• Italian

Power Electronics

Contact person

Silvio Stasi - Associate Professor

Competencies and research activities

• MORE ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT
- Design of electrical machines power converters and control algorithms for a more efficient use of energy on-board the more electrical aircrafts

• MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS: MODULATION AND CONTROL
- PI-based and passivity-based control of H-Bridges multilevel converters
- Back-to-back drives for traction systems
- Multilevel modulations and their implementation on FPGA systems

• POWER CONVERTERS FOR DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS
- Three-phase step-up inverters
- Anti-islanding methods
- Synchronization and control methods for distributed power generation systems in different grid conditions

• POWER QUALITY ASSESSMENT CRITERIA AND ACTIVE COMPENSATION SYSTEMS
- New power quality assessment criteria for non-linear loads
- Predictive, fuzzy and fuzzy-predictive controls of active filters
- Optimal tuning of active power filters via genetic algorithms and Nelder-Mead method

• THREE-PHASE ACTIVE RECTIFIERS
- LCL-filter design and passive/active damping of control loops
- Back-to-back drive with reduced energy storage
- Fuzzy-sensorless control for low-cost microcontrollers
 

Collaborations with companies and institutions

• University of Nottingham, UK
• Politecnico di Torino
• Università di Brescia
• Università di Firenze
• University of Aalborg, Denmark
• Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
• Curtin University, Perth, Australia
• Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
• Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha, Albacete, Spain