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A Comparative Study On Artificial Intelligence-Based Methods For Fault Detection, Classification, And Localization In Distribution Lines, Nanda Kumari

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In recent years, supervised machine learning (SML) has demonstrated its effectiveness in pattern recognition and outcome prediction within datasets. The objective of this research is to develop an algorithm that utilizes SML classification and regression equation capabilities to accurately classify and locate faults occurring in electricity distribution lines. The proposed algorithm takes the measured values of electrical current and voltage at one end of the distribution line as input data and outputs the type of fault. The algorithm evaluates its performance by simulating the IEEE 14-bus power system using MATLAB and generating various types of faults at different locations and …

การศึกษาจลนศาสตร์ไฟฟ้าของหยดน้ำในฉนวนเหลวภายใต้สนามไฟฟ้า, วิกานดา นันทนาวุฒิ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

วิทยานิพนธ์นี้ศึกษาจลนศาสตร์ไฟฟ้าของหยดน้ำที่อยู่ในฉนวนเหลว ได้แก่ การเสียรูปร่าง การเคลื่อนที่ การรวมตัว และการแยกตัว ด้วยการทดลองและการจำลองเชิงตัวเลขเพื่อพิจารณาปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อจลนศาสตร์ไฟฟ้าของหยดน้ำ. รูปแบบแรกที่ศึกษา คือ หยดน้ำอยู่บนอิเล็กโทรดโดยมีตัวกลางเป็นน้ำมันแร่และน้ำมันทานตะวัน. ผลการทดลองพบว่าการเสียรูปของหยดน้ำเพิ่มขึ้นตามสนามไฟฟ้า. การเสียรูปของหยดน้ำในน้ำมันทานตะวันมีค่าสูงกว่าเนื่องจากคุณสมบัติสภาพยอมสัมพัทธ์ที่สูงและความตึงผิวที่ต่ำของน้ำมัน. เมื่อสนามไฟฟ้าสูงถึงค่าวิกฤต การแยกตัวเกิดขึ้นที่บริเวณปลายแหลมของหยด. การจำลองสามารถแสดงการเสียรูปของหยดน้ำได้แม่นยำและทำนายค่าสนามไฟฟ้าวิกฤตได้. รูปแบบที่สอง คือ การรวมตัวของหยดในน้ำมันแร่และน้ำมันซิลิโคนกับผิวน้ำด้านล่าง. ผลการทดลองพบว่าประจุเพิ่มแรงไฟฟ้าที่กระทำกับหยดน้ำ ช่วยให้ประสิทธิภาพของกระบวนการเชื่อมรวมเพิ่มขึ้นในแง่ของเวลา. อย่างไรก็ตาม หยดน้ำที่มีประจุรวมตัวเพียงบางส่วนที่สนามไฟฟ้าต่ำกว่ากรณีที่ไม่มีประจุ. เมื่อสนามไฟฟ้าสูง หยดน้ำที่มีประจุในน้ำมันแร่ไม่รวมตัวกับผิวน้ำ หรือแตกตัวในระหว่างการเคลื่อนที่. พฤติกรรมดังกล่าวไม่เกิดขึ้นในน้ำมันซิลิโคน เนื่องจากความตึงผิวของน้ำมันมีค่าสูง ช่วยให้หยดน้ำรวมตัวได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ. การจำลองสามารถแสดงการเสียรูปของหยดน้ำที่มีและไม่มีประจุก่อนการรวมตัวได้ใกล้เคียงกับผลการทดลอง รวมทั้งแสดงการรวมตัวรูปแบบสมบูรณ์ของหยดน้ำได้. แม้ว่าการจำลองไม่สามารถแสดงพฤติกรรมอื่นเมื่อสนามไฟฟ้ามีค่าสูง เช่น การแยกตัวของหยดน้ำทุติยภูมิ การไม่รวมตัว หรือ การแตกตัว แต่ผลการจำลองแสดงให้เห็นว่าหยดน้ำในน้ำมันซิลิโคนมีเสถียรภาพดีกว่า ซึ่งเป็นไปในลักษณะเดียวกันกับการทดลอง.

