KT4eTRANS: Key technologies for new concepts
of urban electric transport. KK-2015/00047
(1st stage), KK-2016/00061 (2nd stage).
Basque Government (ELKARTEK program).
September 2015 – December 2017. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to research new concepts for the
electrified city-mobility, conceiving new
urban transport vehicles based on future
mobility necessities and services for the
“Smart city” network. It emphasizes on the
following technologies: ultra-rapid recharge
and the infrastructure needed to integrate
it to the electric-grid, new generation
energy-storage technologies for interurban
environment, embedded electronics for
powertrain and advanced traction, and
predictive maintenance. The consortium is
headed by CREATIO – IRIZAR GROUP INNIVATION
CENTER IAE, and formed by TECNALIA, CEIT,
CIDETEC and APERT Group (University of the
Basque Country). The particular objective of
the APERT Group is to maximize the energy
density of the propulsion system, by
developing new and optimum refrigeration
solutions for the power stage.
Cyber-physical
systems in the smartgrid (SMARTGRID 4.0).
TEC2014-53785-R. Ministerio de Economía y
Competitividad. January 2015 – December 2017. [+INFO]
The Smart Grid arose from the
combination of the Power Grid (generation,
transport and consume) with the Information
Technologies. Smart Grids are evolving
driven by the need of greater efficiency, by
the growth of distributed power generation
and by the massive automation of the
processes involved. As a result of these
advances, the networks involved converge and
fully heterogeneous nodes and equipment must
interact. Therefore, from a global
perspective based on promoting
interoperability and standardization it must
be taken into account specific requirements
of the Smart Grid, like real-time
processing, accurate synchronization and
cyber-security. In this context, the new
Smart Grid must take into account the
massive implementation of Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPS) in the Industrial regions of
the grid (like in the substations) and in
the Smart-cities or in users’ premises. The
CPS are those systems required to connect
the world of computers with the physical
world.
The challenge is huge and
multidisciplinary. The proposal presented in
this research project seeks to make
contributions in the field of embedded
systems proposing a common architecture of
nodes for Smart Grid (CPS and Smart
gateways), a clear necessity defined in the
State of the Art. These nodes must provide
direct integration into network and allow
real-time processing, feature required in
some control processes involved in the Smart
Grid. It must incorporate advanced
synchronization mechanisms providing high
availability (for the network, usually
employing redundant communications, and for
the device itself, applying fault-tolerance)
and cyber-security.
Drive
system, storage and energy management for
hybrid electric vehicles based on fuel cell,
battery and supercapacitors. (ELECTRICAR-P).
DPI2014-53685-C2-2-R. Ministerio de Economía
y Competitividad. January 2015 – December 2017. [+INFO]
This coordinated project
integrates the capabilities of two research
teams from the “Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid” and the “Universidad del País
Vasco”. The project addresses the propulsion
system, energy storage and energy management
(powertrain) of hybrid electric cars (HEV)
based on fuel cells, batteries and
supercapacitors.
This project deals with the
optimization of the blocks of the HEV
system, with the objective of building a
demonstrator set that will serve as a
flexible research platform and will
facilitate the study of the complete system
considering different vehicle
specifications. In the subproject og the
APERT group the research is on the vehicle
propulsion system, mainly formed by the
driver (inverter) and the motor. The idea
is: a) to develop a hybrid modulation
technique based on the combination of vector
modulation and harmonic cancellation and its
implementation on a real-time platform; b)
the design, manufacturing and validation of
an inverter with optimized performance,
based on the parallelization of discrete
IGBTs and based on new semiconductor
materials (SiC and GaN).
New
technological offer for the smart grids of
the year 2020. Offshore HVDC and operation
of LV networks (FUTURE GRIDS-2020).
IE14-389. Eusko Jaurlaritza / Basque
Government (ETORTEK program). January 2014 – December
2015. [+INFO]
The FUTURE GRIDS-2020 project
consists of the development of activities in
the field of energy and is specifically
focused, from the standpoint of the
applications, on the design of substations
for evacuation at high voltage and direct
current (HVDC) of power produced in offshore
wind farms and in the advanced operation of
low-voltage networks (LV). In this project
participates TECNALIA (consortium leader),
BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
– and the UPV/EHU through the Research Group
of Electrical Systems (GISEL) of the
department of Electrical Engineering and the
Research Group of Applied Electronics
(APERT) of the department of Electronic
Technology. The APERT group participates in
the development of DC/DC medium-voltage
converters using silicon-carbide
semiconductor materials and magnetic
components with nanocrystalline or amorphous
core for dc distribution systems, as well as
in the creation of an infrastructure for
testing power converters at medium voltage.
Prototype
of PTP-PRP-HSR network for tests among
different manufacturers (PETEP). US13/13.
University of the Basque Country –
System-on-Chip engineering, S.L.
(University-Community project). July 2013 – July
2015. [+INFO]
Communication networks for
industrial applications, like the other
ones, use less and less often point-to-point
and circuit-commutation technologies,
turning to packet commutation. The latter
exploits better the bandwidth and reduces
costs. However, industrial networks must
operate in real time and feature the maximum
safety, usually by means of physical
redundancy. These requirements avoid using
the most widespread packet-commutation,
Ethernet, in its conventional version. In
order to make Ethernet operate in real time
and redundantly, PTP (Precision Time
Protocol), PRP (Parallel Redundancy
Protocol) and HSR (High-availability
Seamless Redundancy) standards have been
published. As a matter of fact, the latter
has been included in the control and
communication structure for supply and
distribution grids. It is a key part, in
order to provide autonomy for them (smart
grids). Nevertheless, the electronic systems
suited to these standards are already in the
development stage, and not mature yet. SoCe
(System-on-Chip engineering) company has
designed some PTP, PRP and HSR modules. This
project will contribute to implement a
prototype and to perform the suitable tests
to prove the compatibility among equipments
and designs from SoCe and from other
companies.
Energetic
optimization of three phase inverters for
automotive applications (OPTITAVE). Eusko
Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco
(Aquitania-Euskadi Cooperation). July 2013 – July
2014. [+INFO]
There is an increasing demand
of hybrid and electric drives in the
automotive sector in order to fulfil the gas
emission normatives and energy consumption
reduction goals. Power electronics plays a
major role in this field. Traction
applications require higher efficiency,
higher integration level, simplification of
cooling systems and cost reduction. This
project aims at delivering improved
solutions in automotive drive power
converters. More precisely, the project aims
at delivering hardware and software
solutions to improve efficiency and
robustness. Real time simulation reduces
design time. The project is a cross border
cooperation between Aquitaine an the Basque
Country funded by the “fondo común de
cooperación Aquitania-Euskadi” in
collaboration with Ecole Supérieure des
Technologies Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA)
from Bidart.
ENERGIGUNE’12
- R+D+i in Storage of Electrochemical and
Thermal Energy, and in Marine Energy,
IE12-335. Basque Government (ETORTEK
program). January 2012 – December 2014. [+INFO]
The ENERGIGUNE’12 project
comprises the development of several lines
of research in the field of energy by
strengthening of two strategic areas such as
Energy Storage (Electrochemistry and
Thermal) and Marine Energy. This project
involves the CIC energiGUNE (consortium
leader), IK-4 Ikerlan, IK-4 CIDETEC,
Tecnalia R & I, AZTI-Tecnalia and the
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Institute
for Materials Synthesis and Study of the
Department of Science and Technology of
Navigation, Naval Construction Machinery and
APERT group of the Electronic Technology
Department of the UPV/EHU. The APERT group
participates in the field of marine energy
(wind and waves) in order to develop and
enhance the capabilities of the bimep test
area as reference test center for both, wave
energy and floating offshore wind.
