Safety-Critical Electrical Drives Topologies, Reliability, Performance [Paperback]

This book focuses on one of the most important aspects of electrical propulsion systems  the creation of highly reliable safety-critical traction electrical drives. It discusses the methods and models for analysis and optimization of reliability and fault tolerance indices, based on which, it proposes and assesses methods for improving the availability, fault tolerance and performance of traction electric drives.

   Igor Bolvashenkov, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Energy Conversion Technology of Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany. Dr. Bolvashenkov obtained his M.Sc. (1981) and Ph.D. degrees (1989) in Electrical Engineering from Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping, Leningrad, USSR. From 1987 to 1993 he worked as an Associate Professor at the Murmansk State Technical University, Russia. Since 2004 he has worked at the Institute of Energy Conversion Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

He specializes in the development and simulation of electric propulsion safety-critical system for ships, cars and aircraft and analysis of their reliability, survivability, and fault tolerance.

He has published more than 90 scientific articles, book chapters and patents in the field.

 

Hans-Georg Herzog, Prof. Dr.-Ing. works at the Institute of Energy Conversion Technology, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany. He holds a diploma and doctoral degree (with distinction) from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). After his time as a research associate, he joined Robert Bosch GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany. Since 2002, he has been Head of the Institute of Energy Conversion Technology at TUM.

His main research interests are energy efficiency of hybrid-electric and full-electric vehicles, electric aircrafts, reliabilitl3&