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Performance of Fractional-Slot Winding PM Machines due to Un-even Coil Turns and Asymmetric Design of Stator Teeth

10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp853-859
Mohd Luqman Mohd Jamil , Syed Muhammad S. A. Al-Habshi , Md Nazri Othman , Tole Sutikno
PM machines in which slot number and pole number combination differs by one have to be configured with asymmetric winding pattern in order to maximize it back-emf performance. However, this asymmetric winding configuration inherently results an unwanted Unabalanced Magnetic Force (UMF). Investigations of electromagnetic performance of fractional-slot asymmetric winding PM machines using 2-D Finite-Element Analysis are presented. The investigations are mainly driven by the effort of minimizing the UMF. By employing techniques such as non-uniform number of coil turns in every tooth and asymmetric design of stator tooth, the UMF are expected can be minimized. The investigations show that the radial component of UMF has greater effect than the tangential component on the UMF itself. In all proposed techniques, a slight reduction of machine torque performance is inevitable.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page: 853-859
Publish at: 2015-12-01

The Camparison of Harmonic Distortion Self-Excited Induction Generator with Isolated Synchronous Generator under Non-linear Loads

10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp759-771
Refdinal Nazir , Krismadinata Krismadinata , Rizka Amalia
In this paper, the harmonic distortion for Self-Excited Induction Generator (SEIG) and an isolated synchronous generator (ISG) under non-linear load during steady state conditions are analyzed. The voltage and current harmonics distortion for both generators are calculated using the transfer function method in frequency domain for SEIG and phasor diagram method for ISG. This analysis is done independently one by one component for all harmonic components appear. The analysis results for both generators are verified to the laboratory test results. For loading with the same non-linear load to both generators, the harmonics distortion on the stator windings of SEIG was smaller than compare ISG. In addition, the harmonic distortion effects on other loads connected to PCC point of SEIG was lower than the other loads connected to ISG.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page: 759-771
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Sociopsychotechnological Predictors of Individual’s Social Loafing in Virtual Team

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1500-1510
Juneman Abraham , Melina Trimutiasari
The rapid development of technology and the demands of the workers to be productive have made efficiency and effectiveness of virtual team collaboration is becoming increasingly urgent lately. Therefore, it is important to identify the variables undermining the efficiency and effectiveness. This study aimed to investigate the role of perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and perceived playfulness of online collaboration tool (as elements of technology acceptance) and xenophobia in predicting social loafing (at the individual level)─a social psychological phenomenon that shows the declining performance of the individual when working in the group. The contribution of this research is its attempt to combine social psychological and technological factors in explaining human performance in the context of the group when interacting with technology. The research design was correlational predictive, with multiple linear regression data analysis technique. Participants of this study were 80 students and employees (43 males, 37 females; mean of age = 25.58 years of old, standard deviation of age = 4.92 years) who work using online collaboration tool in a virtual team. The results showed that the perceived playfulness, perceived ease of use, and xenophobia were able to predict an individual’s social loafing, but the perceived usefulness is not able to predict it. Implications of the results of research in order to prevent social loafing are stated in the Discussion section.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1500-1510
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Co-Simulation Interfacing Capabilities in Device-Level Power Electronic Circuit Simulation Tools: An Overview

10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp665-682
Wentao Wang , Wenying Yang , Venkata Dinavahi
Power electronic circuit simulation today has become increasingly more demanding in both the speed and accuracy. Whilst almost every simulator has its own advantages and disadvantages, co-simulations are becoming more prevalent. This paper provides an overview of the co-simulation capabilities of device-level circuit simulators. More specifically, a listing of device-level simulators with their salient features are compared and contrasted. The co-simulation interfaces between several simulation tools are discussed. A case study is presented to demonstrate the co-simulation between a device-level simulator (PSIM) interfacing a system-level simulator (Simulink), and a finite element simulation tool (FLUX). Results demonstrate the necessity and convenience as well as the drawbacks of such a comprehensive simulation.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page: 665-682
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Evaluation of PV, Wind, Diesel Hybrid Energy Potential for GSM Tower in Myanmar

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1245-1251
Zin Mar Nyo
Not only GSM, WCDMA but also CDMA technology can be used in Myanmar but GSM pre-dominates in the market. There are over million unique subscribers across the country in 2013. Power supply for telecom becomes main challenges in Myanmar where the electricity can not access in rural area. To minimize deficit of power, the government has set a target to covert some of tower sites to renewable solutions by 2015. This paper proposes the use of a PV, wind and diesel generator hybrid system with storage element in order to determine the optimal configuration of renewable energy in Myanmar.  This paper discusses the development of a renewable energy sources (RES)  that  can  be  used  for  electric  power  supply  of  GSM  base  station  site  at  any  given  time and  considers  the  feasibility  of  developing  Solar  (photovoltaic)-Wind-Diesel  hybrid power  systems  for  supplying  electricity  to  off-grid  rural telecommunication.  The Hybrid Optimization Model for Electric Renewables (HOMER) was used  to  simulate  and  generate  feasible  solution  through  combinations of photovoltaic, Wind Turbines and Diesel  Generator with  a  minimum  levelised  cost  of  electricity supply and to  determine  the  technical feasibility of the system.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1245-1251
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Metamaterial Inspired Patch Antenna for ISM Band by Adding Single-Layer Complementary Split Ring Resonators

