Université catholique de Louvain

Faculté des sciences appliquées, Laboratoire d’électrotechnique et d’instrumentation (LEI)

Address: Louvain, Belgium
Website of University: www.uclouvain.be
Website of Faculty: www.uclouvain.be/fsa.html
Website of Laboratory: www.lei.ucl.ac.be

General Information

Université catholique de Louvain:

• One of the major Belgian universities
• 10 faculties
• About 5,000 professors and researchers
• More than 20,000 students

Faculté des sciences appliquées:

• About 450 professors and researchers
• 1,800 students (including PhD students)
• Delivers a master degree in engineering (5 years cursus)
• Confers every years the master degree to about 250 students among which 75 in electrical or electromechanical engineering

Laboratoire d’électrotechnique et d’instrumentation :

• One of the 4 laboratories of the electrical engineering department
• Member of the centre for research in mechatronics (CEREM)
• 5 professors, 2 senior engineers and 10 researchers

Research activities:

• Power electronics:

- design, modelling and control of power electronic converters

• Electromechanical conversion:

- CAD of electromechanical converters

- Modelling and control of electromechanical actuation systems

- Non conventional generation of electrical energy

• Mechatronics:

- Integrated design of mechatronic systems, in particular, systems with application specific electromagnetic or piezoelectric actuators

• Power generation and distribution:

- Renewable energy sources

- Power quality

• Research projects:

- With industrial partners: SABCA, ETCA, Laborelec, ALSTOM…

- 4 EU projects from 1991 to today

• Co-operation with other universities:

- EPFL (LAI), Grenoble (LEG), Lille (L2EP), ENS-Cachan (Satie), Nantes (Large), IST Lisbon, UCv Craiova

• Equipments:

- DSP stations for real time control

- Dspace workstation for simulation and real time control of complex systems

- Softwares for Finite element analysis (Femlabs, Flux2D, Flux3D, Magnet)

- Mechanical and electrical workshop

- Test bench for electrical machines

Role in DRESS

WP 400 electromechanical technologies

Main tasks (in close cooperation with UCv):

WP 420 electric motor/power card technologies

- Input stage technologies

- Potential use of high temperature semi-conductors

WP 430 modelling and thermal analysis (task leader)

- Functional modelling of the selected designs

- Thermal analysis of the selected designs