Dipl.-Ing. Eduardo Esteban Roussineau

Development of electronic components of the e-Powertrain. https://www.brusa.biz/en/development.html

Developments in electronics for the electric vehicle industry.

Researcher at the Institute of Vehicle System Technology, Chair of Rail System Technology. Topics of interest that deepen the work done in my master's thesis at KIT: Forecasting in Electric Power Systems; Artificial Neural Networks; Metha-heuristic optimization methods; Energy Management Systems for Microgrid aplications; Wayside Energy Storage Systems.

Assistant at the "Competence E" project in the area Battery Management System (BMS) for Supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries: Functional analysis and test protocols; PCB test fixture; STM32 microcontroller family programming (C/C++) with Atollic TrueSTUDIO; Hardware design and simulation in LTspice; PCB design, BOM and Gerber Files generation in Autodesk EAGLE.

Center for Research and Development in Industrial Electronics (CIDEI): Voltage and current loggers over GPRS for cathodic protection equipment used in pipelines; Surge and lightning strike protection for AC and DC power lines; Solar power supply with charge regulation system for lead-acid batteries; DC motor drivers; High speed data acquisition system; Power Electronics PCB design, BOM and Gerber Files generation in Altium Designer; Cabinets and drilling planes in CATIA; Publications in conferences.

Tecnología de Materiales Electrónicos (Electronic Materials: Basic Technology). Second-year course.

Electrónica III (Applied Digital Electronics). Third-year course.

Upgrade and PCB redesign of a 1kW Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) for wind turbine applications; Design, simulation and implementation of a 1.5kW Single-Phase CCM Boost Power Factor Corrector (PFC) in compliance with EMI standars. Performance achieved: Efficiency = 0.97, THD = 7%, PF = 0.99.

Internship as student at the Center for Research and Development in Industrial Electronics (CIDEI): Liquid Level Control of Nonlinear Coupled Tanks System using State Estimation with Linear Observers; Three-Phase Current Source Inverter safe ON-OFF system in a Xilinx FPGA; Circuits and PCB redesign of a 500W electrical ballast with PFC, for sodium-vapor lamps.

Internship as student at the Computational Intelligence Center (CIC). Design and implementation of Educational Robotics (ITBOT2).

Abschlussarbeit: “A Model Predictive Control-based Robust Optimization of the energy management within Grid-connected Microgrids”.

Abschlussarbeit: “500W Deep-Cycle Lead-Acid Battery Charger with Power Factor Correction”.