Electric wheelchair is one of the equipment to be used by the incapacitated and disable people. Constant exposure to vibration affects human comfort and health. Reducing the vibrations transmitted to the human body is important in the electric wheelchair design and becomes a healthcare industry demand. This paper deals with the study on vibration control of the electric wheelchair suspension sy...

With the constant improvement of electrical equipment automation level, unattended electric power system node becomes increasingly popular. In addition, because of the ever-increasing industrial demand for electricity, electric power infrastructure becomes larger and larger, equipment and transmission link structure are more and more complex, all kinds of faults emerge one after another and adm...

When large capacity distributed generation including photovoltaic (PV) systems are installed in power systems, reverse power flow from PV systems may cause problem of surplus electric power. To reduce the reverse power flow without the reduction of PV power generation, energy management of customer equipment such as electric water heater is one of the solutions. Therefore, cooperative control o...

The total replacement value of the US transmission lines alone (excluding land) is conservatively estimated at over $100 billion dollars [1] and triples when including transformers and circuit breakers. Investment in new transmission equipment has significantly declined over the past 15 years. Some of the equipment is well beyond intended life, yet is operated under increasing stress, as load g...

It has been known for some time that non-destructive electric breakdowns precede destructive thermal dielectric breakdown. We have been studying both processes in oxides between 5 nm and 80 nm in thickness. We have shown that the electric breakdowns can trigger dielectric breakdown under certain conditions. This triggering of dielectric breakdown causes TDDB distributions to be nonunique. The T...