B. S. Sourab, Chakravarthy H. S. Ranganatha, Sachith D'Souza
{"title":"Design and implementation of mobility aid for blind people","authors":"B. S. Sourab, Chakravarthy H. S. Ranganatha, Sachith D'Souza","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274960","url":null,"abstract":"With the scope of electronics increasing day by day, the need for utilizing these advanced technologies to make human lives simpler is becoming more and more necessary. The demand for using these technologies to make lives easier for disabled people is also increasing. This has prompted many new areas of research and one of the areas is electronic mobility aid for blind people. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 285 million people of all ages are blind, which is significantly a large number [1]. Traditional mobility aids include the white stick and the guide dogs which take a lot of time getting used to. There are a few smart systems available in the market which uses electronic sensors mounted on the cane but those systems also have certain disadvantages. This paper analyses the available solutions and proposes an entire new approach to solve the above problem. The new approach not only eliminates the disadvantages of the existing solutions, but it also is reliable, cost effective and most importantly easier to use.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"11 1","pages":"290-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88185048","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":"PSO tuned PID controller for controlling camera position in UAV using 2-axis gimbal","authors":"R. Rajesh, C. Ananda","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274930","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, camera gimbal control is designed which controls the on board camera position used in UAV for various applications such as target tracking, Surveillance, Aerial photography, autonomous navigation and so on. Traditional tracking systems are heavy and large to mount on small airframes. Gimbal with camera replaces traditional tracking systems and used to capture aerial photography without video noise and vibrations. So, the gimbal trajectory planning and its motion control are necessary. The controlling of camera gimbal is designed using different controlling techniques which respond quickly without excitation of damping flexibility. In order to develop the control, kinematics is derived using different robotics techniques. In this paper PID controller is designed to control camera position using gimbal mechanism. PID control is the popular controller used in industries for its effectiveness, simplicity of design and its feasibility. PID consists of three tuning parameters which can be tuned using different techniques. Manual tuning is not preferred since it is time consuming, tedious and leads to poor performance. Here, traditional tuning methods and evolutionary algorithms/bio-inspired algorithms are used to tune PID parameters. PSO is the evolutionary algorithm used because of its stable convergence, dynamic and static performance, good computational efficiency due to which system performance with minimum errors can be achieved. In this paper, performance of system with conventional PID and PSO tuned PID are compared and optimum solution is implemented.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"30 1","pages":"128-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75517874","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}
V. Prema, S. Dutta, K. Rao, Shriya Shekhar, B. Kariyappa
{"title":"Effective battery usage strategies for hybrid power management","authors":"V. Prema, S. Dutta, K. Rao, Shriya Shekhar, B. Kariyappa","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274924","url":null,"abstract":"In developing countries there are a large number of isolated areas not connected to the main grid. The energy demands of these remote, isolated communities are met by diesel operated power systems. These systems are often highly polluting and with time, an effort is made to make a transition to systems wherein single or multiple renewable energy sources are used to augment the diesel generators and thereby reduce the environmental footprint. Majority of such off-grid hybrid systems include a massive battery bank to store excess energy to supply the user when the renewable is inefficient. Inclusion of such large batteries results in additional investment costs and recycling issues. Therefore it is necessary to minimise the battery size as far as possible, and operate the system under a strategy to ensure maximum utilisation of renewable supplies and minimal DG usage. In this paper the power management strategy for a PV-battery and VSDG system was developed. A battery was modelled in MATLAB and four different battery operation algorithms were simulated for a set of data comprising of load and solar power output for every ten minute period for a day and the effective usage of DG was compared and analysed.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"11 1","pages":"95-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78680509","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":"Comparison of efficiencies of in situ induction motor in unbalanced field conditions","authors":"G. S. Grewal, B. Rajpurohit","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274919","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a tremendous pressure to assess the in situ efficiency of Induction Machine (IM) with bounded level of intrusion and restricted measurements so as to enhance IMs enforcement. Very few researchers have carried out work to make IM efficiency evaluation methods compatible to unbalanced supply and varying load conditions. This paper recommends a novel approach using cuckoo algorithm to obtain efficiency assessment of an IM operating as a motor working with unbalanced supply having different phase voltages and different currents respectively. The cuckoo algorithm improves the searching ability and has competence to accommodate to complex optimization obstacles. Here, cuckoo algorithm optimizes the IM positive sequence parameters at various loading levels. The parameters optimization is done with the use of positive sequence input currents and electrical powers which have been obtained earlier at various load points of operation. Using the optimized parameters, the evaluation of negative sequence parameters can be made. So, the efficiency of IM can be estimated at different loading levels. Comparison of efficiencies at varying load points with unbalanced power supplies is carried out. The proposed approach is materialized on the MATLAB/SIMULINK platform. The effectiveness, validation and accuracy of the proposed strategy are established by comparing the results obtained with genetic algorithm.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"519 1","pages":"70-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77180625","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}
Tapas Chakrabarti, Udit Sharma, Suvrajit Manna, Tyajodeep Chakrabarti, S. Sarkar
{"title":"Design of intelligent Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique based on swarm intelligence based algorithms","authors":"Tapas Chakrabarti, Udit Sharma, Suvrajit Manna, Tyajodeep Chakrabarti, S. Sarkar","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274938","url":null,"abstract":"Main objective of this paper is to develop an intelligent and efficient Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) technique. Two most recently introduced and popular swarm intelligent based algorithms: Firefly algorithm (FA) and Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) has been used in this study to develop a novel technique to track the Maximum Power Point (MPP) of a solar cell module. The performances of two algorithms in this context have been compared with other popular evolutionary computing techniques like PSO, DE and GA. Simulations were done in MATLAB/SIMULINK environment and simulation results show that proposed approach can obtain MPP to a good precision under different solar irradiance and environmental temperatures.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"102 1","pages":"173-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85921804","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}
