Severe disabled children have little chance of environmental and social exploration and discovery, and due this lack of interaction and independency, it may lead to an idea that they are unable to do anything by thems...
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This paper presents an electronic ballast to supply high power (>; 400 W) high intensity discharge (HID) lamps based on interleaved converters. Due to HID lamps voltage source characteristics and their acoustic res...
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This paper presents an electronic ballast to supply high power (>; 400 W) high intensity discharge (HID) lamps based on interleaved converters. Due to HID lamps voltage source characteristics and their acoustic resonance issue, it is necessary to drive them with nearly constant current (reduced ripple) with a square-wave shape. Interleaved topologies become widely used as the output current levels of power converters increases. A well-known topology is the interleaved buck converter (IBC), which presents as main characteristic a low ripple output current source behavior. Therefore, an IBC can be advantageous for supplying high power HID lamps. The main goal of this paper is to introduce an IBC operating in continuous conduction mode (CCM) applied to electronic ballasts, in order to supply high power HID lamps. The IBC inductor design is the target point, since the number of cells, losses and inductor value strongly influence the overall performance in terms of size and efficiency. Inductances, magnetic core and semiconductors are analyzed and compared across the number of cells. Results are verified through simulation in PSIM software and experimentally.
This paper presents an emulation of fuel cell and photovoltaic modules based on the buck converter as a replacement of actual power sources for bench tests. This approach is suitable for power electronic designs invol...
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This paper presents an emulation of fuel cell and photovoltaic modules based on the buck converter as a replacement of actual power sources for bench tests. This approach is suitable for power electronic designs involving power converters to interface source and DC loads or source and mains grid, without having available the real source. The output voltage of the buck converter is referred to lookup tables/equations with experimental data from actual sources under load variation to determinate the biasing curves and dynamic response. To validate the results, a comparison between simulated and practical results obtained from laboratory test with actual sources is performed. The energy source emulations with buck converters is a simple, safe, versatile, and effective way of physically representing DC sources for various laboratory tests.
This work proposes an optimization procedure based on a bootstrapped neural network interpolation approach and the Genetic Algorithm method. The bootstrapped neural network is used to generate designed data sets in or...
This work proposes an optimization procedure based on a bootstrapped neural network interpolation approach and the Genetic Algorithm method. The bootstrapped neural network is used to generate designed data sets in order to estimate a mapping from input to output space in an intrinsic experiment in a motor drive vibration study. The optimization procedure is aimed to minimize the motor vibration by adjusting some drive control parameters.
Severe disabled children have little chance of environmental and social exploration and discovery, and due this lack of interaction and independency, it may lead to an idea that they are unable to do anything by thems...
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Severe disabled children have little chance of environmental and social exploration and discovery, and due this lack of interaction and independency, it may lead to an idea that they are unable to do anything by themselves. This idea is called “learned helplessness” and is very negative for the child cognitive development and social development as well. With this entire situation it is very likely that the self-steam and mood of this child. Trying to help these children on this situation, educational robotics can offer and aid, once it can give them a certain degree of independency in exploration of environment. The system developed in this work allows the child to transmit the commands to a robot. Sensors placed on the child's body can obtain information from head movement or muscle pulses to command the robot to carry the tasks. Also, this system can be used with a variety of robots, being necessary just a previous configuration. It is expected that, with the usage of this system, the disabled children have a better cognitive development and social interaction, balancing in a certain way, the negative effects of their disabilities.
This paper presents a temperature digital control system for performance evaluation of electronic devices under different operating temperatures. The system is based on a thermoelectric module of Peltier effect, which...
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This paper presents a temperature digital control system for performance evaluation of electronic devices under different operating temperatures. The system is based on a thermoelectric module of Peltier effect, which is used for heating or cooling the device under test (DUT). A digital PI controller is designed through simulations with an electric model of the structure, developed in Simulink ® . Based on the parameters and results from simulations, the controller is implemented in Labview ® and experimental results are obtained using a servo amplifier like actuator.
This paper proposes a tuning method for a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) and its application to Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). A performance index is established based on the desired behavior of system variab...
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This paper proposes a tuning method for a linear quadratic regulator (LQR) and its application to Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). A performance index is established based on the desired behavior of system variables, such as maximum values permitted on the states and control law saturation. The tuning method is based on the Q and R weighting matrices, which relate the energy of the state variables involved on the process. From this index it is possible to find an optimal point to reach the required performance. The design procedure is exemplified with an output voltage control of an Uninterruptible Power Supply and dynamic results are presented.
This paper presents recent repetitive control (RP) techniques applied to uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). A proportional-derivative (PD) technique including a feedforward term is implemented as the main controlle...
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This paper presents recent repetitive control (RP) techniques applied to uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). A proportional-derivative (PD) technique including a feedforward term is implemented as the main controller. In addition, recent repetitive control laws are presented and applied to a single phase PWM inverter. It is also presented a new RP approach for repetitive gain adaptation in the presence of cyclic and random disturbances. Results demonstrate the efficiency of each control approach.
This paper presents a progress in the development of a recent and promising wavelet-based Algebraic Multigrid method. This new approach uses the lifting technique for creating an algorithm with smaller memory requirem...
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The system resulting from the coupled Finite Element Method and Boundary Element Method formulations inherits all characteristics of both finite element and boundary element equation system, i. e., the system is parti...
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