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CFP10IEC-PRT 978-1-4244-5225-5

IECON 2010 – 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Glendale, Arizona, USA 7 – 10 November 2010

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ............................................................................................... 3

INTRODUCTION TO IES PANEL DISCUSSION ON SMART GRIDS ...................................................................... 11Yinghuo Yu

A DISCRETE-TIME OBSERVER-BASED CONTROL FOR INDUCTION MOTORS ............................................. 17John Cortés-Romero, Alberto Luviano-Juárez, Hebertt Sira-Ramírez

A NUCLEAR NORM MINIMIZATION APPROACH TO SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION WITH FINITE WORD-LENGTH DATA ..................................................................................................................................... 23

Katsumi Konishi

A PROPOSAL FOR DUAL-RATE CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR UNSTABLE PLANTS. ..................................... 29Julian Salt, Antonio Sala, Pedro Albertos

A SERVO SYSTEM CONTROL WITH TIME-VARYING LOAD USING TYPE-2 FUZZY NEURAL SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................................. 35

Yesim Oniz, Erdal Kayacan, Ayse Cisel Aras, Okyay Kaynak, Rahib Abiyev

A SYSTEM SIMULATION TECHNIQUE COMBINING SPICE AND SIMULINK TOOLS.................................... 41Christopher Wilson, John Hung

ACTIVE STRUCTURAL CONTROL WITH INPUT DEAD ZONE BASED ON EQUIVALENT-INPUT-DISTURBANCE APPROACH ............................................................................................................................. 47

Jin-Hua She, Kozue Sekiya, Min Wu, Qi Lei

ADAPTIVE ROBUST STABILIZATION FOR A CLASS OF UNCERTAIN NONLINEAR SYSTEMS WITH EXTERNAL DISTURBANCES ......................................................................................................... 53

Hansheng Wu

AN ADAPTIVE LEADER-FOLLOWER FORMATION CONTROLLER FOR MULTIPLE AUVS IN SPATIAL MOTIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 59

Saba Emrani, Alireza Dirafzoon, Heidar Ali Talebi, S. Kamaleddin Y. Nikravesh, Mohammad Bagher Menhaj

AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF ADAPTIVE AND ROBUST CONTROL METHODS FOR PRECISE POSITIONING WITH TUBULAR LINEAR MOTORS ..................................................................... 71

Francesco Cupertino, David Naso

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF FULL-BRIDGE LC PARALLEL RESONANT PLASMA DRIVER WITH VARIABLE-INDUCTOR BASED PHASE CONTROL...................................................................................... 77

Ray-Lee Lin, Min-Han Lee

ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL CONTROLLERS FOR EQUILIBRATED CURRENT DISTRIBUTION IN AN INTERLEAVED INVERTER ................................................................................................................................ 83

Sergio Díaz, Porfírio Cortizo, Rubens Santos, Marcos Severo

ANT COLONIES FOR TEMPORAL LOGIC FALSIFICATION OF HYBRID SYSTEMS ...................................... 91Yashwanth Singh Rahul Annapureddy, Georgios Fainekos

APPLICATION OF SYMMETRICAL PROPORTIONAL DIRECTION VALVE CONTROLLED UNSYMMETRICAL CYLINDER IN THE AUTOMATIC ROLLER GAP ADJUSTING OF A NOVEL STRAIGHTENER ................................................................................................................................................ 97

Zhiwei Zhang, Zhongyou Wu, Fuchun Liu, Jinchun Song

COOPERATIVE FILTERS: LOCALIZATION, COORDINATION AND INJECTED CURRENT CONTROL ......................................................................................................................................................................... 102

Camila Seibel Gehrke, Antonio Marcus Nogueira Lima, Alexandre Cunha Oliveira

DRIVER DISTRACTION DETECTION FOR VEHICULAR MONITORING ......................................................... 108Jing Yang, Timothy N. Chang, Edwin Hou

EXPERIMENTAL SETUP FOR INDUCTIVE EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENTS OF DOMESTIC INDUCTION SYSTEMS BASED ON ENERGY BALANCE ....................................................................................... 114

Jesús Acero, Claudio Carretero, Ignacio Millán, Rafael Alonso, ÓScar Lucía, José-Miguel Burdío

FLATNESS BASED SPEED CONTROL OF DRIVE SYSTEMS WITH RESONANT LOADS .............................. 120Soenke Thomsen, Friedrich W. Fuchs

FPGA-BASED DIGITAL VOLTAGE-CURRENT CONTROLLER FOR A BUCK CONVERTER ....................... 126Carlos Carrejo, Enric Vidal-Idiarte, Bruno Estibals, Corinne Alonso

HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS VERIFICATION ON HILES DESIGNER TOOL................................................. 132Carlos Ernesto Gomez, Jean Claude Pascal, Jose Fernando Jimenez, Philippe Esteban

HYBRID MODEL FOR BUCK CONVERTER OPERATING IN CONTINUOUS AND DISCONTINUOUS CONDUCTION MODES................................................................................................................ 138

Cristina Vlad, Pedro Rodriguez, Emmanuel Godoy, Pierre Lefranc

I&I-BASED ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF A FOUR-ROTOR MINI HELICOPTER ................................................. 144Keigo Fujimoto, Makoto Yokoyama, Yuji Tanabe

INTEGRATED CURRENT CONTROL, ENERGY CONTROL AND ENERGY BALANCING OF MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS ................................................................................................................ 150

Philipp Münch, Daniel Görges, Michal Izák, Steven Liu

INTELLIGENT CONTROL OF NONLINEAR HYSTERETIC ELECTRONIC THROTTLE USING BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR (ET-BLDC) ......................................................................................................................... 156

Chi-Hsu Wang, De-Yu Huang

MODELING AND CONTROL OF A TWO DOF HELICOPTER USING A ROBUST CONTROL DESIGN BASED ON DK ITERATION .......................................................................................................................... 162

Jose Guillermo Guarnizo, Cesar Leonardo Trujillo, Javier Antonio Guacaneme

NETWORKED PID CONTROL: TUNING AND OUTAGE COMPENSATION ...................................................... 168Mikael Björkbom, Mikael Johansson

NONLINEAR MODEL-BASED FAULT DETECTION WITH FUZZY SET FAULT ISOLATION....................... 174Ivan Castillo, Thomas Edgar, Ricardo Dunia

NONLINEAR SLIDING MODE OBSERVER AND CONTROL OF HIGH ORDER DC-DC CONVERTERS ................................................................................................................................................................. 180

Ali Jaafar, Emmanuel Godoy, Pierre Lefranc, Xuefang Lin Shi, Akram Fayaz, Nan Li

ON DESIGN OF OBSERVER-BASED PULSE-FREQUENCY-MODULATED FEEDBACK CONTROL SYSTEMS ..................................................................................................................................................... 187

Bernard Friedland

ONLINE SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION BASED ACTOR-CRITIC METHOD ............................................. 193Dong-Hyun Lee, Jeong-Jung Kim, Ju-Jang Lee

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION OF A UNIVERSAL INVERTER ................................................................ 199Antonella Nagliero, A. Lecci, R. A. Mastromauro, M. Liserre, A. Dell’Aquila

PLUG-AND-PLAY CONTROL MODULE FOR VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINE UNDER UNKNOWN AERODYNAMICS ..................................................................................................................................... 205

Yun She, Xu She

ROBUST VIBRATION ISOLATION BY FREQUENCY-SHAPED SLIDING SURFACE CONTROL WITH GEOPHONE DYNAMICS ................................................................................................................................... 211

Chenyang Ding, A.A.H. Damen, P.P.J. van den Bosch

SAFETY FUNCTION IN CONTROL LAWS AGAINST DEVIATIONS FROM NORMAL OPERATING-RANGE ..................................................................................................................................................... 217

Koichi Suyama, Nobuko Kosugi

STABILITY OF LINEAR SYSTEMS WITH INTERVAL TIME-VARYING DELAYS ARSING FROM NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................. 225

Xian-Ming Zhang, Qing-Long Han

SYNCHRONIZATION OF A CLASS OF PARTIALLY UNKNOWN CHAOTIC SYSTEMS WITH INTEGRAL OBSERVER ................................................................................................................................................. 231

Yuye Wang, Xinlin Xu, Lili Dai, Bingzhou Hou

USING AN EMBEDDED CONTROLLER WITH FUZZY LOGIC TO REDUCE POWER CONSUMPTION OF MOBILE COMPUTERS ............................................................................................................. 236

Ying-Wen Bai, Cuing-Hung Cheng

A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF DCM CONTROL AND CCM CONTROL FOR SOFT-SWITCHING PFC CONVERTER .................................................................................................................................. 250

Yuki Kawaguchi, Eiji Hiraki, Toshihiko Tanaka, Hideki Sadakata, Atsushi Fujita, Hideki Omori, Mutsuo Nakaoka

A COMPARISON STUDY OF CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR ZVS RESONANT CONVERTERS .................... 256Sanzhong Bai, Zeljko Pantic, Srdjan Lukic

A DATA PROCESSOR TO ENHANCE ROBUSTNESS OF NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL-CONNECTED INVERTERS ........................................................................................................... 263

Yao Zhang, Hao Ma, Cai Yang, Liang Dong

A DELTA-SIGMA MODULATED CLASS D CURRENT-SOURCE RESONANT BOOST CONVERTER.................................................................................................................................................................... 269

Hirotaka Koizumi

A GENERALIZED COUPLING MODEL FOR CAPACITIVE POWER TRANSFER SYSTEMS......................... 274Chao Liu, Patrick Hu, Mickel Budhia

A MODIFIED ACTIVE AND REACTIVE DIRECT POWER CONTROL STRATEGY WITH DISTURBANCES MINIMIZATION .............................................................................................................................. 280

Sebastian Munoz, Marcelo Perez, Jose Rodriguez

A NEW AC-DC CONVERTER USING BRIDGELESS SEPIC ................................................................................... 286Mohd Rodhi Sahid, Abdul Halim Mohd Yatim, Taufik Taufik

A NEW MULTIPHASE MULTI-INTERLEAVING BUCK CONVERTER WITH BYPASS LC ............................ 291Taufik Taufik, Randyco Prasetyo, Dale Dolan, Dodi Garinto

A NOVEL MODULATION TECHNIQUE FOR A MULTILEVEL HYBRID CONVERTER WITH FLOATING CAPACITORS............................................................................................................................................. 296

César A. Silva, Nicolás A. Espinoza, Pablo A. Lezana

A NOVEL NON-FRAGILE SINGLE-LOOP VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY CONTROLLER FOR INDUCTION GENERATOR BASED ISOLATED RENEWABLE ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM............................................................................................................................................................................. 303

Jayanta Kumar Chatterjee, Priyesh Chauhan

A POSITIVE REFERENCE PWM STRATEGY BASED ON MULTI-SWITCHING DC VOLTAGE SOURCES CONVERTER FOR INSULATION TESTING .......................................................................................... 309

Weerapon Kongnun, Anawach Sangswang, Supakit Chotigo

A POWER ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMER FOR THREE PHASE PWM AC/AC DRIVE WITH LOSS LESS COMMUTATION AND COMMON-MODE VOLTAGE SUPPRESSION. .......................................... 315

Kaushik Basu, Ned Mohan

A SOFT SWITCHING THREE-PHASE THREE-SWITCH BUCK RECTIFIER ..................................................... 321Negar Noroozi, MohammadReza Zolghadri, Mehdi Ferdowsi

A WIDE OUTPUT RANGE RECONFIGURABLE STRUCTURE DC-DC CONVERTER ..................................... 327Pengju Sun, Luowei Zhou, Keyue Smedley

ACCELERATED SIMULATION OF COMPLEX AIRCRAFT ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEM UNDER NORMAL AND FAULTY OPERATIONAL SCENARIOS........................................................................... 333

Serhiy Bozhko, Tao Wu, Christofer Hill, Greg Asher

ACTIVE SUPPRESSION OF LOW-FREQUENCY DISTURBANCES ON AC SIDE OF TRACTION ACTIVE CURRENT-SOURCE RECTIFIER ................................................................................................................ 339

Jan Michalik, Jan Molnar, Zdenek Peroutka

ACTIVE VOLTAGE CONTROL ON SERIES CONNECTION OF IGBTS AND DIODE RECOVERY OPTIMIZATION....................................................................................................................................... 345

Weiwei He, Patrick R. Palmer, Zhihan Wang, Mark Snook

AN AC-LINK BIDIRECTIONAL DC-DC CONVERTER WITH SYNCHRONOUS RECTIFIER ......................... 351Toshiro Hirose, Keisuke Nishimura, Takayuki Kimura, Hirofumi Matsuo

ANALYSIS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A NOVEL FULL-BRIDGE ZVS CONVERTER WITH ADAPTIVE AUXILIARY CIRCUIT .............................................................................................................................. 358

Zhong Chen, Miao Chen, Feng Ji, Jianxia Li

ANALYSIS OF STABILITY AND BIFURCATION IN A SIMPLE MODEL OF POWER CONVERTERS WITH SOLAR CELL INPUT.............................................................................................................. 364

Takashi Maeda, Toshimichi Saito

APPLICATION OF KALMAN FILTERS IN MODEL-BASED FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF A DC-DC BOOST CONVERTER ..................................................................................................................................................... 369

Afshin Izadian, Pardis Khayyer

APPROXIMATE NOVEL LOSS FORMULAE ESTIMATION FOR OPTIMIZATION OF POWER CONTROLLER OF DC/DC CONVERTER................................................................................................................... 373

Ahmed Shahin, Alireza Payman, Jean-Philippe Martin, Serge Pierfederici, Farid Meibody-Tabar

CALCULATION OF LOSSES AND TEMPERATURE RISE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER UNDER FORCED-AIR CONVECTION......................................................................................... 379

Ren-Chun Chang, Chien-Kuo Chen, Chien-Yue Wang, Ying-Yu Tzou

CASCADE CONTROL APPLIED TO ASYMMETRIC MULTILEVEL CONVERTER BASED-STATCOM ......................................................................................................................................................................... 385

Javier Perez-Ramirez, Victor Cardenas, Homero Miranda

COMPARISON OF THE CHIP AREA USAGE OF 2-LEVEL AND 3-LEVEL VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES ........................................................................................................................................ 391

Mario Schweizer, Ignacio Lizama, Thomas Friedli, Johann Kolar

CONTRIBUTION OF VSC-HVDC CONNECTED WIND FARMS TO GRID FREQUENCY REGULATION AND POWER DAMPING .................................................................................................................... 397

Yi Wang, Xiaorong Zhu

CONVERTERS FAULT-DIAGNOSIS IN PMSG DRIVES FOR WIND TURBINE APPLICATIONS................... 403Nuno Freire, Jorge O. Estima, A. J. Marques Cardoso

DC-AC THREE-PHASE FOUR-WIRE Z-SOURCE CONVERTER WITH HYBRID PWM STRATEGY ....................................................................................................................................................................... 409

Euzeli Cipriano dos Santos Jr., João Helder Gonzaga Muniz, Eugenio Pachelle Xavier P Filho, Edison Roberto Cabral da Silva

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF SERIES RESONANT CONVERTER FOR 30KW INDUSTRIAL MAGNETRON .................................................................................................................................................................. 415

Sung Roc Jang, Hong Je Ryoo, Jong Soo Kim, Geun Hie Rim, Suk Ho Ahn

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF HIGH VOLTAGE AND HIGH FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER FOR SOLID STATE TRANSFORMER APPLICATION............................................................................................. 421

Seunghun Baek, Yu Du, Gangyao Wang, Subhashish Bhattacharya

DESIGN CRITERIA FOR RESONANT TANK OF LLC DC-DC RESONANT CONVERTER .............................. 427Ray-Lee Lin, Chiao-Wen Lin

DSP-BASED CURRENT CONTROL FOR INVERTER-FED PERMANENT-MAGNET ELECTRODYNAMIC SHAKER .................................................................................................................................... 433

