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A Seamless Control Method for Supercapacitor to Compensate Pulse Load Transients in DC Microgrid

  • Dam, Duy-Hung;Lee, Hong-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2017.07a
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    • pp.198-199
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    • 2017
  • This paper proposed a new control method for supercapacitor (SC) to compensate the pulse load transient and enhance the power quality of dc microgrid. By coordinating the operation frequency, the supercapacitor is controlled to handle the surge current component while the low-frequency current component is dealt with by remaining sources in the system. Based on the state of charge and dc bus voltage level, the SC unit operation mode is automatically decided. Meanwhile, the dc bus voltage level indicates the power demand of the whole system; by regulating the dc bus voltage, the mismatch of power demand is covered by SC unit. The effectiveness of proposed method is verified by experiment prototype formed by two distributed generation and one supercapacitor unit.

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A simple method to optimize DC-bus capacitor in 3-phase shunt Active power filter system

  • Phan, Dang-Minh;Lee, Hong-Hee
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2015.07a
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    • pp.367-368
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    • 2015
  • This paper introduces a shunt active power filter with a small DC bus capacitor by adding additional low-pass filter (LPF). The DC link voltage fluctuation is impressively suppressed with a small value in spite of the low value of DC-link capacitor under the steady-state condition. Consequently, the cost and volume of power converter are significantly reduced thanks to the reduced value of DC-bus capacitor. On the other hand, an indirect control strategy is used to maintain grid-side current when non-linear loads are connected to the system. By using proportional-integral (PI) and modified repetitive controller (RC) in dq0 frame, the calculation time is greatly decreased by 6 times compared with the conventional RC, and the number of measurement devices is also minimized. As a result, the acquired total harmonic distortion (THD) is lower than 2% regardless of the load conditions. Simulation results are carried out in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.

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A Systematic, Low-cost Bus Encoding for Crosstalk Elimination (Crosstalk 제거를 위한 체계적, 저비용의 버스 인코딩 기법)

  • Ryu, Ye-Sin;Kim, Tae-Whan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2007.10b
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    • pp.264-268
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    • 2007
  • 연결선(interconnect) 사이의 간섭으로 발생하는 crosstalk 지연시간(delay)을 제거하기 위한 두 가지의 방법을 제안 한다. (1) 체계적인 코드를 생성해내는 방법으로 crosstalk 지연시간(delay) 유발 경우를 두 가지의 종류로 분류하여 각각에 대해 버스(bus) 비트 수의 증가에 따른 analytic 한 코드 생성 공식을 유도하였다; (2) 부-버스(sub-bus) 간에 발생하는 crosstalk 지연시간(delay)을 기존의 방법에 비해 보다 효율적으로 제거하는, 즉 추가적인 차단 라인 (또는 complement 비트 라인)를 감소시키는 방법을 제안 한다. 두 연구 결과는 연결선 상의 데이터 전송에 따른 신뢰성, 지연시간 및 전력 소모 증가를 유발하는 crosstalk를 차단하는 엔코딩 기법으로 유용하게 사용될 것으로 보인다.

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SELECTION OF BUS TRANSPORTATION ROUTES FOR REVITALIZATION OF DOWNTOWN CITY BY USING GIS

  • Imaoka, Yoshiko;Gotoh, Keinosuke
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • v.2
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    • pp.732-735
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    • 2006
  • Downtown cities in Japan are facing sharp fall in customers and continued shut down of shops due to decrease of population, increase in family cars and flowing of customers into the suburban large-scale retail stores. Omura City in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan is no exception to this. For the revitalization of the downtown, many actions have been taken to open the vacant shops. However, transportation problem is the most important one to be solved for the citizens including the elderly people having difficulty in movement. Accordingly, this study was aimed at the revitalization of the downtown by substantiality public transportation. We have attempted to develop routes from the view-point of convenience by using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). As a result of the study, we were able to select three bus transportation areas by incorporating qualitative factors into the analysis. Finally, the study concluded that, revitalization activities of the downtown city itself is required in addition to re-structuring of bus transportation system for the revitalization of the downtown city.

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A Smooth LVRT Control Strategy for Single-Phase Two-Stage Grid-Connected PV Inverters

  • Xiao, Furong;Dong, Lei;Khahro, Shahnawaz Farhan;Huang, Xiaojiang;Liao, Xiaozhong
    • Journal of Power Electronics
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    • v.15 no.3
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    • pp.806-818
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    • 2015
  • Based on the inherent relationship between dc-bus voltage and grid feeding active power, two dc-bus voltage regulators with different references are adopted for a grid-connected PV inverter operating in both normal grid voltage mode and low grid voltage mode. In the proposed scheme, an additional dc-bus voltage regulator paralleled with maximum power point tracking controller is used to guarantee the reliability of the low voltage ride-through (LVRT) of the inverter. Unlike conventional LVRT strategies, the proposed strategy does not require detecting grid voltage sag fault in terms of realizing LVRT. Moreover, the developed method does not have switching operations. The proposed technique can also enhance the stability of a power system in case of varying environmental conditions during a low grid voltage period. The operation principle of the presented LVRT control strategy is presented in detail, together with the design guidelines for the key parameters. Finally, a 3 kW prototype is built to validate the feasibility of the proposed LVRT strategy.

