IET The Journal of Engineering Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue on "Advancements in Renewable Energy Generation Technologies and Electric Vehicles - Energy of Things Perspective" in the framework of IET The Journal of Engineering.

Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2022.


EDP LABELEC MERIT AWARD

The call for the "EDP LABELEC MERIT AWARD” promoted by Edp Labelec and Edp New, companies integrated in the EDP group, is open until 31 March 2022. The award will distinguish the best Doctoral or Master's Theses, written in Portuguese or English, on energy fields, in the themes defined below, which have been carried out (i) at any University or Institute in geographies where the EDP group operates (according to information in the most recent EDP Annual Report at the time of submission of applications) or (ii) by Portuguese people at any University or Institution, in the different branches of Engineering or Science.

For further details about the award, please click here.

CISE NEWSLETTER

The 2021 issue of CISE Newsletter has been released. Enjoy your reading!







IECMA 2022

On behalf of Chair Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Machines and Applications (IECMA) that will be held online from 15 to 30 September 2022. The e-conference is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Machines. Please refer to the conference website for further instructions.

Deadline for abstract submission: 18 May 2022.



ENERTECH 2021

Aiming to promote the Ef&RelDC@HomO project, its objectives and expected outcomes among a non-specialised audience, and in times of pandemic, CISE participated, as institutional partner and exhibitor, in the fifth edition of ENERTECH SABUGAL – Technology for Energy Fair, that took place in Sabugal, Portugal, from the 11th to the 13rd of November 2021.




UNITA Workshop on Renewable Energies

In the framework of Project UNITA - Universitas Montium and Project Ef&RelDC@HomO, CISE participated in the organisation of the "UNITA Workshop on Renewable Energies" that took place on 27 and 28 October 2021, at Covilhã, Portugal.





Project Dissemination

Interview (in Portuguese) to Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, Principal Investigator of Project "Ef&RelDC@HomO – Efficient and Reliable DC Electricity Distribution at Home and Offices", funded by Compete2020, addressing the project and the importance of support from community funds. To read to the interview, please click here.




Machines Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue on "Future Trends in Advanced Design of Electrical Machines, Drives and Electric Vehicles Using Additive Manufacturing Approaches" in the framework of the MDPI journal Machines. Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2022.


Machines Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue on "Latest Trends in the Design of Hairpin Winding Machines for Transport Electrification Purposes" in the framework of the MDPI journal Machines. Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.


IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue on "Integrated Control and Modulation for Electric Drives" in the framework of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.


Machines 2021 Young Investigator Awards

On behalf of Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce that MDPI journal Machines is now inviting nominations for the Machines 2021 Young Investigator Awards (1,000 CHF). This prize will be given to three young investigators in recognition of their excellence in the field of machinery and engineering. All nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee led by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso. For further details about the Award please click here.

Nomination deadline: 31 December 2021.


Machines Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue "Feature Papers to Celebrate the First Impact Factor of Machines". This Special Issue is launched to celebrate MDPI journal Machines' first Impact Factor of 2.428, in the 2020 Edition of the Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate), released in June 2021. Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.


Electronics Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue on "Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics of Energy Storage Systems Components" in the framework of the MDPI journal Electronics. Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 01 April 2022.

Machines Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue on "Machines Predictive Control" in the framework of the MDPI journal Machines. Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.


Machines Special Issue

On behalf of Guest Editor Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, we are pleased to announce the organisation of a new Special Issue on "Thermal Analysis of Electric Machine Drives" in the framework of the MDPI journal Machines. Prospective authors willing to contribute to this Special Issue are invited to refer to the Call for Papers for instructions.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2022.


Online conference on "Energy Communities"

On 26 July 2021, at 09:30, the online conference "Comunidades de Energia" (Energy Communities) will address topics related to the energy transition, opportunities and challenges to tackle. The event, organised by Municipality of Sabugal in partnership with CISE and other regional energy entities, features the participation of the Deputy Minister and Secretary of State for Energy, João Galamba. To access the livestream transmission (in Portuguese) please visit the Municipality of Sabugal Facebook page.



