Air conditioning (AC) system is the one with asynchronous and uncertain nature. In this paper, the fuzzy discrete event system (FDES) is introduced to the research of AC energy-saving control. A fuzzy automaton modeli...Air conditioning (AC) system is the one with asynchronous and uncertain nature. In this paper, the fuzzy discrete event system (FDES) is introduced to the research of AC energy-saving control. A fuzzy automaton modeling is given for AC energy-saving control and effectiveness optimization is made. To facilitate the implement of the control and energy saving, priorities have been assigned to the major control steps based on logical reasoning. Forward-looking tree modeling based on FDES has been simplified to help further optimization, and a simple and concrete example has been put forward illustrating energy-saving control in AC system.展开更多
Today's automation industry is driven by the need for an increased productivity, higher flexibility, and higher individuality, and characterized by tailor-made and more complex control solutions. In the processing in...Today's automation industry is driven by the need for an increased productivity, higher flexibility, and higher individuality, and characterized by tailor-made and more complex control solutions. In the processing industry, logic controller design is often a manual, experience-based, and thus an error-prone procedure. Typically, the specifications are given by a set of informal requirements and a technical flowchart and both are used to be directly translated into the control code. This paper proposes a method in which the control program is constructed as a sequential function chart (SFC) by transforming the requirements via clearly defined intermediate formats. For the purpose of analysis, the resulting SFC can be translated algorithmically into timed automata. A rigorous verification can be used to determine whether all specifications are satisfied if a formal model of the plant is available which is then composed with the automata model of the logic controller (LC).展开更多
Due to rapidly development of high power semiconductor devices with fast control features have made possible to control the power flow more efficiently and effectively. The Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) i...Due to rapidly development of high power semiconductor devices with fast control features have made possible to control the power flow more efficiently and effectively. The Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) in this category introduces several innovative operating control devices. One of the recent devices is Advanced Unified Power Flow Controller (AUPFC) or multi-converter UPFC, which can control bus voltage and real and reactive power flows of more than one line or even a sub-network. This paper presents performance analysis of AUPFC based on d-q axis model theory. Based on the analysis, a new fuzzy logic rules based control algorithm has been developed in this paper which improves the system performance. The control rules are structured depending upon the relationship between series inserted voltages in multi-line and the desired changes of real and reactive power flows in the control network. The impacts of different controllers along with parameters of series connected transformers and transmission lines have been investigated through developed control block models in SIMULINK. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by a case study.展开更多
This paper presents a new thermal computer, which is driven by heat current and not electricity current. The basic thermal logic gate, such as thermal logic AND gate. thermal logic NOT gate, thermal logic OR gate are ...This paper presents a new thermal computer, which is driven by heat current and not electricity current. The basic thermal logic gate, such as thermal logic AND gate. thermal logic NOT gate, thermal logic OR gate are discussed in this paper. Compared with electronic computer, it can work at some special environment, such as high temperature and high pressure Consequently, the heat computer is not only a new special computer, but also a lot of new heat computation cell or device could be invented in the future. The thermal computer and control device are a new thermal energy machines powered by heat energy, it is significant for the environmental protection, energy usage and developed and new discipline development.展开更多
To meet the demands for highly advanced components with ultra precise contour accuracy and optical surface quality arising in the fields of photonics and optics, automotive, medical applications and biotechnology, con...To meet the demands for highly advanced components with ultra precise contour accuracy and optical surface quality arising in the fields of photonics and optics, automotive, medical applications and biotechnology, consumer electronics and renewable energy, more advanced production machines and processes have to be developed. As the complexity of machine tools rises steadily, the automation of manufacture increases rapidly, processes become more integrated and cycle times have to be reduced significantly, challenges of engineering efficient machine tools with respect to these demands expand every day. Especially the manufacture of freeform geometries with non-continuous and asymmetric surfaces requires advanced diamond machining strategies involving highly dynamic axes movements with a high bandwidth and position accuracy. Ultra precision lathes additionally equipped with Slow Tool and Fast Tool systems can be regarded as state-of-the-art machines achieving the objectives of high quality optical components. The mechanical design of such ultra precision machine tools as well as the mechanical integration of additional highly dynamic axes are very well understood today. In contrast to that, neither advanced control strategies for ultra precision machining nor the control integration of additional Fast Tool systems have been sufficiently developed yet. Considering a complex machine setup as a mechatronic system, it becomes obvious that enhancements to further increase the achievable form