Electromechanical Systems Group

SHORT biography

He graduated from Silvania National College in Zalau with a High School Diploma in Mathematics
and Computer Science and followed-up with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at the
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. His main interests were electric machines and drives, electric
traction and power electronics. He did a series of internships, first was a summer internship at
Maccon GmbH in Munchen, Germany and an Erasmus internship at the same company. There he
study about Machine dynamic model of the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine and Switched
Reluctance Motor. His master thesis was Real-time simulation of electric power steering system.
Currently he is a PhD student at Technical University of Cluj-Napoca under the supervision of
Professor Claudia Martis and occupies a research assistant position in the Advanced Technologies
for Intelligent Urban Electric Vehicles (URBIVEL) project.

RESEARCH FIELD

Development of a Hardware-in-the-Loop test platform for the energy storage system for urban electric
vehicles which includes
- Batteries, ultracapacitors models;
- Battery management system;
- Cell balancing, thermal modeling;
- Bidirectional buck-boost converter, three phase inverter;
- Modeling and real-time simulations of electric propulsion systems
- Traction motor control strategies;

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

English (B2), French (A2) and German (A1)

OTHER INFORMATION

Research mobilities

- 3 months internship at Maccon GmbH, München, Germany
Design of a simulation environment in Matlab/Simulink for analysis of electric drives, including:
- Machine dynamic model of the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine
- Three phase two level voltage source inverter
- Field Oriented Control –Speed and Current Loop
- TTL Encoder modelling and development of an algorithm for the computation of the position
and speed
- Sigma delta modelling
-Performing laboratory measurements to verify the developed encoder algorithm
-Assistance of the development of a 2 kW motor bench
-Documentation and presentation of simulation and measurement result

7 months ERASMUS internship at Maccon GmbH, München, Germany
Design of a simulation environment in Matlab/Simulink for the analysis of a SR electric drive, including:
- Machine dynamic model of the Switched Reluctance Motor
- Asymmetric Bridge Converter
- Speed Control and Current Control
- Conversion of the control models in Fixed Point Arithmetic for FPGA implementation
Performing laboratory measurements to verify the developed control architecture
1 month research internship at Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard
Energy Management Strategies for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Powered by Fuel Cells and Battery
- fuel cell empirical model
- electric vehicle dynamic model
- rule-based energy management strategies
- total consumption minimization energy management system (fmincon) Hobbies: reading, dancing,
traveling

 

Publications

2017 - FPGA Based Real-Time Electric Power Assisted Steering Motor-Drive Simulator Designed for HiL
Testing in the Automotive Industry”, 2017 IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC), DOI:
10.1109/VPPC.2017.8331024.
2017 - Real- Time FPGA Simulator for Electric Vehicle power supply systems, International Conference
on Optimization of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (OPTIM) & 2017 Intl Aegean Conference on
Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (ACEMP), Brasov, DOI: 10.1109/OPTIM.2017.7975098.
2018 - Real–time simulation of scaled propulsion unit for light electric vehicles, 12th International
Conference ELEKTRO 2018, DOI: 10.1109/ELEKTRO.2018.8398345
2018 - Complete electric power steering system real-time model in the loop simulator, 12th
International Conference ELEKTRO 2018, DOI: 10.1109/ELEKTRO.2018.8398354
2018 - Real-time Model in the Loop analysis of PMSM for electric power steering system based on FPGA
implementation, International Symposium on Power Electronics, Electrical Drives, Automation and
Motion, (SPEEDAM) 2018, DOI: 10.1109/SPEEDAM.2018.8445395.
2018 - Integration of Real-Time Electric Power Steering System Matlab/Simulink Model into National
Instruments VeriStand environment”, IEEE PEMC 2018 - 18TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POWER
ELECTRONICS AND MOTION CONTROL, DOI: 10.1109/EPEPEMC.2018.8521888
2018 - Building and Testing a High Voltage-Low Current Drive for SRMs Used for Automotive
Applications”, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering, DOI:
10.1109/EEEIC.2018.8494503
2018 - Comparison of electric power steering assistant motor structures using real-time model in the
loop analysis, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, AQTR, DOI:
10.1109/AQTR.2018.8402756
2018 - Real-Time Co-simulation of Electric Power Steering System”, International Conference and
Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE 2018)

2018 - Real-Time Simulation of a Complete Electric Vehicle Based on NI VeriStand Integration Platform”,
International Conference and Exposition on Electrical and Power Engineering (EPE 2018).

 

Professional events attendance

2017-Seminar High-speed Drives for sustainable electromechanical systems, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2017-Seminar on Optimized and Systematic energy management on EV/HEV, Aachen, Germany.
2018-System level design and modelling of electric drives for automotive traction applications,
organized by SISW in Leuven Belgium.
2018-Thermal Concepts and Simulation Methodologies for Electric Drives, Aachen, Germany.

Hobbies:Trekking, outdoor activities, reading, cultural events, volunteering.