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CFP15CIT-POD 978-1-4799-7801-4

2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2015)

Seville, Spain 17-19 March 2015

Pages 878-1746

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PLENARY SESSIONS CONTROL SYSTEMS, ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS

A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT CONTROL METHODS FOR INJECTION VALVES ...................................... 22

Fabian Kennel, Dimitri Morgenstern, Steven Liu

A FAST TERMINAL SLIDING MODE OBSERVER FOR TCP/IP NETWORK ANOMALY TRAFFIC DETECTION..................................................................................................................................................... 28

Long Xu, Xinghuo Yu, Yong Feng, Fengling Han, Jiankun Hu, Zahir Tari

A MANUAL WHEELCHAIR ASSISTANCE SYSTEM WHICH CANCELS A GRAVITATIONAL FORCE ON A SLOPE ........................................................................................................................................................ 34

Daisuke Chugo, Masahiro Goto, Satoshi Muramatsu, Yuki Sakaida, Sho Yokota, Hiroshi Hashimoto

A MOTION CONTROL APPROACH FOR A ROBOTIC FISH WITH ITERATIVE FEEDBACK TUNING ............................................................................................................................................................................... 40

Qinyuan Ren

A MOTION REPRODUCTION METHOD FOR TRAINING SYSTEM BASED ON SPATIOTEMPORAL ADMITTANCE CONTROL ........................................................................................................ 46

Yuki Nagatsu, Seiichiro Katsura

A MOTORIZED AND EASY-DOCKING WHEELCHAIR DRIVE FOR PERSONS WITH LOWER-LIMB DISABILITIES......................................................................................................................................................... 52

HyungTae Kim, CheolWoong Ko, GwanYeon Kim, JoonHmm Lee, Tae Soo Bae

A NEW ADAPTIVE CONTROLLER FOR A TWO-TANK-SYSTEM BASED ON ALGEBRAIC DERIVATION TECHNIQUES .......................................................................................................................................... 57

Thabet Hajer, Ayadi Mounir, Rotella Frédéric

A SETTING METHOD OF INITIAL CONDITIONS IN PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION FOR POSITIONING OF A LINEAR STAGE.................................................................................................................. 63

Marino Watanabe, Yukinori Nakamura, Shinji Wakui

A TIME EFFICIENT NONLINEAR TRACKING CONTROLLER ............................................................................. 69Muhammad Shafiq, Hasan Yousef, Taha Al-Saadi

ACTIVE SLAM-BASED ALGORITHM FOR AUTONOMOUS EXPLORATION WITH MOBILE ROBOT................................................................................................................................................................................. 74

Darko Trivun, Edin Salaka, Dinko Osmankovic, Jasmin Velagic, Nedim Osmic

ADAPTIVE FUZZY DELAYED EXCITATION CONTROL OF POWER SYSTEMS .............................................. 80Hassan Yousef, Hisham Suliman, Muhammad Shafiq

ADAPTIVE H_INFINITY CONTROL OF LARGE WIND TURBINES ...................................................................... 85Vedran Bobanac, Mario Va•ak

ALFA DETECTOR CONTROL SYSTEM....................................................................................................................... 93Luis Seabra

AN APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRO HYDROSTATIC ACTUATOR (EHA) - BASED ROBOT JOINTS ................................................................................................................................................... 99

Woong Yong Lee, Min Jun Kim, Wan Kyun Chung

AN ESTIMATION RECOVERY METHOD OF DEPTH OBSERVERS BY PERIODIC IMAGE-BASED VISUAL SERVOING.......................................................................................................................................... 107

Masahide Ito, Shuya Urai, Masaaki Shibata

AN LMI BASED ROBUST DYNAMIC CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ROBOT BEHAVIOR WALK ZMP BASED................................................................................................................... 113

Mohamed Adel Sellami, Imen Dakhli, Elyes Maherzi, Mongi Besbes

ATTITUDE CONTROL OF PNEUMATIC ACTIVE ANTI-VIBRATION APPARATUSES WITH TWO DEGREES-OF-FREEDOM IN SHUTDOWN PROCESS .................................................................................. 119

Satoru Goto, Yukinori Nakamura, Shinji Wakui

BIOKEX: A BIONIC KNEE EXOSKELETON WITH PROXY-BASED SLIDING MODE CONTROL ......................................................................................................................................................................... 125

Yang Liao, Zhihao Zhou, Qining Wang

CALIBRATION AND MEASUREMENT PROCESSING FOR ULTRASONIC INDOOR MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................... 131

Lorinc Marton, Csaba Nagy, Zalan Biro-Ambrus, Katalin Gyorgy

CARTESIAN NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF REDUNDANT MANIPULATORS CONSIDERING OBSTACLES ...................................................................................................... 137

Angelika Zube

CLOSED-LOOP IDENTIFICATION AND INSTABILITY OF WEB TRANSPORT SYSTEM.............................. 143Tetsuzo Sakamoto, Yosuke Isamu, Akira Kubohira

CONSTRUCTION AND CALIBRATION OF A LOW-COST 3D LASER SCANNER WITH 360º FIELD OF VIEW FOR MOBILE ROBOTS .................................................................................................................. 149