Hung-Chi Chen, Yu-Ching Lin, Jhen-Yu Liao

DYNAMIC MODELING OF A SINUSOIDAL INVERTER BASED ON ZETA CONVERTER WORKING IN DCM FOR PV ARRAYS........................................................................................................................ 439

Renan C. Viero, Henrique F. M. Lopez, Cesar A. Zollmann, Fernando S. dos REIS

DYNAMIC RESPONSE IMPROVEMENT IN A BUCK-TYPE CONVERTER USING CAPACITOR CURRENT FEED-FORWARD CONTROL................................................................................................................... 445

Lisheng Shi, Mehdi Ferdowsi, Mariesa Crow

EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT SWITCHING ALGORITHMS ON THE THERMAL BEHAVIOR OF IGBT MODULES UNDER PULSE-LOAD CONDITIONS .......................................................................................... 451

Arash Nejadpak, Behrooz Mirafzal, Osama Mohammed, Lixiang Wei

EFFICIENT CONTROL OF A DIRECT DRIVE IPM SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR BASED VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINE WITH ENERGY STORAGE......................................................................... 457

Abu Mohammad Osman Haruni, MD. Enamul Haque, Ameen Gargoom, Michael Negnevitsky

EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF A SERIES RESONANT CONVERTER FOR A PLASMA INERTIZATION PLANT ................................................................................................................................................. 464

Jean P. Dubut, Jose A. Diaz Amado, Andres Ortiz Salazar, Luciano Pereira dos Sanos Junior, Marcos V. Milfont de Aguiar

FOUR SWITCH BUCK-BOOST CONVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DC-DC POWER APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 469

Marcos Orellana Barcelo, Stépahne Petibon, Bruno Estibals, Corinne Alonso

FOURTEEN-BAND HYSTERESIS CONTROLLER OF THE FIFTEEN-LEVEL PACKED U CELLS CONVERTER...................................................................................................................................................... 475

Youssef Ounejjar, Kamal Al-Haddad

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF FIXED ON-TIME WITH BOTTOM DETECTION CONTROL FOR BUCK CONVERTER ......................................................................................................................... 481

Min Lin, Toshiyuki Zaitsu, Terukazu Sato, Takashi Nabeshima

FREQUENCY-ADAPTIVE VIRTUAL FLUX ESTIMATION FOR GRID SYNCHRONIZATION UNDER UNBALANCED CONDITIONS........................................................................................................................ 486

Jon Are Suul, Alvaro Luna, Pedro Rodriguez, Tore Undeland

HIGH-VOLTAGE HIGH-FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER DESIGN FOR A 7.2KV TO 120V/240V 20KVA SOLID STATE TRANSFORMER ..................................................................................................................... 493

Yu Du, Seunghun Baek, Subhashish Bhattacharya, Alex Huang

IMPACT OF DC LINK PULSE CODING ON THE HARMONIC DISTORTION OF THE HIGH-FREQUENCY-LINK INVERTER................................................................................................................................... 499

Sudip K. Mazumder, Akshay Rathore

IMPLEMENTATION AND MODELING OF LOW POWER AC-DC CONVERTER WITH INDIRECT FEEDBACK .................................................................................................................................................. 505

Rohan Dayal, Leila Parsa

IMPROVED HYSTERESIS CURRENT CONTROL OF MULTILEVEL INVERTERS WITH CONSTANT SWITCHING FREQUENCY .................................................................................................................... 511

Huifeng Mao, Xu Yang, Zenglu Chen, Zhaoan Wang

IMPROVEMENT OF GATE DRIVE FOR SELF-POWER EMITTER TURN-OFF THYRISTOR (SPETO) ............................................................................................................................................................................. 516

Qian Chen, Alex Huang

IMPROVING THE CONVERGENCE TIME OF ADAPTIVE NOTCH FILTERS TO HARMONIC DETECTION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 521

Rondineli Rodrigues Pereira, Carlos Henrique da Silva, Luiz Eduardo Borges da Silva, Germano Lambert Torres, João Onofre Pereira Pinto

IMPROVING THE STABILITY OF POWER FACTOR CORRECTING CONVERTERS USING A POSITIVE CURRENT FEEDFORWARD COMPENSATOR ..................................................................................... 526

Phong Viet Tran, Robert Cox

INVERTER-BASED VIRTUAL DIESEL GENERATOR FOR LABORATORY-SCALE APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 532

Miguel Torres, Luiz Lopes

LINE POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT FOR ESP SYSTEMS USING MULTI-PULSE AND ACTIVE FILTER CONCEPTS ....................................................................................................................................... 538

Thiago Soeiro, Jurgen Biela, Jorgen Linner, Per Ranstad, Johann Kolar

LOW STANDBY POWER CONSUMPTION AND HIGH CROSS REGULATION OF ACTIVE CLAMP FLYBACK CONVERTER WITH SSPR ......................................................................................................... 544

Jee-Hoon Jung, Shehab Ahmed

LQR WITH INTEGRAL ACTION CONTROLLER APPLIED TO A THREE-PHASE THREE-SWITCH THREE-LEVEL AC/DC CONVERTER ....................................................................................................... 550

Roula Salim, Hadi Kanaan, Kamal Al-Haddad

MIXED MODE CONTROL FOR FLYBACK CONVERTER ..................................................................................... 556Rosario Stracquadaini

MODELLING AND CONTROL OF A MULTI PHASE INDUCTION SYSTEM FOR METAL DISC HEATING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 562

Majid Souley, Julie Egalon, Stéphane Caux, Olivier Pateau, Pascal Maussion

MULTILEVEL MULTIPHASE SPACE VECTOR PWM ALGORITHM WITH SWITCHING STATE REDUNDANCY APPLIED TO THREE-PHASE FOUR-LEG CONVERTERS .......................................... 568

Oscar López, Jacobo Alvarez, Francisco D. Freijedo, Alejandro G. Yepes, Jano Malvar, Pablo Fernández-Comesaña, Jesús Doval-Gandoy, Andrés Nogueiras, Alfonso Lago, Carlos M. Peñalver

MULTILEVEL SWITCHED-CAPACITOR DC-DC CONVERTER WITH REDUCED CAPACITOR BANK......................................................................................................................................................... 576

Michael Njoroge Gitau, Cedrik Kala-Konga

NEW CHALLENGES IN POWER CONDITIONING FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS....................................... 582Eunice Ribeiro, António Cardoso, Chiara Boccaletti

NEW GEOMETRY INTEGRATED INDUCTORS IN TWO-CHANNEL INTERLEAVED BIDIRECTIONAL CONVERTER .................................................................................................................................. 588

Ziwei Ouyang, Ole.C Thomsen, Michael A. E. Andersen, Ole Poulsen, Thomas Björklund

NEW INDUCTOR CURRENT FEEDBACK CONTROL WITH ACTIVE HARMONICS INJECTION FOR INVERTER STAGE OF SOLID STATE TRANSFORMER........................................................ 593

Xiaohu Zhou, Yu Liu, Subhashish Bhattacharya, Alex Huang

NON-INVERTING BUCK-BOOST POWER-FACTOR-CORRECTION CONVERTER WITH WIDE INPUT-VOLTAGE-RANGE APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................. 599

Ray-Lee Lin, Rui-Che Wang

NOVEL AC COUPLED GATE DRIVER FOR ULTRA FAST SWITCHING OF NORMALLY-OFF SIC JFET............................................................................................................................................................................ 605

Benjamin Wrzecionko, Stefan Käch, Dominik Bortis, Jürgen Biela, Johann W. Kolar

NOVEL PWM MODULATION STRATEGY FOR 3-PHASE INVERTERS WITH REDUCED DISTORTION AT LOW SWITCHING FREQUENCY ................................................................................................ 613

Niklas E. Rueger, Olaf Schnick, Wolfgang Mathis, Axel Mertens

NOVEL, FOUR-SWITCH, Z-SOURCE THREE-PHASE INVERTER....................................................................... 619Róbert Antal, Nicolae Muntean, Ion Boldea, Frede Blaabjerg

ONE-CYCLE CONTROLLED ACTIVE RECTIFIER FOR FULL DIGITAL IMPLEMENTATION ................... 625Mario Barbati, Cristiano Caluisi, Carlo Cecati

OPTIMIZED DESIGN OF MEDIUM FREQUENCY TRANSFORMERS WITH HIGH ISOLATION REQUIREMENTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 631

Gabriel Ortiz, Juergen Biela, Johann W. Kolar

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND CIRCUIT DESIGN OF AN INTERLEAVED ACTIVE CLAMP ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING FLYBACK-FORWARD BOOST CONVERTER ................................................. 639

Fengwen Cao, Yiwang Wang, Ji Suo, Chunqing Qi, Qingrui Tu

PHASE-SHIFTED FULL BRIDGE CONVERTER FEATURING ZVS OVER THE FULL LOAD RANGE............................................................................................................................................................................... 644

Bingjian Yang, Jorge L. Duarte, Wuhua Li, Kai Yin, Xiangning He, Yan Deng

POSITIVE FEED-FORWARD CONTROL SCHEME FOR DISTRIBUTED BUCK CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH MAXIMUM POWER HARVESTING FUNCTION......................................................................... 650

Ray-Lee Lin, Po-Yao Yeh, Ching-Hsiung Liu

POWER ELECTRONIC TRANSFORMER WITH REDUCED NUMBER OF SWITCHES: ANALYSIS OF INPUT CLAMP CIRCUIT AND A MODULATION STRATEGY TO ELIMINATE INPUT SNUBBER REQUIREMENT.............................................................................................................................. 656

Gysler Castelino, Kaushik Basu, Ranjan Gupta, Ned Mohan

PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL-CONTROLLED POWER CONVERTERS .................................................................................................................... 662

Ye-Then Chang, Yen-Shin Lai

PWM STRATEGY OF VOLTAGE HARMONICS MINIMIZATION FOR MATRIX CONVERTERS ................................................................................................................................................................. 668

Takayuki Hasegawa, Takaharu Takeshita

REGENERATIVE ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR PULSE-LOADS IN DUAL DC-AC MICRO-GRIDS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 674

Mahdi Saghaleini, Behrooz Mirafzal, Chris Edrington

RESEARCH ON MATRIX CONVERTER CONTROL STRATEGY UNDER ABNORMAL INPUT VOLTAGES ....................................................................................................................................................................... 680

Xingwei Wang, Hua Lin, Hongwu She, Bo Feng

RIDE-THROUGH STUDY FOR MATRIX-CONVERTER ADJUSTABLE-SPEED DRIVES DURING VOLTAGE SAGS............................................................................................................................................. 686

Rashmi Prasad, Kaushik Basu, Krushna K. Mohapatra, Ned Mohan

ROBUST CONTROL OF DIGITAL-CONTROLLED BUCK CONVERTER BASED UPON TWO-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM CONTROLLER................................................................................................................... 692

Yen-Shin Lai, Ye-Then Chang, Chun-Ting Kuo

ROBUST OPTIMAL CONTROL STRATEGIES FOR A HYBRID FUEL CELL POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM .............................................................................................................................................. 698

David Hernandez-Torres, Delphine Riu, Olivier Sename, Florence Druart

SINGLE INDUCTOR QUAD-INPUT-DUAL-OUTPUT BUCK CONVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS......................................................................................................................................... 704

Kin Wai Roy Chew, Liter Siek

THE CONTROL UNIT OF A SINGLE PHASE VOLTAGE REGULATOR ............................................................. 710Ilknur Colak, Deniz Yildirim

THREE-PHASE SVA INVERTER .................................................................................................................................. 716Euzeli Cipriano dos Santos Jr.

VERY LOW FREQUENCY SUPERCAPACITOR TECHNIQUES TO IMPROVE THE END-TO-END EFFICIENCY OF DC-DC CONVERTERS BASED ON COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELF LDOS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 721

Nihal Kularatna, Jayathu Fernando, Kosala Kankanamge, Lasantha Tillakaratna

A CURRENT ERROR SPACE VECTOR BASED HYSTERESIS CONTROLLER WITH CONSTANT SWITCHING FREQUENCY AND SIMPLE ONLINE BOUNDARY COMPUTATION FOR VSI FED IM DRIVE ................................................................................................................................................ 729

Gopakumar K, Rijil Ramchand, Chintan Patel, Anandarup Das, Sivakumar K, Patnaik L M

A NEW METHOD FOR EFFICIENT DRIVE AND CURRENT CONTROL OF SMALL-SIZED BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR - EXPERIMENTS AND ITS EVALUATION.................................................................. 735

Atsushi Watanabe, Shin’ichi Yuta, Akihisa Ohya

A NONLINEAR FULL ORDER OBSERVER FOR ROTOR FLUX POSITION ESTIMATION OF INDUCTION MOTORS ................................................................................................................................................... 742

Mihai Comanescu

A NOVEL POWER-FLOW BALANCE LVRT CONTROL STRATEGY FOR LOW-SPEED DIRECT-DRIVE PMSG WIND SYSTEM...................................................................................................................... 748

Jun Li, Dujiang Li, Lei Hong, Chuan Xie, Guozhu Chen

A PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF THREE COMMON PWM SWITCHING CURRENT CONTROL STRATEGIES............................................................................................................................................... 754

Graham H. Morton, Calum Cossar

AN EVALUATION OF THE MCSA METHOD WHEN APPLIED TO DETECT FAULTS IN MOTOR DRIVEN LOADS .............................................................................................................................................. 760

Marcelo M. Stopa, Braz J. Cardoso Filho, Bruno L. O. Lage

ANALYSIS OF THE INTER-TURN FAULT SYMPTOMS FOR THE CONVERTER-FED INDUCTION MOTOR BASED ON THE PHASE-SHIFT CALCULATION ............................................................. 766

Czeslaw T. Kowalski, Teresa Orlowska-Kowalska, Robert Wierzbicki, Marcin Wolkiewicz

APPLICATION OF THE CONVOLUTION THEOREM FOR THE MODELING OF SATURATED INDUCTION MOTORS ................................................................................................................................................... 772

Adel Ghoggal, Salah Eddine Zouzou, Hubert Razik, Amel Hadri-Hamida, Mohamed Sahraoui

BACK EMF-BASED ROTOR POSITION PREDICTION IN PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINES FOR SURVIVABLE WIND GENERATOR SYSTEMS................................................................................................ 778

Xiaodong Shi, Jorge Serradilla, Mahesh Krishnamurthy

BEARING WEAR CAUSED BY CONVERTER-INDUCED BEARING CURRENTS ............................................. 784Hans Tischmacher, Sven Gattermann, Michael Kriese, Eike Wittek

CASCADED EMF AND SPEED SLIDING MODE OBSERVER FOR THE NONSALIENT PMSM...................... 792Mihai Comanescu

CIRCULATING CURRENTS IN OPEN-END WINDING PWM AC DRIVES ......................................................... 798Apurva Somani, Ranjan Kumar Gupta, Krushna K. Mohapatra, Ned Mohan

CONDUCTED EMI ANALYSIS OF A THREE-PHASE INVERTER-MOTOR SYSTEM IN A VARIABLE FREQUENCY AIR CONDITIONER ........................................................................................................ 805

Ming Chen, Xudong Sun, Lipei Huang

CORE LOSS ESTIMATION METHOD FOR PWM INVERTER FED INDUCTION MOTORS ........................... 811Aldo Boglietti, Radu Bojoi, Andrea Cavagnino, Mario Lazzari

DESIGN OF A CALORIMETER FOR INDUCTION MACHINE EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT BY CFD MODELING ....................................................................................................................................................... 817

He Zhang, Pericle Zanchetta, Chris Gerada, Wenping Cao, Keith Bradley

DIFFERENT METHODS FOR REDUCING DETENT FORCE IN A PERMANENT MAGNET LINEAR SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR ............................................................................................................................. 823

Jan-Peter Jastrzembski, Bernd Ponick

EFFECTIVE FPGA-BASED ELECTRIC MOTOR MODELING WITH FLOATING-POINT CORES ............................................................................................................................................................................... 829

