Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation

Electric Drives

Electric drives play an important role, e.g., in a large number of industrial applications, electric vehicles, elevators, and robotics. An electric drive is a system, where an electric motor (or generator) is controlled using a power-electronic converter (such as a frequency converter). Typically, the goal is to control the mechanical motion energy-efficiently as well as with accurate and fast dynamic response.
Electric drives

In modern power grids, power-electronic converters have become indispensable, both in consumption and in generation. As an example, a grid-connected solar inverter converts the DC current produced by solar photovoltaic panels to the AC current. Power converters are also an integral part of energy storage systems. Both hardware and control methods of this kind of converters are very similar to those applied in electric drives..

In the Electric drives group, we carry out research on electric motor drives and power converters, including their analysis, control design, and optimization. Our core competence is developing advanced real-time algorithms for control and estimation. We collaborate actively with the industry and with the leading research groups at universities. We have published our research results in more than 120 technical papers (of which over 40 in IEEE journals). The results have also led to several patents and patent applications.

The group is led by Professor Marko Hinkkanen.

Group members

Latest publications

Fundamentals of Electric Machine Drives

Marko Hinkkanen, Lennart Harnefors, Jarno Kukkola 2024

PhD Course: Advanced Control in Electrical Energy Conversion (Politecnico di Torino 2017)

Marko Hinkkanen, Hafiz Asad Ali Awan Awan, Jarno Kukkola 2024

gritulator: Grid Converter Simulator in Python

Rayane Mourouvin, Jarno Kukkola, Lauri Tiitinen, Marko Hinkkanen 2024 Proceedings of 2023 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe, ISGT EUROPE 2023

Multifunctional Grid-Forming Converter Control Based on a Disturbance Observer

Tuure Nurminen, Rayane Mourouvin, Marko Hinkkanen, Jarno Kukkola 2024 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Design and Implementation of Single-Phase Grid-Connected Low-Voltage Battery Inverter for Residential Applications

Akekachai Pannawan, Tanakorn Kaewchum, Chayakarn Saeseiw, Piyadanai Pachanapan, Marko Hinkkanen, Sakda Somkun 2024 Electronics (Switzerland)

An Integrated Design Methodology for Architecture Solutions to Shimmy Reduction Subsystems in All Electric Aircraft

Chenfei She, Ming Zhang, Marko Hinkkanen, Yu Yang 2024 IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification

Damping Coefficient Characterization and Experiment of an Electromagnetic Damper for Shimmy Reduction

Chenfei She, Ming Zhang, Marko Hinkkanen, Firdausa Ahmed, Jin Shi, Xinyu Liu 2024 IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Design Framework for Sensorless Control of Synchronous Machine Drives

Lauri Tiitinen, Marko Hinkkanen, Lennart Harnefors 2024 IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Analytical Modeling of a Six-Phase Bearingless Synchronous Reluctance Machine Using Winding Function Theory

Firdausa Ahmed, Floran Martin, Nirangkush Das, Marko Hinkkanen 2023 2023 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2023

I-f Control with Zero -axis Current Operation for Surface Mounted Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine Drives

Dunzhi Chen, Kaiyuan Lu, Dong Wang, Marko Hinkkanen 2023 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
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