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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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Comparison of Flow Process Values for Different PID Controller Techniques
Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to find the best and suitable controller that can be applied for a flow process in a real system. The flow process is done in a cylindrical tank of cascade system. The search of PID controller is done by the steps of acquiring transfer function from the real time open loop response and invoking it to the various tuning techniques of PID controller …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 9–13 Read article
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Sensorless Direct Power Control of Brushless DC Motor Drive using Unknown Input Speed Observer
Abstract: This paper proposes the speed control of brushless DC (BLDC) motor via direct power control (DPC) method as a novel and effective strategy in electrical drives applications. The DPC has some advantages rather than other control methods of BLDC motor including simpler control algorithm and faster dynamic response. In proposed BLDC motor drive based on DPC strategy, space vector modulation (SVM) voltage source inverter is employed. To enhance the drive …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2015 · pp. 31–41 Read article
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Speed Estimator for Sensorless Field-Oriented Control Induction Motor Drive Using Intelligent Neural Networks
Abstract: This paper presents a novel approach to the field-oriented control (FOC) of induction motor drives. It discusses the introduction of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for decoupling control of induction motors using FOC principles. The neural network has been then designed and trained online by employing a back propagation network (BPN) algorithm. The estimator was designed and simulated in Matlab/Simulink. Simulation result shows a good performance of speed estimator. Simulation results …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2015 · pp. 42–49 Read article
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Modeling and Design of State Feedback with Integral Controller for TRMS (Twin-Rotor MIMO System)
Abstract: This paper presents the modeling and design of state feedback with integral controller on twin-rotor MIMO system. In this, two SISO systems are considered (i) main rotor and (ii) tail rotor. Main Rotor is used to control the pitch axis and the tail Rotor is used to control the yaw axis. By using the state feedback, both the axis are controlled as desired. The main aim of this paper is …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 4, Issue 3, 2013 · pp. 17–25 Read article
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Design of Differential Evolution Optimized PI Controller for a Temperature Process
Abstract: Differential evolution is a new stochastic population-based optimization algorithm. It is an accurate, fast and robust optimization method. In this paper, a PI controller is used and differential evolution optimization technique is used to optimize the controller parameters. The robust controller parameters are obtained by solving the optimization problem, which consists of objective functions and constraints, using differential evolution method. Here differential evolution is implemented in tuning of a PI …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 3, Issue 1-3, 2012 · pp. 17–26 Read article
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Model Reference Adaptive Controller for Non-Linear Processes
Abstract: This paper presents the application of adaptive controller for three different non-linear processes and analysing the effect of the controller for three systems which are having different levels of non-linearities. The controller chosen is a direct model reference adaptive controller (DMRAC) for adjusting the feed forward gain using MIT rule. The non-linear systems considered are cylindrical tank, conical tank and spherical tank. The model reference adaptive controller is designed and …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 3, Issue 1-3, 2012 · pp. 58–65 Read article
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Performance Investigation on Boost Converter with Non-Isolated Coupled Inductor Using PSO-DFFP Controller with Stand-Alone PV System
Abstract: The stand-alone PV system with a Partial Swarm Optimization with Distinctive Feed Forward Propagation (PSO-DFFP) controller based Boost converter is designed with coupled inductor has been simulated. The steady state / dynamic performance of the proposed system have been analyzed using MATLAB simulation. The proposed controller has been developed to decrease ripple and improve the efficiency of the system. However, the linear controllers are influenced by the system parameters of …
Published in Journal of Control & Instrumentation · Vol. 13, Issue 1, 2022 · pp. 32–49 Read article
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Simulation of Three Phase PWM Rectifier for Reduced Harmonics in Line Current using FOPID Controller
Abstract: Abstract: The proposed system is three phases PWM rectifier with current controlled loop which issued for harmonic reduction in A.C. current. The current controlled loop consists of FOPID controller which reduce peak overshoot FOPID controller has benefit in stabilizing DC voltage. The simulation confirms the effectiveness of the proposed method by giving low harmonics output and less amount of power loss in which switching time is controlled to increase energy …
Published in Journal of Instrumentation Technology & Innovations · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 29–35 Read article
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CONTROL SYSTEM FOR EXTENDED DRIVING RANGE IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Abstract: This paper is aimed at designing a control system that regulates the power and energy supply to the electric engine to optimize the battery use, so the driving range of the electric vehicle can be extended. The method is based on controlling the acceleration of the electric vehicle and maintaining it within specific limits as well as to use the inertial forces to help the vehicle in saving energy while …
Published in Journal of Mechatronics and Automation · Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2021 · pp. 32–43 Read article
