Applied Sciences Webinar | Advances in Multiphase Electric Drives and Control
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16th Webinar of Applied Sciences
Advances in Multiphase Electric Drives and Control
The purpose of this online seminar is to provide a miniforum to promote the research in electric drives and power conversion as an agent for improving the efficiency and reliability of the systems in which they are included. Concretly this webinar focus on the regulation of multiphase electric drives.
Addressing the global energy scenario requires the application of more competitive technological solutions in both the production and consumption of this energy. In this context, green energies generation, electric mobility or more electric industrial processes are considered exciting solutions to avoid greenhouse-gases emissions and optimize the consumption. All these solutions inherently include electric drives and thus, these have caught the attention of researchers involved in the development of electric vehicles, energy conversion systems and high-performance industrial motor applications. All these fields of work focus on enhancing the electric drive performance from different approaches ranging from the use of new semiconductor technology to the introduction of new control strategies, from the improved design of electrical machines to new VSC topologies. The multiphase electric drives are an interesting choice for variable-speed industrial applications with more demanding requirements because they offer an enhanced fault tolerance and a reduced per-phase current rating without increasing the rated voltage and their control has opened an extense field of research. For this reason, this webinar and this Special Issue aim to provide an insight into the state-of-the-art and advances of electric drives and multiphase electric drives, their regulation schemes and other progresses in power conversion. We’re holping researchers who are working on topics related to the Special Issue may consider to submit papers to this SI. Today, we are happy to have five speakers join this online webinar: Prof. Cruz, Dr. Gonçalves, Prof. Rodas, Prof. Ayala and Prof. Duran. All of them are senior researchers and have worked on multiphase electric drives related studies.
Date: 23 October 2024
Time: 4:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am EDT | 10:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 814 4229 3439
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet the Event Chairs
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Jorge Rodas
Laboratory of Power and Control Systems, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay;
Jorge Rodas obtained his PhD through a joint university program between Universidad Nacional de Asuncion (UNA) and Universidad de Sevilla in 2016. He is a Professor and Research Director at Facultad de Ingenieria, UNA. With over 130 published papers, his research focuses on advanced control applications for power electronic converters, renewable energy systems, and electric motor drives. He received the Paraguayan National Science Award. Dr. Rodas is a fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, U.K.
Prof. Magno Ayala
Laboratory of Power and Control Systems, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay;
Magno Ayala received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (UNA), Paraguay, in 2014, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in power electronics from the Faculty of Engineering, UNA, in 2017 and 2020, respectively. His research interest includes control of multiphase ac machines. He received the 2020 Paraguayan National Science Award. He received
an award from the Industrial Electronics Society, in 2021.
Prof. Sérgio Cruz
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Coimbra, Portugal;
Sérgio M. A. Cruz (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 1994, 1999, and 2004, respectively. He has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Coimbra since 1995, where he is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation and the Director of the Electric Machines Laboratory.
Throughout his career he has led 12 national and international research projects, at academic and industrial levels, and authored more than 120 papers in international journals and conferences. He also frequently serves as a consultant for various companies in the field of condition monitoring of electric machines and power electronic converters. His research interests include electric machines, electric drives, and power electronic converters used in the areas of transportation electrification and wind energy conversion systems, with a special emphasis on fault diagnosis, fault tolerance, and predictive control.
He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics (JESTPE).
Dr. Pedro F. Gonçalves
Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Hedeager 42, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark;
Pedro F. da Costa Gonçalves (Member, IEEE) was born in Coimbra, Portugal. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 2013 and 2022, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he worked as a Research Assistant at ENDIPREV S.A., focusing on condition monitoring of DFIGs in wind generators. From June 2022 to June 2024, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the McMaster Automotive Resource Centre (MARC), Hamilton, ON, Canada, where he specialized in electric motor control for aerospace and automotive applications. Since July 2024, he has been with the R&D Department of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, serving as an Assistant Lead Converter Control Engineer, focusing on the control of the grid-side converter of wind turbines. His main research interests include digital control, model predictive control, fault diagnosis, and fault-tolerant control applied to power converters and both three-phase and multiphase electric drives. In 2023, he was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award by IEEE Portugal for his thesis entitled "Fault-Tolerant Predictive Control of PMSGs in Offshore Wind Turbines".
Prof. Mario J. Durán
Department of Electrical Engineering of University of Málaga, Spain;
Mario Durán is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Malaga (UMA), and has made contributions of high archival value in the area of electric drives for renewable energy and electric vehicle applications, which have materialized in 95 JCR articles (60 in Q1, 77 in Q1-Q2 and 57 IEEE transactions), in addition to the publication of books and various outreach documents (e.g. Wiley EEEE encyclopedia). His work has been highly cited in the field (9448 citations with h-index = 49 and i10 index = 109), which has made him year after year in the Stanford list of the most influential researchers in the world. The 8 stays in the most prestigious centers in the world (Imperial College, Ryerson University, LJMU, University of Bologna, UTFSM in Chile) have served to weave a network of international contacts (more than 35 international co-authors). He has been principal investigator of several national and regional projects with the support of companies such as Gamesa or Seat-Volkswagen, building a pioneering laboratory at the University of Malaga with a control system patented by himself.
The quality of the work carried out has been recognized with the following awards as: the IEEE Outstanding Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics in 2010, the IET Journals Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Electric Power Applications in 2018-2019 or the National Science Award of the Republic of Paraguay will win honorable mention for the merits of a paper in 2022, among others. Besides Mario Duran is recognized as one of the most influential researchers (in the top 1% of most cited researchers) by Stanford University in 2023.
His research interests include modeling and control of multiphase drives and renewable energies conversion system.
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Advances in Electric Drives and Control
Edited by Juan J. Aciego-Gallardo and Ignacio Gonzalez Prieto
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025