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With the rapid evolution of electricity markets and the need for higher economic efficiency of power industry, attempts for lowering down the maintenance costs as a large portion of system operation expenses seem imperative. Recognised as a crucial step in practical implementation of modern maintenance paradigms, e.g. reliability-centred maintenance, this study proposes an efficient method to quantify the generating units' criticality on the bulk power system reliability performance. The proposed approach utilises a solution concept of game theory and evaluates the contribution of each generating unit on the overall system reliability when a higher-order contingency occurs. The suggested... 

This work presents a new necessary and sufficient condition for robust stability and robust performance of positive linear time invariant (LTI) systems with structured uncertainties. It is known that robustness analysis of LTI systems with structured uncertainties requires evaluation of structured singular value (SSV), which is known to be NP-hard. This paper shows that for positive systems, the structured singular value can be estimated efficiently using linear programming. Thus, the robustness analysis of positive systems is simplified to easily verifiable conditions that scale linearly with the dimensions of the system. This property finds great utility in analysis and synthesis of large... 

Study on the potential abilities of the proportional-integral-weighted (PIw) controllers, as a recently proposed generalization for proportional-integral (PI) controllers, can be useful for improving the performance of traditional control systems. In this paper, adaptive PI and adaptive PIw controllers are designed to be used in control of a special class of nonlinear uncertain systems based on the Lyapanuv stability theorem. The effectiveness of the proposed controllers is illustrated by applying the proposed schemes to a Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactor (CSTR) system with an unknown parameter. Simulation results indicate that using adaptive PIw controllers, in comparison to using the... 

Robust stability analysis of multiorder fractional linear time-invariant systems is studied in this paper. In the present study, first, conservative stability boundaries with respect to the eigenvalues of a dynamic matrix for this kind of systems are found by using Young and Jensen inequalities. Then, considering uncertainty on the dynamic matrix, fractional orders, and fractional derivative coefficients, some sufficient conditions are derived for the stability analysis of uncertain multiorder fractional systems. Numerical examples are presented to confirm the obtained analytical results. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd  

Nowadays communication and monitoring systems play an important role in power systems security. However, these systems are exposed to bad data injection through attackers. This paper is aimed to propose a priority order list of attacked buses in order to be fully informed about the attacker decision. To do so, system security is evaluated through two well-known risk indices including under voltage risk index and overloading risk index. A genetic algorithm (GA) is employed to determine the most severe attack for each of the security indices. The effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed model are scrutinized through simulations on the IEEE 30-bus network. The paper reveals that knowing the... 

This paper investigates the robust stability analysis of fractional-order interval systems with multiple time delays, including retarded and neutral systems. A bound on the poles of fractional-order interval systems of retarded and neutral type is obtained. Then, the concept of the value set and zero exclusion principle is extended to these systems, and a necessary and sufficient condition is produced for checking the robust stability of them. The value set of the characteristic equation of the systems is obtained analytically and, based on it, an auxiliary function is introduced to check the zero exclusion principle. Finally, two numerical examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness... 

We consider a class of continuous-Time hybrid dynamical systems that correspond to subgradient flows of a piecewise linear and convex potential function with finitely many pieces, and which includes the fluid-level dynamics of the Max-Weight scheduling policy as a special case. We study the effect of an external disturbance/perturbation on the state trajectory, and establish that the magnitude of this effect can be bounded by a constant multiple of the integral of the perturbation. © 1963-2012 IEEE  

In this paper, we propose a decentralized control scheme for combined motion/force control of nonredundant multi-manipulator robotic systems, cooperatively grasping a rigid body in a prespecifled position/force trajectory. The proposed control scheme uses the impedance method for modeling the internal force exerted by the end effectors to the object. The precise mathematical analysis of the overall dynamical system and the proposed controller are presented and the stability of the overall system is studied. The proposed controller, then, is applied to a cooperative system composed of two PUMA560 manipulators and the simulation results are presented to verify the proposed control scheme  

The aim of this paper is to design an inertial navigation system (INS) for use in a geometry pipe inspection gauge, capable of measuring pipeline movements and producing the line's 3D map with a reasonable accuracy. A suitable reference path was generated as a design platform. Solving the navigation equations and compensating for the errors, by using extended Kaiman filter (EKF) approach, the INS path was generated and its position errors in all three directions were considered. Divergence problems due to far apart GPS position observations, was overcome by defining suitable threshold for the variances of the estimated errors. Copyright © 2007 by ASME  

With the current focus on energy and the environment, efficient integration of renewable energies, especially solar energy into power systems, is becoming indispensable. Moreover, to fully capture solar potentials and to recognize the unique characteristics associated with solar energy in power systems reliability assessment, a profound investigation is needed. Accordingly, this paper attempts to establish a comprehensive analytical approach for modeling the reliability of a hybrid system (Photovoltaic (PV) system with Energy Storage System (ESS)). To this end, the output of the PV system is modeled by a multi-state model, and the ESS system is modeled as a two-state Markov model. Moreover,... 

