Research Projects – Institute for Drive Systems and Power Electronics

Power Electronics and Drive Control

Topologies for GaN inverters with high power

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M.Sc. Janine Ebersberger

Year: 2024

Funding: FVA 1014-I

Duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2024
Sensorless control of permanent magnet synchronous machines with FPGA-based current detection - II

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Viktor Willich

Year: 2024

Funding: DFG

Duration: 01.01.2024 – 30.11.2025
Fundamentals of photovoltaics - technologies of the future (FuturePV)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M. Sc. Tobias Manthey

Year: 2023

Funding: MWK

Duration: 01.12.2023 – 30.11.2027
Active gate drivers with wide bandgap semiconductors

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M.Sc. Julius Wiesemann, M.Sc. Jan Niclas Laumann, M.Sc. Pieris Sourkounis

Year: 2023

Funding: FVA 1000-I

Duration: 01.08.2023 – 30.04.2024
Beyond1kV - Battery electric drive systems for commercial vehicles with on-board supply voltages above 1 kV; sub-project: Dimensioning of power electronics and e-machine

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M.Sc. Christian Beckemeier

Year: 2023

Duration: 01.10.2023 – 30.09.2026
Geometriebasierte EMV-Vorausberechnung von AC-DC-AC-Umrichtern mit Wide-Bandgap-Leistungshalbleitern bis 30 MHz

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Lennart Jünemann

Year: 2023

Funding: AiF_FVA 637VI

Duration: 01.02.2023 – 31.05.2025
Joint project: ReCoWind2 - Reliability and monitoring of frequency converters in wind turbines; sub-project: Condition monitoring and modelling of climatic influences on converter components

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Sören Fröhling, Hannes Wenzel, Benedikt Kostka

Year: 2023

Funding: BMWK

Duration: 01.03.2023 – 28.02.2026
New operating modes of modular power converters with modulated output voltage and greatly reduced module capacitance - II

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Malte Lorenz, M. Sc., Jan Niclas Laumann, M. Sc.

Year: 2022

Funding: DFG ME 1002/8-2

Duration: 01.04.2022 - 31.03.2025
Active reduction of transmission noise by controlling the drive torque

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dominik Reitmeier, M. Sc.

Year: 2022

Funding: FVA 960I

Duration: 01.08.2022 – 30.04.2023
Co-operation between IAL and Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa with the aim of forming mixed student teams to participate jointly in the IEEE IFEC competition

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Tobias Brinker, Tobias Manthey

Year: 2021

Funding: Minna-James-Heineman-Stiftung

Duration: 01.08.2021 – 31.08.2024
ASMokos - AC solar module for cost-effective and location-independent installation

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Friebe

Team: Tobias Schütte

Year: 2021

Funding: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)

Duration: 28.06.2021 – 28.09.2023
Joint project: Inselnetz_optimal - Integration of the highest possible share of renewable energy in island grids; sub-project: Plant and system stability

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Marc Dokus, M. Sc., Robin Strunk, M. Sc.

Year: 2021

Funding: BMWi

Duration: 01.09.2021 – 31.08.2024
Joint project: Voyager-PV - Fully integrated and system-optimised electronic solutions on solar modules; sub-project: Power electronics, integrated circuit technology and radio system integration for system-optimised electronic solutions on solar modules

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Friebe

Team: M.Sc. Tobias Brinker, M.Sc. Tobias Manthey

Year: 2020

Funding: BMWi

Duration: 01.03.2020 – 28.02.2023
Sensorless control of induction machines with the aid of an additional single-axis short-circuited rotor winding

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M.Sc. Niklas Himker

Year: 2019

Funding: DFG

Duration: 01.07.2019 – 30.06.2022
STIM: Smart transformers as the power supply of the future for industrial mechanical engineering; sub-project: Overall system concept, component design and standard-compliant data and process mapping

