The research activity is mainly related to the design and the
control of power electronic converters and of electric drives, in
the fields of industrial automation, of electric vehicles and of
renewable energy sources.
At present the research topics are the following ones.
Electric Drives
- vector control of electric drives based on induction and
brushless motors for high speed applications
- sensorless and adaptive control of induction machines
- control of electric drives based on multiphase motors
- control of fault-tolerant drives
- positioning control of tubular linear actuators
Design of Electrical Machines
- design of single-phase transformers
- design of multiphase induction and synchronous machines
- design of linear tubula actuators
Power Electronics
- design and control of AC/AC matrix converters
- design and control of multiphase and multilevel converters
- modulation strategies for voltage source inverters (three-phase,
multilevel) and matrix converters
Diagnostics
- non-invasive methods for the fault diagnosis in
doubly-fed induction machines
- fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control of power converters
and electric drives
Electric Propulsion
- vector control of electric drives based on induction and
brushless motors for electric vehicle applications
- modeling of electric propulsion systems
- more-electric aircraft systems