Autonomous
fault-tolerant architectures based on
dynamically reconfigurable devices.
TEC2011-28250-C02-01. Science and Innovation
Ministry, cofinanced with FEDER (European
Regional Development Fund). January 2012 –
December 2014. [+INFO]
The goal of this project is
the definition and design of an autonomous
fault-tolerant platform based on FPGA
technology using scrubbing, redundancy and
dynamic reconfiguration techniques. The
hardware architecture will be protected
against temporal and permanent errors and it
will be able to auto-reconfigure by using
pre-defined bitstreams. Thereby the design
will have the capacity to detect condition
changes within the system or within the
environment, and react accordingly. This is
a subproject of the coordinated project
“Autonomous COgnitive Radio systems based on
DYnamically reconfigurable devices
(ACORDY)”, leaded by UPV/EHU and with the
collaboration of Tecnalia Research &
Innovation.
Redundant
Systems in Industrial Network Rings
(ERAZTUN). S-PE12UN008. Basque Government
(SAIOTEK program) January 2012 – December
2013. [+INFO]
This project is intended to
address a study of the Industrial real-time
redundant Ethernet protocols. It will also
address their implementation in high
capacity FPGA devices. In this area, network
rings are of particular interest. Such
networks produce a change in the paradigm of
the network structure as the end node
becomes in turn information routing element.
Design
of power electronic systems for hybrid
electric rail vehicles (DISELA).
S-PE12UN003. Basque Government (SAIOTEK
program) January 2012 – December 2013. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
is the definition of a strategy leading to
optimal design of chain drives shipped based
on a combination of bidirectional energy
storage elements. This strategy, which would
apply to all types of hybrid electric
vehicles, will also allow analyze optimal
topology for powering auxiliary loads
including in all electric vehicles.
RURALGRID:
Feasibility study of renewable energy
implementation through microgrids in the
villages of the Pyrenees. CTP11/02. Basque
Government (Projects for Research and
Technological Development of the Working
Community of the Pyrenees). January 2012 –
December 2013. [+INFO]
The project aims to define,
design, develop and implement intelligent
energy control systems that allow the
real-time management of a microgrid applied
to a rural area. The idea is to get a
percentage maximized of renewable energy
penetration, able to be self-managed, with
the constraints of the natural ecosystem and
landscape perspective. The goal is to
generate clean energy, find role models in
demand and develop non-invasive technologies
and adapted to the natural environment, with
the connivance of the beneficiary
population.
Special importance is given to
the study of technical and economic
feasibility for establishing microgrids to
serve to the villages of the Pyrenees. This
project involves Foundation San Jorge
University (coordinator), INYCOM,
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (TIEH
and NHG groups), Ecole Supérieure des
Technologies Industrielles Avancées
(France), IMS Bordeaux (France), LOREKI
(France), Ecole Nationale d 'ingénieurs of
Tarbes (France), Jema ENERGY S. A., Tecnalia
R & I, and the UPV/EHU (Groups GSC, SI+E
and APERT).
SARECONPA:
Parallelization of power converters in
electrical microgrids. Basque Government
(Aquitaine-Basque Country cooperation).
January 2012 – December 2012. [+INFO]
In order to meet the microgrid
energy requirements it is necessary to
incorporate various generation systems (i.e.
several solar panels and several wind
turbines). In this way, all of them will
deliver, in parallel, the energy to the
energy sink (load, storage system or grid).
This requires to have parallelized power
converters which require new control
techniques. These converters must operate in
parallel, synchronously with the microgrid,
using maximum power extraction algorithms or
having the microgrid stability as a target.
The Project is a cross border
cooperation project funded by the
Aquitaine-Euskadi cooperation common fund
with participation of the Ecole Supérieure
des Technologies Industrielles Avancées
(ESTIA) from Bayonne (France).
Control
optimization of power converters and
transmission lines in electric microgrids
(OPCOPOLI). S-PE11UN002. Eusko
Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco (SAIOTEK
program). January 2011 – December 2012. [+INFO]
The main objective of this
project is to investigate distributed
generation from microgrid configurations
that integrate. These microgrids will be
based on different types of renewable
energy. Mainly, it is expected to reach the
next objetives: improve control methods and
parallelization of the power converters
which constitute the microgrid, as well as,
optimizing the transmission line that
connects the power converters, the loads and
the grid.
Redundant
and real-time industrial-Ethernet network
advanced systems (SARETI) S-PE11UN059. Eusko
Jaurlaritza / Basque Government (SAIOTEK
program). January 2011 – December 2012. [+INFO]
This project seeks to address
a study of protocols for redundant and
real-time industrial Ethernet networks and
its implementation in high-capacity
integrated electronic FPGA devices. The
newly defined standards to meet the
real-time requirements and redundancy are
related to communication protocols: the PTP
(Precision Time Protocol), PRP (Parallel
Redundancy Protocol) and HSR (High
Availability seamless redundancy protocol).
The implementation of these protocols far
from being a solved problem is a problem
with many fronts derived especially from
specifically designed time adjustment
hardware and from the redundant transmission
circuits with different latencies.
System
architectures of transmission in direct
current of eolic wind farms.
ENE2010-19187-C03-01/ALT. Ministry of
Science and Innovation, cofinanced with
FEDER (European Regional Development Fund).
January 2011 – December 2013. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to analyze and to propose alternative
power transmission architectures using
medium and high voltage direct current (MVDV
and HVDC) in order to reduce the breakeven
distance for which direct current
transmission systems for marine power
generation are economically viable. For this
purpose, different topologies will be
analyzed for the converter station located
offshore, the use of medium voltage direct
current systems for intermediate distances
(20-80 km) and the availability of
protection equipment in DC. Different
alternatives for the connection of marine
generators to a DC bus will be studied and
simulated and the technical feasibility by
building a small scale prototype will also
be pursued.
Autonomous
computing systems based on Dynamically
reconfigurable devices.
TEC2010-21196-C02-01. Ministry of Science
and Innovation. January 2011 – December
2011. [+INFO]
In 2007 Steiner et al.
proposed a roadmap for the development of
hardware-implemented ACSs, which consists of
a hierarchy of 9 autonomy levels, each
introducing distinct capabilities that
underlying layers do not possess. These are
some of the autonomy levels: instantiating a
system (Level 0, L0), synthesizing and
mapping circuit descriptions (L3) and
learning from experience (L8). In their
landmark article Steiner et al. provided a
preliminary proof that ACSs are viable, but
they obviated many tools and capabilities
required to achieve full autonomy. One of
such capabilities is the tolerance against
silicon defects and faults, whose impact in
the electronics manufacturing industry is
foreseen critical in light of ever-growing
integration degrees approaching the
nanometer scale. An ACS capable of
reconfiguring its own resources in presence
of a fault in order to maintain its
functionality is what is herein coined as an
Autonomous Fault-Tolerant System (AFTS). The
main objective of the project is to contrive
an AFTS with L3 autonomy as described in the
Steiner’s roadmap.
