Running projects

At the moment, we focus on:

• Airborne wind energy systems,
• Biogas power plants,
• Efficient electric vehicles,
• Computationally-efficient model predictive control of power electronic devices,
• Electrical power systems (as part of the project "CleanTechCampus Garching"),
• Digital twins for the electrical subsystems of renewable energy systems,
• Geothermal energy systems,
• High power density DC-DC converter,
• Large-scale wind turbine systems,
• Intelligent and fault-tolerant modular multilevel cascade converters,
• Small-scale wind turbine systems with reluctance synchronous generator, and
• Wave energy converters.

In general we are interested in the modeling and control of the electrical components of electrical energy systems such as different generator, converter and filter topologies, e.g.

• doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG),
• synchronous generator (SG; permanent-magnet or electrically-excited), and
• reluctance synchronous generator (RSG) with 
• two-level or multi-level back-to-back converters, and
• grid connection via L, LC and LCL filter.

Of particular interest for us are

• a detailed mathematical modeling of the components,
• a stability analysis of the closed-loop system(s),
• a robust and high-quality grid integration (e.g. low total harmonic distortion),
• increased efficiency of the whole electrical system (e.g. inverter/converter and machine/filter),
• reliability (e.g. fault-detection, fault-tolerance and digital twins),
• grid state estimation (e.g. frequency, amplitudes of sub-/interharmonics) and
• a reliable operation under grid faults (e.g. low-voltage ride through).

For more details on the running projects click on the corresponding entries in the navigation bar on the left-hand side.