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Multi-port converters (MPC), used in multi-input/multi-output power electronic systems have low cost, low weight and low mass integrated control system. Besides these converters offer bidirectional and isolated ports, which are inevitable in some applications. Three-Port Half Bridge Converters (TPHBC) are the ones which have the lowest component count. But these converters suffer from a low Zero Voltage Switching (ZVS) range that is lost in medium to low load powers. Low ZVS range cause low efficiency, especially in low output powers. In this paper a modified Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) technique is introduced to increase the ZVS range of main switches which results higher efficiency and... 

Numerical and analytical methods are two methods to evaluate the performance of electrical machines. This article provides a comparison between numerical and analytical methods. Electrical machine software typically uses numerical methods to solve the electromagnetic equations. On the other hand, analytical methods are faster and more intuitive. A general analytical modeling technique to evaluate the performance of axial flux machines including but not limited to wound rotor resolvers is presented here. The proposed model is based on the actual three-dimensional (3-D) magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC). The accuracy of the proposed model depends on the number of radial layers in the... 

A common solution for increasing the accuracy of wound-rotor (WR) resolvers is to increase the number of poles. To achieve a compact design, fractional slot concentrated winding is used for multi-pole WR resolvers. However, employing such windings leads to rich sub-harmonics in the induced voltages. To suppress these undesirable sub-harmonics, multi-layer windings with appropriate shifting angle between the layers is suggested. However, the said shifting angle is limited by the slot pitch so that the capability of the multi-layer winding is not utilized fully. To overcome the mentioned deficiency a slotless disk type configuration is proposed in this paper. Then, an optimization based on the... 

A common solution for increasing the accuracy of wound-rotor (WR) resolvers is to increase the number of poles. To achieve a compact design, fractional slot concentrated winding (FSCW) is used for multi-pole WR resolvers. However, employing such windings leads to rich sub-harmonics in the induced voltages. To suppress these undesirable sub-harmonics, multi-layer windings with an appropriate shifting angle between the layers are suggested. However, the said shifting angle is limited by the slot pitch so that the capability of the multi-layer winding is not utilized fully. To overcome the mentioned deficiency, a slotless disk type configuration is proposed in this article. Then, an... 

High pole number permanent magnet (PM) motors, due to their high torque density, have been receiving considerable attentions in recent years. To achieve an accurate position control in PM machines, resolvers are suggested for industrial applications. Mechanical and electromagnetic considerations in the case of high pole number resolvers lead the machine designers to choose small cores with low slot numbers. This paper proposes two different on-tooth winding configurations to achieve high pole number without increasing the slot numbers, while the accuracy of the detected position is intended to be the maximum value. Variable turn on tooth winding (VTTW) is compared with fractional slot... 

Axial flux resolvers (AFRs) are used in motion control of electrical machines. In this paper, the effects of physical parameters on the accuracy of detected position are studied. The examined parameters are width of slot opening and slot width, number of poles, number of slots per pole and per phase, and skewing of rotor slots. An analytical model based on the winding function method is proposed for the first time in to estimate the error of position signal. The results of the analytical method are verified with 3-D time stepping finite-element method. Finally, the prototype of the studied AFR is constructed and tested. Good agreement between simulation and experimental results confirms the... 

Among position sensors, resolvers are superior from reliability point of view. However, obtaining lower output voltage harmonics and simple manufacturing process is a challenge in the design and optimization of resolvers. In this paper, a metaheuristic optimization algorithm is used to minimize total harmonic distortion of the output signals, and consequently the estimated position error in concentrated coil wound field resolvers. Meanwhile, to minimize total coil numbers, manufacturing costs, and complexity of the winding process, modified objective function and constraints are proposed. In this way, a modified winding function method is employed for performance analysis of the axial flux... 

Resolvers, due to their robust structure, are widely used in automation systems. The need for accurate position estimation beside the precise control of present PM motors, persuade machine designers to select a resolver with high pole numbers. By the aid of concentrated winding topologies high pole numbers is accessible. Among different topologies of concentrated windings fractional slot (FS) type has been focused by a lot of researches. FS concentrated winding (FSCW) offers high pole number under limited slots, identical on tooth coils, short end winding, and compact design. However, depending on the topology, there are major drawbacks, such as magnetic noises, high sub-harmonics, high... 

Direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous generators enjoy numerous advantages including improved reliability, low maintenance, long life, and developed performance characteristics. In recent years, many researchers have worked on these generators to enhance their performance, especially for the wind turbine application. The focus of this paper is on the development of a step-by-step method for the design of a permanent magnet synchronous generator. Then, the winding function method is used to model the generator and calculate its output characteristics analytically. The analytical results of the designed generator are validated using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and it is demonstrated that... 

In this paper, we present a randomized LOCAL constant approximation factor algorithm for minimum dominating set (MDS) problem and minimum total dominating set (MTDS) problem in graphs. The approximation factor of this algorithm for planar graphs with no 4-cycles is 18 and 9 for MDS and MTDS problems, respectively. © 2020 Owner/Author  

This paper is aimed at investigating some computational aspects of different isoperimetric problems on weighted trees. In this regard, we consider different connectivity parameters called minimum normalized cuts/isoperimetric numbers defined through taking the minimum of the maximum or the mean of the normalized outgoing flows from a set of subdomains of vertices, where these subdomains constitute a partition/subpartition. We show that the decision problem for the case of taking k-partitions and the maximum (called the max normalized cut problem NCP^M), and the other two decision problems for the mean version (referred to as IPP^m and NCP^m) are NP-complete problems for weighted trees. On... 

For a set of n disjoint line segments S in R2, the visibility counting problem (VCP) is to preprocess S such that the number of visible segments in S from a query point p can be computed quickly. For this configuration, the visibility testing problem (VTP) is to test whether p sees a fixed segment s. These problems can be solved in logarithmic query time by using O(n4) preprocessing time and space. In this paper, we approximately solve this problem using quadratic preprocessing time and space. Our methods are superior to current approximation algorithms in terms of both approximation factor and preprocessing cost. In this paper, we propose a 2-approximation algorithm for the VCP using at... 

In real applications, there are situations where we need to model some problems based on uncertain data. This leads us to define an uncertain model for some classical geometric optimization problems and propose algorithms to solve them. The assigned version of the k-center problem for n uncertain points in a metric space is studied in this paper. The main approach is to replace each uncertain point with a clever choice of a certain point. We argue that the k-center solution for these certain replacements of our uncertain points, is a good constant approximation factor for the original uncertain k-center problem. This approach enables us to present fast and simple algorithms that give...