Tarek Ould Bachir, Christian Dufour, Jean-Pierre David, Jean Bélanger

FAULT DIAGNOSIS FOR OPEN-PHASE FAULTS OF PMSM DRIVES USING EKF .......................................... 835Sung-Guk Ahn, Byoung-Gun Park, Rae-Young Kim, Dong-Seok Hyun

FINE SELF-TUNING METHOD OF BOTH CURRENT SENSOR OFFSET AND ELECTRICAL PARAMETER VARIATIONS FOR SPM MOTOR ...................................................................................................... 841

Yutaro Uenaka, Masaki Sazawa, Kiyoshi Ohishi

FLUX-LINKAGE CHARACTERISTICS MODELS FOR SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINES ................. 847Pedro Lobato, Silviano Rafael, João Martins, Armando Pires

HARMONIC CURRENT ELIMINATION FOR DUAL-INVERTER FED MACHINES WITH OPEN-END WINDINGS .................................................................................................................................................. 853

Florian Senicar, Christian Junge, Sebastian Gruber, Stefan Soter

HIGH POWER CSI-FED IPM DRIVE SYSTEM CONTROL WITH MINIMUM DC-LINK CURRENT ......................................................................................................................................................................... 857

Ehsan Al-nabi, Bin Wu, Vijay Sood, Jingya Dai

HIGH-PERFORMANCE SENSORLESS INJECTION FORCE CONTROL BASED ON NONLINEAR FRICTION PHENOMENON .................................................................................................................. 864

Ryo Furusawa, Tetsuya Asai, Kiyoshi Ohishi, Katsuyuki Majima, Koichi Kageyama, Masaru Takatsu, Shiro Urushihara

IMPROVED STATE OBSERVERS FOR SENSORLESS SINGLE PHASE BLDC-PM MOTOR DRIVES .............................................................................................................................................................................. 870

Liviu Iepure, Ion Boldea, Gheorghe Daniel Andreescu, Frede Blaabjerg

INFLUENCE OF MAGNETIC WEDGES ON THE LOAD PERFORMANCE OF AXIAL FLUX PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINES .......................................................................................................................... 876

Giulio De Donato, Fabio Giulii Capponi, Federico Caricchi

INFLUENCE OF THE LOAD ANGLE ON THE MAGNETIC PRESSURE HARMONIC CONTENT OF A WRSM...................................................................................................................................................................... 883

Pierre Pellerey, Vincent Lanfranchi, Guy Friedrich

LIMIT CYCLE ANALYSIS IN A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE GENERATOR ...................................................... 889Sylvia Méndez Prince, Abelardo Martínez Iturbe, Abdelali El Aroudi, Bruno Robert, Carlos Montaño, Francisco Pérez

MEASUREMENT AND DISCUSSION OF INDUCTANCE DISTORTION CAUSED BY MAGNETIC SATURATION FOR SENSORLESS CONTROL OF IPMSM.............................................................. 894

Yang Zhao, Bunpei Naito, Shinji Doki, Shigeru Okuma

MODELING AND COMPENSATION OF LOW FLY-HEIGHT VIBRATIONS IN HIGH DENSITY HARD DISK DRIVE SERVO SYSTEMS ....................................................................................................................... 900

Deqing Huang, Jian-Xin Xu, Venkatakrishnan Venkataramanan, Weijie Lim, Chiew Ling Eileen Chow, The Cat Tuong Huynh

MONITORING AND CONTROL OF A MODULAR SERVO DRIVE SYSTEM BASED ON PM LINEAR SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS ........................................................................................................................... 906

Sorin Silaghiu, Peter Mutschler

MONITORING OF PARTIALLY BROKEN ROTOR BARS IN INDUCTION MACHINE DRIVES .................... 912Thomas Wolbank, Goran Stojicic, Peter Nussbaumer

NEURAL BASED MRAS SENSORLESS TECHNIQUES FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE LINEAR INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES...................................................................................................................................... 918

Maurizio Cirrincione, Marcello Pucci, Antonino Sferlazza, Gianpaolo Vitale

ON DIRECT-DRIVE MOTION OF A SPIRAL MOTOR............................................................................................. 927Issam Smadi, Hiroko Omori, Yasutaka Fujimoto

ON-LINE LOAD TEST FOR INDUCTION MACHINE STATOR INTER-TURN FAULT DETECTION UNDER STATOR ELECTRICAL ASYMMETRIES ........................................................................... 933

Dhaval C. Patel, Mukul C. Chandorkar

OPTIMAL LOAD COORDINATION IN A HYBRID BI-AXIS DRIVE SYSTEM USING GENETIC ALGORITHM ................................................................................................................................................................... 939

Ali Kashefi Kaviani, Behrooz Mirafzal, Osama Mohammed

PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT OF A SENSORLESS PMSM DRIVE USING LOAD TORQUE ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................................................... 945

Ahmad Akrad, Mickaël Hilairet, Demba Diallo

PMSM SENSORLESS CONTROL WITH COORDINATE ROTATION DIGITAL COMPUTER ........................ 951Hung-Chi Chen, Wei-Shun Huang, Jhen-Yu Liao Liao

POSITION TRACKING IN ELECTRICAL DRIVES WITH ELASTIC COUPLING USING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL ............................................................................................................................... 956

Marcin Cychowski, Piotr Serkies, Krzysztof Szabat, Cuong Do

PREVENTION OF HARMFUL EDM CURRENTS IN INVERTER-FED AC MACHINES BY USE OF ELECTROSTATIC SHIELDS IN THE STATOR WINDING OVERHANG ...................................................... 962

Oliver Magdun, Yves Gemeinder, Andreas Binder

REDUCTION OF DETENT FORCE CAUSED BY THE END EFFECT OF A HIGH THRUST TUBULAR PMLSM USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM AND FEM........................................................................ 968

Sebastian Gruber, Christian Junge, Ralf Wegener, Stefan Soter

SENSORLESS CONTROL OF PMSM BY A LINEAR NEURAL NETWORK: TLS EXIN NEURON .................. 974Angelo Accetta, Maurizio Cirrincione, Marcello Pucci

SIMPLE ROTOR POSITION ESTIMATION USING THE CURRENT SATURATION AT A STANDSTILL .................................................................................................................................................................... 985

Gun-Myoung Kim, Byoung-Gun Park, In-Sung Jung, Dong-Seok Hyun

STUDY ON DOUBLY-FED HYBRID POLES PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE ......................................................................................................................................................................... 990

Shaogang Huang, Zhen Wang, Aifeng Wang, Lu Zhao, Shanming Wang

SUBSYNCHRONOUS TORSIONAL INTERACTION BEHAVIOUR OF WIND TURBINE-GENERATOR UNIT CONNECTED TO AN HVDC SYSTEM ................................................................................... 996

Yin Chin Choo, Ashish P. Agalgaonkar, Kashem M. Muttaqi, Sarath Perera, Michael Negnevitsky

SYNCHRONIZED SVPWM ALGORITHM FOR OVERMODULATION REGION FOR THREE-LEVEL VSI ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1004

Sreenivasappa B Veeranna, Udaykumar R Yaragatti, Abdul R Beig

TORQUE RIPPLE ANALYSIS OF A 42V FAULT TOLERANT SIX-PHASE PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE ..................................................................................................................... 1011

Arthur Matyas, Gerard Aroquiadassou, Augustin Mpanda-Mabwe, Claudia Martis, Karoly Biro

TORQUE RIPPLE MINIMIZATION IN SURFACE-MOUNTED PM DRIVES BY MEANS OF PI + MULTI-RESONANT CONTROLLER IN SYNCHRONOUS REFERENCE FRAME ........................................... 1017

Alejandro G. Yepes, Francisco D. Freijedo, Pablo Fernandez-Comesaña, Jano Malvar, Oscar Lopez, Jesus Doval-Gandoy

UNIDIRECTIONAL ENERGIZED HIGH EFFICIENT BLDC MOTOR AND THE MOTOR SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 1023

Yasuhiro Komatsu, Tur-Amgalan Amarsanaa, Syed Abdul Kadir Zawawi, Keita Takamura

USE OF HIGH ORDER HARMONICS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF SIMULTANEOUS FAULTS VIA WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTIONS ............................................................................................................................ 1029

Vicente Climente-Alarcon, Jose A. Antonino-Daviu, Martin Riera-Guasp, Pedro Jover-Rodriguez, Antero Arkkio, Jose Roger-Folch

USING OVERSAMPLING TECHNIQUES TO EXTRACT AC MACHINE SALIENCY INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................................................. 1035

Peter Nussbaumer, Thomas Wolbank

USING PARTIAL DISCHARGE AS SAMPLE SIGNAL SOURCE TO IDENTIFY CONTAMINATION MOISTURE PATTERN IN POWER TRANSFORMER INSULATING OIL...................... 1041

Giscard Veloso, Luiz Eduardo Borges da Silva, Ismael Noronha, Germano Lambert Torres

A NOVEL AND FAST BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION ALGORITHM FOR CONVOLUTIVE ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................................................................ 1047

Faezeh Marzban Rad, Mohammad Ali Masnadi-Shirazi

ADDRESS GENERATION UNIT FOR MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS ON APPLICATION SPECIFIC INSTRUCTION SET PROCESSORS ........................................................................................................ 1052

Marc Moreno-Berengue, Guillermo Talavera, Aitor Rodriguez-Alsina, Jordi Carrabina

ALPHANUMERICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION BASED ON MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1058

Aljosa Dudarin, Zdenko Kovacic

AN ANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE SYSTEM AND GENETIC ALGORITHM IN URBAN PATH PLANNING .......................................................................................................................................................... 1064

Unnati Ojha, Mo-Yuen Chow

AN IDENTIFIED LPV MODEL FOR MOBILE ROBOTS NAVIGATION WITH AUDIO FEATURES...................................................................................................................................................................... 1070

Antoni Grau, Yolanda Bolea, Manuel Manzanares

APPLICATION OF VOLUME BOUNDING BOX DECOMPOSITION FOR SURGEON’S HAND GESTURES RECOGNITION ........................................................................................................................................ 1076

Sven Nõmm, Alar Leibak, Juri Vain, Fujio Miyawaki

AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF SURFACE DEFECTS ON ROLLED STEEL USING COMPUTER VISION AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS................................................................................................. 1081

Luiz Martins, Flávio Pádua, Paulo Almeida

AUTOMATIC OPTICAL INSPECTION FOR DETECTING DEFECTIVE SOLDERS ON PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS...................................................................................................................................... 1087

Henrique Silva, Tito Amaral, Octávio Dias

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TYPE-1 AND TYPE-2 FUZZY CONTROL IN CONTEXT OF LEARNING BEHAVIORS FOR MOBILE ROBOTICS............................................................................................. 1092

Ondrej Linda, Milos Manic

CONSTRUCTING FEATURE-BASED ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS FOR REAL-WORLD MACHINES FAULT DIAGNOSIS................................................................................................................................ 1099

Marcelo Oliveira, Estefhan Wandekokem, Eduardo Mendel, Fábio Fabris, Flávio Varejão, Thomas Rauber, Rodrigo Batista

DESIGN OF SWITCHING CIRCUITS BASED ON PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZER AND HYBRID FITNESS FUNCTION.................................................................................................................................... 1105

Kengo Kawamura, Toshimichi Saito

DOUBLE CHROMOSOME GA WITH CORNER JUNCTION FOR SOLVING THE 2D STRIP PACKING PROBLEM ................................................................................................................................................... 1110

Mitsukuni Matayoshi

DYNAMIC ARCHITECTURAL RECONFIGURATIONS OF SENSOR NETWORKS......................................... 1117Fatma Salem, A.T. Burrell, P. Papantoni Kazakos

ELITIST GENETIC ALGORITHM GUIDED BY HIGHER ORDER STATISTIC FOR BLIND SEPARATION OF DIGITAL SIGNALS ...................................................................................................................... 1123

Eduardo Gonzalez Blanco, Juan Manuel Gorriz, Carlos Puntonet

FEATURE SELECTION FOR MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION USING SUPPORT VECTOR DATA DESCRIPTION ................................................................................................................................................... 1129

Daun Jeong, Dongyeop Kang, Sangchul Won

IMAGE MEASUREMENT OF HAND DIMENSIONS AND MODEL-BASED HUMAN HAND POSTURE ESTIMATION.............................................................................................................................................. 1133

Shunta Saito, Makiko Kochi, Masaaki Mochimaru, Yoshimitsu Aoki

INSPECTION OF BOTTLES CRATES IN THE BEER INDUSTRY THROUGH COMPUTER VISION ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1138

Mario Campos, Manuel J. Ferreira, Teresa Martins, Cristina Santos

MULTI-AGENT CONTROL SYSTEM WITH INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION FOR SMART AND ENERGY-EFFICIENT BUILDINGS .................................................................................................................. 1144

Zhu Wang, Rui Yang, Lingfeng Wang

MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SIGNALS TRANSMISSION VIA SINGLE CHANNEL FOR CHAOS SYNCHRONIZATION ................................................................................................................................................... 1150

Yong Feng, Juan Li, Xinghuo Yu

NEURAL NETWORK BASED STEREO MATCHING ALGORITHM UTILIZING VERTICAL DISPARITY ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1155

Shih-Hung Yang, Cheng-Yu Ho, Yon-Ping Chen

NOSE DETECTION AND FACE EXTRACTION FROM 3D RAW FACIAL SURFACE BASED ON MESH QUALITY ASSESSMENT................................................................................................................................. 1161

Naoufel Werghi, Haykel Boukadida, Yousef Meguebli, Harish Bhaskar

ORTHOGONAL EXPONENTIAL SPLINE PULSES FOR IMPULSE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 1167

Masaru Kamada, Semih Ozlem, Hiromasa Habuchi

REAL-TIME ASSISTANCE PROTOTYPE - A NEW NAVIGATION AID FOR BLIND PEOPLE ..................... 1173Larisa Dunai, Guillermo Peris Fajarnes, Victor Santiago Praderas, Beatriz Defez Garcia, Ismael Lengua Lengua

REINFORCED MORLET WAVELET TRANSFORM FOR BEARING FAULT DIAGNOSIS ............................ 1179Junhong Zhou, Xi Yang

SINGLE IMAGE DEBLURRING FOR A REAL-TIME FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEM ................................. 1185Brian Heflin, Brian Parks, Walter Scheirer, Terrance Boult

SMART ALGORITHMS FOR CORRECTING PIXEL CLUSTERS IN IMAGING APPLICATIONS................ 1193Vinesh Sukumar, Herbert Hess

TOWEL MARK RECOGNITION BASED ON HOG FOR CLOTH HANDLING ROBOT SYSTEM ................. 1198Yasuhiko Fukumoto, Toshihiro Hamada, Hiroaki Kobayashi, Seiji Hata, Kenta Hayashi

VISUAL MANIPULATION FOR GRID-BASED 3D SURFACE MODELS ............................................................ 1203Weifeng Xu, Ben Luebbert, Stephen Frezza, Qing Zheng, Todd Dinner

ZERO-CROSS SWITCH CONTROL OF AC RESISTIVE LOAD WITH MULTI-CYCLE PERIOD DELTA-SIGMA MODULATOR ................................................................................................................................... 1209

Akihiko Yoneya

A DEVELOPMENT OF AUTO ALIGNMENT SYSTEM OF TRAILER AND FREIGHT WAGON BASED ON ELECTRONIC SENSOR FOR INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION .............................................. 1217

Young Jin Lee, Kwon Soon Lee, Geun Jo Han, Hyeun Cheol Cho, Dong Seop Han, Sung Won Park

A METHOD TO CONTROL A PELTIER DEVICE BASED ON HEAT DISTURBANCE OBSERVER ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1222

Hidetaka Morimitsu, Seiichiro Katsura

ADAPTIVE MOTION-COPYING SYSTEM BASED ON REAL-WORLD HAPTICS ........................................... 1228Yuki Yokokura, Seiichiro Katsura

