Working project:

• Inteligent methods for the design and control of performant power converters in view of energy quality
  

Grant manager:

Professor Adriana Sirbu, M.Sc., Ph.D

This research is supported with the help of:

      Romanian National Council for Research in High Education grant

Short Descriptions of the Project

   The scope of the project is to develop methods and technologies for the design and control of performant power converters which comply to the demands of power quality, using intelligent algorithms floating point DSP platforms.

The completion of this project will provide:

• the development of a platform for the implementation, study and test of intelligent systems, based on the DSP processor TMS320C6711;
• the devise of a genetic algorithm library, implementable on DSP processors, used to design and control power converters.

  As TMS320C6711, although has performances superior to those belonging to the 2000 family, used frequently in power electronics (150 MIPS compared cu 20 MIPS), is not dedicated for this kind of applications, it is necessary to design an interface to communicate with the controlled system.

  For the beginning, from the family of intelligent algorithms, we will study genetic algorithms, as efficient optimization methods, which open new perspectives for the intelligent control of motor drives and for the optimal design of electronic equipments as well (with focus on filters and power converters with original topologies, devised by the grant members). In this respect, we will design , using object oriented programming, a genetic algorithms library, providing, by means of a friendly interface, a large variety of options: different chromosome implementation (binary, real), different selection, crossover, mutation operators, different ways to state the convergence.

  Using evolutionary algorithms we will considerably enhance the performances of the converters, especially with respect to the power quality (power factor, harmonic content), answering in this way to the demands of international standards regarding electromagnetic pollution.

Grant report (in romanian)

Other information (official information from the NATIONAL UNIVERSITY RESEARCH COUNCIL)