Tutorials

Tutorials pre-registration is performed online as part of the conference registration process.

Fees:
There are two categories of tutorial pre-registration.

(a) Regular IECON-2011 and ICELIE-2011 registered attendees are welcome to attend any of the tutorials at no additional charge. Pre-registration for a tutorial is still required.
(b) TUTORIALS ONLY. This is offered only to persons desiring to attend tutorials but not participate in other aspects of the conferences. The TUTORIALS ONLY registration fee is USD$250 on or before 22 August, or USD$400 after 22 August and attendees will receive a booklet containing all tutorials' materials. The tutorials booklet will only be available to persons paying the AUSD$250 before 22 August, or AUSD$400 after 22 August, and is NOT included with regular IECON/ICELIE registrations. TUTORIALS ONLY registration does not include entrance to IECON/ICELIE technical sessions or conference social activities.

Topics:
The conference organizers are pleased to offer 11 topics for pre-registration, as listed below.

  • Advanced Motor Drives and Practical Machine Design Solutions for Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles 
    Tanvir Rahman
    Sheldon S. Williamson
    1Infolytica Corp., Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Biarticular Muscle Principles and Practice in Robotics,
    Makoto Iwasaki
    Sehoon Oh
    Toshiaki Tsuji
    University of Tokyo, Japan, University of Saitama, Japan, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

  • Bi-directional and Contactless Power Technology for V2G Systems
    U.K. Madawala
    Duleepa Thrimawithana
    The University of  Auckland, New Zealand

  • Configurations and Control of Wind Energy Conversion Systems   
    Bin Wu
    Yongqiang Lang
    Navid Zargari
    Samir Kouro
    Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada  

  • Advanced Control Methods for Next Generation Electrical Grids - From Microgrids Towards the SmartGrid
    Part One:       Control of Power Electronics  for Microgrids
    Josep M. Guerrero
    TU Catalonia,  Barcelona, Spain

  • Advanced Control Methods for Next Generation Electrical Grids - From Microgrids Towards the SmartGrid
    Part Two:     Distributed Control of SmartGrids
    Mo-Yuen Chow
    North Carolina State University, USA

  • ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) environmental electric and magnetic fields   
    Michele Tartaglia
    Politecnico di Torino,Italy
  • Model Predictive Control Tutorial    
    Liuping Wang
    RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  • Nonlinear Power Flow Control Design:Utilizing Exergy, Entropy, Static and Dynamic Stability, and Lyapunov Analysis   
    Dr. Rush D. Robinett and Dr David Wilson
    Sandia National Laboratories, Energy Technology & Systems Solution Center, Albuquerque, USA
  •  Supercapacitors and Rechargeable Batteries- Managing Them and Creative Applications 
    Nihal Kularatna 
    The University of Waikato, New Zealand

  • Trends in Electronic Design Methodologies Targeting FPGAs
    Marcian Cirstea
    Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom


Cancellation:
Conference organizers reserve the right to cancel a tutorial. Tutorial only fees for cancelled tutorials will be fully refunded.