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Modeling, Analysis and Control of Different DC-DC Converter Topologies for Photovoltaic Emulator

10.11591/ijape.v6.i1.pp45-54
Mohammad Tauquir Iqbal , Mohd Tariq
This paper presents the modeling, analysis and control of different DC-DC converter topologies to emulate the photovoltaic (PV) system. A PV emulator is basically a DC-DC converter having same electrical characteristics that of solar PV panel. The emulator helps to achieve real characteristics of PV system in a better way in an environment where using actual PV systems can produce inconsistent results due to variation in weather conditions. The paper describes different types of DC-DC converters like buck, Resonant and Quasi Resonant Converter. The complete system is modelled in MATLAB® Simulink SimPowerSystem software package. The Simulation results obtained from the MATLAB® Simulink SimPowerSystem software package for different topologies under steady and dynamic conditions are analyzed and presented. An evaluation table is also presented at the end of the paper, presenting the effectiveness of each topology.
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page: 45-54
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Wide Area Oscillation Damping using Utility-Scale PV Power Plants Capabilities

10.11591/ijece.v7i2.pp681-691
Mehrdad Moradi , Pouria Maghouli
With increasing implementation of Wide Area Measurement Systems (WAMS) in power grids, application of wide area damping controllers (WADCs) to damp power system oscillations is of interest. On the other hand it is well known that rapidly increasing integration of renewable energy sources into the grid can dangerously reduce the inertia of the system and degrade the stability of power systems. This paper aimed to design a novel WADC for a utility-scale PV solar farm to damp out inter area oscillations while the main focus of the work is to eliminate the impact of communication delays of wide-area signals from the WAMS. Moreover the PV farm impact on inter area oscillation mitigation is investigated in various case studies, namely, with WADC on the active power control loop and with WADC on the reactive power control loop. The Quantum Particle Swarm Optimization (QPSO) technique is applied to normalize and optimize the parameters of WADC for inter-area oscillations damping and continuous compensation of time-varying latencies. The proposed method is prosperously applied in a 16-bus six-machine test system and various case studies are conducted to demonstrate the potential of the proposed structure.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 681-691
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Hybrid Low Complex near Optimal Detector for Spatial Modulation

10.11591/ijece.v7i2.pp818-822
P. Rajani Kumari , K. Chenna Kesava Reddy , K.S. Ramesh
In our previous work maximum throughput in multi stream MIMO is analyzed by overcoming the inter antenna interference. To mitigate the Inter antenna interference spatial modulation can be used. Spatial Modulation(SM) aided MIMO systems are the emerging MIMO systems which are low complex and energy efficient. These systems additionally use spatial dimensions for transmitting information. In this paper a low complex detector based on matched filter is proposed for spatial modulation to achieve near maximum likelihood performance while avoiding exhaustive ML search since MF based detector exhibits a considerable reduced complexity since activated transmitting antenna and modulated amplitude phase modulation constellation are estimated separately. Simulation results show the performance of the proposed method with optimal ML detector, MRC and conventional matched filter methods.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 818-822
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Intelligent Control for Visual Servoing System

10.11591/ijeecs.v6.i1.pp72-79
Dwi Pebrianti , Ong Ying Peh , Rosdiyana Samad , Mahfuzah Mustafa , N. R.H Abdullah , Luhur Bayuaji
This paper presents intelligent control for visual servoing system. The proposed system consists of a camera placed on a Pan Tilt Unit (PTU) which consists of two different servo motors. Camera and PTU are connected to a personal computer for the image processing and controlling purpose. Color threshold method is used for object tracking and recognition. Two different control methods, PID and Fuzzy Logic Control (FLC) are designed and the performances are compared through simulation. From the simulation result, the settling time of PID controller is 40 times faster than FLC. Additionally, the rise time of PID is about 20 times faster than FLC. However, the overshoot percentage of PID controller is 4 times higher than FLC. High overshoot value is not preferable in a control system, since it will cause the damage to the system. Real implementation of FLC on a home-built visual servoing system is conducted. Two different types of FLC, 9 and 11 rules of FLC are designed and implemented on the system. The experimental result shows that FLC with different total number of rules give different system performance. The settling time of FLC with 11 rules is 2 times faster than FLC with 9 rules. Additionally, the overshoot percentage of FLC with 11 rules is 2 times lower than FLC with 9 rules.
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page: 72-79
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Implementation of PWM Control of DC Split Converter Fed Switched Reluctance Motor Drive

