• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 제39회 하계학술대회
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• pp.83-84
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• 2008

Voltage fluctuation, also known as flicker, is a power quality problem caused by nonlinear loads like electric arc furnace. Since it is interpreted as a variation of the supplied electrical energy, it causes the residential customers to feel much annoyed visually through the lamps. Due to the statistical nature of IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) short-term flicker severity index, Pst, it is not feasible to pre-evaluate the flicker level using the transient power system simulators such as Sim Power System in Matlab/Simulink. So this paper presents not only how to design the Matlab/Simulink IEC flickermeter to yield the Pst value, which considering electric distribution environments of South Korea, but also how to mitigate the voltage flicker at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC). In order to achieve this, the flicker mitigation efficiencies of various compensating devices, such as Static Var Compensator (SVC), STATCOM will be applied and compared. The simulated result demonstrates which compensating equipment is the most efficient method to mitigate the flicker phenomenon.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2008

This paper studies a more exact flicker evaluation method by detecting power quality disturbances and excluding the effects of power quality disturbances. Up to the present, power quality disturbances affect flicker evaluation index because power quality problems do not have been considered. However, flick index should represent only flicker without power quality disturbances. Thus, in this paper, we present the improved flicker evaluation method which removing the effects of power quality disturbances such as voltage sag and transient caused by fault and inverter/breaker switching. We detect voltage sag and transient using wavelet transform and remove the effects of power quality disturbances from flicker index.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.228-236
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• 2011

The ${\Delta}\;V_{10}$ or 10-Hz flicker index, as a common method of measurement of voltage flicker severity in power systems, requires a high computational cost and a large amount of memory. In this paper, for measuring the ${\Delta}\;V_{10}$ index, a new method based on the Adaline (adaptive linear neuron) system, the FFT (fast Fourier transform), and the PSO (particle swarm optimization) algorithm is proposed. In this method, for reducing the sampling frequency, calculations are carried out on the envelope of a power system voltage that contains a flicker component. Extracting the envelope of the voltage is implemented by the Adaline system. In addition, in order to increase the accuracy in computing the flicker components, the PSO algorithm is used for reducing the spectral leakage error in the FFT calculations. Therefore, the proposed method has a lower computational cost in FFT computation due to the use of a smaller sampling window. It also requires less memory since it uses the envelope of the power system voltage. Moreover, it shows more accuracy because the PSO algorithm is used in the determination of the flicker frequency and the corresponding amplitude. The sensitivity of the proposed method with respect to the main frequency drift is very low. The proposed algorithm is evaluated by simulations. The validity of the simulations is proven by the implementation of the algorithm with an ARM microcontroller-based digital system. Finally, its function is evaluated with real-time measurements.

• 센서학회지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.408-413
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• 2017

In this paper, we newly developed a byte-inverted transmission method for flicker-free visible light communication (VLC). The VLC transmitter sends original data in the former half period of the clock, and inverted data and in the latter half period of the clock. The VLC receiver receives the original data in the in the former half period of the clock. In this system, we used 480Hz clock that was generated from the 60Hz power line. The average optical power of the LED array in the transmitter is constant, thus flicker-free, in the observation time longer than the period of the clock that is about 2ms. This period is shorter than the maximum flickering time period (MFTP) of 5ms that is generally considered to be safe. This configuration is very useful in constructing indoor wireless sensor networks using LED light because it is flicker-free and does not require additional transmission channel for clock transmission.

