Coordinated Capacitor Voltage Balancing Method for Cascaded H-bridge Inverter with Supercapacitor and DC-DC Stage

Cascaded H-bridge inverter(CHBI) with supercapacitors(SCs) and dc-dc stage shows significant promise for medium to high voltage energy storage applications. This paper investigates the voltage balance of capacitors within the CHBI, including both the dc-link capacitors and SCs. Balance control over the dc-link capacitor voltages is realized by the dcdc stage in each submodule(SM), while a hybrid modulation strategy(HMS) is implemented in the H-bridge to balance the SC voltages among the SMs. Meanwhile, the dc-link voltage fluctuations are analyzed under the HMS. A virtual voltage variable is introduced to coordinate the balancing of dc-link capacitor voltages and SC voltages. Compared to the balancing method that solely considers the SC voltages, the presented method reduces the dc-link voltage fluctuations without affecting the voltage balance of SCs. Finally, both simulation and experimental results verify the effectiveness of the presented method.

Model Predictive Control for Cascaded H-Bridge PV Inverter with Capacitor Voltage Balance

We designed an improved direct-current capacitor voltage balancing control model predictive control(MPC)for single-phase cascaded H-bridge multilevel photovoltaic(PV)inverters.Compared with conventional voltage balanc-ing control methods,the method proposed could make the PV strings of each submodule operate at their maximum power point by independent capacitor voltage control.Besides,the predicted and reference value of the grid-connected current was obtained according to the maximum power output of the maximum power point tracking.A cost function was con-structed to achieve the high-precision grid-connected control of the CHB inverter.Finally,the effectiveness of the proposed control method was verified through a semi-physical simulation platform with three submodules.

A distributed VSG control method for a battery energy storage system with a cascaded H-bridge in a grid-connected mode

With the high penetration of renewable energy,new challenges,such as power fluctuation suppression and inertial support capability,have arisen in the power sector.Battery energy storage systems play an essential role in renewable energy integration.In this paper,a distributed virtual synchronous generator(VSG)control method for a battery energy storage system(BESS)with a cascaded H-bridge converter in a grid-connected mode is proposed.The VSG is developed without communication dependence,and state-of-charge(SOC)balancing control is achieved using the distributed average algorithm.Owing to the low varying speed of SOC,the bandwidth of the distributed communication networks is extremely slow,which decreases the cost.Therefore,the proposed method can simultaneously provide inertial support and accurate SOC balancing.The stability is also proved using root locus analysis.Finally,simulations under different conditions are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

THD Analysis of Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter with Fuzzy Logic Controller

In recent days, the multilevel inverter technology is widely applied to domestic and industrial applications for medium voltage conversion. But, the power quality issues of the multilevel inverter limit the usage of much sensitive equipment like medical instruments. The lower distortion level of the output voltage and current can generate a quality sinusoidal output voltage in inverters and they can be used for many applications. The harmonics can cause major problems in equipments due to the nonlinear loads connected with the power system. So, it is necessary to minimize the losses to raise its overall efficiency. In this paper, a new topology of seven level asymmetrical cascaded H-bridge multilevel inverter with a Fuzzy logic controller had been implemented to reduce the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and to improve the overall performance of the inverter. The proposed model is well suited for use with a solar PV application. In this topology, only six IGBT switches are used with three different voltage ratings of PV modules (1:2:4). The lower number of semiconductor switches leads to minimizing overall di/dt ratings and voltage stress on each switches and switching losses. The gate pulses generated by Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation (SPWM) technique with a Fuzzy logic controller are also introduced. A buck-boost converter is used to maintain the constant PV voltage level integrated by an MPPT technique followed by Perturb and Observer algorithm is also implemented. The MPPT is used to harness the maximum power of solar radiations under its various climatic conditions. The new topology is evaluated by a Matlab/Simulink model and compared with a hardware model. The results proved that the THD achieved by this topology is 1.66% and realized that it meets the IEEE harmonic standards.