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Friebe

Team: M.Sc. Pramod Apte, M.Sc. Frederik Stallmann

Year: 2019

Funding: BMWi

Duration: 01.12.2019 – 30.11.2022
Joint project: MUSiCel - Mobile converters and power transmission solutions based on SiC for electric, high-performance agricultural and construction machinery; sub-project: Component design and control

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Friebe

Team: M.Sc. Siqi Lin

Year: 2019

Funding: BMWi

Duration: 01.10.2019 - 31.10.2022
Investigation of the efficiency potential of anti-resonant high-power ultrasound systems compared to resonant operation

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M. Sc. Leon Fauth

Year: 2019

Funding: DFG

Duration: 01.01.2018 – 31.12.2019
SE²A: Power Supply System for All Electric Aircrafts

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr. -Ing. Jens Friebe

Team: M. Sc. Leon Fauth

Year: 2019

Funding: DFG

Duration: 31.01.2019 - 31.12.2022
SFB880 - Fundamentals of high lift for future commercial aircraft

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens mit Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume (TFD)

Team: Gerrit Narjes, Simon Weber

Year: 2014

Funding: DFG (via TU BS)

Duration: 01.06.2011 - 31.12.2018
Silicon Carbide Power Technology for Energy Efficient Devices (SPEED)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Christian Sommer

Year: 2014

Funding: EU

Duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2017
Fully Actuated Electromagnetic Bending Actuator for Endoscopic Applications

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Michael Dörbaum

Year: 2014

Funding: DFG

Duration: 01.07.2012 - 30.06.2015
Integration of Electric Vehicles into the Quicar Car-Sharing Fleet and Project Expansion to Further Sites - Quicar Electric (Show-Case Electromobility)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöber, Hannes Heseding, Niklas Weber

Year: 2014

Funding: BMWi

Duration: 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2015
Innovative Ultra High-Speed Multistage Concept for Electrified Power Trains in Vehicles for Highest Efficiency and Comfort (ATEM Speed2E)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Gerrit Narjes, Bastian Weber

Year: 2014

Funding: BMWi, DLR

Duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2016
Affordable Electrical Range by Modularity (BEREIT)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Hannes Heseding, Felix Müller-Deile

Year: 2014

Funding: BMWi, DLR

Duration: 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2015
Application of SB-ZePoC in Power Electronics

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Niklas Rüger

Funding: DFG
Loss Calculation in Three-phase Inverters

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M. Sc. Vijay Ganesan

Funding: Industrie
Control of Multilevel Converters

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Niklas Rüger
DC/DC Converters for Fuel Cells

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Averberg

Funding: Land Niedersachsen
Converters for Stationary Fuel Cell Systems

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Averberg

Funding: Landesinitiative Brennstoffzelle Niedersachsen
Series Connection of Semiconductor Elements (IGBT)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Harald Kuhn

Funding: Industrie

Electrical Machines and Drive Systems

Simulation and model validation for deviation analysis of AM rotors

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: M.Sc. Maximilian Bieber

Year: 2024

Funding: FVA 1037-I

Duration: 01.07.2024 – 31.12.2024
OTC-Rostock: Development of a modular and scalable platform for quiet and low-vibration hubless thruster systems (OTC thrusters) - D

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: M.Sc. Xi Zhu

Year: 2023

Funding: BMBF

Duration: 18.12.2023 – 30.11.2024
KeDE4Syn - Contactless energy and data transmission system as excitation unit for large electrically excited synchronous generators in renewable energy supply

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Amir Ebrahimi

Team: Maxi Bieber

Year: 2023

Funding: MWK

Duration: 01.01.2023 – 01.01.2025
Highest torque density through a combination of direct conductor cooling and active surface folding

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Przemyslaw Lesniewski

Year: 2023

Funding: FVA 996I

Duration: 01.04.2023 – 30.09.2025
High-performance and high-torque electric motor without rare earths and without copper

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Tiancheng Li

Year: 2023

Funding: FVA 800 III

Duration: 01.04.2023 – 30.09.2025
EMByAM – New generaton of electrical machines enabled by additive manufacturing