• 산업융합연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.125-131
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 가시광 통신 시스템의 발생하는 Dimming level 감소 및 Flicker 발생 문제를 해결하기 위한 연구를 진행하였다. 가시광 통신은 통신과 조명을 함께 제공하는 융합기술로, 통신 성능뿐만 아니라 조명의 성능을 함께 만족 해야한다. 그러나 기존의 데이터 전송 방식은 전송 Data sequence를 고려하지 않고 전송하기 때문에, Dimming level을 감소시키고 Flicker 현상을 발생시킨다. 이를 해결하기 위해, 본 논문에서는 Dimming improvement and Flicker Reduction Mapping 기법을 연구하였다. 기존의 시스템은 단순하게 '0'과 '1'의 데이터만 전송하였지만, 본 시스템에서는 RGB 채널에 Original data 전송채널과 DIFR(Dimming Improvement and Flicker Reduction) 전송채널을 할당한다. R채널에는 Original data를, DIFR-G채널에는 Original data or Inverse Original data를 할당하고, DIFR-B채널은 R채널과 G채널의 논리연산을 통해 전송함으로써, 최대 Dimming level을 유지하면서 동시에 'OFF' 패턴이 연속적으로 발생하지 않도록 하여 Flicker 현상을 방지하고 통신 기능뿐만 아니라 조명으로써의 역할을 충실히 할 수 있는 적응형 데이터 할당 알고리즘을 제안했다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.123-133
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 LED 디스플레이 시스템의 동적인 구동방식에서 LPM 모듈의 구성에 관계없이 휘도구현 비트를 16비트 이내, 휘도 구현 펄스를 512개 이내에서 최적의 플리커 프리 제어 알고리즘을 개발하고 이 알고리즘을 이용하여 디스플레이 제어장치를 구현하였다. 구현방법으로는 완전한 색 표현을 위한 기존의 시프트-래치 방법을 변형하여 여러 번의 시프트-래치를 수행하게 하여 스캔횟수를 늘림으로써 리플레시율을 증가시키는 방법을 사용하였다. 그 결과로 기존의 LED 디스플레이 시스템은 리플레시율이 240~480[Hz]를 수행하지만 제안된 방법을 사용하면 리플레시율을 2,040[Hz] 이상으로 높게 구현할 수 있기 때문에 플리커 현상을 감지할 수 없게 된다.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제30권B호
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• pp.109-112
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• 2010

Unlike the general lighting systems, stage lighting system requires accurate dimming control and reduction of flicker phenomenon. In this paper, we studied PWM dimming control and linear voltage level control methods. PWM Dimming is easy control and flicker phenomenon of linear voltage level dimming does not happen by experiment result. We concluded that stage lighting dimming system required to combine two techniques of the PWM and linear voltage level dimming control method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.333-343
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• 2012

This paper proposes a strategy of flicker mitigation for doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) wind turbine systems. In the weak grid system where the grid impedance ratio is low, the reactive power compensation only cannot suppress the flicker sufficiently due to the limited power capacity of the converters or the DFIG. For the full suppression of flickers, the active power smoothening using the energy storage system (ESS) needs to be utilized together with the reactive power compensation. The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by PSCAD/EMTDC simulation results for a 2[MW] DFIG wind turbine system and by experimental results for a 3[kW] wind turbine simulator.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.I
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• pp.314-316
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• 2005

Light flicker is a notorious phenomenon influencing light quality. The flicker of the light flux outputs from the light sources perceived by human eyes depends upon the lamp brightness fluctuations for projector display. This paper describes a ballast ignition control system, which makes the lamp strike frequency phase lock the blanking time period to minimize the flicker effect

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.577-580
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• 2010

본 논문은 영상 시퀀스에 존재하는 플리커(flicker) 제거에 관한 것이다. 플리커는 영상에 존재하는 원치 않는 밝기 변화로 정의되며 시각적으로 성가신 훼손 형태로 표현된다. 플리커가 존재하는 영상은 움직임 벡터의 계산이나 물체의 추출과 같은 후처리를 방해하는 요인으로 미리 제거하는 것이 바람직하다. 본 논문은 플리커의 원인을 선형모델로 모델링하고 이를 분석하여 제거하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 플리커를 유발하는 게인과 오프셋 파라미터를 분리하여 추정하고 이를 훼손된 영상에 보정하여 영상 시퀀스를 안정화 시킨다. 제안하는 방법을 장면에서 움직임이 없는 인위적인 테스트 영상 시퀀스와 움직임이 있는 실제 영상 시퀀스에 적용하여 알고리즘의 성능을 보였다.