Oceanography Radar System Wera: Features, Accuracy, Reliability And Limitations,
2010
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Oceanography Radar System Wera: Features, Accuracy, Reliability And Limitations, Thomas Helzel, Matthias Kniephoff, Leif Petersen
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
The WERA system (WavE RAdar) is a shore based remote sensing system to monitor ocean surface currents, waves and wind direction. This long range, high resolution monitoring system based on short radio wave radar technology. The vertical polarised electromagnetic wave is coupled to the conductive ocean surface and follows the curvature of the earth. This over the horizon oceanography radar can pick up back-scattered signals from the rough ocean surface (Bragg effect) from ranges of up to 200 km. The physical background, technical concept and environmental boundary conditions are explained. Results for various installations from all over the world demonstrates …
Nonlinear Scattering At Hf: Prospects For Exploitation In Oth Radar Systems,
2010
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Nonlinear Scattering At Hf: Prospects For Exploitation In Oth Radar Systems, Stuart Anderson
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
HF skywave `over-the-horizon' radars experience exceptionally high levels of clutter from the earth's surface as a consequence of their `look-down' propagation geometry. While Doppler processing is effective in separating aircraft echoes from the clutter, thereby enabling detection, the same does not always hold for slow moving targets. In particular, ship echoes occupy the same region of Doppler space as the sea clutter, so the likelihood of target echo obscuration is high. By exploiting the known dependence of the characteristic spectral form of the clutter Doppler spectrum on radar frequency and other parameters, HF radars can maximise the prospects for detectability …
Corrective Action Planning Considering Facts Allocation And Optimal Load Shedding Using Bacterial Foraging Oriented By Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm, Rahmat Allah Hooshmand, Mostafa Ezatabadi
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Reactive power planning (RPP) involves optimal allocation and determination of the type and size of new reactive power (VAR) supplies to satisfy voltage constraints during normal and contingency states. The RPP issue is in fact an optimization of large scale mixed integer nonlinear programming problem, so it is proper to use an evolutionary algorithm to solve the problem. In this paper, in order to solve the RPP problem for corrective action of power systems, the bacterial foraging (BF) oriented by particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm (BF-PSO) is proposed. In the algorithm, the VAR control has been carried out by using …
Programmable Design And Implementation Of A Chaotic System Utilizing Multiple Nonlinear Functions,
2010
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Programmable Design And Implementation Of A Chaotic System Utilizing Multiple Nonlinear Functions, Recai̇ Kiliç, Fatma Yildirim Dalkiran
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
In addition to exhibiting a rich variety of bifurcation and chaos via tuning parameters, a chaotic system introduced by Sprott can be modeled and realized with a fixed main system block and many different changeable nonlinear function blocks such as piecewise-linear function, cubic function and other trigonometric functions. This system is very suitable for implementing a programmable chaos generator according to its changeable nonlinearity. This paper presents a FPAA (Field Programmable Analog Array)-based programmable implementation of this system. Nonlinear function blocks used in this chaotic system are modeled with FPAA programming and a model is rapidly changed for realizing other …
The Analysis Of A Semiconductor Single Asymmetric And Symmetric Step-Index Laser For Even And Odd Fields By Alpha Method,
2010
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The Analysis Of A Semiconductor Single Asymmetric And Symmetric Step-Index Laser For Even And Odd Fields By Alpha Method, Mustafa Temi̇z, Mehmet Ünal
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
In this work, semiconductor step-index single waveguide has been analyzed by Alpha Method. A requested quantity of wave guide can be obtained in terms of normalized propagation constant, which is represented by alpha belonging to active region. Based on this method, structural properties of the material containing any requested quantity of the waveguide is theoretically calculated, when the width of the active region, the refractive indices of the regions and the wavelength are given. In the TE mode some important parameters, such as the propagation constants for regions of the semiconductor step-index single waveguide, the wave numbers, the effective index …
Formation Control Of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Using Implicit Polynomials And Elliptic Fourier Descriptors,
2010
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Formation Control Of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Using Implicit Polynomials And Elliptic Fourier Descriptors, Yeşi̇m Hümay Esi̇n, Mustafa Ünel
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
This paper presents a novel method for the formation control of a group of nonholonomic mobile robots using implicit and parametric descriptions of the desired formation shape. The formation control strategy employs implicit polynomial (IP) representations to generate potential fields for achieving the desired formation and the elliptical Fourier descriptors (EFD) to maintain the formation once achieved. Coordination of the robots is modeled by linear springs between each robot and its two nearest neighbors. Advantages of this new method are increased flexibility in the formation shape, scalability to different swarm sizes and easy implementation. The shape formation control is first …
A Novel Algorithm For Sensorless Motion Control Of Flexible Structures,
2010
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A Novel Algorithm For Sensorless Motion Control Of Flexible Structures, Islam Shoukry Mohammed Khalil, Emrah Deni̇z Kunt, Asif Sabanovic
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
This article demonstrates the validity of using an actuator as a single platform for measurements during a motion control assignment of flexible systems kept free from any kind of measurement. System acceleration level dynamics, parameters and interaction forces with the environment are coupled in an incident reaction torque that naturally rises when a flexible system is subjected to an action imposed by an attached actuator to the system. This work attempts to decouple each of the system parameters out of the incident coupled reaction torque at the interface point of the actuator with the flexible system by way of measurements …
Simultaneous Rotor And Stator Resistance Estimation Of Squirrel Cage Induction Machine With A Single Extended Kalman Filter,
2010
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Simultaneous Rotor And Stator Resistance Estimation Of Squirrel Cage Induction Machine With A Single Extended Kalman Filter, Eşref Emre Özsoy, Meti̇n Gökaşan, Ovsanna Seta Estrada
