Dr Rafal Wrobel

Summary

Rafal's research interests include the design and optimisation of electrical machines in application to 'More Electric Aircraft’ and 'Hybrid Vehicle' concepts. These include development and application of the design and optimisation techniques. 

Keywords

• design
• electrical machines
• Aircraft

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Other sites

• Eeng

Research Groups

• Electrical Energy Management
• Electrical Energy Management - Core

Links

• Electrical Energy Management Group

Recent publications

• Simpson, N, Mellor, P & Wrobel, R 2012, ‘Estimation of equivalent thermal parameters of electrical windings’. in: XXth International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2012) ., Marseille, France, pp. 1294
• Simpson, N, Mellor, P, Wrobel, R & Iordanidis, G 2012, ‘Coupled thermal-electromagnetic design of a short-duty, high-specific force linear actuator’. in: 6th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2012). IET, Bristol, pp. 1-6
• Wrobel, R, Goss, J, Mlot, AS & Mellor, P 2012, ‘Design considerations of a brushless open-slot radial-flux PM hub motor’. in: IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2012)., pp. 3678
• Wrobel, R, Griffo, A & Mellor, P 2012, ‘Scaling of AC copper loss in thermal modeling of electrical machines’. in: XXth International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2012)., Marseille, France, pp. 1424
• Yon, J, Mellor, P, Wrobel, R, Booker, J & Burrow, S 2012, ‘Analysis of Semi-Permeable Containment Sleeve Technology for High-Speed Permanent Magnet Machines’. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, vol 27., pp. 646-653
• Wrobel, R, Mlot, A & Mellor, P 2012, ‘Contribution of End-Winding Proximity Losses to Temperature Variation in Electromagnetic Devices’. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol 59., pp. 848 - 857
• Goss, J, Mellor, P, Wrobel, R, Staton, D & Popescu, M 2012, ‘The design of AC permanent magnet motors for electric vehicles: A computationally efficient model of the operational envelope’. in: 6th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2012). IET, Bristol, pp. 1-6
• Griffo, A, Wrobel, R, Mellor, P, Holliday, D, Sangha, P, Dinu, A & Holme, M 2011, ‘The effect of magnetic saturation on sensorless control of a brushless permanent magnet motor under AC and DC excitation’. in: 2011 IEEE ENERGY CONVERSION CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION (ECCE). IEEE Computing, NEW YORK, pp. 1582-1589
• Wrobel, R, Griffo, A, Mlot, A, Yon, J, Mellor, P, Turner, J, Rolfe, B, Stevenson, R & Collins, R 2011, ‘Design Study of a Three-Phase Brushless Exciter for Aircraft Starter/Generator’. in: 2011 IEEE ENERGY CONVERSION CONGRESS AND EXPOSITION (ECCE). IEEE Computing, NEW YORK, pp. 3998-4004
• Wrobel, R, Budden, A, Salt, D, Holliday, D, Mellor, P, Dinu, A, Sangha, P & Holme, M 2011, ‘Rotor Design for Sensorless Position Estimation in Permanent Magnet Machines’. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol 58., pp. 3815 - 3824

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