PEOPLE.STAFF
Joan Rocabert
PHD. SENIOR RESEARCHER
rocabert@ee.upc.edu
http://bibliotecnica.upc.es/fenixdoc/Invest.asp?Id=0026924&UE=709&Idm=ang

Microgrids and energy storage

Joan Rocabert received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 2003 and his PhD in 2010, from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. He was a research assitant in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Technical University of Catalonia. From 2008 he is with the Department of Electrical Engineering working as a junior researcher and assistant professor. His current research interests include power electronics applied to photovoltaic and wind energy systems, particularly their application into microgrids.

 

Associated projects

National public

Advanced Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Devices for Rational Use of Energy
Hierarchical Control in Microgrids for the Integration of Decentralized Electrical Generators and Energy Storage Systems
Agreement of Collaboration between Agency Support to the Catalan Companies ACC1O and the UPC for the ascription of SEER to TECNIO
New Grid Technologies to Enhance Long-Distance AC Transmission of Renewable Energy

National private

Advanced Power and Energy Processing
Study of Technical Solutions For Power Processing System in High Concentration Photovoltaic Generation
Design of a DC-AC Converter for a 10kW Low-scale Wind Turbine
Collaboration Agreement with Abengoa Research
Integration of SPC in Comercial Power Converters for Plants
Synchronous PV Project
 

Publications

Journal paper

Synchronous Power Controller With Flexible Droop Characteristics for Renewable Power Generation Systems
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Weiyi Zhang,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Antoni Mir Cantarellas
Published in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, May 2016
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2016.2565059
Adaptive Droop for Primary Control in MTDC Networks with Energy Storage
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
Published in EPE Journal, September 2014
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2014.2352396
Adaptive Droop for Control of Multiterminal DC Bus Integrating Energy Storage
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Catalin Gavriluta
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, January 2015
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2014.2352396
Grid Voltage Synchronization for Distributed Generation Systems under Grid Fault Conditions
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela , Juan Ramon Hermoso,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Teodorescu, Remus; Blaabjerg, Frede
Published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Applications, January 2015
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2015.2391436
Control of Power Converters in AC MIcrogrids
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Blaabjerg, F.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, May 2012
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.2199334
Intelligent Connection Agent for Three-phase Grid-connected Microgrids
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, A.; Guerrero, J
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, February 2011
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2116126
Pulse width Modulations for the Comprehensive Capacitor Voltage Balance of n-Level Three-Leg Diode-Clamped Converters
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Busquets-Monge, S. ; Alepuz, S. ; Bordonau, J.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, May 2009
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2008.4592669
Multilevel Diode-clamped Converter for Photovoltaic Generators with Independent Voltage Control of each Solar Array
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Busquets-Monge, S. ; Alepuz, S. ; Bordonau, J.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, July 2008
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.924011
A virtual-vector pulsewidth modulation for the four-level diode-clamped dc-ac converter
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Busquets-Monge, S. ; Bordonau, J.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, July 2008
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2008.925160
Closed-loop Control of a Three-phase Neutral-point-clamped Inverter Using an Optimized Virtual-vector-based Pulsewidth Modulation
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Busquets-Monge, S. ; Ortega, J.D. ; Bordonau, J. ; Beristain, J.A.
Published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, May 2008
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.918646

