• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2278-2288
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• 2017

Multilevel converter topologies are widely used in many applications. The cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHBMI), which is one of many multilevel converter topologies, has been introduced as a useful topology in high and medium power. However, it has a drawback to require a lot of switches. Therefore, the reliability of CHBMI is important factor for analyzing the performance. This paper presents a simple switch fault diagnosis method for single-phase CHBMI. There are two types of switch faults: open-fault and short-fault. In the open-fault, the body diode of faulty switch provides a freewheeling current path. However, when the short-fault occurs, the distortion of output current is different from that of the open-fault because it has an unavailable freewheeling current flow path due to a disconnection of fuse. The fault diagnosis method is based on the zero current time analysis according to zero-voltage switching states. Using the proposed method, it is possible to detect the location of faulty switch accurately. The PSIM simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of proposed switch fault diagnosis method.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.199-204
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• 2013

Recently, the demand for fuel efficient electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) has been growing globally. Due to the increased number of switching devices in the electrified vehicles, the probability of the semiconductor device failure is much higher than in other application areas. A sudden failure in one of the power switches and insufficient power management ability in the systems not only decreases system performance, but also leads to critical safety problems. In this paper, novel switch open circuit fault detection method is proposed, and the proposed approach is verified by experiments.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.949-959
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• 2009

This paper presents a systematic investigation of the fault-mode behaviors of matrix converter systems. Knowledge about converter behaviors after fault occurrence is important from the standpoint of reliable system design, protection and fault-tolerant control. Converter behaviors have been, in detail, examined with both qualitative and quantitative approaches for key fault types, such as switch open-circuited faults and switch short-circuited faults. Investigating the fault-mode behaviors of matrix converters reveals that converter operation with switch short-circuited faults leads to overvoltage stresses as well as overcurrent stresses on other healthy switching components. On the other hand, switch open-circuited faults only result in overvoltage to other switching components. This study can be used to predict fault-mode converter behaviors and determine additional stresses on remaining power circuit components under fault-mode operations.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권2호
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• pp.304-310
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• 2016

This paper proposes a fault diagnosis method for an open-fault in inverter driving five-phase induction motor. The five-phase induction motor has a high output torque and small torque ripple in comparison to three-phase. The best advantage of the five-phase induction motor is fault diagnosis and tolerant control using redundancy of phases. This paper uses an inverter as a power converter for driving a five-phase induction motor. If a switch of inverter occurs to the open-fault, this problem is the influence on the output current and output torque. To solve this problem, there is need of an accurate diagnosis and fault switch distinction. Therefore, this paper propose a fault detection method of the open-fault switches for the fault diagnosis. First, analyzing the pattern for the open-circuit fault of one phase. next, analyzing the pattern for the open-circuit fault of each inverter switches. Through the pattern analysis, It defines the scope of each of the failure switch. Thereafter, By using an algorithm that proposes to perform a fault diagnosis method. The proposed algorithm is verified from the experiment with the 1.5 kW five-phase induction motor.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.702-708
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• 2010

In this paper, a fault diagnosis algorithm for brushless DC (BLDC) motor drives is proposed to maintain control performance under switch open-damage. The proposed fault diagnosis algorithm consists of a simple algorithm using measured phase current information and it detects open-circuit faults based on the operating characteristic of BLDC motors. The proposed algorithm quickly recovers control performance due to its short detection time and its reconfiguration of the system topology. It can be embedded into existing BLDC drive software as a subroutine without additional sensors. The feasibility of the proposed fault diagnosis algorithm is proven by simulation and experimental results.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.189-206
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• 2012

This paper focuses on the actuation system combined with a piezoelectric transducer and an electric circuit, which leads to a new insight; the electric actuation system is equivalent to mechanical variable-stiffness actuation systems. By controlling the switch in the circuit, the electric status of the piezoelectric transducer is changed, and consequently a variable-stiffness mechanism is achieved on the electric actuator. This proposed actuator features a shift in the equilibrium point of force, while conventional electrically-induced variable-stiffness actuators feature the variation of the stiffness value. We intensively focus on the equilibrium shift in the actuation system, which has been neglected. The stiffness of the variable-stiffness actuator is periodically modulated by controlling the switch, to suppress the vibration of the system in an open-loop way. It is proved that this electric actuator is equivalent to its mechanical counterpart, and that the electrical version has some practical advantages over the mechanical one. Furthermore, another kind of electrically-induced variable-stiffness actuator, using an energy-recycling mechanism is also discussed from the viewpoint of open-loop vibration control. Extensive numerical simulations provide comprehensive assessment on both electrically-induced variable-stiffness actuators employed for open-loop vibration control.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2013

