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The team has many terminated and ongoing local and international projects (industrially and government
founded) on the following themes:
o Control of induction motor and PMSM drives, especially speed sensorless
o New topologies of DC/DC, AC/DC, DC/AC and AC/AC converters, design and control, LV and HV
o Design of Electric Vehicles
o Design of Real-time controllers for Embedded Systems (DSP, FPGA)
o Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle System Component Development
o Rapid control prototyping / Industrial informatics, teleoperation / E-education / Mechatronics and robotics
The University of Belfort, Montbéliard, France
has several terminated & on going national and international projects on the following themes:
o Intelligent and Novel Control of electrical AC drives
o Modelling and design of electrical machines
o Fuel Cell laboratories of different sizes
o Rapid control prototyping and industrial informatics
o Fuel Cell systems to be embedded on hybrid or electrical vehicles
At present it is involved in many national and international projects about the development and use of
renewable energy sources, in particular Fuel Cell systems.
Italy : SASSO is a highly specialized Italian company, principally involved in automation and electronic process-
control in the electric and mechanical fields. For SASSO the experience in energy sector and in renewable energy
sources is in continuous development with increasing projects and updating.
In over 75 years in the electromechanical and electronic fields, SASSO has acquired the experience and know-
how enabling it to deal with problems regarding production, control and management of electric energy with the
utmost professional competence.
Specialised in the field of electric energy production, SASSO plans, carries out, installs and markets renewable
energy systems (micro-hydro – photovoltaic cells – wind – cogeneration – biomass), including plants supplied on a
turnkey basis. SASSO designs and develops hardware, software and data transmission systems for the
industrial automation on standard platforms ISA, PC104, PCI, VME and owners.
Concerning new IT technologies for the communication and the automation, SASSO is between the few Italian
operators producing and engineering field-bus systems (communication – regulation – management at distance)
and “distributed intelligence” (CAN technologies).
Since 15 years, SASSO is being taking part to many projects of financial researches financed by the European
Community or by other organizations, with the purpose of developing technologies and methodologies more and
more efficient and eco-compatible. SASSO has participated, as sub-contractor and contractor, in different EU
energy projects (Thermie – Altener – Craft) and is the only firm in Italy associated with TECHNOSOLAR
(European Association of R.E.S. Manufacturers).
List of most relevant projects: At the moment (2005) SASSO works in some projects, financed by the Framework
Programs of the European Community, in branches of Research, Energy and Endurable Development:
o SEARCH (RTD Craft) development of a new management and control system of an hydro power station
based on BUS technology of field with distributed intelligence
o SHERPA (Altener) analyse of the status of energy technologies’ art on isolated structures in West Europe
and further passage of the know-how to developing situations in East Europe.
o ORMA (Craft) project for the optimization for the resources and flows of energy, materials and wastes in
an industrial eco-park (industrial ecology)
o EUWMC (Cluster) creation of a grid on the subject of solid urban wastes
CRESMED (Inco) Cost efficient and reliable rural electrification schemes for South Mediterranean
countries based on multi user Solar Hybrid grids
EU competitiveness :
The APERTURES project will examine the severe challenges that the increased use of power electronic loads, and
the increased uptake of distributed generation are presenting to traditional power system management strategies.
Through the development of models and the implementation in the Favignana scenario, the project will develop
generic design and control methodologies for operation on local distribution networks including microgrids.
The specific scenarios associated with Favignana may be considered as a test bed for the distribution problems that
will be encountered on larger distribution and transmission systems of the future, as RES become more widely
taken up by the larger EU member states.
The work and the project results can be therefore seen to have a MAJOR significance for the development of power
system, power quality and DG expertise within the consortium, and within the wider EU research and development
community (through dissemination). It is envisaged that this will lead to development of products and perhaps
industries within the EU which may find application and customers throughout the rest of the world. The industrial