. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Dissertation Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1....

In this paper, we investigated vector control of an induction machine taking into account discretization problems of the command. In the purpose to show how to include in a discrete model of this current control and with rotor time constant update. The results of simulation obtained are very satisfaisant. That was possible thanks to the good choice of the values of the parameters of the regulat...

Regular-sampled PWM techniques have been developed to reproduce the harmonic-elimination and harmonic minimization PWM characteristics. These new regular-sampled PWM control strategies significantly reduce the computational requirements for real-time microprocessor-based PWM implementation. This results in simplied and more efficient microprocessor softwarehardware requirements, leading to real...

This paper studies the reflection of pulses from a randomly layered half space. It characterizes the statistical properties of the reflected signals at the surface in a suitable asymptotic limit in which the pulse width is large compared to the typical size of the inhomogeneous layers but small compared to the macroscopic variations of the medium properties. It is shown how this characterizatio...

Calculations of the shape and the timing of single-magnetic-flux quanta ~SFQs! generated by high-current-density ‘‘self-shunted’’ Josephson junctions are presented. The junction current is assumed to be due in part to multiple Andreev reflections within the high-transparency barrier. The SFQ pulses from these junctions show several differences when compared to those from lower-current-density r...

This paper studies the consensus problem for multi-agent systems. A distributed consensus algorithm is developed by constructing homogeneous pulse width modulators for agents in the network. In particular, a certain percentage of the sampling period named duty cycle is modulated according to some state difference with respect to the neighbors at each sampling instant. During each duty cycle, th...

In view of X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) intensity prospects, we reviewed the past and recent work in view of amplification of powerful XFEL laser pulse to achieve intensity in the regime of high field science. We report here some of the relevant work investigated in this field and predicted further scalings and possibilities for XFEL pulse amplification.

In this paper, a SEIRS epidemic model with two delays and pulse vaccination is formulated. The pulse vaccination strategy has been applied to control the spread and transmission of an infectious disease. The global attractivity of infection-free periodic solution are explored. We show that the disease is eradicated when the basic reproduction number is less than unity.

Ultra-high luminance lamps emitting white light with a well-scattered blue spectrum from InGaN/GaN laser diodes and a phosphor-converted yellow spectrum show speckle contrast values as low as LED. Spectral behavior of the laser diodes is analyzed to find the reason why such low values are obtained. As a result, the PWM-driven, multilongitudinal mode with dynamically broadened line-width is foun...