ANALYSIS OF SYSTEM CONNECTION IN MULTILATERAL CONTROL SYSTEM CONSIDERING NUMBER OF SUBSYSTEMS .......................................................................................................... 1234

Takeshi Okura, Seiichiro Katsura

CAPACITIVE GAP AND YAW ANGLE SENSOR FOR LINEAR DRIVES ........................................................... 1240Phong C. Khong, Peter Mutschler

CHANNEL CHARACTERISTIC AND STABILITY CONDITION OF COMMUNICATION DISTURBANCE OBSERVER BASED BILATERAL TELEOPERATION WITH TIME DELAY ....................... 1246

Dapeng Tian, Daisuke Yashiro, Kouhei Ohnishi

COMPARISON OF READOUT CIRCUITRY TECHNIQUES FOR DATA ACQUISITION IN RAW SENSOR SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................................................ 1252

Raúl Aragonés Ortiz, Paula ÁLvarez, Joan Oliver i Malagelada, Carles Ferrer i Ramis

DESIGN, ELECTRO-THERMAL SIMULATION AND GEOMETRICAL OPTIMIZATION OF DOUBLE SPIRAL SHAPED MICROHEATER ON A SUSPENDED MEMBRANE FOR GAS SENSING ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1258

Velmathi G, Ramshanker N, Mohan S

ESTIMATION OF DISTURBANCE FORCE CAUSED BY THRUST WIRE USING A SPRING AND DAMPER MODEL ................................................................................................................................................ 1263

Mari Kawamoto, Yusuke Suzuki, Daisuke Yashiro, Kouhei Ohnishi

FPGA-BASED WIDEBAND FORCE SENSING WITH KALMAN-FILTER-BASED DISTURBANCE OBSERVER ....................................................................................................................................... 1269

Thao Tran Phuong, Chowarit Mitsantisuk, Kiyoshi Ohishi, Masaki Sazawa

INVESTIGATION OF FAILURE PATTERNS OF DESKTOP COMPUTER POWER SUPPLIES USING A LIGHTNING SURGE SIMULATOR AND THE GENERATION OF A DATABASE FOR A COMPREHENSIVE SURGE PROPAGATION STUDY ........................................................................................ 1275

Sisira James, Nihal Kularatna, Alistair Steyn-Ross, Amit Pandey, Rainer Kunnemeyer, Dhammika Tantrigoda

OPTIMIZING THE DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ENERGY HARVESTING CYCLES ...................................... 1281Rick van Kessel, Balazs Czech, Pavol Bauer, Jan Abraham Ferreira

OPTIMUM DESIGN OF THE THIN-TYPE FOUR-AXIS FORCE/MOMENT SENSOR FOR A ROBOT FINGER ............................................................................................................................................................ 1287

Yuichiro Hayashi, Nobutaka Tsujiuchi, Takayuki Koizumi, Hiroko Oshima, Akihito Ito, Youtaro Tsuchiya

PASSIVE QCM SENSOR SYSTEM FOR MONITORING OF WATER ABSORPTION AND DRYING IN NAFION® POLYMER MEMBRANES.................................................................................................. 1293

E. A. Bustabad, G. Garcia-Martinez, H. Perrot, C. Gabrielli, L. To, L. Rodriguez-Pardo, A. Cao-Paz, J. Farina

SENSING LIQUID PROPERTIES USING SPLIT-RING RESONATOR IN MM-WAVE BAND......................... 1298Mondher Labidi, Amna Elhawil

A NEW APPROACH FOR ADOPTING COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS TO NEW CONSTRAINTS AT RUNTIME ................................................................................................................................................................. 1305

Ingmar Kuehl, Alexander Fay

A STRATEGY OF PRODUCTION SCHEDULING WITH THE FITNESS FUNCTION OF GENETIC ALGORITHM USING TIMED PETRI NET AND CONSIDERING AGV AND THE INPUT BUFFER.............................................................................................................................................................. 1311

Orides Morandin Jr, Edilson R. R. Kato, Carlos C. M. Tuma

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR PROBLEM SOLVING IN ENGINEERING ................................... 1317Imre J. Rudas, Jozef K. Tar

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR DC-DC CONVERTER EFFICIENCY OF MOTHERBOARD.......................................................................................... 1323

Ying-Wen Bai, Wei-Chih Kuo

DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING TECHNIQUES FOR FLEXIBLE WIRELESS INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS.................................................................................................................................................................... 1329

Mario Collotta, Lucia Lo Bello, Emanuele Toscano, Orazio Mirabella

EFFICIENT USE OF DATA EXCHANGE FORMATS IN ENGINEERING PROJECTS BY MEANS OF LANGUAGE INTEGRATED QUERIES - ENGINEERS LINQ TO XML......................................................... 1335

Mike Barth, Alexander Fay

METAMODEL-DRIVEN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT IN PROCESS INDUSTRIES ........................................ 1347Martin Mertens, Ulrich Epple

MONITORING FUNCTIONS AS SERVICE COMPOSITION IN A SOA-BASED INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................................................................ 1353

Daniel Cachapa, Robert Harrison, Armando Colombo

NEW METHODS ON THE WAY TO INTELLIGENT MODELING IN COMPUTER INTEGRATED ENGINEERING................................................................................................................................... 1359

László Horváth

ONLINE RECONFIGURATION OF THE LOW LEVEL CONTROL FOR AUTOMATION AGENTS........................................................................................................................................................................... 1365

Wilfried Lepuschitz, Mathieu Vallée, Alois Zoitl, Munir Merdan

PROCEDURAL AND DECLARATIVE KNOWLEDGE IN AGENT-BASED CONTROL.................................... 1371Miloslav Radakovic, Pavel Vrba, Marek Obitko

SERVICE-ORIENTATION ON BEHALF OF SELF-CONFIGURATION FOR THE AUTOMATION ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................................... 1379

Henning Mersch, Christian Kleegrewe, Ulrich Epple

TOWARDS AN ARCHITECTURE FOR SERVICE-ORIENTED PROCESS MONITORING AND CONTROL ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1385

Stamatis Karnouskos, Armando Walter Colombo, Francois Jammes, Jerker Delsing, Thomas Bangemann

TOWARDS ONTOLOGY-BASED AUTOMATED DISASSEMBLY SYSTEMS .................................................... 1392Munir Merdan, Wilfried Lepuschitz, Thomas Meurer, Markus Vincze

TREE BASED ROUTING IN POWER LINE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS................................................. 1398Orazio Mirabella, Antonino Raucea

VIBRATION-BASED FAULT DIAGNOSTIC PLATFORM FOR ROTARY MACHINES ................................... 1404Wei Quan Lim, DanHong Zhang, Junhong Zhou, Belgi Pyay, Hian Leng Chan

A DISTRIBUTED COORDINATION CONTROL SCHEME FOR ODOR SOURCE LOCALIZATION............................................................................................................................................................ 1413

Qiang Lu, Qing-Long Han

A ROBUST CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR DUAL USER TELEOPERATION SYSTEM WITH TIME-DELAY ..................................................................................................................................................... 1419

Mahya Shahbazi, Heidar Ali Talebi, Farzad Towhidkhah

A WALL CLIMBING ROBOT FOR TANK INSPECTION. AN AUTONOMOUS PROTOTYPE ....................... 1424Raúl Fernández, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Antonio Gonzalez, Vicente Feliu

ACHIEVEMENT OF PRECISE FORCE CONTROL FOR A TENDON-DRIVEN ROTARY ACTUATOR WITH THRUST WIRES AND A PE LINE........................................................................................... 1430

Yusuke Suzuki, Keisuke Sugawara, Kouhei Ohnishi

ADAPTIVE CONTROL WITH REDUNDANCY RESOLUTION OF MOBILE MANIPULATORS ................... 1436Víctor Andaluz, Flavio Roberti, Ricardo Carelli

ADAPTIVE HYBRID IMPEDANCE CONTROL OF ROBOTIC MANIPULATORS............................................ 1442Mohammad Hosseinzadeh, Peyman Aghabalaie, Heidar Ali Talebi, Masoud Shafie

AN IMPROVEMENT METHOD OF COMPLIANCE CONTROL IN PUSHING OPERATION BY MOBILE MANIPULATOR ........................................................................................................................................... 1447

Yusuke Fujimoto, Toshiyuki Murakami

AN INVESTIGATION ON ROBUST BIPED WALKING USING COMPLIANT FORCE CONTROL AND A ONLINE WALKING PATTERN GENERATOR...................................................................... 1453

Kirill Van Heerden, Atsuo Kawamura

ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF A ROBUST SATURATED PI VELOCITY CONTROLLER FOR ROBOT MANIPULATORS..................................................................................................... 1459

Javier Moreno-Valenzuela

ANALYSIS OF DRILL WEAR BASED ON TORQUE AND FORCE SENSORLESS CUTTING POWER ESTIMATION ................................................................................................................................................. 1465

Yusuke Kasahara, Kouhei Ohnishi, Hiromasa Kawana

BILATERAL FORCE FEEDBACK CONTROL WITH VIRTUAL CONSTRAINT FOR OPERATIONAL ASSISTANCE.................................................................................................................................... 1471

Shutaro Yorozu, Seiichiro Katsura

CONTROL METHOD FOR POWER-ASSIST SYSTEMS WITH AN ENERGY REGENERATION SYSTEM BASED ON PREDICTING OPERATION .................................................................................................. 1477

Norihiro Kobayashi, Takayuki Tanaka, Shn'ichi Kaneko

CONTROL OF A STRAIGHT LINE STRETCHING MOTION FOR A HUMANOID ROBOT TAKING ADVANTAGES OF COOPERATION WITH BIOLOGICAL BI-ARTICULAR SIMULTANEOUS DRIVE ............................................................................................................................................. 1483

Hiroyuki Fukusho, Takahiro Sugimoto, Takafumi Koseki

DELAY COMPENSATION FOR NONLINEAR TELEOPERATORS USING PREDICTOR OBSERVERS ................................................................................................................................................................... 1489

Serhat Dikyar, Tugba Leblebici, Duruhan Ozcelik, Mustafa Unel, Asif Sabanovic, Seta Bogosyan

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF ACTIVE TRANSFEMORAL PROSTHESIS .......................................................... 1495Yanli Geng, Xiaoyun Xu, Lingling Chen, Peng Yang

DESIGN CONCEPT AND MOTION PLANNING OF A SINGLE-MODULED AUTONOMOUS PIPELINE EXPLORATION ROBOT........................................................................................................................... 1500

Jong-Hoon Kim, Gokarna Sharma, S. Sitharama Iyengar

DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF A WEARABLE ROBOT FOR REHABILITATION OF ELBOW AND SHOULDER JOINT MOVEMENTS ................................................................................................... 1506

Mohammad H. Rahman, Thierry K. Ouimet, Maarouf Saad, Jean-Pierre Kenné, Philippe.S Archambault

DEVELOPMENT OF POSTERIOR WALKER WITH ADJUSTABLE VISUAL CUES TO IMPROVE GAIT PERFORMANCE FOR PATIENTS WITH PARKINSON’S DISEASE .................................... 1512

Hsiao-Kuan Wu, Huang-Ren Chen, Chung-Huang Yu

DYNAMIC TRACKING CONTROL OF MOBILE ROBOT USING EXPONENTIAL SLIDING MODE............................................................................................................................................................................... 1517

Hasan Mehrjerdi, Maarouf Saad

EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF TWO ADAPTIVE OUTPUT FEEDBACK CONTROLLERS FOR ROBOT MANIPULATORS .................................................................................................................................. 1522

Javier Moreno-Valenzuela, Víctor Santibáñez

FORCE CONTROL APPLICATION TO A MOBILE MANIPULATOR WITH BALANCING MECHANISM ................................................................................................................................................................. 1528

Jae K. Ahn, Seung J. Lee, Seul Jung

FORCE FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR HAPTIC WALKING SYSTEM ................................................................. 1534Kazuki Nagase, Seiichiro Katsura

GENERATING INTERACTIONS IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS BY MEANS OF A MOBILE ROBOT ........................................................................................................................................................... 1540

Gilbert Pradel, Pascale Dansart, Arnaud Puret, Catherine Barthélémy

HEXAPOD LOCOMOTION: A NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS APPROACH....................................... 1546Ricardo Campos, Vitor Matos, Cristina Santos

HUMAN TRACKING AND FOLLOWING USING SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION FOR MULTISENSOR BASED MOBILE ASSISTIVE COMPANION ROBOT ............................................................... 1552

Ren C. Luo, Chien H. Huang, Tsu T. Lin

MASS VARIATIONS ROBUST CONTROLLER, FOR A 3-DOF FLEXIBLE ROBOT ........................................ 1558Gonzalo Partida, Victor Jaramillo, Vicente Feliu

MOBILE-HAPTO WITH YAW RATE CONTROL FOR TRAVELING ON ROUGH TERRAIN ....................... 1565Sho Sakaino, Tomoya Sato, Kouhei Ohnishi

NESTED PREVIEW CONTROL BY UTILIZING VIRTUAL PLANE FOR BIPED WALKING PATTERN GENERATION INCLUDING COG UP-DOWN MOTION .................................................................... 1571

Shuhei Shimmyo, Kouhei Ohnishi

OPTIMAL PATH PLANNING WITH OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE FOR AUTONOMOUS SURVEYING ................................................................................................................................................................... 1577

David W. Hodo, David M. Bevly, John Y. Hung, Scott Millhouse, Bob Selfridge

PANTOGRAPH-CATENARY INTERACTION MODEL COMPARISON ............................................................. 1584Shahin Hedayati Kia, Fabio Bartolini, Augustin Mpanda-Mabwe, Roger Ceschi

PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION METHOD FOR ROBOT WITH WHOLE-BODY SENSING MECHANISM ................................................................................................................................................................. 1590

Junichi Arakawa, Toshiaki Tsuji, Desney Tan

REACTION DISTURBANCE CANCELLATION FOR A MAGNETICALLY LEVITATED LADDER ARM OF CLEAN-ROOM ROBOT ............................................................................................................. 1596

Koichi Matsuda, Shinya Kijimoto

REALISTIC SIMULATION OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LEGGED ROBOT IN TRADE-OFF BETWEEN ACCURACY AND SIMULATION TIME ............................................................................................... 1603

Yong-Ho Yoo, Mohammed Ahmed, Sebastian Bartsch, Frank Kirchner

REPRODUCTION OF HUMAN MOTION USING MOTION-COPYING SYSTEM BASED ON COORDINATE MODIFICATION................................................................................................................................ 1609

Noboru Tsunashima, Seiichiro Katsura

ROBUST HOVERING CONTROL OF A QUAD TILT-WING UAV ....................................................................... 1615Cevdet Hancer, Kaan T. Oner, Efe Sirimoglu, Ertugrul Cetinsoy, Mustafa Unel

ROBUST TIME DELAYED CONTROL SYSTEM BASED ON COMMUNICATION DISTURBANCE OBSERVER WITH INNER LOOP INPUT}................................................................................... 1621

Aryabhima Aulia Rahman, Kouhei Ohnishi

ROBUST VIBRATION ISOLATION BY FREQUENCY-SHAPED SLIDING SURFACE CONTROL WITH FLOOR VELOCITY/ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT......................................................................... 1627

Chenyang Ding, A.A.H. Damen, P.P.J. van den Bosch

SENSORLESS RESIDUAL VIBRATION SUPPRESSION FOR MULTI-DEGREE-OF FREEDOM FLEXIBLE SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................... 1633

Islam Shoukry

SWITCHING IMPEDANCE CONTROL IN VERTICAL DIRECTION FOR BIPED ROBOT WITH TOE AND HEEL JOINTS ON UNEVEN TERRAIN .................................................................................................. 1639

Tomoya Sato, Sho Sakaino, Kouhei Ohnishi

TIMED TRAJECTORY GENERATION FOR A TOY-LIKE WHEELED ROBOT............................................... 1645Jorge Silva, Vitor Matos, Cristina Santos

