Electric power systems

Electric power systems

Energy and the system supplying it is essential for the modern society. Research in this topic focuses on electricity distribution, production, storage and use. Members of this group is also managing energy systems in the ARC centre (Arctic Centre for Sustainable Energy).

Flagship project: RENEW & Large scale demo on Northern Senja.
Keywords: Smartgrid, microgrid, renewabel energy, energy conversion and analysis.
Research fields: Power systems, power electronics, control theory and data processing.

Energy conversion

Energy conversion

Energy conversion based on power electronics is a key technology in all modern electric devices. Application includes electric transport, which is an important part of the transition to a sustainable future, where the group has been participating in projects such as GMV Zero and within charging technology. The research focus is currently towards charging technology for small and medium size electric vessels and converter technology for battery and hydrogen power units.

Flagship project: GMV Zero
Keywords: Electric ships, electric vehicles, electric aircrafts, charging, power conversion, DC microgrids, energy management, wireless power transfer.
Research fields: Power electronics and control theory.

Autonomous platforms

Autonomous platforms is a general term that can include all means of autonomous control of something that moves. The group’s focus is toward satellites, drones and maritime vessels, both individual and coordinated motions. Small autonomous electric vessels for transport of gods is one of the groups focus areas.

Keywords: Drones, autonomous control, unmanned vehicles autonomous ships.
Research fields: Control theory.

Satellite data processing and communication

Data from satellites are extensively used to monitor the earth, but needs calibration to provide results that are more accurate. The research also includes classification of multispectral/hyperspectral satellite images based on ground measurements. The group is involved in Nansen Legacy and CIRFA SFF to measure hyperspectral ocean colour data for calibrating satellite data

Autonomous platforms is a general term that can include all means of autonomous control of something that moves. The group’s focus is toward drones and maritime vessels. Small autonomous electric vessels for transport of gods is one of the groups focus areas.

Keywords: Satellite data, analysis, satellite images, multispectral, hyperspectral, calibration.
Research fields: Signal & data processing, spectroscopy.

Alessio Bocci  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Bjarte Hoff  –  Professor

Tom Stian Andersen  –  Assistant Professor

Arne Bjørk  –  Associate Professor

Hussein Mahdi Yaseen Al-Sallami  –  Associate Professor

Jose Juan Corona Sanchez  –  Associate Professor

Tobias Thorvaldsen  –  Principal Engineer

Umer Sohail  –  Assistant Professor

Sharma Charu

Sahil Nazir Pottoo

Ashok Kumar  –  Postdoctoral Fellow

Laura-Kristin Scholtz  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Isaac Kweku Aidoo  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Arild Steen  –  Head of Department

Trond Østrem  –  Associate Professor

Madhu Koirala  –  Doctoral Research Fellow

Pål Gunnar Ellingsen  –  Associate Professor

Pawan Sharma  –  Associate Professor

Raymond Kristiansen  –  Professor

The SUMMATION, SAMHand and HE4T projects recieves funding from Interreg Aurora to work within autonomous systems and energy harvesting

The Interreg Aurora program anounced on November 24th that three of our projects will revieve funding. Aurora is a new programme within Interreg for boardercrossing cooperation from 2021 to 2027, including Norway, Sweden, Finland and Sápmi.

SUMMATION - Sustainable Autonomous Systems and Solutions

The project aims to demonstrate monitoring, inspection and tracking using automonous UAV flights for various cases like reindeer herding, road traffic, railroad monitoring and ice & snow conditions. This project is led by FMI with UiT, Centria and LTU as partners.

SAMHand - Sustainable Autonomous Material Handling

The project will address material handling in resource value chains. The ojective is to show how a sustainable material handling system based on fossil free autonomous vehicles shall be configured. This project is led by LTU with UiT, Sintef Narvik, OAMK and University of Oulu as patners.

HE4T - Harvesting Energy for Data Acquisition and Transfer

The main aim of this project is to develop new energy autonomous technologies by which it is possible to get clean and environmentally friendly energy to be used in a wide range of applications for instance in the monitoring of systems, structures, and components, maintenance, condition monitoring, wireless communication, data processing and analytics, utilization in sensors and sensor network technologies and automation. The project is led by Lapland University of Applied Sciences with UiT, LTU and University of Vaasa as partners.

More information for each project will be available on the research group webpage once the projects are established.

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