This study focuses on developing an advanced anti-lock braking system (ABS) for motorcycles, specifically targeting the challenges associated with cornering. Significant roll angles during motorcycle turns can often lead to slipping and the loss of c...
This work proposes a power control strategy based on the linear quadratic regulator with optimal reference tracking (LQR-ORT) for a three-phase inverter-based generator (IBG) using an LCL filter. The use of an LQR-ORT controller increases robustness...
In the electronic brake system (EBS) of commercial vehicles, due to the compressibility of gas, it is difficult to achieve accurate control in the pneumatic pipeline. To address this issue, a vertical load estimator based on unscented particle filter...
State-of-charge (SoC) consistency and bus voltage regulation are two major control objectives of shipboard DC microgrids. To achieve these objectives, this paper presents a novel distributed model predictive control (DMPC) strategy with multiple cost...
This paper proposes an adaptive path tracking control method tailored for intelligent vehicles, aiming to enhance accuracy and stability. Initially, based on the traditional model predictive control (MPC) theory, the lateral speed stability boundary...
Considering the demand for vehicle stability control and the existence of uncertainties in the four-wheel steering (4WS) system, the mixed H2/H∞ robust control methodology of the 4WS system is proposed. Firstly, the linear 2DOF vehicle model, t...
To enhance the control accuracy of lane-keeping assistance systems for trucks encountering crosswind-induced lateral deviations to improve the lateral stability of the vehicle, this study proposes a control strategy based on a linear quadratic regula...
This work investigates an innovative low-voltage (<60 V) hybrid device that enables engine boosting and downsizing in addition to mild hybrid functionalities such as regenerative braking, start-stop, and torque assist. A planetary gear set and a b...
This paper presents a model predictive controller (MPC) for position control of a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) tail-sitter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in hover flight. A ‘cross’ configuration quad-rotor tail-sitter UAV is design...
Validation is important for a high product quality of drive components. An X-in-the-Loop test bench enables the integration of scaled prototypes through coupling systems and scaling models even before serial parts are available. In the context of X-i...
This Editorial provides an introduction to the Special Issue “Methods and Concepts for Designing and Validating Smart Grid Systems”. Furthermore, it also provides an overview of the corresponding papers that where recently published in MD...
Unmanned underground articulated dump trucks (UADTs) are an important direction for the coal mining industry to vigorously promote automation and intelligence. Among these, tracking and controlling the motion trajectory is the key weak link. This pap...
Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) driven by electric propellers are of interest for military and civilian applications. The rotational speed control of such electric propellers is an important factor for improving the flight performance of the vehicles, such...
Reducing costs and time spent in experiments in the early development stages of vehicular technology such as off-road and agricultural semi-autonomous robots could help progress in this research area. In particular, evaluating path tracking strategie...
The integration of smart grid technologies in interconnected power system networks presents multiple challenges for the power industry and the scientific community. To address these challenges, researchers are creating new methods for the validation...
This study presents a cost-efficient Hardware-in-the-Loop platform for liquid-level process control education, designed to bridge the gap between theoretical learning and real-world industrial practice. The proposed system integrates NI myRIO and NI...
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...
The Smart Grid is one of the most important solutions to boost electricity sharing from renewable energy sources. Its implementation adds new functionalities to power systems, which increases the electric grid complexity. To ensure grid stability and...
The growing utilization of single-phase pulse width modulation (PWM) rectifiers in various applications has spurred interest in detecting and monitoring faults in these devices. In particular, voltage and current sensors play a crucial role in the co...
Experimental work with heating systems installed in public transport vehicles, particularly for optimisation and control design, is a challenging task due to cost and space limitations, primarily imposed by the heating hardware and the need to have a...
This paper presents an innovative primary control strategy for a modular multilevel converter aimed at enhancing reliability and dynamic performance for power electronics applications. The proposed method utilises interactive modelling tools, includi...
The regulation of output voltage in power converters often demands nonlinear control techniques; however, their implementation is challenging when deployed on low-cost hardware with limited computational resources. To address this difficulty, the mod...
An industrial-oriented water tank level control system with PLC- and Simulink-based fractional-order controller realizations is presented. The discrete fractional-order and integer-order PID implementations are realized via the PLC and Simulink simul...
The importance of Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) experiments is rising more and more over the last decade in the field of power system and components testing. Due to the bidirectional exchange between virtual and physical systems, a true-to-realit...
This paper represents an adaptive continuous control set model predictive control (CCS-MPC) to solve the disturbance-caused instability problems in a DC microgrid consisting of symmetrical parallel buck converters, constant voltage loads (CVL), and c...
