Recursive parameter estimation in linear regression models by means of the Stenlund-Gustafsson algorithm is considered. The manifold of stationary solutions to the parameter update equation is parameterized in terms of excitation properties. It is shown that the parameter estimation error vector does not diverge under lack of excitation, therefore achieving the purpose of anti-windup. Furthermo...

The Box-Cox power exponential (BCPE) distribution, developed in this paper, provides a model for a dependent variable Y exhibiting both skewness and kurtosis (leptokurtosis or platykurtosis). The distribution is defined by a power transformation Y(nu) having a shifted and scaled (truncated) standard power exponential distribution with parameter tau. The distribution has four parameters and is d...

Using mobile sensors to perform optimal measurement and estimation of a distributed parameter system in a domain of interest is considered in this paper. Given parameters, how to optimally plan the motion trajectories of the mobile sensors has been known in the literature, where the purpose of mobile sensing is to best estimate the parameters. Clearly, there is a “chick-and-egg” problem regardi...

The power of main engine must be determined in such a way to let the seagoing ship reaches the predicted, in the agreement with the ship owner, service speed. Significant influence on the main engine power, apart from the ship’s speed, has a geometry shape and the dimensions of the ship’s hull. Begins from the general form of Admiralition’s equation, it is essential to establish the specific qu...

Today, with attention to increase in sensitive electrical equipments application in distribution networks and their susceptibility to the power quality deficiencies, the protection necessity of sensitive loads against undesirable effects of these disturbances are in focus. So, in this paper voltage sag deficiency and Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) would be introduced as the most prevalent power...

In this paper, a multi-objective optimization method is implemented by using of genetic algorithm techniques in order to determine optimum configuration of solar chimney power plant. The objective function which is simultaneously considered in the analysis is output power of the plant. Output power of the system is maximized. Design parameters of the considered plant include collector radius (R...

Customer requirements for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with long flight times are increasing exponentially in the personal, commercial, and military use areas. Due to their limited payload, large numbers of on-board battery packs cannot be used and this is the main reason behind the need for battery management software (BMS) packages with state of charge (SOC) estimation functions to increas...

The TRANSCEND system for fault detection and isolation in continuous systems uses qualitative reasoning methods to analyze transients caused by abrupt faults. Qualitative transient analysis avoids some of the computational difficulties associated with numerical schemes, but they lack discriminating power. This paper presents the formal basis for qualitative transient analysis, and then establis...

Many popular models for photovoltaic system performance (e.g., [1], [2]) employ a single diode model (e.g., [3]) to compute the IV curve for a module or string of modules for given irradiance and temperature conditions. Most commonly (e.g., [4]), parameters are determined using only current and voltage at short circuit, open circuit and maximum power from a single IV curve at standard test cond...