Paul Acarnley's Research Output since 1 January 2001

Publications

Bateman,CJ,  Mecrow,BC,  Clothier,AC,  Acarnley,PP,  Tuftnell,ND:  ‘Sensorless Operation of an Ultra-High-Speed Switched Reluctance Machine’ IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol 46, Issue 6, pp. 2329-2337, November 2010, doi:10.1109/TIA.2010.2070471

MACLAINE,CR,  ACARNLEY,P,  SHANAHAN,J,  MOUSALLI,P, and DEIGHTON,M: ‘Polymer Film Production: Modeling and Control of the Forward Draw’ ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol 132, Issue 1, 011004, February 2010, doi:10.1115/1.4000712

BATEMAN,C, MECROW,B, CLOTHIER,A, ACARNLEY,P, and TUFNELL,N: ‘Sensorless operation of an ultra high speed switched reluctance machine’. First Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Expo (ECCE) in San Jose, California, September 20th – 24th, 2009.

Musallam,M, Acarnley,PP,  Johnson,CM,  Pritchard, L, and Pickert, V: ‘Power Electronic Device Temperature Estimation and Control in Pulsed Power and Converter Applications’ Control Engineering Practice 16 (2008), pp. 1438-1442, doi: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2008.04.001

FENG,Z, and ACARNLEY,PP: ‘Extrapolation technique for improving the effective resolution of position encoders in permanent-magnet motor drives’. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp410-415, August 2008, doi 10.1109/TMECH.2008.2001689

MUSALLAM,M, ACARNLEY,PP, JOHNSON,CM, PRITCHARD,L, and PICKERT,V: ‘Estimation and control of power electronic device temperature during operation with variable conducting current’. IET Circuits, Devices & Systems, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp111-116, April 2007, doi 10.1049/iet-cds:20060066

RASHED,M, MacCONNELL,PFA, STRONACH,AF, and ACARNLEY,P: ‘Sensorless indirect-rotor-field-orientation speed control of a permanent-magnet synchronous motor with stator-resistance estimation’. Trans. IEEE on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 54, No. 3, pp1664-1675, June 2007, doi 10.1109/TIE.2007.895136

DRUMMOND,GR, WATSON,JF, and ACARNLEY,PP: ‘Acoustic emission from wire ropes during proof load and fatigue testing’. NDT&E International, Elsevier, Vol. 40, pp94-101, 2007

ETHNI,S, ACARNLEY,PP, ZAHAWI,B, and GIAOURIS,D: ‘Induction machine fault identification using particle swarm algorithms’ IEEE International Conference on  Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems for Industrial Growth-2006, (PEDES-2006), Delhi, India.

FENG,Z, and ACARNLEY,P: ‘Interpolation technique for encoder resolution improvement in permanent magnet synchronous motor drives’ International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and Motion,Taormina (Sicily)-Italy, May, 2006.

ACARNLEY,PP, and WATSON,JF: ‘A review of position sensorless operation of brushless permanent-magnet machines’. Trans. IEEE on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp352-362, April 2006

ZAKARIA,KP, ACARNLEY,PP, and ZAHAWI,B: ‘Condition monitoring of an induction machine using a stochastic search technique’ Proceedings 3rd IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, pp 42-46, Dublin, 2006.

ACARNLEY,P: ‘Power system load flow analysis using an Excel Workbook’. International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp185-202, 2005 (ISSN 0020-7209)

RASHED,M, MacCONNELL,P, STRONACH,AF, and ACARNLEY,P: ‘Sensorless indirect rotor field orientation speed control of permanent magnet synchronous motor using adaptive rotor flux estimator’ Proceedings of the Joint 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and the European Control Conference, Seville, Spain, December 2005.

PRITCHARD,LS, ACARNLEY,PP and JOHNSON,CM: ‘Effective thermal conductivity of porous solder layers’. Trans. IEEE on Components and Packaging Technologies, CPT-27, No. 2, pp 259- 267, 2004.

MAKIN,E and ACARNLEY,P: ‘Speed estimation and control in a belt-driven system for a web production process. Part 1: system modelling and validation’. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 218, No. 1, 15 -24, 2004

MAKIN,E and ACARNLEY,P: ‘Speed estimation and control in a belt-driven system for a web production process. Part 2: control strategy’. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 218, No. 1, 25 -32, 2004

EL-BALLUQ,TNN, ACARNLEY,PP and ATKINSON,DJ: ‘Adaptive tuning of a PI speed controller for a brushless DC motor: optimum speed control using a neural network’. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp 459-464, Corsica, France, May 2004

MUSALLAM,M, ACARNLEY,PP, JOHNSON,CM, PRITCHARD,L, and PICKERT,V: ‘Open loop real–time power electronic device junction temperature estimation’. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Corsica, pp 1041-1046, France, May 2004

da SILVA,WG, ACARNLEY,PP, and FINCH,JW:  ‘On-line optimisation of a fuzzy drive controller using a genetic algorithm’. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp1441-1446, Corsica, France, May 2004

MUSALLAM,M, ACARNLEY,PP, JOHNSON,M, and PRITCHARD,L: ‘Real–time power electronic device junction temperature estimation’. IEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, Edinburgh, March 2004

ACARNLEY, PP: ‘Stepping motors, Fourth Edition’. IEE Control Engineering Series No 63, 2002, ISBN 0 85296 029 8

da SILVA,WG, ACARNLEY,PP, and FINCH,JW:  ‘A comparison between fuzzy and conventional speed control in electric drives’. XIX Brazilian Automation Conference (CBA 2002), pp 1878-1884, Natal RN, Brazil, September 2002

ACARNLEY,P, and AL-SADIQ,Y: ‘Tuning PI speed controllers for electric drives using simulated annealing’. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, L’Aquila, Italy, July 2002

ACARNLEY,P, and MAKIN,E: ‘Improved speed control for a casting drum drive’. IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, L’Aquila, Italy, July 2002

PRITCHARD,LS, JOHNSON,CM, ACARNLEY,PP, and HORSFALL,AB: 'An investigation of the structural and thermal transfer characteristics of commercial power MOSFET devices using experimental and modelling techniques' IEE Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, University of Bath, April 2002

ACARNLEY,P, JACK,A, and MECROW,BC: ‘Starting of single-phase cageless synchronous motors’. European Power Electronics Conference, Graz, Austria, August 2001

MAKIN,E, ACARNLEY,P, and ATKINSON,DJ: ‘Speed controllers for a polymer film casting drum drive facility’. European Power Electronics Conference, Graz, Austria, August 2001

da SILVA,WG, ACARNLEY,PP, and FINCH,JW: Anti-windup circuits with on-line optimisation by genetic algorithm. European Power Electronics Conference, Graz, Austria, August 2001

PURCELL, A, and ACARNLEY, PP: ‘Enhanced inverter switching for fast response direct torque control’. Trans. IEEE, PE-16, No. 3, 382-389, 2001