David A. Torrey

Affiliations: 
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, United States 
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States 
Area:
Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Energy
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"David Allan Torrey" OR "David A Torrey"
Bio:

Dr. David Torrey received his BS in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. He received the SM, EE, and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Torrey has managed and participated in a number of development programs over the last twenty years ranging in power level from less than 1kW to in excess of 100kW. Torrey has held faculty positions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he supervised fourteen doctoral theses in the areas of power electronics and electric machines. Torrey is currently chief technology officer at Advanced Energy Conversion, LLC, a contract research and development firm specializing in power electronics and electric machines. Torrey has approximately eighty publications in the areas of power electronics and electric machines. Torrey continues to teach graduate courses in power electronics and electric machines through Union Graduate College in Schenectady, NY.
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Jeffrey H. Lang grad student 1988 MIT
 (Optimal-efficiency constant-speed control of nonlinear variable reluctance motor drives)

Children

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Erkan Mese grad student 2000 RPI
Michael J. Schutten grad student 2000 RPI
Bunyamin Tamyurek grad student 2001 RPI
Supat Kittiratsatcha grad student 2002 RPI
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Sozer Y, Husain I, Torrey DA. (2015) Guidance in selecting advanced control techniques for switched reluctance machine drives in emerging applications Ieee Transactions On Industry Applications. 51: 4505-4514
Rallabandi V, Mallampalli S, Rahul R, et al. (2015) Performance comparison of switched reluctance motor with sinusoidal and conventional excitation 2015 Ieee Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Ecce 2015. 5580-5585
Sozer Y, Husain I, Torrey DA. (2013) Advanced control techniques for switched reluctance machine drives in emerging applications 2013 Ieee Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Ecce 2013. 3776-3783
Sozer Y, Torrey DA, Mese E. (2013) Adaptive predictive current control technique for permanent magnet synchronous motors Iet Power Electronics. 6: 9-19
Tamyurek B, Torrey DA. (2011) A three-phase unity power factor single-stage AC-DC converter based on an interleaved flyback topology Ieee Transactions On Power Electronics. 26: 308-318
Selamogullari US, Torrey DA, Salon S. (2010) A systems approach for a stand-alone residential fuel cell power inverter design Ieee Transactions On Energy Conversion. 25: 741-749
Sozer Y, Torrey DA, Mese E. (2010) An adaptive predictive current control technique for permanent magnet synchronous motors 2010 Ieee Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Ecce 2010 - Proceedings. 2819-2826
Sozer Y, Torrey DA. (2010) Meeting MIL-STD-461 for 2KW military tactical generator drive system 2010 Ieee Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Ecce 2010 - Proceedings. 942-946
Sozer Y, Torrey DA. (2009) Modeling and control of utility interactive inverters Ieee Transactions On Power Electronics. 24: 2475-2483
Sozer Y, Torrey DA. (2007) Optimal turn-off angle control in the face of automatic turn-on angle control for switched-reluctance motors Iet Electric Power Applications. 1: 395-401
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