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14 Citations
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Initialization and Synchronization of Power Hardware-In-The-Loop Simulations: A Great Britain Network Case Study

  • Efren Guillo-Sansano,
  • Mazheruddin H. Syed,
  • Andrew J. Roscoe and
  • Graeme M. Burt

28 April 2018

The hardware under test (HUT) in a power hardware in the loop (PHIL) implementation can have a significant effect on overall system stability. In some cases, the system under investigation will be unstable unless the HUT is already connected and oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
518 Views
36 Pages

25 June 2026

Countermovement jump (CMJ) analysis is widely used to assess lower limb neuromuscular function, but commercial force plates often suffer from high cost, closed algorithms, and lack of bilateral independent measurement. This study developed and evalua...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
346 Views
32 Pages

A Hardware Input-Capture-Based Carrier Synchronization Method for Cascaded H-Bridge CPS-SPWM via Single-Fiber Multiplexing

  • Weibo Li,
  • Jiatao Tao,
  • Zixin He,
  • Cenhai Wang and ,
  • Chengying Yang,
  • Chiyu Peng and
  • Tike Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 September 2026

In cascaded H-bridge (CHB) high-voltage drives using unipolar frequency-doubling carrier phase-shifted sinusoidal pulse width modulation (CPS-SPWM), unequal carrier phase offsets weaken switching-harmonic cancelation. This paper proposes a carrier-sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Intelligent Power Grids: Sustainability, Resilience, and AI Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,275 Views
11 Pages

25 August 2024

Sync word-based frame synchronization is an established method of frame synchronization that is employed in many low-resource applications because of its simplicity, and it involves the attachment of sync words (digital binary sequences) to the frame...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,950 Views
20 Pages

The continuous technical advancement of scientific space missions has resulted in a surge in the amount of data that is transferred to ground stations within short satellite visibility windows, which has consequently led to higher throughput requirem...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,242 Views
13 Pages

11 March 2024

In this paper, we report our use of a hardware encoder-based synchronization method for a fast terahertz time-domain spectroscopy raster scanner built with the commercially available TeraFlash Smart platform. We describe the principles of our method,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,644 Views
16 Pages

18 November 2022

Compared with the conventional pulse-shaping transmission system, the full Nyquist rate transmission system with large bandwidth is sensitive to the sampling phase. It has only one sample available in one symbol period and is easily interfered by the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Wireless Communications and Edge Computing in 6G)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,852 Views
20 Pages

Subframe-Level Synchronization in Multi-Camera System Using Time-Calibrated Video

  • Xiaoshi Zhou,
  • Yanran Dai,
  • Haidong Qin,
  • Shunran Qiu and ,
  • Xueyang Liu,
  • Yujie Dai,
  • Jing Li and
  • Tao Yang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

30 October 2024

Achieving precise synchronization is critical for multi-camera systems in various applications. Traditional methods rely on hardware-triggered synchronization, necessitating significant manual effort to connect and adjust synchronization cables, espe...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,197 Views
19 Pages

2 August 2011

Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a fundamental issue for the coordination of distributed entities and events. Nondeterministic latency, which may decrease the accuracy and precision of time synchronization can occur at any p...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
909 Views
24 Pages

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have increasing demand on lightweight, efficient, and secure encryption techniques for devices with limited resources, since traditional algorithms require high computation which make them impractical. This preliminary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,924 Views
19 Pages

A Robust Timing Synchronization Algorithm Based on PSSS for LTE-V2X

  • Ju Zhang,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Jiahui Qiu,
  • Lingfan Zhuang and ,
  • Zhiyuan Wang and
  • Liu Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 December 2023

In recent years, Long-Term Evolution Vehicle-to-Everything (LTE-V2X) communication technology has received extensive attention. Timing synchronization is a crucial step in the receiving process, addressing Timing Offsets (TOs) resulting from random p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,711 Views
38 Pages

21 January 2026

High-speed data acquisition systems based on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) often face synchronization challenges when interfacing with commercial analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), particularly under constrained hardware routing conditions...