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Amir Ebrahimi

Team: Tiancheng Li

Year: 2022

Funding: EU MCSA – Marie Curie

Duration: 01.09.2022 – 01.09.2026
UniGEner - Test bench for generator-converter concepts for renewable energies

Led by: Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Amir Ebrahimi

Team: Jörn Steinbrink, Tim Britz

Year: 2022

Funding: EFRE/Nbank

Duration: 01.01.2022 – 30.09.2023
Utilising the potential of additive manufacturing in electrical engineering using the example of synchronous reluctance rotors

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Marius Schubert, M. Sc., Pauline Höltje M. Sc.

Year: 2022

Funding: DFG

Duration: 01.01.2022 – 31.12.2024
System approaches to avoid parasitic currents - Sensitivity of bearing currents

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Cara Behrendt

Year: 2021

Funding: FVA 946 I

Duration: 01.11.2021 – 30.04.2024
Motor with high torque density and saturation

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Leander Eschenmann, M.Sc., Christian Nörenberg, M.Sc.

Year: 2021

Funding: FVA 800 II

Duration: 01.08.2021 – 31.12.2021
Behaviour of current-carrying rolling bearings

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: M.Sc. Jan Ole Stockbrügger

Year: 2019

Funding: FVA

Duration: 01.02.2019 – 31.07.2021
Aggregate Models for Simulating Dynamic Processes in Electromechanical Energy Systems (AMSES)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens, Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Lutz Hofmann (IEH), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume (TFD), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Mathis (TET)

Team: Dr.-Ing. Robert Meyer, Dipl.-Ing. Malte John, Ing. Jakub Kucka, Dr.-Ing. Jörn Steinbrink, M. Sc. Olga Korolova

Year: 2015

Funding: Lower Saxony VW Vorab program to the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony

Duration: 01.01.2015 - 30.06.2017
SFB880 - Fundamentals of high lift for future commercial aircraft

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens mit Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Seume (TFD)

Team: Gerrit Narjes, Simon Weber

Year: 2014

Funding: DFG (via TU BS)

Duration: 01.06.2011 - 31.12.2018
Synchronous Reluctance Next Generation Efficient Motors for Electric Vehicles (SyrNemo)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Jonathan Jürgens

Year: 2014

Funding: EU

Duration: 01.10.2013 - 30.09.2016
University Offensive eMobility for In-Service Training and Further Education - Experiencing, Living and Learning Mobility (Show-Case Electromobility, MOBIL4e)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Björn Berweiler, Dr.-Ing. Volker Schöber, Fabian Oelkers

Year: 2014

Funding: BMBF

Duration: 15.06.2013 - 14.06.2016
Innovative Ultra High-Speed Multistage Concept for Electrified Power Trains in Vehicles for Highest Efficiency and Comfort (ATEM Speed2E)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Gerrit Narjes, Bastian Weber

Year: 2014

Funding: BMWi, DLR

Duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2016
Affordable Electrical Range by Modularity (BEREIT)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Hannes Heseding, Felix Müller-Deile

Year: 2014

Funding: BMWi, DLR

Duration: 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2015
Analytical Investigation of Magnetic Noise

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Dirk Braunisch

Year: 2009

Funding: Industrie
Design of a Direct Linear Drive for Conveyor Belts

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Jan - Peter Jastrzembski

Funding: DFG
Precalculation of the Performance of Doubly-fed Induction Generators

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. S. Tegeler, Dipl.-Ing. R. Helmer

Funding: ForWind
Dynamic Behaviour of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Kay-Horst Dempewolf

Funding: Industrie
Specific Anisotropies

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. J. Emmrich, Dipl.-Ing. D. Braunisch

Funding: FVA
Calculation and Design of Electrical Machines with Numerical and Analytical Calculation Programs

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Rainer Helmer
Calculation and Design of Hybrid Stepping Motors

