This paper presents real-time digital simulator enabled hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) electrical machine drive lab setup for educational purposes. The objective of this work is to create a platform for laboratory experiments to enhance drive control design and testing. In the proposed setup, an OPAL-RT real-time digital simulator (RT-LAB) is used to implement the desired control schemes for AC and...

During the last decades, the rapid development of power semiconductor devices has allowed the increased use of adjustable speed ac drives in a variety of applications, especially in the process-control industry. In many applications, the capability of controlling the speed effectively can improve the efficiency of the ac motors and thus lead to large savings in energy. Among the several approac...

This paper deals with the influence of the AC machine pole number on vibrations and noise of electromagnetic origin. First, rules of design of AC machines are reminded, pointing out the influence of the pole number. Then, the origin of magnetic vibrations and noise is explained. Analytical mechanical relations are given, allowing to estimate vibrations and noise of a machine. After that, the in...

Synchronous machine is an AC rotating machine whose speed under steady state condition is proportional to the frequency of the current in its armature. This paper presents an efficient neuro-fuzzy control of synchronous generator. It has been compared with fuzzy control and multilayer control. As evinced through the simulation results, neuro-fuzzy and type-2 are comparatively superior over the ...

Two experiments examine speed-up in argument pairs of various propositional forms. In the first experiment, participants were presented with pairs of conditional arguments. Some of these pairs had a form of a valid Modus Ponens (MP) inference, whereas other pairs had a form of a fallacy of Affirming the Consequent (AC). In both argument pairs, presentation of the prime led to a significant spee...

The microgrid (MG) is a popular concept to handle the high penetration of distributed energy resources, such as renewable and storage systems, into electric grids. However, integration inverter-interfaced generation units (IIDGs) imposes control protection challenges. Fault identification, classification isolation are major concerns with IIDGs-based active MGs where IIDGs reveal arbitrary imped...

Associative classification (AC) which is based on association rules has shown great promise over many other classification techniques on static dataset. Meanwhile, a new challenge have been proposed in that the increasing prominence of data streams arising in a wide range of advanced application. This paper describes and evaluates a new associative classification algorithm for data streams AC-D...

Matrix converter is a single-stage converter which directly connects a three-phase voltage source to a three-phase load without dc-link components. Therefore, any harmonic distortion and imbalance in input voltage directly reflect to the output of the converter. Recently, many researchers have made an effort to cope with this problem. In this paper, under distorted input voltage conditions, beh...

Soft magnetic composites (SMCs) have opened up new possibilities for the design of both DC and AC machines. Since SMCs are isotropic, machine topologies such as claw pole machines, transverse flux machines and the like, which have three dimensional flux density patterns have attracted the most attention. Very little effort has gone into improving the performance of conventional AC machines such...