A NOVEL NON-ISOLATED Z-SOURCE DC-DC CONVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS
ABSTRACT Pollution problems caused by fossil fuels has lead more investigations on renewable energy systems. Photo-voltaic cells and fuel-cells output low level voltage than required, therefore, high gain dc-dc converters are used to boost this low voltage. The...
P PID CONTROLLER BASED TWO WHEELED SELF BALANCING ROBOT
ABSTRACT: Wheeled type robots are gaining popularity than the humanoid robots because of their faster and better mobility in confined spaces, these wheeled robots uses the inverted pendulum technology for balancing and mobility of the wheels. In this paper gyroscope...
OPERATION OF A GRID-TIED CMC BASED ON A SIC FORWARD SST UNDER UNBALANCED PV POWER GENERATION
ABSTRACT The application of Cascaded Multilevel Converters (CMC) in large-scale photovoltaic plants connected to the utility grid has many advantages, such as the absence of sinusoidal filters and line-frequency transformers. Improved overall performance under partial...
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ASSISTIVE ROBOT FOR THE ELDERLY AND IMPAIRED PERSON
ABSTRACT: In this paper, the design of an autonomous robot is proposed which can detect, search, pick up and drop any object. A central processing unit using Raspberry Pi will take sonar sensor input and control the motor drivers to move freely. Artificial...
ENERGY STORAGE CONTROL FOR DISPATCHING PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER
ABSTRACT The strong growth of the solar power generation industry requires an increasing need to predict the profile of solar power production over a day and develop highly efficient and optimized stand-alone and grid-connected photovoltaic systems. Moreover, the...
ONLINE ROBOT TRAJECTORY OPTIMIZATION FOR PERSISTENT ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
ABSTRACT: This letter presents a control-theoretic approach for trajectory optimization of mobile robots suitable for environmental monitoring. The method is based on the optimization of the Constructability Gramian in order to maximize the information collected while...
AI SOLUTION FOR METROLOGY RECIPE AUTOMATION
ABSTRACT: The proposed paper presents the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a solution to perform wafer map sampling and measurement points' coordinates extraction for Metrology recipe automation in a wafer fab. This solution greatly improves fab operation...
AN IMPROVED ADAPTIVE P&O TECHNIQUE FOR TWO STAGE GRID INTERFACED SPVECS
ABSTRACT This work presents an improved perturb and observe with adaptive perturbation size (IAP&O) algorithm for harnessing maximum power from a double stage solar photovoltaic (PV) energy conversion system (SPVECS) interfaced to a three phase distribution grid....
AUTOMATION OF NOISE DETECTION USING INTERNET OF THINGS
ABSTRACT: With a significant increase in population in modern cities, the noise pollution also increases at an unprecedented rate. This system presents a low cost flexible and reliable automation system with personal alert messages using Arduino along with internet...
INTEGRATED WIND, SOLAR, AND ENERGY STORAGE: DESIGNING PLANTS WITH A BETTER GENERATION PROFILE AND LOWER OVERALL COST
ABSTRACT Collocating wind and solar generation with battery energy storage is a concept garnering much attention lately. An integrated wind, solar, and energy storage (IWSES) plant has a far better generation profile than standalone wind or solar plants. It results in...
DESIGN AUTOMATION AND OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGY FOR ELECTRIC MULTICOPTER UNMANNED AERIAL ROBOTS
ABSTRACT: The traditional multicopter design method usually requires a long iterative process to find the optimal design based on given performance requirements. The method is uneconomical and inefficient. In this article, a practical method is proposed to...
PRODUCTION OF ELECTRICITY BY USING GRAVITATIONAL AND MAGNETIC ENERGY
ABSTRACT The electricity requirements of the world including India are increasing at alarming rate and the power demand has been running ahead of supply. It is also now widely recognized that the fossil fuels (i.e., coal, petroleum and natural gas) and other...