BIOGRAPHY
Domenico Casadei received the Master Degree (with honors) in
electrical engineering from the University of Bologna, Bologna,
Italy, in 1974. He joined the Institute of Electrical Engineering,
University of Bologna, in 1975. From 1975 to 1985 he was a Research
Assistant, and from 1985 to 2000 Associate Professor.
Since 2001 he is full Professor of Electrical Drives at the
University of Bologna. His scientific work is related to electrical
machines and drives, and power electronics. His current research
interests include direct torque control and vector control of
induction machines, multi-phase machines, linear actuators,
electric vehicles, control of power converters, multi-level
converters, renewable energy systems, and diagnosis of electrical
machines. He has published more than 200 papers in technical
journals and conference proceedings.
He served as Head of the Electrical Engineering Department of the
University of Bologna from 2004 to 2010.
Currently, he is the Director of the PhD School of Electrical
Engineering at the University of Bologna, Director of LEMAD -
Laboratory of Electrical Machines and Drives, University of
Bologna, and President of CMAEL Association that groups Italian
Professors in Power Electronics, Electrical Machines and
Drives.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society,
Member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society and Member of the
European Power Electronics Society.
He has been elevated to the grade of "IEEE Fellow" for
contributions to direct torque control and matrix converters in
electric drives.
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES
General Co-Chairs of “SDEMPED 2011”, the 8th IEEE International
Symposium on Diagnostics for Electrical Machines, Power Electronics
& Drives. Bologna, Italy
From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the Executive Council of EPE,
European Power Electronics and Drives Association.
Conference Chairman of "ELECTROMOTION 2001", the 4th International
Symposium on Advanced Electromechanical Motion Systems, Bologna,
Italy
Since 1994 he has been a member of the editorial board of the
International Journal ELECTROMOTION.
Member of the International Steering Committee of the Following
Conferences sponsored by IEEE: ENRGYCON, EPE-ECCE Europe, ICCEP,
ESARS, SPEEDAM.
Member of the Evalutiaon Board of Italian Education
Minestry
Member of Electrotechnical Italian Association
Member of IEE IAS Industrial Drives Committee
He serves as reviewer for:
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics,
IEEE Transaction on Power Electronics,
IEEE Transaction on Industrial Applications
IEEE on Energy Conversion
BEST PAPER AWARD for the co-authored paper entitled “ Double
Frequency Sliding and Wavelet Analysis for Rotor Fault Diagnosis in
Induction Motors under Time-Varying Operating Condition”, presented
at the 8th IEEE Symposium on Diagnosis for Electrical machines,
Power Electronics& Drives, IEEE-SDEMPED, Bologna, Italy,
2011.
BEST PAPER AWARD for the co-authored paper entitled “Experimental
characterization of electrical faults in doubly fed induction
machine for wind power generation”. IEEE-PELINCEC “05, Cracow,
Poland, 2005 .
TEACHING ACTIVITY
He was involved in the organization of an European Master in
Advanced Power Electrical Engineering “MAPEE”, in cooperation
with the Universities of Amiens, Aalborg , Oviedo, Leuven and
Cluj-Napoca.
He is currently involved in the Project “ALMATONG”, a Double
Bachelor and Master Degree Program in Automation Engineering
between Tongji University (Shanghai, China) and the University of
Bologna (Bologna, Italy).
Currently, his teaching activity is focused on the following
courses:
Electrical Drives for Industrial Applications (Electrical
Engineering Master Degree - University of Bologna),
Electrical Drives ( ALMATONG Project- University of Bologna -
Italy),
Electrical Machines and Drives (Electric Vehicles Master Degree -
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy).
Prof. Casadei has activated many Student Exchange Agreements within
ERASMUS/SOCRATES Programme with the following
Universities:
University of Amiens (France), University of Aalborg (Denmark),
University of Odense (Denmark), University of Throndeim (Norway),
University of Saragozza (Spain), University of Oviedo (Spain),
University of Leuven (Belgium), University of Budapest
(Hungary), University of Clj-Napoca (Romania).
He organized tutorials for the following IEEE
Conferences:
- ISIE '97, Guimaraes, Portugal, 1997, " The Direct torque control
of induction motor drives",
- IECON '97, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997, "DTC-based strategies
for induction motor drives",
- ISIE '98, Pretoria, South Africa, 1998, "Direct torque control of
an induction motor: theoretical analysis and experimental
results",
- IECON '98, Aaken, Germany, 1998, "Direct torque control of an
induction motor: theoretical analysis and experimental
results",
He has been invited at the University of Aalborg to present the
following lectures:
- AALBORG 1996, “Contributions to the development of Direct Torque
Control applied to induction motors”. Lecture presented at the
Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University,
Denmark.
