Prof. Teresa Orłowska-Kowalska, DSc, PhD, Eng

teresa.orlowska-kowalska@pwr.edu.pl

Smoluchowskiego St. 19,
50-370 Wrocław,
building A-10, room 320
2nd floor,
tel. +48 71 320 26 40

• Control of electric drives.
• Applications of observer theory in drive systems.
• Artificial intelligence methods in sensorless drive control.
• Diagnostics of drives with AC motors.
• Fault-tolerant control methods for AC drive system.

Development of fault-tolerant control methods for electric drive systems. Research is focused on developing methods for detection, compensation and classification of different faults using modified state variable estimators and shallow and deep neural networks. 

Teresa Orlowska-Kowalska (Life Senior Member, IEEE) obtained her Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST) in 1976 and 1990. Since 1993, she has been a professor of electrical engineering (as a full professor since 2004) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, WUST, Wroclaw, Polnad. In the years 1992-2008, she was the Head of the Department of Electric Drives, and in the years 2009-2014 - the Department of Electric Drives, Industrial Automation and Mechatronics. In the years 2002-2019, she was the director of the Institute (since 2014 - Department) of Electrical Machines, Drives and Measurements, Wrocław University of Science and Technology. She has been a member of the Committee on Electrical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 1996, the Board of Curators of Faculty IV of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2011-2018) and international steering committees of several renowned conferences. In the years 2004-2014, she was an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics journal. Currently, she is the editor-in-chief of the journal Power Electronics and Drives (indexed in WoS), a member of the Editorial Boards of: Journal of Microelectronics, Electronic Components and Materials, Transactions on Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Przeglad Elektrotechniczny. She is a reviewer for many IEEE, IET, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor and Francis, MDPI and SAGE journals. 

She is the author or co-author of over 500 articles in journals and conference papers, two textbooks, seven monographs (including editing two) and 50 chapters in monographs. Her research interests include controlled electric drives, applications of the observer theory and artificial intelligence methods in sensorless control and diagnostics of AC motor drives, fault-tolerant control od AC drives.

She has supervised 15 PhD graduates, and is currently supervising 1 PhD student (MSc Eng. Krystian Teler). She has reviewed dozens of doctoral and habilitation dissertations and applications for the title of professor. She has carried out 33 research projects of the National Science Centre, National Center for Research and Development, State Committee for Scientific Research, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the EU (23 as project manager) acquired through domestic and international competitions

Bibliometric indicators (May 2025):

Web of Science H-index: 31 Citations: 3703

Scopus H-index: 34 Citations: 5086

Google Scholar H-index: 40 Citations: 7543

• Methods of detection and compensation of current sensor faults for induction and synchronous motor drives based on modified state variable observers, 2021-2025, National Science Centre (NCN), OPUS 21, 2021/41/B/ST7/02971, project manager.
• Hybrid methods of fault detection of permanent magnet synchronous motors in electric drives with vector control using analytical and neural computations, 2018-2022, National Science Centre (NCN), OPUS 14, 2017/27/B/ST7/00816, project manager.
• Discrete sliding control and estimation of state variables in induction motor drive systems, National Research Centre, 2015/17/B/ST7/03846; 2016-2019, project manager.
• Research and development of methods for detection and compensation of electrical and mechanical faults in vector-controlled drive systems with induction motors, in particular for safe systems, National Research Center 2013/09/B/ST7/04199; 2014-2017, project manager.

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Prof. Teresa Orłowska-Kowalska, DSc, PhD, Eng