Evaluation of 1.2 kV SiC MOSFETs in Multilevel Cascaded H-bridge Three-phase Inverter for Medium-voltage Grid Applications

A study is conducted to evaluate 1.2 kV silicon-carbide(SiC)MOSFETs in a cascaded H-bridge(CHB)three-phase inverter for medium-voltage applications.The main purpose of this topology is to remove the need for a bulky 60 Hz transformer normally used to step up the output signal of a voltage source inverter to a medium-voltage level.Using SiC devices(1.2-6.5 kV SiC MOSFETs)which have a high breakdown voltage,enables the system to meet and withstand the medium-voltage stress using only a minimal number of cascaded modules.The SiC-based power electronics when used in the presented topology considerably reduce the complexity usually encountered when Si devices are used to meet the medium-voltage level and power scalability.Simulation and preliminary experimental results on a low-voltage prototype verifies the nine-level CHB topology presented in this study.

Pluggable multitask diffractive neural networks based on cascaded metasurfaces

Optical neural networks have significant advantages in terms of power consumption,parallelism,and high computing speed,which has intrigued extensive attention in both academic and engineering communities.It has been considered as one of the powerful tools in promoting the fields of imaging processing and object recognition.However,the existing optical system architecture cannot be reconstructed to the realization of multi-functional artificial intelligence systems simultaneously.To push the development of this issue,we propose the pluggable diffractive neural networks(P-DNN),a general paradigm resorting to the cascaded metasurfaces,which can be applied to recognize various tasks by switching internal plug-ins.As the proof-of-principle,the recognition functions of six types of handwritten digits and six types of fashions are numerical simulated and experimental demonstrated at near-infrared regimes.Encouragingly,the proposed paradigm not only improves the flexibility of the optical neural networks but paves the new route for achieving high-speed,low-power and versatile artificial intelligence systems.

Multi-dimensional multiplexing optical secret sharing framework with cascaded liquid crystal holograms

Secret sharing is a promising technology for information encryption by splitting the secret information into different shares.However,the traditional scheme suffers from information leakage in decryption process since the amount of available information channels is limited.Herein,we propose and demonstrate an optical secret sharing framework based on the multi-dimensional multiplexing liquid crystal(LC)holograms.The LC holograms are used as spatially separated shares to carry secret images.The polarization of the incident light and the distance between different shares are served as secret keys,which can significantly improve the information security and capacity.Besides,the decryption condition is also restricted by the applied external voltage due to the variant diffraction efficiency,which further increases the information security.In implementation,an artificial neural network(ANN)model is developed to carefully design the phase distribution of each LC hologram.With the advantage of high security,high capacity and simple configuration,our optical secret sharing framework has great potentials in optical encryption and dynamic holographic display.

Analysis of unbalanced clustered voltage and control strategy of clustered voltage balancing for cascaded H-bridge STATCOM

To explore the clustered voltage balancing mechanism of the cascaded H-bridge static synchronous compensator(STATCOM),this paper analyzes the causes of unbalanced clustered voltage.The negative-sequence current caused by the compensation of unbalanced reactive power or detection and control errors and the zero-sequence voltage caused by voltage drift of the STATCOM neutral point contribute to unbalanced clustered voltage.On this basis,this paper proposes a control strategy to inject negative-sequence current and zero-sequence voltage simultaneously.The injection of negative-sequence current may cause current asymmetry in the grid,and the zerosequence injection has a relatively limited balancing ability in the clustered voltages.The proposed control strategy can not only generate a faster balancing response than the traditional zero-sequence voltage injection method,but also lower the extent of current asymmetry compared with the traditional negative-sequence current injection method.Then,the negative-sequence current and zero-sequence voltage injection are further transformed into the dq frame to establish a unified frame.The effectiveness of the proposed control strategy is verified by the simulation and experimental results.

基于改进Cascade R-CNN算法的船舶目标检测方法

为了解决实际场景下船舶目标检测精度低的问题,本文在Cascade R-CNN算法的基础上,提出一种船舶目标检测方法 Boat R-CNN。Boat R-CNN使用带自注意力机制的Swin-Transformer Tiny网络提取图像特征,使用Soft-NMS非极大值抑制方法提升候选框过滤精度,使用Smooth_L1损失函数加速模型收敛并减少梯度爆炸情况,使用CIOU边界框回归损失提高候选框回归质量,并针对船舶目标的形状特征优化锚框的长宽比,提高锚框的生成质量。实验结果表明,Boat R-CNN算法的精度相比原版Cascade R-CNN算法提高了21.8%,相比主流Faster R-CNN算法提高了30.3%,有效提升了实际场景下的船舶目标检测精度。

