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One of the important problems in fulfilling the consumers' power demand that has been especially intensified after restructuring is transmission line congestion. To solve this problem, either new transmission lines should be constructed or the existing transmission lines should be better utilized. Construction of new transmission lines is both expensive and time consuming. Therefore, it is usually better to enhance the utilization of the existing transmission assets. FACTS devices have been introduced over the past decades to enhance power systems operation. However, wide scale deployment of them has not occurred yet due to their high initial investment cost and some other problems. In order... 

Decentralized control is a typical method for the design of industrial MIMO control systems. However, in most multivariable systems, the existence of large interactions limit the achievable performance of such controllers. In the Nyquist Array design method proposed by Rosenbrock, the system interactions can be reduced using a precompensator, such that a decentralized controller may be used with acceptable performance. A well designed pre-compensator will effectively decouple the system and the multivariable systems may be considered as a set of SISO systems. It is therefore obvious that the key element in the Nyquist Array design method is the design of the pre-compensator. There are two... 

Refractory metals (W,Re,Ta,Mo,Nb) and their alloys can exhibit exceptional properties at elevated temperatures. However, refectory metals tend to be relatively heavy and, in some cases, can be relatively difficult to form in complex shapes at low cost. Light composites of refractory metals with high-melting ceramics, which can be fabricated into dense, near net shapes at low temperatures, would be particularly attractive for advanced aerospace applications. In this project, WC powders have been pressed and shaped to cylindrical preforms. Secondly, these performs have been sintered slightly(presintered) into porous, rigid ones with about 50% open porosity. Finally, in order to reach dense... 

One of the most common problems encountered in multivariable systems is the interactions between the system inputs and outputs. Interaction causes difficulties in control of these systems. Hence reduction of interaction in multivariable systems is an important design objective. One way to do this is to employ a pre-compensator in the open loop systems. Several approaches with different design methods and optimization criterions have been proposed thus far. In this study the problem of interaction reduction for a square stable system is considered and a pre-compensator matrix is designed which reduces interactions in the interacting multivariable system.In this case the purpose is to use... 

The purpose of carrying out this Master thesis is to detect occurrence of CT saturation which leads to consecutive failures in operation of protective current transformers, as a major component in protection of power systems. The protective relay installed in the secondary side of the protective CT fails to act properly under occurrence of this phenomenon, and it doesn’t reflect proportionally the high value of fault currents passing through CT’s primary winding. As a consequence, faults become undetectable. Meanwhile, the proposed methods for detection of CT saturation must be reliable under a noisy condition, realizing that power systems have some inherent noises always available in the... 

Increasing demand for high-speed and high-resolution ADCs as much as low-power ones and on the other hand, the obstacles in the way of reaching them make calibration and compensation methods more significant for obtaining ADCs with the better specs. Among the cases which need modification, the modification of C-2C-based SAR ADCs, which can decrease the power significantly, and the modification of time-skew error of time-interleaved ADCs, which is the main and the most challenging error in this type of ADCs, could be the two of the effective ways to making the State-of-the-Art ADCs. In this project for the first time, a novel compensation method for C-2C parasitic charges is proposed which... 

SRAM has a very wide application in different platforms including Cache Memory in Microcontrollers, etc. also SRAM is the first candidate for memory usage in every application needing High speed or static memory circuits. SRAM Cells are constructed by Minimum size transistors in each technology node and usually the newest technology nodes are used for building SRAM blocks for accommodating maximum number of SRAM Cells in a specific area. Going through smaller technology nodes, Leakage current and Process variations problem, creates serious difficulties in designing Low Power or High speed SRAM Memories and many academic and industrial works are done wishing for improvement in SRAM power... 

Due to the simplicity and generality, design of feedback control systems in the frequency domain is among the most prominent topics in the control systems engineering. The problem of compensation means properly adjusting the loop frequency response at critical frequencies. Considering the point that the traditional methods usually use trial and error procedures for compensation, analytical design of fixed-structure controllers for exactly adjusting such values has great importance. Benefitting from the capability of fractional-order dynamics, the compensation problem is studied from three aspects in this thesis. At first according to the importance of adjusting the system frequency response... 

Current transformers (CTs) are the most common current sensors in power system and use with measuring instruments and protective relays. Saturation of the protective CT threatens the proper operation of relays, while, the ratio error in a measuring CT directly reduces the accuracy of power system state estimation. In this dissertation, firstly, a test device has been introduced to identify the parameters of CT low-frequency model. Afterward, a digital compensator has been proposed to suppress the adverse effect of CT saturation. This compensator is capable to reproduce both the saturated inrush current and fault current that distinguishes it from other proposed methods. In addition, this... 

In this research a novel method is proposed which uses the concept of image registration to forecast frames as a new frame up conversion method. This frame rate up conversion method is specially designed for medical videos because of the medical structure of the none rigid image registration used as a field to forecast new frames which causes better results for these kinds of videos. In this method we interpolate new frames in the field of none rigid transformation grid in order to improve video parameters such as blocking, blurriness, etc. which can help doctors to detect abnormalities in such videos much preciously. By analyzing existing methods, we can find that this field is bereft of a... 

