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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Distributed control of electric drives via Ehernet

Samaranayake, Lilantha January 2003 (has links)
<p>This report presents the work carried out aiming towardsdistributed control of electric drives through a networkcommunication medium with temporal constraints, i.e, Ethernet.A general analysis on time delayed systems is carried out,using state space representation of systems in the discretetime domain. The effect of input time delays is identified andis used in the preceding controller designs. The main hardwareapplication focused in this study is a Brushless DC servomotor, whose speed control loop is closed via a 10 MbpsSwitched Ethernet network. The speed control loop, which isapproximately a decade slower than the current control loop, isopened and interfaced to the network at the sensor/actuatornode. It is closed at the speed controller end at another nodein the same local area network (LAN) forming a distributedcontrol system (DCS).</p><p>The Proportional Integral (PI) classical controller designtechnique with ample changes in parameter tuning suitable fortime delayed systems is used. Then the standard Smith Predictoris tested, modified with the algebraic design techniqueCoefficient Diagram Method (CDM), which increases the systemdegrees of freedom. Constant control delay is assumed in thelatter designs despite the slight stochastic nature in thetiming data observations. Hence the poor transient performanceof the system is the price for the robustness inherited to thespeed controllers at the design stage. The controllability andobservability of the DCS may be lost, depending on the range inwhich the control delay is varying. However a state feedbackcontroller deploying on-line delay data, obtained by means ofsynchronizing the sensor node and controller node systemclocks, results in an effective compensation scheme for thenetwork induced delays. Hence the full state feedbackcontroller makes he distributed system transient performanceacceptable for servo applications with the help of poleplacement controller design.</p><p>Further, speed synchronizing controllers have been designedsuch that a speed fluctuation caused by a mechanical loadtorque disturbance on one motor is followed effectively by anyother specified motor in the distributed control network with aminimum tracking or synchronizing error. This type ofperformance is often demanded in many industrial applicationssuch as printing, paper, bagging, pick and place and materialcutting.</p><p><b>Keywords:</b>Brushless DC Motor, Control Delay, DistributedMotion Control Systems, Proportional Integral Controller, SmithPredictor, Speed Synchronization, State Feedback Controller,Stochastic Systems, Switched-Ethernet, Synchronizing Error,Time Delayed Systems, Tracking Error</p>
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An adaptive add-on control system for a unified power flow controller

Malhotra, Urvi 30 May 2011 (has links)
<p>The growing energy demand has caused the interconnected power systems to operate close to their stability limit. As a consequence, poorly damped low-frequency oscillations are becoming a common phenomenon. Such oscillations weaken the system security and if not effectively damped can lead to widespread blackouts. A contemporary solution is the addition of Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) to generators. A relatively recent solution based on the advancements in high-power semiconductors is the Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology meant for transmission locations. FACTS technology comprises of a multitude of FACTS devices among which the <i>Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC)</i> possesses a unique capability of providing both power flow and voltage control. Particularly, with a suitable transient control system the UPFC can satisfactorily mitigate power system oscillations.</p> <p>This thesis proposes an adaptive control scheme that supplements an existing Proportional-Integral (PI) UPFC control system in damping power system oscillations. PI control is a well-established theory and a commonly used industrial controller. However, its application in a power system that experiences continuously changing system conditions demands its frequent re-tuning. On the other hand, the proposed scheme is a Self Tuning (ST) controller that automatically adapts to the system changes and thereby provides an optimal control for a wide range of operating scenarios. The proposition of assisting the primary PI control action is unique in its approach since it retains the functionality of the existing PI controllers and also enhances the overall damping performance through an add-on ST control loop.</p> <p>The proposed novel ST scheme consists of a Constrained Recursive Least Squares (CRLS) identifier that tracks system parameters recursively and a self-tuning Pole Shift (PS) controller that works on the identified system model to generate a robust control output. Also, to effectively smoothen out the rapid variations of identified system parameters and consequent ringing of control output during large disturbances, the thesis specifies the replacement of the standard-RLS identifier with a "constrained" RLS (CRLS) identifier. The damping enhancement achieved by the proposed controller has been verified through time-domain simulations. The test results clearly depict that the proposed add-on scheme not only enhances the overall damping but is also robust with respect to power flow level, fault type and location. Its inherent flexibility and the positive test results suggest that with little modification, it can be easily applied to other FACTS devices currently incorporated in transmission networks.</p>
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An Adaptive Fuzzy Proportional-Integral Predictor for Power Management of 3D Graphics System-On-Chip