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1328-1335
Rajni Rajni , Gursharan Kaur , Anupma Marwaha
In this work, we propose the design of metamaterial inspired compact circular patch antennas loaded with complementary split-ring resonators (CSRRs) for ISM band operation. CSRRs have been incorporated horizontally inside the dielectric. The various models of CSRR loaded antennas with different patch radius are produced and are evaluated numerically with Ansoft HFSS software. The results of the suggested antenna designs are presented that reveal a comparable impedance match and radiation characteristics with those of a normal patch antenna without CSRR. The proposed antennas yield high levels of miniaturization and similar performance to the conventional patch antenna at the 2.45GHz.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1328-1335
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Ontologies and Bigram-based approach for Isolated Non-word Errors Correction in OCR System

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1458-1467
Aicha Eutamene , Mohamed Khireddine Kholladi , Hacene Belhadef
In this paper, we describe a new and original approach for post-processing step in an OCR system. This approach is based on new method of spelling correction to correct automatically misspelled words resulting from a character recognition step of scanned documents by combining both ontologies and bigram code in order to create a robust system able to solve automatically the anomalies of classical approaches. The proposed approach is based on a hybrid method which is spread over two stages, first one is character recognition by using the ontological model and the second one is word recognition based on spelling correction approach based on bigram codification for detection and correction of errors. The spelling error is broadly classified in two categories namely non-word error and real-word error. In this paper, we interested only on detection and correction of non-word errors because this is the only type of errors treated by an OCR. In addition, the use of an online external resource such as WordNet proves necessary to improve its performances.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1458-1467
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Modified Synchronous Reference Frame Based Harmonic Extraction for Shunt Active Filter

10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp897-905
C.S. Subash Kumar , V. Gopalakrishnan
This paper presents the modified synchronous reference frame based Shunt Active Filter (SAF) for the instantaneous compensation of harmonic current present at the Point of Common Coupling. The harmonics generated by the non linear load are extracted using the positive frame and negative frame of the input signal using the modified synchronous reference frame theory with extended Multiple Reference Frame based PLL (EMRFPLL). Based on the harmonics extracted, pulse width modulation signals are generated using Artificial Neural Network based Space Vector Pulse width Modulation technique (ANNSVPWM). Using this switching technique the losses can be reduced and compensation can be done more accurately The concept was verified using MATLAB / Simulink Simulation and the results confirm the THD at point of common coupling is below the required standards.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page: 897-905
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Low Voltage Ride-through Capability Enhancement of Doubly Fed Induction Generator Based Wind Turbines under Voltage Dips

10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp808-818
Youness Boukhris , Aboubakr El Makrini , Hassan El Moussaoui , Hassane El Markhi
Based on the advantages of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG)-based wind turbine (WT). This paper proposes a new control strategy to improve the ride-through capability of DFIG-based WTs in the event of a grid fault. The proposed method is performed by using the DFIG converters control and the addition of the damping resistances connected to the DC circuit, to follow the requirements defined by the grid codes. The proposed ride-through solution limits the peak values of the DC link voltage, the rotor inrush current, electromagnetic torque and DFIG transient response at the times of occurrence and clearing the fault. The proposed solution is simulated and compared with the crowbar solution using MATLAB/Simulink environment.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page: 808-818
Publish at: 2015-12-01

A Novel Method for Vector Control of Faulty Three-Phase IM Drives Based on FOC Method

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1284-1291
Mohammad Jannati , Nik Rumzi Nik Idris , Mohd Junaidi Abdul Aziz , Tole Sutikno
This paper proposes a novel method for vector control of faulty three-phase Induction Motor (IM) drives based on Field-Oriented Control (FOC) method. The performance characteristics of the presented drive system are investigated at healthy and open-phase fault conditions. The simulation of the case study is carried out by using the Matlab/M-File software for a star-connected three-phase IM. The results show the better performance of the proposed drive system especially in reduction of motor speed and torque oscillations during open-phase fault operating.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1284-1291
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Test Case Reduction Using Ant Colony Optimization for Object Oriented Program

