{"title":"A GPU Accelerated Path Planner for Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles","authors":"Shan Mufti, Vincent Roberge, M. Tarbouchi","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861921","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV’s) have experienced an increased usage in the execution of surveillance and reconnaissance tasks, primary reasons being their versatility, low cost, elimination of human risk, and potential autonomous capabilities. This task requires the aircraft to overfly specified points of interest in an efficient manner whilst avoiding terrain and dangerous regions. To accomplish this autonomously, a path planning module capable of calculating and determining the most appropriate route must be implemented. It must be capable of providing a solution in a robust and timely manner to allow for live flight path updating. This paper proposes a flight planner for a reconnaissance scenario in which multiple UAV’s are required to overfly numerous points of interest (POI) in a given geographical area. The approach in this paper is presented as a three step solution; the set up and formatting of input data, solving the single source shortest point problem for each POI using Bellman Ford, and the distribution and assignment of the appropriate path for each UAV using the Genetic Algorithm. It was shown that the acceleration of this process, achieved by using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) allowed for an average speed-up of 11x allowing for rapid path planning.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115367310","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":"Enhancing System Spectral Efficiency in Cellular Networks via Full-Duplex D2D Communications","authors":"Hung V. Vu, T. Le-Ngoc","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861871","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the benefits of integrating underlaid device-to-device (D2D) communications in cellular networks in terms of spectral efficiency gain with D2D users operating in half-duplex (HD) and full-duplex (FD) under the presence of residual self-interference. Based on stochastic-geometry, we develop analytical expressions for the sum-rates of D2D links in order to characterize their behaviors under the effects of various system parameters. Numerical results are provided to illustrate such behaviors. It is shown that, with a sufficient self-interference cancellation level, FD D2D can provide substantial spectral efficiency improvement over the HD counterpart. Underlaid D2D communications in cellular network also offers a significant spectral efficiency gain over the pure cellular networks, especially in dense D2D deployment.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117112519","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":"Dynamic Modeling and Simulation of a Hybrid AC-DC Microgrid With Primary Droop Control","authors":"Duclair Tiomo, R. Wamkeue","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861783","url":null,"abstract":"Whenit comes to achieving full exploitation of diverse, locally available renewable energy sources, hybrid microgrids provide opportunities to build more integrated and functional power systems. However, the coexistence in these systems of power electronics equipment, energy storage systems and very often, conventional electric power plants poses new challenges over their stability, reliability and resiliency. This paper proposes a detailed study of a hybrid AC-DC microgrid made of a micro-hydro power plant, a solar PV installation and a battery energy storage system. Average models are used for power electronic converters in the system, local PI and PID controllers are presented and primary droop control is applied to the overall microgrid to regulate state variables and to control the shared contribution of each energy sources in the microgrid.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125166105","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":"Tactical Backhaul Range Extension using MIMO: Investigation based on ITU-R P.530","authors":"F. Gagnon, G. Dahman, G. Poitau","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861836","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we investigate the capabilities of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) systems in increasing the transmission range in tactical backhaul links. We utilize the ITU-R P.530 extensive measurement-based results in order to extract the correlation properties of the long-range line-of-sight (LOS) MIMO channel. Then we use this correlation information to formulate—based on the concept of worst-month outage probability —the improvements that can be achieved by MIMO- MRC (maximum ratio combining) systems. The main findings of this work are as follows. 1) For very low link outage requirement (e.g., $10^{-5}$ outage probability), a 2×2 MIMO system can increase the communication range by about 160% compared to a Single-Input Single-Output (SISO) system —this range extension is almost double what can be achieved when using a 1×2 (Single-Input Multiple-Output) SIMO-MRC system. 2) For comparably moderate link outage requirement (e.g., 10-3 outage probability), the range extension achieved by MIMO is only around 10% higher than what can be achieved by SIMO, but the strong gain is maintained compared to traditional SISO. We demonstrate that, for tactical backhaul links where high reliability is required, MIMO technology provides superior capabilities allowing for significantly increasing the transmission range.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122433298","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":"Automatic Detection of Pneumonia on Compressed Sensing Images using Deep Learning","authors":"Sheikh Rafiul Islam, S. Maity, A. Ray, M. Mandal","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861969","url":null,"abstract":"Pneumonia is one of the life threatening very common disease and needs proper diagnosis at an early stage for proper treatment of recovery. Chest X-ray is used as an imagining modality to identify the disease by a professional radiologist. This paper suggests a Compressed Sensing (CS) based deep learning framework for automatic detection of pneumonia on X-ray images to assist the medical practitioners. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed approach enables detection of pneumonia with 97.34% prediction accuracy and an improvement on reconstruction quality of the X-ray images in terms of PSNR by $1 pm 0. 76 dB$ and SSIM by $0. 2 pm 0.05$ using the proposed method compared to the other state-of-the-art methods.