(This article belongs to the Topic Data Stream Mining and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,413 Views
23 Pages

Improving the Inertial Response of a Grid-Forming Voltage Source Converter

  • Juan Dolado,
  • Jose Luis Rodríguez Amenedo,
  • Santiago Arnaltes and
  • Joaquín Eloy-Garcia

In recent years, the use of synchronous generators (SGs) has been displaced due to the increased use of renewable energy sources. These types of plants mostly use power electronic converters to connect to power grids, which, due to their mode of oper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Converter Design, Control and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,367 Views
14 Pages

25 February 2022

The article presents the Power Hardware-In-the-Loop (PHIL) dynamic model of a synchronous generator of 125 kVA for autonomous power generation system analysis. This type of system is typically composed of electrical energy sources in the form of seve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Quality and Electrical Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,432 Views
28 Pages

High-Performance Time Server Core for FPGA System-on-Chip

  • Julian Viejo,
  • Jorge Juan-Chico,
  • Manuel J. Bellido,
  • Paulino Ruiz-de-Clavijo and ,
  • David Guerrero,
  • Enrique Ostua and
  • German Cano
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

This paper presents the complete design and implementation of a low-cost, low-footprint, network time protocol server core for field programmable gate arrays. The core uses a carefully designed modular architecture, which is fully implemented in hard...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Applications and Architectures Based on FPGA/SoC)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,055 Views
26 Pages

9 October 2025

To address the problem of transient disturbance arising during the grid-following (GFL) and grid-forming (GFM) mode switching of energy storage converters, this paper proposes a dual-mode seamless switching control strategy. First, we conduct an in-d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,928 Views
26 Pages

LoRa/LoRaWAN Time Synchronization: A Comprehensive Analysis, Performance Evaluation, and Compensation of Frame Timestamping

  • Stefano Rinaldi,
  • Elia Mondini,
  • Paolo Ferrari,
  • Alessandra Flammini and
  • Emiliano Sisinni

2 February 2026

This paper examines precise timestamping of LoRaWAN messages (particularly beacons) to enable wide-area synchronization for end devices without GNSS. The need for accuracy demands hardware-level timestamping architectures, possibly using time-domain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge and Fog Computing for the Internet of Things, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,349 Views
21 Pages

10 April 2018

With the advent of Distribution Phasor Measurement Units (D-PMUs) and Micro-Synchrophasors (Micro-PMUs), the situational awareness in power distribution systems is going to the next level using time-synchronization. However, designing, analyzing, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods and Concepts for Designing and Validating Smart Grid Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,560 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2018

This paper considers the fuzzy control design of maximum torque per ampere (MTPA) and maximum torque per voltage (MTPV) for the interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) control system that is capable of reducing computation burden, improvi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IEEE ICKII 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,949 Views
20 Pages

In the sensorless control algorithm of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs), there is a significant research focus on developing a high-performance position observer and a cost-effective, high-performance processor specifically designed for PM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Control for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,688 Views
17 Pages

Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop for Stator Windings Asymmetry Fault Analysis in Direct-Drive PMSG-Based Wind Turbines

  • Meysam Yousefzadeh,
  • Shahin Hedayati Kia,
  • Mohammad Hoseintabar Marzebali,
  • Davood Arab Khaburi and
  • Hubert Razik

21 September 2022

This article studies the stator windings asymmetry fault in direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous generator(PMSG)-based wind turbines (WTs), having passive converters at the generator side, through developing a power-hardware-in-the-loop (P-H-i-L...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,927 Views
18 Pages

Implementation of the permanent magnet synchronous motor vector control implies strong time dependencies. The control process requires precise measurement of motor shaft position and winding currents to establish correct driving. The tight time depen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embedded Systems: Fundamentals, Design and Practical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,370 Views
33 Pages

29 January 2026

As renewable energy integration accelerates, the displacement of synchronous generators by inverter-based resources (IBRs) necessitates advanced grid-forming (GFM) control strategies to maintain system stability. While techniques such as Droop contro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Power Electronics Design: Thermal Management and Reliability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,129 Views
21 Pages

15 September 2025

This paper proposes an iterative auto-tuning algorithm for PI controllers in permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive systems. The controller gains are initially set using motor-parameter-based formulas derived from pole–zero cancelation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,720 Views
26 Pages

Reduced-Order Model for Bearingless PMSMs in Hardware-in-the-Loop

  • Lucas Selonke Klaas,
  • Rafael F. Simões de Oliveira and
  • Ademir Nied

29 May 2025

High production costs and extended development timelines pose significant challenges to the manufacturing of bearingless permanent magnet synchronous motors (BPMSMs). Moreover, uncertainties regarding the motor’s ability to generate suspension...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,022 Views
23 Pages

FPGA-Based Real-Time Simulation of Externally Excited Synchronous Machines

  • Yannick Bergheim,
  • Fabian Jonczyk,
  • René Scheer and
  • Jakob Andert

27 March 2026

Externally excited synchronous machines (EESMs) are a rare-earth-free solution for traction applications. However, variable field excitation and magnetic coupling increase control complexity. Efficient validation of the resulting control functionalit...

