{"title":"Effects of Core Materials and Operating Parameters on Core Losses in a Brushless DC Motor","authors":"W. Tsai","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.7","url":null,"abstract":"The development of high-efficiency DC motors is a very important technique subject from the viewpoint of energy saving. In order to increase the motor efficiency, three different grades of electrical steel laminations are used to design a brushless DC (BLDC) motor in the paper since they provide reduced core losses. A measurement of core losses of three different grades of electrical steel laminations in Epstein Frame is implemented to determine the WT-Bmax core loss curves under sinusoidal waveform step by step from 60 Hz to 5000Hz. The core losses in a BLDC motor fed by a PWM control DC Square-Wave voltage supply are estimated using the WT-Bmax core loss curves. The effects of three core materials on the core losses of the BLDC motor have been studied in the paper. The computed core losses are compared to those evaluated by using a 2D finite element analysis. The effects of various operating conditions on the core losses in the BLDC motor laminations are also investigated in this paper. The presented results give guidelines to the selection of core materials and the operating points to improve motor efficiency.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114475439","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":"Calculation of Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical Machines using FiniteElements Method","authors":"V. Šarac, G. Stefanov","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Finite Elements Method is a contemporary numerical method for determination of distribution of \u0000electromagnetic fields inside different objects. In this paper three different induction motors will be \u0000analyzed : Solid Salient Poles Synchronous Motor, product of company MAWDSLEY, Single Phase \u0000Shaded Pole Motor, product of company Micron-Tech and Induction Squirrel Cage Motor, product of \u0000company Koncar. In all analyzed motors distribution of electromagnetic field and magnetic flux \u0000density are calculated using two different approaches: magneto-static at zero herz frequency and \u0000magneto-dynamic at fifty herz frequency. Further on, calculation of different motor parameters such as \u0000magnetic flux density distribution in motor air gap at different operating regimes is performed and \u0000adequate conclusion are derived. \u0000Keywords: Finite Elements Method, Magnetic Fields Calculation, Induction Motors","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128240334","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":"Detecting Moving Objects Based on Fuzzy Non- Symmetric Membership Function in Color Space","authors":"Jing Wu, Youfu Wu","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.8","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we address the problem about detecting moving objects in a video stream obtained by a fixed camera. To detect the moving objects, a method is proposed using the fuzzy Non-symmetric membership function in color space. To evaluate the performances of moving detection, the performance comparisons of different space and different functions are carried out. The experiment results show good performance of our method for detecting moving objects.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"250 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132786383","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 the Electrical Drive for the High-Pressure GDI Injector in a 500cc Motorbike Engine","authors":"W. Tsai, Pengcheng Yu","doi":"10.4156/ijei.vol2.issue1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/ijei.vol2.issue1.9","url":null,"abstract":"In order to meet future emission regulations, improve the power and reduce fuel consumption of an engine, a high-pressure GDI injector is gradually replacing the conventional port fuel injector as it is able to provide fuel injection with a more effective fuel spray atomization and tip penetration. Engine performance can therefore, be improved by using such a high-pressure swirl injector. In order to fully utilize the advantages of the GDI injector, the electric driving circuit is required to be designed with a faster response and finer precision control. In this paper, a programmable injector driving circuit for various high-pressure GDI injectors is designed and presented. A Comparison between two driving strategies of GDI injectors is summarized. Experimental tests for the designed electric driving circuit are investigated to verify its feasibility. The test of the electric driving circuit for the injection quantity of the GDI injector is under the conditions of 10 MPa fuel pressures, 1200-2000μs injection pulse duration and DC 70V executing power voltage. The GDI injector coils are driven under three pulse width (12/5/3A) peak and holding current waveforms to generate the electromagnetic force to draw back and hold the nozzle needle of the injector. Also, PWM control is introduced to the 3A holding current during the last pulse duration for quickening the cut-off response time of the GDI injector. Results show that this electric driving circuit is capable of operating stably and assures the accurate injection quantity of the gasoline direct injector.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131365915","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":"Impacts of Signal System Timings on Rain Related Congestion","authors":"A. Sullivan, V. Sisiopiku, Suman Reddy Surhabi","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.1","url":null,"abstract":"It is known that inclement weather can affect traffic volumes, vehicle speeds, speed variance, saturation flow rates, and sometimes discharge rates from traffic signals. These parameters in turn can have a significant impact on the efficiency of traffic signal timing plans. Timing plans developed for dry conditions with good visibility may not be as effective under wet conditions with poor visibility, even for the same traffic volumes. Previous studies have looked at the effects of poor weather on traffic signal efficiency but they have focused primarily on winter weather conditions involving snow and ice, which have much more dramatic impacts on traffic flow. In regions like the South, rain is the primary adverse weather event and even though its effects on traffic flow may be smaller than snow or ice, its impacts can still be seen. This study sought to assess the impact of rain on traffic flow and determine whether there can be a meaningful benefit to developing and implementing signal timing plans specifically for rain events. Using simulations for two study corridors in Birmingham, Alabama, it was found that moderate and heavy rain events do impact traffic flow, increasing stops and average delays up to 6% compared to dry conditions. Signal timing plans optimized for wet conditions were found to reduce these delays, though in absolute terms the benefits were modest. It was found, however, that the effectiveness of rain-specific timing plans depended to a large extent on prevailing traffic volumes. An evaluation of potential costs and benefits resulting from rain-optimized signal timing plans found that the net benefits, at least in the two study corridors, are questionable. The analysis found that projected costs over a five-year life cycle would significantly exceed potential benefits. Rain-specific timing plans may have useful applications in certain corridors but the potential benefits and costs should be carefully evaluated beforehand.