{"title":"High Throughput Core-CBCM CMOS Capacitive Sensor for Life Science Applications","authors":"Saghi Forouhi, R. Dehghani, E. Ghafar-Zadeh","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447694","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a throughput capacitive biosensor using charge based capacitive measurement (CBCM) technique suitable for lab-on-chip (LOC) applications. The proposed biosensor consists of a 10×10 array of core-CBCM capacitive sensors with digital outputs working in current mode. Each capacitive sensor consists of a differential current mirror, a current-controlled oscillator and an up/down counter using linear feedback shift register (LFSR). By the conversion of the current response of the core-CBCM circuit to pulse frequencies and counting the number of the output pulses during a specific time interval, we can do the required integration in the digital domain instead of the analog domain and thus prevent operation in voltage mode. This approach helps to obtain a wide dynamic range more than 100fF (about 80 dB) with a controllable sensitivity about 118 pulse/fF. Based on the simulated results, the proposed sensor offers great advantages for high throughput drug screening applications.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130223195","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":"Performance of LMS Based Adaptive Filtering in Coherent Optical Receivers in Presence of State-of-Polarization Transients, PDL and ROADMs","authors":"A. Abdo, C. D’amours","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447580","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we analyze the performance of LMS (Least Mean Square) adaptive filter in the context of dual-polarization coherent optical receivers. We consider the penalty in presence of polarization-dependent loss (PDL), as well we studied the tracking of fast state-of-polarization (SOP) in presence of both PDL and optical filtering. The trade-offs between tracking capability and back to back required OSNR (optical signal to noise ratio) when choosing the step size is illustrated as well.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131788859","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}
S. Shehadeh, B. M. Alluhaidah, H. Aly, M. El-Hawary
{"title":"Co2 Emissions Reduction of Photovoltaic Thermal Model Using Variable Flow Rate Values","authors":"S. Shehadeh, B. M. Alluhaidah, H. Aly, M. El-Hawary","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447830","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, Co2 emission reduction of Photovoltaic Thermal (PVT) model using variable flow rate values has been examined and evaluated for seventy-three different Photovoltaic (PV) coverage area cases of PVT (between 20% to 80%). A data set of weather conditions of a city in Canada over one year is used for this study. Co2 emission reduction is investigated for each month for the different cases in this work. For minimizing Co2 emissions, the percentage of PV coverage area values for each month is determined. To maximize the annual Co2 emission reduction, specific PV coverage area values are carefully chosen for each month using variable flow rate. Results show that the annual Co2 emission reduction can be maximized by using adapted (dynamic) PV coverage area values compared to the conventional (static) PV coverage area values of the PVT system during a year. The fitted-curve function is obtained which evaluates the Co2 emissions reduction for each month at different PV coverage area ratio.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130762145","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":"Evaluating the Impact of Phasor Measurement Units on the Accuracy of State Estimation","authors":"H. Mosbah, M. El-Hawary","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447640","url":null,"abstract":"PMUs are viewed as one of the most vital measurement devices in future of electric grid. PMUs devices can provide synchronized phasor measurement of voltages and currents from broadly scattered areas in an electric power grid. A hybrid Multilayer Perceptron NN-Stochastic Fractal Search (MLP-SFS) algorithm is being proposed in rectangular coordinates to solve hybrid state estimator problem. Hybrid SE is defined based on its measurement set which consists of traditional as well as synchronized measurements. The approach classifies the process into two steps. The first step, Multilayer Perceptron NN is used to compute the initial estimated states. The second step, SFS is implemented to acquire the final estimated states. This hybrid technique is used to improve the accuracy of state estimation. The size of PMUs is gradually increased by adding them to the conventional measurement set. Six cases are tested to show the impact of PMUs on the accuracy. The application of the hybrid technique is illustrated on IEEE 14, 30, and 57-bus systems. The Performance of MLPN-SFS is compared to MLP and SFS individually.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130887563","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":"Buffer Size Estimation for Nodes in Delay Tolerant Vehicular Networks Under Self-Similar Traffic","authors":"Somreeta Pramanik, R. Datta","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447864","url":null,"abstract":"Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are attracting significant attention in recent years. It has been shown that the traffic in DTNs may also be bursty and correlated and therefore exhibit self-similar characteristics. The proposed work analyses the queueing behaviour and estimates the crucial network parameter, buffer size in vehicular DTN in presence of bursty traffic. We have modified the existing $N$-burst model for a delay tolerant environment to show that, even with fairly low buffer overflow probability (BOP), the buffer size in such type of networks can be substantially large. Simulations and statistical analysis of the data traffic concretize the fact that our proposed $N$-burst model exhibits self-similarity in a vehicular DTN environment and gives realistic buffer size for target BOPs.