Luca Sani

He received the M.Sc. degree with honours in November 1996 in Electrical Engineering from University of Pisa; his master thesis concerned the study of an active control of a pantograph for high-speed train. In 1997 he joined the Ph.D. courses in Automation and Robotics, at the University of Pisa. He received the Ph.D. degree discussing the thesis "Identification on continuous domain. The modulating function approach".
From January 2004 to December 2010 he was with the Department of Electrical System and Automation (DSEA) as Assistant Professor in the Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Electrical Drives group.
From January 2011 to September 2012 he was with the Department of Energy and System Engineering (DESE). Since October 2012 he has been with the Department of Energy, Systems, Territory and Constructions Engineering (DESTEC).
He is currently teaching Electric Propulsion and Dynamic and Control of electric Machines at the students of Electrical Engineering.
Luca Sani is involved and has been involved in several research projects in the past, both at the national and international level.
He also participated in several National Research Projects (PRIN) funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.
He was also part of several research projects funded by 3rd party industries.
He has served as reviewer for some conferences and for the following scientific journals: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering.

Since 2008 he has been member of the PH.D School ‘Leonardo da Vinci’, programme in Land Vehicles and Transport Systems.

Since 2000 he has been member of the Inst. Electrical Electronic Engineering (IEEE).

I. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

During the last decade the research interests of Luca Sani have focused on several fields.

1. Active controls and non-invasive monitoring for high-speed trains.
2. Implementation of a fuzzy controller for DC-DC converts.
3. DSC control strategy for asynchronous motors with two three-phase winding sets.
4. Stability improvement of a round rotor synchronous machine.
5. Identification of electric drives by the modulating functions approach.
6. Study and development of advanced solutions for drive-by-wire steering systems.
7. Dependability-oriented design of electric apparatus on board train.
8. Identification of electric drives by the NATV technique.
9. Extension of the relay techniques for tuning of PID controllers and faults detection in electric machines
10. PMSM brushless design for hybrid system