Biomimetic Design, Modeling, And Adaptive Control Of Robotic Gripper For Optimal Grasping, Mushtaq Al-Mohammed

Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-2023

Grasping is an essential skill for almost every assistive robot. Variations in shape and/or weight of different objects involved in Activities of Daily Living (ADL) lead to complications, especially, when the robot is trying to grip novel objects for which it has no prior information –too much force will deform or crush the object while too little force will lead to slipping and possibly dropped objects. Thus, successful grasping requires the gripper to immobilize an object with the minimal force. In Chapter 2, we present the design, analysis, and experimental implementation of an adaptive control to facilitate 1-click grasping of …

Laptop Recycling Case Study: Estimating The Contained Value And Value Recovery Process Feasibility Of End-Of-Life Consumer Electronics, Zebulon Hart

Theses and Dissertations--Mining Engineering

Work has been done to establish, through the development and use of novel assay techniques and analysis metrics, the contained value of a sampling of laptop computers (as an analog for myriad e-waste sources). This work has conceptualized e-waste as an alternative to geologic-origin complex metallic ores and has likewise evaluated the feasibility of value recovery from e-waste sources in a similar manner to an ore. The application of conventional and novel mineral separation techniques to e-waste recycling processes has been evaluated and positive results are demonstrated. Further, this work has demonstrated the ability to identify the presence of base …

Self-Oscillating Induction Heater, Patrick Rice

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

This report develops a control system to keep an induction heater in resonance. When a metallic workpiece is inserted in the air core of the workcoil, the resonant frequency changes. Different workpiece materials affect the resonant frequency and power. This presents a problem since changing the resonant frequency of the circuit while keeping the frequency constant reduces the maximum power of the circuit. Finite element analysis is used to find the circuit parameters of the workcoil and workpiece interaction. A non-linear controller which oscillates based on the resonant frequency of an LC tank is created. Nyquist and describing function analysis …

Meltpondnet: A Swin Transformer U-Net For Detection Of Melt Ponds On Arctic Sea Ice, Ivan Sudakow, Vijayan K. Asari, Ruixu Liu, Denis Demchev

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

High-resolution aerial photographs of Arctic region are a great source for different sea ice feature recognition, which are crucial to validate, tune, and improve climate models. Melt ponds on the surface of melting Arctic sea ice are of particular interest as they are sensitive and valuable indicators and are proxy to the processes in the Arctic climate system. Manual analysis of this remote sensing data is extremely difficult and time-consuming due to the complex shapes and unpredictable boundaries of the melt ponds, and that leads to the necessity for automatizing the processes. In this study, we propose a robust and …

Circuit Optimization Techniques For Efficient Ex-Situ Training Of Robust Memristor Based Liquid State Machine, Alex Henderson, Christopher Yakopcic, Cory Merkel, Steven Harbour, Tarek M. Taha, Hananel Hazan

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Spiking neural network hardware offers a high performance, power-efficient and robust platform for the processing of complex data. Many of these systems require supervised learning, which poses a challenge when using gradient-based algorithms due to the discontinuous properties of SNNs. Memristor based hardware can offer gains in portability, power reduction, and throughput efficiency when compared to pure CMOS. This paper proposes a memristor-based spiking liquid state machine (LSM). The inherent dynamics of the LSM permit the use of supervised learning without backpropagation for weight updates. To carry out the design space evaluation of the LSM for optimal hardware performance, several …

การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบและพัฒนาวิธีการการจัดกลุ่มโหลดสำหรับการจ่ายไฟฟ้าแบบไมโครกริด, จารุพจน์ ถนอมรักษ์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การประยุกต์ใช้ไมโครกริดเป็นการใช้เทคโนโลยีในการพัฒนาระบบจำหน่ายไฟฟ้า มุ่งเน้นการพึ่งพาพลังงานภายในไมโครกริดตนเองเป็นสำคัญ และยังสามารถเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพและสร้างความน่าเชื่อถือให้กับระบบไฟฟ้าซึ่งสามารถประเมินค่าทางเศรษฐกิจได้ การแยกโดดระบบไฟฟ้าไมโครกริดเป็นวิธีหนึ่งที่สามารถป้องกันระบบไฟฟ้าดับอย่างทันท่วงที ซึ่งมีเหตุเนื่องมาจากความผิดพร่องจากกริดไฟฟ้าหลักซึ่งเป็นเหตุให้เกิดไฟฟ้าดับในหลายส่วนของระบบไฟฟ้า วิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้เสนอวิธีการจัดกลุ่มโหลดให้เป็นไมโครกริดเพื่อเป็นระบบไฟฟ้าแบบแยกโดด โดยการดัดแปลงและประยุกต์ใช้ขั้นตอนวิธี การจัดกลุ่มเชิงพื้นที่ตามความหนาแน่นของแอปพลิเคชันที่มีสัญญาณรบกวนบนสายป้อนไฟฟ้า ให้เป็นส่วนหนึ่งในขั้นตอนการกลายพันธุ์ของขั้นตอนวิธีเชิงพันธุกรรม เพื่อให้เกิดประโยชน์ต่อการบริหารโครงข่ายไฟฟ้า ผลลัพธ์จากวิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้แสดงให้เห็นประโยชน์ของขั้นตอนวิธีที่เสนอต่อการจัดกลุ่มไมโครกริด เพื่อให้ได้ตัวประกอบภาระเฉลี่ยของแต่ละกลุ่มไมโครกริดบนสายป้อนไฟฟ้าสูงสุด

