Staff Profiles - Mehran Motamed Ektesabi

Contact Details:

Office Location: EN706c
Phone: +61 3 9214 8532
Fax: +61 3 9214 8264
Email: mektesabi@swin.edu.au

Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Mehran Motamed Ektesabi
Senior Lecturer – Robotics and Mechatronics
PhD, Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics) , I.I.T Delhi- 1989, M.Tech., Electrical Engineering( Control Engineering & instrumentation). I.I.T Delhi- 1984, B.Tech., Electrical Engineering (Power), KREC, 1982.

Areas of Expertise and Research

• Motor control systems, power quality controllers, Energy saving and compatibility of electrical drives, Renewable energy systems, Intelligent and Autonomous Control, Soft Computing, Adaptive Control, System Identification.

Current Research Projects

• Dynamic Integration of Integral Motor and Intelligent Control System
• Intelligent Drive and Fault Diagnosis of Brushless DC Motors

Membership of Professional Organisations

• IEEE member
• Member of World Academy of Science, Engineering & Technology (WASET)
• Member of the International Association of Engineers (IAENG)

Awards

• UNESCO Young Scientist Award of 1989 in the field of Informatics.
• Winner of the Victorian Engineering Excellence Award for 2005 (Innovations).
• Finalist in Australian Engineering Excellence Award for 2005.

Patents

• Variable speed electric motors - October 2003.
• Drive system for motorized door - July 2004. 

Publications

• M. Ektesabi & H.Felic, “Controlling Heat, Vibration and EMI in an Integral Motor”, IEEE 5th International Conference Compatibility in Power Electronics (CPE2007), May 29 – June 1, 2007, Gdansk, Poland.
• M.Ektesabi & H.Felic, “Motor Management and Energy Saving by Integration of Motor Drive System”, the 2007 International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE2007), 2-4 July, 2007, London, U.K.
• M.Ektesabi & H.Felic, “Identifying and Capturing Energy Saving in an Integral Motor-Drive System”, Energy 2007, First International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, 20 - 22 June, 2007, The New Forest, UK.
• M.Ektesabi, “A Novel Integral Motor Exploits Optimised Energy Consumption”, 83rd National EESA Conference and Exhibition, Electricity 2007, 15th - 17th of August 2007, Melbourne, Australia.
• M.M.Ektesabi, C.M.Bhatia & S.S.Lamba, “A Novel Microprocessor Based Modulator for PWM Inverters”, 23rd Universities Power Engineering Conference, Trent Polytechnic, Sept 1988, UK.
• M.M.Ektesabi, C.M.Bhatia & S.S.Lamba, “A Modified Natural Sampling Strategy for Microprocessor Implementation of PWM Inverter”, IECON’88, 14th Annual Conference of IEEE proceeding Industrial Electronics Society, October 1988, Singapore.
• M.M.Ektesabi, C.M.Bhatia & S.S.Lamba, “New Software Strategy for Microprocessor Implementation of three phase PWM Inverter”, ISMM Conference, December 1989, California. 
• M.M.Ektesabi, “Microprocessor Based PWM Inverter System and its use for Control of Induction Motor”, Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Delhi, India, 1989.
• M.M.Ektesabi, C.M.Bhatia & S.S.Lamba, “A Dedicated Digital Implementation of PWM Inverter”, International Conference on Control and Modeling, July 1990, University of Tehran, Iran.
• M.Ektesabi, E.Alahyari and B.Irani, “Three Phase Induction Motor Control”, Second Electrical Engineering Conference, June 1991, Tehran, Iran.
• M.Ektesabi, B.Irani and E.Alahyari, “Speed Control of Three phase Induction Motor using Single Chip Microcontroller”, First International Conference on Computer Application in Science, December 1991, Isfahan, Iran.
• M.Ektesabi, B.Irani and E.Alahyari, “A Practical Method of using Microcontroller for Speed Control of Motors”, Conference of Electronics, November 1991, Shiraz, Iran.
• M.Ektesabi and M.R.M. Ektesabi, “Design of Car and Industrial Radiators by a special computerized Software Package“, Conference of Iranian Standard Research Organization, November 1994, Tehran, Iran.
• M.Ektesabi & H.Felic, “Bearing Currents – Caused by VSD“, Torque News Letter, September 2002, Australia.
• M.M. Ektesabi, “Design of Integral Motor and its Embedded System “, Submitted to the 8th International Power Engineering Conference – IPEC2007, 3-6 December 2007, Singapore.
• M.M. Ektesabi, “Immunity of Integrated Drive System to Radiated & Conducted Emission”, Submitted to ELECTROENVIRO 2007, the First International Conference on Environmental Electromagnetic Compatibility, 10 - 12 September, 2007, the New Forest, UK.