Event-triggered variable horizon Supervisory Predictive control of hybrid power plants

The supervision of a hybrid power plant, including solar panels, a gas microturbine and a storage unit operating under varying solar power profiles is considered. The Economic Supervisory Predictive controller assigns the power references to the controlled subsystems of the hybrid cell using a financial criterion. A prediction of the renewable sources power is embedded into the supervisor. Results deteriorate when the solar power is unsteady, owing to the inaccuracy of the predictions for a long-range horizon of 10 s. The receding horizon is switched between an upper and a lower value according to the amplitude of the solar power trend. Theoretical results show the relevance of horizon switching, according to a tradeoff between performance and prediction accuracy. Experimental results, obtained in a Hardware In the Loop (HIL) framework, show the relevance of the variable horizon approach. Power amplifiers allow us to simulate virtual components, such as a gas microturbine, and to blend their powers with that of real devices (storage unit, real solar panels). In this case, fuel savings, reaching 15%, obtained under unsteady operating conditions lead to a better overall performance of the hybrid cell. The overall savings obtained in the experiments amount to 12%.     

Artificial bee colony based algorithm for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) for PV systems operating under partial shaded conditions

Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm has several characteristics that make it more attractive than other bio-inspired methods. Particularly, it is simple, it uses fewer control parameters and its convergence is independent of the initial conditions. In this paper, a novel artificial bee colony based maximum power point tracking algorithm (MPPT) is proposed. The developed algorithm, does not allow only overcoming the common drawback of the conventional MPPT methods, but it gives a simple and a robust MPPT scheme. A co-simulation methodology, combining Matlab/Simulink™ and Cadence/Pspice™, is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method and compare its performance, under dynamic weather conditions, with that of the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) based MPPT algorithm. Moreover, a laboratory setup has been realized and used to experimentally validate the proposed ABC-based MPPT algorithm. Simulation and experimental results have shown the satisfactory performance of the proposed approach.     

一种新的解映射算法的推导和实现

本文在一种16QAM,64QAM,256QAM的解映射算法启发下,提出了新的适合32QAM和128QAM的解映射算法,并在此基础上,给出了适合DVB-C接收机的多QAM解映射结构.然后在FPGA中实现和仿真.最后通过比较说明,相对于传统的查找表解映射方法,提出的解映射算法可以明显减少资源使用率.     

Controlled elements for designing ciphers suitable to efficient VLSI implementation

This work considers the problem of increasing the performance of the ciphers based on Data-Dependent (DD) operations (DDO) for VLSI implementations. New minimum size primitives are proposed to design DDOs. Using advanced DDOs instead of DD permutations (DDP) in the DDP-based iterative ciphers Cobra-H64 and Cobra-H128 the number of rounds has been significantly reduced yielding enhancement of the “performance per cost” value and retaining security at the level of indistinguishability from a random transformation. To obtain further enhancement of this parameter a new crypto-scheme based on the advanced DDOs is proposed. The FPGA implementation of the proposed crypto-scheme achieves higher throughput value and minimizes the allocated resources than the conventional designs. Design of the DDO boxes of different orders is considered and their ASIC implementation is estimated.     

Reconfigurable hardware implementation of a phase-correlation stereoalgorithm

This paper describes the implementation of a stereo-vision system using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Reconfigurable hardware, including FPGAs, is an attractive platform for implementing vision algorithms due to its ability to exploit parallelism often found in these algorithms, and due to the speed with which applications can be developed as compared to hardware. The system outputs 8-bit, subpixel disparity estimates for 256× 360 pixel images at 30,fps. A local-weighted phase correlation algorithm for stereo disparity [Fleet, D. J.: {Int. Conf. Syst. Man Cybernetics 1:48–54 (1994)] is implemented. Despite the complexity of performing correlations on multiscale, multiorientation phase data, the system runs as much as 300 times faster in hardware than its software implementation. This paper describes the hardware platform used, the algorithm, and the issues encountered during its hardware implementation. Of particular interest is the implementation of multiscale, steerable filters, which are widely used in computer vision algorithms. Several trade-offs (reducing the number of filter orientations from three to two, using fixed-point computation, changing the location of one localized low-pass filter, and using L1 instead of L2 norms) were required to both fit the design into the available hardware and to achieve video-rate processing. Finally, results from the system are given both for synthetic data sets as well as several standard stereo-pair test images.     

1.8 V千兆以太网接收器模拟前端预均衡电路

介绍了一种用于1.8 V电源电压下的千兆以太网接收器的模拟前端预均衡电路。电路分为三个部分:预处理电路、基带漂移补偿电路和可变增益放大电路,主要实现回波消除、基带漂移补偿和电路增益自动控制等功能。为了与百兆模式兼容,提出了一种预处理电路。仿真结果表明,该电路可以很好地实现回波消除的功能,能够对由于基带漂移引起的信号失真给以补偿,可以提供16级不同的增益,并进行频率补偿。电路采用0.18μm标准CMOS工艺实现。     

The aditi deductive database system

Deductive databases generalize relational databases by providing support for recursive views and non-atomic data. Aditi is a deductive system based on the client-server model; it is inherently multi-user and capable of exploiting parallelism on shared-memory multiprocessors. The back-end uses relational technology for efficiency in the management of disk-based data and uses optimization algorithms especially developed for the bottom-up evaluation of logical queries involving recursion. The front-end interacts with the user in a logical language that has more expressive power than relational query languages. We present the structure of Aditi, discuss its components in some detail, and present performance figures.     

烟气轮机特殊状态下的保护

从烟气轮机超速的极限开始 ,分别按照阀门的关闭时间为 1 .5s和 6s的两种典型状态 ,对烟机在联轴节断裂等特殊工况下的超速情况进行了分析。最后 ,对烟气轮机在特殊工况下的保护提出了建议。     

在协议集成测试系统上开展路由协议测试

在分析路由协议的特性及其测试需求的基础上，提出利用窗口黑盒来描述被测协议，利用多通道测试方法扩展对被测实现的控制和观察，通过扩充参考实现增强系统的测试能力。将这些理论，技术应用于系统中，对路由协议开展了有效的测试活动，为国产高性能路由器的开发提供了有力的支持，也进一步增强了PITS系统的功能和适用性。     

产品数据管理(PDM)实施中的存在问题与对策

论述了产品数据管理（PDM）技术发展的历史，讨论了实施PDM的两种目标，并指出PDM在制造业信息化中的地位与作用，阐述了PDM重在实施的原因，根据作者经验，总结了我国企业在实施PDM中存在的4个问题，并从用户和软件厂商两个角度提出了解决这些问题的对策。