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Accurate knowledge of rotor and stator resistance variations in a squirrel-cage induction motor (SCIM) is crucial for the performance of sensorless control of SCIM over a wide range of speeds. This study seeks to address this issue with a single Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) based solution, which is also known to have accuracy limitations when a high number of parameters/states are estimated with a limited number of inputs. To this aim, different from the author's previous approach in operating several EKFs in an alternating manner (the so-called braided EKF), an 8^{th}-order EKF is implemented in this study to test its …
Experimental Investigation Of Shaft Transducerless Speed And Position Control Of Ac Induction And Interior Permanent Magnet Motors, Ömer Göksu, Ahmet Masum Hava
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
In order to drive AC motors with high efficiency and high motion performance, and to provide accurate speed/position control, motor shaft speed and/or position feedback is required. For this purpose, usually transducers (encoder, tachogenerator, resolver, etc.) are installed on the shaft. However, transducers are not preferred in most of the applications since they increase the cost and decrease the reliability of the drive due to their failure prone structure and connections. In such applications, the speed and/or position information of the motor is obtained by estimation methods without using shaft transducers. In this work, motor types and speed/position estimation methods …
Precise Position Control Using Shape Memory Alloy Wires,
2010
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Precise Position Control Using Shape Memory Alloy Wires, Burcu Dönmez, Bülent Özkan, Fevzi̇ Suat Kadioğlu
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are active metallic ``smart'' materials used as actuators and sensors in high technology smart systems [1]. The term shape memory refers to ability of certain materials to ``remember'' a shape, even after rather severe deformations: once deformed at low temperatures, these materials will stay deformed until heated, whereupon they will return to their original, pre-deformed ``learned'' shape [2]. This property can be used to generate motion and/or force in electromechanical devices and micro-machines. However, the accuracy of SMA actuators is severely limited by their highly nonlinear stimulus-response characteristics. In this work, modeling, simulation, and experimental efforts …
Design Of Optimal Sampling Times For Pharmacokinetic Trials Via Spline Approximation,
2010
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Design Of Optimal Sampling Times For Pharmacokinetic Trials Via Spline Approximation, Musa Hakan Asyali
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Understanding and comparison of different drug delivery formulations are based on pharmacokinetic parameters (PKP) such as area under curve, maximum concentration, and time to reach maximum concentration. Accurate estimation of PKP is of critical importance in capturing drug absorption and elimination characteristics and in reaching bioequivalence decisions. Since PKP are estimated from a limited number of samples, the timing of the samples directly influences the accuracy of estimation. Optimization of the sampling times may not only increase the accuracy of PKP estimation, but also reduce the number of samples to be drawn, which in turn lessens the inconvenience to the …
Fuzzy Adaptive Neural Network Approach To Path Loss Prediction In Urban Areas At Gsm-900 Band,
2010
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Fuzzy Adaptive Neural Network Approach To Path Loss Prediction In Urban Areas At Gsm-900 Band, Türkan Erbay Dalkiliç, Berna Yeşi̇m Hanci, Ayşen Apaydin
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
This paper presents the results of the Adaptive-Network Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) for the prediction of path loss in a specific urban environment. A new algorithm based ANFIS for tuning the path loss model is introduced in this work. The performance of the path loss model which is obtained from proposed algorithm is compared to the Bertoni-Walfisch model, which is one of the best studied for propagation analysis involving buildings. This comparison is based on the mean square error between predicted and measured values. According to the indicated error criterion, the errors related to the predictions that are obtained …
Adaptive Hysteresis Band Control For Constant Switching Frequency In Dtc Induction Machine Drives,
2010
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Adaptive Hysteresis Band Control For Constant Switching Frequency In Dtc Induction Machine Drives, H. İbrahi̇m Okumuş, Mustafa Aktaş
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
It is fairly well known that direct torque control (DTC) exhibits fast dynamic torque response, a property that originates in the fact that torque and flux is directly controlled by instantaneous space voltage vector, unlike field-oriented control. For this reason direct torque control gradually has been used in the field, eliciting quick response and high efficiency since its introduction in the mid-1980s. Conventional fixed band hysteresis control has several problems. One of these is variable switching frequency, which causes serious problems in DTC. In this paper, an adaptive hysteresis band control strategy is proposed, where the hysteresis band is controlled …
Artificial Neural Network Based Chaotic Generator For Cryptology,
2010
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Artificial Neural Network Based Chaotic Generator For Cryptology, İlker Dalkiran, Kenan Danişman
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Chaotic systems are sensitive to initial conditions, system parameters and topological transitivity and these properties are also remarkable for cryptanalysts. Noise like behavior of chaotic systems is the main reason of using these systems in cryptology. However some properties of chaotic systems such as synchronization, fewness of parameters etc. cause serious problems for cryptology. In this paper, to overcome disadvantages of chaotic systems, the dynamics of Chua's circuit namely x, y and z were modeled using Artificial Neural Network (ANN). ANNs have some distinctive capabilities like learning from experiences, generalizing from a few data and nonlinear relationship between inputs and …
The Effect Of The Channel Reliability Factor In The Map Algorithm On Turbo Code Performance In Bluetooth Systems,
2010
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The Effect Of The Channel Reliability Factor In The Map Algorithm On Turbo Code Performance In Bluetooth Systems, Sali̇m Kahveci̇, İsmai̇l Kaya
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
The effects of the channel reliability factor on the performance of turbo decoders that use a maximum a posteriori probability algorithm are investigated for wireless communication fading channels, such as Bluetooth systems. The channel reliability factor is related to the channel signal-to-noise ratio. For various values of the channel reliability factor, the obtained performance curves of the maximum a posteriori probability algorithm are given for the case of DMx Bluetooth data packets. When the channel reliability factor increases, the bit-error-rate performance of the DMx Bluetooth data packets also increases over fading channels.
