Dr. Todd Batzel

OFFICE:

3000 Ivyside Drive, 158 CLRC

Altoona, PA 16601

(814)949-5076

Email: tdb120@psu.edu

EDUCATION:

B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1984 Penn State University

M.S. Electrical Engineering, 1989  University of Pittsburgh

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 2000  Penn State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Control of Rotating Electric Machines

Power Electronics

Embedded Computing Systems and Hardware

Control Systems and Artificial Intelligence

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFILIATIONS:

Member, IEEE

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

A. ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN REFEREED JOURNALS.

Commutation torque ripple minimization for permanent magnet sychronous machines with Hall effect positon feedback, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, v. 13, n 3, Sept. 1998

High resolution rotor angle estimation for permanent magnet synchronous machines with Hall effect position sensors using neural networks, Engineering Intelligent Systems, vol. 8, no. 1, 2000

Slotless permanent magnet synchronous motor operation without a high resolution rotor angle sensor, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, v. 15, no. 4, 2000

An approach to sensorless operation of the permanent magnet synchronous motor using diagonally recurrent neural networks, IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, v. 18, no. 1, March 2003.