The present-day and potential benefits of highly integrated miniaturized applications like wireless micro-sensors and biomedical implants in military, space, medical, and commercial markets fuel the demand for self-sustaining micro-electronic systems. Extending operational life to practical levels in such volume-constrained environments is difficult because space limits energy and power. Althou...

Network reconfiguration is an effective approach to reduce the power losses in distribution system. Recent studies have shown that the reconfiguration problem considering load profiles can give a significant improvement on the distribution network performance. This work proposes a novel method to determine the optimal daily configuration based on variable photovoltaic (PV) generation output and...

A major problem in an isolated DC/DC converters operating at high switching frequencies is the attendant switching losses in the semiconductor devices. This can be reduced by introducing either zero-voltage switching (ZVS) or zero-current switching (ZCS) of the semiconductor switches. This paper deals with the simulation, design, fabrication and experimental evaluation of a novel soft-switching...

This paper explained about switching losses in prescribed circuit. Batteries are the primary energystorage devices in ground vehicles. Now-a-days battery fed electric drives are commonly being used for electric vehicles Applications, due to various advantages, such as nearly zero emission, guaranteed load levelling, good transient operation and energy recovery during braking operation. To full ...

Cascaded H-Bridge multilevel inverter is a promising topology and provides alternative way for converters that are used in grid connected photovoltaic, wind power generation and in motor drive. Output power can be expanded simply with modularity and control. Though it has wide application area and tremendous merits, it has greater disadvantage that it uses separate DC supply for each HBridge. C...

This paper proposes a new converter topology that interfaces four ports: two sources, one bi-directional storage port and one isolated load port. In order to improve the efficiency of energy conversion, a sot switching boost converter using a simple auxiliary resonant circuit(SARC) which is composed of an auxiliary switch, a diode, a resonant inductor and a resonant capacitor is adopted. The co...

We consider the problem of rank loss minimization in the setting of multilabel classification, which is usually tackled by means of convex surrogate losses defined on pairs of labels. Very recently, this approach was put into question by a negative result showing that commonly used pairwise surrogate losses, such as exponential and logistic losses, are inconsistent. In this paper, we show a pos...

Bartlett et al (2006) recently proved that a ground condition for convex surrogates, classification calibration, ties up the minimization of the surrogates and classification risks, and left as an important problem the algorithmic questions about the minimization of these surrogates. In this paper, we propose an algorithm which provably minimizes any classification calibrated surrogate strictly...