This Project is a continuation
of another Singular Strategic Project called
CityElec. The overall project objectives
are:
The
leader of this project is ZIV Medida.
Besides, the partners of this project are
as follows: APERT Research Team (UPV/EHU),
ZIV I+D Smart Energy Networks, Ormazabal
Corporate Technology, AEG Power Solutions
Ibérica, Robotiker-Tecnalia, Integral Park
Systems and Automatismos Maser. The main
task of APERT Research Team (UPV/EHU) in
this project is to lead the design of the
architecture and sizing of systems for
charging electric vehicle batteries from
renewable energy sources.
Fault-tolerant
architectures for autonomous computing
systems. SA-2010/00040. Basque
Government/Gobierno Vasco (SAIOTEK program).
January 2010 –
December 2011. [+INFO]
The main objective of this
project is the definition and design of a
fault-tolerant autonomous platform based on
FPGA technology that combines redundancy and
reconfiguration.
EOLO:
Consequences of integrating wind turbines in
the electric grid for distribution and
transport. CTP09-R9. Basque Govern
(Program of Research Thematic Networks in
the Work Community of the Pyrenees). January
2010 - December 2011 [+INFO]
A research thematic network
composed by the following agents: UPV/EHU
(leader of the network), Robotiker
Foundation, Polytechnic University of
Cataluña, Hidrógeno-Aragón Foundation,
University of Zaragoza, Ecole Supérieure des
Technologies Industrielles Avancées (Bidart,
France), University of Bordeaux 1 (France)
and University of Pau (France). The
cooperation approaches research topics about
wind energy systems and other alternative
sources: consequences of integrating wind
turbines and other sources in the electric
grid for distribution and transport,
features of the wind turbines and of the
control strategies, their effects in the
quality of the electric supply and in
efficiency of the generation.
Integrating
communication standard KNX/EIB with
innovative authentication and encryption
mechanisms in PV7 systems. UE09+/12
Basque Government - DINITEL 2000, S. A.
(University-Industry Program). January 2010
- December 2010. [+INFO]
One of the major advances
achieved in recent years in the sector of
home automation in Europe is the
establishment of standard protocol KNX/EIB
for home automation and buildings. The
research in this project is focused in
advanced privacy systems applied to
electronic communications in industrial and
residential applications as well as the use
of reconfigurable logic to implement
authentication and encryption algorithms
using VHDL
CONPORTA:
Resonant power converter with high frequency
transformer. UE09+/09. Basque
Government – Fundación Robotiker
(Universidad-Empresa program). January 2010
–
December 2010 [+INFO]
Development of bidirectional
DC-AC resonant converter directly fed from a
DC bus present in generation, transmission
and distribution of electric power (wind
power, photovoltaic systems, fuel cells,
motor and generator drives etc.). The
converter operates at high frequency with
low switching losses and feeds a high
frequency and high voltage transformer.
SETEMAR:
Electronic system for energy transmission in
high and medium voltages for marine
renewable resources. UE09/02. University of
the Basque Country – Robotiker foundation
(University-Company project). November 2009
- November 2011. [+INFO]
The objective of this Project
is the viability analysis of the marine
energy transmission systems using direct
current submarine cable for distances below
50 km. Currently, this distance is the
economically viable limit for the use of
direct current in energy transmission. The
most relevant points are the elimination of
the offshore AC-DC conversion station, the
use of direct current in medium voltages and
the availability of direct current
protection equipment in medium voltage range
from 4 kV to 33 kV and currents below 200 A.
Different alternatives for direct connection
of wind turbines to the medium voltage range
(from 4 kV to 33 kV) direct current bus will
be studied and simulated. Moreover, it is
proposed to build a reduced scale prototype.
Fault
Tolerant Self-reparable Systems
DIPE09/02. Diputación Foral de Bizkaia
and Sociedad BEAZ, S.A. November 2009 – November
2011. [+INFO]
The main objective of this
project is to obtain a fault tolerant
architecture based on dynamically
reconfigurable devices. This architecture
will allow the development of electronic
circuits able to repair themselves. In this
project, a communication controller CAN able
to repair itself will be developed as a
concept-proof for this technology that will
be the basis of a spin-off company
specialized in SoPC design.
This project is a Singular
Strategic Project divided into 7
subprojects. In the overall project are
involved: Robotiker-Tecnalia (project
leader); Fundación AITIIP; Automatismos
Maser, S.A.; Asociación para la Promoción de
los Vehículos Eléctricos y no Contaminantes
de España, AVELE ; Ayuntamiento de
Donostia-San Sebastián ; Ayuntamiento de
Zaragoza; Fundación CIDAUT, Centro de
Investigación y Desarrollo En Transporte Y
Energía; Compañía del Tranvía de San
Sebastián, S.A.; Ente Vasco de la Energía;
EXIDE Technologies, S.A.; Hidroeléctrica del
Cantábrico, S.A. ; Instituto de Automática
Industrial-CSIC; Fundación Inasmet; Infranor
Spain, S.L.U. ; Integral Park Systems, S.L.;
Fundación Labein; Lear Corporation Holding
Spain, S.L.U.; Luma Industrias, S.A.;
Mototracción Eléctrica Latierro, S.A.;
Ormazabal Corporate Technology; Rücker
Lypsa, S.L.; Saft Baterías, S.L.; Asociación
Española de Fabricantes de Equipos y
Componentes para Automoción; Temper, S.A.U.;
Equipos de Transmisión, S.A.; Unión Fenosa
Distribución; Universidad de Extremadura;
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña;
Usyscom, Tecnología de Comunicaciones S.L.;
Valeo Térmico, S.A.; Zytel Automoción, S.L.
and UPV/EHU.
The APERT group participates in the
subproject "Integration of infrastructure in
the urban environment" in which, among
others, it participates in evaluation of
renewable sources and selection of the most
adequate, and in the design of architecture
and system calculations for battery charge
of electric vehicles.
This Project is a Singular
Strategic Project divided in 4 subprojects.
In the overall project are involved:
Iberdrola Renovables (project leader),
Ecotécnia/Alstom, Acciona Energía,
Robotiker-Tecnalia, Instituto de
Investigación de Energía de Cataluña, KV
Consultores, Universidad de Cádiz and
UPV/EHU. APERT participates in the
subproject “Study and development of the
electric engineering technology involved in
offshore wind farms at high water depth
(PSS-120000-2009-9)”. This subproject tries
to determine the development of the means
and technologies used for the optimization
of the efficiency in the offshore wind farms
studied in the EMERGE project.
ENERGIGUNE'09:
Launch of CIC physical storage
infrastructure and virtual CIC start
operating through marine energy and PV.
IE09-244. Basque Government (ETORTEK
program). January 2009 – December 2011.[+INFO]
Strategic research project
whose main objectives are, on the one hand,
to permit the design and creation of a new R
& D infrastructure in energy storage at
CIC energiGUNE, through investment in the
necessary equipment and the incorporation of
excellent staff in research and, on the
other, start the collaboration between the
physical and virtual CIC energiGUNE through
collaborative research in the field of
marine energy and photovoltaic. In this
sense, participants in this project are the
next: CIC energiGUNE (project leader),
IKERLAN-IK4, TEKNIKER-IK4, CIDETEC-IK4,
CEIT-IK4, IDEKO-IK4, INASMET-TECNALIA,
ROBOTIKER-TECNALIA, TiM and APERT from the
UPV/EHU.
