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Competitive advantage
- Expertise in designing direct-drive PM generators with compact size and negligible cogging torque.
- One of the world’s first to develop fractional-slot concentrated wound interior PM machine for direct-drive wind energy conversion
- Advanced control techniques for the generator-side converters of Wind Energy Conversion
- Advanced techniques for on-line parameter identification with the possibility to use in remote condition monitoring of off-shore generators
Impact
- Direct-drive PM generators of compact size and with negligible cogging torque
- Cost-effective controller suitable for roof-top applications.
Successful applications
- Advanced control techniques for the direct-drive PM generators
- Patented Fractional-slot Concentrate Wound PM machine technology
- Pending patent application—design optimisation package for PM machine
Capabilities and facilities
- Finite-element packages, including Magsoft and ANSYS, with optimization tools developed in-house
- Simulation platforms (Matlab–Simulink, PSIM), FPGA and DSP systems with high-performance signal acquisition, estimation and switch gate-drive interfaces
- Two and three-level inverters
- Several machine drive set-ups complete with shaft position sensors, torque sensors and highly dynamic loads
- Four-quadrant dynamometer for testing direct-drive wind generators
Our partners
- CSIRO
- Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics
- Toshiba
- Regal Beloit