Journal of Control & Instrumentation
Volume 7, Issue 3 (2016)
Published
Table of contents
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Virtual Instrumentation System for 3D Tilt Estimation of Moving Object using MEMS Multi-Sensor Fusion
Abstract: This paper considers the problem of 3D tilt estimation of moving object and development of virtual instrumentation (VI) based system prototype with motion-user interface using six degree of freedom data from MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope. To overcome the inherent limitations of both the sensors and minimize accelerometer noise error and gyroscope drift error, the sensor signals are fused using established Kalman filter and newer, simple and equally efficient complementary filter. …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 1–20 Read article
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Design and Implementation of Phase Shift Full Bridge DC-DC Converter for Photovoltaic Application
Abstract: Soft switched converters offer merits like lowered switching losses, reduced size of magnetic devices, lowered converter size, etc. Therefore, it is preferred topology in converter’s design. It also allows use of higher switching frequency. This research work focuses on development of 1 kW prototype of phase shift full bridge DC-DC converter for photovoltaic application. This paper discusses component selection criteria, magnetic component design criteria, hardware and software design issues. Simulation …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 21–27 Read article
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Energy Management of a Solar Powered Electric Vehicle with Multiple-Energy Storage via Optimized Fuzzy Controller
Abstract: The optimum energy management is the main challenge of powered electric vehicles (EVs) with multiple energy storage systems. The solar powered EVs are enabled with multiple energy sources and storages, and so, achieving the optimum energy management schedule is a complicated optimization problem. This paper develops an optimized fuzzy controller using genetic algorithm (GA) for energy management of solar powered EV equipped with photovoltaic cells as well as two power …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 28–38 Read article
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Implementation of Closed Loop Control of Flow in Air Blower System Using PLC and SCADA
Abstract: The intention of this paper is to design and implement the closed loop control of air flow rate in the air blower system. Desired value of flow rate is provide from the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and actual value of flow rate is measured through the flow sensor. Based on the difference between actual and desired value of flow rate, PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) increases or decreases the …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 39–43 Read article
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Stabilizing Internal Damping in Hydrodynamic Bearings using Elegant Control Strategies
Abstract: The implementation of elegant control strategies to stabilize the internal damping problem in hydrodynamic bearing has been proposed in this paper. This implementation deals or gives an advantage of good stability of hydrodynamic bearing, even at critical or threshold speeds where an unstable whirl occurs leading to instability assisted greatly by this internal damping factor. Related stability graphs have been plotted using MATLAB 2013 and models have been designed using …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 7, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 44–49 Read article