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Step-Up DC/DC Converters With Cascaded Quasi-Z-Source Network
PublicationW artykule zaprezentowano nowe rozwiązania dotyczące przekształtników energoelektronicznych DC-DC podwyższających napięcie z ogniw paliwowych. Istota rozwiązania zawiera się w zastosowaniu kaskadowo połączonych wejściowych obwodów pasywnych typu Quasi-Z, umozliwiających znaczne podwyższanie napięcia z wykorzystaniem stanu parcy zwarć gałęzi tranzystorowych przekształtnika.
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An Ultra-Low-Energy Analog Comparator for A/D Converters in CMOS Image Sensors
PublicationThis paper proposes a new solution of an ultra-low-energy analog comparator, dedicated to slope analog-to-digital converters (ADC), particularly suited for CMOS image sensors (CISs) featuring a large number of ADCs. For massively parallel imaging arrays, this number may be as high as tens-hundreds of thousands ADCs. As each ADC includes an analog comparator, the number of these comparators in CIS is always high. Detailed analysis...
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Direct modulation for conventional matrix converters using analytical signals and barycentric coordinates
PublicationThis paper proposes the generalized direct modulation for Conventional Matrix Converters (CMC) using the concept of analytical signals and barycentric coordinates. The paper proposes a novel approach to the Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) duty cycle computing, which allows faster prototyping of direct control algorithms. The explanation of the new idea using analytical considerations demonstrating the principles of direct voltage...
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Niskonapięciowy filtr analogowy CMOS wykorzystujący konwerter ujemnoimpedancyjny
PublicationA low-voltage 3-order low-pass CMOS filter based on the novel current inversion type negative impedance converter (CNIC) is presented. It shows a badwidth of 10 MHz at 400 uW power consumption and 2 V supply voltage when realized in a 0.35 um CMOS process.
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Application of an online judge & contester system in academic tuition
PublicationPraca zawiera opis systemu typu ''Online judge & contester'' o nazwie SPOJ, wykorzystywanego do zdalnej nauki programowania. Został on pomyślnie wdrożony w nauczaniu informatyki na Politechnice Gdańskiej. Omówiono zasadę działania i mechanizmy bezpieczeństwa systemu SPOJ. Przedstawiono wnioski z doświadczeń przy stosowaniu tego typu systemów w nauczaniu na etapie studiów 1. i 2. stopnia w ciągu ostatnich czterech lat.
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Application of an online judge & contester system in academic tuition
PublicationPraca zawiera opis systemu typu ''Online judge & contester'' o nazwie SPOJ, wykorzystywanego do zdalnej nauki programowania. Został on pomyślnie wdrożony w nauczaniu informatyki na Politechnice Gdańskiej. Omówiono zasadę działania i mechanizmy bezpieczeństwa systemu SPOJ. Przedstawiono wnioski z doświadczeń przy stosowaniu tego typu systemów w nauczaniu na etapie studiów 1. i 2. stopnia w ciągu ostatnich czterech lat.
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Accurate modeling of quasi-resonant inverter fed IM drive
PublicationIn this paper wide-band modeling methodology of a parallel quasi-resonant dc link inverter (PQRDCLI) fed induction machine (IM) is presented. The modeling objective is early-design stage prediction of conductive electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions of the considered converter fed IM drive system. Operation principles of the selected topology of PQRDCLI feeding IM drive are given. Modeling of the converter drive system is...
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A Canonical Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter. A look at how the historical SC synthesis problem is getting solved
PublicationWe reconsider a solution to the historical problem in switched capacitor (SC) DC-DC converter synthesis. Specifically, we retackle the problem of constructing an SC twophase network realizing arbitrary voltage conversion ratio within rational bounds defined. Theoretical foundations are available in our earlier research [3] where a nonconstructive proof of existence was given. We briefly review and comment on known circuit solutions...
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NPC assessment in insulated DC/DC converter topologies using SiC MOSFETs for Power Electronic Traction Transformer
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Experimental EMI study of a 3-phase 100kW 1200V Dual Active Bridge Converter using SiC MOSFETs
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High Efficiency Dual-Active-Bridge Converter with Triple-Phase-Shift Control for Battery Charger of Electric Vehicles
PublicationAn optimal modulation scheme with triple-phase-shift (TPS) control could increase the efficiency in the entire load range for a dual-active-bridge (DAB) converter under wide output voltage range conditions. Therefore, this study proposes a convergent approach to TPS mode selection, coupled with an optimal modulation scheme, ensuring the circuit’s efficiency over the entire range in the realm of a high-power and high-efficiency...
