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# IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

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• ### An Adaptive Digital Control Scheme for Improved Active Power Filtering under Distorted Grid Conditions

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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The operation of active power filters under non-ideal grid conditions, such as grid-frequency fluctuation and voltage-harmonics, can lead to significant degradation in harmonic compensation performance. This paper proposes an adaptive digital-control scheme for a three-phase active power filter for use in harmonically distorted and variable-frequency grid conditions. This scheme is comprised of a ... View full abstract»

• ### Compensated Heading Angles for Outdoor Mobile Robots in Magnetically Disturbed Environments

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Heading information is critically important for autonomous mobile robots as it is necessary for scanning or sweeping predetermined areas for specific tasks. Fusing sensor data including angular rates, acceleration and geomagnetic fields provide heading and attitude. However, the geomagnetic field is often interfered with by ferromagnetic objects or other magnetic sources, resulting in incorrect he... View full abstract»

• ### Comparison of Thyristor Rectifier Configurations for a Six-Phase Rotating Brushless Outer Pole PM Exciter

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Recent technological developments have caused a renewed interest in the brushless excitation system. With the application of wireless communication, the conventional diode bridge has been replaced with fully controllable thyristors on the shaft. It offers the same dynamic performance as the conventional static excitation system. The thyristor bridge of the conventional three-phase exciter needs to... View full abstract»

• ### Effective Locomotion and Precise Unclogging Motion of an Untethered Flexible-Legged Magnetic Robot for Vascular Diseases

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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We propose an untethered flexible-legged magnetic robot (FLMR) manipulated by an external rotating magnetic field (ERMF) to generate effective locomotion and precise unclogging motion to treat vascular diseases. The proposed FLMR is composed of a front body with a drill tip, a cylindrical permanent magnet, a rear body, and flexible legs. The flexible legs are obliquely attached to the bodies like ... View full abstract»

• ### Analysis of embedded pre-filters in motion profiles

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In this study, representative motion profiles are analyzed to explain why smoother movement can enable a system to be silent, accurate, and reliable. Previous studies have indicated that abrupt changes in motion profiles are sources of system vibration and are directly connected to performance such as degraded efficiency and decreased machine's lifetime. Therefore, efforts to generate smoot... View full abstract»

• ### Adaptive event-triggering H$_{\infty}$ load frequency control for network-based power systems

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Load frequency control (LFC) is a very important method to keep the power systems stable and security. However, due to the introduction of communication networks in multi-area power systems, the traditional LFCmethod is not effective again. This motivates us to investigate an adaptive event-triggering $_{\infty}$ load frequency control (LFC) scheme for multi-area powe... View full abstract»

• ### Uncertainty and Disturbance Estimator Based Controllers Design under Finite Control Bandwidth Constraint

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In this paper, tracking versus disturbance rejection trade-off is revealed and quantitatively investigated for systems utilizing uncertainty and disturbance estimator (UDE) based controllers. The trade-off appears due to finite control bandwidth, characterizing any real-world application. Based on the exposed findings, guidelines for designing UDE controllers are provided and respective operationa... View full abstract»

• ### Design Optimization of a Hybrid-Excited Flux-Switching Machine for Aircraft safe DC Power Generation using a Diode Bridge Rectifier

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents a design optimization methodology of a Hybrid-Excited Flux-Switching Machine (HEFSM) for aircraft DC power generation. Hybrid machines are favored in new aircraft embedded generation systems because of their high power density. Their flux control capability allows the use of the more reliable diode bridge rectifier and makes them suitable for wide-speed-range DC power generatio... View full abstract»

• ### Design of Ladder-Slit Secondaries and Performance Improvement of Linear Induction Motors for Urban Rail Transit

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In order to improve the performance of linear induction motors for urban rail transit, the ladder-slit secondary is designed, as well as the performance of linear induction motors with the ladder-slit and flat-solid secondary are calculated and compared. Firstly, for the ladder-slit secondary, the slot combination, widths of the secondary conductor and side bar are designed. Secondly, the finite-e... View full abstract»

• ### Robust Finite Time Frequency and Voltage Restoration of Inverter-based Microgrids via Sliding Mode Cooperative Control

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In this paper, we present a novel control strategy to perform the exact finite-time restoration among voltages and frequencies of an islanded inverter-based microgrid. The problem is attacked from a cooperative-based control perspective inspired to the tracking consensus paradigm. Ad-hoc chattering-free sliding-mode based distributed algorithms are designed to enhance the underlying robustness and... View full abstract»

• ### Fault Detection and Classification based on Co-Training of Semi-Supervised Machine Learning

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents a semi-supervised machine learning approach based on co-training of two classifiers for fault classification in both the transmission and the distribution systems with consideration of micro-grids. Unlike previous work in which only labeled data are treated using supervised machine learning approaches, this work uses a semi-supervised machine learning approach to handle both la... View full abstract»

• ### Suppression of High Frequency Circulating Current Caused by Asynchronous Carriers for Parallel Grid-connected Converters

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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The parallel three-phase grid-connected converters sharing DC and AC bus can increase the system power level effectively. However, the circulating current will occur inevitably. The existing studies primarily focus on dc, fundamental and low frequency circulating current. The high frequency circulating current (HFCC) caused by asynchronous carriers is studied emphatically in this paper, which is b... View full abstract»

• ### Design optimization with flux-weakening of High-Speed PMSM for electrical vehicle considering the driving cycle

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In this paper, the design optimization of a non-salient high-speed Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine (PMSM) for electric vehicle applications is presented. It will be shown how, with a new approach, it is possible to find a deterministic solution to solve the sizing of the machine from a given driving cycle. The optimal geometry and the optimal control strategy over the cycle minimizing both th... View full abstract»

