The massive expansion of Distributed Energy Resources and schedulable loads have forced a variation of generation, transmission, and final usage of electricity towards the paradigm of Smart Communities microgrids and of Renewable Energy Communities....
The awareness of self-consumption of grid-connected roof-top solar photovoltaic (PV) owners in a community and the advancement in information and communication technologies (ICT) led to the development of a novel peer-to-peer energy trading mechanism...
Visible light communication (VLC) based on solid-state lighting (SSL) is a promising option either to supplement or to substitute existing radio frequency (RF) wireless communication in indoor environments. VLC systems take advantage of the fast modu...
Serious environmental concerns call for revolutionary solutions to cope with the harmful effects of the conventional energy landscape. Therefore, residential and commercial customers require cleaner and more reliable energy sources as they become mor...
This paper presents a high-brightness LED (HB-LED) driver for visible light communication (VLC) based on two converters. The first is a high-frequency buck DC/DC converter and the second is a low-frequency boost DC/DC converter, connected in series w...
This paper proposes a DC-bus signaling (DBS) method for autonomous power management in a DC microgrid, used to improve its reliability. Centralized power management systems require communication between the power sources and loads. However, the DBS m...
The monitoring and control of renewable energy sources (RESs) based on DC (Direct Current) microgrids (DC MG) are gaining much consideration at this time. In comparison with the isolated individual control of converters in a microgrid, DC microgrids...
This paper provides a simple low-level unidirectional global communication method for DC microgrids, and requires no hardware modifications to the microgrid and interfacing power electronic converters. The underlying premise to this communication met...
Recently, distributed DC microgrids have gained prominence due to their modular design, scalability, and seamless integration with renewable energy sources. However, ensuring robust operation of distributed secondary control schemes remains challengi...
Communication-based distributed secondary control is extensively used in DC microgrids. Compared to centralized control, it can provide better voltage regulation and load sharing in microgrids. A conventional secondary control technique that converge...
Bus voltage regulation and accurate power sharing constitute two pivotal control objectives in DC microgrids. The conventional droop control method inherently suffers from steady-state voltage deviation. Centralized control introduces vulnerability t...
Background/Objectives: While a growing number of studies have demonstrated positive effects of adjuvant anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on linguistic performance in aphasia, evidence for corresponding effects on verbal and&mdash...
In this paper, an improved power management strategy (PMS) for multi-agent system (MAS)-based distributed control of DC microgrid (DCMG) under communication network problems is presented in order to enhance the reliability of DCMG and to ensure the s...
Power talk is a method for communication among voltage control sources (VSCs) in DC microgrids (MGs), achieved through variations of the supplied power that is incurred by modulation of the parameters of the primary control. The physical medium upon...
New approaches in aphasia rehabilitation have recently identified the crucial role of executive functions (EFs) in language recovery, especially for people with severe aphasia (PWSA). Indeed, EFs include high-order cognitive abilities such as plannin...
This work proposes a high-efficiency High-Brightness LED (HB-LED) driver for Visible Light Communication (VLC) based on a Two-Input Buck (TIBuck) DC/DC converter. This solution not only outperforms previous approaches based on Buck DC/DC converters,...
Recent years have seen a surge in interest in DC microgrids as DC loads and DC sources like solar photovoltaic systems, fuel cells, batteries, and other options have become more mainstream. As more distributed energy resources (DERs) are integrated i...
Dendritic cell (DC) vaccines are a type of immunotherapy that relies on the communication of DCs with other aspects of the immune system. DCs are potent antigen-presenting cells involved in the activation of innate immune responses and education of a...
This paper describes a prototype of modularized three-phase semiconductor transformer that was developed in the lab for feasibility study. The developed prototype is composed of three units of single-phase semiconductor transformer coupled in Y-conne...
The charging station has a vital role in the electric vehicle sector. The charging station provides supply (AC or DC) to vehicles as per requirements. The charging station infrastructure includes software and hardware that ensure energy transfer and...
Marginalized youth experience persistent systemic health disparities. Therefore, an academic–community partnership was formed with Black Swan Academy (BSA), a youth-led community-based organization (CBO) in Washington, D.C., to implement and ex...
This paper highlights the benefits and possible drawbacks of a DC-based lighting infrastructure for powering Light Emitting Diode (LED)-lamps. It also evaluates the efforts needed for integrating the so called smart lighting and other sensor/actuator...
Objectives: Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit difficulties in the social use of language, regardless of age, cognitive abilities, and symptom severity. The left Broca’s area and adjacent cortex are crucial for socio-pragma...
Interference in Power Line Communication (PLC) is examined in this paper. PLC is a wired communication technology that provides communication and data transmission over the existing electrical network. It uses the electrical wiring in buildings or th...
In this paper, we analyze one of the main drawbacks of droop control-based DC microgrid systems, and propose a novel control method to overcome this problem. Typically, DC microgrid systems use droop control techniques to enable communication indepen...
