• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1595-1607
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• 2018

In this paper, a hierarchical control strategy is introduced to control a new three-port multidirectional DC-DC converter for integrating an energy storage system (ESS) to a bipolar DC microgrid (BPDCMG). The proposed converter provides a voltage-balancing function for the BPDCMG and adjusts the states of charge (SoC) of the ESS. Previous studies tend to balance the voltage of the BPDCMG buses with active sources or by transferring power from one bus to another. Furthermore, the batteries available in BPDCMGs were charged equally by both buses. However, this power sharing method does not guarantee efficient operation of the whole system. In order to achieve a higher efficiency and lower energy losses, a triple-layer hierarchical control strategy, including a primary droop controller, a secondary voltage restoration controller and a tertiary optimization controller are proposed. Thanks to the multi-functional operation of the proposed converter, its conversion stages are reduced. Furthermore, the efficiency and weight of the system are both improved. Therefore, this converter has a significant capability to be used in portable BPDCMGs such as electric DC ships. The converter modes are analyzed and small-signal models of the converter are extracted. Comprehensive simulation studies are carried out and a BPDCMG laboratory setup is implemented in order to validate the effectiveness of the proposed converter and its hierarchical control strategy. Simulation and experimental results show that using the proposed converter mitigates voltage imbalances. As a result, the system efficiency is improved by using the hierarchical optimal power flow control.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.221-228
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• 2013

About functional parameters of a LED/UVLED (Light Emitting Diode/Ultra Violet LED), one of the most important parameters is the I-V characteristic. By researching factors affect to the I-V characteristic of uvled, we found that beside of the structure of the device itself, there is the influence of the electrode materials, electrode shapes, the process of wiring and packaging. In this work, we want to improve the performance of UVLED to find out the optimal mask design principles. The study is based on theoretical mathematical models, as well as the use of simulation software tool Comsol. From all results obtained, the team has improved mask design to manufacture electrodes for GaN-based UVLED. Electrode masks are designed by three softwares, which are Intellisuite, Klayout and AutoCad. Intellisuite masks would be used in fabrication simulation while Klayout and AutoCad are used to fabricate electrodes in experiments. As well as, we silmulated the structure of an uvled 355nm emission wavelength by TCAD software, in order to compare with uvled sample that has the same emission wavelength.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.11b
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• pp.190-193
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• 2004

Optimal Power Flow (OPF) is becoming more and more important in the deregulation environment of power pool and there is an urgent need of faster solution technique for on-line application. So this paper presents parallel genetic algorithm-tap search for the solution of the OPF. The control variables modeled unit active power outputs, generator-bus voltage magnitudes and transformer-tap settings. A number of functional operating constraints, such as branch flow limits, load bus boltage magnitude limits and generator reactive capabilities are included as penalties in the fitness function. In parallel GA-TS, GA operators are executed for each process. If best fitness of the GA is not changed for several generations, TS operators are executed for the upper three populations to enhance the local searching capabilities. With migration operation, best string of each node is transferred to the neighboring node after predetermined iterations are executed. For parallel computing, we developed a PC-cluster system consisting of 8 PCs. Each PC employs the 2 GHz Pentium IV CPU and is connected with others through ethernet switch based fast ethernet. To show the usefulness of the proposed method, developed algorithm has been tested and compared on an IEEE 30-bus system in the reference paper. From the simulation results, we can find that the proposed algorithm is efficient for the OPF.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1994.07a
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• pp.435-437
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• 1994

Cramped resonant DC link inverter is analyzed by widely available software such as SPICE. In this paper, the model of ACRDCL which is based on converter switch function rather than actual circuit configuration is used. Power circuit is modeled by functional transfer function and the controller is based on the macro-model. Computer memory and runtime are based reduced compared to micro-model. Overall performance including control strategy and harmonic characteristics in the steady state can be analyzed easily.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11c
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• pp.193-196
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• 2001

In this paper we designed CAMC-SP, the microprocessor embedded 2-axis motor control chip which controls a precise pulse motor by generating the pulse needed to control step motor, DC servo and AC servo motor. This design enables to decrease costs and to minimize a size. First we designed risc type 8-bit microprocessor compatible with PIC16C84, second we designed pulse motor controller. CAMC-SP is integrated of those two block. We designed CAMC-SP by VHDL and we testified to the Performance of it by performing functional simulation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07b
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• pp.625-626
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• 2006

This paper presents the new simulation model for the performance analysis of Surface-Mounted Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor(SMPMSM) Drive System which is integrated with a controller and a power converter. To enhance reusability and compatibility, the system model is expressed by the association of independent sub-modules reflecting the real physical construction. This concept allows another independent sub-module to be effectively inserted in the model for the comprehensive analysis of larger systems such as a Machine Tool and HEV. The developed model which is composed of MATLAB/Simulink's basic blocks can rapidly analyze not only the entire behavior of system, but also the functional relationship between each components for the effective development of controller.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07b
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• pp.394-396
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• 1997

This paper describes RBF network controller based on fuzzy control rules for intelligent control of nonlinear systems. The proposed scheme is derived from the functional equivalence between RBF networks and fuzzy inference systems. The design procedure of the proposed scheme is realized by first transforming the fuzzy control rules into the parameters of RBF networks. The optimized RBF network controller is then performed through the gradient descent learning mechanism to an error function. The proposed method is rigorously tested using a nonlinear and unstable nonlinear system. Simulation is performed to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.653-663
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• 2018

Patients with spinal cord injuries cannot move their limbs using their intact muscles. A suitable controller can be used to move their arms by employing the functional electrical stimulation method. In this article, a fuzzy exponential sliding-mode controller is designed to move a musculoskeletal human arm model to track an optimal trajectory in the sagittal plane. This optimal arm trajectory is obtained by developing a policy for the central nervous system. In order to specify the optimal trajectory between two points, two dynamic and static optimal criteria are applied simultaneously. The first dynamic objective function is defined to minimize the joint torques, and the second static optimization is offered to minimize the muscle forces at each moment. In addition, fuzzy logic is used to tune the sliding-surface parameter to enable an appropriate tracking performance. Simulation results are evaluated and compared with experimental data for upward and downward movements of the human arm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.242-244
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• 2003

The functional test of protection relays is divided into two kind of test types; the steady-state test and dynamic test. Because the steady-state test is comparatively easy, this test is used to test the characteristics of the relaying elements, operating values, resetting values and etc. using equipment such as Doble. But the dynamic test has to be performed on the test environment with RTDS(real time digital simulator) because of the dynamic characteristics of real protection relays. Therefore, it is not usually easy to perform dynamic test of relays using power system simulation tool based on PC(personal computer) such as PSCAD/EMTDC. This paper discusses how to develop and implement a test model and user-defined components that can be performed dynamic test using PSCAD/EMTDC.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1993.07a
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• pp.152-155
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• 1993

Protective Relay in power system play a prominent part in minimizing power delivery interruptions and help to get a fast and secure restoration when a failure occurs. In order to meet the higher functional requirements in power system, the performance tests on response characteristic of protective relay is essential to ensure reliability. The purpose of this study is as follows: In order to evaluate performance of protective relay, it is intended to develop performance of digital protective relay simulator which is composed of digital protective relay part, behaviour analysis part, waveform generation part and simulation program to simulate pour system in detail.