Projects / Programmes
January 1, 2019
- December 31, 2027
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 2.06.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Systems and cybernetics |
|
| 2.12.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Electric devices |
|
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| T125 |
Technological sciences |
Automation, robotics, control engineering |
| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 2.02 |
Engineering and Technology |
Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering |
Mechatronics system, robotics, mobility, electrical drives, safety issue, power electronics converters, wireless energy transferje, avtonomna vožnja, autonomous vehicle steering
Data for the last 5 years (citations for the last 10 years) on
June 30, 2024;
A3 for period
2018-2022
| Database |
Linked records |
Citations |
Pure citations |
Average pure citations |
| WoS |
380 |
3,852 |
3,482 |
9.16 |
| Scopus |
730 |
7,279 |
6,481 |
8.88 |
Researchers (30)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
36448 |
PhD Vedran Budinski |
Metrology |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 2. |
04529 |
PhD Milan Čurkovič |
Electric devices |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 3. |
53395 |
PhD Jure Domajnko |
Systems and cybernetics |
Junior researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 4. |
50632 |
PhD Dušan Fister |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2023 - 2024 |
0 |
| 5. |
55905 |
Rok Friš |
Electric devices |
Junior researcher |
2021 - 2024 |
0 |
| 6. |
56665 |
Maja Glušič |
|
Technical associate |
2022 - 2023 |
0 |
| 7. |
07692 |
PhD Marjan Golob |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 8. |
36294 |
Mitja Golob |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2023 - 2024 |
0 |
| 9. |
15373 |
PhD Aleš Hace |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 10. |
23371 |
PhD Darko Hercog |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 11. |
08429 |
PhD Alenka Hren |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 12. |
03782 |
PhD Peter Kokol |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 13. |
38214 |
PhD Jaka Marguč |
Electric devices |
Junior researcher |
2019 |
0 |
| 14. |
08481 |
PhD Vojko Matko |
Metrology |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 15. |
13245 |
PhD Franc Mihalič |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 16. |
03869 |
PhD Miro Milanovič |
Systems and cybernetics |
Former/secondary head |
2019 - 2022 |
0 |
| 17. |
50650 |
Benjamin Ošlaj |
Systems and cybernetics |
Junior researcher |
2019 - 2021 |
0 |
| 18. |
54291 |
Dimitrije Prelević |
|
Technical associate |
2020 - 2024 |
0 |
| 19. |
53396 |
Nataša Prosen |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2023 - 2024 |
0 |
| 20. |
54805 |
Tomaž Pušnik |
Systems and cybernetics |
Junior researcher |
2020 - 2024 |
0 |
| 21. |
16033 |
PhD Miran Rodič |
Manufacturing technologies and systems |
Researcher |
2019 - 2022 |
0 |
| 22. |
52031 |
PhD Saša Stradovnik |
Systems and cybernetics |
Junior researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 23. |
03778 |
PhD Rajko Svečko |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 24. |
06824 |
PhD Riko Šafarič |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2022 - 2024 |
0 |
| 25. |
25605 |
PhD Primož Šlibar |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 |
0 |
| 26. |
08256 |
PhD Oto Težak |
Systems and cybernetics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 27. |
25427 |
PhD Mitja Truntič |
Systems and cybernetics |
Head |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
| 28. |
55979 |
Domen Ulbl |
Systems and cybernetics |
Technical associate |
2021 |
0 |
| 29. |
38307 |
Jernej Zabavnik |
|
Technical associate |
2019 - 2020 |
0 |
| 30. |
17876 |
PhD Milan Zorman |
Computer science and informatics |
Researcher |
2019 - 2024 |
0 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
Mechatronic systems are increasingly occurring in the electrification of future vehicles. From the point of view of the importance of the automotive industry in the Slovenian economy and taking into account the development guidelines in the future, the activities of the program group will be explored in a large-scale focus on this area. Green mobility is achieved by introducing new technologies and materials with the emphasis on reducing vehicle weight and digitizing technological and business processes. At the same time, it is necessary to introduce the prescribed processes of product design, especially in the case of their use in security critical applications (road vehicles). Within these frameworks there are also requirements for the development of autonomous driving systems. In our research we will discuss drive systems, safety and comfort systems and energy transfer systems.
In the field of drive systems, the focus all be concentrate to the control of alternating electric motors drives and in the security critical applications, where these can be used as main or auxiliary drives. Errors in operation can have serious consequences, so research needs to be focused on their detection and elimination. The research activities shall be concentrate to the structures of power converters and control procedures that allow such operation. The result will be recognized as functionally secure systems that can be resistant to errors and even failures. So, the system and control procedures guaranty improved efficiency and controllability. The systems testing is going to be studied by using Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) methods.
