Joseba Arza 

Title: “Ingeteam, electrifying a sustainable future”

 

Abstract: “Ingeteam is a global company specialized in energy conversion and electrical engineering, started in 1972. It offers innovative solutions in the fields of renewable energy, electric mobility, industry and grid management. Ingeteam designs and manufactures power electronics, electric machines, and control, automation and protection devices and solutions based on those. The company focuses on sustainability and efficiency in energy transformation technologies.”

Biography:

Joseba Arza (Ordizia, 30th December 1972) received the B.Sc, M.Sc  and PhD degrees in Power Electronics, Electric Machines and Drives Control & Regulation from the University of Mondragon (Spain), the “École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Électriciens de Grenoble” (France) and the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble” (France) in 1994, 1996 and 1999 respectively.

He joined Ingeteam in 1999 as R&D Engineer in Control & Regulation for industry, marine, traction, wind, solar and grid applications. Currently, he is Director in Ingeteam Research Institute, S.L, position started in 2016. His research interests include regulation and control of power electronics applied to electric machines and the grid, energy grid integration solutions, energy storage and hybridization and electrification of the aeronautics field.

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José Rodriguez

Model Predictive Control: Basic concepts, Applications, Advances and Challenges.

Presenter: Jose Rodriguez, Universidad San Sebastian, CHILE.

Model Predictive Control (MPC) emerged years ago as an attractive control strategy for power electronics systems. Main advantages of MPC are the simple concept, the capability to include easily different control objectives and the high dynamic performance. On the contrary, like any new strategy, it also has disadvantages such as dependence on the mathematical model, dependence on the parameters and a variable frequency spectrum. However, thanks to the work carried out by the scientific community, most of these disadvantages has been resolved. This talk aims to introduce the audience to MPC and show them its evolution and applications. Special attention will be given to use of MPC in multilevel inverters using few calculations and how to avoid the use of weighting factors. The presentation will also present the evaluation to be used in high power drives and in electric vehicles. Finally, this talk will discuss the challenges that MPC must overcome to be adopted by the industry.

 

Biography:

Jose Rodriguez (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the Engineer degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, in Valparaiso, Chile, in 1977 and the Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, in 1985. He has been professor and President at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, since 1977  to 2014. Since 2015 to 2021 he was professor and President and at Universidad Andres Bello in Santiago, Chile. In 2022-2023 he was President of Universidad San Sebastian (USS), in Chile. At present, he is professor at USS.

He has coauthored two books, several book chapters and more than 1000 journal and conference papers. His main research interests include multilevel inverters, new converter topologies, control of power converters, and adjustable-speed drives. He has received several best paper awards from journals of the IEEE. Dr. Rodriguez is member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering. In 2014 he received the National Award of Applied Sciences and Technology from the government of Chile. In 2015 he received the Eugene Mittelmann Award from the Industrial Electronics Society of the IEEE. In years 2014 to 2023 he has been included in the list of Highly Cited Researchers published by Web of Science.

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Sergio Vazquez

The title:

Recent Advances in Model Predictive Control of Power Converters and Drives

Abstract:

Finite Control Set Model Predictive Control (FCS-MPC) is one of the most promising control strategies for power converters. Several studies highlight the benefits that FCS-MPC formulation with long prediction horizons achieve in terms of closed-loop stability, harmonic distortions, and switching losses. However, the practical implementation is not straightforward due to its inherently high computational burden. The presentation will show recent research for the practical implementation of FCS-MPC with a long prediction horizon.

Short CV:

Sergio Vazquez (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Seville, Spain, in 1974. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial engineering from the University of Seville (US), Sevilla, Spain, in 2006, and 2010, respectively.

Since 2002, he has been with the Power Electronics Group working in R&D projects. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, US. His research interests include power electronics systems, modeling, modulation, and control of power electronics converters applied to renewable energy technologies.

Dr. Vazquez was recipient as a co-author of the 2012 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, and 2015,  2022, and 2023 Best Paper Award of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine. He is involved in the Energy Storage Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is currently serving as an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS.