Router for Wireless Power Packet Transmission: Design and Application to Intersystem Power Management

Power supply for small-scale battery-powered systems such as electric vehicles (EVs and mobile robots) is being actively researched. The authors are particularly interested in energy management, which considers the interconnection of such systems close to each other. This allows for overall redundancy to be maintained without assuming excessive redundancy with individual power sources. Its implementation necessitates a high level of integration between power management and information and communication technology. As one of these methods, this study investigates energy management based on power packetization. When the individual systems to be connected have moving parts or are mobile, wireless power transmission is a promising method for power sharing. However, power packetization has so far only been considered for wired transmission. In this paper, the authors address the integration of power and information in wireless channels using power packetization. A power packet router circuit is proposed for the wireless transmission of power over multiple channels selectively. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate that the developed system can handle both wired intrasystem power management and wireless intersystem power sharing in a unified manner

Modeling the controlled delivery power grid

Competitive energy markets, stricter regulation, and the integration of distributed renewable energy sources are forcing companies to reengineer energy production and distribution. The Controlled Delivery Power Grid is proposed as a novel approach to transport energy from generators to consumers. In this approach, energy distribution is performed in an asynchronous and distributed fashion. Much like the Internet, energy is delivered as addressable packets, which allow a controlled delivery of energy. As a proof-of-concept of the controllable delivery grid, two experimental test beds, one with integrated energy storage and another with no energy storage, were designed and built to evaluate the efficiency of a power distribution and scheduling scheme. Both test beds use a request-grant protocol where energy is supplied in discrete quantities. The performance of the system is measured in terms of the ability to satisfy requests from consumers. The results show high satisfaction ratios for distribution capacities that are smaller than the maximum demand. The distribution of energy is modelled with graph theory and as an Integer Linear Programming problem to minimize transmission losses and determine routes for energy flows in a network with distributed sources and consumers. The obtained results are compared with a heuristic approach based on the Dijkstra\u27s shortest path algorithm, which is proposed as a feasible approach to routing the transmission of packetized energy

Packet-based feedback control of electrical drive and its application to trajectory tracking of manipulator

In systems disconnected from the external grid, such as mobile robots and vehicles, the effective use of renewables and energy harvesting techniques helps a longer operation with less weight and space for batteries. Power packet dispatching system is a promising measure to manage the complex power flow created by such distributed power sources of various profiles. In the system, power is transferred as a pulse, and information tag is attached to the pulse power in voltage waveforms. The physical integration of power and information realizes a smooth inclusion of sources and loads of different profiles and their decentralized operation. This paper discusses the application of the system to load control. We propose a decentralized packet‐based feedback control scheme. The successful operation of the proposed scheme is confirmed by an application to an electrical drive. In addition, the application to trajectory control of 2‐degree‐of‐freedom manipulator reveals the possibility of a peak‐power reduction based on a demand response operation of the proposed scheme. The results contribute to a realization of decentralized flow control of power packets based on the convenience of both the sources and the loads

Power Processing for Advanced Power Distribution and Control

A power packet dispatching system is proposed to realize the function of power on demand. This system distributes electrical power in quantized form, which is called power processing. This system has extensibility and flexibility. Here, we propose to use the power packet dispatching system as the next generation power distribution system in self-established and closed system such as robots, cars, and aircrafts. This paper introduces the concept and the required researches to take the power packet dispatching system in practical phase from the total viewpoints of devices, circuits, power electronics, system control, computer network, and bio-inspired power consumption

Progettazione e sviluppo di un sistema cromoterapico mediante una rete di sensori wireless

The work of this thesis consists in the development and implementation of a chromotherapy system based on a WSN. The system is independent from the environment in which is installed and is very flexible. The nodes of the system interact with each other to synchronize themselves and to disseminate the color sequence to display. The system is also able to recognize if topology changes occur and is also able to reconfigure itself accordingly without affecting the nodes synchronization. SOMMARIO Questo lavoro di tesi è consistito nello sviluppo e nella relativa implementazione di un sistema cromoterapico basato su di una rete di sensori wireless. Il sistema è indipendente dall’ambiente nel quale viene installato risultando perciò molto flessibile nell’utilizzo. Ogni nodo della WSN interagisce con gli altri cercando di creare una rete sincronizzata e permettendo la diffusione e la visualizzazione di una sequenza di colori atraverso un device RGB esterno Il sistema può inoltre riconoscere se un cambiamento topologico sta avvenendo nella rete ed è in grado di riconfigurarsi di conseguenza senza influire sulla sincronizzazione dei nod

