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Researcher's Profile

Last Name

Lipo 

First Name

Thomas 

Middle Initial

Areas of Research Expertise

* Power electronics especially as applied to variable speed operation of ac machines
* Investigates power conversion system based on resonant current and voltage links
* Design of machines with unconventional winding configurations and/or geometries which will operate more harmoniously with a solid state frequency converter

Web site

Thomas Lipo's University Web Page 

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Thomas Lipo's CV 

Current/Active Funding

 

Issued Patent(s)

  • 7,006,366 - Boost rectifier with half-power rated semiconductor devices, granted Feb 2006.
  • 6,995,992 - Dual bridge matrix converter, granted Feb 2006.
  • 6,924,574 - Dual-rotor, radial-flux, toroidally-wound, permanent-magnet machine, Aug 2005.
  • 6,710,495 - Multi-phase electric motor with third harmonic current injection, granted Mar 2004.
  • 6,570,778 - Adjustable speed drive for single-phase induction motors, granted May 2003.

USPTO Published Applications

  • 20040239199 - Dual-rotor, radial-flux, tortially-wound, permanent-magnet machine, December 2, 2004.

Recent Publication(s)

  • "Design, analysis, and control of a hybrid field-controlled axial-flux permanent-magnet motor"

Aydin M, Huang SR, Lipo TA, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 57 (1): 78-87 Jan 2010. This paper presents the design, analysis, control, and experimental evaluation of an innovative field-controlled axial-flux surface-mounted permanent-magnet machine.

  • "Observer-based control methods for combined source-voltage harmonics and unbalance disturbances in PWM voltage-source converters "

Lee K, Jahns TM, Lipo TA, et al., IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 45 (6): 2010-2021 Nov-Dec 2009. In this paper, computationally efficient sinusoidal-disturbance estimation and elimination methods are introduced into the control of an active front end (AFE) voltage-source converter (VSC) to achieve effective disturbance rejection in high power systems with slower pulsewidth-modulation switching frequencies (e.g., 5 kHz) and limited current-controller bandwidth.

  • "Optimized design of stationary frame three phase AC current regulators"

Holmes DG, Lipo TA, McGrath BP, et al., IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics 24 (11): 2417-2426 Nov 2009. This paper presents an analytical method to determine the best possible gains that can be achieved for any class of practical linear ac current controller.

  • "Modeling the 3-D rotational and translational motion of a Halbach Rotor above a split-sheet guideway"

Bird J, Lipo TA, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 45 (9): 3233-3242 Sep 2009. The Halbach rotor is modeled using a 3-D analytic based model and is coupled to the conductive guideway region using boundary conditions. The steady-state rotation of the Halbach rotor is modeled by incorporating complex terms in the analytic model.

Recent Artistic Works

 

Collaboration

  • Eaton Corporation, Kevin Lee
  • University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Department of Electrical Machines, Drives and Automation, Damir Zarko
  • ABB Switzerland, Yongsug Suh
  • Technical Center TC-G 855, Caterpillar Inc., Metin Aydin
  • Ancra International

Research Tools

 

Research Facilities

 

E-mail Address

lipo@engr.wisc.edu 

Phone Number

(608) 262-0287 

Current University

UW - Madison 

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering 

Title

Professor 

Other Appointments

 

Address Line 1

2557 Engineering Hall  

Address Line 2

1415 Engineering Drive 

City

Madison 

State

WI 

Zip Code

53706 

Bachelor's Degree

BS, Marquette University, Electrical Engineering, 1962

Master's Degree

MS, Marquette University, Electrical Engineering, 1964

PhD

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968

Other Degrees

 

Technologies Available for Licensing

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