• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.519-527
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• 2012

A high step-down multiple-output LED driver is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the derivation of the driver with dual-output is presented and its operation principle and steady state performance are analyzed in detail. Secondly, a high step-down N-channel LED driver is proposed and its current auto-balance characteristic and step-down ratio are analyzed. Finally, an experimental prototype is built and the experimental results are given. The theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed driver has the following virtues: First, if load balancing is achieved, the voltage gain is 1/N that of a Buck driver, where N is the number of channels. Second, each output automatically has an equal output current, without requiring more current close-loop control circuits than a Buck driver. Last, the voltage stresses of the switches and diodes are lower than those of a Buck driver, meaning that lower voltage switches and diodes can be used, and a higher efficiency can be expected.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2003년도 학술대회 논문집 전문대학교육위원
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• pp.62-69
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• 2003

In recent years, data transmission using power lines has been much highlighted. Power line is known to be cost-effective communication medium because the entire cable infrastructure has been already established and it is entirely connected with any home. Recently, the target of researches is to communicate data reliably over power lines at the speed of at least 1Mbits/s over the frequency range from 1MHz to 10MHz. OFDM communication system has been used for the high speed data transmission. Next, the conventional and adaptive OFDM systems for high speed data transmission over power line channel are investigated. The performance of AOFDM(adaptive OFDM) over the frequency selective channel with impulsive and narrow-band noise are studied to be a nice solution for high speed data transmission over power lines. The simulation results show that data the rates of the AOFDM are improved about 47% more than the ones of the conventional OFDM over the frequency response of case 4. In the results, the data rate has been much improved by the proposed adaptive algorithm in the frequency selective channel.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.318-330
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• 2015

In wearable sensor systems (WSSs), sensor nodes are deployed around human body parts such as the arms, the legs, the stomach, and the back. These sensors have limited lifetimes because they are battery-operated. Thus, transmission power control (TPC) is needed to save the energy of sensor nodes. The TPC should control the transmission power level (TPL) of sensor nodes based on current channel conditions. However, previous TPC algorithms did not precisely estimate the channel conditions. Therefore, we propose a new TPC algorithm that uses an accelerometer to directly measure the current channel condition. Based on the directly measured channel condition, the proposed algorithm adaptively adjusts the transmission interval of control packets for updating TPL. The proposed algorithm is efficient because the power consumption of the accelerometer is much lower than that of control packet transmissions. To evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we implemented the proposed algorithm in real sensor devices and compared its performance against diverse TPC algorithms. Through the experimental results, we proved that the proposed TPC algorithm outperformed other TPC algorithms in all channel environments.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.410-417
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• 2012

In this paper, a direct current control method based on a one-cycle controller (DCOCC) for double frequency buck converters (DF buck) is proposed. This control method can make the average current through the high frequency and low frequency inductors of a DF buck converter equal. This is similar to the average current control method. However, the design of the loop compensator is much easier when compared with the average current control. Since the average current though the high frequency and low frequency inductors is equivalent, the current stress of the high frequency switches and the switch losses are minimized. Therefore, the efficiency of the DF buck converter is improved. Firstly, the operation principle of DCOCC is described, then the small signal models of a one cycle controller and a DF buck converter are presented based on the state space average method. Eventually, a system block diagram of the DCOCC controlled DF buck is established and the compensator is designed. Finally, simulation and experiment results are given to verify the correction of the theory analysis.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.86-95
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• 2015

An active clamp high step-up boost converter with a coupled inductor is proposed in this paper. In the proposed strategy, a coupled inductor is adopted to achieve a high voltage gain. The clamp circuit is included to achieve the zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) condition for both the main and clamp switches. A rectifier composed of a capacitor and a diode is added to reduce the voltage stress of the output rectifier diode. As a result, diodes with a low reverse-recovery time and forward voltage-drop can be utilized. Since the voltage stresses of the main and clamp switches are far below the output voltage, low-voltage-rated MOSFETs can be adopted to reduce conduction losses. Moreover, the reverse-recovery losses of the diodes are reduced due to the inherent leakage inductance of the coupled inductor. Therefore, high efficiency can be expected. Firstly, the derivation of the proposed converter is given and the operation analysis is described. Then, a steady-state performance analysis of the proposed converter is analyzed in detail. Finally, a 250 W prototype is built to verify the analysis. The measured maximum efficiency of the prototype is 95%.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.970-977
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• 2014

