Research

Automotive

Healthcare

ICE Vehicles

• Electromechanical Valve Actuation
• Exhaust Gas Energy Recovery
• Electrical Torque Booster for Down-Sized Engine
• Free-Piston Energy Converter

• Reciprocating Air-Compressors
• Electromagnetic Air-Flow Control Systems
• Semi-Active Vibrating Isolation of Reciprocating Air-Compressor

Hybrid Vehicles

• Mild Hybrid/Integrated Starter-Alternator System
• Model Predictive Control Applied to Energy Management
• 36V VRLA Battery Module (Based on 2V Spiral-Wound Cells)
• Installation and Safety Optimised Battery for 42V Application
• Integrated Modular Drive for Parallel Hybrid Vehicle

Aerospace

• Electrohydrostatic Flight Control Surface Actuation
• Electromechanical Flight Control Surface Actuation
• ‘More-Electric’ Aircraft Engines
• Fault tolerant drives

Electric Vehicles

• Intelligent State-of-Charge and State-of-Health battery monitoring
• Zero-Emissions Down-Sized Vehicle
• Auxiliary Power Unit
• Flywheel Peak Power Buffer
• Supercapacitor Peak Power Buffer
• Anti-Lock Braking/Traction Control
• Electric Vehicles for Media/Leisure Events
• POLLUX - Embedded-Systems for Electric Vehicles

Industrial

• Induction heating
• Pulsed field magneto-polariscope
• Sensorless high-speed brushless DC motors
• Direct force control of a novel two-phase tubular motor
• Acoustic emissions from direct torque controlled induction machine drives
• EMC, measurements and modelling of power electronics/drive systems
• Silicon carbide power electronic devices

Thematic Networks

• FABIAN
• ELEDRIVE

Marine

• Sensorless control of matrix converters for thrusters on deep-sea ROV’s
• High speed permanent magnet generator

Active Vehicle Suspension

• Linear Electromagnetic Actuation System

Consumer Products

• Multi-Degree of Freedom Actuators
• Observer based feedback control of 3rd order LCC resonant converters
• Low cost energy efficient compressors for refrigeration
• Optimal sensorless control of PM traction machines for advanced wheelchair applications
• Modelling of Fluorescent Lamps for Circuit Simulation