CADAV:
Data capture system at high speed in
critical systems. S-PE09UN17. Eusko
Jaurlaritza / Gobierno Vasco (SAIOTEK
program). January 2009 – December 2010.[+INFO]
The main objective of this
project is to define a design methodology
and architecture in order to develop systems
that can capture, adapt and transmit analog
signals robustly digitized for later use in
control circuits. In particular, this
architecture will focus on electronic
systems based on next-generation FPGA
platforms. This type of circuit is known for
their flexibility, parallel processing and
computing power.
EOMATRIX:
Improving of the mini wind energy conversion
by using matrix converters. S-PE09UN08.
Basque Government (SAIOTEK program). January
2009 - December 2010.[+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to improve energy conversion of mini wind
turbines connected to the grid through the
use of a matrix converter. In this
configuration innovative control techniques
will be applied to ensure a quality
connection to the grid and, in short, to
optimize the overall performance of energy
conversion.
ILOTEN:
Islanding of a hybrid energy system. Basque
Government (Aquitania-Basque Country
Cooperation). June 2008 - May 2009.[+INFO]
A hybrid power system (or
micro-grid) may be composed of different
energy sources, including renewable sources,
loads, storage equipment, electrical /
electronic converters, a central controller
and local controllers. The microgrid can
operate either connected to the main
electrical grid or isolated from it in
island mode. The following transition modes
may take place: Disconnection from the grid
to start island operation and reconnection
to the grid alter island operation. The
first transition mode, disconnection from
the grid, is studied in this project.
The Project is a cross border cooperation
project funded by the Aquitaine-Euskadi
cooperation common fund with participation
of the Ecole Supérieure des Technologies
Industrielles Avancées (ESTIA) from Bayonne
(France).
TEReTRANS:
Intelligent systems for the new generation
of ground transport. IE08-221. Eusko
Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco (ETORTEK
program). January 2008 – December 2010.[+INFO]
Strategic research project
with the main objective to promote the
participant agents in the European
innovation map in its broadest sense,
deepening and advancing in the development
of the strategic research in intelligent
transport over convergence of traditional
scientific and technical areas in order to
obtain an advanced technology to contribute
to competitiveness and innovation in the
transport sector of the Basque Autonomous
Community, and therefore in its economy and
society.
Participants on this project are the
technological centers: IKERLAN-IK4
(consortium leader), CEIT-IK4, TEKNIKER-IK4,
VICOMTech-IK4, ROBOTIKER-TECNALIA,
ESI-TECNALIA, FATRONIK-TECNALIA, and the
universities: Mondragón Unibertsitatea,
TECNUN, Fundación Deusto and two departments
of the UPV/EHU.
ESTIMA:
To estimate the area and performance of
complex systems implemented in FPGAs.
S-PE08UN27. Eusko Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco
(SAIOTEK program). January 2008 – December 2009.[+INFO]
Hardware-software codesign
must set which functions should run in a
programmable processor and which be
implemented in specific peripherals,
designed for that purpose. Such a decision
is not trivial at all, and, with this aim,
several solutions must be evaluated and
compared. To this end, several electronic
design tools must be used. However, despite
computers aiding, Electronics market,
specially the consume one, does not allow
long times of fabrication, so the features
of the different architectures must be
estimated anyway. At this point, the design
tools are not powerful enough. Therefore,
the purpose is finding algorithms in order
to estimate the electronic resources
consumed and the highest performance reached
when designing complex electronic systems in
FPGAs.
BANITS-2:
Broadband Access Networks Integrated
Telecommunication System 2.
TSI-020400-2008-18. Ministry of Industry,
Commerce and Tourism. January 2008 - May
2009. [+INFO]
The main objective of the
BANITS2 project is to continue extending the
existing knowledge in the areas of
Metropolitan and Access Networks introduced
by the original project BANITS, establishing
mechanisms to enable a significant expansion
of services for both residential and
business environments. BANITS2 keeps the
focus on reuse and optimization of existing
access and metropolitan infrastructures,
extending its scope of use to systems such
as xDSL/DSLAMs, fiber-based access (PON),
fiber rings, WDM and/or SONET/SDH, with
native support for RPR technologies and
maintaining the paradigm of Ethernet
end-to-end technology.
This project is within the European CELTIC
initiative and therefore, it is an
international collaborative project
undertaken by a consortium of entities. The
consortium consists of ten partners from
four countries: Telefónica I + D (Spain),
project leader, Corrigent Systems (Israel),
ECI Telecom (Israel), Ericsson (Sweden),
LMI-Ericssson (Ireland), FTW (Austria),
Inelcom (Spain), Lund University (Sweden),
Optibase Ltd. (Israel), Foundation-Tecnalia
Robotiker (Spain), UpZide Labs (Sweden),
UPV/EHU (Spain). The Spanish consortium
formed by Telefonica I + D, INELCOM, UPV/EHU
and the Foundation Robotiker-Tecnalia have
obtained funding from the Strategic Action
for Telecommunications and Information
Society, Subprogramme ‘Avanza I+D’.
Securization
of point to point communications for
electronic vote applications using free
software tools. EJIE (project of the
UPV/EHU-EJIE agreement 2007). November 2007
– November 2008. [+INFO]
In the last years, the use of
Information Technologies in the daily life
has grown significantly. Activities as
article downloading or bank account
management can be made from any place using
Internet. An application with a promising
future of these technologies is its use for
the electronic vote, so that a person can,
from any site, to vote and to participate in
the democracy with guarantees. On the other
hand, this great flow of information has
favored the free circulation of programs and
source code, having generated a set of tools
that can be used in a different way from the
traditional software tools, giving to the
users more freedom at the time of having
them. Nevertheless, along with all these
advantages, the popularization of the new
technologies has also brought certain
disadvantages. Given the great amount of
information (sensible in many cases) that
actually flows through computer networks,
the number of computer crimes has grown and
also does the users’ distrust on the
reliability of these technologies. This
project tries to develop a system for
securization of communications, following
the philosophy of free software, for
electronic vote applications offering a high
reliability and security required by these
systems.
Study of
the application of Matrix Converters in Wind
Turbines. ENE2007-67033-C03-01/ALT.
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. October
2007 –
September 2010. [+INFO]
The goal of this Project is to
study the application of Matrix Converters
in Wind Turbines. The Matrix Converter is a
new technology of great research interest.
This topology can be used in various wind
applications because it avoids the use of a
DC bus and its capacitors which are a
possible source of failure in the system.
Other advantages of the Matrix Converter are
the lower weight and volume and the
possibility to work in hostile environments
such us offshore applications. In this
project the viability of the converter and
different modulation, control and auxiliary
circuits for the robustness in wind
applications of the system are studied. The
proposed algorithms are synthesized in a
FPGA. Parallel connection of the Matrix
Converter and failure tolerant structures
are also studied.
This Project is integrated within the
coordinated Project “Study of low-voltage
energy converters for cost reduction and
reliability improvement in wind energy
systems (CEBATE)” developed by UPV/EHU,
Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña and
Robotiker-Tecnalia Research Center.
