{"title":"Evaluation of rotation formalisms in three dimensions using a Lissajous knot","authors":"Hejia Pan, Bryan A. Jones","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808830","url":null,"abstract":"An evaluation of three dimensional rotation formalisms using a Lissajous knot is given. The optimal parameterization of SO(3) is determined so that robotics attitude system can become more effective. Given a robot's local translational velocity and local angular velocity, numerical integrations along a robot's trajectory using rotation formalisms are performed. Comparing the resulting trajectory with a robot's true trajectory, this paper considers numerical error, integration time and steps as parameterization methods' evaluation criteria.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116653617","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":"Optimal reactive power dispatch based on particle swarm optimization approach applied to the Algerian electric power system","authors":"Y. Amrane, M. Boudour","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808822","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a particle swarm optimization method for solving optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD) problem. The proposed PSO have been applied for the ORPD problem with different objectives such as minimization of active power losses and improving the voltage profile satisfying various constraints of power flow equation, generator voltage limits, switchable capacitor banks, transformer tap changer limits, and transmission line limits. The proposed method has been examined and tested on the IEEE 30-bus and the Algerian electric power system 114-bus and the obtained results compared with two other methods, namely, Genetic Algorithm (GA), interior point method (IPM) and other methods in the literature. The result comparisons demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach and show its effectiveness and robustness to solve the ORPD problem. Therefore, the proposed PSO can be a.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123107316","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":"Modeling and simulation of hybrid system coupling a photovoltaic generator, a PEM fuel cell and an electrolyzer (Part II)","authors":"Nabil Tlili, Bechir Neily, F. B. Salem","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808809","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the integration of a photovoltaic generator (GPV), a PEM fuel cell (PEMFC), an electrolyzer and a hydrogen storage tank for sustained power generation. In the proposed PV-FC hybrid system, the PV generator feeds a variable load through a DC-DC converter controlled by an MPPT control (maximum power point tracking) and transfers energy to the electrolyzer side if possible to produce hydrogen which will be stored in a tank for a later use in the fuel cell (PEMFC). When the PV system cannot completely meet the load demands, the FC system provides the lack of power. The MATLAB-Simulink environment is used for the simulation of the PV-FC hybrid proposed system. Simulation results are presented in order to highlight the performances of proposed hybrid system.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115302233","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":"Robust video stabilization based on motion intention for low-cost micro aerial vehicles","authors":"Wilbert G. Aguilar, C. Angulo","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808863","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, different hand-held devices as domestic cameras, smart-phones, tablets, or on-board cameras for robots are becoming popular for video capturing. A main concern with these gadgets is undesired movement between consecutive frames. Video stabilization is a technique with increasing impact for solving this problem. In this paper, a proposal is introduced for robust video stabilization, in particular for on-board cameras in micro aerial vehicles. It is based on a combination of the RANSAC (RANdom SAmple Consensus) algorithm and gray level differences as cost function for local motion parameter estimation, as well as a low-pass filter for global motion smoothing. Experimentation will illustrate about of the robustness proposed solution.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128704073","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":"Human action recognition using 3D zernike moments","authors":"Okay Arik, A. Bingöl","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808758","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, 3D Zernike moments have been used to classify 7 basic coarse human actions in markerless 3D video sequences. The time trajectories of the Zernike moments of the moving subject have been taken as features. Even though Zernike moment orders of about 15 to 20 are required to characterize and/or reconstruct a general 3D image with reasonable fidelity, it has been found that fewer number of moments are sufficient for satisfactory action classification, due to the accumulative nature of video data. In our work, we have obtained greater than 95% recognition accuracy using as low as 3rd order Zernike moments, over the 7 basic actions considered. Recognition accuracy increased to more than 98% with 5th order moments.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124604967","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}
J. Perez-Cisneros, P. G. Ducar, P. L. Carro, A. Valdovinos, J. D. Mingo