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Analytical Estimation of Power Losses in a Dual Active Bridge Converter Controlled with a Single-Phase Shift Switching Scheme
PublicationMicro-grid solutions around the world rely on the operation of DC/DC power conver- sion systems. The most commonly used solution for these topologies is the use of a dual active bridge (DAB) converter. Increasing the efficiency and reliability of this system contributes to the improvement in the stability of the entire microgrid. This paper discussed an analytical method of energy efficiency and power loss estimation in a single...
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Brachytherapy boost improves survival and decreases risk of developing distant metastases compared to external beam radiotherapy alone in intermediate and high risk group prostate cancer patients
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Variable Speed AC Drives with Inverter Output Filters
PublicationThe advance of variable speed drives systems (VSDs) engineering highlights the need of specific technical guidance provision by electrical machines and drives manufacturers, so that such applications can be properly designed to present advantages in terms of both energy efficiency and expenditure. This book presents problems and solutions related to inverter-fed electrical motors. Practically orientated, the book describes the...
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Comprehensive distortion compensation of grid-connected inverter currents
PublicationThe paper presents a comprehensive approach to the compensation of phase current distortion of grid-connected power inverters. Four different sources of current distortion are addressed: imperfect grid synchronization caused by the distortion in the grid voltages, voltage fluctuations in the dc link, time delays in the estimation of grid voltages, and the distortion of inverter output voltages due to dead-time effects and related...
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Computer simulation of induction heating system with series inverter
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A Five-Leg Three-Level Dual-Output Inverter
PublicationClassical 3-level dual-output inverter, 3-L DOI, involves two similar 3-level inverters that provides a pair of 3-phase output voltages with same or different frequencies from common input voltage source. Flexibility of either operation of the constituting inverters is evident in this DOI; but total duplication of power switches is a major drawback. State of the art coupled 3-L DOIs reduce this drawback by providing series-shared...
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Control of Sensorless Electric Drive with Inverter Output Filter
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono układ sterowanie silnikiem asynchronicznym pracyjący bez pomiaru prędkości obrotowej. Zastosowano nowy rodzaj obserwatora prędkości obrotowej będący połączeniem liniowego obserwatora oraz obserwatora zakłóceń. Jako zakłócenia potraktowano siłę elektromotoryczną indukowaną w silniku. Aby umożliwić poprawną pracę układu z filtrem wyjściowym falownika zastosowano symulator dynamiki filtru do wyznaczenia prądów...
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A Direct Modulation for Matrix Converters based on the Onecycle Atomic operation developed in Verilog HDL.
PublicationThis paper presents a fast direct Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) algorithm for the Conventional Matrix Converters (CMC) developed in Verilog Hardware Description language (HDL). All PWM duty cycle calculations are performed in one cycle by an atomic operation designed as a digital module using FPGA basic blocks. The algorithm can be extended to any number of output phase. The improved version of the discontinuous Direct Analytic...
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FPGA-Based System for Electromagnetic Interference Evaluation in Random Modulated DC/DC Converters
PublicationField-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) provides the possibility to design new “electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) friendly” control techniques for power electronic converters. Such control techniques use pseudo-random modulators (RanM) to control the converter switches. However, some issues connected with the FPGA-based design of RanM, such as matching the range of fixed-point numbers, might be challenging. The modern programming...
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Application of Analytic Signal and Smooth Interpolation in Pulse Width Modulation for Conventional Matrix Converters
PublicationThe paper proposes an alternative and novel approach to the PWM duty cycles computation for Conventional Matrix Converters (CMC) fed by balanced, unbalanced or non–sinusoidal AC voltage sources. The presented solution simplifies the prototyping of direct modulation algorithms. PWM duty cycles are calculated faster by the smooth interpolation technique, using only vector coordinates, without trigonometric functions and angles. Both...
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The Conceptual Research over Low-Switching Modulation Strategy for Matrix Converters with the Coupled Reactors
PublicationIn this paper, different Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) strategies for operating with a low-switching frequency, a topology that combines Conventional Matrix Converters (CMCs), and Coupled Reactors (CRs) are presented and discussed. The principles of the proposed strategies are first discussed by a conceptual analysis and later validated by simulation. The paper shows how the combination of CMCs and CRs could be of special interest...
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Conducted EMI mitigation in switched mode DC-DC converters by spread spectrum techniques
PublicationW artykule przedstawiono skuteczność technik rozpraszania widma do ograniczenia emisji przewodzonej EMI dla szeregowego przerywacza napięcia. Badania porównawcze zostały wykonane laboratoryjnie za pomocą generatora funkcyjnego, miernika zaburzeń i sieci sztucznej. Analiza otrzymanych wyników wykazała, szczególnie korzystne do 20 dB, ograniczenie charakterystyki napięcia emisji przewodzonej dla losowej modulacji częstotliuwości...
