Objectives:
PowerizeD focuses on improving the way energy is generated and transmitted through the use of digitized and intelligent power electronics. The approach integrates control, driver, and switching functions to enhance performance by using new circuit models, advanced control strategies, and AI, aiming for robust and reliable operation. It emphasizes the intelligence of power electronics, thereby contributing to the decarbonization of European society and climate protection.
By making use of digital twins for real-time monitoring and control of power electronics, based on detailed electrical models for monitoring purposes. Additionally, data privacy plays an important role, hence federated learning, a collaborative approach that allows encrypted transfer of sensitive data, will be addressed.
The goal is to work on reducing power losses, increasing the lifespan of devices and systems, reducing chip size, and shortening design time. All of this is aligned with the trends of self-sufficiency, sustainability, and digitalization for the benefit of the economy and society.
Intelligence for More Efficiency and Greener Operation
Increase the efficiency of power electronics devices and systems on all technical levels of the applications and domains from the device level, over power modules and components up to power electronic systems. This will enable a reduction of the power losses beyond 25% on system/application level compared to the state-of-the-art by intelligent control and optimized operation measures and will also be applicable to both, silicon and advanced wide-bandgap, devices.
Intelligence for Novel Materials and Reliability
Integrate advanced intelligence to enable a reliable and sustainable operation of power electronics. This is necessary to fully leverage the large potential of novel materials and advanced assembly technologies. Combined with sensor data and digital twins we will increase the lifetime of the PE devices and systems by at least 30% with respect to state-of-the-art devices and systems solely by novel intelligent control and improved understanding of the physics of degradation.
Intelligence for Robust und Safe Operation
Integrate intelligence to ensure robust and safe operation of power electronic application from devices up to systems. We will introduce intelligent device control and avoid destruction in all operation conditions, as in case of random and challenging failure conditions, such as short circuits. Hereby, we can, for the first time, fully make use of the large benefits enabled by modern power semiconductors and reduce the required chip size or necessary robustness margin by at least 10-15%.
Intelligence for Functional Integration
PowerizeD enables the integration of power electronics beyond established boundaries by enhanced connectivity and interfaces during the whole development life cycle. The provision of data gathered by and for control of the PE devices and systems will be transferred from the analogue to the digital world. This enables an active and integrated control & monitoring approach by a new definition of partitioning and the respective interfaces.
Intelligence for Effective Collaboration without Revealing Sensitive Data
Utilizing modern artificial intelligence methods enables the exchange of information in aggregated form instead of raw data. This approach, known as Federated Learning4 (FL), will be applied newly to power electronics, enabling partners for the first time to share reliability and robustness models along the value chain and to jointly improve their accuracy, while ensuring effective protection of intellectual property and private data.
Period of the project: 2023-2025
Link to the website: https://powerized.eu/
DISCLAIMER:
This work was supported by the project “Digitalization of Power Electronic Applications within Key Technology Value Chains (PowerizeD)”, grant ID 101096387, funded by the European Union HORIZON FP and Chips JU, and PCI2022-135004-2 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR
