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

在通过物联网（IoT）概念实现社会一体化的时代，对革命性电力电子系统的需求不断增加。子系统和服务的良好集成，从智能电网到卫生组织，再到军事场所和关键负载，都是必须的。实现这一目标的关键是一项研究计划，该计划将引入一种由以新颖方式设计的电源电路支持的信息系统，以降低成本，但保持其可靠性符合标准。该研究计划代表了多学科技术，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（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是最大限度地利用电力。例如，电动汽车的使用实现了一个更绿色的社会;如果没有电力电子转换器，这是不可能的。将开发新型电力电子电路，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随着时间的推移而下降，而体积庞大的无源元件的成本保持不变。这促使电力电子工程师提供基于“半导体”的解决方案，而不是传统的无源解决方案。一个例子是在电动汽车中使用GaN转换器，因为它们在非常高的频率下工作，这减小了电感器和电容器的尺寸;使它们更轻，更紧凑。新的半导体要求驱动电路具有更低的能耗，这是另一个优点。*该计划的目标是：（1）设计电力电子电路的驱动应用与新的半导体;（2）研究使用谐振转换器，使建立轻和紧凑;（3）将这些驱动系统集成到物联网中将需要为这些骨干通信电路提供新的供电方案，即以太网供电，（4）使用现有技术的数字控制器的电力电子电路的控制，以及基于模糊和神经的控制器的研究，以及（5）所谓的“混合电动机”的设计，其中来自成本有效的感应电动机的混合叠片被小心地混合到昂贵的永磁电动机中未来电机的有效性，而不会降低其性能。*该研究计划不仅将专注于为功率驱动系统提供更好的选择，还将关注基于微控制器的这些新材料的加工和制造，申请人在这方面拥有丰富的工业经验。毫无疑问，这项研究计划将成为未来的电气工程学科。

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.