Philip Krein

Title: Review of Charging Power Levels and Infrastructure for Plug-In Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, and Commentary about Unidirectional Charging

Date: April 30, 2012

Abstract: This presentation reviews the current status and implementation of battery chargers, charging power levels and infrastructure for plug-in electric vehicles and hybrids. Charger systems are categorized into off-board and on-board types with unidirectional or bidirectional power flow. Unidirectional ... Read More

Christian Sanchez

Title: Estimation of Thevenin Equivalent (TE) Parameters

Date: April 16, 2012

Abstract: This presentation discusses the estimation of Thevenin equivalents based on current and voltage measurements. These measurements are taken as outputs of an unknown system and are used to estimate a Thevenin equivalent. We illustrate with a small DC system and the measurements used. The requirements ... Read More

Siwei Cheng

Title: Health Monitoring and Fault Detection of Claw-pole Generators

Date: April 2, 2012

Abstract: The ‘claw-pole’ type synchronous generator is the heart of virtually all automotive electric power systems. The failure of such a generator is considered to be a so-called “walk-home” incident leaving a motorist stranded. Timely and accurate detection of generator problems will not only decr ... Read More