Design of a 2-DOF-PID controller using an improved sine–cosine algorithm for load frequency control of a three-area system with nonlinearities

This paper proposes an improved sine–cosine algorithm (ISCA) based 2-DOF-PID controller for load frequency control. A three-area test system is built for study, while some physical constraints (nonlinearities) are considered for the investigation of a realistic power system. The proposed method is used as the parameter optimizer of the LFC controller in different scenarios. The 2-DOF-PID controllers are used because of their capability of fast disturbance rejection without significant increase of overshoot in set-point tracking. The 2-DOF-PID controllers’ efficacy is observed by examining the responses with the outcomes obtained with PID and FOPID controllers. The simulation results with the suggested scheme are correlated with some of the existing algorithms, such as SCA, SSA, ALO, and PSO in three different scenarios, i.e., a disturbance in two areas, in three areas, and in the presence of physical constraints. In addition, the study is extended to a four-area power system. Statistical analysis is performed using the Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test (WSRT) on 20 independent runs. This confirms the supremacy of the proposed method.     

电力有源滤波器控制器的研究与仿真分析

建立了包括有源电力滤波器（ＡＰＦ）在内的公共连接点（ＰＣＣ）的数学模型;针对实际控制器计算过程中的时间延迟,提出对负载电流值进行预测的两种算法,对逆变器的开关元件提出一种新型脉宽调制（ＰＷＭ）控制方案,并采用电力电子仿真软件包进行了仿真验证。     

浅析40T支架搬运车液压系统油温变化对其效率的影响

介绍了油温变化对40T支架搬运车液压系统油液黏度、液压介质和橡胶类密封件的影响,分析了液压系统的总发热功率、总散热功率,结合动态热平衡的计算,找出了液压系统总效率与油温变化之间的关系,并给出其函数关系式。根据这种关系,通过一种工况的油温实测数据取样,计算出相应的效率值,定量地验证了液压系统油温变化引起效率变化的关系,得出了总效率随着温度变化而变化的结论,即温差增大时,总效率降低;温差减小时,总效率增大。通过该结论可以全面掌握系统的工作状态,通过降低油温有效提高效率。     

High power devices in wide bandgap semiconductors

Silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor devices for high power applications are now commercially available as discrete devices. Recently Schottky diodes are offered by both USA and Europe based companies. Active switching devices such as bipolar junction transistors (BJTs), field effect transistors (JFETs and MOSFETs) are now reaching the market. The interest is rapidly growing for these devices in high power and high temperature applications. The main advantages of wide bandgap semiconductors are their very hi...     

Guiding students to the right questions: adaptive navigation support in an E‐Learning system for Java programming

Rapid growth of the volume of interactive questions available to the students of modern E‐Learning courses placed the problem of personalized guidance on the agenda of E‐Learning researchers. Without proper guidance, students frequently select too simple or too complicated problems and ended either bored or discouraged. This paper explores a specific personalized guidance technology known as adaptive navigation support. We developed JavaGuide, a system, which guides students to appropriate questions in a Java programming course, and investigated the effect of personalized guidance a three‐semester long classroom study. The results of this study confirm the educational and motivational effects of adaptive navigation support.     

A comparative study of two techniques for improving power‐handling capability of CMOS T/R switches

This article proposes an asymmetric topology for transmit/receive (T/R) switches and more importantly presents a comparative study of both LC‐tuned and resistive body‐floating techniques for improving the power‐handling capability of the T/R switches in the same 0.18‐μm triple‐well CMOS. It is shown from simulations and measurements that the switches adopting either technique achieve comparable performances. For instance, the switch employing the LC‐tuned body‐floating technique exhibits insertion loss of 1.5 dB, isolation of 23.5 dB, and power‐handling capability of 22.5 dBm at 5.2 GHz, whereas the switch using the resistive body‐floating technique exhibits insertion loss of 1.3 dB, isolation of 24 dB, and power‐handling capability of 22.2 dBm, respectively. Therefore, one can conclude that the asymmetric topology with the resistive body‐floating technique is more suitable for designing T/R switches for wireless local area network applications as it consumes smaller silicon area. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J RF and Microwave CAE, 2010.     

A DSS for integrated distribution of empty and full containers

A DSS integrating empty and full containers transshipment operations is presented, addressing the typically unbalanced export/import containers trading problem. The problem is modeled as a network, where nodes represent customers, leasing companies, harbors and warehouses, while arcs represent transportation routes. The underlying mathematical model operates in stages, first prioritizing and adjusting full containers demands considering available empty containers supplies, and then statically optimizing costs. Transportation routes are registered and dynamically controlled, cyclically, for a given time horizon. The DSS is flexible, allowing several parameters to be configured. Experimental examples using randomly generated parameters were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the system.     

Automatic detection of breast cancers in mammograms using structured support vector machines

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed in women. Large margin classifiers like the support vector machine (SVM) have been reported effective in computer-assisted diagnosis systems for breast cancers. However, since the separating hyperplane determination exclusively relies on support vectors, the SVM is essentially a local classifier and its performance can be further improved. In this work, we introduce a structured SVM model to determine if each mammographic region is normal or cancerous by considering the cluster structures in the training set. The optimization problem in this new model can be solved efficiently by being formulated as one second order cone programming problem. Experimental evaluation is performed on the Digital Database for Screening Mammography (DDSM) dataset. Various types of features, including curvilinear features, texture features, Gabor features, and multi-resolution features, are extracted from the sample images. We then select the salient features using the recursive feature elimination algorithm. The structured SVM achieves better detection performance compared with a well-tested SVM classifier in terms of the area under the ROC curve.     

HALT技术在变频器中的应用初探

HALT技术可在产品设计阶段快速消除设计缺陷,缩短研发时间和成本,迅速提高产品的质量和固有可靠性。本文从HALT试验的背景出发,介绍了HALT试验的基本原理和意义。在对HALT箱各方面性能验证的基础上,针对我司11kW变频器,详细讲述了HALT试验的具体操作过程。     

基于云计算的营销决策支持系统

设计并实施了一种基于云计算的营销决策支持系统,和其他管理决策子系统发生交互,共同构成了完整的现代企业经营决策支持系统.系统的数据库采用分布式设计,使得系统既有独立处理本地数据库的能力,也可读取异地数据库中的数据.系统模型库包含多种营销因素的决策模型,并采用模型组合的思想,将复杂的决策问题通过模型之间的组合来实现.在流程设计上充分考虑人机交互,将用户的经验判断纳入到决策过程中.完成了系统的开发,并用仿真数据进行了系统测试,结果表明系统基本运行稳定,各子模块衔接良好,与其他子系统实现了数据共享.