About
Dr. Xiaofan Cui leads the Power Electronics and Energy Control (PEEC) Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on power electronics, energy systems, and control, with a particular interest in renewable energy integration, energy storage, and smart grid technologies.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Electrical engineering
- Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence
- Physics
- Computer Security
- Reliability engineering
- Telecommunications
- Materials science
- Business
- Electronic engineering
- Risk analysis (engineering)
- Mechanical engineering
- Control engineering
Selected publications
Challenges and opportunities for second-life batteries: Key technologies and economy
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews · 2023 · 135 citations
- Computer Science
- Risk analysis (engineering)
- Computer Security
IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics · 2021 · 59 citations
- Computer Science
- Electrical engineering
- Computer Science
Wireless power transfer (WPT) is emerging as the preeminent way to charge electric vehicles, but there appears to be no fair way to measure the power transfer. In this article, <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Faraday coil transfer-power measurement</i> (FC-TPM) is presented. FC-TPM employs non-contact, open-circuited sense coils to measure the electromagnetic field from WPT and calculates the real power propagating through the air gap between the transmitter and receiver coils. What is measured is the real electromagnetic power, representing the pure dispensation of energy that unambiguously demarcates the losses on either side. FC-TPM was demonstrated to be 0.1% accurate in hardware over an Rx coil misalignment of up to 10 cm using a 1-kW WPT system. Fair metering incentivizes businesses and individuals to make choices that conserve energy and advance technology by providing more information and by properly assigning the financial loss. This article is accompanied by a video highlighting the essential contributions of this article.
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid · 2020 · 52 citations
- Computer Science
- Computer Science
- Engineering
The increasing adoption of power electronic devices may lead to large disturbance and destabilization of future power systems. However, stability criteria are still an unsolved puzzle, since traditional small-signal stability analysis is not applicable to power electronics-enabled power systems when a large disturbance occurs, such as a fault, a pulse power load, or load switching. To address this issue, this paper presents for the first time the rigorous derivation of the sufficient criteria for large-signal stability in DC microgrids with distributed-controlled DC-DC power converters. A novel type of closed-loop converter controllers is designed and considered. Moreover, this paper is the first to prove that the well-known and frequently cited Brayton-Moser's mixed potential theory (published in 1964) is incomplete. Case studies are carried out to illustrate the defects of Brayton-Moser's mixed potential theory and verify the effectiveness of the proposed novel stability criteria.
Frequent coauthors
- 26 shared
Al-Thaddeus Avestruz
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
- 9 shared
Alireza Ramyar
- 8 shared
Anna G. Stefanopoulou
- 8 shared
Jason B. Siegel
- 6 shared
Ziyou Song
- 6 shared
Simona Onori
Stanford University
- 4 shared
Chenmin Deng
Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
- 4 shared
Peyman Mohtat
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Labs
Education
Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles
Awards & honors
- MTRAC Winner Award, State of Michigan Translational Research…
- Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Prize for Distinguished Aca…
- Rackham Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Michi…
- Travel Grant by American Automatic Control Council (2019)
- Rackham Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Michigan…
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