B. Chandrasekhar, G. Y. Reddy, R. S. Kumar, S. Lakshminarayanan
{"title":"Design, simulation and validation of solar inverter with two phase interleaved boost converter","authors":"B. Chandrasekhar, G. Y. Reddy, R. S. Kumar, S. Lakshminarayanan","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274908","url":null,"abstract":"This paper brings out design, simulation and validation of 2-phase interleaved DC-DC boost converter for solar inverter application. Handling high currents in high power applications, at the input side is a crucial aspect of the design of DC-DC boost converter. An interleaved DC-DC boost converter assimilate high current through current sharing. The performance of the Solar Inverter with two phase interleaved boost converter is verified and validated through simulation and experimental results.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"263 1","pages":"7-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85351523","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}
V. Srinivasan, B. Subathra, S. Srinivasan, S. Kannan
{"title":"Asset management in smart grids using improved Dissolved Gas Analysis","authors":"V. Srinivasan, B. Subathra, S. Srinivasan, S. Kannan","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274968","url":null,"abstract":"Asset Management Systems (AMS) are pivotal to build reliable and safe smart grids. An important function of AMS is the monitoring and diagnosis of the power transformers. Various tests are performed on power transformers to detect incipient faults. Among the available methods, Dissolved Gas Analysis (DGA) has been widely used and shown promise. However, interpreting the results of the DGA is challenging due to the availability of wide variety of methods such as Rogers ratio, Doernenburg ratio, key gas procedure of IEEE, Basic gas ratio and Duval triangle methods of IEC. The accuracy of the interpretation methods influences AMS performance leading to reliability issues in the grid. This investigation compares the accuracy of Duval method and basic gas ratio method to detect transformer faults from real-time fault data obtained from power transformers. Our results on data obtained from Electrical Research and Development Association for seven transformer incipient faults shows that the Duval method is accurate than the basic gas ratio method for identifying incipient transformer fault based on DGA results. Further, the basic gas ratio was not able to detect two of the seven faults. These results illustrate the need to integrate Duval method to detect power transformer faults within AMS.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"3 1","pages":"333-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73017947","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":"Effect of DBDS on DC Resistance of paper oil insulation system","authors":"F. Khan, M. Saritha","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274978","url":null,"abstract":"A number of power transformer failures occur due to the addition of DBDS compound in transformer oil. When DBDS reacts with Cu, it results in the breakdown of DBDS and thus pawing way to the formation of CU2S. The CU2S on the surface of the copper conductor migrates from one layer to another layer of insulation papers (Kraft papers) and this results in lowering of dielectric strength and thus electrical faults occur. The metal passivators such as Irgamet 39™, Benzotriazole (BTA-Aldrich) and 6Bis-(1-methyl-1-phenylethyl) Phenol (BMPEP-Aldrich) can be used to suppress the formation of copper sulfide. This addition of metal passivators to oil does not reduce or eliminate DBDS [1-6]. In this paper the effect of DBDS on DC Resistance of paper oil insulation system has been studied Experimental study has been carried out to describe the role of DBDS in fall of DC Resistance of paper-oil insulation of transformers. Different quantities of DBDS were added with pure transformer oil and the effect it will have on dc resistance under different applied voltages for different time intervals have been compared and contrasted.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"90 1","pages":"388-392"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79401506","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}
P. Anju, Uma Syamkumar, A. Gopinath, B. Jaya, M. N. Namboothiripad
{"title":"Polyphase motors and drives - The prospects of higher power by wire system for aerospace application","authors":"P. Anju, Uma Syamkumar, A. Gopinath, B. Jaya, M. N. Namboothiripad","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274914","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes a poly phase BLDC motor based electromechanical actuator system for higher capability engine gimbal control applications. The scheme is based on the inherent advantages of the polyphase system together with the requirements of higher power capability actuation system. The paper presents in detail the generation of commutation logic for a five phase motor. The modelling of a five phase BLDC motor and its validation in closed loop as a position servo system in MATLAB/SIMULINK is detailed. The evaluation of the inherent fault tolerant capability of the five phase motor based electromechanical actuator is also validated through simulations and the results are highlighted. The hardware implementation of the five phase BLDC motor drive was carried out and the experimental results are presented.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"42-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79661758","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":"Interconnection of wind-solar hybrid Renewable Energy source to the 3 phase-3 wire distribution system along with power quality improvements at the grid side","authors":"M. V. Gururaj, U. Vinatha, V. Jayasankar","doi":"10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPACE.2015.7274937","url":null,"abstract":"Scarcity of power has been one of the nightmare issues for mankind in the modern age. Renewable Energy Sources (RES) working parallel with conventional power plants are playing a lead role in narrowing the difference between supply and demand. Among all the available renewable energy sources wind-solar hybrid systems are the most popular one. Due to their natural advantage of being complimentary to each other, they are assuring reliability to the utility. Power quality issues arising due to the usage of non-linear loads at the point of common coupling are addressed with the help of power electronic device interfacing RES to the grid. The work presented in this paper consists of Modeling and Simulation of wind-solar hybrid energy system and interfacing it to the grid through the interfacing inverter. A suitable control strategy which will add shunt active filter functionality to the RES interfacing device to the grid is also undertaken.","PeriodicalId":6644,"journal":{"name":"2015 International Conference on Power and Advanced Control Engineering (ICPACE)","volume":"35 1","pages":"168-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87153484","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}