{"title":"Low level testing for protective relays","authors":"C.F. Henville, B. Hydro, J. Mooney","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548255","url":null,"abstract":"Low level testing of protective relays is a relatively new option for users to check their performance with simplified test equipment. The option presents itself because of the low energy demands of modern solid-state relays, compared with the much higher energy requirements of older style electromechanical relays. This paper describes this low level testing technique (particularly with reference to digital relays), and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the test method.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115234575","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":"Microelectronics design-the CMC environment for research and training in embedded systems","authors":"D. Gale, A. Jain, A. Marsh, R. Wieler","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548064","url":null,"abstract":"Development of embedded microelectronic systems is increasingly important to the value of electronic equipment. To guide the development process, especially for applied research and skill enhancement, the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation is incorporating design flows in CAD and testing technology, linked by design kits, instructional materials and prototyping boards.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115661393","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":"Protection scheme testing using a power system model","authors":"J. Jodice, A. Giuliante","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548256","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a new method for testing relay schemes and relay panels. The new procedure is based on a power system model that is used to simulate different events selected according to the application. Events are played back through power system simulators that also monitor scheme performance. The advantages of the method are briefly discussed. The authors describe the method in more detail, and then describe the INSITE expert system to monitor the power system and the components in it to watch for changes in system operation.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127078088","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":"Trade-offs between traditional control and intelligent control: development of an applications framework","authors":"B. Robertson, R. Sárfi","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548211","url":null,"abstract":"Both academics and practising engineers must adapt to the changing technologies available to them. Advancement and recognition is contingent upon the ability to make use of emerging technologies before a competing vendor or research group. As a relatively new concept in real world implementations, intelligent control systems are widely publicized in both scholarly journals and advertising material. Both the technical and economic issues that relate to the question of whether an intelligent system represents the best possible solution to a given control problem, are addressed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"154 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127271325","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 fail safe temporary reorganization procedure for STARMAP routing tables in the event of a primary hub or link failure","authors":"Vincent Yeow Chieh Pang, D. Irvine-Halliday","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548317","url":null,"abstract":"The challenge for STARMAP was to implement a simple temporary reorganization of the routing tables which would maintain the maximum interconnectivity of the network in the event of a primary link or hub failure. Since the original STARMAP packet switching or routing philosophy requires that a hub be responsible only for its own packets and that it needs no knowledge of events at any other hub then the routing table reorganization scheme must follow a similar philosophy. A primary hub routing table is changed in a very simple manner if it detects a failed transmission in one of its outlinks. The routing table is returned to its original condition as soon as the failed link or hub has been repaired.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"159 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122697973","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 system measurements based on fuzzy linear regression algorithm for power system protection","authors":"S. Soliman, M.H. Rahman, M. El-Hawary","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548328","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new technique for power system voltage measurements based on fuzzy linear regression. The voltage signal is assumed to have a linear relation with the voltage magnitude and the phase angle. The coefficients of this linear relation are considered as fuzzy numbers with given middle and spread values. The spread defines the fuzziness of the function. The proposed technique uses digitized samples of the voltage signal obtained at the relay location. The problem is formulated as a linear optimization problem, where the objective is to minimize the spread of the fuzzy output for the whole data set, which is a linear function of the spread, subject to satisfying inequality constraints. A linear programming algorithm is used to solve the associated linear optimization problem. The proposed technique is tested using nonfuzzy as well as fuzzy data.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122510808","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":"On-chip learning in neurocomputers","authors":"H. Card, D. McNeill","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548067","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial neural networks (ANNs) may be implemented as custom analog, digital or hybrid VLSI systems. This paper describes the tradeoffs among these approaches, based on work in our laboratory as well as at other institutions. A major theme of the work is the effects of limited precision in on-chip learning computations performed by the analog or digital circuits. Analog and low-precision digital circuits are found to be capable of reliably representing most ANN models, with area-efficient and energy-efficient implementations.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122613759","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":"Polarization-insensitive all-optical demultiplexing system","authors":"A. Atieh, P. Myśliński, J. Chrostowski, P. Galko","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548077","url":null,"abstract":"A novel all-optical demultiplexing system which is insensitive to the state of polarization of the input signals as well as to their drift in polarization is simulated. The technique employs a modified nonlinear optical loop mirror configuration to demultiplex 50 GHz pulse train into 10 GHz. The gain of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier is varied between 14 dB and 21 dB using a feedback signal from the loop output ports to achieve polarization independent complete switching.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122080220","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":"Hierarchical tetrahedral elements using orthogonal polynomials","authors":"R. Abouchakra","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548206","url":null,"abstract":"Tetrahedral finite elements are widely used in 3D electromagnetics. They are the simplest shape into which a 3D region can be broken, and are well-suited to automatic mesh generation. Hierarchical elements are finite elements which have the useful property that elements with different polynomial orders can be used together in the same mesh without causing discontinuities. This is highly desirable, because it permits polynomial order to be used to control the distribution of the degrees of freedom. This paper introduces a new hierarchical tetrahedral element in which the basis functions are constructed from orthogonal polynomials (Jacobi polynomials), allowing mixing of polynomial orders up to three. Explicit basis functions are given in addition to the description of the linear independence property. As was the case for regular elements the pre-calculation of universal matrices will yield faster and more accurate results. The derivation and the corresponding universal matrices for the new elements are also shown. The new elements are used to solve for the electrostatic potential in a 3D region (where there is no analytical solution).","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117037340","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":"Filterbank implementation of a window based Gabor transform","authors":"D. Paul","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1996.548267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1996.548267","url":null,"abstract":"Joint time-frequency analysis (JFTA) can be used in applications such as speech, music, radar, and sonar, where the frequency content of a signal during successive time intervals must be determined. Gabor (1946) presented a JFTA technique where a signal could be described as the sum of shifted and modulated Gaussian basis functions which are weighted by complex constants. Further developments have permitted the practical implementation of the Gabor transform on digital computers. However, these techniques were not well suited for real time processing of digital sequences of very long or of infinite length due to the requirement to receive and store the entire signal prior to processing. A solution to this is presented in the form of a window based Gabor transform (WBGT), which is suitable for filterbank implementations. It is developed based on the orthogonal like discrete Gabor transform (OLGT) and is implemented in filterbanks.","PeriodicalId":269440,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of 1996 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128743414","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}