{"title":"A genetic based algorithm for voltage flicker measurement","authors":"W. Al-Hasawi, K. El-Naggar","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014663","url":null,"abstract":"Measurements of voltage flicker levels and its frequency is of great concern to the utility in order to prevent unacceptable voltage fluctuation in the supplying system. This paper introduces a new digital approach for the measurements of voltage flicker and its frequency using the genetic algorithm (GAs) optimization technique. The algorithm is tested using simulated data. Effects of number of samples, sampling frequency and the sample window size are studied. Effects of GAs parameters and. operators, such as population size, crossover, mutation probabilities, niching and fitness functions are also studied. Results are reported and discussed.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124935250","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":"Tele-experiments via Internet a new approach for distance education","authors":"R. Leiner","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014650","url":null,"abstract":"Tele-experiments are lab experiments which are carried out via the Internet. Two such tele-experiments are described which best comply with the objectives of case of use, student/tutor interaction, on-site viewing, real-time operation and safety against modifications. The first set-up is an intelligent inverter drive experiment using the Linux operating system and VNC as Internet access software. Both are cost-free. Linux offers the possibility to restrict access to certain applications, thus making it very safe with respect to system modifications, deliberate or nondeliberate. VNC provides a remote display system allowing the viewer to view a computing desktop environment from anywhere on the Internet. In order to interface with the tutor or other clients, a text editor, Pico, is installed. Since control of the experiment is done via RS232 serial link, Minicom is set up within VNC. The second set-up is a DC motor experiment using Windows98 operating system. Matlab/Simulink is used first to simulate and optimise the performance of the motor in a control loop. After achieving satisfactory results, the simulated motor is replaced by real hardware in the lab via the Internet using Real-Link/32. A microphone and web-camera is installed to provide audio/video feedback of the action of the motor.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129704688","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.S. Hafiz Hamza, N. Abdel-Gawad, M. Salama, A. Hegazy, S. El-Debeiky
{"title":"Electric load forecast for developing countries","authors":"A.S. Hafiz Hamza, N. Abdel-Gawad, M. Salama, A. Hegazy, S. El-Debeiky","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014623","url":null,"abstract":"The electric utility planning process begins with the electric load forecasting, because of the advanced need for new utility plants. These long lead times require the utility planning horizon to be at least ten years long. Since utility decisions involve an economic analysis of the operating and investment costs, the utility planning horizon may range from fifteen to thirty years into the future. Forecasting load demand is a difficult procedure and combines art with science. The key contribution of forecasters is their knowledge of electricity consumers and an understanding of the way they use electricity and other competing energy forms. The problem gains special aspects in developing countries, such as Egypt, because of the high demand growth rate as well as the wide differences in the modes and levels of consumption in the various regions (governorates) in the country. In this study, several structures for neural networks are proposed and tested. They proved to perform as one of the best and most sophisticated load forecasting systems. In this study, the case of a number of neurons layers equal to 7 gives the best results with high accuracy with the least error. The forecasted peak loads and light loads, up to year 2010, for the six Regions of the Egyptian Unified Network; Alexandria, Delta, Cairo, North Upper Egypt, South Upper Egypt and the Canal, are obtained directly from one case by using actual and practical past ten years data.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123913317","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":"Mobile robot localisation with incremental PCA","authors":"Matej Artac","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014557","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile robots can employ different sensors to collect data about the environment. We propose to use a special sensor (a catadioptric camera) which provides panoramic views at each robot position. To model the environment for later navigation and localisation, we build a representation of the appearance by compressing the set of panoramic images by principal component analysis (PCA). Since the batch application of the PCA is inappropriate in this case, we propose to apply an incremental approach. This leads to novel aspects regarding the adaptation of compressed partial representation. We provide empirical results which indicate the performance of the proposed method is comparable to the performance of the batch method in terms of compression, computational cost, and, most importantly, precision of localisation.