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Cornelia Stübig

Funding: Industrie
Calculation of Bearing Currents

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Michael Kriese

Funding: Industrie

Drive Systems and Power Electronics

Opt4E - Multi-criteria synthesis and optimisation of powertrains for electric vehicles; sub-project: Vibration behaviour and loss reduction of high-speed traction drives

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M.Sc. Tobias Brinker, M.Sc. Jonas Jansen, M.Sc. Long Hoffmann, M.Sc. Mohamad Shheibar

Year: 2023

Funding: BMWK

Duration: 01.10.2023 – 30.09.2026
SE²A: Reliable, efficient and lightweight electric propulsion drive systems with distributed energy supply

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens, Prof Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Janine Ebersberger, Eike Krüger, Ralf Keuter, Yongtao Cao

Year: 2023

Funding: DFG

Duration: 01.01.2023 – 31.12.2025
Development of methods and models for maintenance strategies for hybrid-electric drives

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: M.Sc. Norman Blanken, M.Sc. Yongtao Cao

Year: 2021

Funding: BMWi über DLR

Duration: 01.05.2021 – 30.04.2024
Joint project: DampedWEA - Innovative concepts for vibration and noise reduction of gearless wind turbines; sub-project: Innovative generator control for noise suppression

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M.Sc. Jan Andresen, M.Sc. Dapu Zhang, M.Sc. Jonas Jansen

Year: 2019

Funding: BMWi

Duration: 01.11.2019 – 31.10.2022
SE²A: Electric Propulsion Drive Concepts for Future Electrified Aircrafts

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: M.Sc. Janine Ebersberger, M.Sc. Ralf Keuter, M.Sc. Malte Lorenz, M.Sc. Yongtao Cao

Year: 2019

Funding: DFG

Duration: 31.01.2019 - 31.12.2022
Self-Sensing Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines for the Complete Speed Range

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dr.-Ing. Karsten Wiedmann

Year: 2012
Method for Motor-integrated Dampening of Spindle Oscillations in Machine Tools

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. B. Ponick

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Jakub Emmrich

Year: 2010

Funding: DFG
Sensorless Control of Low-power Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors Down to Zero Speed

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dipl.-Ing. Karsten Wiedmann

Funding: Industrie
Control of Active Micro Systems

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: M. Sc. V. Ganesan, Dipl.-Ing. K. Wiedmann

Funding: DFG

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New operation modes of modular multilevel converters with output voltage modulation significantly reducing the module capacitor requirements

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dr.-Ing. Jakub Kucka, M.Sc. Malte Lorenz

Year: 2017

Funding: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

Duration: 1.11.2016 – 31.10.2019
Innovation Cluster Power Electronics for Regenerative Energy Supply at IWES (Innovation Cluster)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Simon Weber, Marcel Moriße, Malte John

Year: 2014

Funding: NMWK via Fraunhofer IWES

Duration: 01.09.2014 - 31.08.2017
Silicon Carbide in Hybrid Vehicles – Development of an Efficient High-Temperature Converter with Compact Boost Converter (SiC Boost - VSI, FVA No. 637 II)

Team: Arvid Merkert

Year: 2014

Funding: FVA

Duration: 01.02.2013 - 31.01.2015
Multiphase Direct Modular Multilevel Converters with Reduced Number of Branches - A Systematic Approach for a Modular Multilevel Converter Topology (Multilevel Converters)

Led by: Prof. Dr-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dennis Karwatzki

Year: 2014

Funding: DFG

Duration: 01.09.2014 - 01.10.2017
Improved Functional Safety and Control Features of Sensorless Controlled Traction Drives by Adapted Machine Design (ATEM Sensorless)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Ponick

Team: Francesco Quattrone

Year: 2014

Funding: BMWi, DLR

Duration: 01.01.2014 - 31.12.2016
Innovative Wind Conversion System for Offshore Applications (INNWIND.EU)

Led by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Mertens

Team: Dennis Karwatzki

Year: 2014

Funding: EU

Duration: 01.11.2012 - 31.07.2018