Challenging Motor Control Problems Solved by Electro Standards Laboratories R&D Engineering Services Group

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 17, 2010 -- Electro Standards Laboratories R&D Contract Engineering Services Group leverages years of practical experience with the latest in classical, adaptive, and intelligent control technologies to provide innovative, timely and cost-effective deliverables. From theoretical development and modeling, to system architecture and algorithm development, to practical implementation and prototyping, ESL provides complete solutions to challenging problems.

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Challenging Motor Control Problems Solved by Electro Standards Laboratories R&D Engineering Services Group

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Electro Standards Laboratories R&D Engineering Services Group is significantly involved in Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS), hybrid electric vehicles and precision instrumentation.

Electro Standards offers expertise in embedded controls, sensorless motor controls, multi-level inverters, controls modeling and simulation for motor drive systems, energy storage and energy harvesting. Electro Standards employs many types of DSP/microcontrollers to implement controls.

Electro Standards has designed structural controls to reduce bending or vibrations, PI controllers, advanced LQG, H-infinity controllers, sliding mode controllers and much more.

Electro Standards designs precision instrumentation products involving strain gage and LVDT sensors, MIL spec cables and high-density fiber optics.

1) Advanced Electric Motor Control Algorithms
1a) High performance servo control of AC machines including adaptive control for changing environments and parameter estimation for motor diagnostics and prognostics.
1b) Fault resilient controls for systems in demanding environments that must continue to operate in the event of sensor failures.

2) Sensorless Control of AC Motors
2a) Development and implementation of mechanically sensorless control to allow high-fidelity control of AC machines in the absence of position sensors.

3) Power Electronics Systems
3a) Control algorithms for operation of multilevel inverters for low noise and high power applications.
3b) Power management for hybrid electric and battery management.

4) Data Communications and Switching Systems
4a) Remote IP switching systems for data routing from remote locations.
4b) Secure and ruggedized switch systems for high-security applications.
4c) Gigabit Ethernet switches and converters.

5) Fiber Optic Communications
5a) Fiber optic switches, converters, and high density cable assemblies.

5b) Very high speed ruggedized Fiber to RS485/422/232 Interface Converters.

6) Digital Signal Processor Based Boards for Custom Solutions
6a) Design and development of digital signal processor based electronics suitable to implement high performance control algorithms in industrial, commercial or defense environments.

7) Computer Simulation for Dynamic Control/Estimation Systems
7a) Computer models of appropriate fidelity to assist in the development and testing of control, estimation, and communications systems.

8) Web-Based Real-Time Monitoring and Control with GPS

8a) Remote monitoring and tracking with embedded sensors from anywhere in the world using the Internet.

9) Precision Instrumentation for Sensors and Control
9a) Miniaturized precision electronics and signal processing for distributed smart sensors.
9b) Precision electronics measurement and control systems.

10) Electric Motor and Power Systems

10a) Electro Standards provides state-of-the-art research and applied experience in AC, DC and SRM electric motor controls, estimation, and power electronics. These include mechanically sensorless motor control, hybrid electric vehicles, low noise motor control, and linear motor aircraft launch and arrest systems.

11) Computer Modeling
11a) Development of dynamic computer models, simulations and algorithms, along with experimental validation of simulation results in order to verify the predicted system's behavior.

12) Fault Resilient Control for Mission Critical Applications
12a) High performance self-reorganizing controllers for electric motors that automatically compensate for loss and recovery of sensors while continuing to operate at maximum performance.

13) Electric Motor Efficiency and Diagnostics

13a) State space estimation techniques such as Kalman filtering and intelligent system techniques such as fuzzy logic are employed to determine and regulate electric motor or electric generator efficiency. The same techniques also help to detect and predict impending faults.

14) Remote Monitoring and Smart Sensors
14a) Embedded electronics with real-time streaming data to remote locations via the Internet. This allows for the creation of smart sensors and smart sensor networks with GPS suitable for tracking, monitoring and controlling distributed resources.

15) Motion Control, Adaptive Control, and Estimation

15a) Applications include vibration attenuation and structural control, multi-input/multi-output systems, nonlinear control, Linear Quadratic Gaussian and H-infinity optimal control, fuzzy systems, self-tuning regulators, and sliding mode control.

Research and Development Projects Include:
Servo Motor Applications
Adaptive and Sensorless Control
Linear Motor Applications
Aircraft Launch/Arrest
Maglev
Switched Reluctance Motor Research
Reduced Noise
Sensorless Control
Power Electronics
Multilevel Inverters
Robotic Applications
Robot Joints
Structural Control
Resonance Mitigation
Smart Sensors
Integrated Transducer Digitization
Ocean Energy Extraction
Ocean Wave Energy Harvesting

Automotive/Vehicle Applications
Starter/Generators
Active Suspension
Electric Propulsion
HEV Traction Drives
SRM Power Steering and Electric Pumps
Intelligent Battery Charging
Fault Resilient Control
Distributed Control
Closed Loop with Networked Sensors/Actuators
Wireless Web-Based Monitoring and Control
In-Vehicle Data Acquisition with Streaming Web Data
Web-enabled Systems
Web-based Experimentation

Electro Standards Laboratories has the expertise required to advance programs. We work as an extension of your development facilities in any capacity that you might need from total outsourcing, to algorithm help, to design reviews.
For more information contact Electro Standards Laboratories, 401-943-1164, email: eslab@electrostandards.com, or via the Web, www.electrostandards.com.

More information can be found online at http://www.electrostandards.com

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