The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Dr Colin Coates
School: School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Commenced with Institution: 18-JAN-1999
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Dr Galina Mirzaeva;Professor Robert Betz;Dr Terrence Summers;Dr Colin Coates 2007 2 CRC for Mining Technology and Equipment Project - Research Grant DC Motor Duty Meter   158000  
Dr Colin Coates;Mrs Michaela Griffiths 2005 3 CSIRO Energy Technology Scholarship - Postgraduate Research Scholarship Network Modeling of a Low voltage Distributed Generation system   37500  
Professor Seyed Moheimani;Dr Colin Coates;Professor Robert Betz 2002 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Control of emitted noise from switched reluctance drives using shunted piezoelectric transducers   12504  
Dr Colin Coates 2002 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant High Performance Control of a Nine-Phase Synchronous Reluctance Drive   9609  
Dr Colin Coates 2001 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant High Performance Control of a Nine-Phase Synchronous Reluctance Drive   11000  
Dr Colin Coates 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, USA 30 Sept - 4 Oct 2001   2122  
Professor Robert Betz;Dr Colin Coates;Dr Brian Cook 2000 2 Australian Research Council Collaborative - Strategic Partnerships with Industry - Research & Training Scheme (SPIRT) Improved Soft Starter for Induction Machines   60803  
Professor Robert Betz;Dr Colin Coates;Dr Brian Cook 2000 2 Zener Electrical (Newcastle) Pty Ltd Collaborative - SPIRT Partner funding Improved Soft Starter for Induction Machines. 2000 SPIRT PARTNER.   59413  
Dr Colin Coates 2000 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Australian Unviersities Power Engineering Conference, Brisbane 24-27 September 2000   417  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Co-Supervisor Power Electronics for Power Quality
PhD (Electrical&Computer Eng) Principal Supervisor Network Modelling of Low Voltage Distributed Generation Systems

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 1.200

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Coates Colin, Pulle Duco Willem, A Veltman, ’Modelling of single phase induction machines’, Australian Journal of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 1 151-155 (2004) [C1]

Conference Publication

Mirzaeva Galina, Coates Colin, ’A high performance drive for the rotary coal breaker application’, Proceedings of the IEEE Industry Applications Conference, 2007: 42nd IAS Annual Meeting, New Orleans (2007) [E1]

Griffiths Michaela Nicole, Coates Colin, ’Behaviour of microgrids in the presence of unbalanced loads’, 2007 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference. AUPEC '07. Proceedings, Perth, WA (2007) [E1]

Coates Colin, Macready Alison Ruth, ’Comparison of simulation models for self-excited induction generators’, 2007 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference. AUPEC '07. Proceedings, Perth, WA (2007) [E1]

Macready Alison Ruth, Coates Colin, ’Low cost wind turbine controller’, 2007 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference. AUPEC '07. Proceedings, Perth, WA (2007) [E1]

Griffiths Michaela Nicole, Coates Colin, ’Modelling and Performance of Low Voltage Distributed Generation Systems’, Proceedings of the 2006 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC'06), Melbourne VIC, Australia (2006) [E1]

Mirzaeva Galina, Middleton Richard Hume, Coates Colin, McKerihan J, ’Electrical Drive Technology Advances for Mining Applications’, 2005 Australian Mining Technology Conference : 'new technologies to produce more with less' : 27 - 28 September 2005 Fremantle, WA, Fremantle, Western Australia (2005) [E1]

Coates Colin, ’Electrical drive issues in rope shovels and longwall mining machines’, CD ROM, Noosa (2004) [E1]

Coates Colin, Pulle Duco Willem, A Veltman, ’Modelling of Single Phase Induction Machines’, Proceedings for AUPEC 2003, Christchurch, NZ (2003) [E1]

Coates Colin, Platt Glenn Michael, Gosbell V J, ’Performance Evaluation of a Nine-Phase Synchronous Reluctance Drive’, 2001 IEEE Industry Applications Conference 36th IAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA (2001) [E2]

Coates Colin, Platt Glenn Michael, Gosbell V J, ’Performance of Nine-Phase Synchronous Reluctance Drive’, The 4th IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems, Bali, Indonesia (2001) [E2]

Coates Colin, Platt D, Gosbell V J, ’Control and Performance of a Nine Phase Synchronous Reluctance Drive’, AUPEC 2000 Innovation for Secure Power, Brisbane, Australia (2000) [E1]

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