the renewable energy sources and plug-in electric vehicles (pevs) are becoming very popular because of the combination of high fuel costs and concerns about emission issues. this paper presents modelling and control of a building integrated fuel cell and plug-in electric vehicles (bifc-pev) in smart distribution systems. in bifc-pev system, conventional building elements could be replaced by sp...

Dean of the Graduate College ii PREFACE The methodology of variable structure with sliding mode is proven to be very successful in controlling uncertain continuous-time dynamical systems. When the system is sampled or purely discrete, the invariance property of sliding mode, which is originally a continuous-time concept, no longer hold and the reaching condition has to be modiied to allow a pse...

One of the hallmarks of the performance, versatility, and robustness of biological motor control is the ability to adapt the impedance of the overall biomechanical system to different task requirements and stochastic disturbances. A transfer of this principle to robotics is desirable, for instance to enable robots to work robustly and safely in everyday human environments. It is, however, not t...

This paper presents a proposed global optimal energy management strategy based on dynamic programming to enhance the consumption efficiency of an agricultural hybrid tractor that is equipped with continuously variable transmission (CVT). Firstly, using diesel-electric parallel as research object, tractor-rotary tillage coupling dynamics model constructed. Secondly, torque and speed motor, diese...

by developing the level of life in societies, the need for new resources of energy becomes more important. in almost all cases, the aim is to convert one form of energy to the electrical form. with advances of technology and use of new electric and electronic devices and gadgets, the need for electrical energy is increasing and providing stable and continuous electric power becomes very importa...

The governing equations which are considered in two-dimensional cylindrical fluid simulations argon discharge with parallel resonance antenna are the continuity equation, the momentum equation with drift-diffusion approximation, the energy balance equation for electrons, the wave equation for azimuthal induced electric field, and Poisson equation for electrostatic electric field [1]. The power ...