TIP POSITION TRACKING OF FLEXIBLE-LINK MANIPULATORS BASED ON ONLINE ROBUST TRAJECTORY MODIFICATION............................................................................................................... 1651

Seyed Farokh Atashzar, Heidar Ali Talebi, Mohammad Javad Yazdanpanah, Farzad Towhidkhah

A FOOTBALL KICKING HIGH SPEED ACTUATOR FOR A MOBILE ROBOTIC APPLICATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 1659

Koen Meessen, Johannes Paulides, Elena Lomonova

IDENTIFICATION AND COMPENSATION OF TORQUE RIPPLES OF A PMSM IN A HAPTIC CONTEXT ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1665

Ziad Jabbour, Alain Riwan, Sandrine Moreau, Jonathan Van Rhijn, Gerard Champenois

SERIES RESONANT MULTI-INVERTER WITH DISCONTINUOUS-MODE CONTROL FOR IMPROVED LIGHT-LOAD OPERATION ................................................................................................................. 1671

Oscar Lucia, Jose M. Burdio, Luis A. Barragan, Jesus Acero, Claudio Carretero

TOWARDS AN ALL-SEMICONDUCTOR POWER CONVERTER SOLUTION FOR THE APPLIANCE MARKET ................................................................................................................................................. 1677

Dorin Neacsu

TWO-PHASE POWER ELECTRONIC DRIVE WITH SPLIT - SINGLE- PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR ........................................................................................................................................................................... 1683

Branislav Dobrucky, Valeria Hrabovcova, Michal Frivaldsky, Michal Prazenica, Peter Sekerak, Lukas Kalamen, Pavol Spanik, Pavol Rafajdus

VOLTAGE CONTROL OF INTERIOR PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR DRIVES TO EXTEND DC-LINK VOLTAGE UTILIZATION FOR FLUX WEAKENING OPERATION ................................................................................................................................................................... 1689

Ping-Yi Lin, Yen-Shin Lai

A MODULARIZED FPGA-BASED EMBEDDED SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM.............................. 1697Yu-Tsang Chang, Chun-Ming Huang, Chien-Ming Wu, Chun-Yu Chen, Yu-Sheng Lin, Chih-Ting Kuo, Ting-Chun Liu, Chin-Long Wey

AN FPGA-BASED MIXED-SIGNAL CONTROLLER FOR SWITCHING MODE CONVERTERS ................... 1703Mingyao Ma, Wuhua Li, Xiangning He

FIXED POINT IMPLEMENTATION OF IIR FILTERS USING DELTA OPERATOR APPLIED TO DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS.......................................................................................... 1709

Vanessa Saez, Ana Rodríguez, Mario Rizo, Emilio Bueno, Alvaro Hernandez, Francisco J. Rodríguez

FPGA-BASED REAL-TIME CALCULATION OF THE HARMONIC IMPEDANCE OF SERIES RESONANT INDUCTIVE LOADS............................................................................................................................... 1715

Oscar Jiménez, Luis A. Barragán, Denis Navarro, Oscar Lucía, José I. Artigas, Isidro Urriza

FPGA-REALIZATION OF A SENSORLESS SPEED CONTROL IC FOR IPMSM DRIVE ................................ 1721Ying-Shieh Kung, Chung-Chun Huang, Liang-Chiao Huang

IMPLEMENTATION OF LOSSY HAPTIC DATA COMPRESSION USING INTEGER DCT TO FPGA ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1726

Hiroyuki Tanaka, Kouhei Ohnishi, Hiroaki Nishi

KEY DESIGN ASPECTS OF ELECTRICAL MACHINES FOR HIGH-SPEED SPINDLE APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1735

Aldo Boglietti, Andrea Cavagnino, Alberto Tenconi, Silvio Vaschetto

NOVEL MINIATURE MOTORS WITH LATERAL STATOR FOR A WIDE TORQUE AND SPEED RANGE ............................................................................................................................................................... 1741

Arda Tüysüz, Andreas Looser, Christof Zwyssig, Johann Walter Kolar

PERFORMANCE CALCULATION FOR A HIGH SPEED SOLID-ROTOR INDUCTION MOTOR ................. 1748Jacek Gieras, Juha Saari

ULTRAHIGH SPEED INDUCTION MACHINE OVERHEATED BY SUBHARMONICS OF PWM INVERTER ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1754

Peter Stumpf, Zoltan Varga, Daniel Sepsi, Rafael K. Jardan, Istvan Nagy

AN IMPROVED MULTI-LAYER PCB WINDING AND CIRCUIT DESIGN FOR UNIVERSAL CONTACTLESS CHARGING PLATFORM............................................................................................................... 1763

Hao Ma, Lingni Ma

ANALYSIS OF A FERROFLUID CORE LVDT DISPLACEMENT SENSOR........................................................ 1769Marco A. Félix, Alejandro Lizárraga, Arturo Islas, ÁLvaro González

ESTIMATION OF THE SOC AND THE SOH OF LI-ION BATTERIES, BY COMBINING IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENTS WITH THE FUZZY LOGIC INFERENCE ..................................................... 1773

Ali Zenati, Philippe Desprez, Hubert Razik

OPTIMIZED LOW-POWER THERMAL STEPPER SYSTEM FOR HARSH AND INACCESSIBLE ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 1779

Ruimin Yang, Jeroen van Schieveen, Stoyan Nihtianov, Jo Spronck

SELF-POWERED PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE USING VELOCITY CONTROL SYNCHRONIZED SWITCHING TECHNIQUE .................................................................................... 1785

Yu-Yin Chen, Dejan Vasic, François Costa, Wen-Jong Wu, Chih-Kung Lee

TESTING FIREPROOF PROFESSIONAL GARMENTS UNDER REALISTIC WORKING CONDITIONS ................................................................................................................................................................. 1791

Martin Gomez, Jorge Yanez, Jose Farina, Juan J. Rodriguez-Andina, Alejandro Marques de Magallanes

AN ISOLATED PWM PLUS PHASE-SHIFT CONTROLLED ZVS BIDIRECTIONAL CONVERTER WITH COUPLED INDUCTORS ........................................................................................................ 1799

Haimeng Wu, Wuhua Li, Yi Zhao, Xiangning He

CHARACTERIZATION OF ENERGY STORAGE DEVICES FOR CONSTANT POWER APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1805

Ponggorn Kulsangcharoen, Christian Klumpner, Mohamed Rashed, Gerg Asher

EFFICIENCY MODELING AND COMPARISON OF SWITCHED CAPACITOR, LUO, AND INTERLEAVED SWITCHED CAPACITOR CONVERTERS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS .................................................................................................................................. 1811

Zahra Amjadi, Sheldon Williamson

ENERGY MANAGEMENT AND DYNAMIC CONTROL IN COMPOSITE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR MICRO-GRID APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................ 1818

Duong Tran, Haihua Zhou, Ashwin M Khambadkone

HIGH PERFORMANCE MULTILEVEL CONVERTER TOPOLOGY FOR INTERFACING ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS WITH MEDIUM VOLTAGE GRIDS.................................................................. 1825

Mohamed Rashed, Christian Klumpner, Greg Asher

HIGH-FREQUENCY HIGH-EFFICIENCY DC-DC CONVERTER FOR DISTRIBUTED ENERGY STORAGE MODULARIZATION................................................................................................................................. 1832

Yu Du, Mengqi Wang, Ryan Meitl, Srdjan Lukic, Alex Huang

INITIAL RESULT ON MANAGEMENT PROBLEM OF BATTERY STORAGE SYSTEM IN PEM FUEL CELL BASED HYBRID POWER SOURCES .................................................................................................. 1838

Yun She, Xu She

ON-LINE PHEV BATTERY DYNAMIC MODELING REFLECTING THE BATTERY HYSTERESIS EFFECT ................................................................................................................................................. 1844

Hanlei Zhang, Mo-Yuen Chow

PERFORMANCE CHARACTERIZATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF VARIOUS CIRCUIT TOPOLOGIES TO COMBINE BATTERIES AND ULTRA-CAPACITORS .......................................................... 1850

Arvind Govindaraj, Mathew King, Srdjan Lukic

SURGE ENDURANCE CAPABILITY TESTING OF SUPERCAPACITOR FAMILIES ...................................... 1858Nihal Kularatna, Jayathu Fernando, Amit Pandey

ANALYSIS OF RELATION BETWEEN OPERATOR'S CONTROL PERFORMANCE AND THE SKILL LEVEL ................................................................................................................................................................ 1867

Yukihito Suzuki, Masaki Izutsu, Jun Ishikawa

ARTICULATED MULTILATERAL CONTROL FOR HAPTIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM ........................... 1872Takumi Ishii, Seiichiro Katsura

BASIC EXAMINATION OF SIMULTANEOUS OPTIMIZATION OF MECHANICAL AND CONTROL FOR GANTRY-TYPE PRECISION STAGE MODELED AS TWO-MASS 4-DOF SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 1878

Yushi Seki, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Atushi Hara, Takahiro Yamanaka, Kazuaki Saiki

CONTROL METHODOLOGY FOR REACTION FORCE AT IMPACT BASED ONLY ON THE VISCOELASTICITY OF MUSCLES ........................................................................................................................... 1884

Sehoon Oh, Yasuto Kimura, Yoichi Hori

FRICTION AND DISTURBANCE COMPENSATION FOR SPEED CONTROL OF SERVO CONTROL SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................... 1890

Jen-Che Wu, Ke-Han Su, Ming-Yang Cheng

HIGH-PRECISION POSITIONING BY STRUCTURAL DESIGN USING VIBRATION NODE......................... 1896Kenta Seki, Hiroaki Matsuura, Makoto Iwasaki, Hiromu Hirai

IMPROVEMENT OF SETTLING PERFORMANCE BY INITIAL VALUE COMPENSATION CONSIDERING ROLLING FRICTION CHARACTERISTIC ................................................................................. 1902

Yoshihiro Maeda, Makoto Iwasaki

INFINITY NORM APPROACH FOR PRECISE FORCE CONTROL OF BI-ARTICULAR DRIVEN ROBOTIC ARMS............................................................................................................................................................ 1908

Valerio Salvucci, Sehoon Oh, Yoichi Hori

MODE SWITCHING CONTROL FOR A PERSONAL MOBILITY ROBOT BASED ON INITIAL VALUE COMPENSATION ........................................................................................................................................... 1914

Noriaki Hirose, Kazutoshi Sukigara, Hideki Kajima, Masaaki Yamaoka

MODEL BASED MU-SYNTHESIS CONTROL FOR TIME-VARYING NETWORK BASED SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 1920

Yutaka Uchimura, Masanori Nagahara

PID-STATE CONTROL WITH RESTRICTED STRUCTURE FOR ELECTROMECHANICAL DRIVE TRAIN ................................................................................................................................................................ 1926

Constantinos Sourkounis

PROPOSAL OF NOVEL ROLLING FRICTION COMPENSATION WITH DATA-BASED FRICTION MODEL FOR BALL SCREW DRIVEN STAGE.................................................................................... 1932

Tadashi Takemura, Hiroshi Fujimoto

REALIZATION OF SELF-SENSING ELECTROSTATIC SUSPENSION USING A VARIABLE CAPACITOR ................................................................................................................................................................... 1938

Takaaki Kato, Yuji Ishino, Masaya Takasaki, Takeshi Mizuno

ROBUST YAW STABILITY CONTROL FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES BASED ON STEERING ANGLE-DISTURBANCE OBSERVER (SA-DOB) AND TRACKING CONTROL DESIGN ................................ 1943

Kanghyun Nam, Sehoon Oh, Yoichi Hori

SMOOTH TOUCH CONTROL BETWEEN POSITION CONTROL AND FORCE CONTROL FOR INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS................................................................................................................................................. 1949

Naoki Shimada, Takashi Yoshioka, Kiyoshi Ohishi, Toshimasa Miyazaki

A NEW 4-LEVEL OPEN-ENDED TRANSFORMER BASED STATCOM FOR HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 1957

Sandeep Anand, B. G. Fernandes, Kishore Chatterjee

ADALINE FOR FAULT DETECTION IN ELECTRICAL HIGH VOLTAGE TRANSMISSION LINE ................................................................................................................................................................................. 1963

Fatima Louisa Yousfi, Djaffar Ould Abdeslam, Ngac-Ky Nguyen

COMPARISON OF CONCEPTS FOR IMPROVING THE LINE POWER QUALITY IN ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATOR SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................... 1969

Thiago Soeiro, Jorgen Linner, Per Ranstad, Jurgen Biela, Johann Kolar

INVESTIGATION OF INTER-LINE DYNAMIC VOLTAGE RESTORER WITH VIRTUAL IMPEDANCE INJECTION............................................................................................................................................ 1975

Ahmed Elserougi, Ahmed Hossam-Eldin, Ahmed Massoud, Shehab Ahmed

PERFORMANCE OF NEW CASCADE MULTILEVEL H-BRIDGE INVERTER WITH SINGLE DC SOURCE BY EMPLOYING LOW FREQUENCY THREE-PHASE TRANSFORMERS. .............................. 1981

Yellasiri Suresh, Anup Kumar Panda

POWER CONDITIONING BY ELECTRONIC SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE ...................................................... 1987Constantinos Sourkounis, Jan Wenske, Bingchang Ni

A COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF NEURAL AND CONVENTIONAL CONTROLLERS FOR AN ACTIVE POWER FILTER............................................................................................. 1995

Ngac Ky Nguyen, Patrice Wira, Damien Flieller, Djaffar Ould Abdeslam, Jean Merckle

A NEW LQR MODELING APPROACH FOR POWER QUALITY CONDITIONING DEVICES ...................... 2001João Marcos Kanieski, Hilton Abílio Gründling, Rafael Cardoso

A ROBUST CONTROL STRATEGY FOR SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER WITHOUT CURRENT HARMONIC DETECTION. ...................................................................................................................... 2007

Ricardo Ribeiro, Christian Azevedo, Raphaell Souza

ANALYSIS OF REPETITIVE-BASED CONTROLLERS FOR SELECTIVE HARMONIC COMPENSATION IN ACTIVE POWER FILTERS................................................................................................... 2013

Ana Rodriguez, Carlos Giron, Vanessa Saez, Mario Rizo, Emilio Bueno, Francisco Javier Rodriguez

COMPARISON OF MODULATION STRATEGIES FOR A CASCADED H-BRIDGE STATCOM - PART 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................... 2019

Chris Townsend, Terrence Summers, Robert Betz

COMPARISON OF MODULATION STRATEGIES FOR A CASCADED H-BRIDGE STATCOM - PART 2: APPLICATION OF THE ANALYSIS .......................................................................................................... 2025

Chris Townsend, Terrence Summers, Robert Betz

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A HIGH PERFORMANCE AERONAUTICAL ACTIVE POWER FILTER ............................................................................................................................................................ 2032

Zhong Chen, Yingpeng Luo, Miao Chen, Lei Shi, Jianxia Li

DUAL-REPETITIVE CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR THREE-PHASE SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTERS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2038

Chuan Xie, Chao He, Ming Chen, Guozhu Chen

FPGA RESOURCES REDUCTION WITH MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUE FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF ANN-BASED HARMONICS EXTRACTION BY P-Q METHOD................................ 2043

Serge Raoul Dzondé Naoussi, Ngac Ky Nguyen, Hervé Berviller, Charles Hubert Kom, Jean Philippe Blondé, Martin Kom, Francis Braun

H-INFINITY ROBUST CONTROL APPLIED TO THE THREE-PHASE/SWITCH/LEVEL (VIENNA) RECTIFIER.................................................................................................................................................. 2049

Elie Ghassan, Hadi Kanaan, Kamal Al-Haddad

HIGH PERFORMANCE ITERATIVE LEARNING CONTROL FOR ACTIVE FILTERS IN AIRCRAFT POWER NETWORKS .............................................................................................................................. 2055