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Performance Improvement of DFIG using Fractional Order PI Controller
Abstract: Abstract: In this paper integer order and fractional order PI controller is designed to enhance the performance of the DFIG used in wind power plants. In DFIG, pitch angle control at high wind speed certainly experiences some issues in terms of performance. In this regard, the pitch angle is controlled by increasing the wind speed above the middle speed (12 m/s) to limit the DFIG active power and rotor speed. …
Published in Journal of Microcontroller Engineering and Applications · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 6–11 Read article
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Solar Charge Controllers and their Implementation
Abstract: AbstractSolar energy is the incident energy from the Sun. The main components of this energy are incident light energy and the heat contained in it. The extraction of solar energy may be active or passive. Due to abundance and availability, solar energy is the most attractive alternate in available renewable resources. In the 21st century solar energy is expected to become increasingly attractive as a renewable energy source because of …
Published in Journal of Microcontroller Engineering and Applications · Vol. 7, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 12–15 Read article
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Design Overview of Automatic Fire Control System Based On ATmega16 Microcontroller
Abstract: In order to use the modern technology to reduce the danger of human life and property caused by fire, this paper overviewed the design of an automatic fire detection and control system based on ATMEGA16, which can transform data between the fire sensors and water sprinkler. This system consists of two sensors, microcontroller, buzzer and controlled firefighting equipment (pump/sprinkler). The system has an additional feature of sending signal to a …
Published in Journal of Microcontroller Engineering and Applications · Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 1–7 Read article
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Application of Evolutionary Techniques for Controller Design of Inverted Pendulum
Abstract: AbstractInverted pendulum is the typical experiment platform for the study of control theories. It is an example of a nonlinear system for which stability becomes the necessary feature and also hard to achieve. The mechanism of a PID controller is employed to demonstrate the projected controller and controller is designed for acceleration as well as angle control. This paper emphasizes on the comparison between conventional PID, genetic algorithm (GA) and …
Published in Journal of Microelectronics and Solid State Devices · Vol. 6, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 1–10 Read article
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A Simplified Indirect Control Scheme for Shunt-active Power Filters
Abstract: This paper presents a simplified indirect control scheme for shunt-active power filters for compensating harmonic currents and improving power factor. The control is based on the simple method for generation of the reference compensating current. The reference compensating current is obtained by subtracting load current from reference source current. PI controller is used to adjust the amplitude of the reference source current that regulates the DC capacitor voltage. Hysteresis band …
Published in Journal of Power Electronics and Power Systems · Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2012 · pp. 1–7 Read article
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Direct Power Control of Brushless DC Motor Drive
Abstract: Recently, due to significant increase in demands of electric motors, design and manufacturing of high efficiency motors and related variable speed drives have been regarded by many suppliers. Among several kinds of motors, the brushless DC (BLDC) motor has many advantages including high torque capability. In this paper, for the first time, the possibilities of direct power control (DPC) of BLDC motors fed by a voltage source inverter have been …
Published in Journal of Power Electronics and Power Systems · Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2014 · pp. 13–24 Read article
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Shunt Active Power Filter Using Three Level Inverter without PI Controller
Abstract: This paper presents simulation and analysis of shunt active power filter using three level inverter. Different types of filters can be used for elimination of harmonics in the power system with nonlinear load. Three level VSI (Voltage Source Inverter) can be used for high voltage application. Three level NPC (Neutral Point Clamped) VSI is used for active power filter. In this paper, FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) algorithm for reference current …
Published in Journal of Power Electronics and Power Systems · Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2015 · pp. 76–86 Read article
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Design and Implementation of an Efficient Ternary Control Unit
Abstract: Multi-valued logic (MVL) is emerging as a thrust area of research due to several advantages offered by them over the conventional binary logic. Ternary logic is a promising alternative to the binary logic design technique thereby attracting a wide community of researchers to contribute in the design of ternary processor. The control unit is effectively the nerve center of a processor that plays a vital role in generating the appropriate …
Published in Journal of VLSI Design Tools and Technology · Vol. 5, Issue 3, 2015 · pp. 55–70 Read article
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Effectiveness of Semi-Active Variable Stiffness Tuned Mass Damper for Seismic Load Using LQR Control
Abstract: In this study, effectiveness of semi-active variable stiffness tuned mass damper in reducing seismic response of 10-story frame structure is evaluated. The variable stiffness device, comprising four spring, having rhombus configuration, adapted from literature is attached to the tuned mass damper. A control algorithm using state space form of governing equation of motion is developed. LQR controller is employed to obtain control force based on displacement and velocity response feedback. …
Published in Recent Trends in Civil Engineering & Technology · Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 11–11 Read article