European Research Project

PowerizeD

Digitalization of Power Electronic Applications within Key Technology Value Chains

PowerizeD is an innovative EU funded project aiming to develop breakthrough technologies of digitized and intelligent power electronics to enable sustainable and resilient energy generation, transmission and applications

Objectives:

O1 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.

O2 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.

O3 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%.

O4 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.

O5 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.