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Feasibility study of inductor coupling in three-level neutral-point-clamped quasi-Z-source DC/AC converter
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Laboratory Load Model Based on 150 kVA Power Frequency Converter and Simulink Real-Time – Concept, mplementation, Experiments
PublicationFirst section of the paper provides technical specification of laboratory load model basing on 150 kVA power frequency converter and Simulink Real-Time platform. Assumptions, as well as control algorithm structure is presented. Theoretical considerations based on criteria which load types may be simulated using discussed laboratory setup, are described. As described model contains transformer with thyristor-controlled tap changer,...
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A 100 kW 1.2 kV 20 kHz DC-DC converter prototype based on the Dual Active Bridge topology
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Switching Regulation in the Control of 5-Phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Fed by 3×5 Direct Matrix Converter
PublicationMatrix converter is an AC-AC direct power converter comprising of an array of bi- directional switches. It does not require an intermediate DC-link and allows sinusoidal output waveforms with varying amplitudes and frequencies. The configuration of these bi- directional switches decides the number of inputs and outputs...
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Hybrid stepless distribution transformer with four-quadrant AC/DC/AC converter at low voltage side - simulation tests
PublicationThe article presents the work of the stepless hybrid distribution transformer (HT), as an alternative to the so far applied Automatic Voltage Regulator (AVR) solutions, used to control the voltage in the power system in terms of the fundamental harmonic. The HT is a combination of a conventional distribution transformer and an AC/DC/AC converter connected in series with the transformers secondary winding. In the work the basic...
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Lagrangian model of an isolated dc-dc converter with a 3-phase medium frequency transformer accounting magnetic cross saturation
PublicationThis article presents a nonlinear equivalent circuit model of an isolated dc-dc converter with a 3-phase medium frequency transformer. The model takes into account the magnetic cross saturation of the 3-phase core-type magnetic circuit. The model is suitable in detailed electromagnetic transient simulations of power systems involving isolated dc-dc converters. The model is developed using the Lagrange energy method. It involves...
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Jednofazowy falownik napięcia z aktywnym obwodem odsprzęgającym
PublicationZnanym zagadnieniem w jednofazowych falownikach napięcia jest pobieranie ze źródła napięcia stałego składowej przemiennej o częstotliwości dwukrotnie większej od częstotliwości generowanej przez falownik. Jednym z rozwiązań problemu jest stosowanie dużej baterii kondensatorów elektrolitycznych, lecz lepszym sposobem z punktu widzenia niezawodności i gęstości mocy przekształtnika jest stosowanie aktywnych układów odsprzęgania mocy....
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Potential of silicon carbide MOSFETs in the DC/DC converters for future HVDC offshore wind farms
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An Extended Control of the Input Angle for Matrix Converters Connected with the Non-Unity Power Factor Loads.
PublicationThis paper proposes a novel PWM modulation algorithm for Multiphase Conventional Matrix Converters (MCMC), with 3 inputs and k outputs, using the transfer function of the load angle. The proposed approach extends the range of power angle control at the input during the operation with a maximum voltage transfer ratio. The proposed concept is based on the Direct Analytic Voltage PWM (DAV--PWM) modulation with an elliptical trajectory...
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imPlatelet classifier: image‐converted RNA biomarker profiles enable blood‐based cancer diagnostics
PublicationLiquid biopsies offer a minimally invasive sample collection, outperforming traditional biopsies employed for cancer evaluation. The widely used material is blood, which is the source of tumor-educated platelets. Here, we developed the imPlatelet classifier, which converts RNA-sequenced platelet data into images in which each pixel corresponds to the expression level of a certain gene. Biological knowledge from the Kyoto Encyclopedia...
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A New Approach to the PWM Modulation for the Multiphase Matrix Converters Supplying Loads with Open-End Winding.
PublicationThis article presents three variants of the Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) for the Double Square Multiphase type Conventional Matrix Converters (DSM-CMC) supplying loads with the open-end winding. The first variant of PWM offers the ability to obtain zero value of the common-mode voltage at the load's terminals and applies only six switches within the modulation period. The second proposal archives for less Total Harmonic Distortion...
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An Optimal Power Point Tracking Algorithm in a Solar PV Generation System
PublicationThe non-linearity in I-V characteristics of a PV panel requires to be operated at knee point to extract maximum power. In order to operate the panel at optimal point, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is employed in the control structure. The main objective of MPP tracking is to keep the operation at knee point of I-V characteristics under varying condition of temperature and solar insolation. Under non uniform solar...
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Solutions of inverter systems in Shore-to-Ship Power supply systems
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Selective Harmonic Elimination PWM For a Cascaded Multi-level Inverter
PublicationThis paper deals with the selective harmonic elimination pulse width modulation (SHE-PWM) technique. This technique is used for the elimination of selected dominant low order harmonics in the multi-level inverter output voltage. The presence of these harmonics is the essential drawback of such kind of inverters; especially when it is used for the control of different AC drivers. The SHE-PWM is based...
