M. Adamowicz, R. Strzelecki, Z. Krzeminski, J. Szewczyk, L. Lademan
{"title":"Application of wireless communication to small WECS with induction generator","authors":"M. Adamowicz, R. Strzelecki, Z. Krzeminski, J. Szewczyk, L. Lademan","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475926","url":null,"abstract":"Wind energy conversion systems (WECS) seem to be self-evident elements of the future smart grids. Among many generator types the squirrel cage induction generator (SCIG) characterizes robustness and low cost. A full-scale power converter can perform smooth grid connection over wide speed range of multiple-stage geared SCIG. Increasing number of sensors can improve the WECS control and diagnostics but increasing number of thin wires i.e. between a nacelle and the converter housing can reduce reliability. A wireless communication using ADF7020 transceiver for data acquisition and transmission is proposed in the paper.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127896521","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":"Measurement of the blocking artefact in video frames","authors":"Leonardo Abate, G. Ramponi","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476299","url":null,"abstract":"A method to automatically quantify the blocking artefact in video frames is presented. Two peculiar problems of the video blockiness are addressed, namely the shift in position of the blocking discontinuities in predicted frames, due to encoding with motion compensation, and the degradation of the edges of moving objects. Original solutions are proposed to detect both aspects and quantify their seriousness, avoiding erroneous detection caused by active areas, aliasing and ringing. Experiments show that the proposed indices respond coherently to the increase in video compression as well as in the subjective perception of blockiness.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117158057","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}
I. Ivanchenko, V. M. Godovanyuk, M. Kovalchuk, S. Ostapov, S. Paranchich, N. Popenko, I. Rarenko
{"title":"Semiconductor solid solutions Hg1-xMnxTe -based Schottky diodes for the mid infrared radiation","authors":"I. Ivanchenko, V. M. Godovanyuk, M. Kovalchuk, S. Ostapov, S. Paranchich, N. Popenko, I. Rarenko","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475931","url":null,"abstract":"The electric and photoelectric parameters of the semiconductor solid solutions Hg1-xMnxTe-based Shottky diodes are presented in this paper. It is showing that the aforementioned diodes are the sensitive ones at lower frequencies of the infrared radiation in comparison with the InSb-based photodiodes and demonstrate the significant improvement of the crystal structure perfection in comparison with the Hg1-xCdxTe-based photodiodes.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114320873","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":"Wireless Sensor Network for maritime deployment: Modeling and simulation","authors":"P. Barbosa, N. White, N. Harris","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475907","url":null,"abstract":"Simulation is widely used in Wireless Sensor Networks to assess the feasibility and performance of design decisions before the deployment, assisting the development of optimal solutions or trade-offs. In this paper, we address the particular case of a sensor network deployed at sea, where hundreds or thousands of sensing nodes drift with the stream and organise into a network capable of transmitting results to a remote station. A new simulator was built to address the particularities of the wireless models required to correctly understand the application scenario. The models provide realistic channel simulation, along with additive interference from other sources, where all transmissions are considered independently. The receiver decides which transmission was first and what is the level of noise from the environment and contending nodes. Network algorithms were implemented and compared using different network sizes and parameters. Results show that algorithms are sensitive to deployment conditions and respond differently to each set of environmental parameters.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115474017","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 modeling of a novel 4H-SiC normally-off BMFET transistor for power applications","authors":"F. Pezzimenti, F. D. Della Corte","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476362","url":null,"abstract":"First numerical simulation results targeted to the design of a novel 4H-SiC normally-off Bipolar Mode Field Effect Transistor (BMFET) are presented. Starting from a commonly available 4H-SiC epitaxial wafer, with an epitaxial layer with a thickness of a few tens of microns, and considering a completely planar device structure where the highly doped source and gate regions are defined by means of implant technology, the developed analysis predicts the feasibility of a transistor well suitable for high power applications, with a very high current gain, a forward current density up to 1 kA/cm2, an on-state output resistance in the order of few mΩ×cm2 and a blocking voltage in the range of 1–2 kV. The 4H-SiC fundamental physical models, such as the doping incomplete ionization and the carrier recombination processes, were carefully taken into account during the simulations. Modeling the device output characteristics in the various operation conditions (off-state, active region, saturation), the role of different design parameters was investigated.