Postdoctoral in Electro Mechanics Advanced Computer Assisted Design of Electromagnetic, Netherlands

July 5, 2010

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Job Description: The Department of Electrical Engineering is one of the nine departments of the Eindhoven University of Technology and provides undergraduate and MSc programs in Electrical Engineering. The department has nine research groups and has research collaborations with other departments at the Eindhoven University of Technology as well as with a large number of other universities and companies, both home and abroad. The department has approximately 300 employees and 600 students.

The mission of the chair Electromechanics and Power Electronics (EPE) is research, education and the transfer of knowledge on advanced methods and tools to enhance the analysis, design and multi-objective optimization of innovative electromagnetic actuation and conversion structures and cyclically switched networks. The group maintains an internationally respected research centre with a state-of-art infrastructure. In the field of electromechanics the focus point of the group are electric machines for the more-sustainable society and high-precision actuators. Currently about 25 people (including post-docs and PhD students) are working within the Electromechanics and Power Electronics group. The good working climate in the group is seen as one of our strengths.
Project

In the last decade contactless energy transfer systems (CETS) based on magnetic coupling have been fundamentally researched and developed since nowadays numerous devices apply this technology that is gaining a foothold in industrial applications. In robotics and flexible assembly systems, inductive transfer of electric energy is one way to substitute the energy cables. Recently, these CETS are being attached to a linear servo machine to supply energy to the translator. As there are no more restrictions by cables, the machines become more flexible in their movements but in the same time the complexity of the linear actuator increases and drastically limits the force density.
The fundamental research challenge is a complete re-think of the linear actuator design to integrate the functions of contactless energy transfer and a long-stroke actuator in a single system. Novel actuator topologies will be designed for generating the required contactless forces for the large stroke and acceleration (in one degree of freedom), hence, a lot of research effort will be undertaken in the electromagnetic and thermal design of the entire system. Extensive application of the fundamental theory of electromagnetism and electromechanics will be required for developing the required methods and tools for the analysis and optimization of the Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM) with integrated CETS. This will be investigated both by using analytical methods and numerical modeling.

Application Deadline 28August 2010

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Scholarship Tags: Computer, Design, Netherlands, Science, Technology