Detecting The Presence Of Electronic Devices In Smart Homes Using Harmonic Radar, Beatrice Perez, Gregory Mazzaro, Timothy J. Pierson, David Kotz

Dartmouth Scholarship

Data about users is collected constantly by phones, cameras, Internet websites, and others. The advent of so-called ‘Smart Things' now enable ever-more sensitive data to be collected inside that most private of spaces: the home. The first step in helping users regain control of their information (inside their home) is to alert them to the presence of potentially unwanted electronics. In this paper, we present a system that could help homeowners (or home dwellers) find electronic devices in their living space. Specifically, we demonstrate the use of harmonic radars (sometimes called nonlinear junction detectors), which have also been used in …

An Analysis On Adversarial Machine Learning: Methods And Applications, Ali Dabouei

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Deep learning has witnessed astonishing advancement in the last decade and revolutionized many fields ranging from computer vision to natural language processing. A prominent field of research that enabled such achievements is adversarial learning, investigating the behavior and functionality of a learning model in presence of an adversary. Adversarial learning consists of two major trends. The first trend analyzes the susceptibility of machine learning models to manipulation in the decision-making process and aims to improve the robustness to such manipulations. The second trend exploits adversarial games between components of the model to enhance the learning process. This dissertation aims to …

High Energy And Power Density Peptidoglycan Musclesthrough Super-Viscous Nanoconfined Water, Haozhen Wang, Zhi-Lun Liu, Jianpei Lao, Sheng Zhang, Rinat Abzalimov, Tong Wang, Xi Chen

Advanced Science Research Center

Water-responsive (WR) materials that reversibly deform in response to humidity changes show great potential for developing muscle-like actuators for miniature and biomimetic robotics. Here, it is presented that Bacillus (B.) subtilis’ peptidoglycan (PG) exhibits WR actuation energy and power densities reaching 72.6 MJ m−3 and 9.1 MW m−3, respectively, orders of magnitude higher than those of frequently used actuators, such as piezoelectric actuators and dielectric elastomers. PG can deform as much as 27.2% within 110 ms, and its actuation pressure reaches ≈354.6 MPa. Surprisingly, PG exhibits an energy conversion efficiency of ≈66.8%, which can be attributed to its super-viscous nanoconfined …

Autonomous Coffee Brewing System, Lillian Gonzalez, Landon Miller, Tyler Moff, Benjamin Vitu

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

Coffee consumers want an affordable, high-quality cup of coffee that takes minimal time to brew and does not excessively contribute plastic to landfills. A fully autonomous system which utilizes whole coffee beans, water, and filters to brew coffee was designed to meet this need. This system accepts user requests which specify the brew’s portion size, water temperature, and brew strength, as well as the time which the system should begin the brewing process. Occasional maintenance to empty the system’s built-in waste receptacle or resupply the system with water, coffee beans, or filters is the only user intervention required. This report …

Garden Bot: Autonomous Home Garden Weed Removal Robot, Brendon Lovejoy, Robert Connolly, Isaac Lucas, Stevan Veselinov

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

With frequent weeding being a tedious chore and an essential task for a successful garden, there is need for an automated method of handling this routine. Existing technologies utilize computer vision, GPS, multiple units and other tools to remove weeds from garden plots. However, these solutions are often complex and expensive, suited for large agricultural plots in contrast to small-scale home gardens. In addition, many of these technologies, along with manual tillers and cultivators suited for home use, are unable to perform weeding within rows of crops in a process known as intra-row weeding. The Garden Bot is an autonomous, …

