{"title":"Crew constraints in Lagrangian relaxation unit commitment","authors":"W. L. Peterson, S. R. Brammer","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513122","url":null,"abstract":"Bringing a generating unit online from an offline state requires dedicated manpower for a few hours to monitor and control the plant systems. Usually the work crew at a power plant is limited and insufficient to start multiple units simultaneously. Computer simulation of the unit commitment process has traditionally excluded such constraints on maintenance crews at the plants. This paper addresses this limitation, presenting an extension to the Lagrangian relaxation algorithm that accounts for crew constraints in the resulting unit commitment solution. The technique has been implemented on a large scale power system, and results are shown using actual power system data.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124527246","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":"Network based virtual design center (VDC) development","authors":"S. Wunnava, M. Rosario, K. Gandham","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513075","url":null,"abstract":"It is becoming increasingly popular to distribute design, development, and operational tasks to different locations to optimize the cost, efficiency and productivity of operations. Such a distributed processing heavily depends upon the successful networking and sharing of the resources. It has been well documented that for concurrent engineering practices, to develop reliable products in minimum turn around time, information should be fed to the design phase continuously. Thus a virtual design center (VDC) concept using the distributed resources, with real time audio and video interfaces between individuals at the distributed locations, is of utmost importance. With digital connectivity techniques such as integrated services digital network (ISDN) and frame relay becoming available around the public switched telephone network, the virtual design center concepts can be implemented more efficiently using these methodologies. Screen sharing for visual observation and interaction, file sharing for information access, and voice interaction are the main requirements for the development of the virtual design center concept. The authors describe the concepts and methodologies under investigation at Florida International University for implementing virtual design center.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124945219","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":"Methodologies for language modeling and search in continuous speech recognition","authors":"N. Deshmukh, J. Picone","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513083","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic speech recognition has made significant strides from the days of recognizing isolated words. State-of-the-art systems are capable of recognizing tens of thousands of words in complex domains such as newspaper correspondence and travel planning. A major part of this success is due to advances in language modeling and search techniques that support efficient, sub-optimal decoding over large search spaces. The benefit from focusing a recognition system on a particular domain has motivated a steady progression from static language models towards more adaptive models that consist of mixtures of bigrams, trigrams and long-distance n-grams. Similarly, the availability of multiple sources of information about the correct word hypothesis has led to the advent of efficient multi-pass search strategies. The result is a powerful pattern-matching paradigm that has applications to a wide range of signal detection problems. Future research in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition will be directed towards developing more efficient means of dynamically integrating such information.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128188645","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 collision cross sections for atomic line broadening in the plume of the Space Shuttle main engine (SSME)","authors":"T.C. Dean, C. Ventrice","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513112","url":null,"abstract":"An analytical method for determining the cross sections for collision line broadening by molecular perturbers is investigated using effective central force interaction potentials as proposed by Kunc. The Lennard-Jones potential is used throughout to describe the interatomic interactions. These cross sections are determined for several atomic species with H/sub 2/, one of the principal constituents of the SSME plume environment, and compared with experimental data. Agreement with experimental data within the range of experimental error is obtained for most atomic species.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126607231","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 the stability of discrete-time systems using delta-operators","authors":"A. Katbab","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513117","url":null,"abstract":"The author presents a review of the delta-operator formulation of an analog system. Stability and robust stability analysis techniques are presented. Moreover, some of the existing analog robust stability techniques are evaluated for extension to delta-operator formulated digital systems.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129496909","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":"Modular network control for robot manipulator","authors":"M. Copeland","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513081","url":null,"abstract":"Plant dynamics of highly nonlinear dynamical systems often vary over its parameter space. This generates a natural partitioning of the parameter space based upon the operating points of the plant. As a result, it may be wise to generate local control strategies at, the operating points rather than a single global strategy. This article describes a modular neural network architecture that generates a piece-wise continuous control strategy designed to fuse local strategies together to form a single strategy. The modularity is achieved through a gating network that controls the competition and cooperation of local experts. The gating network is a high order dynamical system network, while the local expert is a multi-layer feedforward network. The capability of this technique is demonstrated by building a neurocontroller for the two-link robot manipulator with two revolute joints.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125978332","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 an operational medical network (MEDNET) model","authors":"H. Ghassemi, S. Wunnava","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513077","url":null,"abstract":"This investigation describes the development of a new fault tolerant medical network (MEDNET) model based on the existing public switch telephone network (PSTN), integrated services digital network (ISDN) and internetworking (Internet). This research includes the original design, development and testing of the required hardware and software interfaces to provide a complete medical network model. MEDNET ties the doctor, the patient, the hospital, the medical lab, and the pharmacy for near real time and fault tolerant exchange of medical information the MEDNET model includes the following modules: central database server, remote client access, and communication interface. This work proves that medical images and data can be exchanged between healthcare providers which are not geographically adjacent, in a cost effective, timely, and secure manner.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115150069","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":"Utilizing genetic algorithms for the optimal design of electromagnetic devices","authors":"G. F. Uler, O. Mohammed","doi":"10.1109/SECON.1995.513063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SECON.1995.513063","url":null,"abstract":"The application of genetic algorithms (GAs) to the design optimization of electromagnetic devices is presented. The method is applied to a magnetizer to design its pole face. Optimization is sought to achieve a desired magnetic flux density distribution in the device. The shape of the pole face is constructed from the control points by means of uniform nonrational b-splines. The results obtained signify the efficiency of the method.","PeriodicalId":334874,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings IEEE Southeastcon '95. Visualize the Future","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134251837","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}