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University of Tehran
College of Engineering
Saeed Afsharnia

Saeed Afsharnia


School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Associate Professor
Email: safshar [AT] ut.ac.ir
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Education
Ph.D.: Electrical Engineering, ENSEM,INPL, France, 1995
M.Sc.: Power, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1990
B.Sc.: Power, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 198

Research Interests
Electric machines
Power Electronics
Electrical Drives
Reactive Power Control in Electrical Systems
Flexible AC Transmission Systems
Evaluation of Science & Technology

Current Researches
Analysis and Control of Electrical Drives
Torque Ripple Minimization in Electric Motors
Simulation, modeling and analysis of FACTS devices
Sensorless Control of PMSM

Courses
Flexible AC Transmission Systems (Graduate)
Reactive Power Control in Electrical Systems (Graduate)
Electric Power Distribution Systems (Graduate)
Electric machines I (Undergraduate)
Electric machines II (Undergraduate)
Power System Analysis I (Undergraduate)
Power System Analysis II (Undergraduate)

Selected Publications
1) Book: "Modelling and Dynamic Simulation of Electric Machinery", Translation in Farsi, University of Tehran Press, 2005

2) Book: "power Electronics and Ac drives", Translation in Farsi.

3) M. Forghani, S. Afsharnia, Online Wavelet Transform based control srategy for UPQC control system",IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery Vol 22, No1,pp-481-491 Jan.2007,

4) M. Forghani, S. Afsharnia, "Voltage and Current Reference Generation for UPQC Control System in Frequency Variation Condition ", Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transaction B Engineering, Vol. 30,No.B2 pp 237-248, 2006

5) S. Afsharnia, B. Rezaie, "Implementation of Fuzzy-Sliding Mode Position Controller With Rule Adaptation For Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive", Journal Of School Of Engineering, Vol.15, No.2, 2003, pp.139-152

6) S. Afsharnia, S. Vaez-Zadeh, "Review of Science and Technology Status in Iran," Iranian Journal of Information Science and Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 3-17, 2005.

7) S. Afsharnia and A. Vahedi, "Field Oriented Control of PMSM With Time Constant Adaptation", The International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol 12, No.3, pp. 143-151 2001,

8) S. Afsharnia et al. "A robust estimator of the rotor position in field oriented controlled synchronous machines supplied by PWM-VSI", ICEM94, Paris.

9) S. Afsharnia et al. "Field oreinted control of PMSM with non sinusoidal distribution of MMF IMACS", Stockholm 1995.

10) S. Afsharnia and H. Daneshi, "Unit Commitment by Fuzzy Dynamic Programming", 9th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, ICEE’ 2001, Iran.

11) S. Afsharnia et al. "Minimization of the torque pulsations in non-salient non-sinusoidal PMSM", EPE, Berlin 1995.

12) A. Farhangfar, S. Afsharnia, and S.J. Sajjadi, "Power Flow Control and Loss Minimization with Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC)", IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering(CCECE), 2004

13) H. Daneshi, M. Shahidehpour, S. Afsharnia, A. Naderian, "Application of fuzzy dynamic programming and neural network in generation scheduling", Power Tech Conference Proceedings, 2003 IEEE Bologna, Vol. 3, 23-26 June 2003

14) S. Afsharnia, M. Shahidehpour, H. Daneshi, "Neural Network Application to Unit Commitment By Gray Code", IEEE/PES, T&D Conference 2002, Japan, Vol.1, pp.250- 254

15) V. Salehi, S. Kahrobaee, S. Afsharnia,Improvement of Voltage Stability in Wind Farm Connection to distribution Network Using FACTS Devices,NORDIC WIND POWER CONFERENCE, 22-23 MAY, 2006, ESPOO, FINLAND

16) S. Kahrobaee, S. Afsharnia & V. Salehipoor, Reasonable reactive power control and voltage compensation for windfarms using FACTS devices,Nordic Wind Power Conference ,22-23May 2006 Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland

17) V. Salehi, S. Kahrobaee, S. Afsharnia,Investigation of power variation for first Iran"s wind farm "VALFAJR" regard to simulation model and recorded field data,NORDIC WIND POWER CONFERENCE, 22-23MAY, 2006, ESPOO, FINLAND

18) B. Rezaie, S. Afsharnia, C. Lucas, "Optimization of a Fuzzy Sliding Mode Controller with a Rule Adaptation for a PM Synchronous Servomotor Drive", 8th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering ICEE 2000, Isfahan Iran,