Jorge L. Martínez, Jesús Morales, Antonio J. Reina, Anthony Mandow, Alejandro Pequeño-Boter, Alfonso García-Cerezo

CONTROL OF AN AIR SPRING TYPE ANTI-VIBRATION APPARATUS WITH AN INVERSE FUNCTION FOR SHAPE OF PRESSURE FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC ..................................................... 155

Ziyue Wang, Shinji Wakui, Yukinori Nakamura

DATA-DRIVEN OPTIMAL MODEL-FREE CONTROL OF TWIN ROTOR AERODYNAMIC SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 161

Raul-Cristian Roman, Mircea-Bogdan Radac, Radu-Emil Precup, Emil M. Petriu

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF 3 DOF MOBILE ROBOT TRAVELING SIMULATOR USING OPTICAL MICE ............................................................................................................................................................... 167

Sungbok Kim

DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBOTIC PROTOTYPE SYSTEM FOR THE PREPARATION AND PARTITION OF RADIOACTIVE PRODUCTS ............................................................................................................ 173

Gabriela Guevara, José Lima, Paulo Leitão, Maria do Carmo Baptista

DISTRIBUTED COOPERATIVE CONTROL FRAMEWORK OF A CRYOGENIC SYSTEM ............................. 179Haiyang Ding, Mazen Alamir, Francois Bonne, Ahmad Hably, Patrick Bonnay

DYNAMIC SMC CONTROL SCHEME WITH ADAPTIVELY TUNED PID CONTROLLER FOR SPEED CONTROL OF DC MOTOR.............................................................................................................................. 187

Dil Kumar T. R., Mija S J

ECOBOTICS: ADVANTAGES AND CHALLENGES OF BUILDING A BAMBOO ROBOT ARM...................... 192Akos Csiszar, Philipp Sommer, Armin Lechler

EFFECTIVE VISUAL CALIBRATION SYSTEM FOR PARALLEL ROBOT USING DECISION TREE WITH COOPERATIVE COEVOLUTION NETWORK APPROACH ........................................................... 198

Ren C. Luo, Cheng-Hsun Hsieh, Shih-Che Chou

ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIR CONTROL FOR AVOIDANCE OF COLLISION AND DOWNHILL TURNING .......................................................................................................................................................................... 204

Naoki Uchiyama, Hiroki Takahashi, Shigenori Sano

ELECTROCHEMICAL MODEL BASED FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF A LITHIUM ION BATTERY USING MULTIPLE MODEL ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION APPROACH ................................................................... 210

Ashiqur Rahman, Sohel Anwar, Afshin Izadian

ENABLING SCADA CLUSTER AND CLOUD FOR SMART GRID USING HIERARCHICAL MULTICAST PROTOCOLS; THE PTMF FRAMEWORK ........................................................................................ 218

Alejandro García-Domínguez

EQUIVALENT-INPUT-DISTURBANCE APPROACH ENABLES SLIDING-MODE CONTROL SYSTEMS TO REJECT UNMATCHED DISTURBANCES ........................................................................................ 226

Jinhua She, Yaodong Pan, Hiroshi Hashimoto, Qi Lei, Min Wu

ESTIMATING AND CONTROLLING UAV POSITION USING RGB-D/IMU DATA FUSION WITH DECENTRALIZED INFORMATION/KALMAN FILTER ............................................................................. 232

Milton Santos, Lucas Santana, Maria Martins, Alexandre Brandão, Mário Sarcinelli-Filho

EXTRACTABILITY CONTROL FOR THE VIRGIN OLIVE OIL ELABORATION PROCESS .......................... 240Diego Manuel Martínez Gila, Pablo Cano Marchal, Javier Gámez García, Juan Gómez Ortega

FAULT DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS APPROACH BASED ON OBSERVERS AND SVD-PCA ..................... 246Luis Brito Palma, Bruno Gomes Ferreira, Paulo Sousa Gil, Fernando Vieira Coito

FIXED-ORDER SISO CONTROLLER DESIGN FOR H INFINITY LOOP SHAPING METHOD USING FREQUENCY RESPONSES .............................................................................................................................. 252

Takayuki Kubo, Kazuhiro Yubai, Alireza Karimi, Daisuke Yashiro, Junji Hirai

FIXED-WING STATE LEVEL HIL VIA FACTOR GRAPH INCREMENTAL SMOOTHING ............................. 258Anderson Rodrigues, Paulo Rosa

FORCE-BASED CONTROL SCHEME FOR STABLE CONTACT MOTION IN TIME-DELAYED TELEOPERATION .......................................................................................................................................................... 265

Nobuto Yoshimura, Yoshiki Ohno, Kouhei Ohnishi

GLOBAL STABILIZATION OF CART-PENDULUM SYSTEM WITH SLIDING MODE CONTROLLER: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ........................................................................................................... 277

Arindam Chakraborty, Jayati Dey

HUMAN TASK REPRODUCTION WITH GAUSSIAN MIXTURE MODELS......................................................... 283Tomohiro Nakano, Koyo Yu, Kouhei Ohnishi

HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE: SHARING THE WORKSPACE WITH SERVICE UNITS ....................................................................................................................... 289

Fernando Auat Cheein, Ricardo Carelli, Daniel Herrera, Javier Gimenez, Miguel Torres-Torriti, Joan-Ramon Rossel Polo, Alexandre Escola, Jaume Arno

IMC-PID TRACTION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AN AUTOMOBILE VIA ENGINE TORQUE CONTROL ......................................................................................................................................................................... 296

Masoud Vaezi, Hesam Shoori, Sohel Anwar

INTEGRATION OF SENSORY FEEDBACK INTO CPG MODEL FOR LOCOMOTION CONTROL OF CATERPILLAR-LIKE ROBOT .......................................................................................................... 303

Guoyuan Li, Wei Li, Houxiang Zhang, Jianwei Zhang

KINEMATIC AND DYNAMIC MODELING OF ROBOT MANIPULATOR FOR GOLF SWING TRAINING SYSTEM ....................................................................................................................................................... 309

Tony Camarano, Jonathan Beck, Bin Li, Wei Wu, Louis Chow, Thomas Wu, Don Drumm, Martin Lebouitz, David Napolitano

LASER-BASED TRACKING OF GROUPS OF PEOPLE WITH SUDDEN CHANGES IN MOTION .................. 315Masafumi Hashimoto, Azusa Nishio, Atsushi Tsuji, Kazuhiko Takahashi

LYAPUNOV STABILITY CRITERION BASED NEURAL INVERSE TRACKING FOR UNKNOWN DYNAMIC PLANTS .................................................................................................................................. 321

Muhammad Saleheen Aftab, Muhammad Shafiq, Hasan Yousef

MODEL PREDICTIVE POSITION/FORCE CONTROL OF AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTIC ARM................................................................................................................................................................ 326

Jesús De la Casa Cárdenas, Alejandro Sánchez García, Silvia Satorres Martínez, Javier Gámez García, Juan Gómez Ortega

MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF A FLYWHEEL BASED ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR AN INDUSTRIAL MANIPULATOR..................................................................................................................... 332

Serge Gale, Arnfinn Aas Eielsen, Jan Tommy Gravdahl

MULTIPLE SWITCHING MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF VARIABLE-SPEED HORIZONTAL WIND TURBINE .................................................................................................................................. 338

Jasmin Velagic, Mirza Kadric

NAFISNAV: AN INDOOR NAVIGATION ALGORITHM FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS AND BASED ON GRID MAPS ................................................................................................................................................. 345

Nafiseh Osati Eraghi, Fernando López-Colino, Angel de Castro, Javier Garrido

NEW APPROACH USING FLATNESS-BASED CONTROL IN HIGH SPEED POSITIONING: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS.......................................................................................................................................... 351

Daniel Beckmann, Moritz Schappler, Matthias Dagen, Tobias Ortmaier

NON-LINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR NAVIGATION IN ROW CROPS.................................. 357Trygve Utstumo, Therese W. Berge, Tommy Gravdahl

OPTIMAL FEEDBACK CONTROL OF NONLINEAR SYSTEMS WITH A FINITE HORIZON BASED ON HJ EQUATIONS .......................................................................................................................................... 363

Joe Imae, Masakatsu Kawanoue, Tomoaki Kobayashi

OPTIMAL MOTION PREDICTION USING A PRIMITIVE-BASED MODEL-FREE ITERATIVE CONTROL APPROACH FOR CRANE SYSTEMS...................................................................................................... 366

Mircea-Bogdan Radac, Radu-Emil Precup, Emil M. Petriu

OPTIMAL SENSING REQUIREMENT FOR SLIPPAGE PREVENTION IN ROBOTIC GRASPING ........................................................................................................................................................................ 373

Pavel Dzitac, Abdul Md Mazid, M. Yousef Ibrahim, Gayan Kahandawa Appuhamillage, T. A. Choudhury

OPTIMAL TRACKING CONTROL FOR LINEAR STABLE TALL PLANTS ........................................................ 379Francisco Ibarra, Mario Salgado

OPTIMAL WIND TURBINE YAW CONTROL SUPPORTED WITH VERY SHORT-TERM WIND PREDICTIONS ................................................................................................................................................................. 385

Nikola Hure, Robi Turnar, Mario Vasak, Goran Bencic

OPTIONALLY FILLING SCALABLE COMPLEX OF UNIVERSAL DC MOTOR CONTROLLERS AND MULTISENSORY CONVERTERS FOR MOBILE ROBOTICS ....................................... 392

Dmitry Suvorov, Stanislav Goll, Vladimir Korneev, Sergey Karabanov, Gennadiy Gololobov, Dmitry Tarabrin

PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN NON-LINEAR MODELS OF PRESSURE DYNAMICS IN CNG INJECTION SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................... 399

Paolo Lino, Guido Maione, Mirna Kapetina, Milan Rapaic

PERFORMANCE COMPARISON BETWEEN SLIDING MODE CONTROL AND PERIODIC CONTROLLER FOR CART-INVERTED PENDULUM SYSTEM ............................................................................ 405

