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Prof Mohammad Abusara received his BEng degree from Birzeit University, Palestine, in 2000 and his PhD degree from the University of Southampton, UK, in 2004, both in Electrical Engineering. His PhD was concerned with control of grid-connected inverters and was supervised by Prof. Suleiman Sharkh.

Prof Abusara has over ten years of industrial experience with Bowman Power Group, Southampton, UK, in the field of research and development of digital control of power electronics for distributed energy resources, hybrid vehicles, and machines and drives. During his years in the industry, he significantly contributed to the design and prototyping of a number of commercial products that include grid and parallel connected inverters, MicroGrid, DC/DC converters for hybrid vehicles, and sensorless drives for high speed permanent magnet machines. Dr. Abusara is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton.

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Publications

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2024

• Issa W, Sharkh S, Abusara M. (2024) A review of recent control techniques of drooped inverter-based AC microgrids, Energy Science and Engineering, volume 12, no. 4, pages 1792-1814, DOI:10.1002/ese3.1670.
• Panda DK, Turner O, Das S, Abusara M. (2024) Prioritized experience replay based deep distributional reinforcement learning for battery operation in microgrids, Journal of Cleaner Production, volume 434, pages 139947-139947, article no. 139947, DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139947. [PDF]

2023

• Udoha E, Das S, Abusara M. (2023) A power management system for interconnected AC islanded microgrids using back-to-back converter, Renewable Power Generation and Future Power Systems Conference 2023 (RPG 2023 UK), Renewable Power Generation and Future Power Systems Conference 2023 (RPG 2023 UK), DOI:10.1049/icp.2023.3234. [PDF]
• Udoha E, Das S, Abusara M. (2023) Power Flow Management of Interconnected AC Microgrids Using Back-to-Back Converters, Electronics.
• Ali KH, Abusara M, Tahir AA, Das S. (2023) Dual-Layer Q-Learning Strategy for Energy Management of Battery Storage in Grid-Connected Microgrids, Energies, volume 16, no. 3, pages 1334-1334, DOI:10.3390/en16031334. [PDF]
• Robayo M, Mueller M, sharkh S, Abusara M. (2023) Assessment of Supercapacitor performance in a hybrid energy storage system with an energy management based on the discrete wavelet transform, Journal of Energy Storage.

2022

• Ali KH. (2022) Energy Management of Battery Storage Systems in Grid-Connected-Microgrids Using Reinforcement Learning.
• De La Fuente Pinto R, Thies P, Abusara M. (2022) Feedforward effect on the transient response during low voltage ride through, The 11th International Conference on Power Electronics , Machines and Drives, Newcastle, 21st - 23rd Jun 2022.
• Zhang Q, Qian J, Zhai Z, Liu X, Liu S, Fang W, Liu H, Abusara M. (2022) Control Stability of Inverters with Series-compensated Transmission Line: Analysis and Improvement, Journal of power electronics.

2021

• Xu J, Li K, Abusara M, Zhang Y. (2021) ADMM-based OPF Problem Against Cyber Attacks in Smart Grid, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), DOI:10.1109/smc52423.2021.9658699.
• Issa W, Albadwawi R, Mesbahi T, Abusara M. (2021) Nanogrid Power Management Based on Fuzzy Logic Controller. [PDF]
• Xu J, Li K, Abusara M. (2021) Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning based Multi-Microgrid System Optimisation Problem, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2103.06380.
• Sigalo MB, Pillai AC, Das S, Abusara M. (2021) An Energy Management System for the Control of Battery Storage in a Grid-Connected Microgrid Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming, Energies, DOI:10.3390/en14196212. [PDF]
• Ali KH, Sigalo M, Das S, Anderlini E, Tahir A, Abusara M. (2021) Reinforcement Learning for Energy Storage Systems in Grid-Connected Microgrids: An Investigation of Online versus Offline Implementation, Energies.
• Xu JIANGJIAO, MAHMOOD H, XIAO HAO, ANDERLINI E, Abusara M. (2021) Electric Water Heaters Management via Reinforcement Learning with Time-Delay in Isolated Microgrids, IEEE Access.
• Hussain E, Abusara M, Sharkh S. (2021) Design Optimisation of a Current-Fed Solid-State Transformer for MV Grid-Connected Applications, Energies, DOI:10.3390/en14113283.
• Xu J, Li K, Abusara M. (2021) Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning based Multi-Microgrid System Optimisation Problem. [PDF]
• Hussain EK, Thies PR, Hardwick J, Connor PM, Abusara M. (2021) Grid Island Energy Transition Scenarios Assessment Through Network Reliability and Power Flow Analysis, Frontiers in Energy Research, volume 8, pages 399-399, DOI:10.3389/fenrg.2020.584440. [PDF]