Junyi Liu, Pericle Zanchetta, Marco Degano, He Zhang

AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSMISSIBILITY IN BILATERAL TELE-OPERATION ................................................ 2063Tatsuhito Watanabe, Seiichiro Katsura

COMBINING POSITION AND ACCELERATION INFORMATION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE OF BILATERAL CONTROL USING KALMAN-FILTER-BASED DISTURBANCE OBSERVER..................... 2069

Chowarit Mitsantisuk, Thao Phuong Tran, Kiyoshi Ohishi, Seiichiro Katsura

DESIGN OF A HAPTIC DEVICE FOR FINGER AND HAND REHABILITATION............................................. 2075Omar A. Daud, Francesco Biral, Roberto Oboe, Lamberto Piron

DEVELOPMENT OF 16-DOF TELESURGICAL FORCEPS MASTER/SLAVE ROBOT WITH HAPTICS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2081

Wataru Motooka, Takahiro Nozaki, Takahiro Mizoguchi, Keisuke Sugawara, Fumiya Mitome, Keishi Okuda, Takahiro Yakoh, Kouhei Ohnishi, Naoki Shimojima, Yasuhide Morikawa

REPRODUCTION OF VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS WITH DIFFERENT STRUCTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL LOADING SYSTEM .................................................................................................................. 2087

Takuma Shimoichi, Seiichiro Katsura

VARIABLE TIME-SPACE COMPLIANCE CONTROL FOR HUMAN SUPPORT.............................................. 2093Wataru Yamanouchi, Seiichiro Katsura

AN INTEGRATED TESTBED FOR ADVANCED WIRELESS NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY........................................................................................................................................... 2101

James Taylor, Jeff Slipp

COEXISTENCE OF IEEE802.15.4 BASED NETWORKS: A SURVEY................................................................... 2107Dong Yang, Xu Youzhi, Mikael Gidlund

CONTROL OVER WIRELESSHART NETWORK ................................................................................................... 2114Song Han, Xiuming Zhu, Aloysius Mok, Mark Nixon, Terry Blevins, Deji Chen

DETERMINISTIC DOWNLINK TRANSMISSION IN WIRELESSHART NETWORKS ENABLING WIRELESS CONTROL APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................ 2120

Johan ÅKerberg, Mikael Gidlund, Jonas Neander, Tomas Lennvall, Mats Björkman

IMPROVING THE DYNAMIC CONTINUOUS CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION FOR WSNS............................ 2126Orazio Mirabella, Antonino Raucea, Michele Brischetto, Filippo Bannò, Nicola Caruso

PRIORITY AND ADAPTIVE QOS MECHANISM FOR WIRELESS NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS USING IEEE 802.15.4.................................................................................................................................. 2134

Najet Boughanmi, Yeqiong Song, Eric Rondeau

A PRELIMINARY APPLICATION OF PETRI NETS TO THE SUPERVISION OF REMOTELY OPERATED SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................. 2145

Jin-Shyan Lee, Yuan-Ming Wang

COLORED PETRI NET MODEL OF THE SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL (SIP) ...................................... 2150Vijay Gehlot, Carmen Nigro

ECORE REPRESENTATION FOR EXTENDING PNML FOR INPUT-OUTPUT PLACE-TRANSITION NETS....................................................................................................................................................... 2156

Filipe Moutinho, Luís Gomes, Franklin Ramalho, Jorge Figueiredo, João Barros, Paulo Barbosa, Rui Pais, Anikó Costa

JOINT SCHEDULING ANALYSIS OF TIME-DELAY IMPACT ON NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR MULTI-INVERTER PARALLEL OPERATION ............................................................................. 2162

Yao Zhang, Hao Ma, Cai Yang, Liang Dong

MODELING THE SUPERVISION OF MANUFACTURING SYSTEM CONSIDERING DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF FAULT ............................................................................................................ 2168

Jose I. Garcia Melo, Roy A. Gomez Morales, Fabrício Junqueira, Diolino J. Santos Filho, Paulo E. Miyagi

OPTIMAL CONTROL POLICY FOR A WELL-KNOWN S3PR ............................................................................. 2174Daniel Y Chao, Jiun-Ting Chen Chen, K.C. Woo

SAFETY MODEL OF SAFETY-RELATED FIELDBUS TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS ........................................ 2178Mária Franeková, Karol Rástocný

AN ADAPTIVE ROUTING PROTOCOL FOR HEALTH MONITORING WITH A SENSOR NETWORK AND MOBILE ROBOT............................................................................................................................ 2187

Su-Hen Yang, Kai-Tai Song

ERROR ANALYSIS IN INDOORS LOCALIZATION USING ZIGBEE WIRELESS NETWORKS ................... 2193Abilio Azenha, Luis Peneda, Adriano Carvalho

PERVASIVE WSN BASED SOLUTIONS APPLIED TO HEALTH AND LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2198

Carlos Serôdio, Pedro Mestre, João Monteiro, Carlos Couto

A NEW MAGNETIC MATRIX MODEL OF IPMSM ................................................................................................ 2207Hiroki Goto, Hai-Jiao Guo, Osamu Ichinokura

A NOVEL TECHNIQUE FOR INITIAL ROTOR POSITION ESTIMATION IN INTERIOR PMSG APPLIED TO WIND TURBINES ................................................................................................................................. 2212

Mario Rizo, Ana Rodríguez, Emilio Bueno, Francisco J. Rodríguez

CHATTERING-FREE ROBUST NONLINEAR CONTROLLER FOR AN INTERIOR PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR SPEED DRIVE SYSTEM .................................................. 2218

Cheng-Kai Lin, Li-Chen Fu, Tian-Hua Liu

DIRECT FLUX VECTOR CONTROL OF AXIAL FLUX IPM MOTORS FOR IN-WHEEL TRACTION SOLUTIONS.............................................................................................................................................. 2224

Radu Bojoi, Gianmario Pellegrino, Andrea Cavagnino, Paolo Guglielmi

FINE SERVO SYSTEM BASED ON NEW OVER-MODULATION WITH PRIORITY GIVEN TO D-AXIS VOLTAGE FOR IPMSM................................................................................................................................. 2230

Kenji Takahashi, Kiyoshi Ohishi, Toshiyuki Kanmachi

HYBRID SENSORLESS CONTROL OF IPMSM COMBINING HFIM AND BACK EMF METHOD ............... 2236Kozo Ide, Hideaki Iura, Masanobu Inazumi

NEURO-FUZZY AND FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLERS BASED SPEED CONTROL OF IPMSM DRIVE - A TORQUE RIPPLE OPTIMIZATION APPROACH................................................................................ 2242

Mohmmad Uddin, Ronald Rebeiro

OUTER-ROTOR TYPE PERMANENT MAGNET RELUCTANCE GENERATOR WITH HIGH POWER AND LOW TOQUE RIPPLE ......................................................................................................................... 2248

Kenji Nakamura, Jun Yoshida, Osamu Ichinokura

PERMANENT MAGNET FLUX IDENTIFICATION OF IPMSM BASED ON EKF WITH SPEED SENSORLESS CONTROL ............................................................................................................................................ 2252

Yuchao Shi, Kai Sun, Hongyan Ma, Lipei Huang

SENSORLESS CONTROL STRATEGY OF IPMSM BASED ON A PARALLEL REDUCED-ORDER EKF ................................................................................................................................................................... 2258

Dong-Hoon Yim, Byoung-Gun Park, Dong-Seok Hyun

SPECTRAL-FIELD DESIGN WITH RESPECT TO MINIMUM COGGING TORQUE AND MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER .................................................................................................................................... 2264

Gerd Bramerdorfer, Wofgang Amrhein, Siegfried Silber, Reinhard Hagen

SUPPRESSION OF HARMONIC CURRENT FOR IPMSM USING GENERALIZED REPETITIVE CONTROL ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2270

Masaya Morimoto, Tadanao Zanma, Muneaki Ishida, Goele Pipeleers, Jan Swevers

AN ION GATING STRATEGY FOR A MINIATURIZED PLANAR ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER.......................................................................................................................................................... 2279

Paul Chiarot, Pierre Sullivan, Ridha Ben Mrad

FABRICATION OF HIGH QUALITY FACTOR RF-RESONATOR USING EMBEDDED INDUCTOR AND VIA CAPACITOR........................................................................................................................... 2283

Reza Kamali-Sarvestani, John D. Williams

INTEGRATED MODELING OF NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CONTACT MECHANICS OF ELECTROSTATICALLY ACTUATED RF-MEMS SWITCHES............................................................................. 2293

Cuong Do, Marcin Cychowski, Maryna Lishchynska, Martin Hill, Kieran Delaney

A SEVEN-LEVEL CONVERTER USING A COMBINATION OF STAIRCASE AND PWM SWITCHING METHODS .............................................................................................................................................. 2307

Hossein Sepahvand, Mehdi Ferdowsi, Keith Corzine

CLOSED-LOOP INPUT AND OUTPUT IMPEDANCES OF DC-DC SWITCHING CONVERTERS OPERATING IN VOLTAGE AND CURRENT MODE CONTROL......................................................................... 2311

Reza Ahmadi, Darren Paschedag, Mehdi Ferdowsi

CONTROL-ORIENTED ANALYSIS OF A DISTRIBUTED STEERING APPARATUS....................................... 2317Manuele Bertoluzzo, Giuseppe Buja, Mario Romeo

DC/DC CONVERTERS CONTROL FOR EMBEDDED ENERGY MANAGEMENT - SUPERCAPACITORS AND BATTERY ...................................................................................................................... 2323

Mamadou Baïlo Camara, Brayima Dakyo, Hamid Gualous, Cristian Nichita

ENHANCED MODEL FOR LITHIUM-POLYMER CELLS INCLUDING TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2329

Federico Baronti, Gabriele Fantechi, Emanuele Leonardi, Roberto Roncella, Roberto Saletti

HIGH EFFICIENT BATTERY BACKUP SYSTEM FOR LIFT TRUCKS USING INTERLEAVED-CONVERTER AND INCREASED EDLC VOLTAGE RANGE ................................................................................ 2334

Jens C. Schroeder, Bjoern Wittig, Friedrich W. Fuchs

NEW FULLY SOFT SWITCHED BI-DIRECTIONAL CONVERTER FOR HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES: ANALYSIS AND CONTROL.................................................................................................................. 2340

Mehran Ahmadi, Ehsan Adib, Hosein Farzanehfard, Eduardo Galván

ONE-CYCLE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MACHINE TRACTION DRIVE FOR HIGH SPEED RAILWAY PART I: MULTI-PULSE WIDTH MODULATION REGION .............................................................. 2346

Wensheng Song, Keyue Smedley, Xiaoyun Feng, Pengju Sun

RANGE EXTENSION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE WITH ACTIVE FRONT STEERING AND DRIVING/BRAKING FORCE DISTRIBUTION ON CURVING ROAD .................................. 2352

Hayato Sumiya, Hiroshi Fujimoto

ROBUST SPEED-SENSORLESS INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE FOR TRACTION APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 2358

Teresa Orlowska-Kowalska, Mateusz Dybkowski

SIMULATING CALCULATIONS AND OPTIMIZATION DESIGN OF A NEW HVDC SUPPLY POWER FOR LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM......................................................................................................................... 2364

Rémi Vial, Delphine Riu, Nicolas Retiere

A CHATTERING FREE LYAPUNOV FUNCTION BASED SLIDING MODE CONTROLLER APPLIED TO SINGLE PHASE SERIES CONNECTED PV INVERTER FOR GRID VOLTAGE COMPENSATION .......................................................................................................................................................... 2373

Souvik Dasgupta, Sanjib Kumar Sahoo, Sanjib Kumar Panda, Jianxin Xu

A SMOOTH SECOND-ORDER SLIDING MODE CONTROLLER FOR RELATIVE DEGREE TWO SYSTEMS.............................................................................................................................................................. 2379

Sohail Iqbal, Christopher Edwards, Aamer Bhatti

AN INTEGRAL SLIDING MODE CONTROL DESIGN FOR A CLASS OF UNDERACTUATED MOTION SYSTEMS....................................................................................................................................................... 2385

Jian-Xin Xu, Zhao-Qin Guo, Tong Heng Lee

HIGH-ORDER TERMINAL SLIDING MODES CONTROL FOR INDUCTION MOTOR .................................. 2391Hongyu Shi, Yong Feng, Xinghuo Yu

LASER AUTOFOCUSING: A SLIDING MODE APPROACH ................................................................................. 2396Edin Golubovic, Islam S.M. Khalil, Abdullah Kamadan, Asif Sabanovic

RBF NEURAL NETWORKS BASED QUASI SLIDING MODE CONTROLLER AND ROBUST SPEED ESTIMATION FOR PM SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS ................................................................................. 2402

Lucio Ciabattoni, Maria Letizia Corradini, Massimo Grisostomi, Gianluca Ippoliti, Sauro Longhi, Giuseppe Orlando

ROBUST CONTROL FOR SLOSH-FREE MOTION USING SLIDING MODES .................................................. 2408Shailaja Kurode, Bijnan Bandyopadhyay, Prasanna Gandhi

SLIDING MODE CONTROL FOR OFFSHORE STEEL JACKET PLATFORMS ............................................... 2414Bao-Lin Zhang, Qing-Long Han, Xian-Ming Zhang, Xinghuo Yu

CONSTRUCTION OF ENERGY MEASURING SYSTEM IN A UNIVERSITY FOR CLUSTER ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM .......................................................................................................................... 2423

Yuto Kamiyoshi, Tomohisa Nakabe, Gouki Mine, Hiroaki Nishi

DISTRIBUTED DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................................. 2430

Yukio Suhara, Tomohisa Nakabe, Gouki Mine, Hiroaki Nishi

FAULT LOCATION IN POWER NETWORKS USING GRAPH THEORY........................................................... 2436Ajendra Dwivedi, Xinghuo Yu, Peter Sokolowski, Peter Wong, Fulvio Buratto

LOAD RECOGNITION FOR AUTOMATED DEMAND RESPONSE IN MICROGRIDS.................................... 2442Adeel Abbas Zaidi, Friederich Kupzog, Tehseen Zia, Peter Palensky

QUEEN - A NOVEL DESIGN FLOW AND DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS..................................................................................................................................................................... 2448

Markus Brychta, Florian Dubisch, Florian Stift, Peter Palensky

REAL TIME POWER MONITORING & INTEGRATION WITH BIM ................................................................. 2454Mahmoud Alahmad, Wisam Nader, Jill Neal, Jonathan Shi, Chuck Berryman, Yong Cho, Avery Schwer, Zhigang Shen, Haorong Li, Siu-Kit Lau

A FIVE-PHASE MULTILEVEL SPACE-VECTOR PWM ALGORITHM FOR A DUAL-INVERTER SUPPLIED DRIVE.................................................................................................................................... 2461

Martin Jones, Wahyu Satiawan, Emil Levi

PREDICTIVE TORQUE CONTROL FOR FIVE-PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES................................. 2467Jose A. Riveros, Joel Prieto, Federico Barrero, Sergio Toral, Mario J Duran, Martin Jones, Emil Levi

TIME-VARYING SLIDING MODE CONTROL FOR A FAULTED SIX PHASE INDUCTION MACHINE ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2473

Franck Betin, Amine Yazidi, Gérard André Capolino

VOLTAGE STRESS ON 8000 HP INDUCTION MOTOR DUE TO GTO CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER - CASE STUDY .......................................................................................................................................... 2479

Noshirwan Medora, Alexander Kusko

A NEW IPT MAGNETIC COUPLER FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING SYSTEMS .............................. 2487Mickel Budhia, Grant Covic, John Boys

A NOVEL APPROACH TOWARDS INTEGRATION OF PROPULSION MACHINE INVERTER WITH ENERGY STORAGE CHARGER IN PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES.................................. 2493