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Sensorless Control of Induction Machine Supplied by Current Source Inverter
PublicationThe paper describes the voltage control technique of induction machines supplied by a current source inverter. The control system is based on proposed new multi-scalar variables, which are named “r.” The control system contains the output filter capacitor's model. In the sensorless control system the Z type backstepping speed observer was applied. The mathematical dependences are confirmed by simulation and experimental research.
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Sensorless Fault Detection of Induction Motor with Inverter Output Filter
PublicationThe paper presents the problem of monitoring and fault detection of a sensorless voltage inverter fed squirrel cage induction motor with LC filter. The detection is based on load torque estimation of the investigated torque transmission system. The load torque is calculated besides the computation of other variables that are mandatory for sensorless drive operation such as rotor flux and speed. The implemented LC filter smooths...
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Heat calculations for water-cooled radiators of the inverter for induction heating
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Five-Phase EV Drive with Switched-Autotransformer (LCCAt) Inverter
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Asynchronous motor nonlinear control with inverter output LC filter
PublicationFiltr wyjściowy falownika jest stosowany w napędach elektrycznych prądu przemiennego o regulowanej prędkości w celu wygładzenia przebiegów prądów i napięć zasilających silnik. Zastosowanie filtru utrudnia realizację precyzyjnych metod sterowania silnikami, szczególnie w przypadku napędów bezczujnikowych (tj. bez czujnika prędkości obrotowej wału silnika). Ponieważ, ze względów praktycznych, nie stosuje się pomiarów prądów i napięć...
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Destructive Consequences of PWM Inverter Feeding for Traction AC Motors
PublicationThe electric traction drives with an AC motor fed by a frequency converter are used more and more often nowadays. The most significant side effects, of a converter's output voltage forming PWM method for AC motor windings, are steep voltage changes, which can initiate several destructive phenomena. The paper presents the adverse influence of a converter common mode voltage on the motor windings' increased voltage exposure and the...
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Over-Voltage Studies in Inverter Fed Induction Motor Drives
PublicationW pracy przedstawiono metodę identyfikacji pojemności pasożytniczych uzwojeń silników asynchronicznych uwzględniającą ich rozłożony charakter. Przedstawiony szerokopasmowy model obwodowy uzwojeń silnika asynchronicznego pozwala na modelowanie zjawisk przepięciowych w silnikach asynchronicznych, w szczególności zasilanych poprzez przekształtniki energoelektroniczne. Zaproponowana metoda analizy umożliwia również określanie składowych...
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Sensorless Control of Induction Motor Supplied by Current Source Inverter
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Solutions of inverter systems in Shore-to-Ship Power supply systems
PublicationThe article presents a clearly formulated need for installing S2SP (Shore to Ship Power) systems, in particular Medium Voltage (MV) systems, along with certain solutions of modern inverter systems used in those systems. Requirements and basic configurations of S2SP systems are discussed, focusing in particular on capabilities of the S2SP system with DC distribution busbar. Moreover, on the background of the executing assumptions...
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Smart grid technologies in electric traction: Mini inverter station
PublicationThe growing number of trams and trolleybuses equipped with recuperation systems contribute to the increase in the amount of energy recovered during braking. It raises questions about the possibility of its usage. One of such possibilities is the use of smart grid technology. The paper presents a case study of the use of braking energy in the trolleybus system for external loads by implementing mini inverter stations. Analysis is...
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Three-Level Z-Source Neutral-Point-Clamped Inverter
PublicationThe paper describes construction and the principles of activity, attributes and potential of 3-phase Z-type inverters. The paper focuses on the basic system and suggested 3-level system of a NPC type Z-inverter, which was elaborated by authors. Simplified theoretical analysis of both systems has been verified by detailed simulation research. In the last section of the article, the possibility to build multilevel Z- inverters based...
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Advanced current regulated PWM inverter with simplified load model.
PublicationW artykule przedstawionio nowy regulator prądu stojana silnika asynchronicznego zasilanego z falownika napięcia. Regulator wykorzystuje obliczenia siły elektromotorycznej silnika. Rozważonio wpływ zmian parametrów silnika na działanie regulatora. Wykorzystano uproszczony model silnika bez uwzględnienienia rezystancji stojana. Zastosowano stałą częstotliwość próbkowania prądu. Układ zrealizowania w programie symulacyjnym oraz na...
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Control of voltage source inverter without dead-time effects.
PublicationW artykule zaproponowano metodę dokładnego generowania wektora napięcia o małej amplitudzie w falowniku napięcia. Zaprezentowano metodę modulacji szerokości impulsów, w której wyeliminowano koniecznosć wprowadzania czasów martwych oraz kompensacji ich wpływu na napięcie wyjsciowe przekształtnika