• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.698-707
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• 2017

This paper deals with predictive control methods of mobile robots for reference trajectory tracking control. Predictive control methods using predictive model are known as effective schemes that minimize the future errors between the reference trajectories and system states; however, the amount of real-time computation for the predictive control are huge so that their applications were limited to slow dynamic systems such as chemical processing plants. Lately with high computing power due to advanced computer technologies, the predictive control methods have been applied to fast systems such as mobile robots. These predictive controllers have some control parameters related to control performance. But these parameters have not been optimized. In this paper we employed the genetic algorithm to optimize the control parameters of the predictive controller for mobile robots. The improved performances of the proposed control method are demonstrated by the computer simulation studies.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.109-119
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• 2005

This paper deals with the performance analysis of static compensator (STATCOM) based voltage regulator for self­excited induction generators (SEIGs) supplying balanced/unbalanced and linear/ non-linear loads. In practice, most of the loads are linear. But the presence of non-linear loads in some applications injects harmonics into the generating system. Because an SEIG is a weak isolated system, these harmonics have a great effect on its performance. Additionally, SEIG's offer poor voltage regulation and require an adjustable reactive power source to maintain a constant terminal voltage under a varying load. A three-phase insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) based current controlled voltage source inverter (CC- VSI) known as STATCOM is used for harmonic elimination. It also provides the required reactive power an SEIG needs to maintain a constant terminal voltage under varying loads. A dynamic model of an SEIG-STATCOM system with the ability to simulate varying loads has been developed using a stationary d-q axes reference frame. This enables us to predict the behavior of the system under transient conditions. The simulated results show that by using a STATCOM based voltage regulator the SEIG terminal voltage can be maintained constant and free from harmonics under linear/non linear and balanced/unbalanced loads.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.65-72
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• 2001

Generally, it is said that control of the inertia system is to track the reference input quickly while suppressing the vibration due to the system itself. In this case, the difficulty fur designing a controller is caused by modeling uncertainty and parameter variation. The purpose of this paper is to propose a design method to suppress the vibration of three-mass inertia system based on the LMI theory. That is, the generalized plant model by which we can cope with conservativeness of the existing H$_{*}$ theory is proposed and analyzed in terms of LMI. The results of simulation fur the three-mass inertia system show that the proposed design approach is quite effective under the given situations.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.145-156
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• 2012

These days, the application of electronic power transformers (EPTs) is expanding in place of ordinary power transformers. These transformers can transmit power via three or four wire converters. Their dynamic performance is extremely important, due to their complex structure. In this paper, a new method is proposed for improving the dynamic performance of distribution electronic power transformers (DEPT) by using sliding mode control (SMC). Hence, to express the dynamic characteristics of a system, different factors such as the voltage unbalance, voltage sag, voltage harmonics and voltage flicker in the system primary side are considered. The four controlling aims of the improvement in dynamic performance include: 1) maintaining the input currents so that they are in sinusoidal form and in phase with the input voltages so they have a unity power factor, 2) keeping the dc-link voltage within the reference amount, 3) keeping the output voltages at a fixed amount and 4) keeping the output voltages in sinusoidal and symmetrical forms. Simulation results indicate the potential and capability of the proposed method in improving DEPT behavior.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.529-532
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• 2012

