{"title":"Methods of lightning protection for the PV power plant","authors":"P. Tan, C. K. Gan","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002575","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the comparison between air terminal lightning Pole and Early Streamer Emitter lightning Pole in a Photovoltaic (PV) Power Plants. The installation of an external lightning protection system is crucial for power plants to minimize PV system damages. Two different lightning systems were installed to two different PV technology Power Plant systems. The respective system performances were compared in terms of total energy generated and energy yield. The key findings suggest that the air termination lightning pole is suitable for a solar power plant particularly a Thin Film or Crystalline PV power plant system that will result in lower losses compared to the Early Streamer Emitter lightning pole for the PV Power Plant system. This is caused by the shadow of lightning poles that drops on the PV modules to increase solar cell temperature and reduce power generation. Malaysia has one of highest occurrences of lightning activities in the world. Thus, it is essential for PV power plants to have adequate protection from damage and power generation losses.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124340346","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":"Investigation of a joint channel estimation technique for PAPR reduction in OFDM systems","authors":"H. Mahdi, M. Ismail, R. Nordin","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002562","url":null,"abstract":"The orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) has attracted many researchers in the last decade due to the many advantages of this system. The intersymbol interference (ISI) free transmission and the high bit rate are two of the OFDM's advantages. Although, OFDM systems as the other communication systems, they need to estimate the channel state information to reduce the Bit Error Rate (BER), therefore, many estimation techniques have been developed such as the least squares error (LSE). However, these estimation methods involve insertion of pilot tones in the original OFDM signal, where this OFDM signal suffers from the effect of high peak powers when compared to the average power, which known as the peak to average power ratio (PAPR). Hence, a PAPR reduction technique should be employed to overcome the problem without affecting the pilot tones. In this paper, the joint performance of some PAPR-based reduction techniques and the comb-type-based channel estimation method has been proposed and evaluated. The simulation results show that the selected mapping (SLM), amplitude clipping, and the unitary matrix transformation (UMT) based PAPR reduction methods have different effects on the estimated channel, where the SLM did not affected by the pilot tones while the UMT will destroy the pilot tones as like the amplitude clipping, because the SLM did not change the pilot power while the UMT do that, so that, the UMT and clipping methods are not recommended without preprocessing if the OFDM designer needs good estimated channel state information.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129436529","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 compact rectangular patch ultra wideband antenna with WLAN band-rejection","authors":"Y. E. Jalil, C. Chakrabarty, B. Kasi","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002606","url":null,"abstract":"An ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with filtering property is desirable to overcome the coexisting issue between UWB system and other established narrowband system. A compact UWB antenna integrated with a single band notched is presented in this paper. The proposed antenna is a rectangular patch antenna with a partial ground plane. A 50 Ω microstrip line is used to feed the antenna. A band-stop function to eliminate the wireless local area network (WLAN) interfering signals is created by inserting an altered H-shaped slot on the proposed radiator. The proposed antenna shows a good impedance matching from 2.6 GHz to 10.8 GHz with a notched band from 5.15 GHz to 5.85 GHz. Furthermore, the presented structure has a compact size of 23.5 × 21 mm2 while exhibiting a good radiation pattern over the frequency range of interest.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129677197","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}
R. Mukhtaruddin, H. A. Rahman, M. Y. Hassan, J. J. Jamian
{"title":"Impact of load expansion to the renewable energy system performance","authors":"R. Mukhtaruddin, H. A. Rahman, M. Y. Hassan, J. J. Jamian","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002580","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the impact of load expansion to the hybrid photovoltaic (PV)-wind system design. System reliability and total project cost are the design objectives taken into consideration in determining the optimal size of the system. The size of the hybrid system components are restricted to specified constraints. An Iterative-Pareto technique is used to obtain the combinations of components. Results show that the increment of load demand reduces the reliability of the system. In addition to that, the total cost of the system when load is expanded is higher than the system with the initial load demand.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123644834","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. Zawawi, A. Abdullah, E. Shair, I. Halim, O. Rawaida