Embedded
crypto-bridge for electronic voting
applications. EJIE (project of the
UPV/EHU-EJIE agreement 2007). November 2007
– November 2008. [+INFO]
The aims of this project is
the design and develop of a SoPC with two
Ethernet ports able to cipher Ethernet
frames attending to source and destination
MAC addresses. Thanks to the proposed SoPC,
it will be possible secure Ethernet
point-to-point links through an insecure
Ethernet network. This solution will enable
an easy connection of distributed systems,
like electronic ballot boxes, using the
widely spread Ethernet standard. Thus, both
the installer and the user will visualize
the ciphering system like a black box with
two Ethernet ports (input and output).
Besides, thanks to the modularity of the
proposed approach, the electronic designer
could integrate the proposed SoPC in the CPU
of the distributed device (i.e. electronic
ballot boxes).
Security
applied to Domotic and Industrial Networks.
S-PE07UN01. Eusko Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco
(SAIOTEK program). January 2007 - December
2008. [+INFO]
The mail goal of this Project
is the research on the most advanced
security and privacy means in order to apply
them to the new standards of domotic and
industrial network. These standards will be
implemented soon in our domestic, industrial
and institutional buildings and premises.
The approach proposed in this project is
based on the newest digital system design
techniques. Thanks to these methodologies,
we have been able to offer viable solutions,
both technically and economically, that can
deal with the strict constraints of the
ciphering and authentication systems.
Specifically, the addition of security and
privacy mechanisms into the following two
standards: Ethernet and KNX/EIB.
New
binarization algorithm for optical character
recognition electronic voting systems. EJIE
(project of the UPV/EHU-EJIE agreement
2006). September 2006 – September 2007. [+INFO]
We pretend to study and
analyze different text binarization systems
as well as creating a binarization algorithm
specially suited for optical character
recognition electronic voting systems. The
created algorithm must be better or equal to
existing algorithms in the field of rejected
votes but must better the characteristic of
uniformity of rejected votes. This parameter
has been systematically omitted in previous
studies because it is not of special
interest in applications different to the
electronic voting.
RENOVA –
Strategic Research on renewable and
alternative energies. Eusko
Jaurlaritza/Gobierno Vasco (ETORTEK
program). January 2006 – December 2008.[+INFO]
The main goal of this
strategic project is the placement of the
Basque Industry and its Innovation System as
leaders in the field of renewable energy.
This will be achieved through the
implantation and development of generating
power based on renewable energy for the
fulfillment of the Euskadi 2010 energy
strategy.
The Project contains three subprojects:
The
participants in this project are Robotiker
(coordinator), Inasmet, Labein, Ikerlan,
Instituto de Tecnología Microelectrónica
and APERT from UPV/EHU.
Adaptive
Control based on FPGAs for Matrix
Converters. Eusko Jaurlaritza/Basque
Government (SAIOTEK program). January 2006 –
December 2007. [+INFO]
The main objective is to
design the control circuit for power
electronics on matrix converters by means of
last generation digital circuits design
methodology. The whole circuit is to be
implemented into a single high capacity
FPGA.
Control
of advanced power converters for wind
turbines. Diputación Foral de Bizkaia.
(EKINBERRI program). September 2005 – December
2006. [+INFO]
Design of new control
strategies for advanced power converters
(multilevel and matrix converters) for wind
turbines. The goal is to develop different
control methods for the above mentioned
converters using simulating tools, select
those with the best properties, build
converter prototypes and test the prototypes
in a test rig with real generators.
DRM
Plus. Advanced applications of DRM (Digital
Radio Mondiale). S-PE05UN22. Eusko
Jaurlaritza/Basque Government (SAIOTEK
program). March 2005 – December 2006 [+INFO]
This project focuses on two
key sectors in the new technologies of the
DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) digital
broadcasting. The first one is the sector of
the communication electronics for
broadcasting systems, based on
hardware-software architectures. This sector
is aimed at developing the prototype,
previous to marketing, of a receiver based
on the technology named "Software Radio".
This DRM receiver will be designed to work
in bands below 120 MHz. The second key
sector consists in creating channel models
to aid the planning of DRM nets in those
bands. These channel models will be based on
field analyses in DRM trial nets and their
development is aimed at producing software,
previous to marketing, in order to aid the
planning of this kind of nets, based on
realistic models generated by field
analyses. In this project we collaborate
with the Signal Processing and
Radiocommunications Group, which leads the
project.
Development
of a new grinding technology based on
diamond dressing and electroerosion (RELEC).
Basque Government (INTEK program). January
2005 –
June 2005. [+INFO]
In this project a new grinding
technology is proposed. The proposed
grinding technology is based in the diamond
dressing of superabrassive metallic
agglutinant grinding-wheels using the
electro discharge dressing (EDD) technique.
This technique will allow a new threshold in
the precision and the surface finish of the
grinded workpieces. The project has been
developed in collaboration with Mechanical
Engineering Department for the companies
ONA-Electroerosión, S.A. and Danobat S.
Coop.
Advanced
power converter topologies to improve
efficiency and power quality in the
integration of wind energy in the electric
network (RECENER). ENE2004-07881-C03-00.
Ministry of Education and Science. December
2004 –
December 2007. [+INFO]
In order to increase the use
of renewable energies in the power system,
and more specifically wind energy, the
initial cost of equipment must decrease and
their efficiency must be increased. This
will maximize the revenues of the wind park
developers and make wind energy more
competitive. The increase in efficiency will
also reduce cooling equipment and lower the
cost of the system.
As
more and more wind energy is integrated in
the electric network, the impact in the
power system is more important, and the
quality of the connection of the wind
turbines is one of the main issues in wind
energy technology. Power electronics is
the technology that will enable the
solution to all this questions.
The
main goal of this project is the
application of advanced power conversion
topologies for the improvement of
efficiency, power quality and cost
reduction of wind turbines. This goal will
be achieved by developing a simulation
platform of a complete wind energy system,
evaluating the behaviour of different
advanced power topologies, select the
topologies with the best efficiency and
power quality for synchronous and/or
doubly fed induction generators, and build
prototypes of these converters in order to
proof the simulation results in real
synchronous and doubly fed induction
generators.
This
is a coordinated project supported by the
Science and Education Ministry of Spain in
which the UPV/EHU take part as
coordinator. The other partners are
Polytechnic University of Catalunya and
Robotiker Technologic Center.
Wireless
Acquisition and Measurement System for
Distribution Line Signals. Basque Government
(INTEK program). December 2004 – December
2005. [+INFO]
This project is a continuation
of the project called SMTU. The aim of the
project is to develop a new communication
system to perform remote configuration by
means of Ethernet connection. We work
together with the Electric Engineering
Department as agents of the Basque
Technology Network for the companies Fanox
Electronic S. L. and Kementsu S. L.
Artificial
Stereo Vision: Stereoscopic Image Processing
in Real Time. Basque Government (SAIOTEK
program). December 2004 – December 2005. [+INFO]
The target of this project is
to design a system able to acquire
stereoscopic images of video sources and to
process them to determine the
three-dimensional structure of the scenes.
The system will be compound of an image
acquisition subsystem and a processing
subsystem. The Image Acquisition Subsystem
will be designed to provide a set of
sequential stereoscopic images in an
adequate format for high speed processing.
The Processing Subsystem will be designed
taking advantage of the great possibilities
parallelism and reconfigurability offered by
the most recent FPGAs.
EthSEC
Security in Peer-to-Peer Ethernet Networks.
TIC2003-09585-C02-01. Ministry of Education
and Science. December 2003 – December 2006.