Autonomous Wildfire Detection System, Matthew Pyle, Nick Garrett

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

According to the National Fire Protection Association Journal, federal wildfire suppression costs in the United States have risen from an annual average of about $425 million from 1985 to 1999 up to $1.6 billion from 2000 to 2019. On average, more than 200,000 acres in the United States are burned per year due to wildfires, with more than 700,000 acres burned in 2020 alone. With the risk of wildfire ever rising, there is a need for better early detection of remote wildfires, as existing methods often include long delays like satellites or rely on human lookout towers. The objective is …

Robust Control Strategies For Optimal Operation Of Distributed Generation In Smart Microgrids, Chi-Thang Phan-Tan

Theses

The high penetration of PV systems and fast communications networks increase the potential for PV inverters to support the stability and performance of smart grids and microgrids. PV inverters in the distribution network can work cooperatively and follow centralized and decentralized control commands to optimize energy production while meeting grid code requirements. However, there are older autonomous inverters that have already been installed and will operate in the same network as smart controllable ones. This research proposes a decentralized optimal control (DOC) that performs multi-objective optimization for a group of PV inverters in a network of existing residential loads and …

Chemical Clean Automated Loader, Jordyn Bryner

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

TTM Technologies (TTM) is a global printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer. The work described in this report was completed in the TTM North Jackson, Ohio location. This plant focuses primarily on the manufacturing of rigid and rigid-flex PCBs for the aerospace and defense industry. TTM North Jackson has an ongoing labor dependency issue due to the shortage of workers the nation is facing. To solve this problem, TTM has focused the efforts of their new engineers and interns on automating processes that are labor dependent. The goal is to provide design guidance to be used later by TTM to automate …

Smart Uv-C Disinfectant Module, Nicole Baldy, Luke Rogers, Haitham Saleh

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The Smart UV Disinfectant device shall sanitize objects which are 18”x14”x8” or smaller and less than 20 lbs. using UV-C light. This device should contain many safety measures to prevent human and animal exposure to the UV-C light and have no public touchpoints to operate the interface. In order to achieve the first objective, this device shall contain a "sanitizing chamber" which completely encloses the object to be sanitized to prevent outside exposure with detection of any lifeforms inside of the chamber; for the second objective, it will contain a wireless interface to an Android application which can be used …

"Demeter" Soil Monitoring System, Ryan Matthews, Rachel Rummer, Temilolu Fayomi, Alex Fuller

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

The purpose of this project is to develop a soil monitoring system that can remotely sense and relay soil conditions back to a user. The deMETER soil probe, Demeter is the Greek goddess of the harvest, is designed to aid hobbyist gardeners, small-scale farms, and nurseries to monitor their dynamic soil conditions and maximize their harvest. The probe is a self-powered system that can monitor the moisture and essential nutrients of the soil profile to determine which areas should receive water and fertilizer. This would significantly cut water and fertilizer waste. The solution will include an embedded system with sensors …

Modeling Of Inverter-Based Microgrid For Small-Signal And Large-Signal Stability Analysis, Vishal Verma

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) such as solar photovoltaic, wind, and battery storage, is both a boon and a bane for electric power systems. On one hand, IBRs have helped in making electrical energy a clean (carbon-free) source of energy. On other hand, the dynamics of IBRs have changed the way power system studies have been carried out. With the advantages IBRs offer over conventional resources, it is assumed that a small distribution power system (microgrid) will have a 100% IBRs penetration in the future. Such a microgrid can operate in grid-connected mode or in an islanded mode. Both modes …

Development Of Dc Circuit Breakers For Medium-Voltage Electrified Transportation, Trevor Morgan Arvin

Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering

Medium-voltage DC (MVDC) distribution is an enabling technology for the electrification of transportation such as aircraft and shipboard. One main obstacle for DC distribution is the lack of adequate circuit fault protection. The challenges are due to the rapidly rising fault currents and absence of zero crossings in DC systems compared to AC counterparts. Existing DC breaker solutions lack comprehensive consideration of energy efficiency, power density, fault interruption speed, reliability, and implementation cost.

In this thesis, two circuit topologies of improved DC circuit breakers are developed: the resonant current source based hybrid DC breaker (RCS-HDCB) and the high temperature superconductor …