{"title":"Multiple-impact assessment of independent power producers in a de-regulated environment","authors":"T. Nakashima, T. Niimura","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614842","url":null,"abstract":"Deregulation of power markets has opened up access for many small-scale independent power producers (IPPs) to an existing power system. Their common features are small-scale, distributed and independent operation. There are various other factors that can affect the economy or environmental impact of the existing power network. The objective of this research is to assess the technological impact of independent power producers introduced into an existing power system. The authors conducted the evaluation of the impact by multiple perspective. To assess the impact of IPPs, optimal power flow simulations have been repeatedly applied, changing the possible IPP locations.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"415 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124816307","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":"Motion palette coding for video compression","authors":"S. Lindner, J. Robinson","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614867","url":null,"abstract":"Video encoding relies on the reduction of both spatial and temporal redundancies to achieve low bit rates. The total channel bandwidth is generally divided between motion and residue information. The overall bit rate can be controlled by changing the quantization setting of the residue coder, but no simple control mechanism exists for the motion coder. This paper introduces a method of encoding motion vectors, which provides a simple mechanism of controlling the motion side information bit rate. By being able to control both the motion and residue information bit rates: the coder is capable of dividing the available bandwidth between the two channels in an optimal way. This results in a more efficient coding system.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129340658","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":"Code-phase-shift keying: a power and bandwidth efficient spread spectrum signaling technique for wireless local area network applications","authors":"A. Wong, V. Leung","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608262","url":null,"abstract":"Code-phase-shift keying (CPSK) is a novel direct-sequence spread-spectrum (DS-SS) signaling system employing M different code phase shifts of a single pseudonoise (PN) code sequence for M-ary signaling. CPSK offers increasing thermal noise immunity as M increases, and totally mitigates the effect of carrier frequency tone interference. It maintains good performance in a Rician fading channel, and a RAKE receiver could be used to improve the performance in a Rayleigh fading channel. The improved power and bandwidth efficiency of CPSK makes it suitable for wireless local area network applications.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129675895","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 Future of Multimedia Communication","authors":"D. Pearson","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614775","url":null,"abstract":"For several years past we have been regaled in both popular and leamed-society publications by speculations about the exciting future awaiting us in the area of multimedia communication. I share some of this excitement about the future, and am myself engaged with colleagues and students in engineering research designed to bring it about. But I note that large sums of money are being invested by companies and universities on the basis of rather simple assumptions about what is likely to happen. In this paper, I should like to turn aside from the detail of the technology and ask, as well as attempt to answer, two questions. The first is important though apparently rather academic, and the second more practical: I . Is it possible to say anything useful at all about the &ture of multimedia communication? 2. Given the answer to I , what strategy will lead to a maximum return on investment in this area? With regard to the second question, I should point out that we do not need to be business people to be concerned with optimizing investment; academics and other research workers invest time, energy and resources pursuing selected research goals according to their beliefs about the future.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130071775","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 of a vibrotactile feedback virtual testbed","authors":"Li-Te Cheng","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614818","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the software infrastructure design for a virtual environment testbed that provides vibrotactile feedback. The process involved identifying system requirements and constraints from an experimental design, the selection of system components, and the development of software modules. The infrastructure interfaces with hardware input and output devices, produces sound and three-dimensional graphics, models interactions between the user and virtual objects, and records user performance during experimental sessions.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129137349","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":"Evaluation of bandwidth acquisition methods for reservation arbitrated access of multiplexed VBR isochronous traffic over dual bus MANs","authors":"Henry C. B. Chan, V. Leung","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608363","url":null,"abstract":"We present a reservation arbitrated (RA) access scheme for the efficient transport of variable bit rate isochronous traffic over dual bus metropolitan area networks (MANs) and compare the performance of different bandwidth acquisition methods by simulations.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130885652","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":"Innovations in electrostatic processes in industrial applications","authors":"I. Inculet","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608338","url":null,"abstract":"Over 35 years, the branch of the electrical science called \"electrostatics\" has provided the foundation for extraordinary, new industrial developments measured in billions of U.S. dollars. The common link of all these industrial applications is the engineering of the unique forces which may be generated in an electric field. The author describes five new concepts in the generation and use of electric field forces and their application in agriculture, in filtration, in electrostatic painting of non-conductive surfaces and consolidation of foundations. The new concepts are believed to offer considerable promise for industrial applications.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130428691","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":"Multi-stage detection scheme for CDMA systems","authors":"E. Rezaaifar, T. Le-Ngoc","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608261","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of multi-user detectors for the case of imperfect power control and estimation is studied by simulations. A modified multi-user detector with the same complexity as original multi-user detector is proposed and with simulations it is shown that this receiver in some cases has much better performance than multi-user detector.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130432182","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}
M. Mohamadian, E. Nowicki, F. Ashrafzadeh, E. Evanik, J. Salmon
{"title":"A modified space vector PWM current regulator for improved torque control of a three-phase induction motor","authors":"M. Mohamadian, E. Nowicki, F. Ashrafzadeh, E. Evanik, J. Salmon","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.608349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.608349","url":null,"abstract":"A new voltage controlled current regulator is introduced for the torque control of a three-phase induction motor. The control procedure is similar to that of a space vector current regulator except that the switching time for the zero switching vector is chosen such that the error between the reference current and the actual current is reduced in each sampling time. Simulation results show that employing this current control method will improve the transient torque response of the induction motor while in the steady-state. The stator current in the conventional and modified methods are approximately the same.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123177528","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 novel smart compensator for energy/power quality enhancement of nonlinear loads","authors":"A.M. Sharaft, C. Guo, Hong Huang","doi":"10.1109/CCECE.1997.614784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CCECE.1997.614784","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a novel flexible smart compensator converter scheme for energy utilization enhancement and/or power quality harmonic ripple control. The converter topology is flexible and can be controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM), pulse frequency modulation (PFM) or a combined PWM/PFM switching strategy to ensure power quality enhancement and better energy utilization of nonlinear cyclical arc or inrush type electric loads. This includes large industrial induction motors, robotic drives, industrial arc-furnaces, and fluorescent industrial commercial lighting schemes.","PeriodicalId":359446,"journal":{"name":"CCECE '97. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering. Engineering Innovation: Voyage of Discovery. Conference Proceedings","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123102498","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}