{"title":"Performance enhancement of RF wideband power amplifier by reconfigurable matching networks","authors":"J. Perez-Cisneros, P. G. Ducar, P. L. Carro, A. Valdovinos, J. D. Mingo","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808866","url":null,"abstract":"The efficiency-linearity tradeoff is a very challenging aspect in the design of RF front-ends. An optimized process for both linearity and efficiency performance improvement using a reconfigurable matching network (RMN) for wideband power amplifiers (PAs) is presented. Long-term evolution (LTE) waveforms modeled as multisine excitations are used to simulate a general purpose PA, assuming that the antenna is perfectly matched. Power added efficiency (PAE) is strongly improved by selecting properly RMN state at the same time as linearity also increases. Furthermore, the adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) is improved whilst obtaining efficiency enhancement when selecting the optima RMN state for linearity. Both linearity and efficiency are improved simultaneously with this architecture.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122394198","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}
Alexander Richter, A. Strobel, N. Joram, F. Ellinger, L. Gopfert, R. Marg
{"title":"Tunable interface for piezoelectric energy harvesting","authors":"Alexander Richter, A. Strobel, N. Joram, F. Ellinger, L. Gopfert, R. Marg","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808750","url":null,"abstract":"The so called Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction (SECE) interface is an electrical circuit to extract energy from a piezoelectric transducer and to put it onto a storage device like a large capacitor. The advantage of the SECE interface is the load independent power transfer. But the maximum efficiency the SECE interface in combination with the piezoelectric transducer can achieve greatly depends on the electromechanical coupling of the transducer. The SECE interface works very well with weak to mid-range electromechanically coupled piezoelectric transducers. But with strong coupled transducer the power extracted by SECE interface decreases. This paper shows how the SECE interface can be tuned to deliver the maximum power almost independent of the electromechanical coupling factor.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126633762","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":"Analysis of a class of direct sampling receiver architectures from signal processing and system perspective","authors":"C. Schultz, P. Hillger","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808756","url":null,"abstract":"A class of radio frequency (RF) sampling receiver architectures has been in the focus of research in the past, as it proved to be competitive in the key performance metrics to analog RF architectures. In a first step this paper derives a generalized signal flow representation to describe this class of receivers. In a next step the parameters of the signal domain are mapped back to the circuit domain to estimate the cost of a realization. In a last step the parasitic features of a circuit representation are taken into account, resulting in an overview over the system design space that can be covered with this class of architectures. Validation of signal theoretical model to circuit representation is done by transistor level simulation in a 65 nm environment.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"372 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126712458","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}
Fen Tang, Xiaoping Zhou, L. Meng, J. Guerrero, J. Vasquez
{"title":"Secondary voltage unbalance compensation for three-phase four-wire islanded microgrids","authors":"Fen Tang, Xiaoping Zhou, L. Meng, J. Guerrero, J. Vasquez","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808856","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a secondary voltage unbalance control approach that compensate voltage unbalances in three-phase four-wire islanded microgrid systems. It is implemented in the secondary control level of the microgrid hierarchical control structure. By sending information through low-bandwidth communication links to the primary control level, the required unbalanced factors at sensitive buses are achieved. Also, negative and zero sequence equivalent circuits and unbalance compensation principle are derived. Finally, real-time hardware-in-the-loop results show the feasibility of the proposed approach for different islanded scenarios.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126756134","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":"Design of a computer code to evaluate the influence of the harmonics in the Transient Stability studies of electrical networks","authors":"A. Souli, A. Hellal","doi":"10.1109/SSD.2014.6808804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SSD.2014.6808804","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to present the design of a computer code Transient Stability Code (TRANS_STAB_CODE) for the Transient Stability studies of electrical power systems under the influence of harmonics, using the GUI in MATLAB. The program was run for the loads are linear and nonlinear (Static Var Compensator (SVC), Thyristor controlled Reactor (TCR), and Unified Power Flow Controller ((UPFC)), After describing the program was run for five networks IEEE: 6 Nodes 3 Machines, 09 Nodes 03 Machines, 10 Nodes 02 Machines, 13 Nodes 04 Machines and 14 Nodes 05 Machines. The Transient Stability studies by the methods of: Runge Kutta, Euler, and Heun. The results were almost consistent and show the influence of higher harmonics on Transient Stability in electrical networks.","PeriodicalId":168063,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE 11th International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD14)","volume":"22 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126062990","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}