2020

• Hussain EK, Abusara M, Sharkh SM. (2020) Power Losses Calculation for Medium Voltage DC/DC Current-Fed Solid State Transformer for Battery Grid-Connected, 2020 22nd European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE 2020 ECCE Europe, DOI:10.23919/EPE20ECCEEurope43536.2020.9215591.
• Anderlini E, Husain S, Parker GG, Abusara M, Thomas G. (2020) Towards Real-Time Reinforcement Learning Control of a Wave Energy Converter, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.
• Robayo M, Abusara M, Mueller M, Sharkh S. (2020) A Smart Energy Management System for Battery-Supercapacitor in Electric Vehicles based on the Discrete Wavelet Transform and Deep Learning, IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, volume 2020-June, pages 9-14, DOI:10.1109/ISIE45063.2020.9152559.

2019

• Reynolds S, Kiprakis A, Abusara M. (2019) Speed Control of Multiple Tidal Turbines Connected to a Shared Onshore Converter, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Napoli, Italy, 1st - 6th Sep 2019.
• Faÿ F-X, Henriques JC, Kelly J, Mueller M, Abusara M, Sheng W, Marcos M. (2019) Comparative assessment of control strategies for the biradial turbine in the Mutriku OWC plant, Renewable Energy, volume 146, pages 2766-2784, DOI:10.1016/j.renene.2019.08.074. [PDF]
• Issa W, Al-Naemi F, Konstantopoulos G, Sharkh S, Abusara M. (2019) Stability analysis and control of a microgrid against circulating power between parallel inverters, Energy Procedia, volume 157, pages 1061-1070, DOI:10.1016/j.egypro.2018.11.273.
• Issa W, Sharkh S, Abusara M. (2019) Hybrid Generators-based AC Microgrid Performance Assessment in Island Mode, IET Power Electronics, DOI:10.1049/iet-pel.2018.5295.

2018

• Acheson S, Theotokatos G, Abusara M, Findlay D, Djokic S. (2018) Experimental Evaluation of the Hydraulic Power Take-Off System of a Wave Energy Converter, European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Series, EWTEC, Cork, Ireland, 27th Aug - 1st Sep 2018.
• Matthew GS, Fitch-Roy OWF, Connor PM, Woodman B, Thies P, Hussain E, Mahmood H, Abusara M, Yan X, Hardwick J. (2018) ICE report T2.1.2 - ICE general methodology, INTERREG, University of Exeter, 52 pages.
• Faÿ F-X, Kelly J, Henriques J, Pujana A, Abusara M, Mueller M, Touzon I, Ruiz-Minguela P. (2018) Numerical Simulation of Control Strategies at Mutriku Wave Power Plant, ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Madrid, Spain, 17th - 22nd Jun 2018.
• AlBadwawi R, Issa W, Mallick TK, Abusara M. (2018) Supervisory Control for Power Management of an Islanded AC Microgrid Using Frequency Signalling-Based Fuzzy Logic Controller, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, DOI:10.1109/TSTE.2018.2825655.

2017

• Issa W, El Khateb A, Anani N, Abusara M. (2017) Smooth mode transfer in AC microgrids during unintentional islanding, Energy Procedia, volume 134, pages 12-20, DOI:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.09.592.
• Anderlini E, Forehand DIM, Bannon E, Abusara M. (2017) Constraints implementation in the application of reinforcement learning to the reactive control of a point absorber, Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE, volume 10, DOI:10.1115/OMAE2017-61294.
• El-Khateb A, Issa W, Mallick T, Abusara M. (2017) Control Strategy for Uninterrupted Microgrid Mode Transfer during Unintentional Islanding Scenarios, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, volume 65, pages 4831-4839, DOI:10.1109/TIE.2017.2772199. [PDF]
• Smith HCM, Fairley I, Robertson B, Abusara M, Masters I. (2017) Wave resource variability: Impacts on wave power supply over regional to international scales, Energy Procedia, volume 125, pages 240-249, DOI:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.08.202.
• Smith HCM, Fairley I, Robertson B, Abusara M, Masters I. (2017) Wave resource variability: Impacts on wave power supply over regional to international scales.
• Anderlini E, Forehand DIM, Bannon E, Abusara M. (2017) Reactive Control of a Wave Energy Converter using Artificial Neural Networks, International Journal of Marine Energy'.
• Issa W, Sharkh S, Albadwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2017) DC link Voltage Control during Sudden Load Changes in AC Microgrids, ISIE, Edinburgh, 19th - 21st Jun 2017.
• Smailes M, Ng C, Mckeever P, Shek J, Gerasimos T, Abusara M. (2017) Hybrid, Multi-Megawatt HVDC Transformer Topology Comparison for Future Offshore Wind Farms, Energies, volume 10, DOI:10.3390/en10070851.
• Anderlini E, Forehand DIM, Bannon E, Abusara M. (2017) Control of a Realistic Wave Energy Converter Model Using Least-Squares Policy Iteration, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, volume 8, no. 4, pages 1618-1628, DOI:10.1109/tste.2017.2696060. [PDF]
• Fairley I, Smith HCM, Robertson B, Abusara M, Masters I. (2017) Spatio-temporal variation in wave power and implications for electricity supply, Renewable Energy, DOI:10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.075.
• Anderlini E, Forehand D, Bannon E, Xiao Q, Abusara M. (2017) Reactive Control of a Two-Body Point Absorber using Reinforcement Learning, Ocean Engineering.