Web of Science Highly Cited Paper

The publication Reliable Detection of Stator Interturn Faults of Very Low Severity Level in Induction Motors, by Konstantinos N. Gyftakis and Antonio J. M. Cardoso, in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol. 68, Nº 4, pp. 3475-3484, April, 2021, has been listed by Web of Science as Highly Cited Paper for receiving enough citations to place it in the top 1% of the academic field of Engineering based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year. [Data from Essential Science Indicators ℠].



SDEMPED 2021 Special Session

CISE – Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre is involved in the organization of a Special Session on “Advanced Tools and Control Techniques for Diagnostics and Fault Tolerance in Multi-Phase Machines”, taking place during the upcoming Virtual Conference SDEMPED'2021, on August 22-25, 2021.
Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit their contributions to this Special Session. The deadline for submission of full papers is April 25, 2021. Please refer to the Call for Papers available here for further details about the topics of interest of this Special Session.


Project and activities dissemination

Interview (in Portuguese) to Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, presented at the 2020 edition of “Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Engenharia Electrotécnica”, an annual meeting of students of Electrical Engineering. The interview provides a brief description of the research activities under development at CISE. To view the interview, please click here




Project and activities dissemination

Interview (in Portuguese) to Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, Director of CISE, published in “Perspetiva Atual”, a supplement of the weekly newspaper “Nascer do Sol”. The interview is dedicated to the presentation of the research activities developed at CISE, regional involvement, ongoing projects (namely Ef&RelDC@HomO project), and future perspectives of growth. To read the interview, please click here.



ENERTECH 2020

Aiming to promote the Ef&RelDC@HomO project, its objectives and expected outcomes among a non-specialised audience, and in times of pandemic, CISE took part as exhibitor in the fifth edition of ENERTECH SABUGAL – Technology for Energy Fair, that took place online on the 23rd of October 2020. The event comprised a set of oral communications, dedicated to subjects of interest in the domain of energy, and was transmitted by livestream in the Enertech Facebook page. CISE participated as institutional partner and through the presentation of the communication on the “Trigeneration Energy". For further details regarding the program (in Portuguese), please click here.


Project and activities dissemination

Interview (in Portuguese) by Rádio F (local radio station from Guarda, Portugal) to Prof. Adérito Alcaso and Prof. Figueiredo Ramos, dedicated to the presentation of the research activities developed at CISE, more particularly at Guarda International Research Station on Renewable Energies (CISE | GIRS-RES). The interview also features key remarks about Project "Ef&RelDC@HomO – Efficient and Reliable DC Electricity Distribution at Home and Offices". To listen to the interview, please click here.



Visit of Students to Project Facilities

João Dinis, CISE MSc Student and member of ELECTRUBI (students association and representative body of the students enrolled in Electrical Engineering at UBI), organized, on November 21, 2019, a visit to Guarda International Research Station on Renewable Energies (CISE | GIRS-RES). The event counted with the participation of 24 students, who were presented with a contextualization of Project Ef&RelDC@HomO – Efficient and Reliable DC Electricity Distribution at Home and Offices, followed by a brief explanation of the project activities developed there. Finally, the group visited the indoor and outdoor installations of CISE | GIRS-RES.


IECON 2019 Paper Presentations

Presentation of papers at the 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Lisbon, Portugal, 14-17 October 2019:

  • "Diagnosis of Electrolytic Capacitors in Three-Phase Interleaved Boost Converters Controlled by Mixed Weighted Sensitivity H-Infinity Design Control";
  • "Lookup-Table-Based Model Predictive Torque Control Without Weighting Factors for PMSM Drives";
  • "Reliable Detection of Very Low Severity Level Stator Inter-Turn Faults in Induction Motors";
  • "Sensorless Current Control of Large-Scale LED Lighting Systems based on SIMO LED Drivers";
  • "Thermal Transient Analysis of Asynchronous Machines Operating Under Supply Voltage Unbalance".

ENERTECH 2019

Aiming to promote the Ef&RelDC@HomO project, its objectives and expected outcomes among a non-specialised audience, CISE took part as exhibitor in the fourth edition of ENERTECH SABUGAL – Technology for Energy Fair, that took place in Sabugal, Portugal, 11-13 October 2019.




