{"title":"Magnetic Saturation in Synchronous Generator Dynamic Models for Power System Stability Studies","authors":"Quincy Y. Wang, Yunfei Wang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861532","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes and compares the magnetic saturations of the synchronous generator dynamic models commonly used for power system stability studies. A simple saturation method suitable for both round-rotor and salient-pole synchronous generators is introduced and evaluated for high accuracy generator dynamic models. Feasibility of applying a single saturation factor to both d- and q-axis in determining the generator rotor angle is studied from field measurement data. The accuracy improvement of using saturated stator parameter to calculate rotor angle is demonstrated based on calculation and field measurement results on in-service round-rotor and salient-pole generators with a variety of capacities. The suitability of the saturation method for a proposed GENQSC model has been proved.","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":"116633416","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 Weather Impact on Efficient Home Heating with Smart Thermostats","authors":"Michal Aibin","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861778","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we compare the currently implemented smart heating algorithms with our proposed method Weather Based Heating Algorithm. Our simulations are based on the data from years 2015-2018, provided by Ecobee Inc., which is one of the major manufacturers of smart thermostats. The main problem that we focus on is the study of the overheated homes. Our results showed that the problem of overheated households during winter affects North America. The significant impact is visible during sunny days. On the other hand, the implementation of adaptive strategies, such as Weather Based Heating algorithm, results in three times reduction of overheated time and 20% reduction in energy costs.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"144 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":"116908222","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, R. Torquato, I. R. Pordanjani
{"title":"Augmenting Feeder Protection Dependability under High Penetration of DERs","authors":"A. Nassif, H. Yazdanpanahi, R. Torquato, I. R. Pordanjani","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861543","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) have emerged as prevalent players in the energy market, driven by government subsidies, carbon tax adoption, environmental concerns, and potential utility infrastructure investment deferrals. Often, utilities must deal with technical issues arising from paradigm shifts such as large-scale adoption of DERs. One of these technical challenges is the degradation of dependability of feeder protection, which results from the short-circuit contribution from DERs connected to distribution lines. This additional fault infeed can desensitize feeder relays and slow down overcurrent elements. This paper presents measures to address this issue and quantifies their effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"383 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":"116325434","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":"Deep Learning: Edge-Cloud Data Analytics for IoT","authors":"A. M. Ghosh, Katarina Grolinger","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861806","url":null,"abstract":"Sensors, wearables, mobile and other Internet of Thing (IoT) devices are becoming increasingly integrated in all aspects of our lives. They are capable of collecting massive quantities of data that are typically transmitted to the cloud for processing. However, this results in increased network traffic and latencies. Edge computing has a potential to remedy these challenges by moving computation physically closer to the network edge where data are generated. However, edge computing does not have sufficient resources for complex data analytics tasks. Consequently, this paper investigates merging cloud and edge computing for IoT data analytics and presents a deep learning-based approach for data reduction on the edge with the machine learning on the cloud. The encoder part of the autoencoder is located on the edge to reduce data dimensions. Reduced data are sent to the cloud where there are used directly for machine learning or expanded to original features using the decoder part of the autoencoder. The proposed approach has been evaluated on the human activity recognition tasks. Results show that 50% data reduction did not have a significant impact on the classification accuracy and 77% reduction only caused 1% change.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"275 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":"116424191","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":"Parallel GPU-Accelerated Spike Sorting","authors":"Ian Schofield, A. Alimohammad","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861978","url":null,"abstract":"A neural spike sorting system has been modeled and implemented using a massively-parallel graphics processing unit (GPU). The spike sorting software consists of three stages: spike detection, feature detection, and clustering developed utilizing algorithms suitable for masssively parallel GPU architectures. The spike sorting system was developed using software engineering principles of portability and maintainability with the goal of determining achievable performance speedup over the same software implemented in MATLAB on a multi-core processor. We consider the challenges of converting multiple-unit neural activity into single-unit activity suitable for brain-machine interfacing (BMI) using spike sorting algorithms.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"124 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":"121623116","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":"Teaching at the speed of Learning","authors":"Balbir Gill","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861870","url":null,"abstract":"Digital age has transformed the learning process upside down, given the speed of processing information has transformed the communication world. Biologically speaking there is no evidence that information receivers digest this speed of information delivery equally and accurately as expected. This paper examines two sets of student bodies with various ways of information exchange between information delivery and long term retention and understanding.Index Terms – Teaching, learning, digital platform, writing, distance education, memory, retention and cognitive learning.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"397 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":"123541741","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}
