Publications

Engineering Sciences

A methodology for studying aluminum electrolytic capacitors wear-out in automotive cases

Romain Cousseau, Nicolas Patin, Eric Monmasson, Lahoucine Idkhajine

2013 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE) - 2013

Electronics

Ultra-Low Power, Low Voltage, Autonomous Resonant DC-DC Converter for Wireless Sensors

—This article presents a resonant DC-DC converter topology suitable for ultra-low power and low voltage applications. The presented topology is dedicated to energy harvesting sources in general and especially for Radio-Frequency RF sources. Main…

Salah-Eddine Adami, Nicolas Degrenne, Christian Vollaire, Bruno Allard, Francois Costa

4th IEEE POWERENG - 2013

Electric power

Part 1: Mobypost vehicle’s powertrain modeling, simulation and sizing

This paper describes the methodology used to choose the best vehicle powertrain architecture according to driving cycles of La Poste (French Post) missions. The first part explain the measurement strategy of real postman drive cycles as close as…

Charles Higel, Fabien Harel, Denis Candusso, Sébastien Faivre, Alexandre Ravey, Damien Guilbert, Abdoul Ndiaye, David Bouquain, Abdesslem Djerdir, A Gaillard

Conference on Fundamentals and Development of Fuel Cells (FDFC 2013) - 2013

Electronics

Main issues and limitations in Power cycling tests for future integrated power converters

The paper describes accelerated DC and PWM power cycling tests. It presents basic principle of such ageing tests. The required conditions for accelerated testing are discussed and the lifetime prediction method with the main usual difficulties for…

Zoubir Khatir, Stéphane Lefebvre

Automotive Power Electronics - 2013

Electromagnetism

Classical eddy current losses in Soft Magnetic Composites

This paper deals with the problem of loss evaluation in Soft Magnetic Composites (SMCs), focusing on the classical loss component. It is known that eddy currents can flow in these granular materials at two different scales, that of the single…

Carlo Appino, Olivier de La Barrière, Fausto Fiorillo, Martino Lobue, Frédéric Mazaleyrat, Carlo Ragusa

Journal of Applied Physics - 2013

Materials

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A METAL ASSEMBLY

Laurent Prevond, Nicolas Colard, Renaud Caplain, Pierre Francois

Electric power

Marine Renewable Energy Handbook

Marine renewable energy is a significant resource for generating electricity, and if some conversion technologies have already reached a certain level of maturity, others are emerging. The originality of this multidisciplinary book is to offer a…

Bernard Multon

Electric power

Design of self-powering part of SSHI interface for piezoelectric energy harvesting

Dejan Vasic, Yu-Yin Chen, François Costa

Electronics Letters - 2013

Education

Case study of the real contents delivered in French motorcycle schools

This study is concerned initial motorcycle training delivered in motorcycle schools in France. Novice motorcyclists are a particularly vulnerable group of road users in Europe and in France. However, scientific attempts to achieve a better…

Samuel Aupetit, Jacques Riff, Stéphane Espie, Olivier Buttelli

European Transport Research Review - 2013

Engineering Sciences

Non-cooperative mobile localization using a 3D database correlation technique

Isabelle Vin, Davy Gaillot, Pierre Laly, M. Lienard

15th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 13, 3rd IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, IEEE APWC 13, 1st Electromagnetic Metrology Symposium, EMS 13 - 2013