{"title":"A Simple Overmodulation Strategy in Direct Torque Control of Induction Machines","authors":"A. Jidin, Z. Ahmad, N. Idris, A. Yatim","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451437","url":null,"abstract":"A fast dynamic torque and high speed operations are so important especially in electric vehicle applications. In principle, there are two approaches to obtain these conditions. One is the use of mechanical gears and the other one is the use of overmodulation strategy. Through overmodulation strategy, the inverter voltage can be increased beyond its linear modulation range, thus full utilization of DC-linked voltage is achieved. This paper presents a simple overmodulation strategy that is well- suited in a constant frequency torque controller-based of direct Torque control (DTC) of induction motor drives. The simple overmodulation strategy is constructed based on torque and flux errors and flux position which are readily available; as required in conventional DTC scheme. The simulation results showed that the drive system is capable of operating in overmodulation and field weakening regions without resolving to the common approach of space vector modulation (SVM) based approach.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134396115","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":"Optimal Power Flow for Load Margin Improvement using Evolutionary Programming","authors":"N. Aminudin, T. Rahman, I. Musirin","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451418","url":null,"abstract":"Optimal power flow (OPF) has been profoundly identified as one of the main issues in power system operation and planning. Solving the OPF problem is the fundamental aspect in the determination of electricity prices and congestion management. It involves a large dimension nonlinear, non-convex and highly constrained optimization problem which requires a reliable technique in order to provide global optimal solution. This paper presents the application of evolutionary programming (EP) technique in OPF for load margin enhancement with consideration of operational cost and loss reduction. In realizing the effectiveness of the proposed technique, validation was conducted on the IEEE-26 reliability test system. The results obtained from the pre-optimization and post-optimization are compared. The results revealed that the proposed OPF using EP has successfully improved the load margin taking the pre-optimization results as reference.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122163004","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.H. Ghazali, N.H.M. Rahim, Y. Harmin, T.S. Jalal, Sim See Lip
{"title":"Control System Development for Goniophotometer","authors":"A.H. Ghazali, N.H.M. Rahim, Y. Harmin, T.S. Jalal, Sim See Lip","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451428","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses a design of a goniophotometer control system. A goniophotometer is used to measure the characteristics of any light source such as luminosity. A goniophotometer is used in the design, development and production testing of light emitting diodes (LED), lamps and illuminated signs and in the certification of the final products according to relevant national and international standards. To test the effectiveness of the developed control system, a lab scale model of a goniophotometer was built. The components are two stepper motors, a photoconductive cell light sensor, optical interrupter, power MOSFETS and a Microchip 18F2455 microcontroller. The control system design stage is divided into two major sections, hardware and firmware. The firmware developments involve the PIC 18F2455 programming using the C language. The development of a goniophotometer is important to test any lighting equipment to ensure that they function in fine and safe condition. Corrective measures taken based on the accurate readings made by a goniophotometer can avoid the unwanted problems such as eye damages. This research paper consists of five major parts: introduction, hardware development, firmware development, results and conclusion.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114226920","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":"Preprocessing Techniques for Voice-Print Analysis for Speaker Recognition","authors":"D. A. Ramli, S. Samad, A. Hussain","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451357","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451357","url":null,"abstract":"The performance of speaker recognition using voiceprint analysis from spectrogram is investigated in this paper. Unconstrained minimum average correlation energy (UMACE) filter is implemented to perform the verification task. In this study, the voiceprints from speech signals produced from different persons are collected. Two pre-processing techniques, i.e. exclusion of the low energies and morphological image processing step, are implemented to voiceprint analysis in order to achieve better recognition result. It is discovered that, by applying these two steps, the recognition performance improves significantly. This reveals that, using voiceprint as features to the system and performing the classification task by using UMACE filter offer an alternative technique for performing speaker recognition.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121889241","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 Flood Detector System Using MC68HC11 Microcontroller","authors":"ZAINAH BINTI MD. ZAIN, M. Khalid","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451432","url":null,"abstract":"This project is involving the development of flood detector system which will determine the current water level that is assuming from the voltage from the detector. The data that has been collected will be analyzed in database to make sure the safety purpose been taken if the water reach to warning level. This project consists of three parts which the first part is involving the development of the system that capable to detect water level. The second part is the development of the system that can process the value that has been collected to the water deepness level. The third part is about the system that will modulate the signal that has been collected from the process system in second part and it will transmit the modulated signal through the antenna. The signal from the third part will be received by the receiver part to be displayed on the display segment. This project used an assembly language for processing part and 7 segment displays for display part. The overall flood detector system design consists of hardware design and software development. The most important hardware design is a microcontroller board that used to control the whole system and the transmitter and receiver module that used to send and collect the data.