The aims of this study were to determine if isolated maximum joint torques and joint torques during a maximum polyarticular task (i.e. cycling at maximum power) are correlated despite joint angle and velocity discrepancies, and to assess if an isolated joint-specific torque production capability at slow angular velocity is related to cycling power. Nine cyclists completed two different evaluati...

The goal of this study was to investigate the control strategy employed by gymnasts in maintaining a hand balance. It was hypothesized that a "wrist strategy" was used in which perturbations in the sagittal plane were corrected using variations in wrist flexor torque with synergistic shoulder and hip torques acting to preserve a fixed body configuration. A theoretical model of wrist strategy in...

A new torque control strategy for brushless motors is presented, which results in minimum torque ripple and copper losses. The motor model assumes linear magnetics, but contains a current limit which can delimit the onset of magnetic saturation, or be the motor amplifier current limit, whichever is reached first. The control problem is formulated and solved as a quadratic programming problem wi...

This paper presents an original study on the generated torque ripples of phase commutation in the Four-Switch, Three-Phase Inverter (FSTPI) Brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive which is suitable for low cost applications. Analytic values of torque ripple and commutation duration are obtained for different operation conditions. Moreover, limitation on the speed range operation caused from splitti...

In this paper we propose an approach to improve the direct torque control (DTC) of an induction motor (IM). The proposed DTC is based on fuzzy logic technique switching table, is described compared with conventional direct torque control (DTC). To test the fuzzy control strategy a simulation platform using MATLAB/SIMULINK was built which includes induction motor d-q model, inverter model, fuzzy...

Movement control responsible for generation of maximal hand velocity was studied on the example of horizontal arm swing that is a component of various sports activities. The movement was performed with the nondominant arm in similarity with the baseball bat swing. The task was to generate maximum hand velocity at a target. The movement included trunk long-axis rotation and horizontal shoulder a...

One challenge to predict output performance characteristics of switched reluctance machines (SRM) is the accurate estimation of the minimum inductance of the stator phase at unaligned position of the rotor. In this paper, boundary element method (BEM) is used for this purpose while avoiding time-consuming numerical integrations. So, the method is investigated in terms of accuracy and computatio...

Direct Flux and torque control (DTC) based speed control strategy of induction motor (IM) drive and the effect of flux and torque hysteresis band amplitude on this strategy is presented. This scheme is simple and provides a good dynamic response. But the major problem associated with this DTC drive is high torque along with stator flux ripples. The direct torque control of induction machine is ...

A highly sensitive volt-ampere characteristics detecting system was applied to measure the volt-ampere curves of nine acupuncture points, LU9, HT7, LI4, PC6, ST36, SP6, KI3, LR3, and SP3, and corresponding nonacupuncture points bilaterally from 42 healthy volunteers. Electric currents intensity was increased from 0 μA to 20 μA and then returned to 0 μA again. The results showed that the volt-am...

this paper gives a detailed analysis of direct torque control (dtc) strategy in a five-level drive and proposes a 24-sector switching table. the overvoltage problem due to high dv/dt is reduced compared to the 12-sector dtc. using all vectors leads to better flexibility and reduces speed oscillations. simulation and experimental results for a 3kva prototype confirm the proposed solutions. a tms...