Arindam Chakraborty, Jayati Dey

PLANT-WIDE CONTROL APPROACH IN A PILOT CFB BOILER ....................................................................... 411Laura Niva, Enso Ikonen, Jeno Kovács

POWER ASSISTING METHOD FOR ALMOST-PERIODIC MOTIONS BASED ON MOTION PREDICTION.................................................................................................................................................................... 417

Kazuyohi Hatada, Kentaro Hirata, Takuma Sato

POWER-BASED DAMPING INJECTION FOR BILATERAL CONTROL SYSTEMS UNDER TIME DELAY ................................................................................................................................................................... 423

Yoshiki Ohno, Nobuto Yoshimura, Kouhei Ohnishi

PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS TO THE DEVELOP OF ASSISTANCE SYSTEM OF DRIVING SKILL USING EXPANSION OF BODY SCHEMA ...................................................................................................... 429

Akira Ichinose, Takumi Matsumura, Noriko Kimura, Satoshi Suzuki

REAL-TIME CONTROL OF A FORCE FEEDBACK HAPTIC INTERFACE VIA ETHERCAT FIELDBUS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 441

Quoc Viet Dang, Benyamine Allouche, Antoine Dequidt, Laurent Vermeiren, Valentin Dubreucq

REPETITIVE CONTROL FOR PNEUMATIC ANTI-VIBRATION APPARATUSES UNDER A MULTI-LOOP CONTROL SYSTEM............................................................................................................................. 447

Yuki Noguchi, Yukinori Nakamura, Shinji Wakui

RGA ANALYSIS AND DECENTRALIZED CONTROL FOR A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT ............................................................................................................................................................................... 453

Ionut Muntean, Roxana Both, Ruben Crisan, Ioan Nascu

ROBOSANTRAL:AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE GUIDE ROBOT........................................................................... 459Ahmet Denker, Janset Savas, Ahmet Ugur Dilek, Baykal Sarioglu, Yigit Daghan Gokdel

ROBUST CONTROL IN INDUSTRIAL ROLL-TO-ROLL SYSTEMS : NEW APPROACHES USING FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF THE WEB............................................................................................ 464

Yannick Martz, Dominique Knittel

SIMULATION TIME ANALYSIS OF MATLAB/SIMULINK AND LABVIEW FOR CONTROL APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 470

Civan A. Cansalar, Ertan Mavis, Cosku Kasnakoglu

SPATIAL CONSTRAINT IDENTIFICATION OF PARTS IN SE3 FOR ACTION OPTIMIZATION .................. 474Jimmy Alison Jorgensen, Nadezda Rukavishnikova, Norbert Krüger, Henrik Gordon Petersen

STABILITY ANALYSIS OF BILATERAL CONTROL BY CONSIDERING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPEDANCE AND MODELING ERROR .................................................................................................................... 481

Yoshiyuki Kambara, Seiji Uozumi, Kouhei Ohnishi

STATISTICAL CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS OF ACO-NM FOR PID CONTROLLER TUNING ...................... 487Maude Josée Blondin, Pierre Sicard

STEREO VISION BASED ROBOT NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING MODULATED POTENTIAL FIELD FOR IMPLANT SURGERY................................................................................................................................ 493

Koyo Yu, Seiji Uozumi, Kouhei Ohnishi, Shin Usuda, Hiromasa Kawana, Taneaki Nakagawa

STOCHASTIC MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR OPTIMAL ECONOMIC OPERATION OF A RESIDENTIAL DC MICROGRID ....................................................................................................................... 505

Marko Gulin, Jadranko Matusko, Mario Vasak

SUPPRESSION METHODS OF TEMPERATURE CHANGE IN AN AIR SPRING FOR ANTI-VIBRATION APPARATUSES ........................................................................................................................................ 511

Shota Katayama, Shinji Wakui, Yukinori Nakamura

TEST BENCH FOR HELICOPTER ELECTRO MECHANICAL ACTUATION SYSTEM VALIDATION ................................................................................................................................................................... 517

Imanol Echevarria, Joseba Lasa, Pablo Casado, Alberto Dominguez, Iñigo Eguizabal, Mikel Liceaga, Raul Perez, Oscar Berenguer

THE NEW ARCHITECTURE OF MODGRASP FOR MIND-CONTROLLED LOW-COST SENSORISED MODULAR HANDS ............................................................................................................................... 524

Filippo Sanfilippo, Houxiang Zhang, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen

TRAJECTORY GENERATION WITH PIECEWISE CONSTANT ACCELERATION AND TRACKING CONTROL OF A QUADCOPTER ........................................................................................................... 530

Jong Tai Jang, SungTae Moon, Sanghyuck Han, Hyeon Cheol Gong, Gi-Hyuk Choi, In Hee Hwang, Joon Lyou

TRAJECTORY PLANNING TOWARD THE WAYPOINT FOR MOBILE ROBOT .............................................. 536Jinhong Noh, Jaehyung Park, Haiyun Wang, Jonghun Park, Seongryong Chang, Ukyoul Huh

TRAVERSABILITY ANALYSIS FOR OFF-ROAD VEHICLES USING STEREO AND RADAR DATA.................................................................................................................................................................................. 540