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126128315","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":"Vulnerability Assessment of a Large Sized Power System Using Radial Basis Function Neural Network","authors":"A. Haidar, A. Mohamed, A. Hussain","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451385","url":null,"abstract":"Vulnerability assessment of a power system has been of great concern due to the continual blackouts in recent years which indicate that a power system today is too vulnerable to withstand an unforeseen catastrophic contingency. This paper presents a new approach to assess vulnerability of a power system based on radial basis function neural network. A new feature extraction method named as the neural network weight extraction is also proposed to reduce the number of input features to the neural network. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been demonstrated on a large sized IEEE 300-bus system. Test results prove that the radial basis function neural network accurately predicts the vulnerability of the power system.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115777247","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 TCAD Analysis of the Impact of Starting Material Doping on 1.8V CMOS Threshold and Body Effect","authors":"A.M.H. Noorashiqin, A. Kordesch, M. Muhamad","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451415","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is focused on the body effect of a 1.8 V Complementary MOSFET (CMOS) device in a twin-well process. The effect of different starting material doping levels impact the body effect is investigated, which is important for both digital and analog design. MOSFET performance is determined not only by the threshold voltage, which determines when the device is \";on\"; or \";off but also by the shift of threshold voltage, Vth with body bias. The channel doping profile, which is influenced, by substrate doping mainly determines threshold and body effect. These effects on the device behavior have been simulated using TSUPREM-4 for process characterization and MEDICI for electrical characterization.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122079139","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}
Lai Chin Yung, Yvonne Yeo Chii, N. H. Seng, Tan Hong Mui
{"title":"Implementation of Fast Wafer Level Reliability Monitoring Strategy for Wafer Fab Process Monitoring","authors":"Lai Chin Yung, Yvonne Yeo Chii, N. H. Seng, Tan Hong Mui","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451389","url":null,"abstract":"In wafer foundry it is important to make use of reliability monitoring strategy as part of process monitoring. A fast reliability monitoring strategy has been developed, which enables a fast feedback to the production line. The three main critical reliability failure mechanisms associated with the CMOS device are hot carrier effects, gate oxide breakdown and electromigration. The fast wafer level reliability (WLR) methodology was employed for monitoring of the critical reliability failure mechanisms in the wafer fab. Using substrate current measurement as monitoring parameter for hot carrier effects, accelerated testing for electromigration and monitoring gate oxide integrity through standard production tests, the new methodology has proved to help the fab decrease test time while increasing monitoring frequency.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126512904","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":"Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) Based Technique for Voltage Control and Loss Minimization Using Transformer Tap Setting","authors":"M.F. Mustafar, I. Musirin, M. Kalil, M. Idris","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451444","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous demand in power transmission network caused by reactive power has been highlighted as the main factor in voltage depreciation and also increase of total transmission loss. Various studies involving reactive power planning (RPP); such as optimal reactive power dispatch (ORPD), optimal capacitor placement, static VAR compensator and installation of flexible AC transmission system (FACTs) devices are several available solutions to alleviate the voltage decay problems. This paper presents a new approach using Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) technique to determine the optimal values of transformer tap setting for voltage control and loss minimization in power system. The purpose is to search for a solution for the best possible combinations of transformer tap setting that will improve the voltages and also to reduce the power losses in an electric power system. The proposed technique was tested using the standard IEEE 30-bus system and the results revealed that the proposed technique has the merit of achieving optimal solution in addressing the problems.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134065748","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}
R. Sanudin, C.S. Bahayakhi, M. Z. Sahdan, S. H. Ruslan
{"title":"Low-cost Circuit for Implementing Smooth Power Supply Transition","authors":"R. Sanudin, C.S. Bahayakhi, M. Z. Sahdan, S. H. Ruslan","doi":"10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCORED.2007.4451407","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is to investigate the possibility of providing a smooth DC power supply transition for electronic devices. The transition is meant from power outlet as the main supply to battery as a backup supply and vice versa. The important requirements during the power-source transition process are to provide supply that is constant, reliable and free from fluctuations. The power supply smooth transition is important especially in electronic devices that utilizing microcontroller and microprocessor. Unstable power transition might create power transients and hence leads to unsynchronized between the processor and other components. This paper explains a circuit design with low-cost and effective method for monitoring and maintaining power supply transition. The purpose of this circuit is to check continuously the level of main supply to a load with a backup supply that will turn on whenever the main supply drops below specified minimum voltage level. When the main supply has reached above the specific minimum level, the control circuit will shut the backup supply and resumes the main supply to the load. The design of this circuit shows that the transition process runs smoothly and eliminates the transients. Although the transition process shows a slight drop in term of voltage supply, the effect does not give significant problem to the target system. It is concluded that the prototype design of this circuit is acceptable and meets the objective of the design.","PeriodicalId":443652,"journal":{"name":"2007 5th Student Conference on Research and Development","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124901100","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}