Publications associées à Démarreur (électricité)

Coupled Rotary and Oscillatory Motion in a Second-Generation Molecular Motor Pd Complex

Molecular machines offer many opportunities for the development of responsive materials and introduce autono-mous motion in molecular systems. While basic molecular switches and motors carry out one type of motion upon being exposed to an external stimulus ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Design and Manufacturing of an Electrostatic MEMS Relay for High Power Applications

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Christian Köchli, Florian Louis Copt

This paper addresses the design and manufacturing of a crab-leg based MEMS relay for a high power application. Thanks to a contact resistance lower than 100 mΩ, the relay can hold a current in the order of magnitude of an Ampere without further thermal lim ...

2021

A convex model for induction motor starting transients imbedded in an OPF-based optimization problem

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Hossein Sekhavatmanesh

Large horsepower induction motors play a critical role in the operation of industrial facilities. In this respect, the distribution network operators dedicate a high priority to the operational safety of these motor loads. In this paper, the induction moto ...

Elsevier2020

Optimal Load Restoration in Active Distribution Networks Complying With Starting Transients of Induction Motors

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Hossein Sekhavatmanesh

Large horsepower induction motors play a critical role as industrial drives in production facilities. The operational safety of distribution networks during the starting transients of these motor loads is a critical concern for the operators. In this paper ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2020

Service Restoration Strategy in Active Distribution Networks

Hossein Sekhavatmanesh

In the last decade, the massive penetration of Distributed Generators (DGs) has brought significant technical challenges to all the aspects related to the planning and operation of distribution networks. Thus, smart grid concept has evolved as a new operat ...

EPFL2020

Design and Validation of a Modular One-To-Many Actuator for a Soft Wearable Exosuit

Silvestro Micera, Michele Xiloyannis

The size, weight, and power consumption of soft wearable robots rapidly scale with their number of active degrees of freedom. While various underactuation strategies have been proposed, most of them impose hard constrains on the kinetics and kinematics of ...

2019

EEG topographies provide subject-specific correlates of motor control

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Silvestro Micera, Elvira Pirondini, Martina Coscia, Jesús Minguillón Campos

Electroencephalography (EEG) of brain activity can be represented in terms of dynamically changing topographies (microstates). Notably, spontaneous brain activity recorded at rest can be characterized by four distinctive topographies. Despite their well-es ...

Nature Research2017

Potential of Flex-PCB Winding in Coreless Tubular Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines

Yves Perriard, Bruno Dehez, François Baudart

Many applications are limited by the performance of the motors that power them. In the small power range, slotless BLDC motors are commonly used due to their intrinsic high power density and smooth torque characteristic. However, recent work has shown that ...

2016

On the role of water density fluctuations in the inhibition of a proton channel

Lucie Monique Françoise Delemotte

Hv1 is a transmembrane four-helix bundle that transports protons in a voltage-controlled manner. Its crucial role in many pathological conditions, including cancer and ischemic brain damage, makes Hv1 a promising drug target. Starting from the recently sol ...

National Academy of Sciences2016

Advanced Automotive System based on Modular Multilevel Converter

Rosa Martel Danoary Tsirinomeny

Battery packs in recent electric vehicles (EVs) have high energy and high power densities which exerts a strong thermal stress upon them. This means that the individual battery cells are more prone to decline away and eventually fail early because of an ex ...

2014

Power Compensation Approach and Double Frame Control for Grid Connected Converters

Alfred Rufer, Daniel Siemaszko

The handling of weak networks with asymmetric disturbances implies the accurate handling of the second harmonic component appearing under unbalanced networks. This paper proposes a two-step approach using classic vector control for operating the current co ...

Ieee2013

Brain-Controlled Wheelchairs: A Robotic Architecture

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Tom Edward Carlson

Independent mobility is core to being able to perform activities of daily living by oneself. However, powered wheelchairs are not an option for a large number of people who are unable to use conventional interfaces, due to severe motor–disabilities. Non-in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Dynamical Movement Primitives: Learning Attractor Models for Motor Behaviors

Auke Ijspeert

Nonlinear dynamical systems have been used in many disciplines to model complex behaviors, including biological motor control, robotics, perception, economics, traffic prediction, and neuroscience. While often the unexpected emergent behavior of nonlinear ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2013

First pulse technique for brushless DC motor standstill position detection based on iron B-H hysteresis

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Omar Scaglione

This paper introduces a promising technique, called the first-pulse technique, for detecting the rotor position of a brushless DC motor at standstill. The technique is based on the B-H hysteresis characteristics of the stator iron. Depending on the rotor p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2012

Impact of Inhomogeneities in HTS Coated Conductors for Resistive FCLs

Frédéric Sirois, Daniele Colangelo, Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit

Several issues remain to be addressed for the commercial development of ResistiveFault Current Limiters based on superconducting technologies (RFCL). In particular, the inhomogeneity of high temperature superconducting coated conductors (HTS-CC) combined w ...

Elsevier Science Bv2011

An Analytical Solution for the Torque and Power of a Solid-Rotor Induction Motor

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic

An analytical solution for the torque and power of a solid-rotor two-pole three-phase slotless induction motor is presented. The field excitation is a current layer placed at the stator interior surface. The solution is based on an analytical solution of t ...

IEEE2011

Self-Sensing Methods from MEMs to Solar Aircraft Motors

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Omar Scaglione

In order to control the speed and/or position of permanent magnet (PM) motors, they require position sensors. Basically, the auto-commutation needs 3 sensors for a 3-phase motor. In micro-motors, as there is no space for the sensors, self-sensing must be u ...

World Publishing Corporation, 137 Chaonei Dajie, Beijing 100010, Peoples R China2008

Double trouble

Jean-Jacques Simond, André Hodder, Alexander Schwery

This article presents the modeling, simulation, and practical application of a double-fed asynchronous motor-generator for pumped-storage plants equipped with a three-level VSI cascade. The problem of DC unbalance control is studied in this particular appl ...

2008

A Numerical Test Platform for Large Synchronous Machines also useful as a Design Optimization Tool

Jean-Jacques Simond, Mai Tu Xuan

This paper deals with the determination of large synchronous machine characteristic quantities using an extended 2D-finite element method and based on the knowledge of the geometry and of the physical properties of the electrical and magnetic circuits of t ...

2006

A contribution to energy saving in induction motors

Electric motors consume over half of the electrical energy produced by power stations, almost the three-quarters of the electrical consumption in industry and almost the half of commercial electrical consumption in developed countries. Motors are by far th ...

EPFL2005