Researchers at the Renewable Energy and Vehicular Technology (REVT) Laboratory raising the bar with the cutting edge and transformative technologies: An intelligent multi-port power electronics interface, permanent magnet-free compact electric drives, contactless motion and energy transfer, and fault resilient energy solutions. These ground breaking technologies apply the latest in advanced control, communication, and signal processing to optimal harvest, storage, and consumption of electricity in modern utility and vehicular platforms.
I am pleased to welcome you to the website of the REVT laboratory at UT-Dallas. The present website includes highlights of our recent research and past achievements. We look forward to sharing the details of our work, as well as our technologies of the past decade, with potential industrial and institutional collaborators. At UTD we dedicate our efforts to develop creative solutions to some of the most important scientific challenges which are facing our society. We can transfer our technology in the form of prototypes, technical reports, data, new graduates, seminars and short courses.
I invite you to explore our current work to obtain more information about establishing a working relationship with us.
Dr.Babak Fahimi
Founding Director of REVT
News and Updates:
IFEC2011:Undergraduate students from UT Dallas have teamed up with undergraduate students from TCU to create a team to compete in the International Future Energy Challenge (IFEC), culminating in a final presentation in Brazil in 2011. Our team has won one of top prizes in this international competition. read more....
REVT currently is not planning to recruit new Master and PhD students in 2012.
Our website has opened a new section for FEA animations of various electric machines.< Enter>
Dr. Babak Fahimi has been selected as a distinguished speaker for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in the area of Traction Motor Drives. (Jun 14, 2011)
Dr.Babak Fahimi has been invited to deliver a keynote speech at the IEEE Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference in September and a plenary speech at the IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Expo in February. These are premier events for experts in electric propulsion and power electronics applications.(Aug 8, 2011) read more....
Dr. Babak Fahimi has been a Guest Editor for special section of IEEE P&E Magazine on Electrification of Transportation. (July, 2011) read more....
Dr.Babak Fahimi has been appointed as the Editor in Chief of PELS Newsletter (IEEE Power Electronics Society) (Feb , 2012).
We are honored to invite Professor Ion Boldea to vistit REVT (Mar. 2012).
Battery Management System
This video is showing a research on Battery Management System (BMS) that uses the concept of impulse response to estimate the State of Charge (SOC) and State of Health (SOH) of each individual battery in a multi-cell battery matrix. The Demo is showing how the Battery Management System estimates the SOC of each battery and transmits the results through wireless communication for remote monitoring purpose.
The video is showing a research on Fault Toerant Sensorless Operation of Double Stator Switched Reluctance Machine (DSSRM). The Demo is showing the DSSRM is running on position senslorless control while one or multiple phases are lost. But still the DSSRM is operational with the remaining phases.
The video is showing a research on position sensorless control of variable speed drive for linear swithced reluctance machine. The demo is showing the linear swithced reluctance machine running at different speed without position encoder. read more....
Initial Position Detection of PMSM with Sensorless Control
The video is showing an ongoing research on position sensorless control for initial position detection of PMSM. The demo is showing the PMSM starts with initial position detection without position encoder and then runs on Flux Oriented Control (FOC).
FEA Animations of different Electro Mechanical Energy Converters (EMECs)
REVT has been conducting researches on analysis and design of different Electro Mechanical Energy Converters (EMECs) and staying on cutting edge technologies. FEA animations of different EMECs have been shown on our website, the left animation is the field distribution of a working Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine.