{"title":"Electromyography signal analysis using spectrogram","authors":"T. Zawawi, A. Abdullah, E. Shair, I. Halim, O. Rawaida","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002599","url":null,"abstract":"Electromyography (EMG) is known as complex bioelectricity signals that representing the contraction of the muscle in humanbody. The EMG signal offers useful information that can help to understand the human movement. Many techniques have been proposed by various researchers such as fast Fourier transforms (FFT). However, the technique only gives temporal information of the signal and does not suitable for EMG that consists of magnitude and frequency variation. In this paper, the analysis of EMG signal is presented using time-frequency distribution (TFD) which is spectrogram with different window size. Since the spectrogram represent the the EMG signal in time-frequency representation (TFR), it is very appropriate to analyze the signal. The EMG signals from Biceps muscle of two subjects are collected for body position of 0° and 90°. From the TFR, parameters of the signal such as instantaneous fundamental root mean square (RMS) voltage (Vrms) are estimated. To identify the suitable windows size, spectrogram with size window of 64, 256, 512 and 1024 is used to analyze the signal and the performance of the TFR are evaluated. The results show that spectrogram with window size of 512 gives optimal TFR of the EMG signals and suitable to characterize the signal.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115888772","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 proposed peak-to-average power reduction parameter to evaluate SLM and PTS as OFDM PAPR reduction schemes","authors":"Haidar N. Al-Anbagi, K. Elleithy","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002617","url":null,"abstract":"Two techniques of the most known ones for peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are selected mapping (SLM) and partial transmit sequence (PTS). Both schemes were proposed as distortion less PAPR reduction algorithms. However, it has been an argument to prove which scheme is the most efficient. In this paper, we propose a new PAPR reduction efficiency parameter which will be applied on the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of each technique to compare the results. We show as well how the performance of the system reacts when increasing the probability of getting high PAPR values. Using the proposed efficiency formula, we show that PTS system performance improves when increasing the probability, whereas the SLM system performance gets impaired when increasing the probability within the same range.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132989229","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":"Passive optical access network monitoring using L-band ASE source with fiber Bragg grating","authors":"N. F. Naim, M. Ab-Rahman, A. Bakar","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002644","url":null,"abstract":"Passive optical access network are becoming denser thus monitoring and fault localization are becoming more crucial. This paper presents optical network monitoring and fault localization using the L-band amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) in Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON). A fiber Bragg grating with a distinct center wavelength is placed at each drop fiber before the optical network unit (ONU) in the tree-structured network. The distinct reflected signal from the fiber Bragg grating (FBG) acts as the branch identifier. An optical power meter is used as the receiver to monitor the reflected signal. The system will automatically switch to Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) if it detects any breakdown of the drop fiber. This system is capable to monitor up to 64 ONUs with minimum bit error rate (BER) of 10-9.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133334246","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":"Rectangular circular and radial cavity resonator substrate integrated waveguide bandstop filters","authors":"M. N. Husain, G. S. Tan, K. S. Tan","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002605","url":null,"abstract":"A bandstop filter utilizing Substrate Integrated Waveguide cavity resonators coupled to the SIW line is presented in this paper. Prior to this research, rectangular cavity resonator was utilized to provide a bandstop response. In this paper, circular and radial cavity resonators are proposed to provide a bandstop response. The filters are designed to operate at X-band and implemented on RT/Duriod 4350 substrate with a thickness of 0.508 mm. The simulated results of the circular and radial bandstop filters have shown good bandstop responses and thus useful in microwave bandstop filter design.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115203886","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}
A. A. M. Isa, M. Othman, M. M. Hud, M. S. Johal, M. Zin, M. Isa
{"title":"Location estimation utilising WiMAX preamble detection under ITU-R channel models","authors":"A. A. M. Isa, M. Othman, M. M. Hud, M. S. Johal, M. Zin, M. Isa","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002559","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel mobile WiMAX location and positioning scheme utilizing WiMAX preamble has been proposed. The purpose of the scheme is to enhance the accuracy of location estimation in WiMAX services. Preamble detection for 10MHz and 20MHz FFT bandwidth under ITU-R channel models (Vehicular (A) and Pedestrian (B)) has been evaluated and analysed. Simulation results show that the 20MHz FFT outperformed the 10MHz bandwidth under various channel models. Best result for preamble detection in mobile WiMAX is best achieved when the mobile station is in low velocity with higher FFT bandwidth.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115846175","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":"FPGA implementation of RANSAC algorithm for real-time image geometry estimation","authors":"J. Tang, N. Shaikh-Husin, U. U. Sheikh","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2013.7002592","url":null,"abstract":"Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) is commonly used in many estimation tasks especially in computer vision applications due to its simplicity. This paper presents a hardware/software co-design implementation of RANSAC algorithm for real-time affine geometry estimation on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) platform. Double buffering technique is used to store and process data in pipeline. Experimental result shows that the proposed system managed to speed up the software process by about 11.4 times for 100 data points. The proposed architecture was also tested on Altera DE2-115 with 100 MHz NiosII Processor running to handle a video stream of 30 frames per second.","PeriodicalId":144191,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Student Conference on Research and Developement","volume":"392 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123533843","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}