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Research Areas
The Power Electronics and Electric Drives
(PED) Laboratory is one of the main im-
portant laboratory facilities of the De-
partment of Engineering at the University
Roma Tre.
The main interests and research activities
being carried on within the areas of Power
Electronics and Electrical Drives relate to
the design and control of power elec-
tronic converters, electrical machines and
drives for both propulsion systems and
distributed electric power generation. In
particular, the activities refer to several
themes being linked each other as the
study of novel algorithms for the imple-
mentation of electrical drives regulation
and control systems, design and proto-
typal construction of power electronic
converters for both grid connected and
stand alone applications, investigation
of optimal criteria for thermal and elec-
tromagnetic design of both conventional
and axial-flux permanent-magnet syn-
chronous machines, analysis and experi-
mental testing of electromagnetic com-
patibility in electric drives.
Recent advances and trends in power
electronics are focused on integration of
devices as well of functions, reduction of
weight, size and cost, and improvement
of systems efficiency. To this purposes
at the PED Lab research is addressed to
high-frequency, high-efficiency power
converter technology, advanced analog
and digital control techniques, high per-
formance electric drives design for power
management and other applications.
The research activities are typically per-
formed in strong connection with either
private companies or research centers,
the achieved results have been published
through numerous scientific papers on
the most recognized international jour-
nals as well
conference proceedings.
Laboratory Facilities
The laboratory is fully furnished with
powermeters, digital scopes, thermal
analyzers to perform experimental test-
ing with controlled energy sources in
both AC and DC and the following main
equipment
PED Lab of UNIVERSITA’ DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE
High Speed Electric Drives test bench
Example of 4-leg inverter prototype for distributed
generating units with rated power of 40 kVA
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Electric Drives test bench with 4-quad-
rant 3-phase front-end power converter,
rated 6000 rev/min, 60kW, 400Nm up
to 1500 rev/min.
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High Speed Electric Drives test bench
with 4-quadrant 3-phase front-end
power converter, rated 20000 rev/min,
40Nm.
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0-200kW resistive and non-linear loads.
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16.7F – 252V supercapacitors tank.
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Fully equipped EMC chamber.