One of the subsets of the radar systems is recognition of targets. Radar Target Recognition (RTR) is a process in which a target is distinguished from a set of targets. To recognize radar targets, we need to extract useful information from the returned signal from them. The most important issues in recognizing radar targets are the selection of information that reduces the amount of information needed for the identification process, the ease of extracting information from the moving target, and the ease of decision making to determine the identity of the target. One method is to produce a high resolution range profile, which is the one-dimensional image of the target in the direction of... 

In this work, an analytical model has been proposed for rectifiers used in RFID & WSN applications. Body effect has been considered in this model, as well as the effect of transistor size and number of stages on the output voltage of the rectifier. Using proposed equations for both rectifier circuit and the matching network, the power harvesting system is optimized by means of co-designing the rectifier and the matching network. The results of the proposed model are in good agreement with the simulation results.
Finally, A Rectifier circuit which is designed to generate 1-V dc across a capacitive load is presented. Simulation results show that the sensitivity of this power harvesting... 

In cases with excessive anteversion even after adolescence, surgeons have to choose osteotomy surgery to modify this abnormality. This surgery and modifying the anatomical problem does not necessarily lead to modify the patients’ gait cycle abnormalities; the authors’ hypothesis is the probable reason may be the persistence of the implement of the patients’ kinematics compensation mechanism even after the surgery. This mechanism is used to almost correct the gait of those with excessive anteversion. First, by using gait analysis text books, a patient’s gait cycle is analyzed; this analysis is consist of 3DGA with EMG and observational gait. Then, by using OpenSim, the patient’s patterns of... 

n this article, we find necessary conditions for the existence of Ito Integral in a Banach space with respect to compensated Poisson random measure (cPrm). Ito integrals with values on M-type 2 Banach spaces F of the above form exist for all measurable, adapted functions f square integrable w.r.t. β ⊗ d t (f ∈ M2T;_(E/F)),with β being Lévy measure associated with cPrm, and have strong second moments. We show that, for general separable Banach spaces F, an inequality of the type resulting for M-type 2 Banach spaces with constant depending on cPrm is necessary and sufficient for the existence of Ito integral having second moment finite for all f ∈ M2 T;_(E/F). It is shown that M2 T;_(E/F) is... 

In last years, many researches are focoused on improving of suspension systems because of their importance in automotive afavourable performance. One of these advanced suspension systems are Magnetorheological suspension with nonlinear dynamic system and complicated behavior like Hysteresis Loops, so their modeling are notable.
In the first chapter as introduction, suspension systems and their aims are expressed briefly. Then Magnetorheological suspension structure and its function are mentioned. After review of researches that has done about its modeling and control , in the third chapter, different types of classic and generalized Prandtl-Ishlinskii models are introduced and... 

In this research a novel intelligent back-stepping control method is developed. This method is robust to sensor noise and external disturbances. In addition, the controller is robust under model uncertainty. This controller does not need precise knowledge of system parameters. This method is based on three methods of: back-stepping control, least squares estimation and a fuzzy compensator. This controller is used to control quadrotor stand witch is like an inverse pendulum. In quadrotor stand modeling, the inverse pendulum effect is considered too, witch is one of the innovations of the research. By doing various simulations, the validity of controller is tested. Also the performance of the... 

There are a wide variety of light-triggered switches. Photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSSs) have been investigated intensively for many applications owing to their unique advantages over other switches. The advantages of PCSSs make them a perfect choice for many important applications where high switching accuracy and high-power capability are required. Photoconductive switches are fabricated from a variety of semiconductors, including silicon carbide (SiC), gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium nitride (GaN). In Photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSSs) the switching mechanism is initiated by optical illumination and laser source controls the flow of current. In the off or... 

In this thesis, we model and analyze coherent optical OFDM systems which are highly concerned as future fiber optic communication. To this end, we first introduce various applications of that in optical communication systems and investigate its probes and cones. In the rest of the thesis, we characterize the mathematical structure of the nonlinear phase noise and discuss the previous methods of compensation of that and propose some new ways of nonlinear phase noise compensation and equalization. And as we discuss each method we also investigate its computational complexity and BER performance. We propose three new phase noise compensation method, considering optical phase conjugation, we... 

The wide-area damping controller (WADC) has been proposed to enhance the damping of inter-area oscillations. The most challenging deficiencies to make this controller practical are the power system operating condition changes and the inherent time delay of remote signals. They can deteriorate the controller performance and the whole system stability if not properly accounted for in the design procedure. This thesis presents an adaptive delay compensator (ADC) on the basis of the latest development in the wide-area measurement system (WAMS) to cater to varying latencies. The proposed compensator can effectively reciprocate the phase deviation resulting from varying delays to improve the... 

In recent years، one of the most popular and wide areas of research have been focused on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Among them، Quadrotor which has the capability of Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL)، hovering، great agility and maneuverability، simple structure، light weight and reasonable size has particular importance. In the industry، we always deal with plants which there are no precise information about their dynamic model، or their model is too complex to identify. So designing controllers with less dependency to system model and no need to exact knowledge of the system is absolutely vital. The arrangement of motors in a Quadrotor provides six Degree Of Freedoms (DOF) for...