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1424-1432
Sudhir Kumar Mohapatra , Srinivas Prasad
Software testing is one in all the vital stages of system development. In software development, developers continually depend upon testing to reveal bugs. Within the maintenance stage test suite size grow due to integration of new functionalities. Addition of latest technique force to make new test case which increase the cost of test suite. In regression testing new test case could also be added to the test suite throughout the entire testing process. These additions of test cases produce risk of presence of redundant test cases. Because of limitation of time and resource, reduction techniques should be accustomed determine and take away. Analysis shows that a set of the test case in a suit should satisfy all the test objectives that is named as representative set. Redundant test case increase the execution price of the test suite, in spite of NP-completeness of the problem there are few sensible reduction techniques are available. During this paper the previous GA primarily based technique proposed is improved to search out cost optimum representative set using ant colony optimization.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1424-1432
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Voltage and Frequency Control of Variable Speed Induction Generator using One Cycle Control Technique

10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp723-729
T. Elango , A.Senthil Kumar
Induction generators are widely used to extract the energy from renewable sources, particularly as a wind power generator either grid connected or isolated operation. The problem associated with stand-alone mode operation is voltage and frequency control. An electronic load controller is used for frequency / voltage control. It uses PI controller to generate the gating signal for the DC chopper. This method has the fault of bad dynamic response and thedistortion of output voltage at zero-crossing. To overcome the defect of PI controller when steady state error is equal to zero, a one cycle control technique suggested and implemented. Simulation of wind driven self-excited induction generator (SEIG) performance is studied and results are discussed.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page: 723-729
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Bridge Currents of an Induction Machine Equipped with Bridge Configured Winding

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1262-1274
Sivaramakrishnan Natesan , Karuna Kalita , Venkatesu Samala
An eccentric rotor motion imbalances the magnetic field distribution in the air-gap region. Due to this uneven flux density distribution, a net radial force called Unbalanced Magnetic Pull (UMP) is in action towards the shortest air-gap. This UMP can degrade the machine’s performance. UMP can be controlled by a special kind of winding called Bridge Configured Winding (BCW). The BCW winding is a single set of winding which is used to produce the torque as well as the controllable force. The main contribution of this paper is to inspect the flow of bridge currents in the bridges when the machine is having rotor eccentricity or unbalance. The bridge currents in the presence of rotor eccentricity with the stator of an In­duction machine model has been analyzed by using an Electromagnetic Finite Element (FE) solver called Opera 2D/RM solver (Rotation Motion Analysis). The bridge currents have been measured for two different cases., (i) Induction machine model with zero eccentricity, (ii) Induction machine model with 10% static eccentricity of the air gap. Experimental re­sults are presented for the validation of Opera 2D/RM results. A modified 37kW Induction machine has been used for this study. A known mass unbalance is introduced in the perfo­rated disc in order to create the unbalance in the system purposefully. The bridge currents have been measured and compared with and without unbalance present in the system. The comparison of measured bridge currents for all the cases are given in the frequency domain.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1262-1274
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Optimized PID Controller with Bacterial Foraging Algorithm

10.11591/ijece.v5i6.pp1372-1380
Seiyed Mohammad Mirzaei , Mohammad Hossein Moattar
Fish robot precision depends on a variety of factors including the precision of motion sensors, mobility of links, elasticity of fish robot actuators system, and the precision of controllers. Among these factors, precision and efficiency of controllers play a key role in fish robot precision.  In the present paper, a robot fish has been designed with dynamics and swimming mechanism of a real fish. According to equations of motion, this fish robot is designed with 3 hinged links. Subsequently, its control system was defined based on the same equations. In this paper, an approach is suggested to control fish robot trajectory using optimized PID controller through Bacterial Foraging algorithm, so as to adjust the gains. Then, this controller is compared to the powerful Fuzzy controller and optimized PID controller through PSO algorithm when applying step and sine inputs. The research findings revealed that optimized PID controller through Bacterial Foraging Algorithm had better performance than other approaches in terms of decreasing of the settling time, reduction of the maximum overshoot and desired steady state error in response to step input. Efficiency of the suggested method has been analyzed by MATLAB software.
Volume: 5
Issue: 6
Page: 1372-1380
Publish at: 2015-12-01

Backstepping Control for a Five-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Drive

10.11591/ijpeds.v6.i4.pp842-852
Anissa Hosseynia , Ramzi Trabelsi , Atif Iqbal , Med Faouzi Mimounia
This paper deals with the synthesis of a speed control strategy for a five-phase permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive based on backstepping controller. The proposed control strategy considers the nonlinearities of the system in the control law. The stability of the backstepping control strategy is proved by the Lyapunov theory. Simulated results are provided to verify the feasibility of the backstepping control strategy.
Volume: 6
Issue: 4
Page: 842-852
Publish at: 2015-12-01
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