Giulio Reina, Annalisa Milella, Raphael Rouveure

UAV-UGV COOPERATION FOR OBJECTS TRANSPORTATION IN AN INDUSTRIAL AREA ....................... 547el Houssein Chouaib Harik, François Guérin, Frédéric Guinand, Jean-François Brethé, Hervé Pelvillain

VERIFICATION OF TWIST DRIVE SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO HAPTIC ROBOT HAND ................................................................................................................................................................................. 553

Seiji Uozumi, Shuhei Shimizu, Takuya Matsunaga, Tomohiro Nakano, Kouhei Ohnishi

WIENER MODELING AND IDENTIFICATION OF A REVERSE OSMOSIS DESALINATION PROCESS USING LEAST SQUARE SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE .................................................................... 559

Mujahed Aldhaifallah, Nisar K S

ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND DRIVES A COMPARISON OF DISCRETE-TIME MODELS FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES...................................................................................................................................... 568

Christian Rojas, Juan Yuz, Matias Aguirre, Jose Rodriguez

A COUPLED THERMAL AND ELECTRICAL SOFT SENSOR FOR ONAN DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS............................................................................................................................................................ 574

Sami Najar, Jean-François Tissier, Sébastien Cauet, Erik Etien

A FIVE-PHASE LINEAR INDUCTION MACHINE WITH PLANAR MODULAR WINDING ............................. 580Ayman Abdel-Khalik, Shehab Ahmed, Ahmed Massoud

A METHOD FOR FAULT DETECTION ON SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS USING MODIFIED PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS ................................................................................................. 586

Wesley Doorsamy, Willie Cronje

A MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER CONFIGURATION FOR 4N POLE INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE BY USING CONVENTIONAL TWO-LEVEL INVERTERS ....................................................................................... 592

Sivakumar K, Kiran kumar N, Madhukar Rao A

A SIMPLE DC BUS VOLTAGE CONTROL METHOD FOR SELF EXCITED SQUIRREL CAGE INDUCTION GENERATORS ......................................................................................................................................... 598

Michael Bierhoff, Christoph Rhinow

ACOUSTIC NOISE CHARACTERISTICS IN POSITION SENSORLESS CONTROL FOR IPMSM BASED ON EEMF AND VOLTAGE INJECTION SYNCHRONIZED WITH PWM CARRIER ........................... 604

Tomoya Yokoyama, Hisao Kubota

ADVANCED SELF-COMMISSIONING AND FEED-FORWARD COMPENSATION OF INVERTER NON-LINEARITIES ................................................................................................................................... 610

Alberto Gaeta, Fabio Tinazzi, Pericle Zanchetta, Mauro Zigliotto

AN ORIGINAL METHOD FOR MEASURING THE STATOR LEAKAGE REACTANCE OF SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES ....................................................................................................................................... 617

Geoffrey Lossa, Zacharie Degrève, François Vallée, Marc Delhaye

ANALYSIS AND MODELING OF MODULAR CURVED LINEAR PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR ............................................................................................................................................................................. 623

Bin Li, Tony Camarano, Jonathan Beck, Wei Wu, Louis Chow, Thomas Wu, Don Drumm, Martin Lebouitz, David Napolitano

APPLICATION OF MOVING HORIZON OBSERVER FOR STATE ESTIMATION IN DRIVE SYSTEM WITH ELASTIC COUPLING........................................................................................................................ 629

Piotr Serkies, Krzysztof Szabat

APPLICATION OF THE MODIFIED FUZZY KALMAN FILTER TO STATES ESTIMATION OF THE TWO-MASS SYSTEM ............................................................................................................................................ 634

Krzysztof Drózdz, Teresa Orlowska-Kowlaska, Krzysztof Szabat

ASYMMETRICAL TWO-PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR SPEED CONTROLLED WITH 3-LEG VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER .................................................................................................................................. 640

Vittaya Tipsuwanporn, Khomkrit Kaenthong, Arjin Numsomran, Anuchit Jarean

BRUSH-DC EQUIVALENT CONTROL BASED DELTA MODULATION FOR A PWM INVERTER-FED NINE PHASE INDUCTION MACHINE DRIVE............................................................................ 646

Lovemore Gunda, Nkosinathi Gule

COGGING TORQUE REDUCTION OF AXIAL MAGNETIC GEARBOX USING POLE PAIRING TECHNIQUE..................................................................................................................................................................... 652

Hassan Zaytoon, Ayman Abdel-Khalik, Shehab Ahmed, Ahmed Massoud

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ALTERNATIVE MODULAR SWITCHED FLUX PERMANENT MAGNET MACHINES .................................................................................................................................................... 658

Petrica Taras, Guang-Jin Li, Zi-Qiang Zhu

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SHORT-PITCHED AND FULLY-PITCHED SRMS SUPPLIED BY SINE WAVE CURRENTS................................................................................................................................................ 664

Xi-yun Ma, Guang-jin Li, Geraint Jewell, Zi-qiang Zhu

COMPARISON OF A FERRITE BASED SINGLE, THREE-PHASE SPOKE AND SURFACE PERMANENT MAGNET BLDC MOTOR FOR A PV SUBMERSIBLE WATER PUMP. ...................................... 671

Sashidhar Sampathirao, Fernandes B. G.

