Marco Rivera

Contact

• workRoom B29 PEMC
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• MARCO.Rivera@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Prof.-Dr. Marco Rivera received the Electronic Civil Engineering degree and the M.Sc. degree in Engineering, with specialization in Electrical Engineering, from the Universidad de Concepción. Later he obtained the PhD. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, and was awarded with the "Premio Tesis de Doctorado Academia Chilena de Ciencias 2012", for the best PhD Thesis developed in 2011 for national and foreign students in any exact or natural sciences program, that is member of the Academia Chilena de Ciencias, Chile. Through the last years, he has been visiting professor at several international universities. He has directed and participated in several projects financed by the National Fund for Scientific and Technological development (Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, FONDECYT), the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID), and the the Paraguayan Program for the Development of Science and Technology (Proyecto Paraguayo para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y Tecnología, PROCIENCIA), among others. He has been the responsible researcher of basal financed projects whose objective is to enhance, through substantial and long-term financing, Chile's economic development through excellence and applied research.

He is the Director of the Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Power Electronics (Laboratorio de Conversión de Energías y Electrónica de Potencia, LCEEP) at Universidad de Talca, Chile. He was full professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Talca. Since April 2023 he joined the Power Electronics and Machine Centre of the University of Nottingham as a Professor. His main research areas are matrix converters, predictive and digital controls for high-power drives, four-leg converters, development of high-performance control platforms based on field-programmable gate arrays, renewable energies, advanced control of power converters, design, assembly and start-up of power converters, among others. He has published almost 500 academic publications in leading international conferences and journals.

Recent Publications

• SILVA, JOSÉ J., ROHTEN, JAIME A., VILLARROEL, FELIPE A., PULIDO, ESTEBAN S. and RIVERA, MARCO E., 2024. A Honeycomb-Like Predictive Controller With a Reduced Computational Burden for Three-Level NPC Converters IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 39(2), 2051-2062
• FUENTES-PEÑAILILLO, FERNANDO, ORTEGA-FARÍAS, SAMUEL, ACEVEDO-OPAZO, CESAR, RIVERA, MARCO and ARAYA-ALMAN, MIGUEL, 2024. A Smart Crop Water Stress Index-Based IoT Solution for Precision Irrigation of Wine Grape Sensors. 24(1),
• KOOHI, PEYMAN, WATSON, ALAN J., SOEIRO, THIAGO BATISTA, CLARE, JON C., RIVERA, MARCO, VENUGOPAL, PRASANTH and WHEELER, PATRICK W., 2023. A Hardware-Based Bidirectional Power Flow Decoupling Approach for Multi-Active-Bridge Converters In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC). 1-7
• HOSSEINZADEH, MOHAMMAD ALI, SAREBANZADEH, MARYAM, KENNEL, RALPH, BABAEI, EBRAHIM and RIVERA, MARCO, 2023. New Generalized Circuits for Single-Phase Multisource Multilevel Power Inverter Topologies IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 38(6), 6823-6830

