Development of three phase back to back converter with current flow control using raspberry Pi microcontroller

A High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) electric power transmission system uses direct current form the bulk transmission of electrical power, in contrast with the common Alternating Current (AC) systems. For a long-distance transmission, HVDC systems may be less expensive and suffer lower electrical losses. The overall HVDC system is call back-to-back converter. Therefore, this project is to design and to develop a back-to-back converter with Proportional-Integrative-derivative (PID) control current that could be applied for the resistive load. The basic structure of the PID controller makes it easy to regulate the process output. The control technique is called a current control technique by comparing the output current with the reference current. Thus, the PID controller will force the output current to follow the reference current by creating and changing the pulse width modulation (PWM) signals. The PID controller is developed and simulated by using MATLAB/Simulink software and then implemented to the hardware by using Raspberry Pi Microcontroller. The result from the simulation shows that, the load current follows the reference current from 0 amperes until 1 amperes and the results from the experiment shows that the output current at the load follows the reference current from 0 amperes until 0.4 amperes. The high sensitivity of current sensor and also due to very low resolution of analogue to digital converter effect the result in this project. The results explanation of the project can be divided into three categories; simulation, open loop control and closed loop control

A state-of-the-art review on torque distribution strategies aimed at enhancing energy efficiency for fully electric vehicles with independently actuated drivetrains

© 2019, Levrotto and Bella. All rights reserved. Electric vehicles are the future of private passenger transportation. However, there are still several technological barriers that hinder the large scale adoption of electric vehicles. In particular, their limited autonomy motivates studies on methods for improving the energy efficiency of electric vehicles so as to make them more attractive to the market. This paper provides a concise review on the current state-of-the-art of torque distribution strategies aimed at enhancing energy efficiency for fully electric vehicles with independently actuated drivetrains (FEVIADs). Starting from the operating principles, which include the "control allocation" problem, the peculiarities of each proposed solution are illustrated. All the existing techniques are categorized based on a selection of parameters deemed relevant to provide a comprehensive overview and understanding of the topic. Finally, future concerns and research perspectives for FEVIAD are discussed

Chaste: a test-driven approach to software development for biological modelling

Chaste (‘Cancer, heart and soft-tissue environment’) is a software library and a set of test suites for computational simulations in the domain of biology. Current functionality has arisen from modelling in the fields of cancer, cardiac physiology and soft-tissue mechanics. It is released under the LGPL 2.1 licence.\ud \ud Chaste has been developed using agile programming methods. The project began in 2005 when it was reasoned that the modelling of a variety of physiological phenomena required both a generic mathematical modelling framework, and a generic computational/simulation framework. The Chaste project evolved from the Integrative Biology (IB) e-Science Project, an inter-institutional project aimed at developing a suitable IT infrastructure to support physiome-level computational modelling, with a primary focus on cardiac and cancer modelling

Low-power micro-scale CMOS-compatible silicon sensor on a suspended membrane.

In this paper we describe a new, simple and cheap silicon device operating at high temperature at a very low power of a few mW. The essential part of the device is a nano-size conductive link 10-100 nm in size (the so-called antifuse) formed in between two poly-silicon electrodes separated by a thin SiO2 layer. The device can be utilized in chemical sensors or chemical micro-reactors requiring high temperature and very low power consumption e.g. in portable, battery operated systems. As a direct application, we mention a gas sensor (i.e. Pellistor) for hydrocarbons (butane, methane, propane, etc.) based on temperature changes due to the catalytic combustion of hydrocarbons. The power consumed by our device is at about 2% of the power consumed by conventional Pellistors