Yeh, Jia-huei 02 August 2010 (has links)
As time goes by rapid development of 3D graphics technique and 3C portable product output, 3D graphics have been widely applied to handheld devices, such as notebooks, PDAs, and smart cellular phones. Generally, to process 3D graphics applications in mobile devices, processor needs strong capability of handling large computational-intensive workloads. Complex computation consumes a great quantity of electric power. But the lifetime of handheld device battery is limited. Therefore, the cost, to satisfy this demand, will be shortening the supply time of device battery. Moreover, Moore¡¦ law said that the number of transistors in a chip is double in every eighteen months. But these days the advance in manufacturing batteries still cannot get up with the advance in developing processors. In addition, the improvement of chip size has led to more small, supply voltage of kernel processor in portable device. Considering system efficiency and battery lifetime simultaneously increase the difficulty of designing power management scheme. So, how to manage power effectively has become one of the important key for designing handheld products. For 3D graphics system, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) is one of good solutions to implement power management policy. DVFS needs an efficient online prediction method to predict the workload of frames and then appropriately adjust voltage and frequency for saving energy consumption. Consequently, a lot of related papers have proposed different prediction policy to predict the executing workload of 3D graphics system. For instance, the existing prediction policies include signature-based[1], history-based[3] and proportion-integral-derivative (PID)[14] methods, but most of designers put power management in software, i.e. processors. This solution not only slows power management to get the information about executing time of graphic processing unit (GPU), but also increases the operating overhead of CPU in handheld system. In this paper, we propose a power management workload prediction scheme with a framework of using proportion-integral (PI) controller to be a master controller and fuzzy controller to be a slave controller, and then implement it into hardware circuit. Taking advantage of fuzzy conception in fuzzy controller is to adjust the proportional parameter in PI controller, the shortage of traditional PI controller that demands on complicated try-and-error method to look for a good proportional and integral parameters can be avoided so that the adaption and forecasting accuracy can be improved. Besides, Uniform Window-size Predictor 1 (UW1) is also implemented as an assistant manner. Using UW1 predictor appropriately can improve the prediction trend to catch up with the trend of real workload. Experimental results show that our predictor improves prediction accuracy about 3.8% on average and saves about 0.02% more energy compared with PI predictor[18]. Circuit area and power consumption only increases 6.8% percent and 1.4% compared with PI predictor. Besides, we also apply our predictor to the 3D first person game, Quake II, in the market. The result shows that our predictor is indeed an effective prediction policy. The adaption can put up with the intense workload variation of real game and adjust voltage and frequency precisely to decrease power consumption and meet the purpose of energy saving.
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Distributed control of electric drives via Ehernet

Samaranayake, Lilantha January 2003 (has links)
This report presents the work carried out aiming towardsdistributed control of electric drives through a networkcommunication medium with temporal constraints, i.e, Ethernet.A general analysis on time delayed systems is carried out,using state space representation of systems in the discretetime domain. The effect of input time delays is identified andis used in the preceding controller designs. The main hardwareapplication focused in this study is a Brushless DC servomotor, whose speed control loop is closed via a 10 MbpsSwitched Ethernet network. The speed control loop, which isapproximately a decade slower than the current control loop, isopened and interfaced to the network at the sensor/actuatornode. It is closed at the speed controller end at another nodein the same local area network (LAN) forming a distributedcontrol system (DCS). The Proportional Integral (PI) classical controller designtechnique with ample changes in parameter tuning suitable fortime delayed systems is used. Then the standard Smith Predictoris tested, modified with the algebraic design techniqueCoefficient Diagram Method (CDM), which increases the systemdegrees of freedom. Constant control delay is assumed in thelatter designs despite the slight stochastic nature in thetiming data observations. Hence the poor transient performanceof the system is the price for the robustness inherited to thespeed controllers at the design stage. The controllability andobservability of the DCS may be lost, depending on the range inwhich the control delay is varying. However a state feedbackcontroller deploying on-line delay data, obtained by means ofsynchronizing the sensor node and controller node systemclocks, results in an effective compensation scheme for thenetwork induced delays. Hence the full state feedbackcontroller makes he distributed system transient performanceacceptable for servo applications with the help of poleplacement controller design. Further, speed synchronizing controllers have been designedsuch that a speed fluctuation caused by a mechanical loadtorque disturbance on one motor is followed effectively by anyother specified motor in the distributed control network with aminimum tracking or synchronizing error. This type ofperformance is often demanded in many industrial applicationssuch as printing, paper, bagging, pick and place and materialcutting. <b>Keywords:</b>Brushless DC Motor, Control Delay, DistributedMotion Control Systems, Proportional Integral Controller, SmithPredictor, Speed Synchronization, State Feedback Controller,Stochastic Systems, Switched-Ethernet, Synchronizing Error,Time Delayed Systems, Tracking Error / NR 20140805
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Controlador PI FUZZY aplicado ao controle direto de potência do gerador de relutância variável de 12/8 conectado à rede elétrica

