Ferdinand GUBINA

As a Fulbright scholar at the Ohio State University (1970), I lectured and conducted the laboratory exercises on Electric machinery (Energy Conversion) using a Russian book as no English book on electric machinery was available. I invented and developed the concepts of bipedal locomotion and published them in the IEEE Transaction on BME, “On the Dynamic Stability of Biped Locomotion,” No. 2, 1974, which have been used by Boston Dynamics to construct the bipedal robot presented in 2016 in Boston. With a colleague, I founded the Slovenian CIGRE organization and integrated it into the CIGRE International committee for large power systems, located in Paris, serving on its organizing and executive committees. I worked as a Slovenian representative in 1978 with Westinghouse in supervising the tests of the Slovenian nuclear power plant components manufactured in the US. As chairman of the Slovenian electrotechnical society, I ensured it became more integrated and active within the European Union of electrical engineers EU-REL, within which we cooperate regarding standardization in the field of electricity.

The vital characteristics of the bipedal control concept are shown for a hundred metre start of a runner transiting to stairs climbing after a few steps, which has been proven by the Boston dynamic robot.

1963 Degree of electrical engineering with an electronic model of the nerve cell, which exhibited the rheobase, actually measured on a living neuron

1970 Fulbright scholarship, Ohio State university

1972 Invented and developed the concepts of bipedal locomotion

1978 Supervision of component tests, Krško Nuclear Power Plant

Important Works

Omahen P., Gubina F. (1992) Simulations and field tests of a reactor coolant pump emergency start-up by means of remote gas units, IEEE Trans. on Energy Conversion 7(4):691-697.

Gubina F., Golob R., Debs A.S. (1996) Fast contingency evaluation…, Jour. of El. Power and Energy Systems 18(6):377.

Halilčević S., Gubina F. (1994) An On-line Determination of the Ready Reserve Power, IEEE Trans. on Power Systems 14(4):1514-1519.

Selected Awards

1963 Univerisity of Ljubljana, Prešeren Avard for students

1972 Bedjanič award for PhD work

2006 IEEE Power Engineeing Society Prize paper award Industry ISKRA plaque for the project of River power plants automation Distinguished member CIGRE Paris Life Senior member, IEEE, N.Y. Slovenian CIGRE-CIRED life achievement award Elektroinstitute Milan Vidmar plaque