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Antenna Azimuth Position Control System using PID Controller & State-Feedback Controller Approach

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1539-1550
Aveen Uthman , Shahdan Sudin
This paper analyzed two controllers with the view to improve the overall control of an antenna azimuth position. Frequency ranges were utilized for the PID controller in the system; while Ziegler-Nichols was used to tune the PID parameter gains. A state feedback controller was formulated from the state-space equation and pole-placements were adopted to ensure the model design complied with the specifications to meet transient response. MATLAB Simulink platform was used for the system simulation. The system response for both the two controllers were analyzed and compared to ascertain the best controller with best azimuth positioning for the antenna. It was observed that state-feedback controller provided the best azimuth positioning control with a little settling time, some value of overshoot and no steady-state error is detected.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1539-1550
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Unit Commitment Problem in Electrical Power System: A Literature Review

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1357-1372
Idriss Abdou , Mohamed Tkiouat
Unit commitment (UC) is a popular problem in electric power system that aims at minimizing the total cost of power generation in a specific period, by defining an adequate scheduling of the generating units. The UC solution must respect many operational constraints. In the past half century, there was several researches treated the UC problem. Many works have proposed new formulations to the UC problem, others have offered several methodologies and techniques to solve the problem. This paper gives a literature review of UC problem, its mathematical formulation, methods for solving it and Different approaches developed for addressing renewable energy effects and uncertainties.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1357-1372
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Selection of Digital Filter for Microprocessor Protection Relays

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1498-1512
Denis B. Solovev
The article considers some issues related to replacement of electromechanical relays used for protection of power facilities with microprocessor relays. One of the urgent problems connected with implementation of microprocessor overcurrent protections is how to use current transducers other than usual current transformers and in particular Rogowski coils that become more and more widespread. In the article are compared twelve methods of synthesis of a digital filter basing on the analog prototype – second-order integrating filter. The bilinear filter and Boxer-Thaler filters are analyzed in respect to their use in microprocessor relays. Basing on the research results a technique for selection of parameters of digital integrating filters for microprocessor relays is proposed. Simulation results show that Boxer-Thaler and bilinear filters have better accuracy during transient current measurements than the analog filter. The study allows concluding that in many cases the digital second-order bilinear filter is the best choice for use in microprocessor relays.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1498-1512
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Neural Network and Local Search to Solve Binary CSP

10.11591/ijeecs.v10.i3.pp1319-1330
Adil Bouhouch , Hamid Bennis , Chakir Loqman , Abderrahim El Qadi
Continuous Hopfield neural Network (CHN) is one of the effective approaches to solve Constrain Satisfaction Problems (CSPs). However, the main problem with CHN is that it can reach stabilisation with outputs in real values, which means an inconsistent solution or an incomplete assignment of CSP variables. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid approach combining CHN and min-conflict heuristic to mitigate these problems. The obtained results  show  an  improvement  in  terms  of  solution  quality,  either  our approach achieves feasible soluion with a high rate of convergence, furthermore, this approach can also enhance theperformance more than conventional CHN in some cases, particularly, when the network crashes.
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Page: 1319-1330
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Design of an Interdigital Structure Planar Bandpass Filter for UWB Frequency

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1654-1658
S. M. A. Motakabber , M. N. Haidari
A new topology of miniaturized interdigital structuremicrostrip planar bandpass filter for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) frequency has been discussed in this paper. The proposed design and its simulation have been carried out by using an electromagnetic simulation software named CST microwave studio. The Taconic TLX-8 microwave substrate has been used in this research. The experimental result and analysis have been performed by using the microwave vector network analyzer. The experimental result showed that the -10dB bandwidth of the filter is 7.5GHz. The lower and upper corner frequencies of the filter have been achieved at 3.1GHz and 10.6GHz respectively. At the center frequency of 6.85GHz, the -1dB insertion loss and the -7dB return losshave been observed. The simulated and experimental results are well agreed with a compact size filter of 19×21×0.5mm3.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1654-1658
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Transceiver Design for MIMO Systems with Individual Transmit Power Constraints