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116221932","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":"Ring Clustering Algorithm for wireless ad hoc networks","authors":"Dina S. M. Hassan, H. Fahmy, Ayman M. Bahaa","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476234","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new connected dominating set clustering algorithm called the Ring-Clustering Algorithm (RCA) for the formation of virtual backbones in wireless ad hoc networks. Since determining the minimum connected dominated set is an NP-hard problem, RCA heuristically finds the Connected Dominated Set (CDS). The algorithm uses one-hop neighboring data to determine ring-nodes, which are responsible for establishing the CDS. The simulation study shows that RCA is more effective in reducing the size of CDS against recently proposed algorithms.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114160366","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":"Games based guidance in anti Missile defence for high order participants","authors":"I. Rusnak","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5475962","url":null,"abstract":"A three person game, the Target, the Missile and the Defender (TMD) for high order players is formulated and solved. The Missile that is attacking the Target has an objective to minimize its miss distance to the Target, while the Target is trying to maximize the miss distance from the Missile. The Defender is trying to intercept the Missile prior to its arrival to the Target. That is, the objective of the Defender is minimizing its distance to the Missile while the objective of the Missile is to maximize its distance from the Defender and at the same time not to jeopardize its effort to intercept the Target.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126211322","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}
F. Geth, K. Willekens, K. Clement, J. Driesen, S. De Breucker
{"title":"Impact-analysis of the charging of plug-in hybrid vehicles on the production park in Belgium","authors":"F. Geth, K. Willekens, K. Clement, J. Driesen, S. De Breucker","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476243","url":null,"abstract":"Internal combustion engines (ICE) are combined with electric motors and batteries in both hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) to improve efficiency and achieve a limited all electric range. This paper determines the electrical power required for charging a fleet of PHEVs in Belgium. A stochastic model based on the driving behavior of Western European drivers, determines the availability of the PHEVs for grid charging.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125712954","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}
H. Jia, Xiaodan Yu, Chengshan Wang, Wei Wei, Yuan Zeng, Jinli Zhao, Peng Li
{"title":"Study on power system extended small signal stability region (DE-SSSR) in time delay space","authors":"H. Jia, Xiaodan Yu, Chengshan Wang, Wei Wei, Yuan Zeng, Jinli Zhao, Peng Li","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476286","url":null,"abstract":"In power system, coordination controllers are usually designed based on the data from PMU and WAMS. Time delays in the measurement data are significant so that they can not be simply ignored. So, it is important to evaluate the impact of time delays on power system stability analysis and controller design. In this paper, an extended small signal stability region in time delay space (DE-SSSR) is presented so that it can consider the low frequency oscillation phenomena captured in the power system operations. Definition of DE-SSSR is first given, and the structure of its boundaries is discussed. Then a practical method is given to trace the boundaries of DE-SSSR. Finally, WSCC 3-generator-9-bus system is employed to validate the effectiveness of the presented method. Work of this paper is helpful to power system stability assessment and controller design with considering time delays in wide-area environment.","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115099059","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":"Software architecture for Smart Metering systems with Virtual Power Plant","authors":"S. Vukmirovic, A. Erdeljan, F. Kulić, S. Lukovic","doi":"10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MELCON.2010.5476237","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a novel architecture for Smart Metering systems which enables their seamless, secure and efficient integration in wider SmartGrid software structures. Smart metering solutions represent one of the fastest evolving areas in the field of power distribution systems. There is an extensive interest of leading software vendors in the field, for development of architectures that can efficiently manage transmission, processing and storing of tremendous amount of data produced by such metering devices deployed at the end-end side. The integration of these systems into existing power system software architectures (outage management, workforce management, etc.) represents a major challenge for research community. In such an environment it is of fundamental importance to adopt standardized data exchange mechanisms. The proposed architecture is conceived as modular and scalable structure so that it can support implementation of novel power distribution concepts as Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). The proposed architecture has been successfully tested and verified in real life operation as one of modules of Smart Metering system named Meter Data Management (MDM).","PeriodicalId":256057,"journal":{"name":"Melecon 2010 - 2010 15th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125890480","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}