The University of Sheffield
Electrical Machines & Drives

Areas of Expertise


Magnetics

  • Material characterisation and modelling
  • Analytical and numerical field analysis
  • Hysteresis and eddy current losses
  • Impulse magnetisation

Electrical Machines

  • Motors/generators/actuators – rotary and linear
  • Novel machine topologies
  • Design synthesis methodologies
  • Acoustic noise and vibration
  • EMC

Power Electronics

  • High efficiency converters
  • Precision loss measurements
  • System simulation
  • High temperature devices
  • Packaging of integrated power modules

Control Systems

  • Inverter switching algorithms
  • Sensorless control
  • Multi-variable control

Advanced Computing

  • CAD
  • System simulation

Demonstrator Prototyping/Testing

  • In-house DSP platform
  • Motors/actuators
  • Drive systems
  • Functional products