Recently developed nacelle test benches for wind turbines, equipped with multi-physics Hardware-in-the-Loop (HiL) systems, enable advanced testing and even certification of next-generation wind turbines according to IEC61400-21. On the basis of three...
High penetration of wind farms into the power grid lowers system inertia and compromises stability. This paper proposes a grid-forming control strategy for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator (PMSG) wind turbines based on DC-link voltage matching...
Reliability is a key consideration when microgrid technology is implemented in military applications. Droop control provides a simple option without requiring communication between microgrid components, increasing the control system reliability. Howe...
Motivated by the fact that the real driving NOx emissions (RDE) of conventional diesel vehicles can exceed the legislation norms by far, a concept for the control of RDE with a diesel parallel hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) is proposed. By extending t...
Utilizing thermal updrafts shows potential for enabling long-endurance cruising of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles without energy consumption. This article presents a novel online method based on sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy...
Due to the limited difference in maneuverability between the pursuer and the evader in three-dimensional space, it is difficult for a single pursuer to capture the evader. To address this, this paper proposes a strategy where three pursuers intercept...
This paper applies a dynamic path planning and model predictive control (MPC) to simulate self-driving and parking for an electric van on a hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) platform. The hardware platform is a simulator which consists of an electric power...
Project-based learning (PBL) is proposed for the development of a Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) platform and the design of its digital controller for an undergraduate course on Digital Electronic Systems. The objective for students is the design of a di...
Renewable energy sources are growing in importance and reshaping power systems through microgrid (MG) networks. Some relevant issues in the management of an MG need to be addressed, such as voltage and frequency control, power balance between sources...
The work is based on a collaboration between Hiroshima University and Kure KOSEN College. This paper presents the design concept, hardware, and applications of a single-phase synchronous inverter (SSI), a specially designed grid-forming inverter (GFM...
In weak grid inverter grid-connected systems, the presence of grid impedance and voltage harmonic disturbances can cause distortion in the grid-connected current. While traditional voltage full-feedforward methods reduce steady-state error, they comp...
Recently, in order to ensure the reliability and safety of trains, online condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of traction induction motors have become active issues in the area of rail transportation. The fault diagnosis algorithm can be develop...
The hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation is an important approach to test space robotic operations, rendering virtual free-floating dynamics on robotic facilities. However, this approach suffers from velocity divergence due to intrinsic time delay i...
An accurate and computationally efficient lithium-ion battery model is beneficial when developing state-of-charge (SOC) and state-of-health (SOH) algorithms for battery management systems (BMS). These models allow for software-in-the-loop (SIL) and h...
Aiming at the problem of body instability caused by actuator failure in a distributed electric vehicle drive system, a fault-tolerant control strategy of longitudinal and lateral force cooperative reconstruction with active steering control was propo...
In this paper, several modeling methods for the continuous current mode (CCM) fractional-order Cuk converter are investigated. First, the state space averaging method is used to establish the model. Based on this model, the expressions of inductors’...
A hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) experimental test-bench is suggested for a rotodynamic pump in this paper. The HIL simulator is composed of two separate modules and two variable-speed drive (VSD) systems that are connected with the help of a programmabl...
Large wind turbines have typically poorly damped structures. Hence, the absence of damping leads to aeroelastic oscillations, and the operational rotor speed can approach the critical rotor speed. By using damping injection, the control system can ac...
This paper presents a twisting controller (TC) based on a high-order sliding mode observer (HOSMO) for linear induction motors (LIMs), accounting for dynamic end effects. Based on the LIM model in the field-oriented frame, two extended subsystems are...
The inclusion of electricity generation from wind in microgrids presents an important opportunity in modern electric power systems. Various control strategies can be pursued for wind resources connected in microgrids, and droop control is a promising...
Multilevel inverters are increasingly being employed for industrial applications, such as speed control of motors and grid integration of distributed generation systems. The focus is on developing topologies that utilize fewer lower-rating switches a...
This paper presents a classic missile-type parallel-approach guidance law for fixed-wing UAVs in coordinated formation flight. The key idea of the proposed guidance law is to drive each follower to follow the virtual target point. Considering the tur...
In a phase-locked loop (PLL) synchronized inverter grid-connected system, its equivalent damping coefficient is nonlinearly coupled with the operation power angle. Therefore, under a large disturbance, the indefinite damping increases the risk of tra...
Real-time simulations refer to the simulations of a physical system where model equations for one time-step are solved within the same time period as in reality. An FPGA/CPU-based real-time simulation platform is presented in this paper, with a full-...
Traditional multilevel inverter topologies, such FC, NPC, and CHB, have a few significant disadvantages. They need a great number of parts, which raises the complexity, expense, and switching losses. Furthermore, their intricate control schemes make...
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