Methods for calculating Available Transfer Capability (ATC) of the transmission systems may be grouped under Static and Dynamic methods. This paper presents a fast dynamic method for ATC calculations, which considers both Transient Stability Limits and Voltage Stability Limits as terminating criteria. A variation of Energy Function Method is used to determine the transient stability limit and t...

The excessive vibration caused by crowds walking across footbridges has attracted great public concerns in the past few decades. This paper presents, from considering the dynamic characteristics of the bipedal crowd model, a new stability limit criterion based on the bipedal excitation model. The stability limit can be used to estimate the upper boundary of crowd size. In addition, the dynamic ...

In this study, a novel variable impedance control for a lower-limb rehabilitation robotic system using voltage control strategy is presented. The majority of existing control approaches are based on control torque strategy, which require the knowledge of robot dynamics as well as dynamic of patients. This requires the controller to overcome complex problems such as uncertainties and nonlinearit...

The recently stipulated grid codes require wind generators to re-initiate normal power production after voltage sag. This paper presents a comparative performance of two commonly employed variable speed turbines in today’s electricity market, the doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) and permanent magnet synchronous (PMSG) turbines. evaluation both was performed for weak, strong grids, consider...

In this paper contend with the determination of offline, optimal proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller parameters of an automatic voltage regulator (AVR) system using Adaptive Tabu Search (ATS) algorithm is presented. Parameter of this PID controller is obtained by minimizing the performance index such as integrated absolute error (IAE), the integral of squared error (ISE), and the ...

This paper presents a control scheme for the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) to drive a variablespeed AC machine, especially focusing on improving dynamic performance. Theoretically, the energy balance in the MMC cell capacitors is prone to be unstable at start-up and at low frequency operations. Additionally, the MMC topology essentially requires advanced control strategies to balance energ...

Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) is widely recognized as an effective way to reduce high CPU power consumption. The technique trades CPU performance for power reduction and energy savings. As a result, there have been many proposals on how to effectively manage a DVS processor to minimize the CPU power consumption while keeping the performance degradation within an acceptable range. Most of these ...

In this article we present results from the simultaneous nonlinear (second harmonic generation and two-photon excitation fluorescence) imaging and voltage clamping of living cells. Specifically, we determine the sensitivity to transmembrane potential of second harmonic generation by ANEP-chromophore styryl dyes as a function of excitation wavelength and dye structure. We have measured second ha...

In this paper, the author proposes a sensorless direct torque control (DTC) of an induction motor (IM) fed by seven-level NPC inverter using artificial neural networks (ANN) and fuzzy logic controller. Fuzzy PI controller is used for controlling the rotor speed and ANN applied in switching select stator voltage. The control method proposed in this paper can reduce the torque, stator flux and to...