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• SILVA, JOSÉ J., ROHTEN, JAIME A., VILLARROEL, FELIPE A., PULIDO, ESTEBAN S. and RIVERA, MARCO E., 2024. A Honeycomb-Like Predictive Controller With a Reduced Computational Burden for Three-Level NPC Converters IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 39(2), 2051-2062
• FUENTES-PEÑAILILLO, FERNANDO, ORTEGA-FARÍAS, SAMUEL, ACEVEDO-OPAZO, CESAR, RIVERA, MARCO and ARAYA-ALMAN, MIGUEL, 2024. A Smart Crop Water Stress Index-Based IoT Solution for Precision Irrigation of Wine Grape Sensors. 24(1),
• KOOHI, PEYMAN, WATSON, ALAN J., SOEIRO, THIAGO BATISTA, CLARE, JON C., RIVERA, MARCO, VENUGOPAL, PRASANTH and WHEELER, PATRICK W., 2023. A Hardware-Based Bidirectional Power Flow Decoupling Approach for Multi-Active-Bridge Converters In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC). 1-7
• HOSSEINZADEH, MOHAMMAD ALI, SAREBANZADEH, MARYAM, KENNEL, RALPH, BABAEI, EBRAHIM and RIVERA, MARCO, 2023. New Generalized Circuits for Single-Phase Multisource Multilevel Power Inverter Topologies IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 38(6), 6823-6830
• SAAVEDRA, JORGE, BAIER, CARLOS, MARCIEL, ESTEBAN, RIVERA, MARCO, CARRENO, ALVARO, HERNÁNDEZ, J. and MELIN, PEDRO, 2023. Comparison of FCS-MPC Strategies in a Grid-Connected Single-Phase Quasi-Z Source Inverter Electronics. 12, 2052
• ALIAGA, RODRIGO, MUÑOZ, JAVIER, RIVERA, MARCO, WHEELER, PATRICK, ROHTEN, JAIME and TRENTIN, ANDREW, 2023. A Single Phase Hybrid Multiport Microinverter for Photovoltaic Energy Controlled by Exact Linearization IEEE Access. 11, 50075-50089
• STOJIC, DJORDJE and RIVERA, MARCO, 2023. New hysteresis FCS-MPC AC current controller with disturbance estimator Electrical Engineering. 105, 1-10
• MURILLO, DUBERNEY, ARAYA, BALDOMERO, RESTREPO, CARLOS, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, P., 2023. Impact of Sequential Model Predictive Control on Induction Motor Performance: Comparison of Converter Topologies Mathematics. 11, 972
• MIR, TABISH NAZIR, SINGH, BHIM, BHAT, ABDUL HAMID, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2023. Single-Phase Mains Fed Three-Phase Induction Motor Drive Using Improved Power Quality Direct AC–AC Converter IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications. 4, 178-187
• MIR, TABISH NAZIR, SINGH, BHIM, BHAT, ABDUL HAMID, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2023. Single-Phase Mains Fed Three-Phase Induction Motor Drive Using Improved Power Quality Direct AC–AC Converter IEEE Open Journal of Industry Applications. 4, 178-187
• VEILLON, MATIAS, ESPINOSA, EDUARDO, LIZANA, RICARDO, MELIN, PEDRO, MIRZAEVA, GALINA, RIVERA, MARCO and SEPULVEDA, NEIL, 2023. Alternative Feedback Quantizer Using Space Vector Modulation In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT). 1-6
• HUANG, ZHEN, WEI, QIANG, XIAO, XUECHUN, XIA, YONGHONG, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2023. Enhanced Dual–Vector Model Predictive Control for PMSM Drives Using the Optimal Vector Selection Principle Energies. 16(22),
• AYALA, M., TOLEDO, S., RAMIREZ, G., PRADO, A., CABALLERO, D., RIVERA, M., WHEELER, P. and GREGOR, R., 2022. A review of solar and wind energy in Paraguay In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-5
• FRIAS, G., CATUOGNO, G., RIVERA, M., WHEELER, P. and GARCÍA, G., 2022. Electrodependent Patients: Regulations, Possible Technical Solutions and Case Study In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• CATUOGNO, GUILLERMO, FRÍAS, GASTÓN, CATUOGNO, CARLOS, GARCÍA, GUILLERMO, RIVERA, MARCOS and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2022. Appropriate Technology as an Alternative to Mitigate Energy Poverty in Rural Communities In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• ALBORNOZ, MATÍAS, RIVERA, MARCO, RAMÍREZ, ROBERTO, VARAS-CONCHA, FELIPE and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2022. Water Splitting Dynamics of High Voltage Pulsed Alkaline Electrolysis In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-7
• BRAVO-LÓPEZ, MANUEL, MARIN, SAMUEL, TERREROS-BARRETO, JHON-RONALD, GARCÉS, ALEJANDRO, MOLINA, ALEXANDER, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2022. An Overview of the Colombian Power System In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• ALBORNOZ, MATÍAS, RIVERA, MARCO, RAMÍREZ, ROBERTO, VARAS-CONCHA, FELIPE and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2022. Water Splitting Dynamics of High Voltage Pulsed Alkaline Electrolysis In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-7
• RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ, MUÑOZ, JAVIER and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive Control Strategies in a Two-Level Voltage Source Inverter In: 2021 IEEE Congreso Estudiantil de Electrónica y Electricidad (INGELECTRA). 1-7
• RIVERA, M., RIVEROS, J. and WHEELER, P., 2021. Predictive Current Control Strategies for Grid Connected NPC Converters In: 2021 IEEE Congreso Estudiantil de Electrónica y Electricidad (INGELECTRA). 1-6
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, MUÑOZ, JAVIER, BAIER, CARLOS and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. A study of weighting factor design in model predictive control applications In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-5
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Basic principles of solar energy In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-6