accuracy and surface quality and at the same time decrease cycle times and error sensitivity can only be accomplished by innovative, integrated control systems. At the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT a novel, fully integrated control approach has been developed to overcome the drawbacks of state-of-the-art machine controls for ultra precision processes. Current control systems are often realized as decentralized solutions consisting of various computational hardware components for setpoint generation, machine control, HMI (human machine interface), Slow Tool control and Fast Tool control. While implementing such a distributed control strategy, many disadvantages arise in terms of complex communication interfaces, discontinuous safety structures, synchronization of cycle times and the machining accuracy as a whole. The novel control approach has been developed as a fully integrated machine control including standard CNC (computer numerical control) and PLC (programmable logic controller) functionality, advanced setpoint generation methods, an extended HMI as well as an FPGA (field programmable gate array)-based controller for a voice coil driven Slow Tool and a piezo driven Fast Tool axis. As the new control system has been implemented as a fully integrated platform using digital communication via EtherCAT, a continuous safety strategy could be realized, the error sensitivity and EMC susceptibility could be significantly decreased and the overall process accuracy from setpoint generation over path interpolation to axes movements could be enhanced. The novel control at the same time offers additional possibilities of automation, process integration, online data acquisition and evaluation as well as error compensation methods.展开更多
Over the last few years, smart grids have become a topic of intensive research, development and deployment across the world. This is due to the fact that, through the smart grid, stable and reliable power systems can ...Over the last few years, smart grids have become a topic of intensive research, development and deployment across the world. This is due to the fact that, through the smart grid, stable and reliable power systems can be achieved. This paper presents a fuzzy logic control for dual active bridge series resonant converters for DC smart grid application. The DC smart grid consists of wind turbine and photovoltaic generators, controllable and DC loads, and power converters. The proposed control method has been applied to the controllable load's and the grid side's dual active bridge series resonant converters for attaining control of the power system. It has been used for management of controllable load's state of charge, DC feeder's voltage stability during the loads and power variations from wind energy and photovoltaic generation and power flow management between the grid side and the DC smart grid. The effectiveness of the proposed DC smart grid operation has been verified by simulation results obtained by using MATLAB and PLECS cards.展开更多
基金PhD Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China( No.20060255006)Cultivation Fund of the Key Scientific and Technical Innovation Project from Ministry of Education of China (No.706024)
文摘Air conditioning (AC) system is the one with asynchronous and uncertain nature. In this paper, the fuzzy discrete event system (FDES) is introduced to the research of AC energy-saving control. A fuzzy automaton modeling is given for AC energy-saving control and effectiveness optimization is made. To facilitate the implement of the control and energy saving, priorities have been assigned to the major control steps based on logical reasoning. Forward-looking tree modeling based on FDES has been simplified to help further optimization, and a simple and concrete example has been put forward illustrating energy-saving control in AC system.
基金the European Union through the Network of Excellence Hybrid Control (HYCON) under contract IST-511368.
文摘Today's automation industry is driven by the need for an increased productivity, higher flexibility, and higher individuality, and characterized by tailor-made and more complex control solutions. In the processing industry, logic controller design is often a manual, experience-based, and thus an error-prone procedure. Typically, the specifications are given by a set of informal requirements and a technical flowchart and both are used to be directly translated into the control code. This paper proposes a method in which the control program is constructed as a sequential function chart (SFC) by transforming the requirements via clearly defined intermediate formats. For the purpose of analysis, the resulting SFC can be translated algorithmically into timed automata. A rigorous verification can be used to determine whether all specifications are satisfied if a formal model of the plant is available which is then composed with the automata model of the logic controller (LC).
文摘Due to rapidly development of high power semiconductor devices with fast control features have made possible to control the power flow more efficiently and effectively. The Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) in this category introduces several innovative operating control devices. One of the recent devices is Advanced Unified Power Flow Controller (AUPFC) or multi-converter UPFC, which can control bus voltage and real and reactive power flows of more than one line or even a sub-network. This paper presents performance analysis of AUPFC based on d-q axis model theory. Based on the analysis, a new fuzzy logic rules based control algorithm has been developed in this paper which improves the system performance. The control rules are structured depending upon the relationship between series inserted voltages in multi-line and the desired changes of real and reactive power flows in the control network. The impacts of different controllers along with parameters of series connected transformers and transmission lines have been investigated through developed control block models in SIMULINK. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by a case study.
