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Course 2009/2010
Specialized Seminars
"Introduction to Space Electronics. The power subsystem"
by Prof. Arturo
Fernández
The course gives a general overwiew of the space missions, reviewing the main
constraints and challenges and paying special attention to the power system. The course includes the use of a simulation
tool.
Tentative course syllabus
1. Types of missions
2. Space environment
3. A typical spacecraft system
4. The power system
5. Reliability issues
Brief CV resume
Arturo Fernández received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from the Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón, in 1997 and 2000, respectively.
Since 1998, he has worked in the Universidad de Oviedo, in the beginning as an Assistant Professor and, after 2003,
as an Associate Professor. Since 2007, he has been a Contractor with the European Space agency (ESA) and is currently
working at the Power and Energy Conversion Division.
He has been involved in about 20 power electronics research and development projects and has published over 50
technical papers. He cooperates regularly with the IEEE and the IEEE Power Electronics Society Spanish Chapter.
His research interests are switching-mode power supplies, low output voltage, converter modeling, high power-factor
rectifiers and power electronics for space applications.
"Practical Implementation of Advanced Controllers for High Frequency
Switch Mode Power Supplies"
by Prof. Aleksandar
Prodic
The course will deal with design and on-chip or DSP-based implementation of controllers
for high-frequency (HF) switch-mode power (SMPS) supplier. Various control methods will be analyzed and challenges
related to the practical implementation both in analog and digital domain will be addressed too. Course also will
give a review of hardware efficient control architectures and basic principles of their operation. Also, several
novel features, such as auto-tuning, on-line efficiency optimization, parameter estimation, which are enabled with
the emergence of digital controllers, will be presented.
Tentative course syllabus
Part 1: Conventional and Advanced Control Methods (Tuesday
18th from 15:30 to 19:00 hours)
1. Review of a conventional voltage-mode pulse-width modulation control
2. Review of Current-programmed Mode Control (3-4 hours)
3. Geometric and Proximity-Time Optimal Control (2-3 hours)
o Switching surface controllers
o Charge balance based control
Part 2: Practical, i.e. On-Chip Implementation, of Digital Controllers (Wednesday19th and Thursday 20th from 15:30 to 19:00 hours)
1. Design challenges related to the practical implementation of digital controllers
o Basic functional blocks
o Power and silicon area related problems
o Problems related to the limited switching frequency
2. Minimum hardware requirements
o Limit cycling and other quantization effects
o ADC and DPWM requirements
o Compensator
3. Practical digital compensator design
4. Review of hardware efficient controller architectures
Part 3: Advanced Control Features (Friday
21st from 16:30 to 18:30)
1. Parameter estimation and auto-tuning
2. On-line efficiency optimization
3. Load-communication based systems for SMPS optimization
Brief CV resume
Aleksandar Prodic received the Dipl. Ing. Degree in electrical engineering from
the University of NoviSad, Serbia, in1994 and M. Sc and PhD degrees from the Colorado Power Electronics Center,
University of Colorado, Boulder, in 2000 and 2003 respectively.
Since 2003, he has worked in the University of Toronto, Toronto, On, Canada, where he is an Assistant professor
at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2004, he established the Laboratory for Low-Power
management and Integrated Switch-Mode Power Supplies at the University of Toronto. His research interests include
digital control of low-power electronics , and the development of systems-on-chip (SoC) for power management.
"RFID Systems and Applications"
by Dr. Andrés
García-Alonso
The course is conceived as an introduction to RFID systems and applications. First,
an overview of the history of this technology is presented. Next, the basic concepts are covered: readers, tags,
RFID sensors, standards, and frequency bands. Successfull applications are studied. Finally, intellectual property,
legal aspects and bussiness oportunities are analized. R&D challenges are also illustrated with a specific
Project presented as an example.
Tentative course syllabus
1. History.
2. RFID basic conceps.
3. Readers and Tags.
4. RFID sensors.
5. Applications.
6. EPC standard and frequency bands.
7. R&D projects.
8. Intellectual property. Legal aspects.
9. Bussines opportunities.
Brief CV resume
Andrés García-Alonso received the M.Sc. and PhD degrees from the
University of Navarra, San Sebastián, Spain, in 1988 and 1993, respectively. He is currently the primary
Researcher in the Comunication Integrated Circuit Group (COMMIC) at the Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Técnica
de Guipuzkoa (CEIT), located at San Sebastián, Guipuzkoa.
