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Power Electronics

Diagnostics

The ability to model both healthy and faulted conditions to enable the development of proper control strategies that keep electric machines operational when faults occur .

Competitive Advantage

• Analysis of the failure mechanism in inverters for three- and multi-phase machines
• Inverter design optimisation to minimise the potential for failure
• Development of control strategies for high-reliability inverter-driven machines that enable operation postfailure

Impact

• Improved the performance and reliability of inverters and inverter-based machines through experiencebased design

Capabilities and Facilities

• Comprehensive experimental-rig for testing and analysing inverters for electric machines
• dSPACE 1006 rapid modular systems for rapidcontrol prototyping

More Information

Professor John Fletcher
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
T : + 61 2 9385 6007
E : john . fletcher @ unsw . edu . au
• dSPACE MicroLabBox

Our Collaborators

• Motorica
• Hummingbird Electronics

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