Journal Papers

Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga, S. Badawi, Shaoyi Yuan, Yue Pan, M. Narimani, Zhongyuan Cheng, Navid Zargari, "Control of Regenerative CHB Motor Drives at Fundamental Switching Frequency," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 3352-3362, March 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2022.3223678.

Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga, S. Badawi, Shaoyi Yuan, M. Narimani, Ahmed Sayed-Ahmed, Zhongyuan Cheng, Navid Zargari, "A New Low Switching Frequency Control of Regenerative CHB Drive With Low-Voltage Ride-Through Capability," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 1973-1983, Feb. 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2022.3216001.

Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga, Shaoyi Yuan, S. Badawi , M. Narimani, Zhongyuan Cheng, Navid Zargari, "A New Approach to Input Filter Design for Regenerative Cascaded H-Bridge Drives," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 3266-3277, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2021.3071694.

Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga, M. Narimani, Navid Zargari,, "DC-Link Voltage Ripple Control of Regenerative CHB Drives for Capacitance Reduction," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 3245-3254, April 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2021.3076727.

Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga, M. Narimani, "A Novel High-Performance Predictive Control Formulation for Multilevel Inverters," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 11, pp. 11533-11543, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2020.2987828.

Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga and M. Narimani, "A New Fault-Tolerant Technique Based on Nonsymmetrical Selective Harmonic Elimination for Cascaded H-Bridge Motor Drives," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 68, no. 6, pp. 4610-4622, June 2021, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2020.2989705.

Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga, Yue Pan, Ahmed Elezab, Omar Zayed, M. Narimani, Jose Rodriguez, "A New MPC Formulation Based on Suboptimal Voltage Vectors for Multilevel Inverters," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 7261-7270, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2022.3200063.

Z. Ni, Yuping He. Design and validation of a robust active trailer steering system for multi-trailer articulated heavy vehicles. Vehicle system dynamics. 2018 Oct 9.

Z. Ni, Shenjin Zhu, Yuping He et al. A comparison of test manoeuvres for determining rearward amplification of articulated heavy vehicles. International Journal of Heavy Vehicle Systems. 2020;27(4):405-21.

A. H. Abuelnaga, Z. Ni, S. Badawi, M. Narimani, A. Sayed-Ahmed and N. R. Zargari, "A New Active Front-End Control for Regenerative Cascaded H-bridge Motor Drives with Filter-less Interfacing Capability," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 8559-8570, July 2023, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2023.3262738.

S. Badawi, A. H. Abuelnaga, Z. Ni et al., "Utilization of a Reduced Switch-Count Topology in Regenerative Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) Medium-Voltage Drives," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 6938-6949, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/JESTPE.2021.3129137.

A. Abuelnaga, Z. Ni, S. Badawi, M. Narimani and N. R. Zargari, "A New Approach to Reduce DC-Bus Capacitance in Regenerative CHB Motor Drives," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 71361-71370, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3294270.

D. Kang, S. Badawi, Z. Ni, A. H. Abuelnaga, M. Narimani and N. R. Zargari, "Review of Reduced Switch-Count Power Cells for Regenerative Cascaded H-Bridge Motor Drives," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 82944-82963, 2022, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3196659.

Zhu S, Z. Ni, Rahimi A, He Y. On dynamic stability evaluation methods for long combination vehicles. Vehicle system dynamics. 2022 Dec 2;60(12):3999-4034.

Dayue Shen, Z. Ni, et al., Comparison of Motoring and Generating Power of Electrically Excited Doubly Salient Motor [J]. Electric Machines & Control Application ,2015(1):36-41,56. DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-6540.2015.01.007.

Shulin Xie, Zhihui Chen, Z. Ni, et al.. Short circuit fault analysis of four-phase electrically excited doubly salient pole generator [J]. Micromotors, 2015,48(1):48-53,58. DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1001-6848.2015.01.011.

Z. Ni, et al., Comparative Study on Driving Topologies of Doubly Salient Motors with High Power and Wide Speed Range [J]. Electric Drive[J], 2015,45(4):13-18. DOI:10.3969/j.issn.1001-2095.2015.04.003.

D. Kang, S. Badawi, Z. Ni, Anekant Jain, M. Narimani, N. R. Zargari., "A Reduced Switch Count Power Cell for Regenerative Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) Converter," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 161453-161467, 2024.

US Patent

Ni Z, Narimani M, Cheng Z, Zargari NR, inventors; Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc, assignee. Filter and AFE power cell phase control. United States patent US 11,469,685. 2022 Oct 11.

Abuelnaga AH, Ni Z, Narimani M, Cheng Z, Zargari NR, inventors; Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc, assignee. Capacitor size reduction and lifetime extension for cascaded H-bridge drives. United States patent US 11,211,879. 2021 Dec 28.

Conference Papers

Z. Ni, et al., "SCR-Front-End Regenerative CHB Drive with Improved Harmonic Profile," 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ECCE50734.2022.9947476.

Z. Ni and M. Narimani, "A New Fast Formulation of Model Predictive Control For CHB STATCOM," IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019, pp. 3493-3498, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927106.

Z. Ni, M. Narimani and N. R. Zargari, "Optimal LCL Filter Design for a Regenerative Cascaded H-Bridge (CHB) Motor Drive," 2020 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, 2020, pp. 3038-3043, doi: 10.1109/ECCE44975.2020.9235427.

Z. Ni and M. Narimani, "A New Model Predictive Control Formulation for CHB Inverters," 2020 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2020, pp. 2462-2466, doi: 10.1109/APEC39645.2020.9124554.

Z. Ni, M. Narimani and J. Rodriguez, "Model Predictive Control of a Four-Level T-NNPC Inverter without Weighting Factors," 2021 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Phoenix, AZ, USA, 2021, pp. 2133-2138, doi: 10.1109/APEC42165.2021.9487042.

Z. Ni, Z. Chen and X. Yu, "Research on wound field doubly salient generator with serial compensation capacitors," IECON 2014 - 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Dallas, TX, USA, 2014, pp. 3867-3873, doi: 10.1109/IECON.2014.7049077.

D. Kang, S. Badawi, Z. Ni, M. Narimani, N. R. Zargari and G. Cheng, "A New Reduced Power Cell for Regenerative Cascaded H-Bridge Converter," 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Detroit, MI, USA, 2022, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ECCE50734.2022.9947887.

Y. Pan, Z. Ni, M. Narimani, M. Norambuena and J. Rodriguez, "Dead-Time Compensation for Model-free Predictive Control in Multilevel Inverters," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE), Wuhan, China, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PRECEDE57319.2023.10174595.

Y. Pan, Z. Ni, A. Abuelnaga, M. Narimani and J. Rodriguez, "Fault Diagnosis of Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter Using Model Predictive Control," 2023 IEEE International Conference on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics (PRECEDE), Wuhan, China, 2023, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/PRECEDE57319.2023.10174354.