The Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano Prof. Gianantonio Magnani, Department Chair Prof. Piero Fraternali, Deputy.

The Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano

Prof. Gianantonio Magnani, Department Chair

Prof. Piero Fraternali, Deputy Chair

Prof. Gianantonio MagnaniDEI

2DEI’s People

DEI employs about 500 people organised as follows:

Faculty members194 (researchers and associate/ full professors)

Administrative and technical staff44 (employees)

Research assistant94 (post-doc positions…)

Ph. D students147

+ A large number of external collaborators


3Research Activities in Figures


4Research Activities in Figures


5Competences: Computer Science and Engineering

Current Research GroupsArtificial Intelligence

Autonomous Robotics

Compiler Technology

Computer Vision and Image Analysis

Database management

DEpendable Evolvable Pervasive Software Engineering

Dependable systems: performance, security and reliability

Embedded systems design and design methodologies

Information design for the web

Information Systems

Machine Learning

Methods and Applications for Interactive Multimedia

Natural Language Processing and Accessibility

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6Competences: Electronics

Current Research GroupsCircuits and Systems: theory and applications

Electron Devices

Electronic Circuit Design

Radiation Detectors and Low Noise Electronics

Single-Photon Detectors and Applications



7Competences: Systems and Control

Current Research GroupsControl systems

Dynamics of complex systems

Measurement

Modelling and management of environmental systems

Operation research and discrete optimization

Robotics and industrial automation



8Competences: Telecommunications

Current Research GroupsApplied Electromagnetics

Information Transmission and Radio Communications

Networking

Optical Communications

Remote Sensing

Signal Processing for Multimedia and Telecommunications

Wireless and Space Communications



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Energy related research at DEI

Modelling, simulation and control of thermoelectric power plants


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Thernoelectric Power Plants

Example of Italian Thermoelectric Power Plant

4 *320 MWe groups

Each group: 60-70 ton/h oil consumption

Electric/thermal efficiency about 45%

Chimney 250 metres high

Electric power consumption peak in Italy

about 55000 MW


11Concentrated Solar Power Plants

Example: Plataforma Solar de Almeria (Spain)

PSA facilities

Total CSP power online 1170 MW (year 2011)

About 17000 MW under development worldwide

Larger power figures are achieved by solar photovoltaics power stations and wind farms

Largest concentraded solar facility: Mojave desert

Rated electric power: 354 MW – 75 MW equivalent based on yearly average production (75/354=21%)

About 6500 m^2 mirrors/MW


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Energy production and energy savings

DEI has a long term experience in modeling, simulation and control system design of electric power plants.

Producing energy Is an hazardous activity with major impact on the environment

Even renewable energy sources have non-negligible impact

-> maximize efforts for energy saving


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Energy saving related projects

GAMES - Products for energy-aware data and processes in service oriented software environments

Green Touch™: making communications networks 1,000 times more energy efficient(Alcatel Lucent et alii)

Green Move Project

Smaller projects (energy saving in buildings, in electric drive, in appliances …)


14Transportation – Green Move project


15Design and evaluation of a ZEV sharing system in Milan

The project

Green Move (GM) is an ongoing project (start: March 2011 – end: March 2013) financed by the Lombardia Region (budget: about 2.5M) that aims at designing and implementing a vehicle-sharing system in Milan (and extension to the whole Lombardia Region), able to offer to the users different categories of ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicles).

The system aims to be open, standardized, interoperable, modular, multi-business (a central agency will manage the coordinating system, but the single element may be owned by different public administrations or companies), in order to support the spread of the service on the territory and among new vehicle fleets owners and users. A trial will be carried out with a limited number of docking stations in a specific area of Milan.

Given the multi-disciplinarity of the project and the multiplicity of the tasks to be carried out, GM involves 8 departments and research centres of Politecnico di Milano.

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16The GM project 16

different categories of ZEV

existing type of sharing system

Open

Modular

Standardized

Multi-business

Interoperable

Design and implementation of a vehicle sharing system

to obtain a general/scalable model

+

a demonstrator (with a small number of V & DS)

able to include

merging


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The general framework

Service IdeaService Idea

Context Analysis

Context Analysis

Strategic Design

Strategic Design

Technology Development


Alternative Analysis

Alternative Analysis

Field TestField Test Project Evaluation

Project Evaluation

ParticipationParticipationCommunication Dissemination

A

B



Development of physical components Green e-Box Docking station Informatics infrastructure Telecom network Cartographic viewer

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User

Control center

Vehicle

Docking station

Green e-Box

1. Info-mobility

2. Vehicle

positioning

3.General

Info

4. DS

activation

5. Free DS

available

8. Lock-unlock,

start

9. Code

reading

7. Lock-unlock,

start

6. Vehicle

parameters


Vehicle-portfolio for field test (tentative) 19

Electrik bike (ceilinged)

Electric scooter

Micro-EV (two side-seats)

Micro EV (two tandem-seats)

Mini-EV (two seats)

Mini-EV (three seats)

Duty-EV

A complete portfolio of EVs will be equipped with the green-box and tested along different parameters; among others:

•Classical “EV” parameters (range, time-of-recharge, etc.)

•How easy is to “connect” the green-box

•Management of built-in and external (green-box) user interface

•Vehicle dynamics

•User acceptance


Contacts 20

GreenMove website (in Italian): http://www.greenmove.polimi.it/

GM Directors:

Prof. Sergio M. Savaresi (http://move.dei.polimi.it)

Prof. Alberto Colorni

The Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano Prof. Gianantonio Magnani, Department Chair Prof. Piero Fraternali, Deputy.

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