Guillaume Couillard, G. Dahman, G. Poitau, F. Gagnon
{"title":"Quantifying range extension capability of MIMO: a simulation study based on WINNER II model","authors":"Guillaume Couillard, G. Dahman, G. Poitau, F. Gagnon","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861854","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we target to quantify the range extension capabilities of multi-antenna systems based on simulations using the WINNER II channel model. We are interested in tactical scenarios where communications take place between a vehicle and a relay-tower of a medium height in rural environments. It was found that, for the frequency bands of 1 to 5 GHz, using $2 times 2$ MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) systems with 1 m inter-antenna spacing results in increasing the communication range by a factor of about 3.5 compared to SISO (single-input single-output) systems. Detailed comparison are provided for different operating frequencies and inter-antenna spacings.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"20 11-12 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":"123584306","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":"64 MHz RF Exposure System for Testing of Implanted Medical Devices in MRI Applications","authors":"Kieffer J. Davieau, A. Attaran, B. Chronik","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861577","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861577","url":null,"abstract":"Currently whole-body transmit RF coils are the most common RF environment for testing. These RF exposure systems designed for testing of devices are commercially available and currently used in a clinical setting; however, even though head-only transmit/receive (TX/RCV) coils are available on MRI scanners, there is not a validated head-only RF exexposure system available for either 64 or 128 MHz. Testing of active implantable medical devices (AIMDs) is guided by the requirements described in ISO 10974:2018(E). Determining the effects radiofrequency (RF) fields have on AIMDS in an MRI system are of paramount importance. Implanted medical devices in the head and neck experience a different local electric field when being imaged head-only exexposure system. This is a significant difference in local electric field when exposed to a head-only transmit coil versus being exposed to a whole-body transmit coil. To adequately evaluate the safety of these devices in that environment, head-only RF exposure systems are needed. In this paper we summarize the steps in developing and validating a head-only RF exexposure system that is properly tuned to 64 MHz and matched to 50 Ω for the testing of implanted medical devices. These steps include the methods for simulating and developing a head-only RF exexposure system.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"108 49","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120826263","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":"Real-Time Modeling and Testing of Distance Protection Relay Based on IEC 61850 Protocol","authors":"A. Delavari, C. Mugombozi, P. Brunelle, F. Guay","doi":"10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE43985.2019.9052403","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the evaluation of the performance and the precision of the IEC 61850 protocol implementation for real-time simulation. The importance of this study stems from two facts. First, the simulation is a required stage of any design process including that of an IEC 61850 model of utilities which may include an automation system from two or more vendors. Second, verification of the vendor’s claim to be compliant with a specific edition of IEC 61850 relies in part on the simulation. We validate the interfacing of the IEC 61850 Generic Object Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE) and Sampled Values (SV) packets through the I/O modules of the simulation environment. In addition, this protocol interfacing is applied to validate a distance protection relay model using the IEC 61850 modules of GOOSE and SV in the HYPERSIM real-time simulator taking advantage of an SGI parallel supercomputer. The distance protection relay is implemented in Simulink, tested and validated with MATLAB Simscape Power Systems and imported into HYPERSIM via the HYPERLINK module. The simulation result has been evaluated in terms of reliability and time delay which play an important role for the communication and cyber systems in smart grids. This real-time simulation setup is valuable for prototyping, analysis and validation of control algorithms compliant with IEC 61850.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"2 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":"129800122","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":"Machine Learning with Digital Microfluidics for Drug Discovery and Development","authors":"Shadi Momtahen, Furat Al-Obaidy, F. Mohammadi","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.2019.8861842","url":null,"abstract":"Drug discovery and development plays an increasing important role in biopharmaceutical field. However, current drug discovery is slow, expensive, inefficient and error prone. Digital microfluidic platform is potentially a very precious technique for drug discovery applications. In addition, machine learning algorithms have been used as a useful tool in drug discovery. New technological shifts in the fields of drug discovery can rely on computer-aided design algorithms in digital microfluidics to acquire data and machine learning algorithms to analyze date, in order to improve throughput and reliability, especially in the context of complex bioassays with different formulations. This paper reviews current and future applications of microfluidic in drug discovery using machine learning and highlight the potential of a new design which combine digital microfluidics with machine learning algorithms for drug discovery applications.","PeriodicalId":352860,"journal":{"name":"2019 IEEE Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE)","volume":"3 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":"129499877","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}