Rambabu Surada, Alireza Khaligh

APPLICATION OF POWER HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES: A CASE STUDY UTILIZING SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINES ............................................................................. 2499

Troy L. Bevis, Chris S. Edrington, Jesse Leonard

MODELING AND FAULT MODES INVESTIGATION OF A POWER SHARING AC DRIVE .......................... 2504Ledoux Christophe, Lefranc Pierre, Cathelin Joël, Larouci Chérif, Diallo Demba, Thomas Jean-Luc

OPTIMAL SIZING OF MOTOR BATTERY SYSTEMS FOR IN-WHEEL ELECTRIC VEHICLES ................. 2510Vandana Rallabandi, B.G. Fernandes

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE OF A MODULAR DIRECT-DC PV CHARGING STATION FOR PLUG-IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES ............................................................................................................................... 2516

Christopher Hamilton, Gustavo Gamboa, John Elmes, Ross Kerley, Andres Arias, Michael Pepper, John Shen, Issa Batarseh

A DIMMABLE LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE (LED) DRIVER WITH CASCADED MAG-AMP POSTREGULATORS FOR MULTISTRING APPLICATIONS ............................................................................... 2523

Wu Chen, Shu Yuen Ron Hui

AC-SIDE CONTINUOUS-CONDUCTION-MODE VOLTAGE-SOURCE CHARGE-PUMP POWER-FACTOR-CORRECTION SELF-OSCILLATING FULL-BRIDGE ELECTRONIC BALLAST ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2535

Ray-Lee Lin, Jun-Wei Chang

ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF THE QUADRATIC BUCK-BOOST CONVERTER AS A HIGH-POWER-FACTOR DRIVER FOR POWER-LED LAMPS ........................................................................................ 2541

Marcos Alonso, Juan Vina, David Gacio, Lidia Campa, Rene Osorio, Gilberto Martinez

CONTINUOUS-CONDUCTION-MODE CHARGE-PUMP POWER-FACTOR-CORRECTION ELECTRONIC BALLAST WITH DC-BUS VOLTAGE STRESS REDUCTION FUNCTION ............................. 2547

Ray-Lee Lin, Yen-Yu Chen

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NOVEL SINGLE-STAGE CHARGE-PUMP POWER FACTOR CORRECTION ELECTRONIC BALLAST FOR METAL HALIDE LAMP ......................................... 2553

Ray-Lee Lin, Chih Lo

ELECTRODE CHARACTERIZATION IN DIMMED OPERATION OF FLUORESCENT LAMPS .................. 2559Javier Ribas, Ramon E. Diaz, Antonio J. Calleja, Emilio Lopez-Corominas, Jorge García

EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO DESIGNING MULTI-EEFLS LIGHTING SYSTEM IN SERIES-RESONANT MODE ........................................................................................................................................ 2565

Guan-Chyun Hsieh, Jhih-Ting Cheng, Cheng-Yuan Tsai

HPS LAMP CONTROL WITH ADJACENT FREQUENCY SIGNAL INJECTION FOR ACOUSTIC RESONANCE AVOIDANCE ................................................................................................................... 2571

Maussion Pascal, Chhun Labo, Zissis Georges

INTEGRATED DRIVER FOR POWER LEDS ........................................................................................................... 2578Jorge Garcia, Antonio J. Calleja, Emilio L. Corominas, David Gacio, Lidia Campa, Ramon E. Diaz

INTERLEAVED INVERTER FOR HF RIPPLE CANCELLATION IN METAL HALIDE LAMPS ................... 2584Jorge Garcia, Antonio J. Calleja, Emilio L. Corominas, David Gacio, Juan Viña, Daniel G. Llera

INVESTIGATION ON START-UP PROCESS OF AUTOMOTIVE HID LAMPS WITH DIGITAL PLATFORM .................................................................................................................................................................... 2589

Biwen Xu, Chongguang Ma, Min Chen

NEW SPECIFICATION FOR THE PFC CONTROLLER IN HID LAMPS ELECTRONIC BALLAST ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2595

F. Javier Díaz, Victor López, Francisco J. Azcondo

OFF-LINE CONSTANT CURRENT LEDS DRIVER USING THE HVLED PRIMARY CONTROLLER............................................................................................................................................................... 2601

Fabio Cacciotto

DISCERNING MECHANICAL LOAD UNBALANCES FROM ROTOR FAULTS IN INDUCTION MACHINES THROUGH CURRENT SPACE VECTOR COMPONENTS .............................................................. 2609

Carlo Concari, Giovanni Franceschini, Carla Tassoni

INCIPIENT BEARING FAULT DETECTION VIA WIND GENERATOR STATOR CURRENT AND WAVELET FILTER ............................................................................................................................................. 2615

Xiang Gong, Wei Qiao, Wei Zhou

INFLUENCE OF HANGING LOAD ON INDUCTION MACHINE TORQUE AND STATOR CURRENT IN HOISTING WINCH SYSTEM............................................................................................................. 2621

Javad Rastegar, Humberto Henao, Gerard Capolino, Sophie Sieg-Zieba

INTER-TURN FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF PM SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR FOR VARIABLE SPEED WIND APPLICATIONS USING FLOATING SPACE VECTOR................................................................ 2628

Ali Sarikhani, Behrooz Mirafzal, Osama.A Moammed

PROGNOSIS OF THE ELECTRICAL FAULTS IN PERMANENT MAGNET AC MACHINES USING HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL .......................................................................................................................... 2634

Syed Sajjad H Zaidi, Wesly G Zanardelli, Selin Aviyente, Elias G Strangas

DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR AN ACTIVE RESONANCE DAMPER ..................................................................... 2643Wilson Cesar Santana, Kamal Al-Haddad, Luiz Eduardo Borges da Silva

DIRECT POWER CONTROL WITH HYBRID APPROACH FOR ACTIVE POWER FILTER APPLICATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 2651

Tri Desmana Rachmildha, Ana Llor, Maurice Fadel, Pekik Argo Dahono, Yanuarsyah Haroen

PERFORMANCE COMPARISON OF 1200V SILICON AND SIC DEVICES FOR UPS APPLICATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 2657

James McBryde, Arun Kadavelugu, Bobby Compton, Subhashish Bhattacharya, Mrinal Das, Anant Agarwal

SERIES ACTIVE FILTER CONTROL AND IMPLEMENTATION FOR UTILITY INTERFACE OF MULTIPLE ADJUSTABLE SPEED DRIVES....................................................................................................... 2663

Subhashish Bhattacharya, Hesam Mirzaee

SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER/STATCOM TOPOLOGY FOR MEDIUM/HIGH POWER APPLICATIONS: PARALLEL INVERTERS OPERATING AT DIFFERENT SWITCHING FREQUENCIES .............................................................................................................................................................. 2669

Tuhin S. Basu, Avik Bhattacharya, Chandan Chakraborty

STUDY ON LARGE POWER SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER WITH HIGH COMPENSATION PRECISION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2675

Chuan Xie, Chao He, Zhiqiang Wang, Guozhu Chen

APPLICATION OF DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION TO DETERMINE THE HEPWM ANGLES OF A THREE PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER......................................................................................... 2683

Norhazilina Bahari, Zainal Salam, Taufik

EXTENDING AN AGENT-BASED FMS SCHEDULING APPROACH WITH PARALLEL GENETIC ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................................................ 2689

Ghada Abaza, Iman Badr, Peter Göhner, Sabina Jeschke

FUZZY CONTROLLED PARALLEL PSO TO SOLVING LARGE PRACTICAL ECONOMIC DISPATCH ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2695

Belkacem Mahdad

MODELLING AND SIMULATING SELF-ORGANIZING AGENT-BASED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2702

Jose Barbosa, Paulo Leitao

PCB ASSEMBLY OPTIMISATION USING THE BEES ALGORITHM ENHANCED WITH TRIZ OPERATORS .................................................................................................................................................................. 2708

Mei C. Ang, D.T. Pham, Anthony J. Soroka, Kok W. Ng

THE INFLUENCE OF WALKING SPEED ON MUSCLE ACTIVITY OF THIGH AND APPLICATION IN PROSTHESES CONTROL .......................................................................................................... 2714

Lingling Chen, Peng Yang, Linan Zu, Yanli Geng

FEATURE-BASED VISUAL TARGET FOLLOWING FOR A NONHOLONOMIC WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT WITH A SINGLE CAMERA......................................................................................................... 2721

Masahide Ito, Takahiro Hiratsuka, Masaaki Shibata

IMAGE-BASED VISUAL TRACKING TO FAST MOVING TARGET FOR ACTIVE BINOCULAR ROBOT............................................................................................................................................................................. 2727

Masaaki Shibata, Hideki Eto, Masahide Ito

VISION-BASED TRACKING METHOD TO MULTIPLE INTERACTING TARGETS ....................................... 2733Tatsuya Honda, Satoru Takahashi, Hidenori Takauji, Shun'ichi Kaneko

VISUAL FEEDBACK SYSTEM FOR TRACKING OF MICROORGANISMS USING COLOR OCM ................................................................................................................................................................................. 2739

Takumi Honda, Hidenori Takauji, Shun'ichi Kaneko

VISUAL STABILIZATION OF WALKING MOTION FOR BIPED ROBOT WITH FLEXIBLE ANKLES........................................................................................................................................................................... 2744

Naoki Oda, Takahiro Abe

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CENTRAL AND DISTRIBUTED MPPT ARCHITECTURES FOR MEGAWATT UTILITY AND LARGE SCALE COMMERCIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANTS .......................... 2753

Ahmed Elasser, Mohammed Agamy, Juan Sabate, Robert Steigerwald, Rayette Fisher, Maja` Harfman Todorovic

A NEW PARAMETER OF VOLTAGE SAGS AND ITS EFFECT ON INVERTERS OF PV SYSTEMS SURVEYED BY A NEWLY DEVELOPED VOLTAGE SAG GENERATOR...................................... 2759

Isao Iyoda, Yoshki Abe, Toshifumi Ise, Nobuyuki Shigei, Kiyoshi Hayakawa

A NOVEL CONTROL STRATEGY FOR DC/DC POWER CONVERTER OF FUEL CELL HYBRID SYSTEM .......................................................................................................................................................... 2765

Lei Hu, Young Jae Kim, Jung Min Kwon, Hye Jung Cho

A RIPPLE-MITIGATING PRE-FILTER BASED ON INTERLEAVED DC-DC BOOST CONVERTERS ............................................................................................................................................................... 2771

Carlos Andres Ramos-Paja, Carlos Carrejo, Andres Julian Saavedra, Ivan Ramirez, Laura Paniagua, Roberto Giral, Corinne Alonso

ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF DC-DC CONVERTERS IN PHOTOVOLTAIC MAXIMUM POWER POINT APPLICATIONS........................................................................ 2778

Roberto Coelho, Filipe Concer, Denizar Martins

EFFECTIVE USE OF FILM CAPACITORS IN SINGLE-PHASE PV-INVERTERS BY ACTIVE POWER DECOUPLING ................................................................................................................................................ 2784

Fritz Schimpf, Lars Norum

ENHANCING LOADING LIMITATIONS IN PV SYSTEMS ................................................................................... 2790Ali Kashefi Kaviani, Mohamed Elshaer, Osama Mohammed

HYBRIDIZATION OF FUEL CELL, SOLAR PANEL AND BATTERIES ON THE DC LINK FOR STREET LIGHTING APPLICATION ......................................................................................................................... 2795

Mohamed Becherif, Mohamed-Yacine Ayad, Assia Henni, Maxime Wack, Abdennacer Aboubou

OPTIMIZATION OF THE FERRITE CORE VOLUME IN A SINGLE-PHASE GRID-CONNECTED PV SYSTEM WITH ACTIVE AND REACTIVE POWER CONTROL ......................................... 2803

Kleber de Souza, Walbermark dos Santos, Denizar Martins

ADAPTIVE ARTIFICIAL ANT COLONIES FOR EDGE DETECTION IN DIGITAL IMAGES........................ 2813Aleksandar Jevtic, Diego Andina

ARTIFICIAL METAPLASTICITY: AN APPROXIMATION TO CREDIT SCORING MODELING................. 2817Amparo Marin de la Barcena, Diego Andina, Alexis Marcano

CLOSURE MONITORING IN POTASH MINES USING LIDAR ............................................................................ 2823Angus Errington, Brian Daku, Arnfinn Prugger

COLOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY PARTITIONAL CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS ................................. 2828Benjamin Ojeda-Magaña, Rubén Ruelas, Joel Quintanilla-Domínguez, Diego Andina

ESTIMATION OF THE ACCELERATION OF A CAR UNDER PERFORMANCE TESTS BY USING AN OPTIMAL OBSERVER ............................................................................................................................. 2834

Wilmar Hernandez, Jesus de Vicente, Oleg Sergiyenko, Vira Tyrsa

FAULT DIAGNOSIS AND PD-PWM RECONFIGURATION OF A 5-LEVEL DOUBLE-BOOST PFC WITH FAULT-TOLERANT CAPABILITY ....................................................................................................... 2839

Pham Thi Thuy Linh, Richardeau Frédéric, Gateau Guillaume

FEATURE SELECTION USING SEQUENTIAL FORWARD SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION APPLYING ARTIFICIAL METAPLASTICITY NEURAL NETWORK. ............................. 2845

Alexis Marcano-Cedeño, Joel Quintanilla-Domínguez, María Cortina-Januchs, Diego Andina

HYBRID ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) .................................. 2851Hao Chen, Alireza Khaligh

NETWORKED CELLULAR MOTION DETECTION SYSTEM BY USING PYROELECTRIC INFRARED SENSOR FOR SURVEILLANCE............................................................................................................ 2857

Minoru Kanamaru, Hiroyuki Kawai, Hisato Kobayashi, Junya Tatsuno, Hiromi Mochiyama, Nobuaki Kobayashi

NEUTRAL POINT POTENTIAL BALANCE OF THREE-LEVEL INVERTER BASED ON PARAMETERS SELF-TUNING FUZZY LOGIC CONTROL STRATEGY ........................................................... 2863

Enli Du, Ligao He, Xu Li, Yanlin Ma

NEW P&O MPPT ALGORITHM FOR FPGA IMPLEMENTATION. .................................................................... 2868Youssef El Basri, Stephane Petibon, Bruno Estibal, Corinne Alonso

OPTIMIZATION OF ONE-POWER-POINT OPERATION FOR VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINE WITH SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS ................................................................................................ 2874

Shixiong Fan, John E. Fletcher, Huibin Zhang, Stephen J. Finney, Barry W. Williams

OPTIMIZATION OF SYSTEM-OF-SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURES FOR MARITIME BORDER CONTROL USING GENETIC ALGORITHMS.......................................................................................................... 2880

Ignacio Melgar, Carlos Mas, Marta Sanchís, Maite Gómez

RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT OF DYNAMIC TRIANGULATION METHOD FOR 3D VISION SYSTEM IN ROBOT NAVIGATION TASK ............................................................................................................... 2886

Luis Basaca, Julio Rodriguez, Oleg Sergiyenko, Vira Tyrsa, Wilmar Hernandez, Juan Ivan Nieto Hipolito, Oleg Starostenko

A FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER FOR MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING WITH 8-BIT MICROCONTROLLER................................................................................................................................................. 2895

Yueh-Ru Yang

EMOTIONAL CONTROLLER (BELBIC) FOR ELECTRIC DRIVES- A REVIEW............................................. 2901Ehsan Daryabeigi, gholamReza Arab Markadeh, Caro Lucas

IDENTIFICATION OF INDUCTION MOTOR AT STANDSTILL USING ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK...................................................................................................................................................................... 2908

Ali Bechouche, Hamid Sediki, Djaffar Ould Abdeslam, Salah Haddad

PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH-FREQUENCY TRANSFORMER .......................................... 2914Hengsi Qin, Jonathan W. Kimball, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy

SPEED CONTROL OF BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS USING EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENT CONTROLLER............................................................................................................................................................... 2920

