Pengfei Hu, Rui Yin, R. Teodorescu, Songda Wang, J. Guerrero
{"title":"A Reduced-Switching-Frequency Modulation Method for Hybrid MMCs Under Over-Modulation Conditions","authors":"Pengfei Hu, Rui Yin, R. Teodorescu, Songda Wang, J. Guerrero","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591364","url":null,"abstract":"A hybrid modular multilevel converter (MMC), consisting of full-bridge sub-modules (FBSMs) and half-bridge sub-modules (HBSMs), is an efficient and DC-fault tolerant topology, which can be used in overhead-line HVDC transmission application. Additionally, it can work under over-modulation condition (i.e., arm submodule clusters may generate negative voltage during a fundamental cycle) to improve the utilization of submodules (SMs). Regarding the over-modulation issue, this paper proposes a reduced-switching-frequency modulation method, considering the different dynamics of FBSMs and HBSMs, for hybrid MMCs. Moreover, an improved wave-distributing approach which can reduce losses and make the operating time and losses of the two types of SMs more even than the conventional method is presented. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by an over-modulation hybrid MMC simulation model built based on PSCAD/EMTDC platform.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115135838","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 Dynamic Braking Control Strategy for DC-Excited Flux Switching Machine","authors":"Chung-Wen Yu, Sheng-Ming Yang, Zih-Cing You","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591726","url":null,"abstract":"Regenerative braking is the most popular method for braking energy recovery of drive motor in electric vehicles. Recovered energy can extend electric vehicle's traveling distance. This paper presents a braking control strategy for a de-excited flux switching machine which is designed to drive small electric scooters. Regenerated energy during motor braking is stored in a super capacitor. During braking period, the field winding and its driver is controlled such that the braking energy can charge the super capacitor, or the stored energy can be discharged back to the dc link. No addition inductor is required. The relationships between recovery energy, braking speed, deceleration rate, and load inertia are analyzed. The analysis considers all the losses in the motor and drive. The optimal deceleration rate for energy recovery is calculated and used for control. Experiments are performed to verify the proposed control strategy.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115428422","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. Cupelli, S. Bhanderi, S. K. Gurumurthy, A. Monti
{"title":"Port - Hamiltonian Modelling and Control of Single Phase DAB Based MVDC Shipboard Power System","authors":"M. Cupelli, S. Bhanderi, S. K. Gurumurthy, A. Monti","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591433","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a Port-Hamiltonian based modelling and control approach for MVDC Shipboard Power Systems (SPSs). The Line Regulating Converters (LRCs) consist of parallel-connected submodules based on the single-phase Dual Active Bridge (DAB) topology. The load side converters (Point of Load (POL) converters) are tightly regulated buck converters, which exhibit Constant Power Load (CPL) behavior with destabilizing effect on the MVDC bus voltage. We apply here an Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity Based Control (IDA-PBC) strategy to the MVDC SPS and evaluate its performance by simulation in MATLAB Simulink. The analyzed scenarios consider large disturbances such as load step up, submodule disconnection and LRC module disconnection. Furthermore, we prove that the entire MVDC is Port-Hamiltonian and therefore the system stability is guaranteed by the IDA - PBC.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115469788","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":"Construction and Analysis of Communication Channels for Simultaneous Wireless Power and Data Transmission","authors":"Z. Qian, Rui Yan, Jiande Wu, Xiangning He","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591181","url":null,"abstract":"Simultaneous wireless power and data transmission is a novel topic in wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging. The data transfer sharing the existing power coils is an attractive method compared to the conventional far-field communication technologies. The frequency division multiplexing (FDM) technique can achieve the data transfer without interupting the power transfer. This paper proposes a general method to construct communication channels that fit the FDM technique on inductive power transfer (IPT) topologies. According to this method, nine kinds of communication channel structures can be derived for the four basic compensation topologies. The high transfer gain of data carrier is achieved without changing the power carrier transfer path. The communication interference from the power harmonics can be effectively suppressed. The proposed communication channel is simulated and verified by experiments.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"238 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115656002","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":"Ultra narrowband filtering with Prism signal processing: Design and simulation","authors":"M. Henry","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8592770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8592770","url":null,"abstract":"Prism signal processing is a new FIR filtering technique offering a fully recursive calculation and simple filter design. Its low design and computational cost are particularly suited to the autonomous signal processing requirements for the Internet of Things. This paper describes how arbitrarily narrow bandpass filters may be designed and implemented using a chain of six Prisms. In one simulation, a design with 40 MHz sampling rate, 1 MHz central frequency and 0.1 Hz bandwidth results in an FIR filter of length 771 million samples. This filter can be evaluated in 0.39 μs per sample on a desktop computer: to achieve this update rate using a conventional non-recursive FIR calculation would require supercomputer resources.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123111325","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. Beye, Jean-François Mogniotte, L. Phung, H. Maher, B. Allard