Catata, Elmer Osman Hancco January 2016 (has links)
Orientador: Prof. Dr. José Luis Azcue Puma / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Elétrica, 2016. / Este trabalho apresenta o controle direto de potencia do gerador de relutancia variavel de 12/8 utilizando o controlador fuzzy PI auto-ajustavel e o controle vetorial do inversor conectado à rede eletrica. Inicialmente são estudados os principios de operação da maquina e a topologia do conversor eletronico de potencia que sera utilizado para aciona-lo. Usando o software de simulaçãoMatlab/Simulink é implementado o modelo da maquina de relutancia variavel utilizando as curvas caracteristicas, de corrente e torque, que foram extraídas utilizando dados experimentais. Utilizando o modelo da maquina é projetado o controlador de velocidade para sua operação no modo motor. Tambem sera projetado o controlador de potência PI utilizando o modelo estimado do sistema de conversão de energia eólica. A partir dos ganhos do controlador PI é projetado o controlador fuzzy PI autoajustavel com o objetivo de melhorar a resposta em regime permanente da potencia controlada. A potencia gerada pelo gerador de relutancia variavel é injetada à rede eletrica, atraves do controle independente das potencias ativa e reativa, para este proposito é utilizado um conversor trifasico de dois níveis. Na parte experimental deste trabalho foi implementado o controle de corrente por histerese para maquina operando no modo motor, posteriormente foi implementado o controle de corrente e controle da tens~ao no barramento CC para a máquina operando no modo gerador. Os resultados de simulação e experimentais se mostraram coerentes validando os controladores propostos. / This work presents the direct power control of the switched reluctance generator of 12/8 using the self-tuning fuzzy PI controller and the vector control for inverter connected to the grid. Initially, the machine's operating principles and the topology of the power electronics converter used to drive this machine are studied. The model of switched reluctance machine is implemented in Matlab/Simulink simulation software using the characteristic curves of current and torque extracted using experimental data. Using the machine's model, It is designed the speed controller for its operation in motor mode. Also, the PI controller is designed for the power control loop based on the estimation of the wind energy conversion system. Using the gains of the PI controller, It is designed the self-tuning fuzzy PI controller, in order to improve the steady state response of the power control loop. The power generated by the switched reluctance generator is injected into the power grid through the independent control of active and reactive power, for this purpose is used a three-phase two level converter. In the experimental part of this work was implemented the hysteresis current control for machine operating in motor mode, also, It was implemented the current and DC bus voltage control for the machine operating in generator mode. The simulation and experimental results were proved consistent and these results validate the proposed controllers.
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Modelagem matemática e controle de atitude e posição do quadrotor / Mathematical modeling and attitude control and position quadrotor

Benigno, Tayara Crystina Pereira 28 August 2015 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-31T13:33:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TayaraCPB_Dissert.pdf: 1984521 bytes, checksum: 5a46c1781124a49b404a083b87b969bd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / With advances in technology and the popularization of the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) so does the need to use more robust and more effective control techniques. Among the various types of unmanned aerial vehicles, this paper will focus on quadrotor model, which has a mechanical structure in the form of x, whose ends have an engine and propeller assembly, where the rotation of this group is responsible for the lift and the movements developed by quadrotor. This feeling, aiming to apply drivers that provide stability to the dynamic system. This study aims to conduct mathematical modeling using the Euler-Lagrange. With this, it is proposed a PID controller (Proportional Integral Derivative) to maintain stable the three orientation angles and height to a desired value. The development of the proposed controller will be validated via simulation confirming the application feasibility of the technique presented stability / Com o avanço tecnológico e a popularização do uso dos Veículos Aéreos Não Tripulados (VANT s) cresce também a necessidade do uso de técnicas de controle mais robustas e mais eficazes. Dentre os mais diversos tipos de veículos aéreos não tripulados, este trabalho irá focar no modelo do quadrotor, que possui uma estrutura mecânica em forma de cruz, cujas extremidades têm um conjunto de motor e hélice, onde a rotação desse conjunto é responsável pela força de sustentação e pelos movimentos desenvolvidos pelo mesmo. Objetivando aplicar controladores que proporcione estabilidade ao sistema dinâmico deste veiculo aéreo. O presente trabalho tem como objetivo realizar a modelagem matemática deste sistema usando as equações de Euler-Lagrange. Tendo isso, é proposto um controlador PID (Proporcional Integral Derivativo) para manter os três ângulos de orientação estáveis e a altura em um valor desejado. O desenvolvimento do controlador proposto será validado via simulação confirmando a viabilidade da aplicação da técnica de estabilidade apresentada
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Development of Sensors and Microcontrollers for Underwater Robots

Jebelli, Ali January 2014 (has links)
Nowadays, small autonomous underwater robots are strongly preferred for remote exploration of unknown and unstructured environments. Such robots allow the exploration and monitoring of underwater environments where a long term underwater presence is required to cover a large area. Furthermore, reducing the robot size, embedding electrical board inside and reducing cost are some of the challenges designers of autonomous underwater robots are facing. As a key device for reliable operation-decision process of autonomous underwater robots, a relatively fast and cost effective controller based on Fuzzy logic and proportional-integral-derivative method is proposed in this thesis. It efficiently models nonlinear system behaviors largely present in robot operation and for which mathematical models are difficult to obtain. To evaluate its response, the fault finding test approach was applied and the response of each task of the robot depicted under different operating conditions. The robot performance while combining all control programs and including sensors was also investigated while the number of program codes and inputs were increased.

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