CONTROL OF A HIGH-SPEED SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MACHINE USING ONLY THE DC-LINK MEASUREMENTS ................................................................................................................................................ 677

Sava Marinkov, Bram de Jager

CYCLOCONVERTER INTERHARMONICS CURRENT ANALYSIS UNDER UNBALANCED LOAD BASED ON A REAL-TIME SIMULATION ...................................................................................................... 683

Marcelo Vasquez, Jorge Pontt, Victor Arredondo

DESIGN OF A TWO-PHASE PMSM FED BY AN AC-AC CONVERTER ............................................................... 690Omur Aydogmus, Erkan Deniz

DESIGN OF EFFICIENT BLDC MOTOR FOR DC OPERATED MIXER-GRINDER ........................................... 696Vaibhav Gholase, B. G. Fernandes

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION COMPARISON OF BLPM TRACTION MOTOR USING BEES AND GENETIC ALGORITHMS .............................................................................................................................................. 702

Nasser Yousef Braiwish, Fatih J. Anayi, Ashraf Fahmy, E.E. Eldukhri

DEVELOPMENT OF A DEDICATED LABORATORY SYSTEM FOR MEASUREMENT OF IRON LOSSES IN HIGH SPEED PMSM....................................................................................................................... 708

Rafael K. Jardan, Zoltan Varga, Peter Stumpf, Istvan Nagy, Christian Endisch, Peter Sipos, Miklos Simon

DIRECT TORQUE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE SYSTEM WITH ADAPTIVE SLIDING-MODE NEURO-FUZZY COMPENSATOR................................................................................................. 714

Mateusz Dybkowski, Krzysztof Szabat

EFFECT OF MAGNETIC TRAJECTORIES IN A MAGNETICALLY COUPLED DUAL STATOR FIVE PHASE PMSG ......................................................................................................................................................... 720

Raja Ram Kumar, Santosh K Singh, R K Srivastava

EMERGENCY DC INJECTION BRAKING SYSTEM ................................................................................................ 726Cedric Somers, Cynthia Moussa, Kamal Al-Haddad

ENERGY EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION BY AUTOMATIC COORDINATION OF MOTOR SPEEDS IN CONVEYING SYSTEMS............................................................................................................................ 731

Stefan Windmann, Oliver Niggemann, Heiko Stichweh

GA-BASED OPTIMIZATION AND ANN-BASED SHEPWM GENERATION FOR TWO-LEVEL INVERTER ........................................................................................................................................................................ 738

Erkan Deniz, Omur Aydogmus, Zafer Aydogmus

INCREASING ACCURACY OF KALMAN FILTER-BASED SENSORLESS CONTROL OF WIND TURBINE PM SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR.......................................................................................................... 745

Tomislav Loncarek, Vinko Lesic, Mario Vasak

INFLUENCE OF FAST INVERTER SWITCHING BASED ON SIC SEMI-CONDUCTORS ON ONLINE INSULATION MONITORING OF HIGH POWER TRACTION MACHINES ........................................ 751

Clemens Zoeller, Markus Vogelsberger, Hans Ertl, Thomas Wolbank

INTER-TURN SHORT CIRCUIT STATOR FAULT IDENTIFICATION FOR INDUCTION MACHINES USING COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ALGORITHMS......................................................... 757

Salah Ethni, Shady Gadoue, Bashar Zahawi

MODULAR INVERTER TOPOLOGY WITH FULL-BRIDGE SUB-MODULES FOR OPEN-END SPLIT WINDING THREE-PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE .......................................................................... 769

Adriano Ruseler, Telles Lazzarin, Ivo Barbi

MULTILAYER PARK’S VECTOR APPROACH, A METHOD FOR FAULT DETECTION ON INDUCTION MOTORS. .................................................................................................................................................. 775

Jordi Burriel Valencia, Angel Sapena Baño, Manuel Pineda Sanchez, Javier Martinez Roman

MULTIPHYSICAL MODELING FOR FAULT DETECTION IN PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS............................................................................................................................................ 781

Kawthar Alameh, Nicolas Cité, Ghaleb Hoblos, Georges Barakat

ON-LINE COMPENSATION OF MAGNETIC POSITION SENSOR USING RECURSIVE LEAST SQUARE METHOD ......................................................................................................................................................... 787

Ji-Won Kim, Seok-Hwan Moon, Byung-Gun Park

ON-LINE PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION OF IPM MOTOR USING INSTANTANEOUS REACTIVE POWER FOR ROBUST MAXIMUM TORQUE PER AMPERE CONTROL ..................................... 793

Toshihiko Noguchi, Yuki Kumakiri

OPERATION CONTROL OF THE BRUSHLESS DOUBLY-FED MACHINE FOR STAND-ALONE SHIP SHAFT GENERATOR SYSTEMS........................................................................................................................ 800

Yi Liu, Wu Ai, Bing Chen, Ke Chen, Guang Luo, Sheng Xu

OPTIMAL DESIGN OF A DIRECT-DRIVEN PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS WIND GENERATOR ................................................................................................................................................................... 806

