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Tommaso Caldognetto

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Tommaso Caldognetto
 
 

University of Padova
Department of Management and Engineering
Stradella S. Nicola 3
36100 Vicenza - Italy
Phone: +39-0444-998855
email: tommaso.caldognetto@dei.unipd.it

Education

2015 Ph.D. in Information Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy. Ph.D. thesis available at http://paduaresearch.cab.unipd.it/9236/ (best Ph.D. thesis award 2015/2016, Italian IEEE PES Chapter and GE2018)

2012 Master of Science (with honours) in Electronic Engineering - University of Padova, Italy.

 

Research

His main research interests include real-time simulation for power electronics, design of controllers for microgrid applications, power electronic architectures for distributed energy sources.

 

  • IEEE Senior Member (2021), IEEE Member (2010) 
  • IEEE Power Electronics Society Member
  • IEEE Power and Energy Society Member
  • Reviewer for several IEEE journals and sponsored conferences
  • Associate editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics (OJ-PEL) 

     

Selected Publications

    • T. Caldognetto, H. Abedini and P. Mattavelli, "A Per-Phase Power Controller for Smooth Transitions to Islanded Operation," in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 2, pp. 636-646, 2021, doi: 10.1109/OJPEL.2021.3134714.
    • S. Pistollato, N. Zanatta, T. Caldognetto and P. Mattavelli, "A Low Complexity Algorithm for Efficiency Optimization of Dual Active Bridge Converters," in IEEE Open Journal of Power Electronics, vol. 2, pp. 18-32, 2021, doi: 10.1109/OJPEL.2021.3053058.
    • Q. Liu, T. Caldognetto and S. Buso, "Review and Comparison of Grid-Tied Inverter Controllers in Microgrids," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 7624-7639, July 2020, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2019.2957975.
    • A. S. Alonso, D. I. Brandao, T. Caldognetto, F. P. Marafão, P. Mattavelli, "A selective harmonic compensation and power control approach exploiting distributed electronic converters in microgrids," in International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, vol. 115, 2020.
    • G. Liu, T. Caldognetto, P. Mattavelli and P. Magnone, "Suppression of Second-Order Harmonic Current for Droop-Controlled Distributed Energy Resource Converters in DC Microgrids," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 358-368, Jan. 2020.
    • P. Tenti and T. Caldognetto, "A General Approach to Select Location and Ratings of Energy Storage Systems in Local Area Energy Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
    • Q. Liu, T. Caldognetto and S. Buso, "Stability Analysis and Auto-Tuning of Interlinking Converters Connected to Weak Grids," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 9435-9446, Oct. 2019.
    • A. Khodamoradi, G. Liu, P. Mattavelli, T. Caldognetto and P. Magnone, "Analysis of an Online Stability Monitoring Approach for DC Microgrid Power Converters," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 4794-4806, May 2019.
    • Q. Liu, T. Caldognetto and S. Buso, "Flexible Control of Interlinking Converters for DC Microgrids Coupled to Smart AC Power Systems," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 66, no. 5, pp. 3477-3485, May 2019.
    • G. Liu, T. Caldognetto, P. Mattavelli and P. Magnone, "Power-Based Droop Control in DC Microgrids Enabling Seamless Disconnection From Upstream Grids," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 2039-2051, March 2019.
    • S. Buso, T. Caldognetto and Q. Liu, "Analysis and Experimental Characterization of a Large-Bandwidth Triple-Loop Controller for Grid-Tied Inverters," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 1936-1949, Feb. 2019.
    • P. Tenti and T. Caldognetto, "On Microgrid Evolution to Local Area Energy Network (E-LAN)," in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1567-1576, March 2019.
    • F. Cavazzana, T. Caldognetto, P. Mattavelli, M. Corradin and I. Toigo, "Analysis of Current Control Interaction of Multiple Parallel Grid-Connected Inverters," in IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 1740-1749, Oct. 2018.