[+INFO]
This Project is focused on the
research of new secure peer-to-peer Ethernet
communication protocols. The cryptography
and authentication mechanism used in these
communications needs intensive computations.
This need has been increased by the new
telematic applications that involve high
data throughputs and high speed data
transferences. In order to offer affordable
solutions, in this research
hardware-software solutions are explored and
verified. Specifically in this project,
APERT research group is in charge of
implementing these high speed mixed circuits
in high capacity reconfigurable devices.
These devices enable the integration of full
digital systems in a single chip, including
hardware and software cores. This is a
coordinated project supported by the Science
and Education Ministry of Spain (I+D+I
2000-2003) in which the UPV/EHU takes part
as coordinator. The other partner is
Robotiker Technologic Center. The main
research in the UPV/EHU is Eduardo Jacob
(I2T research team) and APERT takes part in
this Project since 2005 with one researcher.
SMTU:
Electronic grid fault detector, with
wireless measurement and SMS/GPRS
communication system. Basque Government
(INTEK program). December 2003 – December 2004. [+INFO]
The goal of the project is to
develop an intelligent grid fault detector
that will allow faults in medium voltage
grids to be remotely detected. Our research
team has participated together with the
Department of Electrical Engineering as
agents of the Basque Technology Network for
Fanox Electronic S. L. and Kementsu S. L.
within the INTEK program financed by the
Basque Government.
Design
Methodology and simulation environment based
on the hardware description language VHDL of
circuits for the train communication
standard IEC 61375-1. TIC2001-0062. Ministry
of Science and Technology. January 2002 – December
2004. [+INFO]
The development of
communication networks has spread to a wide
range of applications. Particularly, a vast
amount of projects have taken place in
Europe in the transport sector within the
Telematic Application Program of the
European Commission (DG XIII). To be more
precise, the need for a communication system
on board, capable of interconnecting all
electronic subsystems has been detected.
This would make the interoperability between
devices and distributed control
architectures easier, as well as improve the
interconnection with other extern networks.
This system is based in the standard IEC
61375-1, recently approved, also known as
TCN (Train Communication Network).
This
has risen the need for new circuits that
conform to the new standard and allow a
full development of the possibilities of
the standards, establishing a design
methodology for the verification and
construction of the circuits, using the
VHDL language. It is also a goal of the
project to build a simulation environment
to test the circuits in a simple and
efficient way. The main goal is, thus, the
development of this simulation environment
and to establish the above mentioned
methodology for the TCN network.
In
addition to the teachers from UPV/EHU the
research team for this project includes
researchers from Centro Politécnico
Superior of the University of Zaragoza and
professionals from the company
Construcciones y Auxiliar de
Ferrocarriles, S. A. (CAF).
ZABALTEK:
Electronic Voting System for Open Lists.
Basque Government (INTEK program). January
2001 –
December 2002. [+INFO]
This project is a continuation
of the Electronic Ballot in which the group
took part as agents of the Basque Network of
Technology with the Technology Centers
Robotiker and Ikerlan for the company
consortium formed by Ibermática, Ikusi and
Hunolt, together with the Department of
Interior of the Basque Government. This new
project has two goals: The study of the
possibility to use Internet and the
electronic ballot for voting processes and
the development of a new version of the
electronic ballot for open lists.
Design
of a VHDL-based Circuit to Obtain a Image
Sequence Optical Flow in Real Time.
PI-1998-41. Basque Government (Department of
Education, Universities and Research).
January 1999 –
December 2001. [+INFO]
The goal of this project is
the design of a circuit that will enable the
obtaining of the optical flow of a image
sequence in real time. The use of VHDL
language accelerates and simplifies the
design process. After the design process, a
synthesis phase makes it possible to obtain
a physical implementation based on
Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs or FPGAs)
or either based on Application Specific
Integrated Circuits (ASICs). Anyway, in
order to achieve a prototype the best
approach is to use FPGAs, due to their
reprogrammability on the same prototype (in
circuit). This shortens the development
time, saves component use, etc.
CARES:
Development of advanced equipment for the
manufacturing value chain based on new
concepts for decision support aimed at
generating high added value services for the
recovery of the competitiveness of Spanish
industry. January 2016 - December 2019.[+INFO]
Movements such as Industrie
4.0 (Germany) and Cyber Physical Systems
-CPS- (USA) are generating a wave of
projects oriented to the solution of
knowledge spaces not solved in an operative
way, with already existing technologies
successfully applied in other sectors.
Emerging opportunities in fields such as
cloud computing, knowledge engineering,
service-oriented architectures or mass data
mining (Big Data), will generate new ways of
understanding the business where the
enriched information will be the
differential value for investment in
productive means. The development of new
ways of understanding productive
infrastructures, based on better use and
exploitation of data and the generation of
advanced services, will be the key to
competitiveness of Spanish companies for the
generation of smart products.
The complementarity and technological
synergies obtained by the fusion of these
areas of knowledge make the CARES project a
set of tools, mechanisms and solutions that,
together, will allow to cover the current
needs of data utilization during decision
making.
Sensor
interface for
Cyber-Physical-Production-System (ISCPPS).
December 2015 - December 2016.[+INFO]
The proposed project addresses
the problem of including interfaces to a
Cyber-Physical-Production-System (CPPS)
oriented to the Industrial Sector. This
product will provide intelligent
pre-processing and network connection
(plant, internet and Cloud) to the sensors,
actuators and machines of an industrial
plant.
The Internet-of-the-Things (IoT) concept is
being gradually incorporated into the
Industrial Sector. The ultimate goal of this
incorporation is the optimization of
production processes in order to improve
competitiveness and in short increase the
profit. This evolution, which goes through
the massive, interconnected, modeled,
intelligent and "real-time" use of data is
contemplated in the Industrie 4.0 concept.
This new evolution in the industry is based
on incorporating Information Technology (IT)
in a coordinated way and in the combination
of heterogeneous systems of exchange and
data processing. The ultimate objective is
to obtain useful information for the
improvement of the productive system.
Some of the concepts and technologies, such
as Wireless networks and Ethernet-based
communications, used in other SMART
environments (eg. SMART-CITIES) can be used
directly in the industry. However, it is
necessary to consider the particular
casuistry of the sector to offer solutions
that are fully accepted by the agents
involved in the same. These keys are: Real
Time-RT, Interoperability-Standardization,
Flexibility, Security and Cybersecurity.
GRIC -
Gateway with redundant communication for
intelligent networks (Phase II). December
2015 - December 2016.[+INFO]
Although the future of
electrical systems is uncertain, there is
consensus among different stakeholders in
the sector that the Smart Grid concept is
generating a paradigm shift. Smart Grids
define the improvement of the infrastructure
of the segments that make up the power
supply system, including power generation,
transmission, distribution and consumption.
These networks provide the automation needed
to manage energy resources by improving
their use, minimizing waste and reporting in
real time to both suppliers and consumers.
This requires a modern infrastructure, which
maximizes the entry and distribution of
energy while being economical to operate and
maintain.
The main objective of the project is focused
on updating communications in electrical
installations and more specifically in
electrical substations where most of them
have basic communications with serial
communication and basic protocols such as
Modbus. This update is focused on improving
performance, security and facilitating the
expansion of the installation. The proposed
solution is the most economical solution for
not having to replace the existing equipment
in the installation, but to add elements
with much less economic weight than the
equipment of protection, control,
measurement, etc.