Pedram Asef, Tianjie Zou, Haiyang Fang

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF A NINE PHASE POLE PHASE MODULATED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE........................................................................................................................................ 812

Umesh B S, Siva kumar K, Kiran Kumar N

REALIZATION OF HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND SMALL IPM MOTORS FOR THE COMPRESSORS OF AIR-CONDITIONERS ................................................................................................................ 825

Mitsuhiko Satoh, Seiichi Kaneko, Mutuwo Tomita, Shinji Doki

SELF-SENSING CONTROL OF A SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MACHINE USING AN EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER .................................................................................................................................... 831

Jochen Antons, Tobias Rösmann

THE DYNAMIC MODEL OF MAGNETIC HYSTERESIS......................................................................................... 840Andrzej Wilk, Michal Michna

WINDING SWITCHING STRATEGY FOR ELECTRIC WHEEL DRIVES IN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.................................................................................................................................................................... 851

Mike Geissler, Pavel Osinenko, Thomas Herlitzius

POWER ELECTRONICS AND RENEWABLE ENERGY CONVERSION A CHARGING SCENARIO FOR PARALLEL BUCK-BOOST BATTERY POWER MODULES WITH FULL POWER UTILIZATION AND CHARGE EQUALIZATION .............................................................. 860

Tsung-Hsi Wu, Chu-Shen Chang, Chin-Sien Moo

A FAST AND SIMPLE METHOD TO DETECT SHORT CIRCUIT FAULT IN CASCADED H-BRIDGE MULTILEVEL INVERTER............................................................................................................................ 866

Saeed Ouni, Jose Rodriguez, Mahmoud Shahbazi, MohammadReza Zolghadri, Hashem Oraee, Pablo Lezana, Andres Ulloa Schmeisser

A NOVEL ZCS BIDIRECTIONAL BUCK-BOOST DC-DC CONVERTERS FOR ENERGY STORAGE APPLICATIONS........................................................................................................................................... 872

V.V.Subrahmanya Kumar Bhajana, Pavel Drabek

A REDUCED SWITCH-COUNT SINGLE-PHASE SEPIC-BASED INVERTER ..................................................... 878Mohamed Diab, Ahmed Elserougi, Ahmed Massoud, Ayman Abdel-khalik, Shehab Ahmed

A SEPIC-CUK CONVERTER COMBINATION FOR BIPOLAR DC MICROGRID APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 884

María Bella Ferrera, Salvador P. Litrán, Eladio Durán, José Manuel Andújar

A STABLE FLC-BASED MPPT TECHNIQUE FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM................................................. 890Maissa Farhat, Oscar Barambones, Lassaad Sbita, J. M. Gonzalez de Durana

ADAPTIVE PLL METHOD USING RECURSIVE LEAST SQUARE ALGORITHM ............................................. 896Seok-Hwan Moon, Ji-Won Kim, Byung-Gun Park

AN EXPERIMENTAL SETUP FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY EVALUATION OF MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS .................................................................................................................................................................... 902

Pedro Serra, Antonio Espirito-Santo, Antonio Albuquerque

AN INTEGRATED INSULATED BUCK-FLYBACK CONVERTER TO FEED LED’S LAMPS TO STREET LIGHTING WITH REDUCED CAPACITANCES ....................................................................................... 908

Ricardo Prado, Paulo Cesar Vargas Luz, Marcelo Cosetin, Priscila Bolzan, Thiago Maboni, Marcelo Silva

AN LFPWM DIMMED LED DRIVER FEATURING HIGH POWER FACTOR ..................................................... 914Yong-Nong Chang, Hung-Liang Cheng, Chun-An Cheng, Chien-Hsuan Chang, Yu-Hung Lin

AN ONLINE TECHNIQUE FOR CONDITION MONITORING OF CAPACITOR IN PV SYSTEM.................... 920Md Waseem Ahmad, Abhinav Arya, Sandeep Anand

ANALYSIS AND MODULATION OF THE BUCK-BOOST VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER (BBVSI) FOR LOWER VOLTAGE STRESSES............................................................................................................ 926

Ahmed Abdelrazek

APPLICATION OF HYBRID-LOOP CONTROL APPROACH TO INVERTER DESIGN WITH PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS ............................................................................................................................. 935

Shyh-Jier Huang, Tsong-Shing Lee, Ruei-Yuan Chen, Yun-Hsuan Yeh

BASIC DIODE SPICE MODEL EXTENSION AND A SOFTWARE CHARACTERIZATION TOOL FOR REVERSE RECOVERY SIMULATION .............................................................................................................. 941

Denys I. Zaikin

BIDIRECTIONAL CLLC RESONANT DC-DC CONVERTER WITH INTEGRATED MAGNETIC FOR OBCM APPLICATION........................................................................................................................................... 946

Gang Liu, Dan Li, Jian Qiu Zhang, Bo Hu

BIDIRECTIONAL SOFTLY SWITCHED DC-TO-DC CONVERTER WITH GALVANIC ISOLATION ...................................................................................................................................................................... 952

