Lemur Research Group

LEMUR is a multidisciplinary research team with researchers belonging to different knowledge areas: Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, and Automation and Control Engineering. The strength is based on looking for synergies and knowledge integration among team members in order to apply for bigger and complex research projects. Our vision is to integrate in a laboratory an environment for testing of small scale distributed energy systems and their integration into the electrical grid. For the study and analysis, a four-level approach is proposed: -> Development of generation systems and power converters for the injection of electrical energy into the grid. -> Development of energy storage systems for the compensation of transient demands at the electrical grid. -> Development of coordinated control strategies for all the small scale generators installed at the grid. -> Study of new economic and infrastructure models relying on the distributed generation. Our research lines include: 1 - Analysis and Design of power converter topologies for energy storage: Design of power electronics converters with an emphasis of multiport topologies for energy storage applications. 2 - Dynamic Analysis and Control of power converters for distributed resources: High dynamic performance of power converters and microgrids by advanced control systems. 3 - Power flow analysis for hybrid DC/AC grids with high penetration of distributed resources: Impact of the integration of distributed resources in the electrical grid. 4 - Energy demand analysis and visualization: Analytic tools and visualization strategies for energy planning. 5 - Industrial applications and knowledge transfer. We collaborate in different research projects both nationally and internationally with companies, universities, and research institutions.