CRYPTOGRID,
Research on Reconfigurable Architectures for
Cyber-Security in the Smart Grid (Phase II).
December 2015 - December 2016.[+INFO]
The main objective of this
project is the development of a technology
that meets the requirements of Real Time,
Safety and Cyber-security and that can be
implemented in FPGA type electronic devices.
For this the specific objectives are:
Design
of an inverter for synchronous reluctance
motor in automotive applications (VENUS).
June 2015 – February 2016.[+INFO]
This project is intended to
design a three-phase power converter which
will be connected to a synchronous
reluctance motor. The power module will take
the energy from a battery pack. The
electronic circuit consists of power modules
with SRM configuration, driver boards and
the required cooling systems. The
application in which the above design is
used is the electric vehicle.
Integration
of motor control algorithms in Xilinx FPGA
(FPGAmc). June 2015 – December 2015.[+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to integrate within the FPGA the Field
Oriented Control (FOC) used to control the
torque of a permanent magnet synchronous
machine (PMSM). In addition, the FPGA will
contain all digital electronics necessary
for proper execution of the FOC. To do this,
some building blocks will be developed in IP
cores and others will be described using
code generation tools.
Design
and development of integrated power modules
(POWINMOD). May 2015 – December 2017.[+INFO]
This project is intended to
develop a flexible and competitive process
of identifying, designing, manufacturing and
testing of novel integrated power modules.
These modules incorporate a complex
electrical functionality and also inherently
provide a solution to thermal, mechanical,
electromagnetic and safety designs, greatly
facilitating assembly and end use by
customers.
Start up
of the position control of an
electromechanical actuator for aviation
applications (EMASUP). March 2015 – June
2015.[+INFO]
The objective of this project
is the implementation of the position
control for an ElectroMechanical Actuator
(EMA) used to move the rudder of an
aircraft. This project is the continuation
of EMACON (Electromechanical Actuator
Control) project. In the EMACON project the
control algorithm was designed and
implemented in the DSP TMS320F2812 from
Texas Instruments. However, due to delays in
that project, all due to reasons outside the
scope of the project, the implemented
control could not be tested experimentally.
Hence, this project has the purpose to
finish the work started in the EMACON
project.
Development
of a platform for the integration of
Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS) and
intelligent use of information and knowledge
for advanced manufacturing. December 2014 – November
2017.[+INFO]
This project aims to develop a
Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS)
circuit suitable for the new Industry 4.0
paradigm and that meets the objectives of
real time, low cost, low power consumption
and small size. Specifically, we propose two
Cyber-Physical Systems:
CYSYS:
Technical advice on
Cyber-Physical-Production-Systems (CPPS)
with High Availability Ethernet connections.
December
2014 – March
2016.[+INFO]
Development of an electronic
platform that supports a
Cyber-Physical-Production-System (CPPS)
system with HSR-PRP High Availability
Ethernet connections. The
Cyber-Physical-Production-System (CPPS)
provides intelligent pre-processing and
network connection of sensors, actuators and
machines in industrial plants.
Redundant
communications gateway for smart grid (Phase
1). December 2014 – November 2015.[+INFO]
In electrical substations
there are electromagnetic disturbances that
require using different interfaces to other
facilities. This project aims to analyze and
define the optimal interfaces between
different elements to create a gateway for
smart grids. Moreover, the various possible
architectures for the module will be
discussed, afterwards the most suitable will
be selected and its main components defined.
CRYPTOGRID,
Reconfigurable Architecture Research for
Cyber-Security in Smart Grid (I). November 2014 – November
2015.[+INFO]
The real-time communications
in the "Smart-Grids" requires that the
Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and
network elements introduced minimum delay,
and in turn have mechanisms for efficient
computing. Previous algorithms based on SHA
are not suitable for the high cost in terms
of resources and the latency introduced.
Therefore, this project will focus on the
development of algorithms implemented in
FPGAs to provide cyber security functions to
communication messages, enabling low
latency, flexibility and scalability to meet
the stringent latency requirements contained
in the various regulations of the electrical
sector. Because these new networks are
subject to attacks from general
communication networks, one form of defense
is to follow the same protocols and
standards that exist for such networks and
adapt them to the particularities of the
smart-grids.
Development
of an FPGA core for Ethernet switch.
December 2014 – March 2015.[+INFO]
Collaborating and technically
aiding on the design and implementation of
an FPGA core for Ethernet switch, which
integrates redundancy (HSR/PRP) and
synchronization (IEEE1588).
Design
and development of the position control for
the Electro Mechanical Actuator (EMA) used
in Aircrafts (EMACON). June 2014 – November
2014.[+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to design and develop the position
control for an EMA intended to command a
flight control surface (rudder) of an
Aircraft. The control algorithm will run in
the Texas Instruments TMS28F12 DSP. This
control will be in charge of generating the
command signals for the power inverter
connected to a Permanent Magnet Synchronous
Motor (PMSM).
Technical
advice for the development of a Grand Master
1588 (PTP) synchronizer based on FPGA
technology. May 2014 – January 2015.[+INFO]
The project involves working
with SoC-e in the development of a
Grand-Master for synchronizing
communications over Ethernet using the IEEE
1588 PTP standard and FPGA technology. This
project aims to achieve a low cost
Grand-Master that allows synchronization
over Ethernet and guarantees one-step and
peer-to-peer implementations. It also seeks
to provide the system with 1588 testing
capabilities, ensuring proper operation in
high-speed infrastructures and in standalone
mode.
IEEE
1588 based sub-microsecond synchronization
for Control and Communication Device.
November 2013 – November de 2014. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
is the development of a synchronization
system based on the standard 1588 using
FPGAs for power protection equipment. This
piece of equipment will have control and
communication sections. This equipment must
meet restrictive power consumptions since
the only power connection is the same
electrical system.
Technical
Consulting for Software and Firmware
Development for Software Defined Radio
Laboratory Equipment (Phase I). June 2013 –
October 2014. [+INFO]
The objective of this R &
D project is to develop a laboratory
innovative platform on the Software Defined
Radio (SDR) market. This laboratory
equipment is easily transportable and
pluggable into the mains. It internally
provides a backplane connection to plug in
different boards developed by SoC-e. The
laboratory equipment will provide to
engineering teams accessing to debug
connectors and to external measuring
equipment or signal generators. It will also
provide an appropriate interface between the
SDR boards and one PC that use aimed at
developing algorithms processing software,
the configuration of the boards and the
implementation on programmable logic of
SoC-e developed cores IP for the field of
software defined radio.
Design
of inverter for permanent magnet motor for
automotive applications (EVIN). February
2013 – March 2014. [+INFO]
The goal of this project is
the design and construction of a power for a
permanent magnet motor fed from a battery.
The power drive includes a three phase
inverter, driver board and cooling system.
1588
based sub-microsecond synchronization for
power over ethernet relay control and
communication device. November 2012 –
November 2013. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to develop a synchronization system based
on the 1588 standard implemented in FPGAs
for protective, control and communication
equipment with minimal power consumption so
that through an Ethernet cable
communication, power and the synchronization
of the equipment are resolved. Among other
enforceable standards IEEE 1588 and IEEE Std
802.3 should be observed.