基于改进Cascade R-CNN的安全帽检测算法

针对安全帽检测中,目标形状、尺度变化大,易出现漏检、误检等问题,提出了一种基于改进级联基于区域的卷积神经网络(Cascade R-CNN)的安全帽检测算法。首先,对ResNet50进行改进形成D-ResNet50,利用可变形卷积仅增加少量参数就可增大感受野的特性,对特征提取网络的C2~C5卷积层进行重塑,提高网络对目标几何变换的适应能力和特征提取能力。其次,将D-ResNet50作为主干网络引入Cascade R-CNN,形成级联目标检测器,在每个阶段对正负样本重采样,抑制误检问题。再次,对递归特征金字塔进行改进,更高效地进行多尺度特征融合,并且基于反馈信息对特征进行二次处理,增强特征表达,提高网络的分类和定位能力。最后,使用Soft-非极大值抑制(Soft-NMS)进行后处理,进一步解决漏检问题。提出的方法在Hard hat workers数据集上的AP值相比检测基线提高了3.5%,与Sparse R-CNN、TridentNet、VFnet等先进算法相比分别提升了4.7%、5.9%、2.3%等。

基于Cascade R-CNN的乳腺钼靶肿块检测算法研究

乳腺癌生物学特性复杂,恶性程度极高,位于女性恶性肿瘤发病率首位。乳腺钼靶肿块的X射线检查是早期确诊乳腺癌的重要方式。但乳腺钼靶肿块的检测尚处于早期阶段,现有的计算机辅助检测检测精度较低。针对这一问题,论文提出了一种基于Cascade R-CNN的乳腺钼靶肿块检测方法。实验使用南佛罗里达大学的乳房X光检查数据集,将乳腺钼靶肿块分为良性和恶性两类。通过在特征网络中加入注意力模块,提取了较为丰富的乳腺钼靶肿块特征。此外,论文提出了一种新的FPN网络FA-FPN,进一步提高了乳腺钼靶肿块病灶特征的提取,解决了深层网络在下采样中特征出现稀释的问题,提高了乳腺钼靶肿块的检测准确率。经实验验证,该模型在南佛罗里达大学的乳房X光检查数据集上的mAP值达到82.9%,在AP75下表现尤为突出。该方法在乳腺钼靶肿块的检测中具有良好的性能,可以提高乳腺钼靶肿块的检测精度,并在一定程度上避免了误检和漏检。

Inner Cascaded U^(2)-Net:An Improvement to Plain Cascaded U-Net

Deep neural networks are now widely used in the medical image segmentation field for their performance superiority and no need of manual feature extraction.U-Net has been the baseline model since the very beginning due to a symmetricalU-structure for better feature extraction and fusing and suitable for small datasets.To enhance the segmentation performance of U-Net,cascaded U-Net proposes to put two U-Nets successively to segment targets from coarse to fine.However,the plain cascaded U-Net faces the problem of too less between connections so the contextual information learned by the former U-Net cannot be fully used by the latter one.In this article,we devise novel Inner Cascaded U-Net and Inner Cascaded U^(2)-Net as improvements to plain cascaded U-Net for medical image segmentation.The proposed Inner Cascaded U-Net adds inner nested connections between two U-Nets to share more contextual information.To further boost segmentation performance,we propose Inner Cascaded U^(2)-Net,which applies residual U-block to capture more global contextual information from different scales.The proposed models can be trained from scratch in an end-to-end fashion and have been evaluated on Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge(BraTS)2013 and ISBI Liver Tumor Segmentation Challenge(LiTS)dataset in comparison to related U-Net,cascaded U-Net,U-Net++,U^(2)-Net and state-of-the-art methods.Our experiments demonstrate that our proposed Inner Cascaded U-Net and Inner Cascaded U^(2)-Net achieve better segmentation performance in terms of dice similarity coefficient and hausdorff distance as well as get finer outline segmentation.

Logformer: Cascaded Transformer for System Log Anomaly Detection

Modern large-scale enterprise systems produce large volumes of logs that record detailed system runtime status and key events at key points.These logs are valuable for analyzing performance issues and understanding the status of the system.Anomaly detection plays an important role in service management and system maintenance,and guarantees the reliability and security of online systems.Logs are universal semi-structured data,which causes difficulties for traditional manual detection and pattern-matching algorithms.While some deep learning algorithms utilize neural networks to detect anomalies,these approaches have an over-reliance on manually designed features,resulting in the effectiveness of anomaly detection depending on the quality of the features.At the same time,the aforementioned methods ignore the underlying contextual information present in adjacent log entries.We propose a novel model called Logformer with two cascaded transformer-based heads to capture latent contextual information from adjacent log entries,and leverage pre-trained embeddings based on logs to improve the representation of the embedding space.The proposed model achieves comparable results on HDFS and BGL datasets in terms of metric accuracy,recall and F1-score.Moreover,the consistent rise in F1-score proves that the representation of the embedding spacewith pre-trained embeddings is closer to the semantic information of the log.

