Testing Centre
Testing Centre for Electromobility and Intelligent Transport (CET):
Head of the Testing Centre
Grzegorz Stawicki, M. Sc. Eng
Since 2012, he has been working in electromobility areas mainly for commercial companies. From 2012 to 2015 as a manager of bus projects at AMZ – Kutno. Responsible for developing the entire City Smile range of electric buses. Participant in the Horizon 2020 project. From 2015 to 2017, Head of Sales at Ursus Bus. Responsible for launching the company’s products and preparing the concept for a new type of zero-emission vehicle. In 2015, this resulted in the first hydrogen-electric bus in Poland. Since 2017, responsible for the distribution and integration of Dana – TM4 drive systems in central Europe. In 2018, a gold medal at TransExpo Kielce for the best electric drive on the market for public transport. Participant in the Polish Ebus, Polish Ebus 2.0, ZeEUS Project, JIVE and JIVE 2.0, EVAN projects. Currently, the Head of the Testing Centre at the Institute of Electrical Engineering. Responsible, on behalf of the Institute, for the Rail4Eart WP9 project – Interoperable Hydrogen Refuelling Station.
Integrated Intelligent Transport Systems Research Group
We are a newly established research group in Kutno. At the moment, we are conducting far-reaching recruitment processes. We plan to recruit additional staff in the near future to fill the positions needed to meet our targets.
Our potential customers are companies and institutions that, due to the European Union’s policy to decarbonise mobility, want, or are even obliged, to replace part of their car fleet with a zero-emission one
Services:
- conversion of internal combustion vehicles into electric or electric-hydrogen powered, using commercially available components
- integration of EVs and FCEVs,
- design and programming of electronic circuits,
- diagnostics and configuration of power electronic and electronic components of EVs and FCEVs,
- design and programming of electric vehicle charging systems,
- commissioning and diagnostics of EVs and FCEVs,
- implementation and validation of system solutions on EVs and FCEVs,
- implementation of the EV and FCEV master controller algorithms,
- designing the system architecture of electric vehicles,
- reverse engineering for EVs and FCEVs,
- design of vehicle body components conforming to type approval regulations,
- design and programming of HMI systems for EVs and FCEVs.
The main economic areas on which the Research Group for Integrated Intelligent Transport Systems plans to focus its activities are automotive and transport areas.
Electric Transport Infrastructure Research Group
Services:
- track conductance measurements,
- MPB system (measurement of stray currents)
- P4 for static rail inverters,
- operation of tramway electronics,
- DC area network return line diagnostics.
Our customers are:
- companies expanding the Warsaw metro
- companies building new and upgraded tracks, generally tramway tracks
- Chamber of Commerce of Urban Transport
Infrastructure area of electrified direct current rail transport – railways, metro trams
Electric Drive Power Systems Research Group
We offer a wide range of services in the field of design and manufacture of electrical machines, which are used in various branches of transport as well as in selected industrial areas.
Services:
- design and prototyping of power electronic components for zero-emission vehicles
- design and prototyping of wireless charging systems
- design and prototyping of electric drive systems for EVs
- design and prototyping of converters for RES
- design and prototyping of generators for RES
- integration of on-board power and propulsion components for EVs
- design and prototyping of drive inverters for classic three-phase and multi-phase machines
- design of mechanical structures
Our offer is addressed to companies working directly and indirectly in the area of electromobility. For example, companies that convert internal combustion vehicles to EVs or design them. The Electric Drive Power Systems Research Group offers them the selection or and development of power, drive and integration systems for electrical and electronic on-board equipment. The technology solutions we develop are also addressed to companies working in the broad area of renewable energy sources and particularly hydroelectric and wind power; for these customers, we offer generators for wind and hydroelectric turbines and dedicated inverters developed at Łukasiewicz – IEL.
The Electric Drive Power Systems Research Group works mainly in two areas:
- industrial:
- electrical energy conversion (drive systems and power systems),
- e-transport (new solutions for electromobility on land, water and air)
- energy and power generation (RES systems, integration of the vehicle into the electricity system V2x)
- services:
- services and implementation of RD projects
- powertrain research services for electromobility and industrial applications
We also undertake tasks in the area of agriculture, such as the development of power supplies or dedicated drives for agricultural machinery and equipment.
Control and Management Systems Research Group
We specialise in:
- control of AC/DC mains converters,
- control of DC/AC drive converters
- control of DC/DC converters,
- modelling and simulation of power electronic systems in Matlab/Simulink, Plecs, PSIM simulation environments,
- programming of DSP processors and FPGAs,
- programming of HMI touch panels, PLCs, Raspberry Pi microcomputers,
- communication with devices via Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Modbus, RS485, RS232,
- Internet of Things (IoT).
Area of expertise:
- computer modelling and simulation in the field of power electronics and energy systems,
- development of control algorithms for various systems and facilities,
- simulations on the Real-Time Simulator (RTS),
- software development for embedded systems ,
- managing the flow and storage of electricity,
- development of computer applications for Windows and Linux,
- communication with distributed systems,
- monitoring and visualisation of system parameters,
- creation and management of databases.
Services:
- modelling and simulation of electrical and power electronic systems
- development of control algorithms for electrical and power electronic systems
- systems simulation in a real-time simulator (HIL)
- software development for embedded systems and components
- electricity flow and storage systems software
- development of computer applications for Linux and Windows
- development of web applications
- creation of remote data acquisition systems
- creation and management of databases
- control of power electronic converters (AC/DC, DC/AC, DC/DC)
- programming of HMI add-on panels, PLCs, Raspberry PI microcomputers
- creation of custom AI solutions based on neural networks
- programming of DSP processors and FPGAs
The customers for our products are mainly companies involved in the integration of electric propulsion with applications for buses, vans and trucks and other commercial and industrial vehicles.
The group operates in the area of: Smart and Clean Mobility