This paper presents a diagnostic method for a sparse matrix converter that detects faults in any single switch or a pair of switches. The sparse matrix converter is functionally equivalent to the standard matrix converter but has a reduced number of switches. The proposed diagnostic method is based in the measurement of input and output currents. The currents have respective characteristic according to the location of faulty switches. This method not only detects the switches of open-circuit fault but identifies the location of the faulty switching devices without complicated calculations. The simulation and experimental results verify that, based on the proposed method, the fault of sparse matrix converter can be easily and fast detected.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제33B권11호
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• pp.167-174
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• 1996

For the decreasing of switching loss, this paper designs the improved buck converter circuit and then compare with the conventional buck converter and finally analyzes the performance. When the switch is turn-off, in the buck converter using the smoothing capacitor, the flow of transient current and peak voltage having the high frequency components was generated because of the instantaneous open-state in the teminals of the switch. However, the buck converter presented in this paper eliminated this disadvantage by using the L-C circuit. Therefore, the higher PF in 0.85 is achieved than that of the buck converter using the smoothing capacitor. Also, due to the decreasing of the harmonic contain rate, the current usage rate is to be higher than that of the conventional buck converter by 4.48dB and the output voltage varient rate for the step response is to be lower 1.32 times than that of the conventional buck converter.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.628-638
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• 1997

VSLI회로에서 스위치 레벨 결함 모델은 stuck-at결함만 사용하는데 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 스위치 레벨 결함 모델인 트랜지스터 stuck-open과 stuck-close결함을 다룰 수 있는결함 시뮬레이터를 구현한다. 스위치 레벨 회로는 이론적으로 신호 흐름이 양방향으로 전달되지만 실제로 대부분의 신호 흐름은 약 95%정도가 단 방향을로 설정되어 평가되는 것으로 나타내고 있다. 본 연구에서는 스위치 레벨 회로를 단반향 그래프 모델 로 변환시켜 해석한다. 스위치 레벨 회로는 EDIF컴파일러에 의해 입력되고 두개의 단방향으로 재구성된 자료구조를 만든다. 스위치 레벨 회로는 신호 흐름 경로가 도입되는 지배적 경로 기법이 제시된다. 지배적 경로는 경로를 판단하여 최종 출력 상태값을 결정하는 논리 시뮬레이션을 수행한다. 스위치 레벨 결함 시뮬레이션은 노들들로 연결되는 경로 상에 임의 트랜지스터의 stuck-open,stuck-close 결함을 주입시키고, 트랜지스터 저항값을 적용한 노드세기의 계산에 의한 지배적 경로를 평가한다. 이때 최초 입력은 two pattern vector를 인가하여 정상회로의 최종 출력 상태값과 결함회로의 출력 상태값을 비교하여 결함 검색하며, 그결함 검색의 정확성 을 보인다.

• 정보처리학회논문지C
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• 제12C권3호
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• pp.449-456
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• 2005

광 버스트 스위칭(OBS) 기술은 광 회선 스위칭에서 발생하는 자원의 비효율적인 사용을 개선시키며, 광 패킷 스위칭에서 해결하여야 할 과제인 광 버퍼링의 요구사항을 최소화한다. GSMP는 제어기와 레이블 스위치 사이에서 연결, 구성, 성능, 장애관리 및 동기화 기능을 제공하는 개방형 인터페이스이다. OBS 망을 위한 GSMP 개방형 인터페이스 도입은 OBS 망의 전달평면과 제어평면의 분리를 실현하여 OBS 스위치의 구현을 단순화한다. 본 논문에서는 GSMP 개방형 인터페이스가 적용된 OBS 망의 연결, 구성, 성능 및 장애관리를 위한 관리객체를 정의하였으며, 이들 관리정보가 관리 기능별로 OBS 스위치와 제어기에 분산되어 탑재되는 분산 망 관리 모델을 제안하였다. GSMP와 OBS 관리객체를 수용한 망 관리 기능의 구현을 통하여 GSMP 개방형 인터페이스가 적용된 OBS 망에서의 분산 망 관리 모델을 이용한 연결관리의 실현성을 확인하였다.