10.11591/.v7i2.pp604-609
P. Srinivas
The phase winding of Switched Reluctance Motor is excited during the positive increasing region of the phase inductance to get the motoring action. This is performed through a converter. This paper presents the speed control of DC Split converter fed 4 phase 8/6 Switched Reluctance Motor drive using PWM controller. The speed of the motor is controlled by varying the duty ratio of the PWM controller.  Simulation results are verified with hardware implementation of the controller. The Hall sensors provided in the motor provide signals corresponding to the position of the rotor. The pulses to the IGBT switches are generated by TMS320F2407A DSP controller. The waveforms of the PWM signals and Hall sensor signals are captured by means of Digital Storage Oscilloscope. Motor phase currents, phase voltages and associated numerical values are captured and analyzed by Power Analyzer. Steady state analysis of the drive has been carried out. 
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 604-609
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Performance of Non-Uniform Duty-Cycled ContikiMAC in Wireless Sensor Networks

10.11591/ijece.v7i2.pp942-949
Nur Rabiul Liyana Mohamed , Ansar Jamil , Lukman Hanif Audah Audah , Jiwa Abdullah , Rozlan Alias
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a promising technology in Internet of Things (IoTs) because it can be implemented in many applications. However, a main drawback of WSN is it has limited energy because each sensor node is powered using batteries. Therefore, duty-cycle mechanisms are introduced to reduce power consumption of the sensor nodes by ensuring the sensor nodes in the sleep mode almost of the time in order to prolong the network lifetime. One of the de-facto standard of duty-cycle mechanism in WSN is ContikiMAC, which is the default duty-cycle mechanism in Contiki OS. ContikiMAC ensures nodes can participate in network communication yet keep it in sleep mode for roughly 99\% of the time. However, it is found that the ContikiMAC does not perform well in dynamic network conditions. In a bursty network, ContikiMAC provides a poor performance in term of packet delivery ratio, which is caused by congestion. One possible solution is ContikiMAC should increase its duty-cycle rate in order to support the bursty traffic. This solution creates a non-uniform duty-cycle rates among the sensor nodes in the network. This work aims to investigate the effect of non-uniform duty-cycle rates on the performance on ContikiMAC. Cooja simulator is selected as the simulation tool. Three different simulation scenarios are considered depending on the Clear Channel Assessment Rate (CCR) configurations: a low uniform CCR value (Low-CCR), a high uniform CCR value (High-CCR) and non-uniform CCR values (Non-uniform-CCR). The simulation results show that the Low-CCR scenario provides the worst performance of PDR. On the other hand, the High-CCR scenario provides the best performance of PDR. The Non-uniform-CCR provides PDR in between of Low-CCR and High-CCR.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 942-949
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Small Scale Wind Generation System: Part I – Experimental Verification Of Flux Reversal Generator Block

10.11591/ijape.v6.i1.pp1-12
B. Vidhya , K. N. Srinivas
This research work, titled Small Scale Wind Generation System, reported in part I and part II, proposes modeling, analysis and control of a small scale wind energy conversion system employing a direct driven Flux Reversal Generator (FRG) connected to the micro grid through a Quasi-Z-Source Inverter (QZSI). The application of QZSI using FRG to feed micro grid is proposed for the first time in this research work. The QZSI can realize buck/boost, inversion and power conditioning in a single stage with improved reliability. Also it features a wide range of voltage gain which is suitable for applications in wind systems, due to the fact that the wind generator output varies widely with wind velocity. In addition, the modified Space Vector PWM (SVPWM) technique is proposed in this paper to satisfy the shoot-through characteristic of QZSI. This also adds to the contribution of this research work. In this part I of this full research, modelling of the small scale FRG for wind system using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is presented. The major parameter of FRG viz, voltage, current, torque and power are analyzed, validated and then represented in d-q model. The simulation results are validated with the analytical results. An experimental set-up to run the full procedure reported in this paper. These results form the basis for part II of this research work.
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page: 1-12
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Quality of Service based Task Scheduling Algorithms in Cloud Computing

