Innovative Power Electronics Components, Control Systems, and Motor Design Techniques for Future Smart Power Drive Systems

在通过物联网(IoT)概念实现社会融合的时代，对革命性的电力电子系统的需求是无情的。从智能电网到卫生组织，再到军事地点和关键负荷，健全的子系统和服务集成是必须的。实现这一目标的关键是一个研究计划，该计划将引入一个以新颖方式设计的电源电路为基础的信息系统，以降低其成本，同时保持其可靠性达到标准。*该研究计划代表了一项多学科技术，包括但不限于：功率半导体、控制理论、微型计算机、电机设计和具有超大规模集成电路(VLSI)能力的转换器电路。*在任何社会中，电力电子应用的一个重要方面就是最大限度地利用电力。例如，电动汽车的使用实现了更环保的社会；如果没有电力电子转换器，这是不可能的。*将开发新的电力电子电路，使用最新的先进半导体，如氮化镓(GaN)、碳化硅(SIC)和混合ACCUFET。这些半导体及其相关控制电路的成本正在随着时间的推移而下降，而笨重的无源元件的成本保持不变。这驱使电力电子工程师提供一种基于半导体的解决方案，而不是传统的被动解决方案。一个例子是在电动汽车中使用GaN转换器，因为它们工作在非常高的频率上，这减小了电感和电容器的尺寸，使它们更轻、更紧凑。新的半导体需要低能耗的驱动电路，这是另一个优点。*该计划的目标是：(1)为使用新半导体的驱动应用设计电力电子电路；(2)研究谐振转换器的使用，使建筑轻巧紧凑；(3)将这些驱动系统集成到物联网中将需要为这些主干通信电路提供新的供电方案，即通过以太网供电，(4)使用最先进的数字控制器控制电力电子电路，并研究基于模糊和神经的控制器，以及(5)所谓的“混合电机”的设计，其中来自高性价比的感应电机的混合叠片被小心地混合到昂贵的永磁电机中，以在不降低其性能的情况下实现未来电机的最大性价比。*本研究计划不仅将重点放在电力驱动系统的更好的选择上，还包括基于微控制器的加工和制造这些新材料，申请人在这方面拥有丰富的工业经验。毫无疑问，这一研究计划将作为一门未来主义的电气工程学科而盛行。

In the era of society integration through the concept of Internet of Things (IoT), there is relentless need for revolutionary power electronic systems. Sound integration of subsystems and services, ranging from smart grid to health organizations to military sites and critical loads, is a must. A key to achieve this is a research program that will introduce an information system back boned by a power circuits designed in a novel way to reduce its cost but keep its reliability up to the standards.***This research program represents a multidisciplinary technology that includes but not limited to; power semiconductors, control theory, microcomputers, electrical machine design, and converter circuits with very large scale integration (VLSI) capabilities. ***An important aspect of the power electronics applications in any society is about the utmost use of electricity. For example, the use of electric cars achieves a greener society; this would have been impossible without power electronic converters.***Novel power electronic circuits will be developed, using the most recent advanced semiconductors like Gallium Nitride (GaN), Silicon Carbide (SiC), and hybrid ACCUFETs. The cost of these semiconductors and their associated control circuits is falling with time, while the cost of bulky passive components remains the same. This drives the power electronics engineer to provide a “semiconductor” based solution rather than a traditional passive solution. An example is the use of GaN converters in electric vehicles as they operate at very high frequencies, which reduces the size of inductors and capacitors; making them lighter and more compact. New semiconductors require driving circuits with reduced energy consumption, which is another merit.***The objectives of the program are to: (1) design power electronic circuits for drive applications with new semiconductors; (2) Investigate the use of resonant converters to make the build light and compact; (3) The integration of these drive systems into the IoT will require a novel powering scheme for these backbone communication circuits, namely Power over the Ethernet, (4) Control of power electronic circuits using the state of the art digital controllers, and investigation of fuzzy and neural based controllers, and (5) Design of the so called “Hybrid Motors”, where mixed laminations from cost effective induction motors are blended carefully into the expensive permanent magnet motors to achieve the utmost cost effectiveness of future motors without degrading its performance.***This research program will not only focus on better options for the power drive systems, but also micro controller based processing and fabrication of these new materials, in which the applicant possesses extensive industrial experience. Undoubtedly, this research program will prevail as a futuristic electrical engineering discipline.