2016

• Badwawi RA, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2016) A Review of Hybrid Solar PV and Wind Energy System, Smart Science, volume 3, no. 3, pages 127-138, DOI:10.1080/23080477.2015.11665647.
• Al Badwawi R, Issa W, Mallick T, Abusara M. (2016) DC Microgrid Power Coordination Based on Fuzzy Logic Control, 2016 18TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON POWER ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS (EPE'16 ECCE EUROPE). [PDF]
• Al Badwawi, Issa A, Mallick T, Abusara M. (2016) Power Management of AC Islanded Microgrids using Fuzzy Logic, IET international conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives PEMD, Glasgow, 19th Apr - 21st Jun 2016.
• Anderlini E, Forehand D, Stansell P, Xiao Q, Abusara M. (2016) Control of a Point Absorber using Reinforcement Learning, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY,.

2015

• Al Badwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2015) A review of hybrid solar PV and wind energy system, Smart Science, volume 3, no. 3, pages 127-138, DOI:10.6493/SmartSci.2015.324.
• Harrold MJ, Bromley P, Clelland D, Kiprakis A, Abusara M. (2015) Evaluating the thrust control capabilities of the DeltaStream turbine, 11th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Nantes, France, 6th - 11th Sep 2015.
• Harrold M, Bromley P, Broudic M, Kiprakis A, Abusara M. (2015) Assessment of an ADCPs capabilities in laboratory conditions, Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement (CWTM), St. Petersburg, 2nd - 6th Mar 2015, DOI:10.1109/CWTM.2015.7098099.
• Al Badwawi, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2015) Speed control of synchronous machine by changing duty cycle of DC/DC buck converter, AIMS Energy, volume 3, pages 728-739, DOI:10.3934/energy.2015.4.728.
• AL Badwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick T. (2015) A Review of Hybrid Solar PV and Wind Energy System, Smart Science, volume 3, pages 127-138, DOI:10.6493/SmartSci.
• Issa W, Abusara M, Sharkh S, Mallick T. (2015) A small signal model of an inverter-based microgrid including DC link voltages, 2015 17th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE-ECCE Europe 2015, DOI:10.1109/EPE.2015.7309119.
• Harrold M, Bromley P, Broudic M, Clelland D, Kiprakis A, Abusara M. (2015) Assessment of an ADCP's capabilities in laboratory conditions, 2015 IEEE/OES 11th Current, Waves and Turbulence Measurement, CWTM 2015, DOI:10.1109/CWTM.2015.7098099.
• Smailes M, Ng C, Fox R, Shek J, Abusara M, Theotokatos G, McKeever P. (2015) Evaluation of core loss calculation methods for highly non-sinusoidal inputs, IET Seminar Digest, volume 2015, no. CP654, DOI:10.1049/cp.2015.0005.
• Abusara M, Sharkh S, Zanchetta P. (2015) Adaptive repetitive control with feedforward scheme for grid-connected inverters, IET Power Electronics, volume 8, no. 8, pages 1403-1410, DOI:10.1049/iet-pel.2014.0481.
• Qazalbash AA, Sharkh SM, Irenji NT, Wills RG, Abusara MA. (2015) Rotor eddy loss in high-speed permanent magnet synchronous generators, IET Electric Power Applications, volume 9, no. 5, pages 370-376, DOI:10.1049/iet-epa.2014.0300.
• Al-Badwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick TK. (2015) Speed control of synchronous machine by changing duty cycle of DC/DC buck converter, Global Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development, Coventry, Uk, 24th Feb - 26th Apr 2015.
• Al Badwawi R, Abusara M, Mallick TK. (2015) Speed control of synchronous machine by changing duty cycle of DC/DC buck converter, Global Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development, Coventry, Uk, 24th Feb - 26th Apr 2015.
• Abusara MA, Sharkh SM, Zanchetta P. (2015) Control of grid-connected inverters using adaptive repetitive and proportional resonant schemes, Journal of Power Electronics, volume 15, no. 2, pages 518-529, DOI:10.6113/JPE.2015.15.2.518.
• Abusara MA, sharkh SM, Gurrero J. (2015) Improved Droop Control Strategy for Grid-Connected Inverters, Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, volume 1, pages 10-19.
• Issa WR, Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2015) Control of Transient Power During Unintentional Islanding of Microgrids, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, volume 30, no. 8, pages 4573-4584, DOI:10.1109/tpel.2014.2359792. [PDF]

