This paper deals with a parameter set up of a PIregulator to be applied in a system for permanent magnet threephase synchronous motors to obtain a smooth tracking dynamics even though a chopper control structure is included in the drive. In particular, an anti-windup control structure is considered to avoid saturation and conditions on all controller parameters are found which guarantee stabili...

The auditory system processes temporal information at multiple scales, and disruptions to this temporal processing may lead to deficits in auditory tasks such as detecting and discriminating sounds in a noisy environment. Here, a modelling approach is used to study the temporal regularity of firing by chopper cells in the ventral cochlear nucleus, in both the normal and impaired auditory system...

In this paper, parameters related to the sensitivity of the interface circuits for capacitive sensors are determined. Both the input referred noise and capacitance of the input transistors are important for capacitive sensitivity. Chopping is an effective technique for signal conditioning circuits because of its capability of reducing circuit noise at low frequencies. The capacitive sensitivity...

An AC chopper controller with symmetrical Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) is proposed to achieve better performance for a single-phase induction motor compared to phase-angle control line-commutated voltage controllers and integral-cycle control of thyristors. Forced commutated device IGBT controlled by a microcontroller was used in the AC chopper which has the advantages of simplicity, ability to...

The investigation of short time dynamics using X-ray scattering techniques is commonly limited either by the read out frequency of the detector or by a low intensity. In this paper, we present a chopper system, which can increase the temporal resolution of 2D X-ray detectors by a factor of 13. This technique only applies to amorphous or polycrystalline samples due to their circular diffraction ...

This paper deals with an observer design for a P-Cell Chopper. The goal is to reduce drastically the number of sensors in such system by using an observer in order to estimate all the capacitor voltages. Furthermore, considering an instantaneous model of a p-cell chopper, an interconnected observer is designed in order to estimate the capacitor voltages. This is realized by using only the load ...

The new wide angular-range chopper spectrometer ARCS at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been successfully used in whitebeam mode, with no Fermi chopper, to obtain neutron powder diffraction based atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs). Obtained PDF patterns of Si, Ni, and Al2O3 were refined using the PDFfit method and the results compared to data collected ...

Since the introduction of monolithic IC amplifiers there has been a continual improvement in DC accuracy. Bias currents have been decreased by 5 orders of magnitude over the past 5 years. Low offset voltage drift is also necessary in a high accuracy circuits. This is evidenced by the popularity of low drift amplifier types as well as the requests for selected low-drift op amps. However, until n...

High current and stringent restrictions on beam losses in the designed linac and storage ring for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) require clean and fast – with the rise time from 2% to 98% less than 2.5 ns – beam chopping in the linac front end, at the beam energy 2.5 MeV. The development of new traveling-wave deflecting current structures, based on meander lines, for the SNS fast chopper i...