The safety and comfort systems shall be also included to the other mechatronic systems, focusing on the field of control, where research activities will be focused primarily on haptic guidance.
Wireless transmission systems are recognized as a new field of activity and will significantly contribute to raising the quality of the research work of the program group. In general galvanic connections are good solutions, but from the user's point of view are cumbersome and awkward. So new approach as are the contactless energy transfer principles will be studied. Quasi-resonance converters and resonant link converters are suitable. The converter shall be integrated into systems that allow static and dynamic contactless energy transfer. The converters topology and their control will be studied, considering these as mechatronic systems. An important part will be the development of systems of mechatronic platform, which will be aimed at optimizing the magnetic coupling by means of better power transmission. Such a system would solve the problems for stationary charging, while in dynamic charging will be added autonomous vehicle steering by tracking the imaginary path of the vehicle, which moves above the built-in transmitter windings.
Significance for science
The importance of the research work of the program for the development of science is primarily in the development of new advanced procedures for the control of mechatronic systems. The global trends in this area shall to be followed. Especially, our research is going to deal with the contactless energy transfer for electric vehicles, where the research goal has to be focused into the whole systems contains of power electronics and mechatronics component. Our thesis is that such a system is mechatronic, and it needs to be treated in all segments.
All the segments we want to explore are currently the subject of many research at the world level. In our work, we want to follow the guidelines given in the field of Energy and Transport within the Horizon 2020 frame. According to this, as a members of Research group-Mechatronics systems we are included closely with the Slovenian Automotive Cluster (ACS) activities, where we participated in the development of guidelines for a large part of the Slovenian industry, which produces components for the european and world automotive industry.
In the field of research of transformer devices that occur in contactless power transmission systems, we want to explore new methods that would be concentrated in two segments, namely to achieve the highest possible efficiency of devices and safe operation of it. In achieving high efficiency we shall include new semiconductor technologies (SiC and GaN) by means of safe power converters operation, and we would like to develop the systems that will be insensitive to failures of individual components of conversion circuits. To this end, we are educating doctoral students who deal with this topic. Currently an emulation process that enables the error identification inside the semiconductor switching matrix of the converter is developing and performed in real-time. The theory of incidence matrices for descriptions is used for system modeling. For this purposes a high performance units with DSP processors and FPGA circuits are used. Such a technique enables the implementation of theoretically demanding algorithms in mechatronic devices, which spread scientific knowledge to the industry engineers. Through this segment is developed the knowledge that can be integrated into our curricula (as an educational institution) thus expanding the knowledge, which will have a synergistic effect in our industry. The next goal is to develop the field of mechanical components through the prism of non-contact energy transfer. To some extent optimal transmissions can be realized in an "electrical" way, but for a fine implementation of these processes we also need a mechatronic approach (knowledge that we develop in our institution under the robotics curricula). All of the above mention techniques is applied here too. Powerful computational operations in the positioning of the receiver inductor in the vehicle shall be performed with high-performance units as DSP processors and FPGA circuits. The fast dynamic mechatronic structures that l allow maximum efficiency in power transfers for static and dynamic power transfers has to be studied. In our research, the field of autonomous vehicle control shall to be included in order to achieve high-efficiency wireless transmission. Information technology (IoT), which is also being developed in our program group, shall play a major role here.
Significance for the country
Development and integration of advanced algorithms in the planning processes management, information and communication technology, embedded control systems, devices, power electronics, sensors and systems for fault diagnosis and real-time data processing plays an important role in the rapidly evolving industrial equipment in raising the level of automation and robotics, and developing high technological processes in Slovenia. Research, analysis and development of new technologies to the field of mechatronics systems for contact-less energy transfer is welcomed and shall be appropriate developed for integrating and upgrading of new technologies in the industry and the economy. The proposed program deals with the sphere of high technologies in terms of their development as well as the transfer of academic and practical use. The program will thus directly contribute to raising the level of competitiveness and economic operators in terms of new products with high added value, which is in direction of Industry 4.0. Development in this area shall necessarily generate new jobs with higher added value. The program directly and systematically develop high technology, to acquire and accumulate critical knowledge and education personnel that will allow the continuation of such work in the future, it is crucial to raise the added value of Slovenian products and thus overall economic development. Also important is the »dissemination« of acquired knowledge in the field of advanced mechatronics systems for contact-less energy transfer technologies in the economic environment and work on the popularization of science, especially in the field of measurement technology. Members of the program group recently were heavily involved in research projects for domestic industrial entities as well as in European.
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