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Thomas Schulte
Prof. Dr.-Ing.

Thomas Schulte

Control engineering and simulation

Institutsleitung / Director

Research focus

Professor Thomas Schulte primarily conducts research on real-time and hardware-in-the-loop simulation of energy systems and components. He is the director of the Future Energy Institute since 2017.

Professional career

After completing his doctorate, Schulte was responsible at dSPACE GmbH as a senior application engineer and team leader for the development of hardware, software and simulation models as well as project implementation for the HIL simulation of electrical drives and power electronics. Since 2010, he manages the control engineering and simulation department (formerly simulation of technical systems) in the electrical engineering and computer engineering department of the OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Academic education

Schulte studied electrical engineering at the University of Paderborn and received his doctorate with distinction in 2004 in the electrical engineering department for his work "Power converters and control concepts for ultrasonic traveling wave motors".

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Focus
Model-based dimensioning of energy storage and systems
Model-based dimensioning of components
Electric drive systems

Projekte

MonoCab OWL
MonoCab OWL: Development and demonstration of Mono-Cabs
Duration
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MonoCabs - Small shuttles using the two rails of reactivated railroad lines in both directions. On demand, they run...
Head
Participants
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Mobility centers of the future - development of a guideline for a multimodal hub
Duration
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Due to an increasing heterogeneity of the demand for mobility (e.g. intermodality, multimodality, "use instead of...
Head
Participants
Johannes Üpping

Publications

System reduction of optimal control problems with seasonal storage
2020
The control and structural expansion of decentralized energy systems are very challenging due to the volatility of...
    Authors
  • Griese, M.
  • Schulte, T.
Conference: 14th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (IEEE CPE-POWERENG) Conference Location: Setúbal, Portugal
Modeling the Vertical Dynamics of a Self-stabilizing Monorail Vehicle
2021
Currently, numerous single-track railway lines are disused due to economic reasons. However, they could be...
    Authors
  • Griese, M.
  • Mousavi, S.
  • Schulte, T.
Conference: 2021 9th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA) Conference Location: Belval, Luxembourg

Promotionen

Real-time simulation of power electronics circuits for hardware-in-the-loop simulation
The interest on hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulators of power electronic circuits in the field of automotive, as...
PhD
Supervisor
Supervisor
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Clemens Gühmann (Technische Universität Berlin)
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Schulte (Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe)
Optimising heat supply systems for residential districts in consideration of fluctuating renewable energies
In comparison to the electrical sector the thermal sector is more heterogeneous. These leads to a high complexity...
Supervisor
Supervisor
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Strunz, Technische Universität Berlin
Methods for optimisation, simulation and modeling of combined grid systems
The increasing shortage of fossil fuels as well as the continuing climate change leads to an increasing relevance...
PhD
Supervisor
Supervisor
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Maas, Technische Universität Berlin

Patente

Real-time circuitry simulation device for use as parallel digital logic to simulate e.g. power electronic circuit in hybrid car, has partial module defined by model, and correction matrix including values stored before simulation beginning
Patent No.
DE102012016610
Publication (year)
2014
The device has a linear partial module defined by a discrete-time state space model through a transition matrix...

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