基金Acknowledgment: The paper was supported by the Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 50876034), Ph.D. Science Foundation of Ministry. of Education of China (No. 20040487039): Key Discipline Construction Foundation of Shanghai Education Commission (No. J5180|): Science Foundation of Shanghai Education Commission (No. 08ZY79) SSPU Science Foundation (No. DZ207004).
文摘This paper presents a new thermal computer, which is driven by heat current and not electricity current. The basic thermal logic gate, such as thermal logic AND gate. thermal logic NOT gate, thermal logic OR gate are discussed in this paper. Compared with electronic computer, it can work at some special environment, such as high temperature and high pressure Consequently, the heat computer is not only a new special computer, but also a lot of new heat computation cell or device could be invented in the future. The thermal computer and control device are a new thermal energy machines powered by heat energy, it is significant for the environmental protection, energy usage and developed and new discipline development.
文摘To meet the demands for highly advanced components with ultra precise contour accuracy and optical surface quality arising in the fields of photonics and optics, automotive, medical applications and biotechnology, consumer electronics and renewable energy, more advanced production machines and processes have to be developed. As the complexity of machine tools rises steadily, the automation of manufacture increases rapidly, processes become more integrated and cycle times have to be reduced significantly, challenges of engineering efficient machine tools with respect to these demands expand every day. Especially the manufacture of freeform geometries with non-continuous and asymmetric surfaces requires advanced diamond machining strategies involving highly dynamic axes movements with a high bandwidth and position accuracy. Ultra precision lathes additionally equipped with Slow Tool and Fast Tool systems can be regarded as state-of-the-art machines achieving the objectives of high quality optical components. The mechanical design of such ultra precision machine tools as well as the mechanical integration of additional highly dynamic axes are very well understood today. In contrast to that, neither advanced control strategies for ultra precision machining nor the control integration of additional Fast Tool systems have been sufficiently developed yet. Considering a complex machine setup as a mechatronic system, it becomes obvious that enhancements to further increase the achievable form accuracy and surface quality and at the same time decrease cycle times and error sensitivity can only be accomplished by innovative, integrated control systems. At the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT a novel, fully integrated control approach has been developed to overcome the drawbacks of state-of-the-art machine controls for ultra precision processes. Current control systems are often realized as decentralized solutions consisting of various computational hardware components for setpoint generation, machine control, HMI (human machine interface), Slow Tool control and Fast Tool control. While implementing such a distributed control strategy, many disadvantages arise in terms of complex communication interfaces, discontinuous safety structures, synchronization of cycle times and the machining accuracy as a whole. The novel control approach has been developed as a fully integrated machine control including standard CNC (computer numerical control) and PLC (programmable logic controller) functionality, advanced setpoint generation methods, an extended HMI as well as an FPGA (field programmable gate array)-based controller for a voice coil driven Slow Tool and a piezo driven Fast Tool axis. As the new control system has been implemented as a fully integrated platform using digital communication via EtherCAT, a continuous safety strategy could be realized, the error sensitivity and EMC susceptibility could be significantly decreased and the overall process accuracy from setpoint generation over path interpolation to axes movements could be enhanced. The novel control at the same time offers additional possibilities of automation, process integration, online data acquisition and evaluation as well as error compensation methods.
文摘Over the last few years, smart grids have become a topic of intensive research, development and deployment across the world. This is due to the fact that, through the smart grid, stable and reliable power systems can be achieved. This paper presents a fuzzy logic control for dual active bridge series resonant converters for DC smart grid application. The DC smart grid consists of wind turbine and photovoltaic generators, controllable and DC loads, and power converters. The proposed control method has been applied to the controllable load's and the grid side's dual active bridge series resonant converters for attaining control of the power system. It has been used for management of controllable load's state of charge, DC feeder's voltage stability during the loads and power variations from wind energy and photovoltaic generation and power flow management between the grid side and the DC smart grid. The effectiveness of the proposed DC smart grid operation has been verified by simulation results obtained by using MATLAB and PLECS cards.