2 days conference 8-9 April 2021
4 keynote speeches;
6 Speaker Sessions for a total of 18 oral live streaming presentations;
4 live-interactive poster sessions: 39 pre-recorded presentations, 3 minutes for a quick introductory oral presentation, followed by 5 minutes of Q&A
WEMDCD Alessandro Costabeber Best Student Paper Award 

IMPORTANT NOTICE: the scheduled times are expressed as Central European Summer Time (CEST) = Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) + 2h due to daylight savings time being in effect. A useful tool to convert the time in other time zones is here


Thursday 08th April 2021

Workshop opening Welcome committee h:8:30 – 9:00
Keynote session 1 h:9:00 – 10:30 (ORAL LIVE STREAMING)
Chair Dr. Davide Barater/Prof. Giovanni Franceschini
Andrea Pontremoli – Dallara
CEO and General Manager
Title: “Shaping the future of automotive sector and racing cars”
Nicholas Hale – CNH Industrial Technology
Director, Advanced Drivetrain Off-Highway
Title: “Future trends and challenges for electrification of off-road vehicles”
Speaker session 1 – Electrical Machine Design and Modelling 01 (ORAL LIVE STREAMING) h: 10:45 – 12:15
Chair Dr. Stefano Nuzzo
MD-000698 – Potentials and Limits of Three-Phase Fractional-Slot Concentrated Winding Optimization Alberto Tessarolo, Nada Elloumi, Cesare Ciriani, Mario Mezzarobba
MD-000787 – Review of Advanced Cooling Systems of Modern Electric Machines for EMobility Application  Yew Chuan Chong, Dave Staton, Yaohui Gai, Husain Adam, Mircea Popescu
MD-000043 – Experimental Evaluation of Conductor Insulations Used in E-mobility Traction Motors Xiaoliang Huang, Bowen Jiang, Mohammad Numair Alhallak, Shafigh Nategh, Yujing Liu, Aldo Boglietti
Parallel Poster Sessions 1 and 2 (Live-Interactive Poster Sessions) h: 12:50 – 14:30
Poster session 1 – Electrical Drives Reliability and Monitoring 02 – Chair Dr. Claudio Bianchini 
Poster session 2 – Electrical Machine Design and Modelling 04/ Industrial and Transport Applications of Machines and Drives 02 – Chair Prof. Luigi Alberti
Speaker session 2 – Industrial and Transport Applications of Machines and Drives 01 (ORAL LIVE STREAMING) h: 14:45 – 16:15 – Chair Dr. Savvas Papadopoulos
MD-001414 – Integrated On-Board EV Battery Chargers: New Perspectives and Challenges for Safety Improvement Mauro Valente, Thiwanka Wijekoon, Francisco Freijedo, Paolo Pescetto, Gianmario Pellegrino, Radu Bojoi
MD-001317 – Computationally Efficient System-Level Evaluation of Battery Electric Vehicles Gerd Bramerdorfer, Edmund Marth
MD-000566 – Climbing performance enhancement of small fixed-wing UAVs via hybrid electric propulsion Gianpietro Di Rito, Aleksander Suti, Roberto Galatolo
Speaker session 3 – Electrical Drives Reliability and Monitoring 01 (ORAL LIVE STREAMING) h: 16:30 – 18:00
Chair Prof. Andrea Cavallini
MD-001457 – State of the art of torque observers for condition monitoring of AC drives Mehdi Taherzadeh, Humberto Henao, Gerard-André Capolino
MD-000612 – Application of Transient Analysis to Detect Rotor and Stator Asymmetries in Wound Rotor Induction Motors: a Field Case Jose Antonino-Daviu, Israel Zamudio-Ramirez, Roque Osornio-Rios, Larisa Dunai, Alfredo Quijano-Lopez
MD-000116 – Accelerated Destructive Experiment Design of Motor Stator Winding Insulation Systems Bowen Jiang, Xiaoliang Huang, Yujing Liu, Shafigh Nategh

Friday 09th April 2021

Keynote session 2 h:9:00 – 10:30 (ORAL LIVE STREAMING)
Chair Dr. Davide Barater/Prof. Giovanni Franceschini
Mykhaylo Filipenko
Former Director Center of Competence Electric Machines “Higher Power” Rolls-Royce Electric.
Title: “Urban Air Mobility – Status, Challenges, Perspectives”
Prof. Chris Gerada – University of Nottingham, UK
Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Industrial Strategy, Business Engagement and Impact
Title: “Power Electronics and Machines for the More Electric Aircraft”
Speaker session 4 – Electrical Drives and their Control 01 (ORAL LIVE STREAMING) h: 10:45 – 12:15
Chair Dr. Stefano Nuzzo
MD-001279 – Per-phase Analysis and Efficient Implementation of a 24-Sector Discontinuous PWM for Split Phase Induction Motor Drives Lalgy Gopi, Gopalaratnam Narayanan
MD-000477 – Torque Ripple Suppression for IPMSM using FEA-based Model Predictive Direct Torque Control Ahmed Nasr, Chunyang Gu, Weiduo Zhao, Serhiy Bozhko, Chris Gerada
MD-000965 – Assessment of Master-Slave and Droop Control Strategies in Multi-Three-Phase Drives Dario Benatti, Ciro Alosa, Emilio Carfagna, Fabio Immovilli, Emilio Lorenzani
Parallel Poster Sessions 3 and 4 (Live-Interactive Poster Sessions) h: 12:50 – 14:30
Poster session 1 – Electrical Drives Reliability and Monitoring 03/Electrical Machine Design and Modelling 05 – Session sponsored by H2020 MSCA-RISE Project DORNA – Chair Prof. Wen Cao 
Poster session 2 – Electrical Drives and their Control 02/Industrial and Transport Applications of Machines and Drives 03 – Session sponsored by H2020 Clean Sky 2 Project AUTO-MEA – Chair Prof. Emilio Lorenzani
Speaker session 5 – Electrical Machine Design and Modelling 02  (ORAL LIVE STREAMING) h: 14:45 – 16:15
Chair Prof. Fabio Immovilli
MD-001201 – Design considerations for cost effective Radial Flux Interior Permanent Magnet Motors with increased Demagnetization Robustness Georgios Sakkas, Antonios Kladas
MD-000744 – Flux-Map Based FEA Evaluation of Synchronous Machine Efficiency Maps Simone Ferrari, Paolo Ragazzo, Gaetano Dilevrano, Gianmario Pellegrino
MD-000507 – SuMRAS: a new SPMSM Parameter Identification in Cloud Computing Environment Donatello Costantino, Elia Brescia, Paolo Massenio, Giuseppe Cascella, Francesco Cupertino 
Speaker session 6 – Electrical Machine Design and Modelling 03 (ORAL LIVE STREAMING) h: 16:30 – 18:00
Chair Prof. Giampaolo Buticchi
MD-000353 – Modeling of Hybrid Stepper Motor Finalized to the Optimization of the Holding Torque Luca Mariolo, Alberto Rubino, Davide Spelta, Lucia Frosini
MD-000655 – Open and Closed Rotor Slots Design of Single and Double Cages Induction Motor Mauro Di Nardo, Alessandro Marfoli, Michele Degano, Chris Gerada
MD-001295 – Design of a High-Speed Wound-Field Synchronous Generator for the More Electric Aircraft Marcello Gino Pasquinelli, Paolo Bolognesi, Alessandro Guiducci, Stefano Nuzzo, Michael Galea
WEMDCD Alessandro Costabeber Best Student Paper Award Ceremony  – Workshop close h: 18:00