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Reaction thrusters (RTs) are used as an alternative to momentum exchange devices when disturbance torques exceed the control authority of momentum exchange devices. The reaction control system (RCS) can employ some rocket thrusters to provide attitude control during the thrusting or coast phase. Within the control loop, the RCS's target could be either achieving and keeping a certain attitude or controlling the rate of an attitude change. In the coast phase, some tasks such as preacceleration, settling of liquid propellant, damping of structural vibrations, providing a velocity increment to separate stages and payloads, and carrying out orbital and nonorbital maneuvers may be included in its... 

Recent developments in the space industry and the great tendency to define efficient, precise and low cost missions are the main reasons for the growing interest in satellites formation flight. Regarding the aforementioned, the study of multiple satellites control methods is the subject of the present paper. In this paper, two linear robust control strategies are applied to position control system of certain satellites in the virtual structure formation flight. The proposed controllers are designed considering different parametric uncertainties such as semimajor axis and eccentricity changes as well as some disturbances like second term of gravitational acceleration function (j2) and drag... 

High-impedance faults (HIFs) on distribution systems create unique challenges to protection engineers. HIFs do not produce enough fault current to be detected by conventional overcurrent relays or fuses. A method for HIF detection based on the nonlinear behaviour of current waveforms is presented. Using this method, HIFs can be distinguished successfully from other similar waveforms such as nonlinear load currents, secondary current of saturated current transformers and inrush currents. A wavelet multi-resolution signal decomposition method is used for feature extraction. Extracted features are fed to an adaptive neural fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) for identification and classification.... 

Feed-in tariff (FiT) is one of the most efficient ways that many governments throughout the world use to stimulate investment in renewable energies (REs) technology. For governments, financial management of the policy could be challenging as it needs a considerable amount of budget to support RE producers during the long remuneration period. In this paper, it has been illuminated that the early growth of REs capacity could be a temporary boost. And the socio-economic structure of the system will backlash the policy if some social mechanisms are not considered. Social tolerance for paying REs tax and potential investors’ trust emanated from budget-related mechanisms -which have rarely been... 

Current-transformer (CT) saturation threatens accurate discrimination between internal fault current and magnetizing inrush current of a transformer and endangers the proper operation of a differential relay. Thus, compensation of CT saturation could substantially improve the performance and security of transformer differential relays. So far, almost all of the technical literature in this field has focused exclusively on fault current compensation. However, this paper proposes an efficient compensation algorithm to reconstruct the fault and inrush currents which are distorted by CT saturation. Some of the attractive features of the proposed method are its accuracy, fast response time,... 

Current-transformer (CT) saturation causes severe distortion in the measured current waveform which may lead to maloperation of the protective devices. This paper proposes a low-cost, power-electronic device to prevent the CT from saturation. The proposed compensator is inserted in series with the relay in the CT secondary circuit and acts as a controlled voltage source (CVS). The proposed CVS generates a time-varying voltage to cancel the voltage developed across the CT burden; therefore, the CT magnetic flux remains almost constant and undistorted during the power system transients. It will be shown that this device can precisely compensate fault current, inrush current, and other probable... 

In this paper a reliability model for power transformer protection is proposed. The model is an extension of a previously proposed Markov model for transmission line protection. Optimum routine test and self checking intervals of the power transformer protection system are determined using the extended Markov model. © 2006 IEEE  

To avoid saturation of a protective current transformer (CT) operating under an autoreclosing scheme, the CT size should be chosen much higher than a similar CT operating under a single-step fault clearing scheme. The main reason for this significant difference is that the residual flux (caused by the first stage of the fault) cannot be noticeably reduced during the deadtime interval of the reclosing process and, therefore, the occurrence of a subsequent fault can extremely saturate the CT. In this paper, a low-cost, low-power electronic device is developed and introduced to demagnetize the CT under the reclosing deadtime interval. It will be shown that by using this device, the required... 

Protection system malfunction play a significant role in the sequence of events leading to power system blackouts. This paper describes power system reliability evaluation incorporating protection system failures. A reliability model is used in order to determine the impact of protection system failure on power system reliability. The mechanism and scheme of protection and their hidden failure are analyzed based on their contribution to the cascading outage after occurrence of a fault. A number of reliability indices such as LOLP, EENS and ECI are calculated to describe the impact of protection system failures on reliability of power system. © 2005 IEEE  

Implementation of Distribution Automation (DA) in electric power distribution systems can result in customer satisfaction with improved reliability, consistent quality and high-tech services. Loop Restoration Strategy (LRS) is a special DA method in the feeder level which is used by electric utilities to improve distribution system reliability. The effects of the implemented LRS on the reliability indices of a given distribution system mainly depend on its Automatic Control System (ACS). Selecting the type of ACS of LRS by electric utilities relies on the level of improvement required at load points and system oriented reliability indices. A step by step evaluation procedure is proposed in... 

Loop restoration scheme (LRS) is a special feeder automation (FA) scheme, which is used by utilities to improve distribution system reliability. The LRS is controlled and managed by its automatic control system (ACS). The impacts on distribution system reliability indices of implementing LRS mainly depend on the type of its ACS. Two common types of ACS of LRS are presented and used in this study. Successful operation of ACS is dependent on the protection and automatic control functions of switching devices of LRS. Different failure modes of these switching devices can therefore affect the procedure of ACS in fault detecting, isolating and service restoration. The impacts of failure of... 

This study presents experimental and analytical fatigue frameworks for the dynamic fatigue life prediction of nonlinear mechanical systems under hyperchaotic oscillations. Fatigue in aluminium notched beams under hyperchaotic/chaotic vibrations is studied using a time-based analytical model. The fatigue lives obtained by the analytical model provided satisfactory correlations with those acquired by the dynamic fatigue experiments conducted on cracked aluminium beams. The model is then used to study the fatigue under Duffing chaotic, Duffing hyperchaotic, and periodic dynamic forcing. Results indicate that the classic linear cumulative damage rule delivers inaccurate high cycle fatigue (HCF)...