Relativistic Electromagnetism In Rotating Media,
2010
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Relativistic Electromagnetism In Rotating Media, Pierre Hillion
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
This work concerns relativistic electromagnetism in a cylindrical Frenet-Serret frame. The tensor formalism of Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic fields in a vacuum is first developed in terms of cylindrical coordinates and afterwards applied to a rotating frame using the relativistic Trocheris-Takeno description of rotations. The metric ds^2 = g_{\mu \nu} dx^{\mu} dx^{\nu} of this frame is then obtained to find the determinant g of the g_{\mu \nu} matrix intervening in the relativistic Maxwell's equations, where the Greek indices take on the values 1,2,3,4. The propagation of harmonic cylindrical waves in rotating media is analyzed and it is shown that these …
The Effect Of Heat On The Metallurgical Structure And B-H Characteristic Of (Stator) Armature With Iron-Silicon Alloy In Electric Machines, Fevzi̇ Kentli̇, Ümi̇t Kemaletti̇n Terzi̇
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Coils in electric machines are varnished for insulation after winding. These varnished coils are formed in stiff construction in slots. Under heavy-duty operating conditions, all or part of some coils may be burnt or broken. Thermal method is one of several ways to remove the defective coils. In this method, current is passed through the defective coils by an autotransformer (variac) until all the varnish of the coils is burned. If all the coils are out of order, the varnish is burned by replacing the stator or armature in a burning room. Consequently, defective coils in the stator (armature) slots …
Radar Cross-Section (Rcs) Analysis Of High Frequency Surface Wave Radar Targets,
2010
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Radar Cross-Section (Rcs) Analysis Of High Frequency Surface Wave Radar Targets, Gonca Çakir, Levent Sevgi̇
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Realistic high frequency surface wave radar (HFSWR) targets are investigated numerically in terms of electromagnetic wave -- target interactions. Radar cross sections (RCS) of these targets are simulated via both the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and the Method of Moments (MoM). The virtual RCS prediction tool that was introduced in previous work is used for these investigations. The virtual tool automatically creates the discrete FDTD model of the target under investigation and performs the FDTD RCS analysis. It also automatically constructs a MoM wire grid model of the target; therefore, it is also possible to compare FDTD results against the …
New Approach Fpga-Based Implementation Of Discontinuous Svpwm},
2010
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New Approach Fpga-Based Implementation Of Discontinuous Svpwm}, Tole Sutikno, Auzani Jidin, Nik Rumzi Nik Idris
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
The discontinuous space vector pulse-width modulation (DSVPWM) is a well-known technique offering lower switching losses than continuous SVPWM. At the same, average switching frequency, or a switching frequency 1.5 times higher than utilized in continuous SVPWM, the discontinuous SVPWM results in lower current harmonic distortions than that obtained in continuous SVPWM at high modulation indices. This paper is concerned with the design and realization of new FPGA approach based a 5-segment discontinuous SVPWM operated at 40 kHz switching frequency. It will be shown that the implementation of the discontinuous SVPWM utilized in FPGA, to execute some complex tasks, is simplified …
Fault Detection And Identification For Voltage Sag State Estimation In Power Systems,
2010
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Fault Detection And Identification For Voltage Sag State Estimation In Power Systems, Jamal Beiza, Seyed Hossein Hosseinian, Behrooz Vahidi
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
This paper presents a novel approach for fault detection and identification in order to estimate voltage sag during a fault. One of the best approaches for voltage sag estimation is instantaneous voltage estimation. The approach uses traditional state estimation where redundant measurements are available. The proposed method is used to estimate voltage sag performance during a fault. At the fault duration, the grid topology is changed. In such a case the measurement matrix must be re-determined at the fault duration. The proposed approach is an efficient method for fault detection and identification which is based on residual analysis and topology …
