EPE Control Chapter (EPE-CONT)
Chapter Chair
Dr. Abdelkrim Benchaib, Alstom
Grid, France
Mission
The
Control Chapter provides a
collection of interesting material concerning the methods and tools for
control of electro-mechanical and power electronics systems.
Furthermore,
we want to inform on a regular base about trends, news and interesting
publications and meetings in the area of academic and industrial control
approaches for electric devices.
If you want to contribute, please contact us.
Power electronics is the key technology to
control the flow of electrical energy from the source to the load precisely
according the requirements of the load. It is responsible for the reliability
and stability of the whole power supply infrastructure in Europe
from the sources, the energy transmission and distribution up to the huge
variety of applications in industry, transportation systems and the home
& office appliances (see Position
Paper on Energy Efficiency – the
Role of Power Electronics – ECPE & EPE).
Past
decades have been prolific with proposals of efficient linear or non linear control approaches. Currently, there is a new
trend in control for energy savings and the performance objectives have
changed. in order to minimise human intervention in
autonomous system (such as power networks), reduce duration of power
interruptions and increase reliability, it is important to focus on diagnosis
aspects. Moreover, the control strategies are also bonded with the software
and hardware to analyse and implement them. Many directions may be taken into
consideration:
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Modelling and Analysis tools
(µ-analysis, State space description…)
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Graphical description tools for
control (COG, EMR, Bond-Graph, POG…)
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Open and close loop observers (Luenberger, Kalman, sliding
modes …)
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Diagnosis, fault detection,
reconfiguration (deterministic, stochastic …)
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Robust control (LQG, H Inf.
Adaptive Control….)
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Non
linear control approaches (Fuzzy logic, neural networks, sliding modes, Lyapunov …)
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Other advanced controls
(flatness control, optimal control, internal model control…)
In addition to the emerging
smart grids issues, the nature of today’s systems involving power electronics
(large scale, interconnected, nonlinear, time-varying, integrating
predictions and distributed sensors and actuators) requests additional
techniques for modeling, stability, control and protection taking into-account the complexity
of the whole system (system of systems). These techniques could be (non restrictive): complex systems, synchronization, fractional order modeling…
When dealing with large complex projects, it becomes
mandatory to take into account the multidisciplinary character of such
systems. As an interdisciplinary field, system engineering will for example
focus on customer needs early in the development process while considering
the complete project. Control
Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Organizational Studies, and Project
Management are the disciplines considered here.
The EPE Control Chapter will propose several tutorials and special sessions
in EPE conferences and related events. According to the
scientific tendency, the chapter will propose special papers in EPE journal
Future Activities:
EMR'15
International Summer school –
University of Lille 1, Lille (France)
15-18 June 2015
Modelling
and Control using ENERGETIC MACROSCOPIC REPRESENTATION
Application to hybrid electric vehicles and others
For
full info, please visit: http://www.emrwebsite.org/
Recent activities :
EMR'14
Summer school – Coimbra (Portugal)
May-June 2014
http://www.emrwebsite.org/
EMR'13 - “Energetic
Macroscopic Representation and Inversion-based control”
Summer school, University Lille1/ L2EP,
supported by the Control Chapter of EPE Association
http://emr.univ-lille1.fr/
http://www.emrwebsite.org/emr-13-presentation.html
The EMR'13 summer school (Energetic
Macroscopic Representation and
Inversion-based control) has been successfully organized by
University
Lille1 / L2EP, supported by the Control
chapter of EPE association.
There were 54 attendees from 7 countries
(Argentina, Canada, France,
Italy, Portugal, Romania and
Switzerland); about 2/3 of attendees were
Master or PhD Students, 5 lectures on
concepts, 14 lectures on
applications, 2 simulations sessions, 1
practical session plus the PhD
works. 3 ECTS
have been delivered by University Lille1 to foreign Master and PhD students.
EPE
Control Chapter Symposium on Smart grids (EPE-CCS 2013)
DC grid for more Renewable
Energy Penetration in the Power Networks of the Future: DC grid control and
operations
Conservatoire
national des arts et métiers (Cnam), Paris, France,
January, 24th, 2013
http://www.eeci-institute.eu/WINPOWER
EMR'12 - “Modelling
and control using Energetic Macroscopic Representation (EMR)”
Joint summer school
of University Carlos III of Madrid (Spain) and Univ Lille1
University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid (Spain) - June 25-27, 2012
http://emr.univ-lille1.fr/
8th
PP&PSC (Power Plant and Power Systems Control) symposium
Institut National Polytechnique
de Toulouse - September 2-5, 2012 - Toulouse – France
http://www.pppsc2012.org/
PRECEDE 2011
“Workshop
on Predictive Control of Electrical Drives and Power Electronics”
Technical University Munich - October 14-15, 2011 –Munich, Germany
Upcoming collaboration:
-Additional suggestions can
be send to us
Past activities:
-Additional suggestions can
be send to us
Organisation
EPE-Control
Advisory board:
Dr. Abdelkrim Benchaib,
Alstom Grid, France - Chairman
Prof. Lennart Harnefors, ABB Power Systems,
Sweden
Prof. Dr. Ing. Ralph Kennel, TU München, Germany
Prof. Betty Semail-Lemaire, Université
Lille 1, France
Prof. Jean-Luc Thomas, CNAM / SUPELEC,
France
Useful
information:
-Additional
suggestions can be send to us
Interesting
papers and books
"Electrical Actuators - Identification and Observation",
edited by B. de Fornel
and J. P. Louis, ISTE Ltd / John Wiley & Sons inc.,
London, March
2010, ISBN 978-1-84821-096-7
"Control in Power Elctronicsn
selected problems",
M. Kazmierkowski, R. Krishnam, F. Blaabjerg, Elsevier
Science & Academic Press, 2002
"The control Handbok",
edited by W. S. Levine, CRC Press
& IEEE Press, 1996
“Direct Eigen Control for induction machines and synchronous
motors”
Edited by
Jean-Claude Alacoque, IEEE press, 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,
ISBN: 978-1-1199-4270-2
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Additional suggestions can be send to us
Interesting
simulation tools
-Additional suggestions can
be send to us
Associations
EPE Association Home
The homepage of the European Power
Electronics (EPE) Society with links to the conferences and workshops.
IEEE Power Electronics Society
IEEE Control Systems Society
IMACS
(International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation)
IFAC
(International Federation of Automatic Control)
Last Change: 08 April 2015
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