ECCE 2019 Paper Presentation

Presentation of paper "Fault-Tolerant LED Lighting Systems Featuring Minimal Loss of Luminous Flux" at the 11th IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, Baltimore, USA, 30 September 2019.





SDEMPED 2019 Paper Presentation

Presentation of paper "Bearing Faults Classification Based on Variational Mode Decomposition and Artificial Neural Network" at the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives, Toulouse, France, 27-30 August 2019.





NEFES 2019 Paper Presentation

Presentation of paper “Photovoltaic-Thermal (PVT) Technology: Review and Case Study” at the 4th International Conference on New Energy and Future Energy Systems, Macau, China, 21-24 July 2019.





IECON 2019 Special Session

CISE – Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre is involved in the organization of a Special Session on “Efficient and Reliable LED Lighting Systems”, taking place during the upcoming IECON'2019, in Lisbon, Portugal, on October 14-17, 2019. This Special Session aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from the broad field of LED lighting, to present and discuss recent trends on this field.
Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit their contributions to this Special Session. The deadline for submission of full papers is May 24, 2019. Please refer to the Call for Papers available here for further details about the topics of interest of this Special Session.

ICDCM 2019 Paper Presentation

Presentation of paper "Novel Fault Tolerant DC-DC Converter Architecture for LED Lighting Systems Operating in DC Microgrids" at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on DC Microgrids, Matsue, Japan, 20-23 May 2019.





IEMDC 2019 Paper Presentation

Presentation of paper "On-Line Inter-Turn Short-Circuit Fault Diagnosis in Switched Reluctance Motors" at the 2019 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference, San Diego, USA, 12-15 May 2019.





HLC on DC Electricity Distribution

In the framework of Project TR@NSENER - European Cooperation Network on Energy Transition in Electricity, and Project Ef&RelDC@HomO – Efficient and Reliable DC Electricity Distribution at Home and Offices, CISE organised a High Level Conference entitled “DC Electricity Distribution”, on the 07th of May 2019, at Guarda, Portugal.
The two keynote speakers - Mario Dionisio, Programme Officer from the European Commission (DG Energy) and Bernd Wunder, Group Manager “DC Micro Grids” from Fraunhofer IISB - provided an overview on the challenges and opportunities underlying the development of DC electricity distribution systems within the context of homes and offices. The High Level Conference was followed by a visit to Guarda International Research Station on Renewable Energies (CISE | GIRS-RES).
The High Level Conference counted with the participation of nearly one hundred attendees, representing institutions from academia, energy agencies, municipalities, and other entities.

ICIEAM 2019 Paper Presentation

Presentation of paper "Thermal Analysis of an Induction Motor Subjected to Inter-Turn Short-Circuit Failures in the Stator Windings" at the 2019 International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Applications and Manufacturing, Sochi, Russian Federation, 25-29 March 2019.




Project Dissemination

Interview (in Portuguese) about Project "Ef&RelDC@HomO – Efficient and Reliable DC Electricity Distribution at Home and Offices", to its Principal Investigator, Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, for the radio program "90 Segundos de Ciência" (90 Seconds of Science). To listen to the podcast, please click here.




IET Book Publication

The book "Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives" was released by IET - The Institution of Engineering and Technology. The scope of the book encompasses the issues related to fault analysis, fault detection and isolation, diagnostics, prognostics, condition monitoring, post-fault reconfiguration, remedial operation, robust control, and fault tolerance of electromechatronic systems. Most book chapters’ contributors are Integrated Researchers of CISE. The book is edited by Prof. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso, Director of CISE.

For further details, please click here.

IECON 2018 Paper Presentation

Presentation of paper "Fault-Tolerant PMSG Direct-Drive Wind Turbines, using Vector Control Techniques with Reduced DC-Link Ratings" at the 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Washington D.C., USA, 21-23 October 2018.





ENERTECH 2018

Aiming to promote the Ef&RelDC@HomO project, its objectives and expected outcomes among a non-specialised audience, CISE took part as exhibitor in the third edition of ENERTECH SABUGAL – Technology for Energy Fair, that took place in Sabugal, Portugal, 11-13 October 2018.