Conference paper

Frequency support properties of the synchronous power control for grid-connected converters
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela , Daniel Remón Rodríguez, Weiyi Zhang,
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2016, Milwaukee (USA) - ECCE 2016
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2016.7855127
Control of energy storage system integrating electrochemical batteries and SC for grid-connected applications
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela , Raúl Santiago Muñoz Aguilar, Ruben Capó,
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2016, Milwaukee (USA) - ECCE 2016
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2016.7854966
A comparative study of methods for estimating virtual flux at the point of common coupling in grid connected voltage source converters with LCL filter
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela , Nurul Fazlin Roslan,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Jon Are Suul
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2016, Milwaukee (USA) - ECCE 2016
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2016.7854660
Flexible grid connection and islanding of SPC-based PV power converters
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Costantino Citro
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2015, Montreal (Canada) - ECCE 2015
Ref. not available
Comparison of different power loop controllers for synchronous power controlled grid-interactive converters
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela , Daniel Remón Rodríguez, Weiyi Zhang,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
A. Mir
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2015, Montreal (Canada) - ECCE 2015
Ref. not available
An active power synchronizing controller for grid-connected power converters with configurable natural droop characteristics
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela , Weiyi Zhang,
Published in IEEE 6th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems 2015, Aachen (Germany) - PEDG 2015
Ref. not available
Storage system requirements for grid supporting PV-power plants
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Etxeberria-Otadui, I.
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2014, Pittsburgh (USA) - ECCE 2014
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2014.6954131
Analysis of ferroresonance effects in distribution networks with distributed source units
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Fayezizadeh, M.
Published in Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2013, Vienna (Austria) - IECON 2013
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2013.6699434
Adaptive droop for primary control in MTDC networks with energy storage
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
Published in European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications 2013, Lille (France) - EPE 2013
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/EPE.2013.6631976
Control of grid-connected power converters based on a virtual admittance control loop
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
Published in European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications 2013, Lille (France) - EPE 2013
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/EPE.2013.6634621
Advanced structures for grid synchronization of power converters in distributed generation applications
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Teodorescu, R. ; Blaabjerg, F.
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2012, Raleigh (USA) - ECCE 2012
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342381
Multilevel-clamped Multilevel Converters (MLC2) - an Alternative Approach for Multilevel Power Conversion
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Raúl Santiago Muñoz Aguilar,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Bellar, M.D.
Published in Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2011, Melbourne (Australia) - IECON 2011
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2011.6120038
Overview of Power Processing Structures for Embedding Energy Storage in PV Power Converters
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela , Raúl Santiago Muñoz Aguilar,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Citro, C.
Published in IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2011, Melbourne (Australia) - IES 2011
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2011.6119701
Enhanced Power Calculator for Droop Control in Single-phase Systems
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, G.; Calvancanti, M.; Bradaschia, F.; Neves
Published in ECCE - IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2011, Phoenix (USA) - ECCE 2011
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2011.6063796
Safe Transient Operation of Microgrids Based on Master-slave Configuration
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, G.; Bradaschia, F.; Calvancanti, M.; Neves, F.
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2011, Phoenix (USA) - ECCE 2011
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2011.6064058
Voltage Feed-forward Performance in Stationary Reference Frame Controllers for Wind Power Applications
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Ma, L. ; Munoz, R. ; Corcoles, F.
Published in International Conference on Power Engineering, Energy and Electrical Drives 2011, Torremolinos (Spain) - POWERENG 2011
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/PowerEng.2011.6036416
Connection and Disconnection Transients for Micro-grids Under Unbalance Load Condition.
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, G.M.S. ; Blaabjerg, F.
Published in European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications 2011, Birminghan (UK) - EPE 2011
