By combining optical triangulation with the comb-fringe technique and dual-channel telemetry, wing kinematics and body attitudes accompanying muscle activities of free-flying male hawkmoths were recorded synchronously when they performed flight manoeuvres elicited by a female sex pheromone. The results indicate that the wing leading edge angular position at the ventral stroke reversal, which ca...

The estimation of forces in swimming using the quasi-static approach (Schleihauf, In: J. Terauds, J.P. Clarys (Eds.), Swimming III, International Series on Sports Sciences. Vol. 8, University Park Press, Baltimore, 1979, 70-109) has been popular in recent years as propulsion is an important determinant of performance. The aim of this study was to establish the accuracy and reliability of curren...

A detailed model of wind power station, including Double Fed Induction Generator, DFIG is presented in this paper. Two control mechanisms are included in the model. The inner control system uses stator flux oriented control for the rotor side converter and grid voltage vector control for the grid side converter. The outer control system is used for wind turbine pitch angle. PSCAD/EMTDC is us...

New observations of energetic helium ion ̄uxes in the Earth's radiation belts have been obtained with the CAMMICE/HIT instrument on the ISTP/GGS POLAR spacecraft during the extended geomagnetically low activity period April through October 1996. POLAR executes a high inclination trajectory that crosses over both polar cap regions and passes over the geomagnetic equator in the heart of the radiat...

The difficulty of describing the positions of the body-fixed axis of a rotating body is approached through the use of Euler angles: spin ψ̇, nutation θ and precession φ shown below in Figure 1. In this case we surmount the difficulty of keeping track of the principal axes fixed to the body by making their orientation the unknowns in our equations of motion; then the angular velocities and angula...

Since the conventional electro-mechanical converter of 2D valve had problems of step lose due to its small tooth-pitch angle, a novel rotary electromagnet with large tooth-pitch angle and coreless rotor structure was proposed. Combined with the approaches of magnetic circuit analysis, finite element simulation and experimental study, the static and dynamic characteristics of electromagnet inclu...

Aiming at the grid-connected problems of the double-fed induction generator (DFIG), this paper researches the control technology of the rotor excitation and the pitch angle and proposes a grid-connected DFIG joint optimization control strategy of the rotor excitation and the pitch angle based on the structure decentralized theory, and establishes the joint optimization model of the grid-connect...

24 ISSN 1729‐8806, pp. 25‐32 Research on Centroid Position for Stairs Climbing Stability of Search and Rescue Robot Yan Guo1,2, Aiguo Song1, Jiatong Bao1, Huatao Zhang1, and Hongru Tang3 1School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China 2Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, Urbana 61801, Illinois, USA 3School of Energy and Pow...

A practical online optimization scheme is developed for performance optimization of an electrical aircraft propulsion system. The goal is to minimize the power extraction of the propulsion system for any given thrust value. The online optimizer computes the optimum pitch angle of a variable pitch propeller by minimizing the power of the system for a command thrust value. This algorithm is teste...

Pitch regulation plays a significant role in improving power performance and achieving output control wind turbines. The present study focuses on novel, pitch-regulated vertical axis turbine (VAWT) with inclined pitch axes. effect of two parameters (the fold angle the incline angle) instantaneous aerodynamic forces overall straight-bladed VAWT under tip-speed ratio 4 is investigated using an ac...