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Power Electronics Development Center
TODAY at 1 PM CST: See the new field oriented inverter control example code for the NI sbRIO GPIC
SPECTRUM WEBCASTS
Power Converter Controller Design for Smart Grid Power Electronics
Tue, Sep 25, '12 - 14:00PM (EDT)
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT / 18:00 GMT (Duration: 1 hour)
Just say no to trial and error when designing your next smart grid power converter or flexible AC transmission control system. Learn how to fool proof your design cycle by applying appropriate validation and control synthesis techniques. New methods will be demonstrated through the design of two FPGA-based control systems: 1. A classic field-oriented control and space-vector PWM inverter and 2. The application of set-theoretic methods in power converter controller synthesis to optimize the reliability of the closed-loop system while protecting component lifetime.
Join us for demo based introductions to the proposed techniques, including:
- New developments in set theory to automatically synthesize low complexity control laws with strong reliability guarantees,
- Power electronics co-simulation tools for automated testing of FPGA control software,
- Real-time simulators and miniature-scale grids for rapid prototyping and hardware-in-the-loop verification, and
- Deployment-ready inverter stacks and FPGA control boards for high volume commercialization.
PRESENTERS:
Ben Black received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. In August of 2006 he joined the System Engineering group at National Instruments, focusing on advanced control and FPGA-based simulation. He is currently engaged in projects involving the control and HIL simulation of power electronics systems, primarily in inverter control, inverter simulation and high speed simulation of electric motors.
Brian MacCleery- Product Manager for Clean Energy Technology at National Instruments
Brian’s mission is to facilitate the design, prototyping and deployment of advanced embedded systems technologies that will help make clean energy less expensive and more abundant than fossil fuels. Brian works with green engineering companies worldwide to help them accelerate their commercialization process through the use of high-level graphical programming software and cutting edge reconfigurable embedded instrumentation and control hardware.
Kalyan K. Sen received B.E.E, M.S.E.E, and Ph.D degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Jadavpur University, India, Tuskegee University, USA, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, respectively. He has spent 23 years in academia and industry. He was a key member of the FACTS development team at the Westinghouse Science & Technology Center in Pittsburgh, USA where he contributed in all aspects (conception, simulation, design, and commissioning) of FACTS projects. He has 25 patents and publications in the areas of FACTS and power electronics. He is the coauthor of the book titled, Introduction to FACTS Controller: Theory, Modeling, and Applications, New York: IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009. He is the co-inventor of the “Sen” Transformer for FACTS applications. He is also the cofounder of SEN Engineering Solutions, where he pursues his interests in affordable power flow controllers.
Veaceslav Spinu is currently a PhD candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology in the department of Electrical Engineering, Control Systems group. His research focuses on advanced control of power converters with a special attention to model predictive control and set theoretic methods. Veaceslav Spinu holds the Ir. and M.S. degrees in Automatic Control and Applied Informatics from Technical University of Iasi, Romania.
Olivier Trescases (B.A.Sc, M.A.Sc., Ph.D.) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of Toronto in 2007. He has published over 40 papers in IEEE conferences and power electronics journals. He received two IEEE best-paper awards, one IEEE Vehicular Technology award, as well as the 2010 Green Innovation Award from the City of Toronto. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a concept engineer and mixed-signal integrated circuit designer at Infineon Technologies in Austria. Dr. Trescases joined the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in January 2009, where he conducts research on power electronics for automotive, industrial, aerospace and renewable energy applications.
MODERATOR:
Dexter Johnson
Analyst at Cientifica, a business intelligence company for emerging technologies
Author and Editor of several market reports on nanotechnology
Contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum’s Tech Talk
Program Director for numerous international conferences on nanotechnology, fiber optic
