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of research fields including power electronic systems, control of motor and generator drives (including system
control of wind and hybrid generation), drive efficiency, instrumentation methods, parameter identification
(including power system measurements), system control of isolated power buses and dynamic modelling
techniques for electrical machines. The Group runs an Industrial Consortium that supports the facilities and acts as
a forum for research collaboration. The team’s current contracts relating to sustainable power generation are worth
nearly £2M. The team has perhaps the largest portfolio of Power Electronics research within UK Universities
(currently £1.7M).
Dr M Sumner will lead the team at Nottingham, supported by Dr Pericle Zanchetta and Dr David Thomas.

Partner 5: University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Institute of Robotics at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor
is active in theoretical and practical research, and education. We are working on power electronics (motor
drives, electrical vehicles, control of electrical drives, AC-AC, AC-DC, DC-AC, DC-DC converters),
industrial informatics (embedded systems, DSP, FPGA, teleoperation, rapid control prototyping),
mechatronics, control systems and advanced algorithms for motion control. In order to support the
education process, we develop and construct new learning resources to attain high quality teaching and
learning. Our team has many local and international contacts in both, academia and industry. We have
been involved in various projects.
Institute has three laboratories: Laboratory for Power Electronics (Head: Prof. Dr. Miro Milanovič),
Laboratory for Robotics (Head: Prof. Dr. Karel Jezernik), and Laboratory for Kinematics and Simulations
(Head: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Cafuta). The head of the institute is Prof. Karel Jezernik.
Some of the institute's highlights are:
DSP-2 card (with TI DSP, including DSP2 library for Matlab/Simulink),
Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle System Component Development–HySYS, (EU project, 6th FP)
Electrical vehicle (in cooperation with Skoda),
Sensorless drive in the Velenje coalmine pump system,
FOCUS-SIAT: (EU project, 5th FP)
INES, Industrial Embedded Systems (EU project, 5th FP)
Low power contact-less transfer system (Kolektor group)
Conferences: IEEE ISIE'99, Bled; IEEE AMC'02, Maribor; IEEE ICIT'03, Maribor; EPE-
PEMC'2006 Portorož

Partner 6 : SASSO ( SME Italy )
SASSO operates in energy and technology systems fields and in the last 20 years it has carried ahead a multi-
disciplinary work in technology fields (energy but not only) and sustainable development.
The projects carried out and the ones still in progress are numerous, where the main theme of the “development” is
faced with a “global” approach.
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).
European and International Action: 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).