• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.2278-2288
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• 2017

Multilevel converter topologies are widely used in many applications. The cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter (CHBMI), which is one of many multilevel converter topologies, has been introduced as a useful topology in high and medium power. However, it has a drawback to require a lot of switches. Therefore, the reliability of CHBMI is important factor for analyzing the performance. This paper presents a simple switch fault diagnosis method for single-phase CHBMI. There are two types of switch faults: open-fault and short-fault. In the open-fault, the body diode of faulty switch provides a freewheeling current path. However, when the short-fault occurs, the distortion of output current is different from that of the open-fault because it has an unavailable freewheeling current flow path due to a disconnection of fuse. The fault diagnosis method is based on the zero current time analysis according to zero-voltage switching states. Using the proposed method, it is possible to detect the location of faulty switch accurately. The PSIM simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of proposed switch fault diagnosis method.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1578-1586
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• 2016

A power quality improvement scheme for grid connected inverters, even in the presence of the disturbances in grid voltages due to harmonic distortions and three-phase imbalance, is presented for distributed generation (DG) power systems. The control objective is to force the inverter currents to follow their references with robustness even under external disturbances in grid voltages. The proposed scheme is realized by a disturbance observer (DOB) based current control scheme. Since the uncertainty in a system can be effectively canceled out using an estimated disturbance by the DOB, the resultant system behaves like a closed-loop system consisting of a disturbance-free nominal model. For experimental verification, a 2 kVA laboratory prototype of a grid connected inverter has been built using a digital signal processor (DSP) TMS320F28335. Through comparative simulations and experimental results under grid disturbances such as harmonic distortion and imbalance, the effectiveness of the proposed DOB based current control scheme is demonstrated.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.1306-1315
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• 2016

Modern power systems driven by high-power converters have become inevitable in view of the ever increasing demand for electric power. The total power loss can be reduced by limiting the switching losses in such power converters; increased power efficiency can thus be achieved. A reduced switching frequency that is less than a few hundreds of hertz is applied to power converters that produce output waveforms with high distortion. Selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHEPWM) is an optimized low switching frequency pulse width modulation method that is based on offline estimation. This method can pre-program the harmonic profile of the output waveform over a range of modulation indices to eliminate low-order harmonics. In this paper, a SHEPWM scheme for three-phase three-leg neutral point clamped inverter is proposed. Aside from eliminating the selected harmonics, the DC capacitor voltages at the DC bus are also balanced because of the symmetrical pulse pattern over a quarter cycle of the period. The technique utilized in the estimation of switching angles involves the firefly algorithm (FA). Compared with other techniques, FA is more robust and entails less computation time. Simulation in the MATLAB/SIMULINK environment and experimental verification in the very large scale integration platform with Spartan 6A DSP are performed to prove the validity of the proposed technique.

• 전력전자학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.291-297
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• 2012

Recently, Switching devices become cheaper, depending on the multi-level inverters are considered as the power-conversion systems for high-power and power-quality demanding applications. The multi-level inverters can reduce the THD(Total Harmonic Distortion) as the output which is similar sinusoidal waveform by synthesizing several capacitor DC voltages. However it has some disadvantages such as increased number of components, complex PWM control method. Therefore, this paper is proposed the new multi-level inverter topology using an new H-bridge output stage with a bidirectional auxiliary switch. The proposed topology is the 4-level 3-phase PWM inverter with less switching part than conventional multi-level inverters and reactive power control possible. In order to understand the new multi-level inverter, topology analysis and switching patterns and modes according to the current loop are described in this paper. The proposed multi-level inverter topology is validated through PSIM simulation and the experimental results are provided from a prototype.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.1935-1943
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• 2014

In recent years, the induction machines are increasingly being used as self-excited induction generators (SEIG). This generator is especially widely employed for small-scale power plants driven by renewable energy sources. The application of power electronic components in the induction generator control (IGC) and the loading of SEIG using nonlinear loads will generate harmonic currents. This paper analyzes the propogation of harmonic currents on the SEIG with nonlinear loads. Transfer function method in the frequency domain is used to calculate the gain and phase angle of each harmonic current component which are generated by a nonlinear loads. Through the superposition approach, this method has also been used to analyze the propagation of harmonic currents from nonlinear load to the stator windings. The simulation for the propagation of harmonic currents for a 4 pole, 1.5 kW, 50Hz, 3.5A, Y-connected, rotor-cage SEIG with energy-saving lamps, have provided results almost the same with the experiment. It can prove that the validity of the proposed models and methods. The study results showed that the propagation of harmonic currents on the stator windings rejects high order harmonics and attenuates low order harmonics, consequently THDI diminish significantly on the stator windings.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1994년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.113-116
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• 1994