It is well known that modern wireless communications systems need linear, wide bandwidth, efficient Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers (RFPAs). However, conventional configurations of RFPAs based on Class A, Class B, and Class AB exhibit extremely low...
The rational power sharing among different interface converters should be determined by the converter capacity. In order to guarantee that each converter operates at the ideal condition, considering the radial and mesh configuration, a modified strat...
Flexible DC power distribution systems have characteristics such as rapid fault occurrence and fragile power electronics. DC faults usually result in rapid converter blocking (2–5 ms). However, existing protection schemes are susceptible to dis...
With the high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs), which are characterized by stochasticity and intermittency, traditional centralized optimization methods face challenges such as communication packet loss, low reliability, and poor sc...
Swarm electrification-driven communities face significant challenges, including implementing advanced distributed control in areas with limited ICT access and establishing trust among villagers hesitant to grant access to their assets. This paper pro...
Renewable energy has high volatility in the traditional off-grid AC hydrogen (H2) production system, which leads to low reliability of the system operation. To address this issue, this paper designs the topology scheme of wind-photovoltaic generation...
In this paper, a distributed economic dispatch scheme considering power limit is proposed to minimize the total active power generation cost in a droop-based autonomous direct current (DC) microgrid. The economical dispatch of the microgrid is realiz...
DC microgrid (DCMG) is a promising technology for integrating distributed resources, such as solar generation and energy storage devices, that are intrinsically DC. Recently, model predictive control (MPC) is one of the control techniques that has be...
Cyber-physical power systems integrate sensing, communication, and control, ensuring power system resiliency and security, particularly in clustered networked microgrids. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) provides a suitable foundation by centralizin...
Parallel-connected converters are commonly used in applications such as DC microgrids. The presence of multiple converters allows for the use of the interleaving technique to minimize bus ripple. Most existing interleaving methods rely on communicati...
A DC-distributed power system consists of a large quantity of subsystems with power converters. The interaction among these subsystems will affect the operation performance of the whole system. Therefore, data communication plays a very important rol...
The increase in demand for clean, safe, and environmentally friendly renewable energy sources faces several challenges such as system design and reliable operations. DC microgrid (MG) is a promising system due to higher efficiency and natural interfa...
Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology is viewed as a viable solution to offer auxiliary power system services. Currently, V2G operation is only possible through DC chargers using the CHAdeMO connector with the necessary communication protocol. However, in...
Successive failures in power transmission lines can cause cascading failures in the power grid, which may eventually affect large parts of the power grid and even cause the power grid system to go down. Collecting and transmitting primary equipment i...
The communication infrastructure of the modern Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system continues to enlarge, as hybrid High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC)/Alternating Current (AC) networks emerge. A centralized SCADA faces challenges...
This paper is aimed at making new proposals for developing future Electro-Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) standards tailored to DC microgrids in a frequency range between 9 and 500 kHz. In particular, new EMC proposals are made to reduce Electro-Magneti...
This paper presents a performance analysis of Direct Current-biased Optical OFDM (DCO-OFDM) under the IEEE 802.11bb standard for Visible Light Communication (VLC). The study covers all physical layer (PHY) modes (HT, VHT, and HE) through a complete s...
This paper addresses issues in islanded DC microgrids, including voltage deviation, inaccurate current sharing, and high communication burden, by proposing a distributed secondary control strategy that integrates a dynamic consensus algorithm with an...
This work presents a detailed comparative analysis of dispersed versus centralized Alternating Current (AC)-coupling topologies and AC-coupling versus Direct Current (DC)-coupling topologies in autonomous Photovoltaic (PV)-diesel-battery microgrids f...
In this paper, a DC microgrid solution is proposed to mitigate the high penetration levels of distributed energy resources (DERs) and electric vehicles (EVs). The microgrid is designed to integrate the regenerative energy available as a result of tra...
In DC microgrid (DC-MG) clusters, distributed generation units rely on electronic communication networks to exchange voltage measurements, current information, and coordination signals for voltage recovery and current sharing. As the degree of system...
To mitigate the delay spread and inter-symbol interference (ISI) induced by optical scattering in underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC), this paper introduces long short-term memory (LSTM), a convolutional block attention module (CBAM), an...
In order to reduce the cost and improve the reliability, real-time performance, and installation convenience of remote-controlled light-emitting diode (LED) lighting systems, a networked LED driving technology based on the direct current (DC) grid po...
A fuzzy cascaded PI−PD (FCPIPD) controller is proposed in this paper to optimize load frequency control (LFC) in the linked electrical network. The FCPIPD controller is composed of fuzzy logic, proportional integral, and proportional derivative...
The AC and DC power system structures need to be modernized to meet consumer demands. DC microgrids are suitably admired due to their high efficiency, consistency, reliability, and load sharing performance, when interconnected to DC renewable and sto...
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