Antoneta
Iuliana BRATCU
Associate Professor
Ph.D.: Automatique et Informatique - "Détermination systématique des graphes de précédence et équilibrage des lignes d'assemblage"
(Université de
Franche-Comté,
MScEng: Power Electronics and Advanced Control Systems for Electromechanical Energy Conversion
Processes (1996)
BEng: Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics (1995)
Bachelor Economist: International Transactions (1998)
Email:
Antoneta.Bratcu@ugal.ro
Fax:
+ 40336130280
Office:
Room 508, Y
Teaching
Modelling of electromechanical conversion processes, signal acquisition and processing.
Research Interests
Control of renewable energy systems, discrete and continuous optimization, hybrid dynamical systems, nonlinear systems.
Relevant Publications
Books
1) Munteanu,
A.I. Bratcu, N.-A. Cutululis,
E. Ceangă – Optimal
control of wind energy systems – Towards a global approach, Springer, London
2) A.I.
Bratcu, A. Filipescu – Numerical
methods used in system analysis – applications
(in Romanian), MatrixRom,
3) E. Ceangă,
Book chapters
1) I. Munteanu, A.I. Bratcu, S. Bacha, D. Roye, Real-time physical simulation of wind energy conversion systems, in: Wind Power (Ed. S.M. Muyeen), IN-TECH, ISBN 978-953-7619-81-7, 2010, pp. 233-258.
2) S. Belmokhtar, A.I. Bratcu
and A. Dolgui – Modular
Machining Line Design and Reconfiguration: Some Optimization Methods.
Chapter 5 in Manufacturing the Future: Concepts-Technologies-Visions, 2006, pro
literatur Verlag (
3) D. C. Cernega, A. I. Bratcu and A. Şerbencu – Discrete Event Supervision for Communication Protocol Conversion. In: Intelligent Systems at the Service of Mankind II (Eds. W. Elmenreich, J. Tenreiro Machado, I. J. Rudas), UBooks Verlag, Augsburg (Germany), 2005, ISBN 3-86608-052-2, pp. 227-238.
International Patents
1) A.M. Andreica, S. Bacha, A.I. Bratcu, J. Guiraud, I. Munteanu, D. Roye – Hydraulic turbomachine for recovering and converting kinetic energy
of water currents into electricity, has regulation units electrically
regulating power from generator to ensure that shaft rotates at same speed
relative to another shaft. Patent Number: WO2010020735-A1;
FR2935159-A1, INST. POLYTECHNIQUE
Research projects (as project director)
1) May 2006 – October 2007: Supervision and optimal control of grid connected asynchronous generator based wind power systems – research project funded by the Romanian National Council for Academic Scientific Research (C.N.C.S.I.S.).
2) May – October 2004: Optimal control strategies for hybrid dynamical systems – application to cooperative robot systems – research project funded by the Romanian National Council for Academic Scientific Research.
Papers in ISI journals with impact factor
1)
M. Andreica Vallet, S. Bacha, I. Munteanu, A.I. Bratcu, D. Roye. Management and Control of Operating Regimes of Cross-flow Water
Turbines. IEEE Transactions on Industrial
Electronics, in press.
2) A.I. Bratcu,
3) M. Hauck,
4)
5)
6) C. Vlad,
7) C. Vlad, I. Munteanu, A.I. Bratcu, E. Ceangă – Anticipative Control of Low-power Wind Energy Conversion Systems for Optimal Power Regime. Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, ISSN 1454-8658, vol.11, no.4, 2009, pp. 26-35.
8) Munteanu I., Bacha S., Bratcu A.I., Guiraud J., Roye D. – Energy-Reliability Optimization of Wind Energy Conversion Systems by Sliding Mode Control. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, ISSN 0885-8969, vol. 23, no. 3, Sept. 2008, pp. 975-985.
9) Munteanu I., Bratcu A.I., Ceangǎ E. – Wind Turbulence Used as Searching Signal for MPPT in Variable-speed Wind Energy Conversion Systems. Renewable Energy, ISSN 0960-1481, vol. 34, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 322-327.
10) A.I. Bratcu, A. Dolgui – Some new perspectives in the analysis and simulation of bucket brigades (self-balancing production lines). International Journal of Production Research, Special Issue Cutting Edge of French Community of Production Research, vol. 47, no. 2, January 2009, pp. 369-387.
11) I. Munteanu, N.A. Cutululis, A.I. Bratcu and E. Ceangă – Optimization of variable speed wind power systems based on a LQG approach, Control Engineering Practice (Elsevier), Vol. 13, no.7, 2005, pp. 903-912.
12) A. Bratcu, A. Dolgui – A survey of the self-balancing production lines (“bucket brigades”), Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (Springer), Vol. 16, no. 2, April 2005, pp. 139-158.
13) B. Rekiek, A. Dolgui, A. Delchambre and A. Bratcu – State of art of optimization methods for assembly line design, Annual Reviews in Control (Elsevier), Vol. 26/2, 2002, pp. 163-174.
Others
Secretary of Galaţi Departmental Branch of theRomanian Society of Automatic Control and Technical Informatics (SRAIT), from 2003 up to date
Recipient of the Annual Prize IN HOC SIGNO VINCES 2007 (Engineering Sciences Section), granted by the National Council of Academic Scientific Research for meritorious research activity
National expert evaluator of research projects (www.experti-cdi.ro)
IEEE Member from 2007 up to date – Control Systems Society, Industrial Electronics Society
Hobbies
Music and dancing, traveling, movies and cinema history, psychology and philosophy, literature.
This information provided by A.Bratcu; October 2010.