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128674707","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":"The Effect of Network Reduction on Overcurrent Relay Coordination in Interconnected Power Networks","authors":"Matin Meskin, I. Grinberg","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861825","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861825","url":null,"abstract":"Network reduction due to the lack of information of adjacent networks or limitations imposed by software is an inevitable task in interconnected power networks (IPN). The equivalent network (reduced network) is important since it can affect the entire simulation. While the effects of network reduction on the load flow and steady state conditions have been studied, the consequences of the network scale-down on the setting and coordination of protective devices have not. In this paper the effect of static network reduction approach on the setting and coordination of overcurrent (OC) relays is discussed to Figure out whether reduced networks can be used for OC relay setting calculation and coordination studies. The Ward method is applied to reduce the network and the OC relay optimal coordination method is used to find the OC relay time setting.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123802753","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":"PI Controller Tuning & Stability study of the Flyback Converter with an Energy Regenerative Snubber","authors":"Adel Alganidi, Amit Kumar","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861586","url":null,"abstract":"Flyback converters are widely used for low power applications due to their simplicity. However, flyback converters require some sort of snubber circuit to clamp the voltage across the switch. An energy regenerative snubber, which has been developed recently, is one of the simplest snubbers. This paper will focus on how to tune a PI controller for an energy regenerative snubber. The stability of the converter will be studied as well. The feasibility of the converter is confirmed by simulation results obtained from PSIM, a commercially available power electronic simulation software package.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121954696","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":"Conical Swiss Roll Metamaterial Application for Slow-light Waveguides","authors":"S. Komeylian, F. Mohammadi","doi":"10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052397","url":null,"abstract":"The framework for designing a slow-light waveguide structure with Conical Swiss Roll Metamaterial at THz frequencies have been carried out. In the earliest work, theoretical backgrounds based on Maxwell’s equations have been developed for anisotropic single-negative permeability slab waveguides and anisotropic Metamaterial slab waveguides. Subsequently, simulation results fulfilled by MATLAB programming tool verify extremely-low group velocities in the aforementioned slab waveguides in THz regime frequency. A volumetric Conical Swiss Roll Metamaterial has been proposed as a practical achievement for slow-light waveguides. Dispersion characteristics of the electromagnetic waves in the proposed Conical Swiss Roll Metamaterial have been investigated using CST simulation tool in THz frequencies. Furthermore, two-dimensional dispersion diagram drawn by CST and MATLAB validates highlyelectromagnetics field concentration as well as the presence of backward waves in the Conical Swiss Roll configuration.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132973904","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":"Implementation of Power System Stabilizers in a Power Grid: A Case Study","authors":"M. Carter, Xiaodong Liang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861775","url":null,"abstract":"Power utilities constantly seek cost effective ways to improve stability and reliability of power grids. A key responsibility of transmission planning engineers is to ensure a power system remains stable under normal and disturbance conditions. The implementation of power system stabilizers (PSSs) on excitation control of large synchronous generators is a more contemporary approach to defending the system against disturbances. This paper demonstrates the value of power system stabilizers through a case study by analyzing a real-life event that occurred on a 230 kV transmission system that resulted in the loss of power to numerous customers in a power grid in Canada. This disturbance occurred on May 22, 2018 in which the loss of a 230 kV line caused power oscillations on a nearby 13S kV line that eventually tripped and resulted in a significant drop in the system frequency. The dynamic stability analysis for the case study is performed using PSSOE. It is found that power system stabilizers can significantly reduce power oscillations on the 138 kV system and avoid customer outages.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132606164","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. Nassif, H. Yazdanpanahi, M. Wright, A. Robertson
{"title":"Performance and Conformance Analysis of a Commercial Scale PV Inverter","authors":"A. Nassif, H. Yazdanpanahi, M. Wright, A. Robertson","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861935","url":null,"abstract":"Renewable energy has been in the spotlight of most jurisdictions around the world. Among the sources of renewable energy, solar energy is one of the most commonly adopted in small to medium-scale installations, such as those in residential and commercial applications. With recent technical interconnection requirements for smart inverters standardized since 2016, there is an expectation that hosting capacity will be expanded. With the anticipated proliferation of solar generators, it has become imperative to understand their impact so that accommodating measures, if required, can be employed. Researchers and utility engineers have devoted efforts in understanding all facets in integrating these resources. This paper presents measurements and performance and conformance analysis of a commercial scale solar inverter. Currently, this inverter is in operation in the soon-to-be-completed microgrid laboratory constructed by a Canadian electrical utility. This research suggests that, despite their power electronics topologies and sophisticated switching control, these inverters are expected to have very small negative impact on the distribution system voltage supply characteristics.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128923549","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}