Jesus J. Yanez-Borjas, D. Camarena-Martinez, M. Valtierra-Rodríguez, J. Amezquita-Sanchez
{"title":"Statistical Time Features-based Methodology for Fatigue Cracks Detection in a Four-Story Building","authors":"Jesus J. Yanez-Borjas, D. Camarena-Martinez, M. Valtierra-Rodríguez, J. Amezquita-Sanchez","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258724","url":null,"abstract":"Fatigue cracks are the most common damages encountered in the civil structures. For this reason, early detection of these types of damages can reduce their accumulation in the elements that conform to a civil structure, preventing its possible collapse. In this sense, this work investigates the usefulness of the statistical time features (STFs) for identifying this type of damages in a four-story building subjected to dynamic forced excitations. The proposed methodology's efficacy is corroborated using three levels of damage (i.e., light-, medium-, and severe-fatigue crack). These conditions are artificially created. Results show that the STFs can determine a building exposed to diverse levels of fatigue cracks with high accuracy using only one sensor placed on the structure.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127695718","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}
Guillermo Luque-Zuñiga, R. Vázquez-Medina, G. Ramos-López, H. Yee-Madeira, D. Pérez-Márquez
{"title":"Increase of solar harvest time with a double static concentration refractive-reflective system","authors":"Guillermo Luque-Zuñiga, R. Vázquez-Medina, G. Ramos-López, H. Yee-Madeira, D. Pérez-Márquez","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258725","url":null,"abstract":"In static solar devices, the acceptance angle is limited by the entry angle and the sun movement. Hence, the solar harvesting time in them is short. To increase the collection time it is usually necessary to sacrifice the concentration factor. Several investigations have been made to increase the solar harvest time. Some of them using a primary and secondary optical system with different degrees of complexity in the optical devices. In this work, a new design, a double static concentrating system to increase the solar harvesting time is presented, Its performance is analyzed using CAD simulation. The device is based on a funnel type reflective concentration system as a secondary optical element with an on-top prism as primary optics. The device shows an acceptance angle of 60° with an effective maximum concentration factor of 3.3X. The mean optical efficiency is of 66%, having its best performance for incidence angles between $pm 41.25^{circ}$, allowing 5.5 hours of use. Furthermore, the design has the additional benefit of its ease to build.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121247906","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. Dominguez-Jimenez, O. Montoya, J. Campillo, W. Gil-González
{"title":"Economic dispatch in DC Microgrids considering different battery technologies: A Benchmark Study","authors":"J. Dominguez-Jimenez, O. Montoya, J. Campillo, W. Gil-González","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258675","url":null,"abstract":"Large penetration of variable renewable sources and electronic loads put short-term stress on microgrids. Energy storage systems account for a reliable way to mitigate these issues. However, depending on the electro-chemistry, each one can contribute differently to the reduction of daily energy losses. Accordingly, this work presents a benchmark of the introduction of two battery technologies into DC microgrids. The GAMS package was used to solve the economic dispatch problem. Results show that lithium-based technologies showed higher overall performance against lead-acid counterparts. Particularly, iron phosphate technology was not only able to reduce daily energy losses but also to reduce power losses by over 40%. The results of this work provide great insights for planning DC microgrids.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126277101","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}
Olanda Prieto-Ordaz, Graciela Ramírez-Alonso, L. González, Roberto López-Santillán, M. Montes-y-Gómez
{"title":"Brain Tumor Segmentation using an Encoder-Decoder Network with a Multiscale Feature Module","authors":"Olanda Prieto-Ordaz, Graciela Ramírez-Alonso, L. González, Roberto López-Santillán, M. Montes-y-Gómez","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258718","url":null,"abstract":"The correct identification of brain tumors in multisequence images is a very challenging task and of high relevance in the correct treatment of patients affected by this illness. In this paper, we present a segmentation neural network approach named FPM-BrainSeg. FPM-BrainSeg incorporates important features on its architecture such as residual connections, anisotropic convolutions, instance normalization, and a Feature Pooling Module (FPM) that increases the field of view of the extracted features. We compare the performance of FPM-BrainSeg with three state-of-the-art segmentation networks trained over a common Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) of the GTX family, by using the BraTS 2018 dataset. The performance obtained with FPM-BrainSeg surpassed the other neural models. The features extracted by the FPM increase the ability of the network to segment the different tumor regions as demonstrated in the visualization of the activation layers. Furthermore, a second comparison of our approach with state-of-the-art models (as presented in their original papers), demonstrate that our architecture attained competitive performance.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125765549","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. Beyza, V. M. Bravo, Eduardo Garcia-Paricio, J. Yusta, J. S. Artal-Sevil
{"title":"Vulnerability and Resilience Assessment of Power Systems: From Deterioration to Recovery via a Topological Model based on Graph Theory","authors":"J. Beyza, V. M. Bravo, Eduardo Garcia-Paricio, J. Yusta, J. S. Artal-Sevil","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258709","url":null,"abstract":"Traditionally, vulnerability is the level of degradation caused by failures or disturbances, and resilience is the ability to recover after a high-impact event. This paper presents a topological procedure based on graph theory to evaluate the vulnerability and resilience of power grids. A cascading failures model is developed by eliminating lines both deliberately and randomly, and four restoration strategies inspired by the network approach are proposed. In the two cases, the degradation and recovery of the electrical infrastructure are quantified through four centrality measures. Here, an index called flow-capacity is proposed to measure the level of network overload during the iterative processes. The developed sequential framework was tested on a graph of 600 nodes and 1196 edges built from the 400 kV high-voltage power system in Spain. The conclusions obtained show that the statistical graph indices measure different topological aspects of the network, so it is essential to combine the results to obtain a broader view of the structural behaviour of the infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"36 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130728827","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}
