{"title":"Issues facing the development of a single-winged rotorcraft's control system","authors":"Gene Gamble, A. Yatsko, C. Hockley, P. Currier","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196974","url":null,"abstract":"Single-winged rotorcrafts have only started to gain acceptance in the world of manned and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is on the forefront of this research, with the development of a single-bladed rotorcraft known as a monocopter starting from 2004. The ability to create a harmonic pitch control system for a vehicle of which the entire frame rotates has presented a number of issues which are presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134092086","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":"Micro Grid Voltage profile improvement using Micro Grid Voltage Controller","authors":"M. A. Tabrizi, G. Radman, A. Tamersi","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196963","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196963","url":null,"abstract":"The Micro Grid concept has the potential to solve major problems arising from large penetration of distributed generation in distribution systems. A Micro Grid is not a robust system when compared to a power system. Therefore, proper control strategies should be implemented for a successful operation of a Micro Grid. This paper proposes the use of a central controller for the improvement of the dynamic voltage profile in a Micro Grid. The associated controller is termed as a Micro Grid Voltage Controller (MGVC). The MGVC is a secondary level voltage controller implemented in a Micro Grid test system. A dynamic simulation of the test system is carried out for the cases of with and without the MGVC for various disturbances. Both grid-connected and islanded modes of operation are considered. Results show that, with the addition of MGVC, the dynamic voltage profile of the Micro Grid system, especially at the load buses, will be improved.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115299795","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":"Effects of segmented shield wires on switching transient overvoltage study","authors":"Shanshan Yang, G. Franklin","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196892","url":null,"abstract":"Shield wire segmentation is an effective method for reducing transmission line power losses. This paper presents a comparison of simulation results of a switching transient overvoltage study on transmission lines with segmented shield wires versus traditional continuous shield wires for a typical 500-kV transmission line. The difference in overvoltage is analyzed by the high frequency characteristic of the transient overvoltage.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115441679","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":"Development of helical vertical axis wind turbine","authors":"M. Sharma, B. Rieger, C. Jou, Brian Butka","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196967","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the high wind speeds required by economically feasible horizontal axis wind turbines and presents a solution in the form of an ultra-low cost vertical axis wind turbine optimized for lower average wind speeds increasing the feasible wind farming land area within the United States. The feasibility, design, and optimization of localized vertical axis wind turbine farms in regions where wind speeds are lower and less predictable in direction is presented.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117229628","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":"Real time power system model validation using archived data","authors":"F. Ahmad, M. Nayeem","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196911","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the experiences in enhancement of Energy Management System (EMS) real time model, development and implementation of an application and methodologies to validate the EMS model at Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO), a `transmission only' company in Vermont and a Local Control Center (LCC) for Independent System Operator in New England (ISO-NE). Methodology is developed for comprehensive model enhancement with integrated and iterative validation processes based on data from Common Information Model (CIM) of ISO-NE, neighboring areas, engineering and planning model data. An application is developed based on a scheme to validate the model and its results using archived data and historical events. Test cases are developed to validate the model and model results, indicating the improvement achieved with the model validation practice and in determining model accuracy. In addition resourcefulness of validation as an aid for system tuning and studies is also presented.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120985497","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":"Finite element method for calculating capacitance and inductance of symmetrical coupled microstrip lines","authors":"S. Musa, M. Sadiku, O. Momoh","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196997","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we apply the finite element method (FEM) to compute the capacitance and inductance matrices of symmetrical coupled microstrip lines. We mainly focus on modeling shielded symmetrical coupled microstrip lines and open symmetrical coupled microstrip lines, respectively. Also, we illustrate the potential distribution of the transmission lines for the models and their solution time. We compare some of our results with those obtained by other methods and found them to be in good agreement.