Publication

Estimating Auxiliary Power Supply Consumption of the Modular Multilevel Converter Submodule for the Condition Health Monitoring

Publications associées (28)

Single-Phase Measurement of the Output Impedance of the Four-Quadrant Cascaded H-Bridge Converter Cell Using Wideband Signals

The development and integration of power electronics equipment and converters for medium voltage ac and dc application has created different subsystem interactions that require proper investigation, understanding, description and estimation of global syste ...

IEEE2020

Multi-level high-voltage power supply for dea application

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Morgan Almanza, Lucas Depreux, Lucas Pniak

In order to reap the benefits of Dielectric Elastomer Actuator (DEA) high energy density, the electronics powering the actuator should be as small as possible. Knowing that only a small fraction of the energy delivered to DEAs is effectively converted into ...

2019

Swiss Competence Center on Energy Research FURIES - Overview and Contributions in the Area of Power Electronics and Smart Grids

Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Mario Paolone, Jin Wang, Alexandre François Christe, Reza Razzaghi, Drazen Dujic, Mauro Carpita, Stefan Milovanovic, Milan Utvic

This paper introduces a special session on results of the Swiss competence center on energy research FURIES that has been established in coordination with the Swiss Energy strategy 2050 with the specific aim to develop, promote and deploy power grid-relate ...

2019

An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

Yves Perriard, Herbert Shea, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Xinchang Liu, Matthias Imboden, Xiaobin Ji, Vito Cacucciolo, Xinru Ji

Insects are a constant source of inspiration for roboticists. Their compliant bodies allow them to squeeze through small openings and be highly resilient to impacts. However, making subgram autonomous soft robots untethered and capable of responding intell ...

2019

A manifold microchannel heat sink for ultra-high power density liquid-cooled converters

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Georgios Kampitsis, Remco Franciscus Peter van Erp

Increase in heat fluxes as a result of the miniaturization of power electronics demands new thermal management solutions such as liquid cooling, because of its high heat extraction capabilities. This work describes a new silicon-based heat sink that takes ...

IEEE2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

Low voltage fast dielectric elastomer actuators

Xiaobin Ji

This thesis contributes to the field of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs). DEAs are electrostatically driven soft actuators that are fast, capable of generating large actuation strains, high forces, and present high power density. A wide range of appli ...

EPFL2019

An Energy Efficient Power Converter for Zero Power Wearable Devices

Milad Ataei Ashtiani

Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's and epilepsy requires monitoring a subject's development of symptoms through electroencephalography (EEG) signals over long periods. Wearable devices enable convenient monitoring of biosignals, unlike complex and costly hospi ...

EPFL2018