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Increasing the safety of a navigation lock, by creating a modern and efficient communication between the human operator and the machine, for prompt and accurate information offered to the operator, about the status of the equipment it serves, it is a requirement of today navigation worldwide. This paper aims to describe the implementation of modern and efficient centralized tracking equipment for...
Stroke affects up to 2% of the population, with an increasing number of patients surviving the event and requiring rehabilitation, placing increasing demand on medical systems. As a result, there is an emergent area of research investigating the use of robotics as a means to aid in stroke patients' rehabilitation. Projects such as the MIT Manus have provided evidence of the efficacy of robotic rehabilitation...
Agent-based modeling is a paradigm of modeling dynamic systems of interacting agents that are individually governed by specified behavioral rules. Training a model of such agents to produce an emergent behavior by specification of the emergent (as opposed to agent) behavior is easier from a demonstration perspective. Without the involvement of manual behavior specification via code or reliance on...
A soft robotic surface manipulator is a device equipped with a computer-controlled, deformable surface. By moving the surface, objects placed on the robot can be transported, rotated, or otherwise brought into a desired configuration. A probabilistic automaton can use camera feedback to measure and control the movement of the work pieces, and find the optimal sequence of actions to reach a desired...
This paper further describes our work presented in Industry Application Society 2016 Conference, with more details related to the control and operation of the microgrid. The DC microgrid facility was custom designed and implemented at CCNY with minimal off-the-shelf components to enable flexibility and reconfiguration capability. The design steps, requirements, and experimental results of the developed...
Self-Excited Induction Generation(SEIG) is very rugged, simple, lightweight, and it is easy and inexpensive to implement, very simple to control, and requires a very little maintenance. In this variable-speed operation, the SEIG needs a power electronics interface to convert from the variable frequency output voltage of the generator to a DC output voltage for battery or other DC applications. In...
This paper presents a novel compact AC/AC converter suitable for hybrid microgrids. The proposed topology is used to interconnect two three-phase renewable energy resources and one three-phase load to the grid, side by side with the appropriate generalized pulse width modulation and control method of the microgrid power flow. The proposed topology, generalized pulse width modulation, and the utilized...
PV based distributed generators are inverter based and employ a switching scheme to inject power into the grid. The most common and commercially used technique involves the Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controlled technique. Although PWM based technique is widely used, it is not affirmative to conclude that hysteresis controlled technique could be dismissed completely. A comparative evaluation and...
In this paper, firstly, the energy conservation equation of the cold side and the hot side of the precooler is written according to the energy conservation. Then the model of the precooler is established based on Matlab S-Function, and the model is simulated. The cold side helium mass flow is reduced to obtain the curve of the heat side temperature change, and the transfer function of the cold side...
In this written is presented the development of a didactic plant, of low cost, in which is possible to do practices of classic and advanced control. The variable to control is the luminous intensity, this equipment will strengthen the students' practice knowledge of careers related to the industrial control area. The implementation counts with an electric circuit, which has a smart sensor, an embedded...
Acelerated development of new technologies of information and communication many processes have been optimized. Also, the integration of automation in the electric sector has caused a notable impact generating advanced mechanisms for the generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy. In this sense, the systems of control and monitoring of electricity consumption represent an important...
Today's industry increasingly requires flexibility and adaptability in the development of automation control software, especially for automated production systems (aPS) including an automated material flow system (aMFS). To meet these demands, the development of the automation control software and the modification during the operation of the aMFS has to become as easy as possible without taking a...
This paper presents two problems observed in the Marine Aquaculture Station — EMA of the Federal University of Rio Grande, more specifically related to the aeration of the culture tanks to pisciculture and/or carniciculture. Firstly, the high energy consumption of the paddle aerators was identified, due to the continuous need to oxygenate the water. Subsequently, it was noted that static aerators...
This paper presents novel design of underwater robot for exploring abandoned mines. The hazardous environment of such mines due to unknown hydrodynamic forces and faulty navigations, brings the need of developing a reliable system able to be controlled autonomously. This capability highly rely on the basis of low level control and mechatronic architecture of the robot which demonstrate robot potential...
Until recent years, industrial control systems relied on wires to transfer the process values and control signals through an industrial plant. The use of wireless is limited to monitoring non-critical process values and using it for process control was uncommon for several reasons: complexity of usage, reliability, power consumption and a general doubt on its advantages. Wireless technology has made...
One of the problems related to isolated microgrids with battery storage systems (BSS) and small wind turbines is related to power balance among generation, BSS, and loads, especially when the generation is higher than the consumption and the BSS is charged. This paper presents the development of a wind-powered battery charging system for isolated microgrids. The system implements Maximum Power Point...
The trends in power DC/DC conversion are not only size and weight reduction together with a good efficiency; EMI and mass production are a must as well. In this context, piezoelectric transformers seem to be the ideal solution, since they allow higher switching frequencies (size and weight reduction) while also providing high efficiencies. Additionally, they are not magnetic devices, which facilitates...
The possibilities of application and development of the INDUSTRIE 4.0 concept considered for the transport industry. One of the main opportunities is related to the creation of multimodal intelligent transportation systems (MITS) for the coordinated use of various types of transport — road, rail, sea, and aviation. MITS first generation was local and focused on solving multimodal planning and routing...
In this paper the function of the initial heating has been received; the mathematical modeling of the process has been conducted as well as the analysis of the results. With the help of the obtained regulator hardware and software complex has been designed in the Pascal programming language, the complex allows to simulate the behavior of the temperature fields in the isotropic rod. The article presents...
The aim of this research is to assist the consumer to control the air conditioning load during the peak season. Demand side response model was applied to manage inside room temperature to keep comfortable for the consumer. A simulation study is illustrated the effect of demand side response model application for air conditioning in residential house in Makassar city. In this research there are three...
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