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126139798","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":"Engineering evaluation of multi-beam satellite antenna boresight pointing using land/water crossings","authors":"C. May, W. Jones","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196935","url":null,"abstract":"The Microwave Radiometer (MWR) on the Aquarius/SAC-D mission measures microwave radiation from earth and intervening atmosphere in terms of brightness temperature (Tb). It takes measurements in a push-broom fashion at K- (23.8 GHz) and Ka-band (36.5 GHz) frequencies using two separate reflector antenna systems, each producing eight spot beams. Pre-launch measurements of the alignment of these beams with respect to the spacecraft coordinate system is used to geolocate the antenna foot-prints on ground. As a part of MWR's on-orbit engineering check-out, the verification of MWR's pointing accuracy is discussed here. The technique used to assess MWR's pointing involves comparing the radiometer image of land with high-resolution maps. When the beam's instantaneous field of view (IFOV) passes over a land/water boundary, the brightness temperature changes from a radiometrically “hot” land-scene to a “cold” ocean-scene. This “step-function” change in brightness temperature provides a very sensitive way to assess the mispointing error of the calculated MWR earth location (latitude/longitude) of the antenna footprints. This paper describes the algorithm used for the MWR geolocation validation assessment and preliminary results, presented for the MWR 23.8 GHz channel, show that the mispointing errors from the true coastline are close to meeting the specification.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126832305","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":"Android application for spiral analysis in Parkinson's Disease","authors":"D. Surangsrirat, C. Thanawattano","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196943","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an application for spiral analysis in Parkinson's Disease (PD). PD is one of the most common degenerative disorders of the central nervous system that affects elderly. Four cardinal symptoms of the disease are tremor, rigidity, slowness of movement, and postural instability. The current diagnosis is based on clinical observation which relies on skills and experiences of a trained specialist. Thus, an additional method is desirable to help in the diagnosis process and possibly improve the detection of early PD as well as the measurement of disease severity. Many studies have reported that the spiral analysis may be useful in the diagnosis of motor dysfunction in PD patient. We therefore implement a mobile, safe, easy to use, inexpensive, and online application for detection of movement disorders with a comprehensive test analysis according to the indices from Archimedean and octagon spirals tracing tasks. We introduce the octagon tracing task along with the conventional Archimedean spiral task because a shape tracing task with clear sequential components may increase a likelihood of detecting tremors and other cardinal features of PD. A widely used Android mobile operating system, the fastest markets share growth among smartphone platforms, is chosen as our development platform. We also show that the preliminary results of selected indices in the application could potentially be used to distinguish between PD patient and healthy control.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130306427","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":"Secure intelligence gathering using smartphones","authors":"D. Serfass, Mengjun Xie","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6196979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6196979","url":null,"abstract":"Equipped with camera, microphone, GPS and other sensors, together with convenient applications such as email clients, smartphones have a high potential to become a cost-effective intelligence gathering platform in a war zone. However, current smartphone applications are developed for civilian use. Due to lack of support for military requirements, such as confidentiality, smartphones may not be directly adopted in military environments. To bridge the gap, we propose a new model for secure intelligence gathering using smartphones. Based on the Android operating system, we develop Imsec, a proof-of-concept application which can securely capture, store, and transfer camera-generated images using smartphones. Our evaluation results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of this new model.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124445974","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":"Simulation of EMG signals for Aging muscle","authors":"M. Ahad, T. Orth, Nazmul Islam, M. Ferdjallah","doi":"10.1109/SECON.2012.6197082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.2012.6197082","url":null,"abstract":"During Aging muscle physiological properties change, which affect the Electropmyography (EMG) signals recorded by either surface electrodes or needle electrodes. In this paper, an surface EMG generation techniques has been presented by considering multilayer muscle model and physiologic behavior of type-I and type-II motor units during voluntary contraction from the latest findings in literature. The generated model has been utilized to simulate EMG signals of Tibialis Anterior muscle of both young (age 26 -44) and elderly (age 65-83) using published physiological data. The paper compares the spectrum of EMG signals and the EMG parameter such as root mean squared (RMS) values of young and elderly.","PeriodicalId":187091,"journal":{"name":"2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121614409","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}