{"title":"Active Gate Driver and Management of the Current Switching Speed in GaN Transistors During Tum-On","authors":"M. Beye, Jean-François Mogniotte, L. Phung, H. Maher, B. Allard","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591673","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the principle of an active gate driver to control the high current switching speed generated during the tum-on of GaN HEMT transistors. The proposed circuit requires a common-mode parasitic inductance of 1 nH to provide the necessary image of the current slope. The proposed scheme is comparable to a variation of gate resistance of one decade without the inconvenience of the gate resistance. The approach is first validated by circuit simulation then experimentally. The advantages of such an approach are then demonstrated thanks to the comparison with a conventional passive control method.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123086136","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}
E. Liivik, A. Chub, A. Sangwongwanich, Yanfeng Shen, D. Vinnikov, F. Blaabjerg
{"title":"Wear-Out Failure Analysis of Solar Optiverter Operating with 60- and 72-Cell Si Crystalline PV Modules","authors":"E. Liivik, A. Chub, A. Sangwongwanich, Yanfeng Shen, D. Vinnikov, F. Blaabjerg","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8592925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8592925","url":null,"abstract":"A new concept of shade-tolerant PV microinverter named Optiverter is capable of operating with both 60- and 72-cell PV modules. In order to ensure highly reliable operation of the Optiverter, this paper analyzes the wear-out failures of the Optiverter considering both 60- and 72- cells Si crystalline PV modules. The lifetime evaluation of the Optiverter also considers the impact of module degradation rates and different mission profiles into consideration. The evaluation results reveal that operating the Optiverter with a high-power PV module (i.e., 72-cell) results in a lower reliability performance compared with 60-cell PV module. This is mainly due to the higher power and thermal loadings of the power devices in the Optiverter with a 72-cell PV module. When considering the effect of module degradation, using the 72-cell PV module also lead to a higher deviation in the reliability prediction compared to the case without considering the degradation.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121804564","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":"Electrical Parameters Characterization of Aged IGBTs by Thermo-Electrical Overstress","authors":"E. Dimech, J. Dawson","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591088","url":null,"abstract":"During their lifetime, power semiconductor devices such as Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) can suffer from different failure mechanisms. This paper reports the monitored changes in the electrical parameters of tested IGBTs when subjected to accelerated ageing through thermo-electrical overstress. The changes are indicative that the device is at the onset of failure and hence can be utilized within prognostic techniques so as to determine the health state of the device. The study describes how the accelerated ageing strategy was implemented providing details of the implemented hardware and software. Tested IGBTs were characterized before, durina and after accelerated ageing. Details of the IGBT characterization setup are provided. Furthermore, the corresponding monitored changes in the die-attach X-Ray imagery, gate threshold voltage, collector leakage current, transfer characteristics, transconductance, output characteristics and internal freewheeling diode forward characteristics are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121824844","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}
Yucheng Liu, Hongxu Zhu, Tsz Tat Yu, K. Tsang, C. Wu, Faan Hei Hung
{"title":"Packet Loss Analysis for LoRa-Based Heart Monitoring System","authors":"Yucheng Liu, Hongxu Zhu, Tsz Tat Yu, K. Tsang, C. Wu, Faan Hei Hung","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591196","url":null,"abstract":"Due to lack of heart monitoring device, heart problems have been causing more than 17 million people death every year. Recently, researches on IoT (Internet of things) system provide feasible solutions to solve the problems. Such as LoRa wireless communication protocol, it can cover more than 1km2 area and reliable communication connection. In heart monitoring system, packet transmission frequency should be considered carefully because of the reliability. Therefore, in this paper, the packet loss of heart monitoring system has been analyzed through packet length, transmission frequency and communication distance. Results shows that the packet loss can be less than 1% through specified communication property. The result in the paper can provide reference for reliable heart monitoring system design.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116692553","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":"Traffic Flow Stabilization Strategy for Mitigating Automated and Human Driven Vehicles Interactions","authors":"B. Park, Seongah Hong","doi":"10.1109/IECON.2018.8591075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON.2018.8591075","url":null,"abstract":"One of key challenges in the area of automated vehicles or self-driving cars is how to ensure smooth interactions between the automated vehicles and human driven vehicles. This is because it would be inevitable to have both automated vehicles and human driven vehicles until market penetration of automated vehicle reaches 100 percent. Our paper proposed traffic flow stabilization strategy based on optimal control theory and evaluated its performance using a microscopic traffic simulation tool under varying automated vehicle market penetrations. The simulation results indicated that the proposed approach effectively improves traffic flow stability when compared to the base case under adaptive cruise control algorithm.","PeriodicalId":370319,"journal":{"name":"IECON 2018 - 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116912620","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}