- AALBORG 2007, “Duty-cycle space vector: a general approach for
the modulation of power converters”. Lecture presented at the
Institute of Energy Technology, Aalborg University,
Denmark.
REASEARCH ACTIVITY
He has been involved in the following research
projects:
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MURST-PRIN-Research Ministry, 1997-1999, " Realization of an
electric vehicle designed for urban missions and optimized for an
effective utilization of the available energy"
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MIUR-PRIN-Research Ministry, 1999-2001, "Design and realization of
an electric vehicle for disabled people equipped with wheelchair
boarding and fasten systems"
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UNIVERITY OF BOLOGNA Research Project, 1997-1999 "Analysis, design
and realization of a Power Conditioning System based on a
Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) device for the
improvement of the power quality in industrial plants "
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UNIVERITY OF BOLOGNA Research Project, 2003-2005 "UTILIS:
Utilization of the hydrogen technology for electric energy
production from renewable power sources".
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MIUR-PRIN-Research Ministry, 2005-2007, “High torque synchronous
motors for wind generation systems and ship propulsion
systems”.
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EU PROJECTS-INCO-COPERNICUS Project No IL962063, "Demonstration and
use of cogeneration technologies through the generation of electric
and heat energy by high speed turbine generators sets", 1997 -
1998.
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EU PROJECTS - MARIE CURIE TOK-IAP, No MTKI-CT-029986 “PREdictive
MAIntenance and Diagnostics of railway power trains”, PREMAIDÃ,
coordinated by ALSTOM TRANSPORT SA (FR).
He has activated many research projects with private Italian
Companies:
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and ELETTROMECCANICA LUCCHI, Italy, Design of an
electrical drive based on induction motors for lift fork electric
vehicles ,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and APRIMATIC, Italy, Analysis and design of a DC
linear actuator for automatic opening doors system
,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and MASE GENERATORS, Italy, Analysis and design of self
excited single phase induction generator,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and TAMAGNINI, Italy , Torque ripple minimization of
PM brushless motors ,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and ELETTRONICA SANTERNO, Italy, Analysis and
implementation of a DTC induction motor
drive,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and AMRE, Italy, Induction motor drives for electric
vehicle,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and SPAL, Italy, Design of a class of DC PM brushless
motors for automotive applications,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and GD,Italy, Comparison between linear
stepping motors and brushless motors,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and CARER, Italy, Design and implementation of
electrical drives for heavy electric vehicles based on wound rotor
synchronous motors ,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and MAGNETI MARELLI, Italy, Design of an electric
propulsion system for hybrid vehicles,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and SIMEL, Italy, Anaysis and design of a class of PM
brushless tubular motors,
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Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Bologna and FERRARI GS, Italy, Modelling of Kinetic Energy
Recovery System- KERS,
He has published more than 220 papers in technical journals and
conference proceedings.
His research activity has concerned the following
topics:
1) ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND ACTUATORS
High speed electrodynamic levitation systems
Torque ripple minimization in PM brushless motors
Linear motors, Tubular motors
2) ELECTRIC DRIVES
Direct Torque Control (DTC)
Stator Flux Vector Control (SFVC)
DTC with Discrete Space Vector Modulation (DTC-DSVM)
Sensorless flux estimators
Robust flux-weakening control schemes for induction motor
drives
3) POWER CONVERTERS
Modulation strategies for matrix Converters
Stability analysis of matrix converters
Control strategies of matrix converters under unbalanced input
voltages
Generalized PWM technique for multiphase inverters
SVM techniques for five-phase, seven-phase and nine-phase
inverters
Three-Phase Dual-Two-Level Inverters
Generalized carrier-based PWM technique for N-level three-phase
cascaded inverters
Power conditioning systems
4) MULTIPHASE ELECTRIC DRIVES
Vector control of multiphase AC machines
SFVC scheme for a seven-phase induction motor drive
Multimotor drive based on two five-phase brushless tubular
motors
High torque density seven-phase induction motor drive
5 ) DIAGNOSIS OF ELECTRIC DRIVES
Diagnosis of induction machines for wind power systems
Detection of the magnet demagnetization in surface-mounted PM
motors
Detection of stator resistance unbalance in multiphase induction
machines
Fault tolerant drives
Fault tolerant control schemes for seven-phase induction motor
drives with open phases