Keynote Speech

Keynote Speech 4 :

Application of Predictvie Control in Sensorless Drives

Abstract:Since around two decades predictive control is investigated in many important Research institutes. Most applications have been dealing with power electronics and electrical drives. This keynote is going to show the main differences between conventional control and model predictive control. There will be a statement, under which circumstances model predictive control has significant advantages. There will be some examples to emphasize that. Furthermore, the application of predictive control in sensorless operations of AC drives will be explained. New phase-locked loop with finite-position set is proposed to extend the principles of the finite-control-set model predictive control to the speed/position observers will be illustrated.

Ralph M. Kennel was born in 1955 at Kaiserslautern (Germany). In 1979 he got his diploma degree and in 1984 his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) degree from the University of Kaiserslautern.

From 1983 to 1999 he worked on several positions with Robert BOSCH GmbH (Germany). Until 1997 he was responsible for the development of servo drives. Between 1997 and 1999 he was head of the department for predevelopment of fractional horsepower motors in automotive applications.

From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Kennel was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (England, UK). From 1999 - 2008 he was Professor for Electrical Machines and Drives at Wuppertal University (Germany). Since 2008 until his retirement in 2022 he was Professor for Electrical Drive systems and Power Electronics at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Germany).

Dr. Kennel is a Senior Life Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IET (former IEE) and a Chartered Engineer in the UK. Within IEEE he was Treasurer of the Germany Section as well as Region 8 – furthermore he has been Distinguished Lecturer of the Power Electronics Society (IEEE-PELS) as well as Vice President Meetings of the same society.

Mohamed Abdelrahem was born in Assiut, Egypt, in 1985. He received the B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Assiut University, Assiut in 2007 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, in 2020. Since 2019, he is the head of the research group ``Renewable Energy Systems'' at the Institute of High-Power Converter Systems (HLU), TUM. Since 2020, he is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Assiut University, Egypt. In 2020, Dr. Abdelrahem received Walter Gademann prize from faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, TUM, in recognition of his excellent PhD dissertation entitled ``Predictive Control and Finite-Set Observers for Variable-Speed Wind Generators''. Furthermore, he has received a number of best paper awards from high prestigious international conferences of the IEEE. Dr. Abdelrahem is recorded in the world's top 2% scientist's list by Stanford University. He is a senior member of the IEEE.  His research interests include power electronics, predictive and encoderless control of variable-speed wind generators, photovoltaic energy systems, and energy storage systems.