In this paper a novel optimal control strategy for energy management of an off-grid hybrid Stirling engine/Supercapacitor power plant is presented based on preliminary results proposed in [1]. An implementation of the control strategy is performed on a real time target that drives a dedicated testbed with a DC machine reproducing the behaviour of the thermodynamic Stirling Engine. The DC machin...

This paper presents a novel method to control Electro Osmotic Flow (EOF) with AC electrical fields. It is shown that with a single potential the zeta potential at a solid liquid interface and the channel potential that drives the EOF can be controlled in a synchronized matter to create a net flow with zero average potential. The frequency regime in which the EOF can be controlled is bound by th...

Modern AC drives require a fast digital realization of many mathematical operations concerning control and estimator’s algorithms, which are time consuming. Therefore developing of custom built digital interfaces as well as digital data processing blocks and sometimes even integration of ADC converters into single integrated circuit is necessary. Due to the fact that developing an ASIC chip is ...

Direct Torque Control with Multilevel Inverter (DTC-MLI) has emerged recently in high dynamics AC drives fields for induction machines or permanent magnet machines application. In this paper, a review on a variety of techniques and concepts of direct torque control of multilevel inverter-fed induction machines is presented. The techniques and concept involved are classified as follows: Look-up ...

New method of observation and diagnosis of inverter-fed induction motor drives is developed and tested. Unsymmetrical conditions concerning the machine impedances or valves operation are reflected in the spectrum of the current space-phasor. The spectrum of the space-phasor was estimated with the help of the Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD) and its time-frequency representation with excellent ti...

Integration density, channel scalability, low switching energy and low insertion loss are the major prerequisites for on-chip WDM systems. A number of device geometries have already been demonstrated that fulfill these criteria, at least in part, but combining all of the requirements is still a difficult challenge. Here, we propose and demonstrate a novel architecture consisting of an array of ...

Sideband transitions are spectroscopically probed in a system consisting of a Cooper pair box strongly but nonresonantly coupled to a superconducting transmission line resonator. When the Cooper pair box is operated at the optimal charge bias point, the symmetry of the Hamiltonian requires a two-photon process to access sidebands. The observed large dispersive ac-Stark shifts in the sideband tr...

Since its invention by Nikola Tesla in 1888, the alternating-current (AC) motor has been a critical driver for the industrial age. One of his original three patents was the wound rotor induction motor (WRIM). Later, Westinghouse refined the design of the wound rotor motor to permit control of the speedtorque characteristics of the machine. This paper discusses a new advancement in Pulse Width M...

We show that time-oscillating electric fields applied to plasmas present in flames create steady flows of gas. Ions generated within the flame move in the field and migrate a distance δ before recombining; the net flow of ions away from the flame creates a time-averaged force that drives the steady flows observed experimentally. A quantitative model describes the response of the flame and revea...

Pulse width modulation based on space vectors (SVPWM) technique has become the most popular and important PWM techniques for three phase voltage source inverters (VSI). In this paper, we present the analysis and realization of SVPWM for variable speed control of AC motor drives, employing Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA device. The selection of zero vectors and space vector sequence are given and the po...