due to the high efficiency and low switching losses of resonant power convertors in comparison with switching convertors, nowadays there is a growing trend towards these convertors. however, because of the high frequency of switching in such convertors, it is quite difficult to present an efficient control method. in this paper, based on the state feedback method and using pole placement techni...

In modeling a cold standby redundancy allocation problem (RAP) with imperfect switching mechanism, deriving a closed form version of a system reliability is too difficult. A convenient lower bound on system reliability is proposed and this approximation is widely used as a part of objective function for a system reliability maximization problem in the literature. Considering this lower bound do...

Reliability is one of the fundamental considerations in the design of industrial control equipment. The microprocessor-based Hybrid Duplex fault-tolerant System (HDS) proposed in this paper has high reliability to meet this demand although its hardware structure is simple. The hardware configuration of HDS and the fault tolerance of this system are described. The switching control strategies in...

Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) is one of the few commercial platforms for building optical switches. 2D MEMS L-switching matrix has been introduced recently to double the sizes of 2D MEMS crossbar switches. The sizes of switches are mainly limited by the Gaussian signal loss associated path difference. Though the design of L-switching matrix improves system scalability but it suffers in...

In recent years, based on the growing importance of clean energy in comparison with conventional energy production from fossil fuels, DG systems are gradually becoming more popular all over the world. These resources solve many problem of system. However, these resources create some other problems too. One of the most problem of DGs is unwanted islanding. This paper addresses reliable passive i...

This paper proposes a new sliding mode control (SMC)  based model reference adaptive system (MRAS) for sensorless indirect field oriented control (IFOC) of a single-sided linear induction motor (SLIM). The operation of MRAS speed estimators dramatically depends on adaptation mechanism. Fixed-gain PI controller is conventionally used for this purpose which may fail to estimate the speed correctl...

we solve the coupled mode equations governing the chalcogenide nonlinear fiber bragg gratings (fbgs) numerically, and obtain the bistability characteristics. the characteristics of the chalcogenide nonlinear fbgs such as: switching threshold intensity, bistability interval, on-off switching ratio are studied. the effects of fbg length and its third order nonlinear refractive index on fbg charac...