基于CSS-Cascade Mask R-CNN的有遮挡多片烟叶部位识别

烟叶部位信息是进行烟叶分级的重要参考信息,准确识别烟叶部位对实现烟叶智能分级具有重要意义。在实际的烟叶智能分级应用中,为了提高分级效率,需要对多片烟叶等级进行同步识别。受现行上料方式的限制,同步识别的多片烟叶间往往存在局部遮挡的问题,给烟叶的目标检测和部位识别带来挑战。该研究提出一种基于改进Cascade Mask R-CNN,融合通道、非局部和空间注意力机制,并引入柔性极大值抑制检测框交并操作与斯库拉交并比损失函数(SIoU)的目标检测与识别模型(CSS-Cascade Mask R-CNN)。该模型对Cascade Mask R-CNN进行了三方面的改进:一是在其骨干网络Resent101上同时引入通道、非局部、空间3种注意力机制,使网络更加关注未被遮挡且部位特征明显区域的显著度;二是将Cascade Mask R-CNN中的损失函数SmoothL1Loss替换为SIoU损失函数,将预测框与真实框之间的方向差异引入到模型训练中提高模型检测精度;三是在筛选候选框时将常规的非极大抑制(non-max-suppression)替换为柔性非极大抑制,以避免删除候选框造成信息丢失。试验结果表明,利用提出的模型对有遮挡多片烟叶进行检测和部位识别,检测框平均准确率均值(bbox_mAP50)达到了80.2%,与改进前的Cascade Mask R-CNN模型相比提高了7.5个百分点。提出的模型与多个主流的目标检测模型(YOLOvX、YOLOv3、YOLOv5、Mask R-CNN、Cascade R-CNN)相比,分别高7.1、10.2、5.8、9.2、8.4个百分点,尤其是对较难区分的下部烟叶优势明显,因此研究结果可以为有遮挡多片烟叶部位的检测识别提供参考。

Numerical investigation of hydro-morphodynamic characteristics of a cascading failure of landslide dams

A cascading failure of landslide dams caused by strong earthquakes or torrential rains in mountainous river valleys can pose great threats to people’s lives,properties,and infrastructures.In this study,based on the three-dimensional Reynoldsaveraged Navier-Stokes equations(RANS),the renormalization group(RNG)k-εturbulence model,suspended and bed load transport equations,and the instability discriminant formula of dam breach side slope,and the explicit finite volume method(FVM),a detailed numerical simulation model for calculating the hydro-morphodynamic characteristics of cascading dam breach process has been developed.The developed numerical model can simulate the breach hydrograph and the dam breach morphology evolution during the cascading failure process of landslide dams.A model test of the breaches of two cascading landslide dams has been used as the validation case.The comparison of the calculated and measured results indicates that the breach hydrograph and the breach morphology evolution process of the upstream and downstream dams are generally consistent with each other,and the relative errors of the key breaching parameters,i.e.,the peak breach flow and the time to peak of each dam,are less than±5%.Further,the comparison of the breach hydrographs of the upstream and downstream dams shows that there is an amplification effect of the breach flood on the cascading landslide dam failures.Three key parameters,i.e.,the distance between the upstream and the downstream dams,the river channel slope,and the downstream dam height,have been used to study the flood amplification effect.The parameter sensitivity analyses show that the peak breach flow at the downstream dam decreases with increasing distance between the upstream and the downstream dams,and the downstream dam height.Further,the peak breach flow at the downstream dam first increases and then decreases with steepening of the river channel slope.When the flood caused by the upstream dam failure flows to the downstream dam,it can produce a surge wave that overtops and erodes the dam crest,resulting in a lowering of the dam crest elevation.This has an impact on the failure occurrence time and the peak breach flow of the downstream dam.The influence of the surge wave on the downstream dam failure process is related to the volume of water that overtops the dam crest and the erosion characteristics of dam material.Moreover,the cascading failure case of the Xiaogangjian and Lower Xiaogangjian landslide dams has also been used as the representative case for validating the model.In comparisons of the calculated and measured breach hydrographs and final breach morphologies,the relative errors of the key dam breaching parameters are all within±10%,which verify the rationality of the model is applicable to real-world cases.Overall,the numerical model developed in this study can provide important technical support for the risk assessment and emergency treatment of failures of cascading landslide dams.