Estimation of the evoked potential using the iterated bispectrum and cross-correlation (IBC) has been tried for both simulation and real clinical data. Conventional time average (TA) method suffers from synchronization error when the latency time of the evoked potential is random, which results in poor SNR distortion in the estimation of EP waveform. Instead of EP signal average in time domain, bispectrum is used which is insensitive to time delay. The EP signal is recovered by the inverse transform of the Fourier amplitude and phase obtained from the bispectrum. The distribution of the latency time is calculated using cross-correlation between EP signal estimated by the bispectrum and the acquired signal. For the simulation. EEG noise was added to the known EP signal and the EP signal was estimated by both the conventional technique and bispectrum technique. The proposed bispectrum technique estimates EP signal more accurately than the conventional technique with respect to the maximum amplitude of a signal, full width at half maximum(FWHM). signal-to-noise-ratio, and the position of maximum peak. When applied to the real visual evoked potential(VEP) signal. bispectrum technique was able to estimate EP signal more distinctively. The distribution of the latency time may play an important role in medical diagonosis.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.99-103
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• 1996

파형부호화법은 파형의 잉여성분 제거과정을 통해 음성파형의 꼴을 단순히 보존하는 부호화법이다. 음성합성분야에서 파형부호화법은 주로 분석에 의한 고음질 합성방식으로 적용되고 있다. 그렇지만 이 부호화법은 분석시에 여기원과 성도여파기 피라미터들로 분류하여 처리하지 않기 때문에 규칙에 의한 합성방식으로는 적용하기가 힘들다. 본 논문에서는 스펙트럼영역에서 유성스펙트럼에 대해서만 스펙트럼축의 변경을 통해 피치를 조절하는 새로운 피치변경법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 주파수영역의 처리법이며 50%의 피치변경을 수행하여도 스펙트럼 왜곡율이 2.7% 이하로 얻어졌고, 시간영역의 위상특성 보상에 의해 프레임간의 진폭연결이 자연스럽다는 장점을 갖느다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.229-235
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• 2014

본 논문은 고효율 고선형 특성을 얻기 위하여 신테라사가 제공한 디지털로 제어되는 아날로그 전치왜곡 칩을 이용한 도허티 전력증폭기를 설계하였다. 여기서 사용된 아날로그 전치왜곡기는 입력과 출력신호를 비교하여 출력의 혼변조 신호 특성을 개선하기 위하여 입력 신호의 크기와 위상을 조절함으로서 선형성을 개선시켰다. 또한, 도허티 전력증폭기를 설계하여 이용함으로써 고효율의 특성을 얻었다. 제작된 전력증폭기는 중심주파수 2150 MHz에서 평형증폭기와 비교하여 11% 이상의 효율 개선 효과와 출력 전력 100W 이하에서 인접채널 전력을 15 dB 이상 개선시켰다.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:컴퓨팅의 실제 및 레터
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.793-797
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• 2008

멀티미디어 서비스의 다양한 재생장치와 네트워크 환경에 적용 가능한 멀티미디어 코덱을 위해 ISO/IEC MPEG와 ITU-T VCEG의 JVT팀에서는 계층구조를 가지는 H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding(SVC)을 제안하였다. H.264/AVC SVC는 향상계층의 비트율과 왜곡에 관한 효율을 높이기 위해 계층 간 예측, 계층적 B 구조 등 다양한 기법이 적용하며 이로 인해 계산복잡도가 증가하여 부호화 시간이 길어지는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 부호화 시간을 단축시키기 위해 예측모드를 분석하고 그 결과에 따라 기준 값을 선정하여 단계적으로 예측모드를 선택하는 기법을 제안한다. 실험결과 제안하는 기법이 계산복잡도를 감소시켜 평균 38%의 부호화 시간을 단축시키며 화질의 저하는 평균 0.01dB로 무시할 수 있을 정도로 작음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.407-417
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• 2018

A novel family of Buck mode three-level direct ac converters with a high frequency link is proposed. These converters can transfer an unsteady high ac voltage with distortion into a regulated sinusoidal voltage with a low THD at the same frequency. The circuit configuration is constituted of a three-level converter, high frequency transformer, cycloconverter, as well as input and output filters. The topological family includes forward, push-pull, half-bridge, and full-bridge modes. In order to achieve a reliable three-level ac-ac conversion, and to overcome the surge voltage and surge current of the cycloconverter, a phase-shifted control strategy is introduced in this paper. A prototype is presented with experimental results to demonstrate that the proposed converters have five advantages including high frequency electrical isolation, lower voltage stress of the power switches, bi-directional power flow, low THD of the output voltage, and a higher input power factor.