(This article belongs to the Topic Design and Control of Electrical Machines for Electric Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,618 Views
36 Pages

27 August 2021

In the case of using a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) linear model of limited-range parametric variations and of relatively low dynamic of the load torque, the Field Oriented Control (FOC) type strategy ensures good performance of the PMSM...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hardware in the Loop, Real-Time Simulation and Digital Control of Power Electronics and Drives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
642 Views
18 Pages

8 July 2026

IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) synchronization accuracy is degraded by delay asymmetry in physical links. Accurate prediction and compensation of this asymmetry are essential for high-precision timekeeping. This paper presents a multi-horizo...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
310 Views
23 Pages

Analysis of PMSM Torque Waveform Discrepancies in a Hardware-in-the-Loop Environment

  • Wojciech Pietrowski,
  • Magdalena Puskarczyk and
  • Jan Szymenderski

2 September 2026

This paper compares Permanent-Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) torque waveforms measured on a dynamometer test bench and generated by a real-time Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) simulation. A nonlinear PMSM model, parameterised using measurements from the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Techniques for Power Converter and Drives, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,395 Views
27 Pages

25 November 2023

The nonlinear modeling and analyzing of wound-rotor synchronous starter/generators (WRSSGs) plays a vital role in the analysis and monitoring of aircraft power systems. Moreover, they are of great significance with regard to the establishment of a fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aerospace Mechanisms and Actuation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,576 Views
17 Pages

A Hardware System for Synchronous Processing of Multiple Marine Dynamics MEMS Sensors

  • Junmin Jing,
  • Zengxing Zhang,
  • Zhiwei Liao,
  • Bin Yao and ,
  • Yuzhen Guo,
  • Wenjun Zhang,
  • Yanbo Xu and
  • Chenyang Xue
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 December 2022

Temperature, depth, conductivity, and turbulence are fundamental parameters of marine dynamics in the field of ocean science. These closely correlated parameters require time-synchronized observations to provide feedback on marine environmental probl...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,856 Views
15 Pages

21 October 2021

In this paper, testing and diagnosis methods for the static excitation systems of power plant synchronous generators using Hardware-In-the-Loop technology are described. These methods allow a physical excitation system to be connected to a real-time...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Issues of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Mechatronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,685 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2023

The stabilization of a permanent magnet synchronous motor using digital controllers requires the design of both the feedback law and an appropriate sampling frequency. Moreover, the design approach must be robust against existing uncertainties, such...

(This article belongs to the Topic Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,483 Views
25 Pages

25 January 2022

Software defined radio (SDR) is a commonly used platform for its ease of operation and cost-effectiveness for the development and testing of real wireless communication systems. By supporting high transmission rates and enabling fast and cost-effecti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cooperative Communication in 5G-and-Beyond Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,234 Views
14 Pages

Testing the Automatic Voltage Regulators of Ship Synchronous Generators Using Hardware-in-the-Loop Technology

  • Dariusz Tarnapowicz,
  • Tymoteusz Zaleski,
  • Zbigniew Matuszak,
  • Marek Jaskiewicz and
  • Seweryn Sawicki

27 November 2024

In marine systems, autonomous power generation unit sets play an important (main) function, and the Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) is a part of the excitation system of a synchronous generator that is difficult to test, repair, and adjust by the E...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Energy, Electrical and Power Engineering: 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,284 Views
16 Pages

Automated Firmware Generation for Compressive Sensing on Heterogeneous Hardware

  • Rens Baeyens,
  • Joachim Denil,
  • Jan Steckel,
  • Dennis Laurijssen and
  • Walter Daems

24 October 2022

In this paper, a model-based firmware generator is presented towards complex sampling schemes. The framework is capable of automatically generating a fixed-rate Shannon-compliant acquisition scheme, as well as a variable-rate compressive sensing acqu...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,131 Views
18 Pages

23 December 2024

This paper proposes a DEVS (Discrete Event System Specification) formalism-based approach to analyze Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) issues in digital circuit design. As modern System on Chip (SoC) designs increasingly integrate multiple clock domains, t...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
762 Views
23 Pages

The gimbal servo system in a control moment gyroscope (CMG) is critical for high-precision spacecraft attitude control, where comprehensive performance testing and evaluation are essential for ensuring spacecraft reliability and service life. Traditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,117 Views
16 Pages

