Electric power is mainly derived from a combination of an engine and a motor. The motor converts electrical power into mechanical energy, which is widely used in home appliances and industrial mechanical tools. When addressing specific applications, motor-driven tools generally need to make speed changes or have accurate positioning. In these applications, it is necessary to have a highly effic...

This paper presents a simulator for electric vehicles in the context of smart grids and distribution networks. It aims to support network operators’ planning and operations but can be used by other entities for related studies. The paper describes the parameters supported by the current version of the Electric Vehicle Scenario Simulator (EVeSSi) tool and its current algorithm. EVeSSi enables th...

This paper addresses a central concern in modeling and simulating electric grids and the information infrastructure that monitors and controls them. As the electric power infrastructure incorporates modern computing and communication technology, joint (hybrid) simulations of continuous power system models and discrete event models of communication, computation, and control operations become ess...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are an emerging type of mobile intelligent power consumption devices in Smart Grid as new green transport tools. In order to provide a powerful automation and intelligence support for wide area electric vehicles energy service network, we analyze the network infrastructure and communications demands of various terminals, devices and monitoring systems distributed in wide...

An optimal control ready model of a diesel-electric powertrain is developed, validated and provided to the research community. The aim of the model is to facilitate studies of the transient control of diesel-electric powertrains and also to provide a model for developers of optimization tools. The resulting model is a four state three control mean value engine model that captures the significan...

In this paper, we focus on the frequent glitches of general family cars. Based on the Neural Network theory and combining with the Micro-chip processor technology, we design an expert system-‘‘Integrated Cars Repairing Tools” (ICRT) and the size of the proposed ICRT is quite small and achieves the following attractive functions: (1) Portable Electric-jack, (2) Electric Tire-pressure-meter, (3) ...