CODIASE – CONTROL AND DIAGNOSIS FOR ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS

PRESENTATION

Head: Antoine Picot

The CODIASE team focuses on optimal realtime management of energy conversion, as well as degradation monitoring and state of health modeling of electrical systems. Its field of application is wide-ranging, extending from electrical grids and insulators to fuel cells and converters. Through its research work, the team aims to achieve synergy between control and diagnosis approaches. These approaches position us at the interface between electrical engineering, control and signal processing.

Photo du groupe CODIASE
Team seminar - October 2024

The permanent team includes 8 university researchers, 1 CNRS researcher, 1 emeritus professor and 1 technician. In addition,  there is an average of 10 PhD. students each year.

The group collaborates with several LAPLACE teams: GENESYS, CS, MDCE, LM. It also has numerous industrial partnerships, including Nidec, Schaeffler, EMotors, Schneider, Helion, Safran and Airbus.

RESEARCH TOPICS

Control

Towards the resilience of increasingly complex electrical systems

On the control side, our research focuses on optimal realtime management of energy conversion. In line with the team’s project and identity, this work is more focused on methodological developments and systems approaches. In particular, this translates into work on the optimal control of power flows in electrical networks, the mutualization and cooperation of electrical actuators, but also the control of converters with a large number of degrees of freedom for better decision-making on the scale of the switching period.

The team proposes methods to cope with the growing complexity of electrical systems. From a local point of view, the diversity of different subsystems in terms of dynamics, operating modes and conditions, as well as accessible information, represents a first challenge for their control or monitoring. On a global level, the interaction of these ever-increasing numbers of different systems requires increasingly complex modeling and algorithms, with computation times that are prohibitive for real-time application. The group is working on simplifying models to enable the control of complex multi-systems.

Our research focuses on these local/global aspects, so as not to end up with distinct offline/online aspects. The aim is to integrate these two levels on control boards, probably requiring a study of the distributed control of these systems.

Banc expérimental pour la commande commutée
Experimental set-up for hybrid converter control
Structure d'observateur générique
Unified observer structure for flux equations

Diagnosis

Towards more accurate modeling of degradation over time

The team has developed its methodological research into the parametric identification of models for monitoring the state of health of objects (fuel cells, machine insulators, OLEDs, etc.), as well as databased methods, using statistical and artificial intelligencebased approaches. The group’s research into monitoring and diagnosis goes beyond the object, as it is very often associated with a “system” environment that needs to be taken into account, and thus focuses on methodologies able of dealing with complex problems.

One of the major challenges is to model the dynamics of degradation and ageing, so as to be able to predict lifespan. We are working both on model-based methodologies, in particular for analyzing test campaigns, and on data-based methodologies, so as to learn the behavior of the system in a healthy and/or faulty state without any a priori knowledge. The group aims to move towards “hybrid” methodologies that take advantage of both models and learning techniques for unknown phenomena. The group also has recognized expertise in design of experiments (DOE) modeling. Through this method, the group focuses on the representativeness and choice of data to be used to build a reliable model, but also on the interaction between different constraints and the impact of dynamic constraints (cycling).

The group emphasizes its commitment to developing models that can be interpreted and explained, so as to maintain a link with the physics of the objects under study, which is a key differentiating factor and leads to the development of complementary methods.

Estimation de durée de vie d'une PàC
Result of fuel cell lifetime estimation using Kalman filter and Monte-Carlo simulations
Plan d'expériences à 3 niveaux
Example of a 3-levels deasign of experiments and teh resulting modeling

TECHNICAL RESOURCES

The team has several experimental set-up at its N7 site

  • Multi-Source Energy Management System (E020)
  • Actuators sharing  (E020)
  • Converters/Active filtering (E023)
  • Double-Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) (E023)
  • Machine – Converters – Load association (E020)
  • Sensorless and high-speed controler (E020)
  • Second-life battery (E023)

We also work in collaboration with other laboratory teams and may share their experimental resources:

  • Fuel Cells (GENESYS –  Labège site)
  • OLED and power sources (LM – UT site)
  • Insulation and climatic chambers (MDCE – UT site)

TEAM MEMBERS

NOM Prénom Corps / Tutelle Page Personnelle

TEAM PUBLICATIONS

ACTUALITÉS DU GROUPE

Soutenance thèse d’Abdulrahman OLANIYAN, 4 juin 13.30 N7 salle des thèses : Contribution à la production d’énergie électrique pour les zones rurales isolées utilisant des composants de seconde vie et des énergies renouvelables: faisabilité pratique et analyse du cycle de vie

La soutenance de thèse de Abdulrahman OLANIYAN  intitulée “Contribution à la production d’énergie électrique pour les zones rurales isolées utilisant des composants de seconde vie

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