A General Approach for Direct Conversion of Single Phase AC to AC Converter for Induction Heating System

This paper signifies the study of modeling and simulation of a single phase matrix converter for induction heating system. The working principle and the control method, using PID are revealing in detail. The performance of the system is carried out in MATLAB/Simulink environment with pulse width modulation switching strategy by varying the duty cycle. PID control is employed to obtain the better performance for a specified input supply for various output frequencies. The proposed control strategy of AC to AC converter has been discussed with a wide range of operating frequencies and results in low Total Harmonic Distortion.

Quantization Based Watermarking Methods Against Valumetric Distortions

Most of the quantization based watermarking algorithms are very sensitive to valumetric distortions, while these distortions are regarded as common processing in audio/video analysis. In recent years, watermarking methods which can resist this kind of distortions have attracted a lot of interests. But still many proposed methods can only deal with one certain kind of valumetric distortion such as amplitude scaling attack, and fail in other kinds of valumetric distortions like constant change attack, gamma correction or contrast stretching. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective method to tackle all the three kinds of valumetric distortions. This algorithm constructs an invariant domain first by spread transform which satisfies certain constraints. Then an amplitude scale invariant watermarking scheme is applied on the constructed domain. The validity of the approach has been confirmed by applying the watermarking scheme to Gaussian host data and real images. Experimental results confirm its intrinsic invariance against amplitude scaling, constant change attack and robustness improvement against nonlinear valumetric distortions.

Linearized wideband and multi-carrier link based on TL-ANN

The analog photonics link(APL) is widely used in microwave photonics. However, in wideband and multi-carrier systems, the third inter-modulation distortion(IMD3) and cross-modulation distortion(XMD) will jointly limit the spurious-free dynamic range(SFDR) of links. In this paper, we experimentally present a linearized wideband and multi-carrier APL, in which the IMD3 and XMD are mitigated simultaneously by using artificial neural networks with transfer learning(TL-ANN). In this experiment, with different artificial neural networks, which are trained with the knowledge obtained from the two-or three-sub-carrier system, the IMD3 and XMD are suppressed by 21.71 d B and 11.11 d B or 22.38 d B and 16.73 d B, and the SFDR is improved by 13.4 d B or 14.3 d B, respectively. Meanwhile, compared with previous studies, this method could reduce the training time and training epochs to 16% and 25%.