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Citations
12016
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2765
National Ranking
87

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Weidong Xiao is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their primary field of study is engineering, with a strong focus on electrical and electronic engineering. They have contributed extensively to research areas connected to renewable energy, sustainability, control and systems engineering, artificial intelligence, and power technology.

Their work prominently addresses topics such as photovoltaic system optimization techniques, microgrid control and optimization, advanced DC-DC converters, islanding detection in power systems, silicon carbide semiconductor technologies, multilevel inverters and converters, and solar radiation and photovoltaics.

Weidong Xiao has published in a range of journals and conferences, with frequent publications in these venues:

  • IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
  • IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics
  • Solar Energy
  • Land
  • IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Some of their recent publications include:

  • A Graph Neural Network Based Deep Learning Predictor for Spatio-Temporal Group Solar Irradiance Forecasting, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Adaptive Droop Control of Multi-Terminal HVDC Network for Frequency Regulation and Power Sharing, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
  • Nested Formation Approach for Networked Microgrid Self-Healing in Islanded Mode, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
  • Interactive Grid Synchronization-Based Virtual Synchronous Generator Control Scheme on Weak Grid Integration, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • Reconfigurable Nonisolated DC-DC Converter With Fault-Tolerant Capability, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues such as Dylan Dah-Chuan Lu, Xingshuo Li, Xuan Jiao, Huan Li, and Samir Gautam, reflecting a networked approach to research within these technical fields.

Best Publications

  • A modified adaptive hill climbing MPPT method for photovoltaic power systems

    Weidong Xiao;W.G. Dunford

  • Topology Study of Photovoltaic Interface for Maximum Power Point Tracking

    Weidong Xiao;N. Ozog;W.G. Dunford

  • A novel modeling method for photovoltaic cells

    Weidong Xiao;W.G. Dunford;A. Capel

  • Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Generation Plants: Components and Operation

    Enrique Romero-Cadaval;Giovanni Spagnuolo;Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo;Carlos Andres Ramos-Paja

  • Regulation of Photovoltaic Voltage

    Weidong Xiao;W.G. Dunford;P.R. Palmer;A. Capel

  • Real-Time Identification of Optimal Operating Points in Photovoltaic Power Systems

    Weidong Xiao;M.G.J. Lind;W.G. Dunford;A. Capel

  • Analysis and Evaluation of DC-Link Capacitors for High-Power-Density Electric Vehicle Drive Systems

    Huiqing Wen;Weidong Xiao;Xuhui Wen;P. Armstrong

  • A Simple Approach to Modeling and Simulation of Photovoltaic Modules

    Y. Mahmoud;W. Xiao;H. H. Zeineldin

  • Reliability assessment of photovoltaic power systems: Review of current status and future perspectives

    Peng Zhang;Wenyuan Li;Sherwin Li;Yang Wang;Yang Wang

  • Determining Optimal Location and Size of Distributed Generation Resources Considering Harmonic and Protection Coordination Limits

    V. Ravikumar Pandi;H. H. Zeineldin;Weidong Xiao

  • Communication systems for grid integration of renewable energy resources

    F. R. Yu;Peng Zhang;Weidong Xiao;P. Choudhury

  • A Parameterization Approach for Enhancing PV Model Accuracy

    Y. A. Mahmoud;Weidong Xiao;H. H. Zeineldin

  • Efficient Approaches for Modeling and Simulating Photovoltaic Power Systems

    Weidong Xiao;F. F. Edwin;G. Spagnuolo;J. Jatskevich

  • A Novel Droop-Based Average Voltage Sharing Control Strategy for DC Microgrids

    Po-Hsu Huang;Po-Chun Liu;Weidong Xiao;Mohamed Shawky El Moursi

  • Reliability Evaluation of Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Power Systems

    Peng Zhang;Yang Wang;Weidong Xiao;Wenyuan Li

  • Two Degrees of Freedom Active Damping Technique for $LCL$ Filter-Based Grid Connected PV Systems

    Moin Hanif;Vinod Khadkikar;Weidong Xiao;James L. Kirtley

  • Application of Centered Differentiation and Steepest Descent to Maximum Power Point Tracking

    Weidong Xiao;W.G. Dunford;P.R. Palmer;A. Capel

  • Subsynchronous Resonance Mitigation for Series-Compensated DFIG-Based Wind Farm by Using Two-Degree-of-Freedom Control Strategy

    Po-Hsu Huang;Mohamed Shawky El Moursi;Weidong Xiao;James L Kirtley

  • Nonactive Power Loss Minimization in a Bidirectional Isolated DC–DC Converter for Distributed Power Systems

    Huiqing Wen;Weidong Xiao;Bin Su

  • Three-Port DC–DC Converter for Stand-Alone Photovoltaic Systems

    Yihua Hu;Weidong Xiao;Wenping Cao;Bing Ji

Frequent Co-Authors

Huiqing Wen
Huiqing Wen Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Hatem H. Zeineldin
Hatem H. Zeineldin Khalifa University
Dylan Dah-Chuan Lu
Dylan Dah-Chuan Lu University of Technology Sydney
Vinod Khadkikar
Vinod Khadkikar Khalifa University
Yihua Hu
Yihua Hu University of York
Lin Jiang
Lin Jiang University of Liverpool
Zhao Yang Dong
Zhao Yang Dong City University of Hong Kong
Stephen J. Finney
Stephen J. Finney University of Edinburgh
Ke Meng
Ke Meng University of New South Wales

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