Facilities in the laboratory of the Group of Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics include a photovoltaic installation of 20 solar panels (4.8 kW -peak), 3 fuel cells of PEM type of 400 W each one, a PEM fuel cell of 1.2 kW, a horizontal-axis wind generator of 1 kW and a 15-battery pack of 12V/250 Ah each one.
An area of 200 m2 accommodates 15 working posts distributed in six benches. Each post is equipped with power supplies, loads, a tester, a function generator, a soldering set, and a digital oscilloscope with voltage, current and differential probes.
Specific instrumentation comprises a great variety of DC power supplies (ranging from 6kV to 10kW and to 160 A) together with loads of different type, i.e., passive, electronic (ranging from 7.2kW to 750 V DC, and to 360 A DC) , motors (DC, induction, brushless, switched reluctance), and spotlights (LEDs, HIDs and IEFLs). Other relevant instruments are a dynamic signal analyzer, an EMI measurement equipment and test chamber, a network analyzer, modelling and simulation software including real-time or hardware -in-the -loop emulation, a climatic chamber, a thermographic camera, precision power analyzers, PIC, DSP and FPGA development systems, and DC and AC motor workbenches with universal programmable loads.
