Rene Vargas

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 927 citations indexed

About

Rene Vargas is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Control and Systems Engineering and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Rene Vargas has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 927 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 1 paper in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in Rene Vargas's work include Multilevel Inverters and Converters (10 papers), Advanced DC-DC Converters (8 papers) and Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies (4 papers). Rene Vargas is often cited by papers focused on Multilevel Inverters and Converters (10 papers), Advanced DC-DC Converters (8 papers) and Silicon Carbide Semiconductor Technologies (4 papers). Rene Vargas collaborates with scholars based in Chile, Germany and United Kingdom. Rene Vargas's co-authors include José Rodríguez, Patricio Cortés, Samir Kouro, Leopoldo G. Franquelo, Sergio Vázquez, José I. Leon, Ulrich Ammann, Patrick Wheeler, Marco Rivera and José Espinoza and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, PESC record and Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

In The Last Decade

Rene Vargas

10 papers receiving 910 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Guidelines for weighting factors design in Model Predictive Control of power converters and drives

2009 587 citations Patricio Cortés, Samir Kouro et al. Deposito de Investigacion Universidad de Sevilla (University of Seville) profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rene Vargas Chile	10	912	518	47	13	13	10	927
Alan Wilson Chile	12	977 1.1×	648 1.3×	47 1.0×	14 1.1×	35 2.7×	21	994
Seok‐Min Kim South Korea	12	635 0.7×	206 0.4×	46 1.0×	22 1.7×	32 2.5×	36	644
P. Tenca Italy	12	660 0.7×	241 0.5×	16 0.3×	16 1.2×	7 0.5×	28	666
Mostafa Abarzadeh Canada	17	944 1.0×	362 0.7×	87 1.9×	19 1.5×	41 3.2×	59	965
Νικόλαος Οικονόμου Switzerland	14	1.2k 1.3×	497 1.0×	44 0.9×	50 3.8×	8 0.6×	31	1.2k
Vahid Dargahi United States	14	827 0.9×	258 0.5×	26 0.6×	27 2.1×	20 1.5×	54	833
Yunting Liu United States	10	372 0.4×	168 0.3×	60 1.3×	9 0.7×	22 1.7×	41	396
Ran Mo United States	12	361 0.4×	220 0.4×	47 1.0×	15 1.2×	8 0.6×	25	395
Joan Nicolás-Apruzzese Spain	11	662 0.7×	267 0.5×	63 1.3×	13 1.0×	26 2.0×	21	682
K. Jalili Germany	6	941 1.0×	497 1.0×	28 0.6×	18 1.4×	25 1.9×	11	960

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Ammann, Ulrich, Rene Vargas, & Jörg Roth‐Stielow. (2010). Investigation of the average switching frequency of Direct Model Predictive Control converters. 11. 1800–1807. 10 indexed citations

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Vargas, Rene, et al.. (2010). Predictive Torque Control of an Induction Machine Fed by a Matrix Converter With Reactive Input Power Control. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. 25(6). 1426–1438. 167 indexed citations

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Vargas, Rene, José Rodríguez, Christian A. Rojas, & Patrick Wheeler. (2010). Predictive current control applied to a matrix converter: An assessment with the direct transfer function approach. 1832–1838. 13 indexed citations

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Cortés, Patricio, Samir Kouro, Rene Vargas, et al.. (2009). Guidelines for weighting factors design in Model Predictive Control of power converters and drives. Deposito de Investigacion Universidad de Sevilla (University of Seville). 1–7. 587 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ammann, Ulrich, et al.. (2008). An analytical approach to steady-state current control properties of power converters featuring discrete-time switching. PESC record. 96. 2535–2542. 13 indexed citations

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Vargas, Rene, Ulrich Ammann, José Rodríguez, & J. Pontt. (2008). Predictive strategy to reduce common-mode voltages on power converters. PESC record. 3401–3406. 24 indexed citations

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Rivera, Marco, Rene Vargas, José Espinoza, et al.. (2008). Current control in matrix converters connected to polluted AC voltage supplies. PESC record. 412–417. 26 indexed citations

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Vargas, Rene, Ulrich Ammann, José Rodríguez, & J. Pontt. (2008). Reduction of switching losses and increase in efficiency of power converters using predictive control. PESC record. 1062–1068. 21 indexed citations

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Vargas, Rene, Marco Rivera, José Rodríguez, José Espinoza, & Patrick Wheeler. (2008). Predictive torque control with input PF correction applied to an induction machine fed by a matrix converter. PESC record. 9–14. 36 indexed citations

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Cortés, Patricio, José Rodríguez, Rene Vargas, & Ulrich Ammann. (2006). Cost Function-Based Predictive Control for Power Converters. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. 2268–2273. 30 indexed citations

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