    • D. I. Brandao, T. Caldognetto, F. P. Marafão, M. G. Simões, J. A. Pomilio, and P. Tenti, “Centralized Control of Distributed Single-Phase Inverters Arbitrarily Connected to Three- Phase Four-Wire Microgrids”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 437–446, Jan. 2017.
    • T. Caldognetto, L. Dalla Santa, P. Magnone, and P. Mattavelli, “Power Electronics Based Active Load for Unintentional Islanding Testbenches”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 3831–3839, July 2017.
    • P. Tenti and T. Caldognetto, “On Microgrid Evolution to Local Area Energy Network (E-LAN)”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2017, doi: 10.1109/TSG.2017.2772327.
    • S. Buso, T. Caldognetto, and D. I. Brandao, “Dead-Beat Current Controller for Voltage- Source Converters With Improved Large-Signal Response”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 1588–1596, Mar. 2016.
    • P. Tenti and T. Caldognetto, Master/Slave Power-Based Control of Low-Voltage Microgrids, ed. by Magdi Mahmoud, Elsevier, 2016.
    • S. Buso and T. Caldognetto, “A Nonlinear Wide-Bandwidth Digital Current Controller for DC-DC and DC-AC Converters”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 7687–7695, Dec. 2015.
    • S. Buso and T. Caldognetto, “Rapid Prototyping of Digital Controllers for Microgrid In- verters”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 440–450, 2015.
    • T. Caldognetto, S. Buso, P. Tenti, and D. I. Brandao, “Power-Based Control of Low-Voltage Microgrids”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1056–1066, Dec. 2015.
    • P. Tenti, T. Caldognetto, S. Buso, and D. I. Brandao, “Control of Utility Interfaces in Low-voltage Microgrids”, Brazilian Journal on Power Electronics, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 373–382, set./nov. 2015.
    • T. Caldognetto and P. Tenti, “Microgrids Operation Based on Master-Slave Cooperative Control”, IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 1081–1088, 2014.
    • T. Caldognetto, P. Tenti, A. Costabeber, and P. Mattavelli, “Improving Microgrid Perfor- mance by Cooperative Control of Distributed Energy Sources”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, vol. 50, no. 6, pp. 3921–3930, 2014.
    • T. Caldognetto, S. Buso, and P. Mattavelli, “Digital Controller Development Methodol- ogy Based on Real-Time Simulations with LabVIEW FPGA Hardware- Software Toolset”, Electronics Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 110–117, 2013.
    • P. Tenti, A. Costabeber, T. Caldognetto, and P. Mattavelli, “Cooperative control of smart micro-grids based on conservative power commands”, Przeglad Elektrotechniczny, vol. 89, no. 6, pp. 32–40, 2013.
    • A. Costabeber, P. Tenti, T. Caldognetto, E. Verri Liberado, “Selective compensation of reactive, unbalance, and distortion power in smart grids by synergistic control of distributed switching power interfaces” European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE 2013), 2013.
    • A. Khodamoradi, G. Liu, P. Mattavelli, T. Caldognetto, and P. Magnone, “On-Line Stability Monitoring for Power Converters in DC Microgrids”, in Proc. of: 2nd International Conference on DC Microgrids, 2017.
    • G. Liu, T. Caldognetto, and P. Mattavelli, “Power-Based Droop Control in DC Microgrids Enabling Seamless Disconnection from AC Grids”, in Proc. of: 2nd International Conference on DC Microgrids, 2017.
    • G. Liu, T. Caldognetto, P. Mattavelli, and P. Magnone, “Power sharing analysis of power- based droop control for DC microgrids considering cable impedances”, in Proc. of: 19th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE’17 ECCE Europe), Sept. 2017, P.1–P.10.
    • G. Liu, T. Caldognetto, P. Mattavelli, and P. Magnone, “Power-based droop control suppressing the effect of bus voltage harmonics for DC microgrids”, in Proc. of: IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Oct. 2017, pp. 4113–4120.
    • G. Cavraro, T. Caldognetto, R. Carli, and P. Tenti, “A Master/Slave Control of Distributed Energy Resources in Low-Voltage Microgrids”, in Proc. of: 15th European Control Conference (ECC), 2016.
    • A. Riccobono, S. K. A. Naqvi, A. Monti, T. Caldognetto, J. Siegers and E. Santi, "Online wideband identification of single-phase AC power grid impedances using an existing grid-tied power electronic inverter," 2015 IEEE 6th International Symposium on Power Electronics for Distributed Generation Systems (PEDG), Aachen, 2015, pp. 1-8.