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Assist. Prof. Dr. Nattapong Pothi
Lecturer, Electrical Engineering

Room: EN2307
Phone: 054-46-6666  ext 3380
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Education
B.Eng. (Electrical Engineering) from Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 2002.
M.Eng. (Electrical Engineering) from Chiang Mai University, Thailand in 2006.
Ph.D. (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) from the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom in 2016.

Research Interests 
   • Flux-weakening control of DC and AC drives
   • Sensorless control of the permanent magnet machines
   • DC and AC drives
   • Energy conversion systems
   • Power electronic applications

The Electric Drives and Machines Research Group (EDM) was also established by him since 23 August 2018.

International Journal :

• N. Pothi, Z. Q. Zhu, I. A. A. Afinowi, B. Lee, and Y. Ren, “A new control strategy for hybrid-excited switched-flux permanent magnet machines,” IET Electric Power Applications, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 612–619, 2015.

International Conference :

• N. Pothi, S. Premrudeepreechacharn, and C. Rakpenthai, “Voltage losses compensation using artificial neural network for estimation nonlinear characteristic of switches”, 7^th Int. Conf. Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS), Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 2007, pp. 1015-1019.
• N. Pothi and Z. Q. Zhu, “A new control strategy for hybrid-excited switched-flux permanent magnet machines without the requirement of machine parameters,” in Proc. 7^th IET Int. Conf. Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD), Manchester, UK, 8-10 April 2014, pp. 1-6.
• S. Lee, N. Pothi, M. M. J. Al-Ani, and Z. Q. Zhu, “Experimental study of torque and flux weakening performance of alternative switched flux PM machines,” in Proc. 7^th IET Int. Conf. Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD), Manchester, UK, 8-10 April 2014, pp. 1-6.
• N. Pothi, “Improvement of Flux-weakening control of surface mounted permanent magnet synchronous machine considering inverter nonlinearity”, in Proc. 5^th International Electrical Engineering Congress (iEECON), Pattaya, Thailand, 8-10 March 2017, pp. 1-4.
• N. Pothi, “Flux-weakening control strategy of separately excited dc machine utilizing voltage regulation for modifying field current”, 2^nd Int. Conf. Control and Robotics Engineering (ICCRE), Bangkok, Thailand, 1-3 April 2017, pp. 160-164.
• N. Pothi, Z. Q. Zhu, and Y. Ren “Flux-weakening control of Novel Hybrid-excited Permanent Magnet Machines”, XXIII^rd Int. Conf. Electrical Machines (ICEM’2018), Alexandroupoli, Greece, 3-6 September 2018, pp. 1517-1523.
• Z. Q. Zhu, N. Pothi, P. L. Xu, and Y. Ren “Uncontrolled Generator Fault Protection of Novel Hybrid-excited Permanent Magnet Machines Utilizing Field Excitation Current Control”, XXIII^rd Int. Conf. Electrical Machines (ICEM’2018), Alexandroupoli, Greece, 3-6 September 2018, pp. 1724-1730.