AMPQA
Advanced Methods for Power Converters’ Quality Assessment
Principal Investigator at ASE: Prof. Matti Vilkko
Duration of the project: during 2006 – 2008
AMPQA was a research project in collaboration of the Departments of Automation Science and Engineering (ASE) and Electrical Energy Engineering (EEE) at Tampere University of Technology (TUT). The project was funded by Tekes, Salcomp PLc, Patria PLc, and TUT. The research was carried out during 2006 – 2008.
The aim of the project was to develop novel methods to analyze switched-mode power supplies. Such supplies are widely used to provide power conversion for applications ranging from computing and communications to medical electronics, appliance control, transportation, high-power transmission, and renewable energy systems. Despite the wide application areas, the supplies are often poorly designed causing unreliable operation and unnecessarily large consumption of energy. This was the main motivation of the project.
The project resulted in several innovations. New techniques were developed to dynamically characterize and analyze the switched mode converters (EEE), and efficient computational methods were developed by means of which the analysis of the converters becomes feasible in practical applications (ASE). The project was the basis of three doctoral dissertation and numerous other scientific publications.
