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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Objective Antimicrobials are used interchangeably in medical practice, contributing to the emergence of resistant microbial strains. Methods This study describes the antimicrobial audit performed by forecasting analys...
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Objective Antimicrobials are used interchangeably in medical practice, contributing to the emergence of resistant microbial strains. Methods This study describes the antimicrobial audit performed by forecasting analysis of medical records of 846 patients at the Hospital Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz do Sul - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil. Results Of the patients studied, 134 (15.8%) received antimicrobials. The audit was conducted interactively, with intervention and discussion with the prescriber. Considering the presumptive diagnosis and prescribed drug, it was verified that 74.6% of patients on antimicrobials received what was considered the first choice treatment. Inadequate antimicrobial agent for clinical diagnosis (5.2%) and lack of adjustment for renal function (43.7%) were the most frequent errors. Conclusion A strategic plan aimed at the rational use of antimicrobials based on educational and interventionist practices can help the infection control professional to adjust the routines to improve healthcare quality.
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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For the last four years the Laboratory of Biometrology of PUC-Rio has been working in the development of magnetic field transducers to be used in biomedical applications - especially in the three-dimensional localizat...
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For the last four years the Laboratory of Biometrology of PUC-Rio has been working in the development of magnetic field transducers to be used in biomedical applications - especially in the three-dimensional localization of needles inserted in the human body and in the measurment of arterial pulse waves. While previous investigations were based on the behavior of the magnitude of the impedance of Giant Magnetoimpedance (GMI) ribbon-shaped sensors, this manuscript presents the preliminary results of a new research that considers the changes in the phase characteristics of GMI sensors due to varying low-intensity magnetic fields. In spite of being less explored in the literature, the work carried out so far indicates that the sensitivity of the phase can lead to more promising results than the ones already obtained with transducers based on the variation of the impedance magnitude. By means of examples showing that the sensitivity of the phase is affected by parameters (amplitude, frequency and DC level) of the AC biasing current that flows throught the sensor, this manuscript discusses how an ideal stimulation condition was derived in order to obtain more sensitive transducers. It is also examined the influence of the ribbon length in the sensitivity. A new conditioning electronic circuit - responsible for the excitation and measurement of the GMI sensor, and designed to work in the 100kHz to 5Mhz range - has been developed and is presented in the manuscript. Simulation studies of the complete transducer, including the conditioning circuit and based on data obtained from measured curves, have shown that an improvement of 10 to 100 times can be expected when compared to the sensitivity of previous magnitude-based transducers.
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