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121505495","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":"NURBS Method and Its Application in Location and Federate Controlling System","authors":"Chen Liang-ji","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128810622","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":"Finding Opinion Strength Using Fuzzy Logic on Web Reviews","authors":"Animesh Kar, D. Mandal","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Determining the polarity and strength of opinions is an important research area over the last few years. The work challenges on opinion sentences and opinion holder extraction, opinion polarity judgment and also to measure the strength of polarity. In this paper we propose a convenient way using fuzzy techniques for analyzing opinion content in a review; our main goal is to analyze and to evaluate the sentiment in the review into a score for decision-making. The web contains product reviews and consumers are often forced to wade through many on-line reviews in order to make a product choice. We use techniques that decompose the review sentences and evaluate the individual characteristics of a product. Our task is performed in three steps: (1) mining product features that have been commented by customers; (2) identifying opinion sentences in each review and extracting the opinion phrases in each opinion sentence; (3) to measure the strength of opinion phrases to summarize the results. This paper introduces FOM (Fuzzy Opinion Miner), a supervised opinion orientation detection system that mines reviews to build a model of important product features, their evaluation by reviewers and the over all importance of the reviews.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116193464","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":"Advanced Road Management System using IT Technology","authors":"Sunghan Lim","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.10","url":null,"abstract":"National highway ITS has been shifted to \"Integrated Road Transportation Management, which incorporates road safety and management technologies, from traditional \"Transportation Management\". This paper describes the road management system which is suitable to national highway ITS. When efficient integrated road transportation management system (transportation + road management) is developed by introducing road management system to national highway ITS, reduction in traffic congestion cost, travel time and traffic accident and improvement of road management are expected thanks to integration of road safety and management technology. And based on automobiles and mobile phones distributed in Korea, the creation of new market in telematics and ubiquitous area is highly expected.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134640600","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":"Effect of Changes on Joint Connections of Steel Lattice Towers due to Environmental Loads","authors":"Engin Gücüyen, R. T. Erdem, Ümit Gökkuş","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL2.ISSUE1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Construction of latticed steel towers is growing rapidly through diversification to meet the increasing demand for communication and energy. In this study, structural behaviour of 75 meters offshore lattice towers, tubular sectioned frame members, under wave and wind loads are investigated. The structure is handled in two models as space truss composed of pin-jointed (Model A) and rigid main legs surround space truss composed of pin-jointed (Model B) in this way two different structures are utilized. Wave forces are obtained from Morrison Equation. Wind force is based on Gust Factor and calculated according to EIA-TIA 222-F (Structural Standards Abstract for Steel Antenna Towers & Antenna Supporting Structures) code. The aim of this study is to obtain the effective periods, mass sources, interstory drift ratios, maximum displacements of peak points and maximum frame forces of two structures which have different joint connections to determine the safety of them.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129930234","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}
Zhongtang Zhao, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Mingjie Liu
{"title":"Cross-mobile ELM based Activity Recognition","authors":"Zhongtang Zhao, Yiqiang Chen, Junfa Liu, Mingjie Liu","doi":"10.4156/IJEI.VOL1.ISSUE1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4156/IJEI.VOL1.ISSUE1.3","url":null,"abstract":"Activity recognition using mobile phones has great potential in many applications including mobile healthcare. In order to let a person easily know whether he is in strict compliance with the doctor's exercise prescription and adjust his exercise amount accordingly, we can use a mobile phone based activity reporting system to accurately recognize a range of daily activities and report the duration of each activity. A triaxial accelerometer built-in the mobile phone is used for the classification of several activities, such as staying still, walking, running, and going upstairs and downstairs. To build an activity recognition model, we usually employ one or some specific persons and a specific mobile phone to collect the training samples. However, the world doesn't have the same two mobile phones. The model learnt on one mobile phone may perform poor on another one due to the different offset o, sensitivity s and sampling frequency f values. To solve the cross-mobile problem, we propose an algorithm known as TransELMAR(Transfer learning and Extreme Learning Machine based Activity Recognition) that integrates the transfer learning technique and extreme learning machine algorithm for activity recognition model adaptation. Tested on a real-world data set, the results show that our algorithm outperforms several traditional baseline algorithm.","PeriodicalId":223554,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Engineering and Industries","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114870835","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}