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Research on the latest technology

At the chair of Electric Railways we are researching on the entire field of electric transport systems. Besides single vehicle and infrastructure components and subsystems we put the optimization of the overall systems repeatedly into the focus.

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Inside view in our fields of research

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Our fields of research

Inform about our highly exciting fields of research.

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Current projects

Inform about our current projects, which were now edited by the chair of Electric Railways.

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Publica­tions and releases

Here are the specialist articles and conference distributions from the research fellows of the chair as well as the dissertations made at the chair.

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Electric transport systems in the focus of research

The research focuses at the chair of Electric Railways are

  • electric vehicle drive,
  • design methods for drives and components,
  • modelling and simulation,
  • energy consumption determination and prognosis,
  • functional safety analysis and verification
  • diagnostic systems as well as
  • measurements and measurement evaluation.