2014

• Smailes M, Ng C, Shek J, Abusara M, Theotokatos G, McKeever P. (2014) Hybrid, multi-megawatt HVDC transformer for future offshore wind farms, IET Conference Publications, volume 2014, no. CP651, DOI:10.1049/cp.2014.0858.
• Sawyer T, Daglish J, Williamson BJ, Kivlin O, Gatenby F, Abusara MA, Williams NC. (2014) Validation of NeutraSeal: A new lower energy cost mine water treatment process, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, volume 2, no. 4, pages 2306-2311, DOI:10.1016/j.jece.2014.10.009.
• Issa WR, Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2014) Impedance interaction between islanded parallel voltage source inverters and the distribution network, 7th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives, PEMD 2014.
• Qazalbash, A, Sharkh SM, Irenji N, Willis RG, Abusara MA. (2014) Rotor eddy current power loss in permanent magnet synchronous generators feeding uncontrolled rectifier loads, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, volume 50, no. 6, DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2013.2297391.
• Qazalbash A, Sharkh SM, Irenji N, Willis RG, Abusara MA. (2014) Calculation of No-Load Rotor Eddy-Current Power Loss in PM Synchronous Machines, Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on, volume 50, no. 9, DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2014.2318681.
• Abusara MA, Geurrero J, Sharkh SM. (2014) Line Interactive UPS for Micorgrids, IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron, volume 61, no. 3, pages 1292-1300.
• Sharkh SM, Abusara MA, Orfanoudakis G, Hussain B. (2014) Power Electronic Converters for Microgrids, Wiley.

2013

• Hussain B, Sharkh SM, Hussain S, Abusara M. (2013) An Adaptive Relaying Scheme for Fuse Saving in a Distribution Network with Embedded Distributed Generation, Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on, volume 28, no. 2, pages 669-677.
• Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2013) Design and control of a grid-connected interleaved inverter, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, volume 28, no. 2, pages 748-764, DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2012.2201505.

2012

• Abusara MA, Jamil M, Sharkh SM. (2012) Repetitive Current Controller for Interleaved Grid-Connected Inverters, 3rd International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distribution Generation Systems PEDG, Aalborg, 25th - 28th Jun 2012.

2011

• Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2011) Control of line interactive UPS systems in a Microgrid, Gdansk, Poland, 27th - 30th Jun 2011, in Proc IEEE ISIE 2011, pages 1433-1400.
• Jamil M, Sharkh SM, Abusara MA. (2011) Current Regulation of Three-Phase Grid Connected Voltage Source Inverter Using Robust Digital Repetitive Control, International Review of Automatic Control (IREACO), volume 4, pages 211-219. [PDF]
• Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2011) Digital control of a three-phase grid connected inverter, International Journal of Power Electronics, volume 3, no. 3, pages 299-319.

2010

• Orfanoudakis GI, Sharkh SM, Yuratich MA, Abusara MA. (2010) Loss comparison of 2 and 3-Level inverter topologies, IET International Conference on Power Electronics and Drives (PEMD), Brighton, United Kingdom.
• Jamil M, Sharkh SM, Abusara MA, Boltryk RJ. (2010) Robust Repetitive Controller Feedback Control of a Three-Phase Utility Connected Inverter, IET International Conference on Power Electronics and Drives (PEMD), Brighton, United Kingdom.
• Abusara MA, Sharkh SM. (2010) Design of a Robust Digital Current Controller for a Grid Connected Interleaved Inverter, Bari, Italy, 4th - 7th Jul 2010, in Proc IEEE ISIE, pages 2903-2908.

2009

• Jamil M, Hussian B, Sharkh SM, Abusara MA, Boltryk RJ. (2009) Microgrid Power Electronic Converters: State Of The Art and Future Challenges, International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Glasgow, United Kingdom.

2004

• Sharkh SM, Abusara MA. (2004) Current control of utility-connected two-level and three-level PWM inverters. European Power Electronics and Drives Journal, European Power Electronics and Drives Journal, volume 14, no. 4, pages 13-18.

2003

• Abu Sharkh SM, Abu-Sara M. (2003) Current control of utility-connected three-level inverter, 10th EPE conference, Toulouse.

2001

• Abu-Sharkh SM, Abu-Sara M. (2001) Current control of utility-connected DC-AC three-phase voltage source inverters using repetitive feedback, 9th EPE, Graz.

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