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127067701","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 and Control of a Peak Load Shaving System for the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel","authors":"M. Omer, M. Ibrahim, P. Pillay, A. Athienitis","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447858","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is sized, and controlled using MATLAB to reduce the constraints imposed on Hydro Quebec grid by the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel by means of peak load reduction. The peak load reduction was attained through peak load shaving by utilizing a BESS, and also through energy and peak load shaving by using BESS in conjunction with Photovoltaics solar cells (PV). The presented analysis highlights the substantial peak load reduction alongside the expected financial benefits. Validating the developed system by simulating the system in National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) system advisor model (SAM), and HOMER Pro by HOMER Energy shows the potential savings of the developed control.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114613447","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":"Automatic Assessment of the Wrist Movement Function in a Haptic Virtual Environment for Home-Based Stroke Rahabilitation","authors":"Min Gao, W. Zhang, Zhiqin Qian, Ang Chen","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447542","url":null,"abstract":"The functional assessment of post-stroke patients is crucial in the rehabilitation theoretical process. In the study presented in this paper, an instrument which allows the patients to perform rehabilitation exercises was developed for the functional assessment without a need of assistance of nurses. This instrument included a desk-top device along with a classifier and can be operated by the patients at home. The grade for the functionality of the limp in the context of post-stroke patients is the Brunnstrom stage assessment system that is popular in clinic. In this paper, the wrist coordination functionality of upper limb (Grade 6 in particular) was taken as an example to demonstrate the effectiveness of this instrument along with the classifier. 16 patients and 10 health persons were involved in the development of the classifier. The instrument along with the classifier was tested, and the result indicated that the instrument can achieve a high classification accuracy (98.68%), sensitivity (92.31%), specificity (100%), F-score (96%) and the area under curve (AUC) of the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) (0.99878). Therefore, the instrument along with the classifier can be used in clinic with high confidence.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129772354","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":"New Heat Energy Trading Concepts for the Next Generation Smart Grids","authors":"Ali R. Al-Roomi, M. El-Hawary","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447624","url":null,"abstract":"Modern electric power systems are heavily structured based on digital technology. Starting from the production point to the consuming point, all the sensing devices have a two-way communication that allows for quick and smooth actions to monitor, control, optimize, and protect the corresponding electric power grid with a fast response to any change in the system status. During the winter season, especially in cold countries, a big portion of non-electric energy is consumed for heating purposes. Such these alternative energy sources are: logs, solar, and biogas water heaters. In smart grids, the local trading strategy is possible between two entities, where the one that has a surplus energy can transfer it to others. However, the preceding non-electric forms of energy are still not traded between entities. This paper presents a new concept on how to make this type of nonclassical energy trading possible between entities. This concept can be considered as a basis for solving the missing link in managing electric and non-electric forms of energy in the next generation smart grids.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130841155","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":"Circular ARC-Based Optimal Path Planning for Skid-Steer Rovers","authors":"M. Effati, K. Skonieczny","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447767","url":null,"abstract":"During a path, skid-steer rovers' power consumption is highly dependent to their turning radius. For example, a point turn requires a lot of energy compared to the straight line motion. Accordingly, in the path planning for these kind of rovers, turning radius is the main factor that should be considered explicitly. In this paper, a new approach of path planning for the skid-steer rovers is proposed. The idea is to use paths that are constructed from circular arcs. Accordingly, the radii of the circular arcs can be determined to obtain an energy efficient path. In other words, the conditions in which a simple circular arc-based path is energy efficient are analytically investigated. Therefore, the proposed method in this paper, is the stepping stone to find globally optimal paths (energy efficient paths) for skid-steer rovers while using the general arcs.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125540673","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":"Power Appliance Disaggregation Framework Via Hybrid Hidden Markov Model","authors":"Samer El Kababji, Pirathayini Srikantha","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2018.8447822","url":null,"abstract":"The recent proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has provided consumers unprecedented connectivity and access to many of their devices via mobile applications and smart home energy management systems. Although many platforms are available for consumers to remotely fine-tune their energy consumption patterns, awareness is still lacking of specific details about their past consumption trends. When contextual data is presented regarding specific appliances that were active in the past along with associated costs, consumers will be incentivized to make power consumption decisions that result in increased cost-savings and energy conservation. In this paper, we propose a hybrid classification system based on the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and k-Nearest Neighbours (KNN) algorithms for classifying and disaggregating power consumption data of individual households in a non-intrusive manner. We also apply the Pareto's 80/20 Principle for accurate identification of appliances that draw significant power and contribute to majority of energy costs.","PeriodicalId":181463,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126761510","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}