Aldo J. Rivas-Vázquez, R. Loera-Palomo, C. Álvarez-Macías, Michel Rivero, F. Sellschopp-Sánchez
{"title":"Statistical Method for Single-Diode Model Parameters Extraction of a Photovoltaic Module","authors":"Aldo J. Rivas-Vázquez, R. Loera-Palomo, C. Álvarez-Macías, Michel Rivero, F. Sellschopp-Sánchez","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258754","url":null,"abstract":"In this work a modeling method for photovoltaic (PV) modules based on statistical analysis is presented. In this sense, the work deals with the determination of the parameters of the non-linear I-V equation, represented by the single-diode model. The parameters estimation of the PV model starts with experimental tests on PV panels under different irradiance and temperature conditions. A database is built with the parameters extracted from the family of experimental curves, where mathematical expressions, through linear regression analysis, are obtained to determine electrical variables of interest, such as: $I_{sc}, V_{oc}, I_{m}, V_{m}$ and $P_{m}$ which are dependent of irradiance $text{and}/text{or}$ operating temperature. The parameters of the non-linear I-V equation given by the resistances $R_{sh}, R_{s}$ and the ideality factor $n$, the analysis demonstrate that average values are representative; while the light-generated and diode-saturation currents depend on the incident irradiance. The capacity of the models was validated through the analysis of different statistical criteria, such as: the root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and the coefficient of determination ($R^{2}$). The results were accepted for applications where a high precision is not necessary, or for modeling and/or forecasting purposes.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121228859","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}
Adolfo R. López, J. M. Sosa, M. Juárez, Felipe-de-Jesús Torres, Carlos Correa-Betanzo
{"title":"Calculation of Optimal Switching Angles for a Multilevel Inverter through the Taguchi Design Approach","authors":"Adolfo R. López, J. M. Sosa, M. Juárez, Felipe-de-Jesús Torres, Carlos Correa-Betanzo","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258728","url":null,"abstract":"The use of the genetic algorithm to obtain the appropriate switching sequence of a multilevel inverter has been increasing during the last years; this algorithm has been implemented through a Matlab solver. However, the choosing of the solver parameters have been by means of trial-and-error or by the user experience. In order to maximize the Matlab genetic algorithm performance, the present work proposes the use of Taguchi design approach to determine the optimal switching sequence of a five-level multilevel inverter to decrease the THD in the output voltage.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122974677","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. Benavides, A. Arias, Juan Diego Cerdas, Aramis Pérez, M. Orchard
{"title":"Remaining Useful Life of Lithium-ion Batteries as a Function of the Joule Effect","authors":"M. Benavides, A. Arias, Juan Diego Cerdas, Aramis Pérez, M. Orchard","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258726","url":null,"abstract":"The main purpose of this article is to propose a novel definition for the remaining useful life of lithium-ion batteries based on the increase of the inefficiency related to the Joule effect due to the growth on the internal impedance of the battery as it degrades. The applied methodology consists in the cycling of a rechargeable lithium-ion cell at different discharge current rates considering and a defined charging protocol. The experiment was conducted inside an environmental chamber allowing a constant ambient temperature of 25°C, and 50% of relative humidity. The results show that even though that heat generation does not increase significantly as the battery degrades, the evolution of the proportional generated heat in time has a notorious increment since the cycles have a shorter duration. As a consequence, the battery experiences a temperature rise according to the ventilation it has. Finally, the proportion of heat generated in time is proposed as a metric to define the remaining useful life of a lithium-ion battery.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128367343","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}
Adolfo R. López, Christopher J. Cortés, C. A. Limones-Pozos, J. M. Sosa, J. Aguayo, Susana Estefany de León Aldaco
{"title":"Optimal Switching Angles Calculation for a Multilevel Inverter through the SHE Method and the PSO Algorithm, a comparison","authors":"Adolfo R. López, Christopher J. Cortés, C. A. Limones-Pozos, J. M. Sosa, J. Aguayo, Susana Estefany de León Aldaco","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258680","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258680","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows a comparison in terms of the Total Harmonic Distortion between two techniques to obtain the switching angles of a five-level Cascaded H-bridge Multilevel Inverter, the Selective Harmonic Elimination method, and the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm. The procedure for both techniques is shown and a theoretical Total Harmonic Distortion value is obtained for each one. Theoretical results of the obtained switching angles for both techniques were verified in a laboratory prototype, where a Total Harmonic Distortion comparison was made with a Power Quality Analyzer.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124659441","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}
Serafin Ramos-Paz, Ruben Belmonte-Izquierdo, Luis Alfonso Inostroza-Moreno, Luisa Fernanda Velasco-Rivera, Ricardo Mendoza-Villa, Valeria Gaona-Flores
{"title":"Mechatronic Design and Robust Control of an Artificial Ventilator in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Serafin Ramos-Paz, Ruben Belmonte-Izquierdo, Luis Alfonso Inostroza-Moreno, Luisa Fernanda Velasco-Rivera, Ricardo Mendoza-Villa, Valeria Gaona-Flores","doi":"10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ROPEC50909.2020.9258736","url":null,"abstract":"The crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic has generated an adverse situation in which thousands of people dies due to the lack of artificial ventilation devices. In this sense, this work presents a proposal for the robust mechatronic design and control of a low-cost non-invasive ventilator, for which rapid prototyping manufacture strategies such as 3D printing and product design are used. In order to guarantee the reliability of the system operation, in this work, a robust control scheme based on super-twisting sliding modes is proposed, which guarantees the trajectory tracking control corresponding to the breathing profiles required by the patients. Experimental and simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed prototype design. Nevertheless, the prototype is waiting to be tested and approved for use in health assistance.","PeriodicalId":177447,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127179635","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}