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Domenico Casadei

Alma Mater Professor

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Adjunct professor

Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi"

Curriculum vitae

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:

  • 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"
  • MIUR-PRIN-Research Ministry, 1999-2001, "Design and realization of an electric vehicle for disabled people equipped with wheelchair boarding and fasten systems"
  • 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 "
  • UNIVERITY OF BOLOGNA Research Project, 2003-2005 "UTILIS: Utilization of the hydrogen technology for electric energy production from renewable power sources".
  • MIUR-PRIN-Research Ministry, 2005-2007, “High torque synchronous motors for wind generation systems and ship propulsion systems”.
  • 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.
  • 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:

  • 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 ,
  • 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 ,
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and  MASE GENERATORS, Italy,  Analysis and design of self excited single phase induction generator,
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and TAMAGNINI, Italy , Torque ripple minimization of PM brushless motors ,
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and ELETTRONICA SANTERNO, Italy, Analysis and implementation of a DTC induction motor drive, 
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and AMRE, Italy, Induction motor drives for electric vehicle,
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and SPAL, Italy, Design of a class of DC PM brushless motors for automotive applications,
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and GD,Italy, Comparison between linear stepping motors and brushless motors,
  • 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 ,
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and MAGNETI MARELLI, Italy, Design of an electric propulsion system for hybrid vehicles, 
  • Contract between Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Bologna and SIMEL, Italy, Anaysis and design of a class of PM brushless tubular motors,
  • 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

 

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