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, MUñOZ, JAVIER and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Cascaded predictive control for a three-phase VSI with different cost functions In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-6
• FUENTES, ROBERTO, ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ, MUÑOZ, JAVIER and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Control strategies of photovoltaic systems In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-6
• REYES, ANGIE, SALGUEIRO, YAMISLEYDI, RIVERA, MARCO, CAMARGO, JORGE, HERNÁNDEZ, ANDRÉS and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Critical scenarios identification in power system simulations using graph measures and machine learning In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-6
• RIVERA, MARCO, ROJAS, DIEGO, FUENTES, ROBERTO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Development of Solar Energy in Chile and the World In: 2021 IEEE 48th Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC). 2453-2457
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, MUÑOZ, JAVIER, WHEELER, PATRICK, ZANCHETTA, PERICLE and MIRZAEVA, GALINA, 2021. Effect of model parameter errors in model predictive control applications In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-7
• FUENTES, ROBERTO, ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ, MUÑOZ, JAVIER and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. General view of solar energy In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-5
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, TOLEDO, SERGIO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive control techniques applied to a 2L-VSI In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-6
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive current control strategy for a single phase direct matrix converter In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-6
• FUENTES, ROBERTO, ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ, MUÑOZ, JAVIER and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Solar energy in the agrifood industry In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-7
• FRIAS, GASTÓN, CATUOGNO, GUILLERMO, RIVERA, MARCO, WHEELER, PATRICK and GARCÍA, GUILLERMO, 2021. Sequential FCS-MPC for open phase fault tolerant control applied to SynRM In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-6
• FUENTES, ROBERTO, ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ, MUÑOZ, JAVIER and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Technologies and MPPT algorithms for solar energy applications In: 2021 IEEE CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON). 1-8
• RIVERA, MARCO, ROJAS, DIEGO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. The Selection of Cost Functions in Model Predictive Control Applications In: 2021 21st International Symposium on Power Electronics (Ee). 1-6
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, WHEELER, PATRICK, ZANCHETTA, PERICLE, MIRZAEVA, GALINA and ROHTEN, JAIME, 2021. A Study of Cost Function Selection in Model Predictive Control Applications In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. An Overview of Solar Energy in Chile In:
• MURILLO-YARCE, DUBERNEY, RIVERA, MARCO, RESTREPO, CARLOS, MUÑOZ, JAVIER, BAIER, CARLOS, RODRÍGUEZ, RAÚL, WHEELER, PATRICK, ZANCHETTA, PERICLE and MIRZAEVA, GALINA, 2021. Common-Mode Voltage Reduction in a VSI Inverter Applying Sequential Predictive Control In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, P., 2021. Field-Oriented Control with a Predictive Current Strategy of an Induction Machine Fed by a Two-Level Voltage Source Inverter In:
• RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ, RODRÍGUEZ, CONSUELO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive Control Operating at Fixed Switching Frequency of an Induction Machine Fed by a Voltage Source Inverter In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, MUÑOZ, JAVIER, BAIER, CARLOS and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive Current Control Applied to a 3L-NPC Inverter In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-7
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive Current Control Strategy for a Multi-Modular Matrix Converter In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ, RODRÍGUEZ, CONSUELO, WHEELER, PATRICK and ROHTEN, JAIME, 2021. Predictive Torque and Flux Control of an Induction Machine Fed by a Voltage Source Inverter In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-5
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, TOLEDO, SERGIO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive Voltage Control at Fixed Switching Frequency with Reduced Reactive Power in a Direct Matrix Converter In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• ROJAS, DIEGO, RIVERA, MARCO, TOLEDO, SERGIO and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Reactive Power Control Using a Model-Based Predictive Control Strategy Applied to an Indirect Matrix Converter In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIV Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control (ICA-ACCA). 1-6
• TOLEDO, S., CABALLERO, D., MAQUEDA, E., ARRUA, S., GOMEZ-REDONDO, M., GREGOR, R., RIVERA, M. and WHEELER, P., 2021. Fault Tolerant Predictive Control for Six-Phase Wind Generation Systems using Multi-Modular Matrix Converter In: IECON 2021 – 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 1-6
• RIVERA, MARCO, RIVEROS, JOSÉ A. and WHEELER, PATRICK, 2021. Predictive Torque Control of an Induction Machine - Voltage Source Inverter System In: 2021 IEEE PES/IAS PowerAfrica. 1-5