Research Activities

Research Interests in Power Electronics

• Design and develop power electronics converter topologies and control techniques for different applications, in particular solving problems about power quality in ac grids and microgrids, integrating renewable energy and energy storage into the grid, and improving efficiency and reliability of power supply.

R&D Capabilities

• Power converter analysis, design and development

• Power supply testing and evaluation

• Electronic circuit design

• Circuit Simulation and Analysis

• Engineering prototype/sample

Seminars

• A seminar delivered at UTS - Progress of Power Electronics. [PDF]

• A seminar delivered at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. A summary of my recent 5 years of research on efficiency and power quality improvement in power conversion. [PDF]

Selected External Research Grants

• ARC Discovery Projects (DP240102646), Extending remaining useful life of second-life battery energy systems, Dylan Lu, Ricardo Aguilera,  Yam Siwakoti, and Gang Lei, 2024-2026. [Details] 

• Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund Microgrids, Transferrable benefits from feasibility study of Derwent Bridge Microgrid, M.J. Hossain, L. Li, D.D.-C. Lu, R. Aguilera, R.P. Liu, A. Voinov, A. Rana, D. Butler, R. Matweew, 2021-2023. [Media]

• ARC Discovery Projects (DP210101382), Extending the lifetime of switching power converters, Dylan Lu, Yam Siwakoti, and Ricardo Aguilera, 2021-2023 [Details] 

• ARC Discovery Projects (DP180100129), Low cost, efficient and more reliable power switching network, Dylan Lu and Ricardo Aguilera, 2018-2020 .

• ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LE150100021), Smart Grid Testing Facility, Z.Y. Dong, D. Hill, D. Lu, G. Verbic, et al., 2015. (Completed)

• Office of Naval Research (US), Assessment of integration challenges of hybrid power and energy storage systems, D. Verstraete, and D.D.C. Lu, 2014-2016. (Completed)

• Australian Strategic Technology Programme 2011, New generation of power electronics interfaces for smart metering, D.D.C. Lu, and Y.H. Li, 2013-2015. (Completed)

• ARC Discovery Projects (DP0985867), Hot-swappable and High-efficient Grid-connected Power Electronics System For Photovoltaic Modules with Direct Power Transfer Technique, Dylan Lu and Vassilios Agelidis, 2009-2012. (Completed)

• ARC Discovery Projects (DP0877588), Theoretical study and experimental verification of low cost, integrated and efficient AC/DC power supplies using time-multiplexing control, Dylan Lu, 2008-2011. (Completed)