{"title":"A reliable switching amplifier for active magnetic bearings error detection strategies and measurement results","authors":"A. Schulz, M. Schneeberger, J. Wassermann","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490160","url":null,"abstract":"Active magnetic bearings (AMBs) offer some advantages over conventional bearings such as contact-free suspension and variation of suspension parameters as stiffness and damping during operation. A lower reliability caused by a fairly complex assembly of the controller, sensors, actuators and amplifiers, however, is one major reason for the rather low industrial acceptance of AMBs. A study on failures in 200 magnetically suspended turbomachines clearly states that almost exclusively the switching amplifiers and their DC/DC-converters caused substantial electronic component failures. Based on the results of this study an AMB is being developed by the authors, providing a reliable and economic solution by means of spatial and galvanic isolation between the controller and the power elements along with a reliable switching amplifier (RSA). Depending on the reliability required, the RSA consists of two or more left and right switching amplifier half-bridges. These so called \"Hot Swap Modules\" (HSMs) are connected in parallel, each with its own error detection and decoupling circuitry (EDC). If an error occurs in an HSM, it is autonomously switched off and disconnects itself from the AMB-actuator, while the remaining, fully functioning HSMs take over the required current. The faulty HSM can be replaced by a functioning one during full operation of the AMB in a hot-swap procedure. In this paper the error detection and decoupling strategies along with explanatory measurement results of the first RSA-prototype are presented. All considered fault-scenarios (malfunctioning of switching elements, errors within the control signals, etc.) as well as the tasks of the EDC are explained. Measurement results show the reliable detection of induced component errors and the nevertheless almost undisturbed functionality of the RSA.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130906321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of power quality impact of different photovoltaic inverters: the viewpoint of the grid","authors":"S. Favuzza, G. Graditi, F. Spertino, G. Vitale","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490350","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of an experimental analysis performed with the aim of evaluating the effect of many photovoltaic plants on power quality of the grid. Several parameters as voltage and current distortion, flicker, voltage variations at fundamental frequency and power factor have been observed. The measured values have been compared with the limits reported in the standards and, when possible, their dependence on the characteristics of the grid in terms of its impedance has been pointed out.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128990003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Chinchilla, S. Arnaltes, J. L. Rodríguez-Amenedo
{"title":"Laboratory set-up for wind turbine emulation","authors":"M. Chinchilla, S. Arnaltes, J. L. Rodríguez-Amenedo","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490352","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a laboratory set-up to be used as wind turbine emulator. The emulator can be used for research applications to drive an electrical generator in a similar way as a wind turbine, by reproducing the torque developed by a wind turbine for a given wind velocity. Also, it can be used as an educational tool to teach the behaviour, operation and control of a wind turbine. In this work, the turbine torque is reproduced by a DC drive. A control program reads wind velocities from an input file and calculates torque reference to the DC drive. A commercial DC drive with torque control is used to apply the commanded torque to the shaft of the electrical generator. Both, stall wind turbines and pitch controlled wind turbines can be emulated in the laboratory set-up. The emulator reproduced not only the mean torque of the turbine but also the oscillating torque due to wind shear and tower shadow. This functionality of the emulator can be used to investigate the effect of these phenomena in power quality. Experimental results are given which show that the emulator is an useful tool for the purposes already mentioned.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121595675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Khafallah, A. El afia, A. Chériti, F. El Mariami, A. Saad, B. El Moussaoui
{"title":"EKF based speed sensorless vector control of an induction machine","authors":"M. Khafallah, A. El afia, A. Chériti, F. El Mariami, A. Saad, B. El Moussaoui","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490755","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method for speed sensorless direct field oriented control (DFOC) of an induction motor (IM) driven by a voltage-source space vector modulation (SVM) inverter. The approach in this study is based on an extended Kalman filter (EKF), which estimates the rotor speed from only stator quantities, currents and line voltages. The estimated speed is used as the feedback signal for the DFOC scheme to achieve the speed sensorless vector control. A principle of this method and the practical considerations for implementing the proposed scheme on a DSP development system are discussed. Simulations results demonstrate a good performance and robustness.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126662326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Bahloul, M. Zghal, R. Chatta, R. Attia, D. Pagnoux, P. Roy