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1583-1595
Raja Muthalagu
This paper investigate the transceiver design for single-user multiple-input multipleoutput system (SU-MIMO). Joint transceiver design with an improper modulation is developed based on the minimum total mean-squared error (TMSE) criterion under two different cases. One is equal power allocation (EPA) and other is the power constraint that jointly meets both EPA and total transmit power constraint (TTPC) (i.e ITPC). Transceiver is designed based on the assumption that both the perfect and imperfect channel state information (CSI) is available at both the transmitter and receiver. The simulation results show the performance improvement of the proposed work over conventional work in terms of bit error rate (BER).
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1583-1595
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Effect of the Thickness of High Tc Superconducting Rectangular Microstrip Patch over Ground Plane with Rectangular Aperture

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1611-1617
Nabil Boukhennoufa , Lotfi Djouane , Houcine Oudira , Mounir Amir , Tarek Fortaki
In recent years, a great interest has been observed in the development and use of new materials in microwave technology. Particularly, a special interest has been observed in the use of superconducting materials in microwave integrated circuits, this is due to their main characteristics. In this paper, the complex resonant frequency problem of a superconductor patch over Ground Plane with Rectangular Aperture is formulated in terms of an integral equation, the kernel of which is the dyadic Green’s function. Galerkin’s procedure is used in the resolution of the electric field integral equation. The surface impedance of the superconductor film is modeled using the two fluids model of Gorter and Casimir. Numerical results concerning the effect of the thickness of the superconductor patch on the characteristics of the antenna are presented.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1611-1617
Publish at: 2018-06-01

An Empirical Study on Peer-to-Peer Sharing of Resources in Mobile Cloud Environment

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1933-1938
R. K. Nadesh , M. Aramudhan
The increase usage of mobile users with internet and interoperability among the cloud services intensifies the role of distributed environemtnt in today’s real world application. Modern technologies are important for building rich, scalable and interoperable applications. To meet the requirements of client,the cloud service provider should offer adequate infrastructure especially under heavy multi-client load.To provide solution for large scale requirements and to statisfy the mobile client from the critical situation like lacking with bandwidth,connectivity issues,service completion ratio, we present adhoc virtual cloud model  for different scenarios that include single and multiple client configurations with various file sizes of various file formats for retrieving files in the mobile cloud environement.We evaluate the strategies with the socket and RMI implemented using java and identify the best model for real world applications. Performance evaluation is done with the results obtained and recommends that when sockets and RMI can be appropriately used in peer-to-peer environment when the mobile user cannot connect directly to the cloud services.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1933-1938
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Development of Automatic Mixing Process for Fertigation System in Rock Melon Cultivation

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1913-1919
Muhammad Khairie Idham Abd Rahman , Salinda Buyamin , M. S. Zainal Abidin , Musa Mohd Mokji
This work proposed an automatic mixing system of nutrient solution for rock melon fertigation according to the required electrical conductivity (EC) level. Compared to the manual practice, this automatic system will ensure continuous supply of mixed nutrient solution without the need to daily check and mix new nutrient. Thus, this easy to use and low cost automatic system will reduce the burden of the farmers. This system uses an EC sensor to automatically check the concentration level of the mixed nutrient solution. Other than that, the system only consists of electronic pumps for mixing process and an Arduino board as the controller. The controller will monitor the EC level and run the mixing process when the EC level is below the required level. By calibrating the EC sensors, the test shows that the automatic mixing system is able to accurately keep the mixed nutrient solution concentration in a 400 L mixing reservoir at several required levels.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1913-1919
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Extended Bandwidth Optimized and Energy Efficient Dynamic Source Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1460-1466
Bindiya Bhatia , M. K. Soni , Parul Tomar
With the increase in the evolution of wireless communication, the ad-hoc networks are gaining attention and are significantly becoming the technology solutions to the various problems. Mobile ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) are envisaged to grow as a main component in the today 4G architecture, and ad hoc networks are projected to be a significant element of the whole future wireless communication. The MANETs are infrastructure less, self-forming and self-organizing network in which there is no control of any centralized entity. The nodes are free to move around the network with dynamic topology. But this self formation, flexibility and scalability create many challenges and design constraints like hidden  terminal, limited bandwidth, limited energy of a node, unpredictable change in the topology etc. Bandwidth and energy are the scarce resources of the network. In order to effectively manage the consumption of bandwidth and energy, an algorithm is proposed which is the extension of traditional Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) reactive routing protocol. The extended protocol applies the mobile agents to carry the data. The proposed work is intended to optimize the bandwidth and making the protocol energy efficient.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1460-1466
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Autonomous Traffic Signal Control using Decision Tree