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121217116","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":"Wavelets for six-phase transmission lines relaying: fault classification and phase selection","authors":"A. A. Hajjar, M. Mansour, H. E. A. Tallat","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014565","url":null,"abstract":"Six-phase power transmission has many advantages over three-phase transmission but the additional three phases complicate the fault analysis and the required protection. This paper introduces a wavelet-based protection approach for high-speed six-phase power transmission lines relaying. The approach is based on capturing the fault induced high frequency transients, superimposed on the power frequency currents, at a certain band of frequency. The transient energies of the captured signals are then determined and used for fault detection, classification and faulted phase(s) selection. Simulation studies show that the introduced approach is insensitive for the fault inception angle, fault resistance, and system source configuration.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"231 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116195921","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":"Model-based fault diagnosis via parameter estimation using knowledge base and fuzzy logic approach","authors":"L. Mohamed, A. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014644","url":null,"abstract":"An approach to model-based fault diagnosis using knowledge base and fuzzy logic techniques is presented. The input/output measurements are used to generate analytic symptoms. Heuristic symptoms observed by the operator or based on the process history are another source for fault diagnosis. Both kinds of symptoms are weighted by confidence measures calculated using fuzzy logic techniques and are fed into the fault diagnosis procedure. A summary of simulation results with a feed drive system is presented.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131107407","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 low drift programmable video clock synthesiser","authors":"Synthesiser, Cyril Lahuec, John Horan","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014543","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a video clock synthesiser. The block is programmable, it accepts input frequencies from 20 kHz to 5 MHz and produces output frequencies up to 200 MHz. The rms jitter is 20 ps and the phase drift is less than 0.5 ns which represents an improvement by a factor of 6 on Begueret et al. (2001). The device VDD sensitivity is 0.18%/V, this makes it suitable for integration in noisy ASICs. The area is 1.2 mm/sup 2/ in 0.25 /spl mu/m CMOS and it consumes 17 mW at 110 MHz.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"258263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133217287","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":"Optimum steady-state load-shedding scheme using genetic based algorithm","authors":"W. Al-Hasawi, K.M. El Naggar","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014664","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new application of genetic algorithms (GAs) optimization technique for solving the steady state load-shedding problem. The objective is to minimize the sum of the squares of the difference between the connected active and reactive load and the supplied active and reactive power. The equality constraints associated with the problem of load shedding are the power flow equations. The inequality constraints are the voltage magnitudes and angles, active and reactive power generations and the limits on the line flows. The proposed method is tested on the IEEE 14- and 30-bus systems. The effects of GAs parameters and operators, such as population size, crossover mutation probabilities, niching and fitness function, are studied. The results are reported and compared with the results of two earlier approaches.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134456690","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":"Embedded B-spline reconstruction in the volume rendering","authors":"Z. Mihajovic, L. Budin","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014640","url":null,"abstract":"This. paper deals with the reconstruction problem in visualization. The representation of the object is based on the volumetric data. Volumetric data is sampled on a regular grid. The surface of the object is implicitly defined as a zero value of the volumetric function. In the volume rendering procedure, intersection of the cast ray with the object is required. Trilinear interpolation is usually used for the reconstruction. In this paper we propose interpolation B-spline embedded directly into the rendering procedure. Different artifacts may appear due to the reconstruction in the rendering procedure. If the quality of the rendered object is of the crucial importance we have to pay attention on the reconstruction in the rendering procedure.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124570361","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 self synchronizing digital FSK demodulator for applications with transmission rate comparable to the carrier frequencies","authors":"H. M. Hamed, A. Salama, M. Zaghloul","doi":"10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELECON.2002.1014554","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency shift keying (FSK) finds application in low frequency transmission over band limited audio frequency channels, such as calling number identification, a service currently provided by telephone service providers. Conventional FSK demodulation techniques work well, when the transmitted frequencies are significantly higher than the baud rate. However, when the baud rate is comparable to the transmission frequencies, their implementation becomes prohibitively costly. This paper describes a mixed signal approach to FSK demodulation suitable in particular to the decoding of this type of signal, based on a self synchronizing digital FSK demodulator. The self-synchronizing behavior of the FSK demodulator is also analyzed.","PeriodicalId":215475,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37379)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116481158","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}