This paper presents the system modeling, analysis, and controller design and implementation with a inverted pendulum system in order to test robust algorithm for sweeping machine. The balancing of an inverted pendulum by moving pendulum robot like as 'segway' along a horizontal track is a classic problem in the area of control. This paper will describe two methods to swing a pendulum attached to a cart from an initial downwards position to an upright position and maintain that state. The results of real experiment show that the proposed control system has superior performance for following a reference command at certain initial conditions.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.149-155
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 비선형 시변 시스템을 제어할 경우 제어시스템의 안정성을 보장하고 성능을 향상시키기 위한 새로운 적응제어 구조를 전개하였다. 주어진 플랜트가 선형 시불변이라는 가정하에 표준 기준 모델 적응제어기가 적용될 경우 발생되는 출력오차는 플랜트의 비선형 시변특성으로 인하여 점근적으로 0에 수렴되지 않는다. 이때 미지의 출력오차를 점근적으로 0에 수렴시키는 방법으로 퍼지보상기를 사용하였으며 결과적으로 플랜트의 비선형 시변 특성을 보상하는 효과를 얻을 수 있었다. 퍼지 보상기로는 출력오차등의 조건에 따라 이득이 변하는 퍼지 PID 보상기를 도입하여 안정하게 설계되도록 노력하였다. 또한 출력오차를 점근적으로 0에 수렴시키는 것은 표준 기준 모델 적응제어기 내부의 모든 파라미터와 신호가 유한하게 됨을 의미하기 때문에, 제어시스템 전체의 안정도를 보장할 뿐만 아니라 결과적으로 과도응답 성능을 향상시킬 수 있게 되었다. 몇가지 예제를 대상으로 시뮬레이션을 수행하고 그 결과를 분석함으로써 비선형 시변 시스템을 제어할 경우 본 논문에서 전개된 새로운 적응제어 구조의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.1229-1240
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• 1997

The purpose of this study is to build up control scheme that promptly control pressure in a hydraulic cylinder having comparatively small control volume, using a PCV (proportional control valve) and a digital computer. Object pressure control system has the character to be unstable easily, because the displacement-flow gain of the PCV is too large considering the small volume of the hydraulic cylinder and the time delay of response of the PCV is comparatively long. Considering the above-mentioned characteristics of the object pressure control system, in this study, control system is designed with two degree of freedom control scheme that is composed by adding a feed-forward control path to I-PDD$^{2}$ control system, and a reference model is used on the decision of control parameters. And through some experiments on the control system with FF-I-PDD$^{2}$ controller, the validity of this control method has been confirmed.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.392-401
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• 2014

A fast-transient repetitive control strategy for a three-phase shunt active power filter is presented in this study to improve dynamic performance without sacrificing steady-state accuracy. The proposed approach requires one-sixth of the fundamental period required by conventional repetitive control methods as the repetitive control time delay in the synchronous reference frames. Therefore, the proposed method allows the system to achieve a fast dynamic response, and the program occupies minimal storage space. A proportional-integral regulator is also added to the current control loop to eliminate arbitrary-order harmonics and ensure system stability under severe harmonic distortion conditions. The design process of the corrector in the fast-transient repetitive controller is also presented in detail. The LCL filter resonance problem is avoided by the appropriately designed corrector, which increases the margin of system stability and maintains the original compensation current tracking accuracy. Finally, experimental results are presented to verify the feasibility of the proposed strategy.

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.1-13
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• 2018

This paper deals with the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) 5-MW reference wind turbine. The controller which include MPPT (Maximum power point tracking) control algorithm and tower load reduction control algorithm was designed by MATLAB Simulink. This paper propose a tower damper algorithm to improve the existing tower damper algorithm. To improve the existing tower damper algorithm, proposed tower damper algorithm were applied the thrust sensitivity scheduling and PI control method. The thrust sensitivity scheduling was calculated by thrust force formula which include thrust coefficient table. Power and Tower root moment DEL (Damage Equivalent Load) was set as a performance index to verify the load reduction algorithm. The simulation were performed 600 seconds under the wind conditions of the NTM (Normal Turbulence Model), TI (Turbulence Intensity)16% and 12~25m/s average wind speed. The effect of the proposed tower damper algorithm is confirmed through PSD (Power Spectral Density). The proposed tower damper algorithm reduces the fore-aft moment DEL of the tower up to 6% than the existing tower damper algorithm.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1996.07b
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• pp.1377-1379
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• 1996

In this paper, each parameter was identified by the gradient descent method to overcome difficulty deciding fuzzy rules of FLC for the unknown process and the type of membership Junctions. Usually PID or optimal control theories have been mostly usee in control field so far. However, optimal control requires much time for calculation because of adaptation for disturbance and nonlinearity. And intricate technique such as MRAS which can be realized only by an expert are limited to be used in the systems requiring rapid and precise response because of comparatively longer calculating time and complicateness. Gradient descent method is a method to find Z minimizing a function about a certain vector Z. And required output of FLC is gained using gradient approaching method in order to adapt control rule parameters of FLC. Simulation proved validation of this algorithm.