A practical design method is presented which used the fuzzy logic advantages in adaptation of sliding mode control. The combined Fuzzy Adaptive Sliding Control (FASC) is designed in such a way to enhance satisfactory sliding performance and robustness with good level of chattering alleviation. The design approach is valid for a class of nonlinear uncertain MIMO systems. This control algorithm does not require the system model. A supervisory term is appended to the controller to assure the stability of fuzzy sliding mode control through Lyapunov theory. The design approach has been applied to a 2DOF twin propeler system with large uncertainty. Simulation results verified effectiveness of... 

In this paper, a novel robust adaptive control method is proposed for controlling the Lorenz chaotic attractor. A new backstepping controller for the Lorenz system based on the Lyapunov stability theorem is proposed to overcome the singularity problem that appeared in using the typical backstepping control method. By exploiting the property of the system, the resulting controller is shown to be singularity free and the closed loop system is globally stable. Due to unavailability of system states measurement in practice, the controller is selected such that only one system state is needed. To overcome the problem of parameter uncertainty, an additional term to Lyapunov function is added and... 

This paper investigates the main features of the PHEV centralized and decentralized charging control mechanisms, their requirements and also impacts on distribution system performance. A home-based charging control scenario as well as a coordinated charging control algorithm for the charging management of PHEVs is devised in this paper. Both the owner preferences and system operator concerns are taken into consideration in an optimization-based framework. The total network losses and charging costs are set as the constraints to the proposed optimization approach. Various aspects of the two mechanisms are discussed and comprehensively compared by their application on the IEEE 34-bus test... 

This paper investigates the main features of the PHEV centralized and decentralized charging control mechanisms, their requirements and also impacts on distribution system performance. A home-based charging control scenario as well as a coordinated charging control algorithm for the charging management of PHEVs is devised in this paper. Both the owner preferences and system operator concerns are taken into consideration in an optimization-based framework. The total network losses and charging costs are set as the constraints to the proposed optimization approach. Various aspects of the two mechanisms are discussed and comprehensively compared by their application on the IEEE 34-bus test... 

The time delay equations are frequently used to model real systems since they can describe the after-effect phenomenon. It is usually difficult to analyze the properties of time delay systems. Thus it would be beneficial to make the systems as simple as possible. For this purpose, the decomposition of the systems into some separate or cascaded sub-systems with smaller dimension is introduced as the solution of the mentioned complex task. The decomposition of the time delay systems with one delay is directly related to simultaneous similarity of two matrices. In this regard, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of a common similar block diagonal or triangular form... 

In this paper a nonlinear control method based on Lyapunov stability theorem is proposed to design an adaptive controller for synchronizing two different chaotic systems. It is assumed that the unknown parameters of the drive and the response chaotic systems are time varying. It is shown that the proposed scheme can identify the system parameters if the system parameters are time invariant and the richness conditions is satisfied. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed technique it has been applied to Lorenz-Chen dynamic systems, as drive-response systems. Simulation results indicate that the proposed adaptive controller has a high performance in synchronizing two chaotic systems.... 

In this paper, an approach is proposed for controlling the uncertain Lorenz system. Based on an identification technique, a controller is designed that guarantees the regulation of all states in the presence of system uncertainty. Since in some applications the challenging problem of output tracking is desired, we have proposed several effective set-point tracking control techniques. The control schemes that are based on the feedback linearization method, can stabilize the internal dynamics of the system. Simulation results have illustrated the effectiveness of the proposed schemes. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved  

HVAC systems that use heat-regenerated desiccant wheels to remove moisture can be energy-efficient alternatives to traditional systems. Site-specific conditions and differing application requirements must be understood and quantified before desiccant-assisted hybrid systems can be justified on economic grounds. Although a detailed analysis is generally required, a few key variables drive costs and benefits. When two or more of these key variables favor a hybrid system over a conventional system, then a detailed analysis of the benefits vs. costs of a hybrid desiccant system is appropriate