4 November 2025

Efficient and secure inter-task communication (ITC) is critical in real-time embedded systems, particularly in security-sensitive architectures. Traditional ITC mechanisms in Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOSs) often incur high latency from kernel tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cybersecurity in the Age of AI, IoT, and Edge Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,724 Views
24 Pages

8 April 2018

The quality of the captured point cloud and the scanning speed of a structured light 3D camera system depend upon their capability of handling the object surface of a large reflectance variation in the trade-off of the required number of patterns to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from MFI 2017 - International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,343 Views
37 Pages

System-Level Offline Time Synchronization Architecture for Distributed Electrical Signal Monitoring Using Raspberry Pi 5

  • Adriana Burlibaşa,
  • Silviu Epure,
  • Mihai Culea,
  • Cristinel Radu Dache and ,
  • Cristian Victor Lungu,
  • George-Andrei Marin and
  • Ciprian Vlad
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 April 2026

Accurate time synchronization is essential in distributed electrical signal monitoring, where phase coherence and event correlation depend on precise timing agreement between acquisition nodes. Conventional approaches often rely on a single synchroni...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,264 Views
13 Pages

When training a deep learning model with distributed training, the hardware resource utilization of each device depends on the model structure and the number of devices used for training. Distributed training has recently been applied to edge computi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,078 Views
20 Pages

Synchronization of Analog-Discrete Chaotic Systems for Wireless Sensor Network Design

  • Ruslans Babajans,
  • Darja Cirjulina,
  • Filips Capligins,
  • Deniss Kolosovs and
  • Anna Litvinenko

21 January 2024

The current work is focused on studying the performance of the Pecora–Carroll synchronization technique to achieve synchronization between the analog and discrete chaos oscillators. The importance of this study is supported by the growing appli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Electronics and Digital Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,251 Views
20 Pages

Enabling Parallelized-QEMU for Hardware/Software Co-Simulation Virtual Platforms

  • Edel Díaz,
  • Raúl Mateos,
  • Emilio J. Bueno and
  • Rubén Nieto

Presently, the trend is to increase the number of cores per chip. This growth is appreciated in Multi-Processor System-On-Chips (MPSoC), composed of more cores in heterogeneous and homogeneous architectures in recent years. Thus, the difficulty of ve...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,284 Views
13 Pages

Design of a Nonhomogeneous Nonlinear Synchronizer and Its Implementation in Reconfigurable Hardware

  • Jesus R. Pulido-Luna,
  • Jorge A. López-Rentería and
  • Nohe R. Cazarez-Castro

In this work, a generalization of a synchronization methodology applied to a pair of chaotic systems with heterogeneous dynamics is given. The proposed control law is designed using the error state feedback and Lyapunov theory to guarantee asymptotic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematics and Computational Applications in Control Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,973 Views
34 Pages

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely heavily on multi-modal sensors to perceive their surroundings and make real-time decisions. However, the increasing complexity of these sensors, combined with the computational demands of AI models and the challenges of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,846 Views
19 Pages

With the vigorous development of industrial automation and the Internet of things, the transmission of data is more dependent on immediacy, so network devices have higher and higher requirements for time synchronization accuracy. The clock source of...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,130 Views
36 Pages

Demonstration of Grid-Forming Controls in Hybrid AC/DC Grid in a Real-Time PHiL Environment

  • Michael Richter,
  • Ananya Kuri,
  • Julian Richter,
  • Timo Wagner and ,
  • Stefan Henninger and
  • Gert Mehlmann
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 February 2025

The transition to inverter-dominated power systems with novel control strategies has created weak grid scenarios, prompting extensive research into grid-forming (GFM) converters and advanced GFM control schemes. This study evaluates two GFM control s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics in Hybrid AC/DC Grids and Microgrids)
  • Article
  • Open Access
498 Views
26 Pages

3 June 2026

In passive-source seismic exploration, even after seismic instruments complete unified start-up acquisition and hardware synchronization, long-duration continuous records may still contain small residual timing errors, which in turn broaden cross-cor...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,147 Views
22 Pages

High-Resolution Quad-Channel Picoammeter: Characterization and Commissioning

  • Lucas Yugo Tanio,
  • Maurício Martins Donatti,
  • Fernando Henrique Cardoso,
  • Patricia Henriques Nallin and ,
  • Vinicius Silva Oliveira,
  • James Rezende Piton and
  • Aline Ribeiro Passos
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

To address the high demand for precise low-current measurements at the Sirius’ beamlines, a quad-channel high-resolution Ethernet picoammeter has been designed. The instrument can measure currents ranging from femtoampere to milliampere across...

(This article belongs to the Section Particle Detectors and Accelerators)

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