Analyse und Erweiterung eines fehler-toleranten NoC für SRAM-basierte FPGAs in Weltraumapplikationen

Data Processing Units for scientific space mission need to process ever higher volumes of data and perform ever complex calculations. But the performance of available space-qualified general purpose processors is just in the lower three digit megahertz range, which is already insufficient for some applications. As an alternative, suitable processing steps can be implemented in hardware on a space-qualified SRAM-based FPGA. However, suitable devices are susceptible against space radiation. At the Institute for Communication and Network Engineering a fault-tolerant, network-based communication architecture was developed, which enables the construction of processing chains on the basis of different processing modules within suitable SRAM-based FPGAs and allows the exchange of single processing modules during runtime, too. The communication architecture and its protocol shall isolate non SEU mitigated or just partial SEU mitigated modules affected by radiation-induced faults to prohibit the propagation of errors within the remaining System-on-Chip. In the context of an ESA study, this communication architecture was extended with further components and implemented in a representative hardware platform. Based on the acquired experiences during the study, this work analyses the actual fault-tolerance characteristics as well as weak points of this initial implementation. At appropriate locations, the communication architecture was extended with mechanisms for fault-detection and fault-differentiation as well as with a hardware-based monitoring solution. Both, the former measures and the extension of the employed hardware-platform with selective fault-injection capabilities for the emulation of radiation-induced faults within critical areas of a non SEU mitigated processing module, are used to evaluate the effects of radiation-induced faults within the communication architecture. By means of the gathered results, further measures to increase fast detection and isolation of faulty nodes are developed, selectively implemented and verified. In particular, the ability of the communication architecture to isolate network nodes without SEU mitigation could be significantly improved.Instrumentenrechner für wissenschaftliche Weltraummissionen müssen ein immer höheres Datenvolumen verarbeiten und immer komplexere Berechnungen ausführen. Die Performanz von verfügbaren qualifizierten Universalprozessoren liegt aber lediglich im unteren dreistelligen Megahertz-Bereich, was für einige Anwendungen bereits nicht mehr ausreicht. Als Alternative bietet sich die Implementierung von entsprechend geeigneten Datenverarbeitungsschritten in Hardware auf einem qualifizierten SRAM-basierten FPGA an. Geeignete Bausteine sind jedoch empfindlich gegenüber der Strahlungsumgebung im Weltraum. Am Institut für Datentechnik und Kommunikationsnetze wurde eine fehlertolerante netzwerk-basierte Kommunikationsarchitektur entwickelt, die innerhalb eines geeigneten SRAM-basierten FPGAs Datenverarbeitungsmodule miteinander nach Bedarf zu Verarbeitungsketten verbindet, sowie den Austausch von einzelnen Modulen im Betrieb ermöglicht. Nicht oder nur partiell SEU mitigierte Module sollen bei strahlungsbedingten Fehlern im Modul durch das Protokoll und die Fehlererkennungsmechanismen der Kommunikationsarchitektur isoliert werden, um ein Ausbreiten des Fehlers im restlichen System-on-Chip zu verhindern. Im Kontext einer ESA Studie wurde diese Kommunikationsarchitektur um Komponenten erweitert und auf einer repräsentativen Hardwareplattform umgesetzt. Basierend auf den gesammelten Erfahrungen aus der Studie, wird in dieser Arbeit eine Analyse der tatsächlichen Fehlertoleranz-Eigenschaften sowie der Schwachstellen dieser ursprünglichen Implementierung durchgeführt. Die Kommunikationsarchitektur wurde an geeigneten Stellen um Fehlerdetektierungs- und Fehlerunterscheidungsmöglichkeiten erweitert, sowie um eine hardwarebasierte Überwachung ergänzt. Sowohl diese Maßnahmen, als auch die Erweiterung der Hardwareplattform um gezielte Fehlerinjektions-Möglichkeiten zum Emulieren von strahlungsinduzierten Fehlern in kritischen Komponenten eines nicht SEU mitigierten Prozessierungsmoduls werden genutzt, um die tatsächlichen auftretenden Effekte in der Kommunikationsarchitektur zu evaluieren. Anhand der Ergebnisse werden weitere Verbesserungsmaßnahmen speziell zur schnellen Detektierung und Isolation von fehlerhaften Knoten erarbeitet, selektiv implementiert und verifiziert. Insbesondere die Fähigkeit, fehlerhafte, nicht SEU mitigierte Netzwerkknoten innerhalb der Kommunikationsarchitektur zu isolieren, konnte dabei deutlich verbessert werden