Petros Karamanakos
About me
I received the Diploma and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 2007, and 2013, respectively. From 2010 to 2011 I was with the ABB Corporate Research Center, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland, where I worked on model predictive control strategies for medium-voltage drives. From 2013 to 2016 I was a PostDoc Research Associate in the Chair of Electrical Drive Systems and Power Electronics, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. Since 2016, I have been an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Responsibilities
* Teaching (EE.PEE.300, EE.PEE.330)
* Student supervision (BSc, MSc, PhD)
* Conducting research in the field of power electronics
Top achievements
* Third Best Paper Award: "Model predictive pulse pattern control for the five-level active neutral point clamped inverter," IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
* Four Prize Paper Awards at IEEE conferences
Mission statement
development of new control methods that:
* fully utilize the hardware capability (and/or)
* reduce the hardware requirement
of power electronic systems
Research topics
* Variable speed drives
* Grid-connected converters
* Multilevel power converters
* Modulation for power electronic converters
* Optimal control
* Mathematical programming
Research unit
Research fields
* Power electronics
* Control theory
* Mathematical optimization
Selected publications
1. I. Koukoula, P. Karamanakos, and T. Geyer, "Optimal pulse width modulation of three-level converters with reduced common-mode voltage," IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, 2024, in press.
2. M. A. W. Begh, P. Karamanakos, and T. Geyer,"Gradient-based predictive pulse pattern control of medium-voltage drives—Part I: Control, concept, and analysis," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 37(12): 14222–14236, Dec. 2022.
3. P. Karamanakos, M. Nahalparvari, and T. Geyer, "Fixed switching frequency direct model predictive control with continuous and discontinuous modulation for grid-tied converters with LCL filters," IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 29(4): 1503–1518, Jul. 2021.
4. P. Karamanakos and T. Geyer, "Guidelines for the design of finite control set model predictive controllers," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 35(7): 7434–7450, Jul. 2020
5. P. Karamanakos, E. Liegmann, T. Geyer, and R. Kennel, "Model predictive control of power electronic systems: Methods, results, and challenges," IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications, vol. 1: 95–114, 2020.
6. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, and R. Kennel, "On the choice of norm in finite control set model predictive control," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 33(8): 7105–7117, Aug. 2018
7. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, and R. Kennel, "A computationally efficient model predictive control strategy for linear systems with integer inputs," IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology, vol. 24(4): 1463–1471, Jul. 2016
8. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, N. Oikonomou, F. D. Kieferndorf, and S. Manias, "Direct model predictive control: A review of strategies that achieve long prediction intervals for power electronics," IEEE Industrial Electronics Mag., vol. 8(1): 32–43, Mar. 2014
9. P. Karamanakos, T. Geyer, and S. Manias, "Direct voltage control of dc-dc boost converters using enumeration-based model predictive control," IEEE Trans. on Power Electronics, vol. 29(2): 968–978, Feb. 2014
10. N. Oikonomou, C. Gutscher, P. Karamanakos, F. D. Kieferndorf and T. Geyer, "Model predictive pulse pattern control for the five-level active neutral-point clamped inverter", IEEE Trans. on Industry Applications, vol. 49(6): 2583–2592, Nov./Dec. 2013