10.11591/ijece.v7i2.pp1088-1095
Sirisha Potluri , Katta Subba Rao
In cloud computing resources are considered as services hence utilization of the resources in an efficient way is done by using task scheduling and load balancing. Quality of service is an important factor to measure the trustiness of the cloud. Using quality of service in task scheduling will address the problems of security in cloud computing. This paper studied quality of service based task scheduling algorithms and the parameters used for scheduling. By comparing the results the efficiency of the algorithm is measured and limitations are given. We can improve the efficiency of the quality of service based task scheduling algorithms by considering these factors arriving time of the task, time taken by the task to execute on the resource and the cost in use for  the communication.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 1088-1095
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Security Measure to Detect and Avoid Flooding Attacks using Multi-Agent System in MANETS

10.11591/.v7i2.pp919-925
Bandana Mahapatra , Srikanta Patnaik
Security is considered as one of the major challenge when it comes to infrastructure less and self dependent network without any centralized control. The vulnerability of Adhoc Network makes it susceptible to external attacks like flooding of hello messages or propagating fake routing messages etc. Such attacks generates a variety of problems like disturbing the network by flooding messages that results in waste of battery which is a vital resource to maintain the life span of the network. Most importantly cause agents to die when unable to reach destination due to fake routing messages causing a heavy loss on part of the nodes generating them to maintain the route knowledge.  The paper proposes a novel technique to identify the flooding attack and measure to overcome them using Multi-Agent system.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 919-925
Publish at: 2017-04-01

OPC Protocol Application for Real-Time Carbon Monitoring System for Industrial Environment

10.11591/.v7i2.pp1051-1059
Mohd Faiz Rohani , Noor Azurati Ahmad , Shamsul Sahibuddin , Salwani Mohd Daud
Global warming is referred to the rise in average surface temperatures on earth primarily due to the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) emissions such as Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Monitoring the emissions, either direct or indirect from the industrial processes, is important to control or to minimize their impact on the environment. Most of the existing environmental monitoring system is being designed and developed for normal environment monitoring. Hence, the aim of this project is to develop industrial CO2 emission monitoring system which implements industrial Open Platform Communications (OPC) protocol in an embedded microcontroller. The software algorithm based on OPC data format has been designed and programmed into the Arduino microcontroller to interface the sensor data to any existing industrial OPC compliant Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. The system has been successfully tested in a lab with the suitable environment for real-time CO2 emissions measurement. The real-time measurement data has been shown in an industrial SCADA application which indicates successful implementation of the OPC communications protocol.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 1051-1059
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Development of Compact P-Band Vector Reflectometer

10.11591/.v7i2.pp791-798
Yi Lung Then , Kok Yeow You , Ming Hao Lee , Chia Yew Lee
A compact and low cost portable vector reflectometer is designed for a reliable measurement of reflection coefficient, S11. This reflectometer focuses on return loss measurement of frequency ranges from 450 MHz to 550 MHz. The detection of magnitude and phase is based on the utilization of surface mount Analog Devices AD8302 gain/phase detector. The data acquisition is controlled by using Arduino-Nano 3.0 microcontroller, with the use of two analog to digital converter (ADC) and a digital to analog converter (DAC). One port (Open, short and matched load) calibration technique is used to eliminate systematic errors prior to data acquisition. The evaluation of the reflectometer is done by comparing the result of the measurement to that of vector network analyzer.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 791-798
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Hybrid System of Tiered Multivariate Analysis and Artificial Neural Network for Coronary Heart Disease Diagnosis

