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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,708 Views
17 Pages

Improving the Performance of Controllers for Wind Turbines on Semi-Submersible Offshore Platforms: Fuzzy Supervisor Control

  • Pablo Zambrana,
  • Javier Fernandez-Quijano,
  • J. Jesus Fernandez-Lozano,
  • Pedro M. Mayorga Rubio and
  • Alfonso J. Garcia-Cerezo

29 September 2021

The use of sea wind energy is restricted by the limited availability of suitable sites in shallow waters. To overcome this challenge, wind turbines located on offshore semi-submersible platforms appear as a valuable option, as they also allow the exp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,517 Views
24 Pages

Energy-Based Combined Nonlinear Observer and Voltage Controller for a PMSG Using Fuzzy Supervisor High Order Sliding Mode in a Marine Current Power System

  • Youcef Belkhier,
  • Abdelyazid Achour,
  • Rabindra Nath Shaw,
  • Nasim Ullah,
  • Md. Shahariar Chowdhury and
  • Kuaanan Techato

27 March 2021

A permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) in s grid-connected tidal energy conversion system presents numerous advantages such as high-power density and ease of maintenance. However, the nonlinear properties of the generator and parametric unce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,663 Views
15 Pages

Research in the fields of organizational behavior, human resources, or sustainable development management has paid much attention to employee job satisfaction and suggests it is critical to a firm obtaining a dominant position and gaining competitive...

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  • Open Access
964 Views
16 Pages

Control and Management of Multi-Agent Systems Using Fuzzy Logic for Microgrids

  • Zineb Cabrane,
  • Mohammed Ouassaid,
  • Donghee Choi and
  • Soo Hyoung Lee

The existing standalone microgrids (MGs) require good energy management systems (EMSs) to respond to energy needs. The EMS presented in this paper is used for an MG based on PV and wind energy sources. The energy storage system is implemented using t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,664 Views
20 Pages

3D Autonomous Surgeon’s Hand Movement Assessment Using a Cascaded Fuzzy Supervisor in Multi-Thread Video Processing

  • Fatemeh Rashidi Fathabadi,
  • Janos L. Grantner,
  • Saad A. Shebrain and
  • Ikhlas Abdel-Qader

27 February 2023

The purpose of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) training is to develop laparoscopic surgery skills by using simulation experiences. Several advanced training methods based on simulation have been created to enable training in a non-pati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,395 Views
21 Pages

Fuzzy Supervision Based-Pitch Angle Control of a Tidal Stream Generator for a Disturbed Tidal Input

  • Khaoula Ghefiri,
  • Aitor J. Garrido,
  • Eugen Rusu,
  • Soufiene Bouallègue,
  • Joseph Haggège and
  • Izaskun Garrido

1 November 2018

Energy originating in tidal and ocean currents appears to be more intense and predictable than other renewables. In this area of research, the Tidal Stream Generator (TSG) power plant is one of the most recent forms of renewable energy to be develope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,076 Views
16 Pages

Supervisors’ Visual Attention Allocation Modeling Using Hybrid Entropy

  • Haifeng Bao,
  • Weining Fang,
  • Beiyuan Guo and
  • Peng Wang

12 April 2019

With the improvement in automation technology, humans have now become supervisors of the complicated control systems that monitor the informative human–machine interface. Analyzing the visual attention allocation behaviors of supervisors is ess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,030 Views
14 Pages

Navigation of a wheeled robot in unknown environments is proposed in this paper. The approach may be applied to navigating an autonomous vehicle in unknown environments, such as parking lots. The navigation consists of three parts: obstacle avoidance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,059 Views
22 Pages

Novel Improved Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Control of Inverter and Supervisory Energy Management System of a Microgrid

  • Tariq Kamal,
  • Murat Karabacak,
  • Vedran S. Perić,
  • Syed Zulqadar Hassan and
  • Luis M. Fernández-Ramírez

10 September 2020

In this paper, energy management and control of a microgrid is developed through supervisor and adaptive neuro-fuzzy wavelet-based control controllers considering real weather patterns and load variations. The supervisory control is applied to the en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,522 Views
22 Pages

Fuzzy Supervisory Passivity-Based High Order-Sliding Mode Control Approach for Tidal Turbine-Based Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator Conversion System

  • Youcef Belkhier,
  • Abdelyazid Achour,
  • Rabindra Nath Shaw,
  • Nasim Ullah,
  • Md. Shahariar Chowdhury and
  • Kuaanan Techato

27 April 2021

Higher efficiency, predictability, and high-power density are the main advantages of a permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG)-based hydro turbine. However, the control of a PMSG is a nontrivial issue, because of its time-varying parameters and...

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  • Open Access
836 Views
18 Pages

Assessing the Quality of Virtual Student Internships in Brazilian Organizations: Potential and Use of Fuzzy TOPSIS Class

  • Vitório Henrique Agostini Marinato,
  • Gustavo Tietz Cazeri,
  • Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de Moraes,
  • Lucas Gabriel Zanon,
  • Tiago F. A. C. Sigahi,
  • Izabela Simon Rampasso and
  • Rosley Anholon

This research delves into the assessment of students’ perspectives regarding virtual internships within Brazilian organizations, a phenomenon accelerated by the global pandemic. Evaluating 78 students’ virtual internships via a survey, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,287 Views
26 Pages

20 September 2024

To enhance the fuel efficiency of fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs), we propose a hierarchical energy management strategy (HEMS) to efficiently allocate power to a hybrid system comprising a fuel cell and a battery. Firstly, the upper-layer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,797 Views
12 Pages

27 September 2016

A DC microgrid (DC-MG) is a novel power system that uses DC distribution in order to provide high quality power. The study system is made by a photovoltaic array (PV), a wind generator (WG), a fuel cell (FC), and an energy storage system (ESS) to est...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,406 Views
21 Pages

Real-Time Integrated Energy Management Strategy Applied to Fuel Cell Hybrid Systems

  • Matthieu Matignon,
  • Toufik Azib,
  • Mehdi Mcharek,
  • Ahmed Chaibet and
  • Adriano Ceschia

10 March 2023

Integrating hydrogen fuel cell systems (FCS) remains challenging in the expanding electric vehicle market. One of the levers to meet this challenge is the relevance of energy supervisors. This paper proposes an innovative energy management strategy (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,103 Views
34 Pages

10 May 2023

This study proposes a two-stage MCDM model that combines Delphi and decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory methods based on spherical fuzzy sets (SF-Delphi and SF-DEMATEL) to analyze the motivation and demotivation factors affecting employee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,330 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode Control-Based Double Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems: Real-Time Implementation

  • Hooman Mohammadi Moghadam,
  • Meysam Gheisarnejad,
  • Maryam Yalsavar,
  • Hossein Foroozan and
  • Mohammad-Hassan Khooban

Extensive use of wind turbine (WT) systems brings remarkable challenges to the stability and safety of the power systems. Due to the difficulty and complexity of modeling such large plants, the model-independent strategies are preferred for the contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,869 Views
15 Pages

Evaluation of Different Plagiarism Detection Methods: A Fuzzy MCDM Perspective

  • Kamal Mansour Jambi,
  • Imtiaz Hussain Khan and
  • Muazzam Ahmed Siddiqui

30 April 2022

Due to the overall widespread accessibility of electronic materials available on the internet, the availability and usage of computers in education have resulted in a growth in the incidence of plagiarism among students. A growing number of individua...