{"title":"A vector beam propagation method for microstructured optical fibres","authors":"F. Bahloul, M. Zghal, R. Chatta, R. Attia, D. Pagnoux, P. Roy","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490291","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic development of the full vector beam propagation method is presented. The propagation of the vectorial electric fields is governed by two sets of coupled equations for the transverse electric fields. By solving these equations independently using finite difference schemes, we take into account the propagation effects and find the polarization properties. Finally, we apply this tool for the analysis of real microstructured optical fibre (MOFs) with arbitrary index profiles.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114148631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State space torque observer based control of permanent magnet synchronous machines","authors":"K. Benmansour, M. Boucherit, M. Djemai, H. Rezine","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490321","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a state space based torque observer control for permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) speed drive. A simple control algorithm is obtained by performing field orientation through state feedback. The latter, needs the measurement of the entire state vector, which is in practice impossible due to the presence of the unknown load torque. To overcome this problem, a linear observer is proposed to estimate this torque allowing the implementation of the state feedback control. To show the effectiveness of our control approach, simulation and DSP based experimental results are presented.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121024633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new method of finger tracking applied to the magic board","authors":"M. Bencheikh-el-hocine, M. Bouzenada, M. Batouche","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490221","url":null,"abstract":"The tracking by correlation is the method which has been chosen by the creators of the magic-board for its performances. They have adapted this method to their needs and realized a finger tracking in real time. In this paper, we propose the adoption of a simple and efficient tracking method applied to the magic-board. This method was inspired from the algorithm of Frederic Jurie & Michel Dhome. Knowing the position of the target in the first image, we can estimate the position of this target in the subsequent images by comparing the grey level values of the target pattern with the grey level values of the predicted regions (search region). The relation between the intensity variations and the position variations is calculated during the offline training stage. The proposed algorithm allows a better flexibility to the user of the magic-board. Our system can track the user's finger at any position in real time.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124937508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of Butterworth filter for parameter identification of an induction machine","authors":"O. Touhami, R. Ibtiouen, S. Mekhtoub, L. Mghezzi","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490754","url":null,"abstract":"The authors present the application of Butterworth filter for parameter identification of an induction machine. MlMO (multi-inputs/multi-outputs), SISO (Single-input/Single-output) and MISO (multi-input/single output) continuous model structures were undertaken by using the recursive least square algorithms. The identification of the induction machine parameters is carried out from the experimental standstill tests where an electric request without danger to the windings, is supplied by a DC-chopper, giving a capacity of persistent excitation which has for effect to generate a signal rich with information.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125133538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Charoenpong, K. Chamnongthai, P. Kamhom, M. Krairiksh
{"title":"Volume measurement of mango by using 2D ellipse model","authors":"T. Charoenpong, K. Chamnongthai, P. Kamhom, M. Krairiksh","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490774","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the volume measurement system for mango. Since mango is a fruit that has smooth surface with mostly symmetry shape, we propose to employ two views as input data in order to obtain the volume. The experiments on 30 mangoes in general size showed the root mean squared (RMS) error of volume is 2.098% and 8.420% of the mangoes in dwarf size and high concave-shape. The estimated value strongly agreed with the actual volume.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125620558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new quantum-inspired genetic algorithm for solving the travelling salesman problem","authors":"H. Talbi, A. Draa, M. Batouche","doi":"10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490730","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new algorithm for solving the travelling salesman problem (TSP). The TSP is one of the most known combinatorial optimisation problems. It is about finding the shortest Hamiltonian cycle relating N cities. The algorithm is inspired from both genetic algorithms and quantum computing fields. It extends the standard genetic algorithms by combining them to some concepts and principles provided from quantum computing field such as quantum bit, states superposition and interference. The obtained results from the application of the proposed algorithm on some instances of TSP are significantly better than those provided by standard genetic algorithms.","PeriodicalId":136064,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131109841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}