MS student Michael Wu with advisor A. Banerjee In locomotive applications, online monitoring of silicon component health in high-power inverters is crucial to preventing catastrophic failures during operation. Our proposed approach to online IGBT health monitoring involves creating a thermal model of the IGBT module that can estimate the silicon junction temperature. Accurately estimating the […]
2019 – The Tenth Year of Power and Energy Conferences at Illinois!
One hundred sixty-six attendees, hailing from 52 universities with 13 from industry, came from the Midwest, across the US, and as far away as Canada, Finland, France, India, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia to attend the tenth annual IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois (PECI) (February 28–March 1). This student-focused, student-led and organized […]
Illinois Solar Decathlon 2018-2019
Illinois Solar Decathlon has two teams working on competitions: The Solar Decathlon Build Challenge with a local exhibit in Champaign – May 2020, and the national exhibit at the National Mall, Washington, DC – June 2020; Solar Decathlon Design Challenge with a digital presentation – April 2020; and a concept team of first-year students researching […]
Illini Solar Car
Illini Solar Car is a team of multidisciplinary students who designs and builds solar cars to race in cross-country solar races like the World Solar Challenge and the American Solar Challenge. The cross-country races not only allow students to apply their technical knowledge to build a road-worthy car, they also provide opportunities for them to […]
Solar Car
Professor Banerjee has recently started offering a new course entitled Solar Car. The course objective is to show students early in their curriculum that a multidisciplinary understanding is essential to create a complex system. UIUC’s own Solar Car “Argo” is taken as an example. The course covers high-level aspects of the design, construction, analysis, and […]
Differential Power Processing for Voltage Regulation of Series-Stacked Processor Cores to Improve Dynamic Performance
Dipanjan Das with adviser P. Krein Power delivery to multi-core processors is becoming increasingly challenging with decreasing transistor sizes and, thereby, their operating voltages. With the increase in the core number in each processor, the power requirements tend to remain the same with each new generation of microprocessors, and handling transient performance requirements along with […]
Condition-Based Maintenance Algorithms for Power Converters Using Wide-Bandgap Devices
Patrick Wang with adviser A. Banerjee This research project focuses on the prediction of MOSFET failure of SiC-based power electronics building blocks. It is a collaborative project with Dr. John Donnal at the United States Naval Academy. The research can be broken down into two major parts: The design and construction of an SiC-based resonant […]
Variable-Pole Induction Machines for Electric Vehicles
Elie Libbos with adviser A. Banerjee High power density, high efficiency, and inexpensive drivetrain operating over a wide speed range are critical for future electric vehicles (EV). The induction machines (IM) offers a cost-effective and reliable alternative to permanent magnet-based solutions. A multi-phase drive (more than three phases) can reconfigure the machine to various pole […]
Data Driven Approaches to Fault Tolerant Operation of Electric Machines
Yovahn Hoole with adviser K. Haran While operating electric machines, a number of signals can be measured to aid with condition monitoring and machine control. However, the information within these signals is often hidden under noise and requires analysis to be useful. Here is where the emerging field of machine learning combines with our familiar […]
Magnetic Gears for Aerospace Applications
Aaron Anderson with adviser K. Haran Aaron worked as an intern at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, during Summer 2018, on two related projects. The first was development of a rotating drives test rig intended to test magnetic gears and motors. This test rig was already partially planned and built. His contribution was […]