基于Local Cascade Ensemble方法的胎儿健康自动分类

为更好地自动评估胎儿宫内状态,提出一种基于local cascade ensemble(LCE)方法的胎儿健康状态分类模型。选用UCI数据集,使用ADASYN方法对不平衡数据集进行填充平衡,接着结合随机森林算法对数据特征进行选择,最后使用LCE方法对胎儿状态进行自动分类。实验结果表明,所提出模型使用的方法平均准确率、精确率、召回率和F1分数分别达到了0.9554、0.9054、0.9557和0.9290,对比传统的机器学习算法能得到更好的分类效果,有效降低了误判率。

Phase-locked single-mode terahertz quantum cascade lasers array

We demonstrated a scheme of phase-locked terahertz quantum cascade lasers(THz QCLs)array,with a single-mode pulse power of 108 mW at 13 K.The device utilizes a Talbot cavity to achieve phase locking among five ridge lasers with first-order buried distributed feedback(DFB)grating,resulting in nearly five times amplification of the single-mode power.Due to the optimum length of Talbot cavity depends on wavelength,the combination of Talbot cavity with the DFB grating leads to better power amplification than the combination with multimode Fabry-Perot(F-P)cavities.The Talbot cavity facet reflects light back to the ridge array direction and achieves self-imaging in the array,enabling phase-locked operation of ridges.We set the spacing between adjacent elements to be 220μm,much larger than the free-space wavelength,ensuring the operation of the fundamental supermode throughout the laser's dynamic range and obtaining a high-brightness far-field distribution.This scheme provides a new approach for enhancing the single-mode power of THz QCLs.

Numerical and theoretical study of load transfer behavior during cascading pillar failure

To further study the load transfer mechanism of roofemulti-pillarefloor system during cascading pillar failure(CPF),numerical simulation and theoretical analysis were carried out to study the three CPF modes according to the previous experimental study on treble-pillar specimens,e.g.successive failure mode(SFM),domino failure mode(DFM)and compound failure mode(CFM).Based on the finite element code rock failure process analysis(RFPA^(2D)),numerical models of treble-pillar specimen with different mechanical properties were established to reproduce and verify the experimental results of the three CPF modes.Numerical results show that the elastic rebound of roofefloor system induced by pillar instability causes dynamic disturbance to adjacent pillars,resulting in sudden load increases and sudden jump displacement of adjacent pillars.The phenomena of load transfer in the roofemulti-pillarefloor system,as well as the induced accelerated damage behavior in adjacent pillars,were discovered and studied.In addition,based on the catastrophe theory and the proposed mechanical model of treble-pillar specimen edisc spring group system,a potential function that characterizes the evolution characteristics of roof emulti-pillarefloor system was established.The analytical expressions of sudden jump and energy release of treble-pillar specimenedisc spring group system of the three CPF modes were derived according to the potential function.The numerical and theoretical results show good agreement with the experimental results.This study further reveals the physical essence of load transfer during CPF of roof emulti-pillarefloor system,which provides references for mine design,construction and disaster prevention.

基于Open CASCADE的拱桥建模研究

几何引擎是三维BIM建模软件中的核心组件,对软件的性能、准确性、互操作性和用户体验等方面有着重要影响。商业软件的几何引擎虽然经过了多年的发展和优化具有较好的性能和稳定性,但常受限于软件厂商提供的API接口和商业软件所需要的系统环境,无法对底层数据进行访问或修改,灵活性较差,且不具备完全自主商业版权。基于开源几何引擎的应用在很多领域已有相关的研究成果,但在桥梁工程领域较少,基于开源几何引擎Open CASCADE对桥梁工程领域的模型构建技术进行探索,实现自主可控的桥梁工程三维建模平台,以拱桥为研究对象,结合几何引擎的模型构建技术,实现拱桥模型的创建。探索开源几何引擎在桥梁工程领域的建模实现能力,为实现更多桥型的三维建模以及基于模型更进一步的衍生应用积累经验,并为打造自主可控的桥梁工程建模软件提供参考。