Ehsan Daryabeigi, Hamed Sadeghi, Gholamreza Arab Markadeh, Caro Lucas

SPEED NEURO-FUZZY ESTIMATOR FOR SENSORLESS INDIRECT FLUX ORIENTED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE...................................................................................................................................... 2926

Fábio Lima, Walter Kaiser, Ivan Nunes da Silva, Azauri Albano de Oliveira Júnior

SPEED SENSORLESS STATOR FLUX ORIENTED CONTROL OF THREE-LEVEL INVERTER-FED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE BASED ON FUZZY LOGIC AND SLIDING MODE CONTROL ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2932

Yongchang Zhang, Jianguo Zhu, Zhengming Zhao, David G. Dorrell, Wei Xu

A MULTIOBJECTIVE RANKING BASED FINITE STATES MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL SCHEME APPLIED TO A DIRECT MATRIX CONVERTER ................................................................................. 2941

Felipe Villarroel, Jose Espinoza, Christian Rojas, Claudio Molina, Eduardo Espinosa

DIRECT TORQUE CONTROL OF AN 3L-NPC INVERTER-FED INDUCTION MACHINE: A MODEL PREDICTIVE APPROACH ........................................................................................................................... 2947

Pablo Urrejola, Marcelo Pérez, Mauricio Trincado, José Rodríguez

FINITE STATE MODEL PREDICTIVE CURRENT CONTROL OF A THREE-LEVEL FIVE-PHASE NPC VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER......................................................................................................... 2953

Atif Iqbal, Haitham Abu-Rub, Sk Moin Ahmed, Patricio Cortes, Jose Rodriguez

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR WITH AN INDIRECT MATRIX CONVERTER ........................................................................................................................... 2959

Marco Rivera, Jose Luis Elizondo Carrales, Manuel Eduardo Macias Garcia, Osvaldo Miguel Micheloud Vernackt, Oliver Matthias Probst Oleszewski, Jose Rodriguez, Christian Rojas, Alan Wilson

ON SAMPLED-DATA MODELS FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL .......................................................... 2966Cesar Silva, Juan I. Yuz

PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A BACK TO BACK MOTOR DRIVE BASED ON DIODE CLAMPED MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS............................................................................................................... 2972

Santiago Verne, María Inés Valla

AN INTEGRATED HYBRID POWER SYSTEM BASED ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES WITH ELECTRIC WIND MPPT.................................................................................................................................. 2981

José Paiva, Adriano Carvalho

DC ZONAL MICRO-GRID ARCHITECTURE AND CONTROL............................................................................ 2988Xu She, Srdjan Lukic, Alex Huang

DISTRIBUTED VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY CONTROL OF OFF-SHORE WIND FARMS CONNECTED WITH A DIODE BASED HVDC LINK .............................................................................................. 2994

Ramon Blasco-Gimenez, Salvador Añó-Villalba, Johel Rodriquez-D'Derlee, Francisco Morant, Soledad Bernal

H^INF REPETITIVE VOLTAGE-CURRENT CONTROLLER FOR MICROGRID APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 3000

Tomas Hornik, Qing-Chang Zhong

HIERARCHICAL CONTROL OF POWER PLANTS WITH MICROGRID OPERATION ................................. 3006Josep Guerrero, Juan Vasquez, Mehdi Savaghebi, Jordi de la Hoz, Helena Martin

IMPROVING OF STS ALGORITHM TO DETECTING VOLTAGE UNBALANCE IN LOW VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS................................................................................................................. 3012

Babak Gholizad

INCENTIVES FOR MICROGENERATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE U.S. AND EUROPE ............................. 3018Anthony Jones, Marty Irwin, Afshin Izadian

MANAGEMENT OF GRID-INVERTER OUTAGES AND POWER QUALITY DISTURBANCES IN DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................... 3022

Antonella Nagliero, D. Ricchiuto, R. A. Mastromauro, Marco Liserre

MICROGRID CONNECTION MANAGEMENT BASED ON AN INTELLIGENT CONNECTION AGENT............................................................................................................................................................................. 3028

Joan Rocabert, Gustavo Azevedo, Jose Ignacio Candela, Remus Teodorescu, Pedro Rodriguez, Ion Etxebarria-Otadui

OPTIMAL VOLTAGE LEVEL FOR DC MICROGRIDS ......................................................................................... 3034Sandeep Anand, B. G. Fernandes

SIMPLE FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE USING SQUIRREL-CAGE INDUCTION MACHINE FOR DC BUS MICROGRID SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................................... 3040

Jae-Do Park

A BIDIRECTIONAL POWER CONVERTER FOR BATTERY OF PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3049

Zheng Chen, Ziling Nie, Yuhong Fu, Chunting Mi

A CONTROL APPROACH FOR VOLTAGE AND FREQUENCY REGULATION OF A WIND-DIESEL-BATTERY BASED HYBRID REMOTE AREA POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM ......................................... 3054

Nishad Mendis, Kashem Muttaquie, Saad Sayeef, Sarath Perea

CONTROL STRATEGIES OF VARIABLE-SPEED WIND SYSTEM UNDER NEW GRID CODE REQUIREMENT - A SURVEY ..................................................................................................................................... 3061

Jiefeng Hu, Jianguo Zhu, David G. Dorrell, Qishuang Ma, Yongchang Zhang, Wei Xu

ELECTROMAGNETIC OPTIMAL DESIGN OF A LINEAR INDUCTION MOTOR IN LINEAR METRO ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3067

Wei Xu, Jiangao Zhu, Yongchang Zhang, David G. Dorrell, Youguang Guo

EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF NEURO-FUZZY VECTOR CONTROL FOR WIND DRIVEN DFIG ................................................................................................................................................................ 3073

Hany Jabr, Dongyun Lu, Narayan C. Kar

GRID INTEGRATION STUDIES OF A SWITCHED RELUCTANCE GENERATOR FOR FUTURE HARDWARE-IN-THE-LOOP EXPERIMENTS ........................................................................................ 3079

Sardis F. Azongha, Saritha Balathandayuthapani, Chris S. Edrington, Jesse P. Leonard

HYDRODYNAMIC AND ELECTROMECHANICAL SIMULATION OF A SNAPPER BASED WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER .................................................................................................................................. 3085

Helen Bailey, Richard Crozier, Alasdair McDonald, Markus Mueller, Edward Spooner, Paul McKeever

ISSUES WITH LOW SPEED DIRECT-DRIVE PERMANENT-MAGNET GENERATOR DESIGN - COMPARISON OF RADIAL-FLUX SLOTTED AND TORUS MACHINES .......................................................... 3091

David G. Dorrell, Min-Fu Hsieh

MODELING AND SIMULATION OF A POWER-SPLIT GEAR HYBRID DRIVE-TRAIN ................................ 3097Ehsan Tara, Shaahin Filizadeh

ROBUSTNESS ANALYSIS OF WIND TURBINES BASED ON PMSG WITH SENSORLESS VECTOR CONTROL ..................................................................................................................................................... 3103

Mario Rizo, Ana Rodríguez, Emilio Bueno, Francisco Javier Rodríguez

ANALYSIS OF ONE FAST NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL OPERATION OF INVERTERS ............................................................................................................................................................. 3117

Yao Zhang, Hao Ma, Cai Yang, Liang Dong

BEHAVIORAL CONTROL BASED ADAPTIVE BANDWIDTH ALLOCATION IN A SYSTEM OF UNMANNED GROUND VEHICLES ........................................................................................................................... 3123

Unnati Ojha, Mo-Yuen Chow

CENTRAL CONTROLLER BASED HYBRID CONTROL WITH COMMUNICATION DELAY COMPENSATOR............................................................................................................................................................ 3129

Daisuke Yashiro, Dapeng Tian, Kouhei Ohnishi

IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAN SYSTEM WITH DUAL COMMUNICATION CHANNEL TO ENHANCE THE NETWORK CAPACITY .................................................................................................................. 3135

Jee Hun Park, Man Ho Kim, Suk Lee, Kyung Chang Lee

IMPLEMENTATION OF A FUZZY PREDICTIVE REDUNDANCY SYSTEM FOR TOLERANCE OF X-BY-WIRE SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................... 3141

YoungHun Song, ManHo Kim, Suk Lee, KyungChang Lee

NETWORKED RESET CONTROL SYSTEMS WITH DISCRETE TIME-VARYING DELAYS ........................ 3146Alfonso Baños, Félix Pérez, Joaquín Cervera

ON TRACKING CONTROL FOR A CLASS OF NETWORK-BASED LINEAR SYSTEMS................................ 3152Dawei Zhang, Qing-Long Han

A DC-BUS VOLTAGE REGULATION FOR PARALLEL WIND-BASED SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS ............................................................................................................................................................... 3161

Mahmoud M Amin, Behrooz Mirafzal, Osama A Mohammed

A NEW STRUCTURE BASED ON CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER FOR VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINE ............................................................................................................................................... 3167

Fujin Deng, Zhe Chen

A NON-ISOLATED HIGH STEP-UP CONVERTER WITH BUILT-IN TRANSFORMER DERIVED FROM ITS ISOLATED COUNTERPART ............................................................................................... 3173

Weichen Li, Wuhua Li, Mingyao Ma, Deng Yan, Xiangning He

A NOVEL COMPENSATION STRATEGY OF ACTUAL COMMUTATIONS FOR GROUND LEAKAGE CURRENT REDUCTION IN PV TRANSFORMERLESS CONVERTERS ........................................ 3179

Giampaolo Buticchi, Giovanni Franceschini, Emilio Lorenzani, Davide Barater, Antonino Fratta

ADAPTIVE CURRENT CONTROL OF GRID-CONNECTED VSC WITH LCL-FILTERS USING PARALLEL FEEDFORWARD COMPENSATION ................................................................................................... 3185

Jorge Rodrigo Massing, Humberto Pinheiro

ADAPTIVE PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM ................................................................................................................... 3192Mahmoud Alahmad, Mohamed Amer Chaaban, Jill Neal, Jonathan Shi, Chuck Berryman, Zhigang Shen, John Tansbury, Haorong Li, Avery Schwer, Tian Zhang

CIRCULATING CURRENT SUPPRESSING CONTROLLER IN MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER.................................................................................................................................................................. 3198

Qingrui Tu, Zheng Xu, Jing Zhang

CONTROL OF A FULL-CONVERTER PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS WIND GENERATOR WITH NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS DURING A NETWORK FAULT ............................................................................................................................................................................. 3203

Xabier Juankorena, Iker Esandi, Jesus López, Luis Marroyo

DECOUPLED INSTANTANEOUS CURRENT CONTROL AND ISLANDING DETECTION STRATEGY FOR A SINGLE-PHASE PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATION SYSTEM........................................... 3210

Yang Jiao, Qiang Song, Wenhua Liu

IMPROVED ACTIVE FREQUENCY DRIFT ANTI-ISLANDING METHOD WITH LOWER TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION ........................................................................................................................... 3216

Ahmad Yafaoui, Bin Wu, Samir Kouro

REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION CONTROL FOR STAND-ALONE SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR-BASED WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM ........................................................................ 3222

Ahmed Mohamed, Mohamed Elshaer, Osama Mohammed

STUDY OF ISLANDING BEHAVIOR OF A GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) SYSTEM EQUIPPED WITH A FEED-FORWARD CONTROL SCHEME............................................................. 3228

Prajna Paramita Dash, Mehrdad Kazerani

A GRID-CONNECTED SYSTEM BASED ON A REAL TIME PV EMULATOR: DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP............................................................................................................................................ 3237

Maria Carmela Di Piazza, Marcello Pucci, Antonella Ragusa, Gianpaolo Vitale

A NEW PROPOSAL FOR GRID CONNECTED SYSTEMS TO ELIMINATE THE DC CURRENT COMPONENT AT THE POINT OF COMMON COUPLING .................................................................................. 3244

Giampaolo Buticchi, Antonino Fratta, Emilio Lorenzani

AN INTERFACE CONVERTER OF HYBRID POWER SOURCES WITH SUPERCAPACITORS.................... 3250Jan Leuchter, Pavel Bauer, Petr Bojda, Ahmed Zobaa

ANALYSIS OF INTEGRATED STORAGE AND GRID INTERFACED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM VIA NINE-SWITCH THREE-LEVEL INVERTER................................................................................... 3258

Chris Edrington, Saritha Balathandayuthapani, Jianwu Cao

CONNECTING TWO WIND TURBINE GENERATORS TO THE GRID USING ONLY ONE THREE LEVEL NPC INVERTER................................................................................................................................ 3263

S. D. Gamini Jayasinghe, D. Mahinda Vilathgamuwa, Udaya. K Madawala

COST EFFECTIVE METHOD FOR DFIG FAULT RIDE-THROUGH DURING SYMMETRICAL VOLTAGE DIP ............................................................................................................................................................... 3269

Bing Gong, Dewei Xu, Bin Wu

DUAL INVERTER BASED BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR GRID CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS....................................................................................................................................... 3275

S. D. Gamini Jayasinghe, D. Mahinda Vilathgamuwa, Udaya. K Madawala

ENERGY STORAGE FOR SHORT-TERM AND LONG-TERM WIND ENERGY SUPPORT............................ 3281Ali Esmaili

POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF GRID-CONNECTED WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM FOR OPTIMUM UTILIZATION OF VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINES ..................................... 3287

Mahmoud Amin, Osama Mohammed

POWER SMOOTHING OF DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR FOR WIND TURBINE USING ULTRA CAPACITOR....................................................................................................................................... 3293

Tin Luu

SECOND ORDER SLIDING MODE CURRENT CONTROLLER FOR THE SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE........................................................................................................................................... 3301

Xavier Rain, Hilairet Mickaël, Talj Reine

AN INTELLIGENT LIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR POWER SAVING ........................................................... 3316Sherif Matta, Syed Mahmud

AN OVERVIEW ON SMART GRID CONCEPT ........................................................................................................ 3322Carlo Cecati, Geev Mokryani, Antonio Piccolo, Pierluigi Siano

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM PROTECTION WITH COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES .............................. 3328Mu Wei, Zhe Chen

MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS FOR GRID ENERGY MANAGEMENT: A SHORT REVIEW ................................ 3341Robin Roche, Benjamin Blunier, Abdellatif Miraoui, Vincent Hilaire, Abder Koukam

OPTIMIZING THE ARCING TIME FOR SMART CIRCUIT BREAKERS USING SYNCHRONOUS PHASE CONTROL ......................................................................................................................... 3347

Jun Liu, Garng Huang, Zhiying Ma

PULSE-LOAD EFFECTS ON SHIP POWER SYSTEM STABILITY ...................................................................... 3353Vahid Salehi Pour Mehr, Behrooz Mirafzal, Osama Mohemmed

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION OF THREE-PHASE AC-AC PWM CONVERTER SYSTEMS.................. 3361Johann W. Kolar, Thomas Friedli

ADVANCED STABILITY ANALYSIS AND NONLINEAR CONTROL OF POWER-ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS ......................................................................................................... 3363

Sudip K. Mazumder

SOME RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF INTELLIGENT PR AND APPLICATIONS ............................................ 3534Patrick Wang

LEARNING CONTROL DESIGN AND APPLICATIONS FOR ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS ................................ 3583Jian-Xin Xu, Sanjib Kumar Panda

PLUG-IN HYBRID ELECTRIC VEHICLES: SUSTAINABLE DRIVING TO 21ST ENERGY FUTURE........................................................................................................................................................................... 3633

Alireza Khaligh

DESIGN AND CONTROL OF ELECTRIC MACHINES UTILIZING A FIELD RECONSTRUCTION METHOD .................................................................................................................................. 3838

Babak Fahimi, Steven Pekarek

RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES AND BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS DESIGN.................................. 3840Nihal Kularatna

MODERN BATTERIES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................... 3842Nihal Kularatna

SOFTWARE AND HUMAN VULNERABILITIES..................................................................................................... 3945Miles McQueen

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