RECONSTRUCTION OF BACKBONE CURVES FOR SNAKE ROBOTS
ABSTRACT: Snake robots composed of alternating single-axis pitch and yaw joints have many internal degrees of freedom, which make them capable of versatile three-dimensional locomotion. In motion planning process, snake robot motions are often designed kinematically...
INTELLIGENT CONTROL SCHEME FOR SPV-WIND-BESS BASED MICRO GRID
ABSTRACT This article proposes a novel control scheme for efficient control of solar photovoltaic (SPV), wind energy system (WES) and battery energy storage system (BESS) based micro-grid. Using this control scheme the voltage in the main DC bus is kept constant...
DESIGN OF MOBILE ROBOT INTERACTION SYSTEM BASED ON SLAM PARTICLE FILTER
ABSTRACT: Based on the market demand for service-oriented robot, the automatic delivery system of robot is designed in this paper. The system is controlled by ArduinoMega2560 control board, ROS (Robot Operating System) as the robot operating system, combined with Slam...
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...