategy.

To demonstrate the applicability of IMPC, several case studies will be presented, including grid-following and grid-forming inverters.

Haitham Abu-Rub is a professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University and an adjunct professor at Texas A&M University, Qatar. He received two PhDs, one in electrical engineering from the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, in 1995, and the second Ph.D. degree in humanities from Gdansk University, Poland, in 2004. He obtained his MSc. from Gdynia Maritime University in 1991.

Abu-Rub has research and teaching experiences at many universities in many countries including Qatar, Palestine, Poland, USA, and Germany. His areas of expertise include power electronics converters and electric drives.

Abu-Rub has served for five years as the chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar and for ten years as the managing director of the Smart Grid Center at the same university.

He is the recipient of many national and international awards and recognitions. He has contributed to publishing over 600 journal and conference papers, three patents, eight books, and eight book chapters.

Abu-Rub is a Fellow of IEEE, Vice President for Publication at IEEE IES, and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.