In 1996-1997, he worked at the prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research of Erlangen, Germany.
His research interests are focused on the design of analog integrated circuits for RF communications front ends
and RFid. He has taken part in nine research projects, being the manager of six others. He is author and co author
of 50 scientific and technical publications.
These Seminars have been partially funded by the UPM programme "Ayuda para
la implantación de programas oficiales del máster y doctorado" (Grants for the Implementation
of Master and PhD Official Programmes) for the academic year 2009/10.
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Course 2010/2011
Specialized Seminars
| TOPIC |
Professor |
Date |
| Embedded Systems Design |
Ioannis Papaefstathiou
(Work Technical University of Crete) |
February 10, 11, 14 |
| Satellite On-board Power Subsystem |
Emilio Lapeña
(CRISA, Spain) |
March 7, 14, 21, 28
April 4, 11 |
Design of CMOS Operational Amplifiers
Integrated DC_DC converters |
Jaime Ramírez-Angulo
New Mexico State University (Las Cruces, New Mexico)
Bruno Allard
INSA (Lyon, France) |
May 9th to 13rd
May 5th, 6th, 10th and 11th |
"Embedded Systems Design"
by Prof. Ioannis
Papefstathiou
Tentative course syllabus
1. Design flow for embedded systems
2. Hardware/Software Codesign
3. Embedded operating systems
4. Compilers for embedded systems
5. Validation of Embedded Systems
6. Actual design flows and tools
Brief CV resume
Ioannis Papaefstathiou received the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University
of Cambridge , (UK) Computer Laboratory in 2002. In 1997 he graduated with a M.Sc. Degree, from Harvard University,
Computer Science Department, Cambridge, Massachussetts, U. S. A. Before that ( 1996) he finished his undergraduate
work at the CS Department,University of Crete ,Greece.
Since 2001, he has worked as Visiting Assistant Professor-Researcher in the University of Crete( Greece) teaching
undergraduate and graduate courses such as "EDA design for Digital VLSI Systems", "Digital Circuits
Lab", "Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and Peripherals", "Computer Architecture" and
"Advanced Computer Architecture".
He also acts as Hardware Design Consultant in Ellemedia Technologies, Greece. In this position he deals with the
Architectural Design and Implementation of various Network Devices the Company produces and especially in a state-of-the-art
multi-Gigabit Network Processor.
Professor Papaefstathiou main research area is VLSI systems for ultra-high speed networks. This also includes Hardware
Support for Quality Of Service (QoS) in high speed networks.
"Satellite On-board Power Subsystem"
by Emilio Lapeña
- Short Introduction: Spacecraft Architectur
- Review of the Energy Sources
Solar Arrays
Batteries
Others
Unregulated battery follower
Regulated
Sun regulated
- ESA Standard for Power Subsystem Design
Solar Arrays and Batteries
Power Conversion
Power Distribution
Bus Quality Parameters and Rationale
- Mission Types vs. Power Architectures
- Power Conditioning and Distribution Units
Architecture
Building Blocks
Flight Examples
- Practical Design Example of a Power Subsystem
Brief CV resume
Emilio Lapeña is Telecommunication Engineer
by the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Since 1989 he works in Crisa, a Spanish subsidiary of the EADS Astrium
group. He belongs to the Crisa Technical Direction, being responsible for the area of Power Electronics.
He has more than 21 years of experience on in-orbit power conditioning and distribution, and he has participated
in many European flight programs for Earth Observation & science missions, telecommunications missions, interplanetary
programs and launchers.
He is also responsible for the R&D activities in the area of power electronics, the technical orientation of
the power projects at the different stages of the products development, and the improvements or new approaches
using new methods, tools and technologies.
"Integrated DC_DC converters"
by Bruno Allard
| Thursday 5th |
Introduction to bond graphs, application to multi-domain modeling and simulation,
systematic computation of average models of DC/DC converters |
| Friday 6th |
Application of the Diffusive Representation to compact modeling of thermal systems |
| Monday 9th |
Design of High frequency integrated DC/DC converters |
| Tuesday 10th |
Problem of choatic behavior in integrated DC/DC converters, perspective of digital
control |
These Seminars have been partially funded by the UPM programme "Ayuda para
la implantación de programas oficiales del máster y doctorado" (Grants for the Implementation
of Master and PhD Official Programmes) for the academic year 2010/11.
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