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grounding the appropriate node (Figure 2). This paper has
been cited approximately 70 times, including in the books
Principle of Power Electronics, by John G. Kassakian,
Martin F. Schlecht, and George C. Verghese of MIT, and
Fundamentals of Power Electronics, by Robert W. Erickson and Dragan Maksimovic of the University of Colorado. His paper was also cited as recently as 2007 in a Ph.D.
dissertation by Faisal Habib Kahn at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Some notable publications resulting from Landsman's
work at Lincoln Lab include
■ "Modular Converters for Space Power Systems," Power
Conditioning Specialists Conference, April 1970
■ "Motor Starting with PV Systems," 1978 IEEE PV Specialists Conference, Washington, D.C., 5-8 June 1978
■ "Maximum Power Trackers for Photovoltaic Arrays,"
IEEE PV Specialists Conference, Washington, D.C., 5-8
June 1978
■ "Classification and Technical Review of dc-ac Inverters
for Use in PV Power Systems," IEEE Power Electronic
Specialists Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 5-10
August 1978
■ "A Unifying Derivation of Switching dc-dc Converter
Topologies," PESC, San Diego, California, 19-21 June 1979
■ "Static Inverters for use in PV Power Systems," 14th
Intersociety Energy Conversion, 1979
■ "Analysis and Test of Line-Commutated Inverters for
Use in Photovoltaic Power Systems," 15th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Orlando, Florida, May
1981 and Technical Report DOE/ET/20279-115 (Lincoln
Lab), February 1981
■ "Evaluation Tests of Abacus 6 kVA Utility-Interactive
Inverter," Technical Report DOE/ET/20279-145, August 1981
■ "Estimating State of Charge of Sealed Lead Acid Batteries,"
Power Quality Conference, 1998, Santa Clara, California.
Concurrently, Landsman participated in professional
activities that included his service on the advisory committee for the National Electrical Code revisions, to cover wiring of residential PV arrays and utility interactive inverters
(1978). From 1979 to 1985, he was a member of the IEEE
PV Power Conditioning Standards Subcommittee, and
since 1988, he has been on the industry advisory committee
of the UL1778 uninterruptible power systems (UPS)
standard. Likewise, in 1992, he participated in the IEEE
Power Engineering Society working group on distribution


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