A Study on Integrated Operation of School Bus in Suburbs (교외지역 통학버스 통합 운영 방안 연구)

  • Ko, Young Dae;Oh, Yonghui
    • Journal of Korean Society for Quality Management
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.899-910
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: Generally, since the population density is lower in suburban areas, the distance to school is inevitably long. Therefore, schools in suburban areas often operate school buses to improve student welfare. However, since school buses are usually used only during going to and from school, the utilization rates are relatively low. Therefore, this study aims to establish integrated operation plan of public school bus covering all schools. Methods: It is necessary to decide which school buses will serve the specific demand node which want to go to certain school in order to design an integrated operation plan for school buses. Therefore, a mathematical model is developed for minimizing the total number of vehicles and the distance of transportation by reflecting the characteristics of school buses and students as constraints. To solve the proposed mathematical model, CPLEX, a commercial solver, is applied. Results: To validate and to confirm the proposed process, numerical example is designed with the comparison between before and after integrated operations of school buses in terms of total operation cost. The result shows that the integrated operation can lead the reduction of the number of school buses as well as the decreasing of the fuel cost. Conclusion: This study provides the quantitative method to perform the integrated operation of school buses in suburban areas. The optimal operation strategy is required because there are more complex decision-making elements considering the integrated operation. It is expected to apply this research result at real situation to expand this services based on an optimal operation.

Numerical Study on Human Thermal Comfort in a Low Floor Bus (저상버스 탑승객의 온열 쾌적성에 관한 수치연구)

  • PARK, WON GU;KIM, MAN-HOE
    • Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.645-651
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    • 2015
  • Numerical study on human thermal comfort in a low floor bus has been conducted. Human thermal comfort in a bus depends mainly on air temperature, air velocity, mean radiant temperature, humidity, and direct solar flux, as well as the level of activity and thermal properties of clothing. The paper presents the velocity and temperature distribution, Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) and Predicted Percentage of Dissatisfied (PPD) indices for the driver and passengers.

Smart Bus Arbiter for QoS control in H.264 decoders

  • Lee, Chan-Ho
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.33-39
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    • 2011
  • H.264 decoders usually have pipeline architecture by a macroblock or a 4 ${\times}$ 4 sub-block. The period of the pipeline is usually fixed to guarantee the operation in the worst case which results in many idle cycles and higher data bandwidth. Adaptive pipeline architecture for H.264 decoders has been proposed for efficient decoding and lower the requirement of the bandwidth for the memory bus. However, it requires a controller for the adaptive priority control to utilize the advantage. We propose a smart bus arbiter that replaces the controller. It is introduced to adjust the priority adaptively the QoS (Quality of Service) control of the decoding process. The smart arbiter can be integrated the arbiter of bus systems and it works when certain conditions are met so that it does not affect the original functions of the arbiter. An H.264 decoder using the proposed architecture is designed and implemented to verify the operation using an FPGA.

Local Interconnect Network(LIN): Protocols, Frames, and LIN Description file(LDF) (Local Interconnect Network(LIN): 프로토콜, 프레임, LIN Description File(LDF))

  • Seongsoo Lee
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.355-367
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    • 2023
  • Local Interconnect Network (LIN) is a low-speed in-vehicle network bus, and it is widely used in body applications such as windows, doors, HVAC, and lighting. This review explains protocols and message frames of LIN bus in detail. LIN bus basically transmits ID and payloads in data frame. How to interpret ID and payloads is defined in LIN Description file (LDF). Each LIN bus has unique LDF and its corresponding unique configuration. This review also explains syntax and example of LDF in detail.

Development of Bus Commuting Management Application for Children's Safety (어린이 안전을 위한 버스 등하교 관리 애플리케이션 개발)

  • Young-Hwan Kim;Ga-Hyun Kim;Hyuk-Jun Kwon;Jong-Beom Si;Bo-Seok Hwang;Young-Seok Jung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2023.07a
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    • pp.463-464
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    • 2023
  • 본 논문에서는 플루터와 파이어베이스를 기반으로 구글 맵에서 위치 정보를 받아 높은 정확도와 빠른 위치 정보 업데이트가 가능한 버스 등하교 시스템을 개발하고 위치 정보가 제대로 업데이트되는지 확인하기 위해 대중교통을 타고 직접 실험하였다. 최근 어린 자녀에 대한 학부모의 걱정이 커지고 있으며 부모와 교사 간의 갈등도 빈번하게 발생한다. 가장 대표적인 원인으로 학부모와 교사 간의 불필요한 연락 그리고 아이들의 안전을 꼽을 수 있다. 하지만 위 플랫폼을 통하면 학부모와 교사 간의 연락을 최소화하고 자녀들의 안전을 지키고 혹시 모를 돌발 상황이 생겼을 때 빠른 해결이 가능하다.

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