PWM Control of a Buck Converter with an Amorphous Core Coil

Pulse-width modulation is widely used to control electronic converters. One of the most topologies used for high DC voltage/low DC voltage conversion is the Buck converter. It is obtained as a second order system with a LC filter between the switching subsystem and the load. The use of a coil with an amorphous magnetic material core instead of air core lets design converters with smaller size. If high switching frequencies are used for obtaining high quality voltage output, the value of the auto inductance L is reduced throughout the time. Then, robust controllers are needed if the accuracy of the converter response must not be affected by auto inductance and load variations. This paper presents a robust controller for a Buck converter based on a state space feedback control system combined with an additional virtual space variable which minimizes the effects of the inductance and load variations when a not-toohigh switching frequency is applied. The system exhibits a null steady-state average error response for the entire range of parameter variations. Simulation results are presented

Estudio comparativo de señales de calcio y de exocitosis en las células cromafines de embriones de rata y en las de sus madres

Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Facultad de Medicina, Departamento de Farmacología. Fecha de lectura: 11-10-201

Using the Own Flexibility of a Climbing Robot as a Double Force Sensor

Force sensors are used when interaction tasks are carried out by robots in general, and by climbing robots in particular. If the mechanics and electronics systems are contained inside the own robot, the robot becomes portable without external control. Commercial force sensors cannot be used due to limited space and weight. By selecting the links material with appropriate stiffness and placing strain gauges on the structure, the own robot flexibility can be used such as force sensor. Thus, forces applied on the robot tip can be measured without additional external devices. Only gauges and small internal electronic converters are necessary. This paper illustrates the proposed algorithm to achieve these measurements. Additionally, experimental results are presented

Magnetically tunable composites exhibiting a pseudo plasmonic resonance

Resumen del trabajo presentado al 10th International ETOPIM (Electrical, Transport, and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media), celebrado en jerusalem (Israel) del 21 al 26 de junio de 2015.Peer Reviewe

Effective Power Signal Filtering using LC Filters with Air Core Coils

Computer controlled power supplies are usually expensive when high performance (power, wide voltage range, low ripple factor and low response time) are required. This paper presents a simple and effective computer controlled DC system based on a commercial V/f inverter combined with a three-phase bridge rectifier and a LC power filter. Because of the widely variable frequency range of the V/f inverter when a wide range of voltage is required, amorphous or ferromagnetic core coils are avoided, and air core coils become an excellent solution to implement the filter and increase the efficiency of the power system. The proposed method for designing the LC filter is based on the full dynamic model of the filter-load set and the selection of the desired poles of the system according to the load to be coupled. The proposed topology lets obtain good time responses (setting time less than 100 ms) and good ripple factor (less than 1%) without any overshooting, even when low voltage output is required

Reducciones temporales para convertir la sintaxis abstracta del diagrama de flujo de tareas no estructurado al álgebra de tareas

Resumen: Este artículo describe nuestro trabajo en el modelado de software usando reducciones temporales para representar diagramas de flujo no estructurado, como una representación intermedia para construir una expresión textual en una álgebra de procesos particular. Este trabajo fue realizado para poder construir una herramienta CASE de apoyo para la fase del modelado de tareas en el Método Discovery para el desarrollo de software. Inicialmente explicaremos las similitudes entre dos tipos de diagramas, el diagrama de actividades de UML y el diagrama de flujo de tareas con su representación formal (el álgebra de tareas). Posteriormente, ofreceremos una explicación explicando la generación automática, usando las reducciones temporales, de expresiones en el álgebra de tareas usando información abstracta que es obtenida de los diagramas de flujo de tareas. Palabras Clave: Reducciones temporales, modelado visual, diagramas de actividad

A generalized method for flat plates impact detection and location

In the last years, many analyses from acoustic signal processing have been used for different applications. In most cases, these sensor systems are based on the determination of times of flight for signals from every transducer. This paper presents a flat plate generalization method for impact detection and location over linear links or bars-based structures. The use of three piezoelectric sensors allow to achieve the position and impact time while the use of additional sensors lets cover a larger area of detection and avoid wrong timing difference measurements. An experimental setup and some experimental results are briefly presented

Space-state robust control of a Buck converter with amorphous core coil and variable load

Pulse-width modulation is widely used to control electronic converters. One of the most frequently used topologies for high DC voltage/low DC voltage conversion is the Buck converter. These converters are described by a second order system with an LC filter between the switching subsystem and the load. The use of a coil with an amorphous magnetic material core rather than an air core permits the design of smaller converters. If high switching frequencies are used to obtain high quality voltage output, then the value of the auto inductance L is reduced over time. Robust controllers are thus needed if the accuracy of the converter response must be preserved under auto inductance and payload variations. This paper presents a robust controller for a Buck converter based on a state space feedback control system combined with an additional virtual space variable which minimizes the effects of the inductance and load variations when a switching frequency that is not too high is applied. The system exhibits a null steady-state average error response for the entire range of parameter variations. Simulation results and a comparison with a standard PID controller are also presented

Force sensor of a climbing robot derived from its own flexible structure

One of the most important design constraints of a climbing robot is its own weight. When links or legs are used as a locomotion system they tend to be composed of special lightweight materials, or four-bars-linkage mechanisms are designed to reduce the weight with small rigidity looses. In these cases, flexibility appears and undesirable effects, such as dynamics vibrations, must be avoided at least when the robot moves at low speeds. The knowledge of the real tip position requires the computation of its compliance or stiffness matrix and the external forces applied to the structure. Gravitational forces can be estimated, but external tip forces need to be measured. This paper proposes a strain gauge system which achieves the following tasks: (i) measurement of the external tip forces, and (ii) estimation of the real tip position (including flexibility effects). The main advantages of the proposed system are: (a) the use of external force sensors is avoided, and (b) a substantial reduction of the robot weight is achieved in comparison with other external force measurement systems. The proposed method is applied to a real symmetric climbing robot and experimental results are presented

Burocracia y eficacia: hacia una organización ambidextra

1.er Premio Estudios Financieros 1999.Modalidad: Recursos Humanos Las nuevas formas y prácticas organizativas no parecen abogar por la desaparición absoluta de todo tipo de burocracia, sino más bien de una forma de entenderla. Los procedimientos formales han sido diseñados tradicionalmente para hacer un plan infalible del proceso de trabajo, aunque con esta perspectiva los resultados se han alejado considerablemente de este objetivo. En este trabajo se pretende comprobar la existencia de un tipo de formalización que permita a los empleados aumentar su nivel de eficacia, superando la perspectiva unidimensional -sólo su intensidad- por otra bidimensional que considera tanto su intensidad como su carácter. De esta forma se ha constatado mediante la aplicación de un cuestionario multidimensional a 445 personas de 32 organizaciones distintas, la existencia de cuatro contextos -permisivo, coercitivo, orgánico y autocrático- con resultados diferentes en cuanto a nivel de compromiso, alienación y desgaste de sus componentes