Ref. DOI: No disponible
Performance Improvement of the Droop Control for Single-phase Inverters
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, G.; Calvancanti, M.; Neves, F.
Published in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2011, Gdansk (Poland) - ISIE 2011
Ref. Pages: 1465 ~ 1470.
Microgrid Connection Management Based on an Intelligent Connection Agent
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, G. ; Teoderescu, R. ; Etxebarria-Otadui, I.
Published in Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society 2010, Glendale (USA) - IECON 2010
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2010.5674950
Simulation of Wound Rotor Synchronous Machine under Voltage Sags
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Aguilar, D. ; Vazquez, G. ; Rolan, A. ; Córcoles, F.
Published in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2010, Bari (Italy) - ISIE 2010
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637895
Intelligent Control Agent for Transient to an Island Grid
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, G. ; Vazquez, G. ; Guerrero, J.M.
Published in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2010, Bari (Italy) - ISIE 2010
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5636844
Voltage Quality Improvement of Microgrids Under Islanding Mode
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Azevedo, G.; Calvancanti, M.; Neves, F..
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2010, Atlanta (USA) -ECCE 2010
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617746
Four-branch Star Neutral Current Hybrid Power Filter and Var Compensator
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert, Jose Ignacio Candela ,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Teodorescu, R.; Blaabjerg, F
Published in IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition 2010, Atlanta (USA) -ECCE 2010
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2010.5617796
Grid Synchronization for Advanced Power Processing and FACTS in Wind Power Systems
LOCAL MEMBERS
Pedro Rodriguez, Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Vazquez, G. ; Teodorescu, R. ; Corcoles, F.
Published in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2010, Bari (Italy) - ISIE 2010
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637312
An Approach to the Performance-oriented Model of Variable-speed Wind Turbines
LOCAL MEMBERS
Alvaro Luna, Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Rolan, A. ; Aguilar, D. ; Vazquez, G.
Published in IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics 2010, Bari (Italy) - ISIE 2010
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2010.5637745
2 Transistors + 2 Diodes-based PEBB Designed for General Applications in Power Electronics
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Nicolas, J. ; Bordonau, J. ; Busquets-Monge, S. ; Alepuz, S. ; Martinez-Velasco, J.A. ; Peracaula, J.
Published in European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications 2009, Barcelona (Spain) - EPE 2009
Ref. DOI: Not Available
Three-Level Three-Phase Neutral-Point-Clamped Back-to-Back ConverterApplied to a Wind Emulator
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Calle, A. ; Busquets-Monge, S. ; Bordonau, J. ; Alepuz, S. ; Peracaula, J.
Published in European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications 2009, Barcelona (Spain) - EPE 2009
Ref. DOI: Not Available
Diode-Clamped Multilevel Converters with Integrable Gate-Driver Power-Supply Circuits
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Busquets-Monge, S. ; Crebier, J.-C. ; Peracaula, J.
Published in European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications 2009, Barcelona (Spain) - EPE 2009
Ref. DOI: Not Available
Current Control Strategies Comparison to Verify the Requirements of Grid Connection in Distributed Generation
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Alepuz, S. ; Busquets-Monge, S ; Salaet, S ; Bordonau, J ; Peracaula, J
Published in Seminario Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentación
Ref. DOI: Not Available
Extension of the Nearest-three Virtual-space-vector PWM to the Four-level Diode-clamped dc-ac Converter
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Busquets-Monge, S. ; Bordonau, J.
Published in IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2007, Orlando (USA) - PESC 2007
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2007.4342291
Closed-loop Control Design for a Three-level Three-phase Neutral-point-clamped Inverter Using the Optimized Nearest-three Virtual-space-vector Modulation
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Busquets-Monge, S. ; Ortega, J.D. ; Bordonau, J. ; Beristain, J.A.
Published in IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2006, Jeju (South Korea) - PESC 2006
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2006.1711953
A New Single-phase HF-link Multilevel Inverter
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Beristain, J. ; Bordonau, J. ; Raventos, O. ; Busquets, S. ; Mata, M.
Published in IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2005, Recife (Brazil) - PESC 2005
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2005.1581630
A Regenerative Active Clamp Circuit for DC/AC Converters with High-frequency Isolation in Photovoltaic Systems
LOCAL MEMBERS
Joan Rocabert,
EXTERNAL MEMBERS
Dumenjo, M.M. ; Bordonau, J. ; Jimenez, J.A.B.
Published in IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2004 Aachen (Germany) - PESC 2004
Ref. DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2004.1355439
 

Patents

Worldwide

Synchronous Power Controller for a Generating System Based on Static Power Converters
Virtual Controller of Electromechanical Characteristics for Static Power Converters
Virtual Admittance Controller Based on Static Power Converters