Airborne
Autonomous System for Underground
Exploration and Mine detection by radar and
multispectral image (SARGO). July 2012 – December
2014. [+INFO]
The main objective of the
project is to research on the following
technologies: Synthetic Aperture Radar
(SAR), Multispectral Imaging Processing (EO
/ IR) and Semi-Automatic Control of UAV
systems. The contribution of the group of
researchers from the UPV / EHU focuses on
the design and development of radio
electronic equipment with RADAR
functionality. In order to fulfill this
objective, cutting-edge Software-Defined
Radio implemented on reconfigurable logic
will be used. The design will be designed
according to standard VPX for Aerospace
Systems.
FPGA
based sub-microsecond synchronization for
power over ethernet relay. June 2012 – May
2013. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to develop a synchronization system based
on FPGAs for protective, control and
communication equipment powered through the
communication channel. This technology will
eliminate the power supply of the equipment,
which simplifies and cheapens it.
POER:
Analysis, study and definition of benefits
under design team, from the perspective of
the FPGA architecture involved in it.
December 2011 –
March 2012. [+INFO]
The main objective of this
project is the definition and design of a
fault-tolerant autonomous platform based on
FPGA technology that combines redundancy and
reconfiguration.
Research
on Reconfigurable Devices. September 2011 – September
2012. [+INFO]
The project’s main goal is to
analyze the state of the art in
reconfigurable logic solutions that best fit
the needs of the company and to study the
feasibility of using SOPC platforms by SoC-e
and evaluate reconfigurable devices for use
as reactive units in fault-tolerant systems.
Technical
Consultancy in autonomous fault tolerant
systems based on FPGAs (Phase I). March 2011
– July
2011. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
was to provide technical advice to the
company System-on-Chip engineering SL
(SoC-e) on the most appropriate and robust
architectures for implementation of the new
SoC products in its business lines
"Industrial" and "Rugged".
OCEAN
LIDER: Ocean energy leaders. September 2010
–
September 2012.[+INFO]
The objective of this project
is to develop the control system that will
monitor the sea conditions and the state of
a wave energy converter (based on data from
an oceanographic buoy). With this
information, actuators (modified flotation,
acting on the system of conversion, etc.) of
the converter will be controlled or it will
be set in survive position with extreme sea
conditions.
This is an outsourced project
within the project CENIT-E OCEAN LIDER
involving 20 companies and 25 research
centers with a total budget of 30 million
Euros, the largest initiative of its kind
worldwide.
Research
into new power and control circuits for
power converters. May 2010 – April 2013.[+INFO]
This project is a continuation
of previous cooperation agreements with the
Technological Centre Robotiker-Tecnalia.
ASISTEL:
Communication system for remote alarm.
December 2009 –
December 2010.[+INFO]
The main objective of the
project is to design an alarm system to
replace the telecare system that is
currently implanted in the Basque country
and elsewhere in the world.
SEViC:
Development of an electronic display system
power consumption with Advanced Domotic
Applications. June 2009 – January 2010. [+INFO]
The objective of this project
is developing a comprehensive system for
residential home automation standard that
includes a display system of energy
consumption and a set of basic home
automation functions (alarms, wireless
telephone, voice synthesis, etc.).. The
system consists of two modules: The display
module, which features a color display
touch-screen and a central module integrated
into the home electrical panel. Between the
two modules can connect wired or wireless.
EMOTELDI:
Digital Terrestrial Television Modulator
(EMOTELDI). July 2008 – September 2009. [+INFO]
The main goal of this Project
is the design and development of a Digital
Terrestrial Television based on FPGA
technology. The prototype, implemented on a
commercial FPGA development board, will
modulate a DVB-T signal according to the
parameters set by the ETSI EN 300744 v1.5.1
standard (A DVB-H section not included).
This circuit will be able to receive a
MPEG-TS signal and generate IQ samples in
DVB-T base band.
Broadband
Access Networks Integrated Telecommunication
System 2 – PBT module. March 2008 - November
2008. [+INFO]
The objective of the project
is the design and the description in VHDL of
a FPGA that improves the functionality of
the Envoy-XE communication circuit for
PBB/PBT applications by means of the
incorporation of a series of additional
functions.
Applied
Research in the Electronics associated to
Renewable Energies. March 2007 – February
2010. [+INFO]
This project is a
collaboration agreement with Robotiker
Technology Centre following the project
‘Applied Research in Distributed Electric
Generation and Power Conditioning’ developed
between 2004 and 2007.
Applied
Research in Distributed Electric Generation
and Power Conditioning. March 2004 –
February 2007. [+INFO]
This project is a
collaboration agreement with the Robotiker
Technological Center in order to establish
the basis of technological collaboration in
technologies related with distributed
electric generation and power conditioning,
specifically in:
We
have been working in the development of
tools oriented to energy generation by
means of wind turbines with synchronous
and/or doubly fed asynchronous generators
using new control algorithms and advanced
power converters.
Microprocessor
System with Wireless Bluetooth Interface.
March 2005 –
May 2005. [+INFO]
This project develops a
electric power measuring system for one
phase and three-phase and one-phase
installations. The results are transmitted
through a wireless Bluetooth connection. A
PDA collects them and shows the user these
measurements.
Switching
Power Supply with Power Factor Correction
and Supply Selection Module for Reanibex-750
Defibrillator. March 2002 – December 2002.[+INFO]
The main goal of this project
is the design of a switching power supply
with power factor correction for the
Reanibex-750 defibrillator and a supply
selection module that detects whether the
defibrillator is being fed through the power
supply, a car battery or there is no supply
and it must be energized from its own
internal battery. The selection module
includes a battery charger for the internal
battery pack
The
design minimizes the cost of adding the
power factor correction, which must be
included in order to fulfill the norm EN
61000-3-2. This is achieved by making the
DC-DC conversion and the power factor
correction in a single stage based on a
flyback topology.
Power
System and Control System for a High Speed
Thermal Printer. February 2002 – December 2002.[+INFO]
One of the objectives of this
project was the design of a digital high
speed control system based on reconfigurable
System-On-Chip. This system controls the
global operation of an industrial thermal
printer, including the processing by
hardware of the images that is going away to
print. These images could be transmitted by
a personal computer through different
communication channels (USB, series,
parallel, etc.) or to be stored in massive
storage devices (compact flash).
This
project also includes the development of
the necessary power system for an
industrial high speed thermal printer.
These equipments have specific power
requirements, reason why it has been
necessary to design an electronic system
that allows to give 500W of power with
integrated power factor control. In
addition, the system is making up of the
necessary power elements to work with 3
motors controlled by the control system.
Automatic
Characters Recognition Equipment. January
2000 –
December 2000.[+INFO]
In this project an equipment
has been made that, being based on
techniques of image processing, makes the
reading of a fixed number of characters
sequence. The reading information is visible
in special conditions of illumination. A new
hardware architecture was made to process
images in real time and simultaneously
allows the capture of the zone of image
where the characters are printed. The image
is stored in a fast memory whose content
will be processed by a general propose
processor to recognize the contained
characters.
This project is a part of a wide-ranging
project in which participated a partnership
formed by the companies Ibermática, Ikusi,
Hunolt and Euskaltel, with the Department of
Interior of the Basque Government and the
technological centers Ikerlan and Robotiker.
The objective of this project was to
development an electronic ballot box to be
applied in diverse electoral processes so
that the count was automated and the
involuntary null vote was avoided. Figure.