The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 05)
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS 05)
was held from 28 Nov to 1 Dec 2005 at Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel, Malaysia.
The PEDS conference series is held in various Region 10 countries and this time
Malaysia had the honour to organize this prestigious event. The conference is biennial,
and since 1995 the PEDS Central Committee, Singapore in collaboration with
overseas organizing committees have successfully organized five conferences
(PEDS-95 Singapore, PEDS-97 Singapore, PEDS-99 Hong Kong and PEDS-01 Bali,
PEDS-03 Singapore). All the PEDS conferences were held in technical co-sponsorship
with the IEEE Power Electronics Society and IEEE Industry Applications Society.
The aim of the Conference is to provide a forum for delegates from the industry
and academia to exchange ideas and present their research results.
In addition it is an ideal venue for interaction and establish the all-important
networking with each other.
This time, the conference included a set of half-day tutorials conducted by Prof B T Ooi,
Prof Leo Lorenz, Prof V Agelidis and Prof M F Rahman in the afternoon of
Monday, 27th November 2005. The opening ceremony was held in the morning of
the 28th November. The key note and plenary speeches were delivered by
Prof D Patterson, Prof B T Ooi, Prof M A Rahman, Prof P Tenti and Prof J Holtz.
The opening ceremony was followed by three days of technical paper presentations
until the 1st December. The poster session was conducted in the afternoon of
30th November. With over 500 abstracts received, the Technical Program
Committee had an overwhelming task of selecting papers of outstanding quality
and diversity. Finally, 297 papers were selected, involving authors from 34 different
countries.
Besides the technical program, delegates have managed to explore the many
exciting tourist attractions within the Capital Kuala Lumpur as well as in Malaysia.

Conference organizing committee,
plenary and key-note speakers
(Front row from left: N
Mariun, P Tenti, Zainal Salam, B T Ooi, J Holtz, D Patterson,
D M Vilathgamuwa, A H M Yatim, A K
Khambadkone, L Lorenz, S K Panda and Y C Liang) along with conference
participants.

Conference organizing committee,
plenary and key-note speakers (Front row from left: N Mariun,
D M Vilathgamuwa, A H M Yatim, J
Holtz, D Patterson, A Darus, M A Rahman, P Tenti, B T Ooi: Back row
from left: N R N Idris,
Gobbi Ramasamy,
D V Battul, Y C Liang, S K Panda, Zainal Salam, A K Khambadkone,
Awang Jusoh, Mohd Rodhi Sahid, Nik Din Muhammad,
Shahrin Bin Md Ayob and Naziha Ahmad Azli)
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Professors (a) D Patterson and
(b) M A Rahman presenting their papers during plenary session.
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