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Alma universitas studiorum parmensis A.D. 962 - Università di Parma Alma universitas studiorum parmensis A.D. 962 - Università di Parma
Dipartimento di
Ingegneria dei Sistemi e delle Tecnologie Industriali
Università degli Studi di Parma

PExLab - Power Electronics Applications

Stampa

PExLab works on many aspects of the application of power electronics, such as motion control, power electronic converters, power and energy systems, electric mobility. In particular, the PEVLab branch of PExLab applies the competences of the group in power electronics, power devices and control to the field of electrified vehicles. The challenges of hybrid and full electric vehicles are addressed in their broad complexity, and the group has experience in performance cars, agricultural vehicles, telehandlers and also boats. In addition, the group works also towards interfacing of the vehicles with the grid.

The group does not limit its expertise to the energy processing chain, but it includes research in energy management, dynamic control and interior acoustics of the electrified vehicle, bridging various technologies from from every field of application of power electronics.

Contact person:  Carlo Concari - carlo.concari@unipr.it

Recent Research Projects

  • PSECOB2 - HiC (Interreg ADRION OIS-AIR, 2020). "PSEudo-COgeneration for Battery heating on electric and hybrid Boats", to provide the proof of concept of an innovative heating techology for battery heating in cold start conditions, with application in e-vehicles. The company 4e consulting s.r.l. (Ferrara, Italy) was part of the consortium.
  • REBASED (University of Parma FIL program, 2021). "REduced-BAllast distributed power converters for Safety, Efficiency and power Density", to propose a novel synchronization approach working at switching rather than fundamental frequency, to remove filters usually needed in parallel operation, thus enabling scalability and redundancy for electrified powertrains.
  •  "A high-ratio DC-DC converter for automotive applications" (2019), research grant, eDriveLAB s.r.l. (Parma, Italy)
  • "Electrification of hydraulic components" (2020-2021), research grant, Casappa S.p.A. (Parma, Italy)
  • "Electrification of a fan-drive for operating machinery" (2022), research grant, Casappa S.p.A. (Parma, Italy)
  • "Design and development of a 220 kW inverter drive for marine applications" (2022), research grant, eDriveLAB s.r.l. (Parma, Italy)

Selected publications

  1. M. Dalboni et al., "Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Integrated Energy-Efficient Torque-Vectoring and Anti-Roll Moment Distribution," in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1212-1224, June 2021.
  2. A. Soldati, M. Dalboni, R. Menozzi, C. Concari, "In-place characterization of on-state voltage for SiC MOSFETs: controlled shoot-through vs. film heater," Electronics, 2021, 10(22), 2745.
  3. D. Fusai; A. Soldati; D. Lusignani; P. Santarelli; P. Patroncini, "Model-Based Design of a Pseudo-Cogenerative Heating System for e-Boat Battery Cold Start." Energies, 2021.
  4. N. Rocchi, A. Toscani, G. Chiorboli, D. Pinardi, M. Binelli and A. Farina, "Transducer Arrays Over A²B Networks in Industrial and Automotive Applications: Clock Propagation Measurements," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 118232-118241, 2021.
  5. N. Rocchi, A. Toscani, D. Pinardi, M. Binelli, L. Chiesi, A. Farina, E. Bonomi, L. Tronchin, “A Modular, Low Latency, A2B-based Architecture for Distributed Multichannel Full-Digital Audio Systems”, International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA), Bologna, Italy, 2021.
  6. A. Soldati, V. Undre, C. Concari, B. A. Alsayid and M. H. Dradi, "Parallel Operation of Voltage Source Converters without Filter Inductors: Control of the Circulating Current," 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Industrial Electronics for Sustainable Energy Systems (IESES), Cagliari, Italy, 2020, pp. 125-130.
  7. A. Soldati, E. Imamovic and C. Concari, "Bidirectional Bootstrapped Gate Driver for High-Density SiC-Based Automotive DC/DC Converters," in IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 475-485, March 2020.
  8. M. Dalboni and A. Soldati, "Soft-Body Modeling: A Scalable and Efficient Formulation for Control-Oriented Simulation of Electric Vehicles," 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6.
  9. M. Dalboni, P. Santarelli, P. Patroncini, A. Soldati, C. Concari and D. Lusignani, "Electrification of a Compact Agricultural Tractor: A Successful Case Study," 2019 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo (ITEC), Detroit, MI, USA, 2019, pp. 1-6.
  10. G. Pietrini, A. Soldati, C. Concari and N. Bianchi, "Saliency-Enhanced Spoke-Type Rotor Geometry for Permanent Magnet Volume Reduction in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Motors," 2018 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Portland, OR, USA, 2018, pp. 4445-4452.
  11. A. Soldati, G. Pietrini, M. Dalboni and C. Concari, "Electric-vehicle power converters model-based design-for-reliability," in CPSS Transactions on Power Electronics and Applications, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 102-110, June 2018.
  12. M. Dalboni et al., "A fast and lightweight dynamics model oriented to electric vehicle design," IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, China, 2017, pp. 4603-4608.
  13. A. Soldati, F. Iannuzzo, C. Concari, D. Barater and F. Blaabjerg, "Active thermal control by controlled shoot-through of power devices," IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, China, 2017, pp. 4363-4368.
  14. A. Soldati, C. Concari, F. Dossena, D. Barater, F. Iannuzzo and F. Blaabjerg, "Active thermal control for reliability improvement of MOS-gated power devices," IECON 2017 - 43rd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Beijing, China, 2017, pp. 7935-7940.
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