Engineering Proceedings, Volume 29, Issue 1

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Multidisciplinary engineering is currently a proliferating area, whereby focus is placed upon an engineering practice which combines several academic disciplines [...]

This paper focuses on regulation of the parallel active power filter (APF) Dc Voltage bus by judicious choice of rule bases and intervals for each selected fuzzy variable of suitable fuzzy logic controller. In addition, an algorithm describes the mai...

A photovoltaic (PV) cell is generally used as renewable energy source. For an accurate study of various PV applications, modeling this basic device in a PV generator is essential. However, the manufacturers do not usually provide the model parameters...

Power quality problems exist in every power system; the more advanced the system is, the higher the probability for issues to occur is, and the smart grid is no exception. In this paper, a study of a residential area is implemented using the LABVIEW...

The main objective of this paper is to solve state observation and external disturbances estimation for a class of second-order nonlinear systems. The proposed method relies mainly on the high gain observer as an estimator that tries to estimate the...

The successful transfer toward green renewable energy depends heavily on good, reliable Energy Storage Systems (ESS). Lithium-ion batteries are the preferred choice for many applications; however, they need careful management, especially an accurate...

This study proposes a control architecture based on iterative stochastic algorithms to control the doubly-fed induction machine (DFIM), often used in wind systems. We briefly present the modeling of this machine. We describe in more detail the contro...

Forecasting wind speed using only one single model may not be satisfactory; however, the combination of several models may provide better results, especially in case of doubt about the best estimator (predicator). In this paper, we propose a short-te...

The activation of the safety-instrumented systems in industrial processes is carried out after the occurrence of specific deviations (dangerous situations) from normal operation (normal situations), but in some cases, the safety-instrumented systems...

This paper presents observer backstepping as a new nonlinear flight control design framework. Flight control laws for general-purpose maneuvering in the presence of nonlinear lift and side forces are designed. The controlled variables are the angle o...

This paper describes the modeling and control of a high-power wind energy conversion system (WECS) using a variable speed doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) with the application of an MPPT method to obtain the maximum power from the system. We app...

The purpose of safety analysis is to ensure that hazards and risks that could be a possible source of harm and damage are reduced well enough by dealing with all phases of the safety lifecycle and design of suitable safety barriers. It is known that...

In the last few years, there has been considerable growth in in-wheel electric motors manufacturing and the number of electric buses operating around the world. As a result of this clear increase, competition between electric bus manufacturers is inc...

The Optimized Multiple Inputs and Multiple Outputs Sliding Mode controller (MIMO-SMC) is intended to control the reconfigurable UAV, which can take on a variety of configurations while maintaining the efficiency of a conventional quadrotor in terms o...

Fuzzy logic is the most effective mathematical solution that has been presented in the last few years to deal with the problems in which imprecise and uncertain data exist. It can be defined as a generalization of classical binary logic, which admits...

Major accidents continue to occur in chemical process industry, which may have serious consequences costing billion dollars and what is worse many human lives. That means the traditional Hazard analysis techniques are not becoming enough due to the i...

One of the Internet’s fastest-growing technologies is cloud computing, which needs each user to share various resources and virtual computers to access the services they demand. The difficulty is in allocating the user’s tasks among the m...

The detection and diagnosis of power quality (PQ) issues are critical topics in the electrical power system’s generation, transmission, and distribution. Nonlinear loads, power electronic converters, system malfunctions, and switching events ar...