Renewable-energy Interface and Grid Automation (RIGA) Lab is a research lab at the University of Manitoba which was established by Dr. Carl Ho. The establishment of the lab was funded by the CFI in Oct. 2014. And it has been completed in April 2016 and renovated in February 2019. Currently it is located at the room E1-468B. The lab is mainly to develop power electronics technologies for renewable energy and smart grid applications.
18.03.2020, 15:10 - 15:30, Room 206-207 Oral Session: A Supervisory Remote Management System for Parallel Operation of Modularized D-STATCOM (R. Abdalaal).
19.03.2020, 08:30 - 08:50, Room 206-207 Oral Session: Modelling and Experimental Evaluation of Ideal Transformer Algorithm Interface for Power Hardware in the Loop Architecture (M. Pokharel).
19.03.2020, 11:15 - 13:45, Dialogues Session: A Module-Based Hierarchical Microgrid with a Bottom-Up Building Approach for Rural Electrification (M. Pokharel).
------------The IEEE Industry Applications Society Chapters and Membership Department Chair Dr. Peter Magyar (IEEE Life Fellow) visited University of Manitoba and RIGA Lab. He gave a seminar to introduce The IEEE Industry Applications Society and established the "University of Manitoba Student Branch IAS Chapter" with RIGA Lab's PhD student Ms Radwa Abdalaal, and Dr. Carl Ho was appointed as "SB Chapter Advisor" to promote the IEEE IAS and its professional activities.
------------Congratulate Yang Zhou and Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's MSc alumnus and PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics,
Y. Zhou, C. Ho, and K. Siu, “A Fast MPPT Control Technique using Boundary Controller for PV Applications”, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics.
The RIGA lab’s project team “Winnie the Power” received “Best Student Team Regional Award” of the IEEE Empower a Billion Lives 2019 competition in the Americas region and qualified to participate in the Global Round at the ECCE2019. The project provides a very innovative and practical microgrid solution to help many people to have power and light. The project is being led by the PhD Student Dong Li. Congratulations!
Congratulate Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics,
K. Siu, C. Ho, and R. Li, “A Four-Quadrant Single-Phase Grid-Connected Converter with only Two High Frequency Switches”, IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics.
Congratulate Avishek Ghosh, RIGA Lab's MSc student, on passing his MSc Thesis Oral Defense. Now, he becomes a PhD Student at RIGA Lab's continue the research on Power Electronics.
------------Congratulate Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
K. Siu, and C. Ho, “Manitoba Rectifier - Bridgeless Buck-Boost PFC”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.
Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications,
D. Li, and C. Ho, “A Method for Solving Current Unbalance Problem of Paralleled Single-Phase Grid-connected Unipolar-PWM Inverters with Common DC Bus”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications.
Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications,
R. Abdalaal, C. Ho, C. Leung, and H. Chung, “A Remotely Central Dimming System for a Large-Scale LED Lighting Network Providing High Quality Voltage and Current”, IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications.
Congratulate the PhD Students Avishek Ghosh, on awarded the University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowships for 3 years.
Congratulate Yanming Xu and Avishek Ghosh, RIGA Lab's PhD students, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “An Electrical Transient Model of IGBT-Diode Switching Cell for Power Semiconductor Loss Estimation in Electromagnetic Transient Simulation”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.
Congratulate Ken King Man Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on received two awards at the IEEE SEGE,
1. Student Innovation Award "Power Electronics".
2. Best Paper Award 2019 – S8 Winner.
Click here to go to IEEE SEGE.
Prof. Yunwei (Ryan) Li, Professor at University of Alberta and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics Letter, visited RIGA Lab and provided a technical seminar entitled “Power Electronics Enabled Smart Grids” to our graduate students and local industry.
------------Congratulate Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense. Now, he becomes a PostDoc Fellow at RIGA Lab's continue the research on Power Electronics.
------------Dr. Carl Ho successfully renewed his Canada Research Chair in Efficient Utilization of Electric Power (10.2019 – 09.2024) with $500,000 funding.
------------The RIGA's paper listed below has been awarded a Second Place Prize Paper Award for 2018 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
R. Li, C. Ho, and C. Xu “Active Virtual Ground - Single Phase Transformerless Grid-Connected Voltage Source Inverter Topology,” IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 1335 - 1346, Feb. 2018.
Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on publishing a paper in the Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
R. Abdalaal and C. Ho, “Characterization of Commercial LED Lamps for Power Quality Studies,” Can. J. Elect. Comput. Eng.,
Congratulate Dr. Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PostDoc Fellow, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
K. Siu and C. Ho, “System Model and Performance Evaluation of Single-Stage Buck-Boost Type Manitoba Inverter for PV Applications”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
We are pleased to welcome Jalal Dadkhah as PhD Student of the RIGA Lab.
Congratulate Zhuang Zhang, RIGA Lab's MSc student, on passing her MSc Thesis Oral Defense. Now, she is becoming an Electrical Engineer at Hatch Ltd., Canada.
------------Congratulate Isuru Jayawardana, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
I. Jayawardana, C. Ho, and Y. He, “Boundary Control with Corrected Second-order Switching Surface for Buck Converters Connected to Capacitive Loads”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
Congratulate Mandip Pokharel, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics,
M. Pokharel, and C. Ho, "Stability Analysis of Power Hardware in the Loop (PHIL) Architecture with Solar Inverter", IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics.
Congratulate "The UM IEEE IAS Student Branch Chapter" received "The IEEE IAS CMD Outstanding New Chapter Award". The new formed group of research students did amazing work in the last one year. No it became a joint IEEE SB chapter Industry Application Society / Power and Energy Society / Power Electronics Society (IAS/PES/PELS).
------------Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing her PhD Thesis Oral Defense.
------------Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
D. Li, and C. Ho, "A Module-Based Plug-n-Play Dc Microgrid with Fully Decentralized Control for IEEE Empower a Billion Lives Competition", IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.
Congratulate Dr. Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PostDoc Fellow, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics,
K. Siu, C. Ho, and D. Li, “Design and Analysis of a Bidirectional Hybrid Dc Circuit Breaker using Ac Relays with Long Life Time”, IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics.
Congratulate Dr. Ho on received the award of the IEEE JESTPE Star Associate Editors,
Click here to go to IEEE PELS Award page.
We are pleased to welcome Reza Alavi Eshkaftaki, Yin Fang and Troy Eskilson as MSc Students of the RIGA Lab.
Congratulate Dr. Ken Siu, RIGA Lab's PostDoc Fellow, on publishing a paper in the CPSS Transaction on Power Electronics and Applications,
K. Siu, and C. Ho, “Generalized Design Approach of a Family of Grid-connected Converters Based on Active Virtual Ground Technique for Single-phase Ac Microgrid Applications”, CPSS Trans. Power Electronics and Applications.
Congratulate Mandip Pokharel, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense.
------------Congratulate Avishek, RIGA Lab's PhD student, with other RIGA Lab members on publishing a paper in the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics,
A. Ghosh, C. Ho, J. Prendergast, and Y. Xu, “Conceptual Design and Demonstration of an Automatic System for Extracting Switching Loss and Creating Data Library of Power Semiconductors”, IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics.
Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD student, on passing his PhD Thesis Oral Defense.
------------Congratulate Dong Li, RIGA Lab's PhD Alumnus, on publishing a paper in the the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics,
D. Li, and C. Ho, “Decentralized PV-BES Coordination Control with Improved Dynamic Performance for Islanded Plug-n-Play Dc Microgrid”, IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Power Electron.,
Congratulate Isuru Jayawardana, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics,
I. Jayawardana, C. Ho, M. Pokharel, and G. Escobar’ “A Fast-Dynamic Control Scheme for a Power-Electronics-Based PV Emulator,” IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics.
Congratulate Radwa Abdalaal, RIGA Lab's PhD Alumnus, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. Smart Grid,
R. Abdalaal, and C. Ho, “Analysis and Validations of Modularized Distributed TL-UPQC systems with Supervisory Remote Management System”, IEEE Trans. Smart Grid.
Congratulate Yanming Xu, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications,
Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “Design, Implementation and Validation of Electro-Thermal Simulation for SiC MOSFETs in Power Electronic Systems”, Trans. on Industry Applications.
Congratulate Yanming Xu, RIGA Lab's PhD Student, on publishing a paper in the MDPI Energies,
Y. Xu, C. Ho, A. Ghosh, and D. Muthumuni “Generalized Behavioral Modeling Methodology of Switch-Diode Cell for Power Loss Prediction in Electromagnetic Transient Simulation”, Energies.