In this paper, the artificial neural network is used to predict the junction temperature of the IGBT power module, by measuring the temperature sensitive electrical parameters (TSEP) of the module. An experiment circuit is built to measure saturation voltage drop and collector current under different temperature. In order to solve the nonlinear problem of TSEP approach as a junction temperature evaluation method, a Back Propagation (BP) neural network prediction model is established by using the Matlab. With the advantages of non-contact, high sensitivity, and without package open, the proposed method is also potentially promising for on-line junction temperature measurement. The Matlab simulation results show that BP neural network gives a more accuracy results, compared with the method of polynomial fitting.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 A
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• pp.488-490
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• 2004

The technical data for transmission line design and maintenance are calculated by a very complicated numerical formula so it is almost impossible to solve them by hand. Therefore the TOWER+ EXPERT SYSTEM was developed to systematically support technical data for transmission line design and maintenance. This system is able to calculate technical data which is applied to all conductors in our county, - that is 12 kinds of systems with 86 numbers of standard conductors, - and is programed to be user friendly by adopting dialogue windows, menu selection functions. Moreover, it minimizes input data by automatically providing standard transmission line design data, and it includes guidance of applicable work, program usage, data input process, help, explanation of terms and automatic error recovery functions that even a beginner can easily use.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.433-445
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• 2014

Single phase voltage source converter (VSC) is an important power electronic converter (PEC), including single-phase voltage source inverter (VSI), single-phase voltage source rectifier (VSR), single-phase active power filter (APF) and single-phase grid-connection inverter (GCI). As the fundamental part of large scale PECs, single-phase VSC has a wide range of applications. In the paper, as first, on the basis of the concept of the discontinuous pulse-width modulation (DPWM) for three-phase VSC, a new DPWM of single-phase VSR is presented by means of zero-sequence component injection. Then, the transformation from stationary frame (abc) to rotating frame (dq) is designed after reconstructing the other orthogonal current by means of one order all-pass filter. Finally, the presented DPWM based single-phase VSR is established analyzed and simulated by means of MATLAB/SIMULINK. In addition, the DPWMs presented by D. Grahame Holmes and Thomas Lipo are discussed and simulated in brief. Obviously, the presented DPWM can also be used for single-phase VSI, GCI and APF. The simulation results show the validation of the above modulation algorithm, and the DPWM based single-phase VSR has reduced power loss and increased efficiency.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제37A권9호
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• pp.762-771
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• 2012

본 논문은 펨토셀 환경에서 시스템 용량 향상 및 호손율 감소를 위해 펨토 기지국이 자기 최적화 기법을 이용하여 채널별 전송전력을 적응적으로 제어하는 방법을 제안한다. 펨토셀 관련 국제표준에서는 요구사항으로 펨토셀 밀집 배치에 따라 성능 열화가 없어야 한다는 점을 들고 있다. 제안방식에서는 각 펨토 기지국이 펨토 게이트웨이를 통해 전달받은 이웃 기지국의 채널별 전송전력 정보와 주기적 스펙트럼 감지를 통해 측정한 이웃 펨토셀로부터의 채널별 수신 전력을 바탕으로 자신의 채널별 전송전력을 결정하게 된다. 또한 각 채널별로 펨토 사용자 단말(Femto Mobile Station: FMS)의 이동에 따라 적응적으로 전송전력을 제어함으로써, 핸드오버 감소 및 펨토셀 간 균등한 서비스 기회를 가지도록 한다. 이를 통해 펨토셀 밀집 배치에 따른 성능 열화를 방지할 뿐만 아니라, 펨토셀이 밀집할수록 시스템 용량이 향상되고 호손율이 낮아지는 효과를 얻을 수 있다. 또한 채널별 전송전력을 독립적으로 제어함으로써 커버리지 홀을 줄일 수 있으며, 시스템 내에 존재하는 펨토셀의 개수와 상관없이 항상 일정 수준 이상의 커버리지와 호손율을 유지할 수 있다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 시스템 용량과 호손율 측면에서 기존 방식과 비교 분석하였으며 그 결과 제안한 방식이 기존 방식보다 우수함을 볼 수 있었다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.624-631
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• 2012

본 논문은 Guanella의 1:1 transmission-line transformer와 harmonic filtering 방식을 이용한 13.56 MHz 고효율 전류 모드 D급(CMCD) 전력증폭기를 제안한다. 출력 정합 네트워크에 기존의 D급 전력증폭기의 부하 네트워크를 변형하여 harmonic filtering 방식을 포함시킴으로써 낮은 2차와 3차 고조파 특성을 얻었다. 제작된 CMCD 전력증폭기는 13.56 MHz의 CW 입력 신호를 사용하여 측정하였을 때, 13.4 dB의 전력 이득을 가지며, 44.4 dBm의 출력에서 84.6 %의 높은 PAE 특성을 나타내었다. 같은 출력에서 2차 3차 고조파는 각각 -50.3 dBc와 -46.4 dBc를 나타냈다.