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Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) provide a promising approach for ocean monitoring. Locating the sensor nodes (SNs) in UWSNs is critical for annotating data samples. However, the global positioning system (GPS) is not available underwater. The locations of SNs are usually interpreted from anchor nodes which are deployed at known locations on the seafloor or sea surface. Due to the characteristics...
In a context of users increasingly demanding for the use of technology, organizations are continually challenged to present new strategies to improve their business activities. This forces them to be aligned on frameworks and models that help to adequately relate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources to the external and internal activities of the organization. The application of...
Pulsed power network is one of the alternatives of smart grid systems. This scheme is applicable especially to localized power grid where only distributed generations supply power to consumers. In this demonstration, a miniature model of the localized pulsed power network is constructed and performed with two distributed generations, four consumers, and eight power routers. This model is operated...
We developed a field management system with a field server that helps decrease farmers workload. It will be also enable the transfer of knowledge to the next generation of farmers in Japan. In order to reduce the burden of agricultural work, less frequent maintenance of the field server is desired. In this paper, we explain construction method of a local wireless network to cut the power consumption...
The author proposed a hierarchical modulation for road to vehicle communication. The CSK-MPPM system which combines code shift keying and multi-pulse pulse position modulation was considered. The system can transmits several types of data simultaneously. Because the generalized modified prime sequence codes (GMPSC) is used as pseudo noise (PN) codes for CSK in the previous work, the code efficiency...
Recently, applying the multimedia wireless sensor networks and computer vision techniques in the outdoor agriculture field can be observed. Since the performance of such techniques is limited by the low data rate of the wireless sensor network, the transmission using the wider bandwidth is one of the possible solutions. This paper proposes the technique to develop the wide-band channel sounder for...
In this paper, the distributed tracking problem for heterogeneous second-order multiagent systems with nonlinear dynamics is studied. Both the dynamics among the followers and the dynamics between the leader and each follower are heterogeneous. A sampled-data-based consensus protocol is proposed. In addition, the communication delays are considered. Based on Lyapunov stability theory and linear matrix...
Duty-cycling schemes allow devices to dynamically adjust their active period to conserve energy. On the other hand, synchronization schemes allow multiple coordinators to schedule their transmissions in order to prevent the overlapping of superframe schedules. In this paper, we analyze the impact of a synchronization mechanism on duty-cycling schemes in an IEEE 802.15.4 cluster tree network. We show...
The distributed synchronization control problem of multiple quadrotor aircraft in the form of leader-follower structure is considered in this paper. Based on the method of backstepping design, a novel distributed consensus control algorithm is proposed. Firstly, for the position control subsystem, by Proportional-Differential control and the theory of communication topology graph, a consensus control...
This paper proposes the improvement method of operability in a bilateral control by using visual information. The bilateral control system consists of a master system which is manipulated by the operator and a slave system which contacts remove environment. Considering the actual use of the bilateral control, the operator manipulates the master system while watching the visual information from the...
Contrary information is recorded in the process of Ribonucleic Acid transcription, which is similar to the anti-synchronization process. In this paper, the anti-synchronization of coupled Boolean networks is investigated. Firstly, the definition of anti-synchronization is introduced, and the drive-response Boolean networks dynamics are translated into linear representations with the semi-tensor product...
This paper introduces a color image encryption algorithm that relies on fractional chaotic systems as source of pseudorandom numbers, the decryption process needs to reconstruct the states of the fractional chaotic system, for this purpose a fractional exponential polynomial observer will be used, this observer has the characteristic that makes synchronization error decrease faster than an exponential...
Grid synchronization of distributed generation (DG) plays an important role for effective power transfer from DG units to the utility grid. Usually, the synchronous reference frame based phase-locked loop (PLL) is a common technique. However, there is a compromise between steady-state accuracy and dynamic performance of PLL especially when the grid voltages contain harmonics and /or unbalances. In...
This paper proposes a control schema for permanent magnet machines, which is synthesized by field-oriented control, synchronous pulse width modulation and phase-lock loop based sampling synchronization. Switching frequency of inverters in electric locomotive applications is limited by considering switching losses. Lower switching frequency deteriorates performance of machines, e.g., extra machine...
Phase-locked loops (PLLs) are very important in power and energy areas. Many PLLs have been proposed in recent literatures, and all these methods are to design a robust filter and let them be as a preprocessing tool before the synchronous reference frame PLL (SRF-PLL) input. Among these PLLs, a interesting PLL is Least-Error Squares (LES) Filter-Based PLL (LES-PLL), which is composed of a LES filter...
Targeting the development of a silicon carbide (SiC) inverter for electric vehicle/hybrid electric vehicle (EV/HEV) applications, the design considerations of the gate driver for the adopted SiC metal-oxide-semiconductor field-transistor (MOSFET) power modules are presented. Given the system power density requirement, the gate driver design challenges for the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) SiC modules...
Cascaded or distributed module-level inverters are becoming increasingly desirable for photovoltaic applications. The authors have demonstrated an AC-stacked topology that allows each inverter to operate completely autonomously from all the others. The only required communications is a low-bandwidth synchronization signal communicated from the point-of-grid-connection. This paper describes the communications...
Modular multilevel converters (MMC) are emerging to be an alternative approach for realizing power converters for a variety of high power applications because they allow series-cascaded levels and/or parallel-connected branches. However, the design of communication interface between system controller and individual modules became increasingly complicated as more modules been added into the system,...
This paper investigates the use of the Taguchi method based regression rate optimization method for the design of line-start permanent magnet motors. A weighted factor multi-objective (MO) technique is used to take into account both steady-state and transient performance objectives. To validate the proposed method a prototype machine has been designed, constructed and experimentally evaluated. It...
Parallel inverters are commonly adopted in high power applications, for instance wind energy system, smart transformer, and power conditioners. Meanwhile, interleaved PWM is usually considered as an optimal approach to reduce the current ripple and harmonics of the parallel inverters. However, in case of a common dc-link, the problem of circulating current emerges and leads to performance degradation...
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