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Penetration levels of solar photovoltaic (PV) generation on the electric grid have increased in recent years. In the past, most PV installations have not included grid-support functionalities. But today, standards such as the upcoming revisions to IEEE 1547 recommend grid support and anti-islanding functions-including volt-var, frequency-watt, volt-watt, frequency/voltage ride-through, and other inverter...
This paper proposes a fixed frequency based sliding mode (SM) controller for transformer-less single phase inverter for photovoltaic (PV) application with active power decoupling minimizing the capacitance requirement. Unlike conventional power decoupling techniques in full bridge converters, the proposed technique incorporates a large sinusoidal swing of the half-bridge capacitor voltages and a limited...
LCL filters are commonly used to connect Voltage Sourced Converters (VSCs) to the grid. This type of filters are cheaper than a single inductor, but they can generate resonance problems if no active or passive damping method is used. Active damping methods are becoming popular in the literature because they improve efficiency, but they are sometimes difficult to implement and additional measurements...
The second-harmonic circulating current in the phase legs of modular multilevel converter (MMC) leads to additional power losses. Existing circulating current suppressing strategies are realized by injecting the second-harmonic component in arm voltage reference. This paper presents a modified circulating current suppressing strategy including two controllers with a fixed-band submodule (SM) state...
Voltage unbalance in a three-phase system introduces oscillations to the DC Link voltage and power. Moreover, it causes performance deterioration of a pulsewidth modulation (PWM) of the back-to back voltage source converter systems (BTB-VSC) by producing the double-line-frequency ripples in the dc link voltage and power. This paper proposes a new control strategy by developing the conventional vector...
In view of the current domestic agricultural tractor manual shift operation time is long, Shift impact large and the actual situation of the shift operation effort, combined with the tractor running complex working environment and the driver uneven operation level, this paper designed and developed a tractor transmission electronic control system. According to the bench test and vehicle test, the...
The Carleton University Simulator Project (CUSP) is developing a novel flight simulator that decouples typical translational motions from unlimited rotations about any axis. The new CUSP simulator, Atlas, consists of an orientable sphere, housing the cockpit, mounted on a motion platform. Atlas is not bound by the typical limitations in roll, pitch, and yaw of traditional flight simulators. This paper...
In most existing remote-control services for ECHONET Lite devices, a controller outside the home network can be used to control ECHONET Lite devices in the home network using a remote-control support server installed on the Internet. However, if the service provider ends the service, a user cannot control these devices from outside the house. This paper proposes a secure end-to-end remote-control...
In Digital Grid which has been proposed as a new electric power grid, multi-inverters are operated in parallel and it may cause the cross-current among those inverters, since inverters do not have synchronizing mechanism. In this study, the authors propose a method to control the cross-current caused by the difference in switching frequencies of multi-inverters in parallel operation. An indirect hysteresis...
Since the Kyoto agreement on global greenhouse-gas emissions has been ratified by nearly all nations, individual countries pledged to reduce conventional fossil fuel-based generation and integrating more renewable energy sources within the electricity grids. With such enthusiasm, researchers have identified several challenges in achieving this goal. These challenges include extensive mix of utility,...
This paper investigates the effects of unintended island operation mode on parallel inverters' performance for microgrid applications. In the grid-connected mode, each inverter has a different power set point. The power flows between the inverters and the grid. In the islanding mode, the power flows inherently from the inverter that has higher set point power to the inverter has lower one leading...
The importance of mobile robots for the nuclear disaster response has been realized after Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident. In this paper, we propose a tracked robot for rescue and search in nuclear environment. A gamma-ray irradiation test of the robot's control system is conducted, in order to evaluate the performance of the robot in nuclear environment. The parallel test method is...
This paper develops an alternate arm converter (AAC) high-voltage direct current (HVDC) terminal model that is compatible with the existing benchmark models of modular multilevel converter (MMC) based HVDC and dc-grid benchmark models. The developed model is a first step towards an AAC-based point-to-point transmission system and the future development of multi-converter, multiterminal benchmark models...
Real-time simulation of modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based HVDC is one of the most important and difficult technologies in the area of power electronics research. This paper presents a methodology for the hardware in loop (HIL) CPU/FPGA-based real-time simulation of a one-terminal MMC HVDC of up to 468 levels using a detailed equivalent model, and the simulation system is based on full-scale...
As HVDC based on voltage source converter (VSC) technology has already reached 350 kVdc voltage level, this paper examines the feasibility of connecting four voltage source converter (VSC) modules, each rated at 200 kVdc, in series to form a pole of UHVDC rated at 800 kVdc. Due to the series connection layouts, the individual DC bus voltage inequality exists when power reversal occurs. A detailed...
This paper is concerned with the problem of designing successful covert attacks against output tracking control of cyber-physical systems from the covert agent's angle. Based on the perfect model knowledge and no model knowledge, the covert agent designs two kinds of covert attacks which can compromise the output tracking control system without being detected. Two sufficient conditions under which...
This paper describes an approach of the transporting and suppressing control of a rotating cargo for a jib crane. First, we show that the angle of the twisting cargo is measured using inertial measurement unit, and next proposed the gyro system with a control moment gyro implemented on the cargo. In experiments, we confirmed to transport the cargo with preventing the translational and twist sway using...
This paper considers the distributed output consensus problem of heterogeneous linear multi-agent networks with event-triggered communications. To handle the heterogeneity existing in the network, we first design adaptive event-based dynamic compensators for the agents. Distributed output feedback protocols, consisting of the dynamic compensators and the distributed state observers, the local controllers,...
According to uncertainties of the load and leakage inductance in the output transformer, this paper uses the μ analysis and synthesis method to design a robust controller for the three-phase medium frequency power supply. The controller not only enables the closed-loop system to do the non-static error tracking and to be asymptotic stability, but also is good in robustness and able to suppress the...
The purpose of this paper is to design an adaptive reliable H∞ controller for multirate sampled-data systems. Sampled-data systems are widely adopted in the industrial process and multirate sampling is abundant in such systems. Sensor failure is one of the faults exist in the control systems, which can result in the instability. A reliable controller is proposed in this article to guarantee the stability...
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