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Cooling systems consume around 40% of modern data centres' total energy consumption, thus reducing the energy waste in this sector will have positive environmental impact. There exist several cooling methods appropriate for particular conditions. Since environmental conditions, such as air temperature, change on seasonal bases, no single cooling method can be claimed to be the best. In contrast, data...
This paper presents a new configuration of an off-grid single-phase generator using a three-phase induction machine. The use of this kind of machine, cheap and robust, is in line with the “jugaad” philosophy, better known as frugal innovation. In such an application, three-phase induction machines are usually operated as stand-alone single-phase generator which are either self-excited using terminal...
An average power sharing control strategy for parallel operation of voltage source inverter (VSI) based modular Uninterruptible Power Systems (UPSs) is proposed in this paper. The presented method is based on a modified droop control. The proposed method conquers the drawback of conventional droop plus virtual impedance control, and at the same time some challenges in the real applications have been...
Indirect rotor field oriented control (IRFOC) plays an important role in the high performance induction machine drives. In the indirect rotor field oriented control — based induction machine adjustable speed control system, the rotor field angle is usually obtained by the rotor angular velocity and the slip angular velocity. The rotor angular velocity can be sensed by an encoder with sufficient accuracy...
The connection of business processes along the value chain and the integration of the production system with business process are two cornerstones of Industry 4.0. The Industry 4.0 Demonstration Production Line (DPL) located at Shenyang Institute of Automation (Shenyang) is a prototype smart factory that implements end-to-end customized production. It is also a testbed for intelligent manufacturing...
The paper firstly establishes a passivity-based control (PBC) of a double-fed inductor generator (DFIG). A new control method of the DFIG is proposed with the outer speed loop controlled by a full-order terminal sliding mode (TSM) controller to undertake maximum wind power point tracking (MPPT), while the inner current control loop is a PBC designed to manage the three-phase PWM rectifier. Simulation...
Up to now the quadruped robots are equipped with the trunks which are rigid bodies or consist of two blocks connected by passive joints. This paper proposes a metamorphic quadruped robot with a moveable trunk which can implement active trunk motions, called MetaRobot I. Its trunk is constructed by a planar 6-bar linkage. Due to this linkage, it can change its trunk into multiple shapes, which give...
Permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives include several design and control variables that affect power losses. The improvement in system efficiency through control techniques will reduce the size of inverter and motor cooling system as well as the operating costs of the system. This paper proposes a comprehensive analysis of loss controllability using various control parameters to reduce...
Distributed Generation (DG) is a sustainable alternative energy paradigm that allows flexible customer-participated demand response management, however when coupled with battery storage in a carbon costed policy setting true reduction of greenhouse gas emissions may not necessarily be rewarded. This paper examines the role of policy settings using an established multi-agent simulation framework that...
Driver-in-the-loop and different human-machine goal consistency should be considered when designing driver-AFS interactive steering control system. In this paper, a novel design approach, namely dynamic game theory is used for the modelling of shared steering control between driver and AFS. Linear Quadratic dynamic optimization approach is used to derive the non-cooperative Nash, non-cooperative Stackelberg,...
In this paper, an improved grid voltage modulated control (GVM) with power compensation is proposed for grid-connected voltage inverters when the grid voltage is unbalanced. The objective of the proposed control is to remove the power ripple and to improve current quality. Three power compensation objectives are selected to eliminate the negative sequence components of currents. The modified GVM method...
In order to test the performance of the motor driver, a power converter can be used to replace the real motor, both of which have the same electrical characteristics. This is a real-time control system. The foremost challenge in this system is the modeling of the real-time motor simulator based on the mathematical model of permanent magnet synchronous motor. This paper introduces the background and...
How to design an effective and efficient load-frequency controller (LFC) for a multi-area interconnected power system to improve its power quality is a challenging issue. In order to deal with this issue, this paper presents a novel distributed fractional-order PID (DFOPID) control method for the load-frequency control of each area by using an adaptive population-based extremal optimization (APEO)...
In order to reduce the Common-Mode Voltage (CMV) in three-to-five phase indirect matrix converters, three improved Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SVPWM) methods are proposed and discussed. The improved modulation schemes are achieved by reorganizing zero vectors from the inversion stage to the rectification stage. The proposed methods can not only theoretically reduce the CMV peak value by up...
This paper proposes two methods for optimal design of DC bus reference voltage (Vdcref) and an optimal selection of the shunt active filter (SAF) inductor. The proposed methods help to reduce the filter rating, devices stress and increase the performance of the SAF. An optimal choice of the inductor of the SAF is presented based on the slope calculation of the SAF current which was demonstrated to...
This paper addresses the estimation of a permanent magnet synchronous machine mechanical position and speed estimation at low speed and standstill. The method is based on the injection of an additive voltage at High Frequency (HF), which exploits the position dependency to the magnetic saliency. Unlike the usual HFI method, this estimator has a simple structure with only one filter. The simulation...
Smart grids rely on the integration of distributed energy resources towards an intelligent and distributed manner to organize the electrical power grid enabled by a bidirectional flow of information to improve reliability and robustness, fault detection and system operation, and plug-and-playability of energy devices. The integration of information and communication technologies (ICT), one of the...
In order to achieve the integration of ac/dc output in the aircraft power system, a novel single-input/dual-output indirect matrix converter (IMC) is proposed in this paper. Based on the fact that a real dc-link is formed in IMC, the proposed topology realizes dc output by inserting a simple two transistor forward converter (TTFC) into the dc-link. Its modulation strategy is composed of two parts,...
The input-series output-parallel (ISOP)-connected system has a wide range of applications. In this paper, we propose an input voltage-sharing control scheme that quickly combines commercial modules in an ISOP connection. A metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) is connected in parallel at the input side of each converter and is controlled by an input voltage-sharing loop to maintain...
With the development of the smart meters, demand response (DR) is able to provide fast ancillary services, such as frequency control. Some recent studies demonstrated that DR can perform like thermal generators in the frequency control. However, little attention has been paid to DR's effect on the electromechanical oscillations of the power system. Fast-response DR can not only affect system frequency,...
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