• ### Torque/Power Density Optimization of a Dual-Stator Brushless Doubly-Fed Induction Generator for Wind Power Application

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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The brushless doubly-fed machine has definitely attractive features to be employed in highly-reliable wind turbine systems. However, the existing brushless doubly-fed topologies primarily work by the principle of modulation and suffer from low torque/power density, inferior efficiency, and high level of time and spatial harmonic distortion. This paper presents a simple design optimization approach... View full abstract»

• ### A Reconfigurable and Scalable FPGA Architecture for Bilateral Filtering

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Bilateral filter is an edge-preserving smoother that has applications in image processing, computer vision, and computational photography. In the past, FPGA implementations of the filter have been proposed that can achieve high throughput using parallelization and pipelining. An inherent limitation with direct implementations is that their complexity scales as O($\omega^{2}$ View full abstract»

• ### Multiphysics Design Optimization of a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents the multiphysics design optimization of a permanent magnet synchronous generator. A medium-power wind turbine (55 kW) is taken as the basis for the design optimization whereas reducing its cost is the optimization goal. The design comprises the multiphysics generator model and the cost and losses models of the grid connection static power converters. The power converter command... View full abstract»

• ### Advances in Capacitive, Eddy Current and Magnetic Displacement Sensors and Corresponding Interfaces

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper presents a review of the latest advances in the field of capacitive, inductive (eddy current) and magnetic sensors, in the measurement of absolute displacement. The need for accurate displacement and position measurement in the micrometer, nanometer and sub-nanometer scales has increased significantly over the last few years. Application examples can be found in high-tech industries, me... View full abstract»

• ### Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Trans-Z-Source Inverters with Leakage Inductance Effects

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Transformer based Z-source (trans-Z-source) inverters are recently proposed to extend the traditional Z-source inverter with higher buck-boost capabilities as well as reducing the passive components at the same time. A new scheme for high-boost trans-Z-source inverter is proposed in this paper. In the traditional trans-Z-source inverters for high boosting voltages, the modulation index can be high... View full abstract»

• ### Non-segmented Pspice Circuit Model of GaN HEMT with Simulation Convergence Consideration

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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To solve the simulation convergence problem of enhancement mode gallium nitride high electron mobility transistor (GaN HEMT) models, this paper proposes a non-segmented model for GaN HEMT, which uses non-segmented, smooth continuous equations to describe the static and dynamic characteristics of GaN HEMT. Further, the static characteristic of GaN HEMT obtained by the non-segmented model is verifie... View full abstract»

• ### A New Structure of Fault Current Limiter Based on the System Impedance with Fast Eliminating Method and Simple Control Procedure

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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In this paper, a new type of fault current limiter (FCL) called impedance-based fault current limiter (IBFCL) is proposed. The structure has the capability to limit the fault current to an extent predefined value by means of the system impedance. The control circuit uses voltage and current data to calculate the impedance value. In order to limit the fault current, several eliminating resistors, w... View full abstract»

• ### High Voltage 4H-SiC Power MOSFETs with Boron doped gate oxide

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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A new process technology for 4H-SiC planar power MOSFETs based on a Boron diffusion step to improve the SiO2/SiC interface quality is presented in this work. Large area (up to 25 mm2) power MOSFETs of three voltages ratings (1.7 kV, 3.3 kV and 4.5 kV) have been fabricated showing significant improvements in terms of inversion channel mobility and on-resistance in comparison with counterparts witho... View full abstract»

• ### High Step-Up Interleaved ZVT Converter with Low Voltage Stress and Automatic Current Sharing

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper proposes a soft switching non-isolated DC/DC interleaved converter incorporating coupled inductors and switched capacitors for high step-up applications. The converter integrates the interleaved structure and winding-cross-coupled inductors (WCCIs) technique to reduce current stress of semiconductor devices and diminish the input current ripple considerably. In addition, the interleaved... View full abstract»

• ### Iron Loss and Efficiency Analysis of Interior PM Machines for Electric Vehicle Applications

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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An interior permanent magnet (IPM) machine with $\triangledown$+U shape rotor topology is proposed for electric vehicle (EV) applications whose iron loss and efficiency are compared to that of typical V shape and $\triangledown$ shape machines. The air-gap flux density, flux-density waveform and its harmonics on stator core and rotor core... View full abstract»

• ### A Double Modulation Wave CBPWM Strategy Providing Neutral-Point Voltage Oscillation Elimination and CMV Reduction for Three-Level NPC Inverters

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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This paper proposes a double modulation wave carrier-based pulsewidth modulation (CBPWM) strategy for the three-level (TL) neutral-point-clamped (NPC) inverter. This modulation strategy not only overcomes one of the main problems of the NPC inverter, which is the low-frequency voltage oscillation on the neutral point, but also reduces the common-mode voltage (CMV) generated by the inverter. Throug... View full abstract»

• ### Hybrid Energy Storage System MicroGrids Integration for Power Quality Improvement Using Four Leg Three Level NPC Inverter and Second Order Sliding Mode Control

Publication Year: 2017, Page(s): 1
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Rising demand for distributed generation based on Renewable Energy Sources (RES) has led to several issues in the operation of utility grids. The microgrid is a promising solution to solve these problems. A dedicated energy storage system could contribute to a better integration of RES into the microgrid by smoothing the renewable resource's intermittency, improving the quality of the injec... View full abstract»

## Aims & Scope

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics encompasses the applications of electronics, controls and communications, instrumentation and computational intelligence for the enhancement of industrial and manufacturing systems and processes.

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