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1522-1529
Rithesh R N , Vignesh R. , Anala M. R.
The objective of this paper is to introduce an effective and efficient way of traffic signal light control to optimize the traffic signal duration across each lanes and thereby, to minimize or completely eliminate traffic congestion. This paper introduces a new approach to resolve the traffic congestion problem at junctions by making use of decision trees. The vehicle count in the real time traffic video is determined by Image Processing technique. This information is fed to the decision tree based on which the decision is made regarding the status of traffic signal lights of each lane at the junction at any given instant of time.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1522-1529
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Performance Improvement for Hybrid L-band Remote Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier/Raman using Phase Modulator

10.11591/ijece.v8i3.pp1875-1881
Nelidya Md. Yusoff , A. H. Sulaiman , Sumiaty Ambran , Azura Hamzah , M. A. Mahdi
We have demonstrated the performance improvement of L-band hybrid remote Erbium-doped fiber amplifier by introducing a phase modulator to suppress the stimulated Brilloiun scattering (SBS) effect in the transmission. The transmission gain has improved by 12.65dB while the noise figure has reduced by 47.1dB when 0dBm signal power is generated at 1590.05nm wavelength. Furthermore, the optical signal-to-noise ratio has improved from 7.81dB to 29.72dB when the signal power is varied from -30dBm to 0dBm. By implementing a phase modulator to the input signal somehow able to produce better performance regarding gain, noise figure and optical signal-to-noise ratio, especially at the higher signal power as the gain, has been transferred to the Stokes signal and the amplified signal.
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Page: 1875-1881
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Positive Interval Observer-based State Feedback Controller for Uncertain General Anaesthesia System

10.11591/ijeecs.v10.i3.pp1000-1006
Jing Jing Chang , S. Syafiie
The drug delivery process of general anaesthesia in the human body is most commonly described by the Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) model. Since the PK model is a positive linear system, the design of the controller can be treated as a positive stabilization problem. In this paper, a state feedback controller with positive interval observer was designed using a linear programming approach by taking into account the inter-individual variability among patient in the PK model. The designed controller was assessed by simulation on a pool of patients. The result shows that the design of a fix controller for the whole population is difficult due to the conflict between performance and robustness.
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Page: 1000-1006
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Voltage Oriented Decoupled Control Scheme for DFIG’s Grid Side Converter

10.12928/telkomnika.v16i3.6756
S.A; Universidad de Talca Kamran , Javier; Universidad de Talca Muñoz
This paper proposes a novel voltage oriented decoupled control scheme for the DFIG’s Grid Side Converter (GSC) of a 2.3Mw, 690V, 50Hz, 6 pole doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) based wind generation system. For Rotor Side Converter (RSC), slip and constant V/Hz control scheme along with a feedback control via PWM is selected but not explained in this paper.Based on the per-phase steady state equivalent circuit model of a DFIG, relationship between stator and rotor voltages is developed. Voltage oriented decoupled control scheme for GSC is designed in such a way that it can keep the dc link voltage constant by regulating grid reactive power when required. The space vector modulation (SVM) algorithm is explained breifly and implemented for the two-level GSC. MATLAB/SIMULINK (R2015a) software validates the proposed control scheme for GSC.
Volume: 16
Issue: 3
Page: 1027-1033
Publish at: 2018-06-01

Internet of Things based Smart Environmental Monitoring for Mushroom Cultivation

10.11591/ijeecs.v10.i3.pp847-852
Mohd Saiful Azimi Mahmud , Salinda Buyamin , Musa Mohd Mokji , M.S. Zainal Abidin
Environmental condition is a significant factor that needs to be controlled in mushroom production. Mushrooms are unable to grow if the temperature is higher than 33°C or lower than 25°C. Thus, this work focuses on developing an automatic environmental control system to provide optimum condition to mushroom production house. Environmental factors considered in the system are temperature, humidity and carbon dioxide. For this, DHT11 temperature humidity sensor and MQ135 CO2 sensor are connected to the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module to become IoT (Internet of Things) sensors that send big amount of data to the internet for monitoring and assessment. This enable users to monitor the environmental condition anywhere whenever accessing the internet. Based on the analysis of the data, the system will automatically on and off the irrigation system to put the temperature at an optimum level.
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Page: 847-852
Publish at: 2018-06-01
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