10.11591/.v7i2.pp1023-1031
Wiharto Wiharto , Hari Kusnanto , Herianto Herianto
Improved system performance diagnosis of coronary heart disease becomes an important topic in research for several decades. One improvement would be done by features selection, so only the attributes that influence is used in the diagnosis system using data mining algorithms. Unfortunately, the most feature selection is done with the assumption has provided all the necessary attributes, regardless of the stage of obtaining the attribute, and cost required. This research proposes a hybrid model system for diagnosis of coronary heart disease. System diagnosis preceded the feature selection process, using tiered multivariate analysis. The analytical method used is logistic regression. The next stage, the classification by using multi-layer perceptron neural network. Based on test results, system performance proposed value for accuracy 86.3%, sensitivity 84.80%, specificity 88.20%, positive prediction value (PPV) 90.03%, negative prediction value (NPV) 81.80%, accuracy 86,30%  and area under the curve (AUC) of 92.1%. The performance of a diagnosis using a combination attributes of risk factors,symptoms and exercise ECG. The conclusion that can be drawn is that the proposed diagnosis system capable of delivering performance in the very good category, with a number of attributes that are not a lot of checks and a relatively low cost.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 1023-1031
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Integrated Coordination of Electric Vehicle Operations and Renewable Energy Generation in a Microgrid

10.11591/.v7i2.pp706-712
Junghoon Lee , Gyung-Leen Park
This paper designs a microgrid energy controller capable of creating a charging or discharging schedule for electric vehicles (EVs), aiming at leveraging the integration of renewable energy and shaving the peak load in the microgrid. Dynamically activated on each time slot to cope with the prediction error for the power consumption and the renewable energy generation, the controller calculates the number of EVs to charge or make discharge first. Then, a greedy algorithm-based scheduler selects EVs according to the expected energy potential during their stays. The potential is the integral of a supply-demand margin function from the current time to the expected departure time. A simulator is implemented for performance evaluation, comparing with uncoordinated scheduling, according to the number of EVs as well as the behavior of energy load and production. The experiment result shows that the proposed scheme can reduce the energy waste by 16.9 %, cut down the microgrid-level energy insufficiency by 12.2 %, and enhance the amount of electricity supplied to EVs by 37.3 %, respectively, for given parameter setting.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 706-712
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Fabrication and Analysis of Amorphous Silicon TFT

10.11591/.v7i2.pp754-758
Srikanth G , Yadhuraj S R , Subramanyam T K , Satheesh Babu Gandla , Uma B V
The display technology and large area electronics got momentum with the introduction of TFT devices. TFTs can be made using different semiconducting materials or organic conducting materials as the active layer. Each one of them differ in their performance depending on the material used for the active layer. In this paper, fabrication of amorphous silicon TFT using PECVD is carried out. Simulation of the a-Si: H TFT is also carried out with the dimensions similar to that of the masks used for the fabrication. The Id-Vd plot for both the simulation and fabrication is obtained and studied.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 754-758
Publish at: 2017-04-01

Fuzzy Recursive Least-Squares Approach in Speech System Identification: A Transformed Domain LPC Model

10.11591/.v7i2.pp842-849
Kah Wai Cheah , Noor Atinah Ahmad
In speech system identification, linear predictive coding (LPC) model is often employed due to its simple yet powerful representation of speech production model. However, the accuracy of LPC model often depends on the number and quality of past speech samples that are fed into the model; and it becomes a problem when past speech samples are not widely available or corrupted by noise. In this paper, fuzzy system is integrated into the LPC model using the recursive least-squares approach, where the fuzzy parameters are used to characterize the given speech samples. This transformed domain LPC model is called the FRLS-LPC model, in which its performance depends on the fuzzy rules and membership functions defined by the user. Based on the simulations, the FRLS-LPC model with this special property is shown to outperform the LPC model. Under the condition of limited past speech samples, simulation result shows that the synthetic speech produced by the FRLS-LPC model is better than those produced by the LPC model in terms of prediction error. Furthermore with corrupted past speech samples, the FRLS-LPC model is able to provide better reconstructed speech while the LPC model is failed to do so.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 842-849
Publish at: 2017-04-01
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