Yao-Ching Hsieh, Yong-Nong Chang, Kun-Ying Lee, Yu-Chun Chiu, Wei-Ting Wu

COMBINATION OF CLASS E INVERTERS WITH DC-DC CONVERTERS FOR A CIRCUIT DESIGN WITH CONTROLLABLE DUAL OUTPUTS ............................................................................................... 957

Shyh-Jier Huang, Te-Chun Hung, Shih-Yu Liu

COUPLED INDUCTOR BOOST CONVERTER WITH ENHANCED ESR FILTER CAPACITOR FOR DC MICROGRID APPLICATIONS...................................................................................................................... 963

Mukul Garg, Rajeev Kumar Singh

DESIGN OF A FAULT-TOLERANT TANDEM CONVERTER FOR A MULTI-MW SUPERCONDUCTING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE GENERATOR .................................................................... 969

Max Parker, Stephen Finney

DESIGN OF WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER FOR DYNAMIC POWER TRANSMISSION WITH POSITION-DETECTION MECHANISM ...................................................................................................................... 976

Tsong-Shing Lee, Shyh-Jier Huang, Cheng-Chi Tai, Ruei-Yuan Chen, Bei-Ren Jiang

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGY FOR A WIND GENERATION SYSTEMS BASED ON PMSG WITH UNCONTROLLED RECTIFIER HVDC CONNECTION ................................................................... 982

Ivan Andrade, Ramon Blasco, Ruben PeÑA

DYNAMIC MODEL OF SMALL HYDRO PLANT USING ARCHIMEDES SCREW............................................. 987Julien Rohmer, Guy Sturtzer, Dominique Knittel, Damien Flieller, Jean Renaud

EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A PROPOSAL FOR A 3.5 KVA THREE-PHASE MAGNETIC-LESS SOLID-STATE AUTOTRANSFORMER (SSAT) BASED ON THE SWITCHED-CAPACITOR PRINCIPLE ....................................................................................................................... 993

Telles Lazzarin, Mauricio Vecchia, Ivo Barbi

EXPLICIT MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL WITH DISTURBANCE OBSERVER FOR GRID-CONNECTED VOLTAGE SOURCE POWER CONVERTERS ................................................................................. 999

Christian Dirscherl, Christoph Hackl, Korbinian Schechner

FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL DESIGN FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS: CURRENT ADVANCES AND OPEN RESEARCH PROBLEMS ........................................................................................................................ 1007

Afef Fekih

FLEXIBLE AND COST EFFECTIVE HYBRID ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM BASED ON BATTERIES AND ULTRACAPACITORS .................................................................................................................. 1013

Manuel Reyes, Oliver Martinez, Isaac Gil, Eugenio Dominguez, Sergio Vazquez, Kim McGrath, Wolfgang Beez

FUTURE-ORIENTED ANALYSIS OF BATTERY TECHNOLOGIES.................................................................... 1019Katarzyna Halicka, Pio Alessandro Lombardi, Zbigniew Styczynski

GALVANICALLY ISOLATED DRIVER USING AN INTEGRATED POWER- AND SIGNAL-TRANSFORMER ............................................................................................................................................................ 1025

Matthias Biskoping, Marcus Conrad, Rik De Doncker

HYBRID ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR REMOTE AREAS AND THE ROLE OF STORAGE.................................. 1031Marcel Pendieu Kwaye, Norma Anglani

IMPACT OF THE MODULATION STRATEGY ON THE DIMENSIONING OF THREE-PHASE Z-SOURCE INVERTERS .............................................................................................................................................. 1039

Thomas Lannert, Emanuel Mittwede, Raimund Kempf, Michael Braun

IMPROVING ACCURACY OF LONG-TERM PROGNOSTICS OF PEMFC STACK TO ESTIMATE REMAINING USEFUL LIFE .................................................................................................................. 1047

Kamran Javed, Rafael Gouriveau, Noureddine Zerhouni, Daniel Hissel

INPUT VOLTAGE SLIDING MODE CONTROL OF THE VERSATILE BUCK-BOOST CONVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................ 1053

Francisco Mendez-Diaz, Harrynson Ramirez-Murillo, Javier Calvente, Beatriz Pico, Roberto Giral

INTEGRAL TERMINAL SLIDING MODE CONTROL TO PROVIDE FAULT RIDE-THROUGH CAPABILITY TO A GRID CONNECTED WIND TURBINE DRIVEN DFIG ....................................................... 1059

Mohammmad Javad Morshed, Afef Fekih

MEASURING COMPLEX FOR ANALYSIS OF RECOMBINATION DEEP TRAPS IN SEMICONDUCTOR SOLAR CELLS .......................................................................................................................... 1071

Vladimir Litvinov, Nikolay V. Vishnyakov, Valery V. Gudzev, Vladislav G. Mishustin, Sergey M. Karabanov, Sergey P. Vikhrov, Andrey S. Karabanov

MODELLING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SVPWM TECHNIQUE FOR A FIFTEEN-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER FOR SINUSOIDAL OUTPUT WAVEFORM .................................................. 1075

Shaikh Moinoddin, Atif Iqbal, Haitham Abu-Rub, Rashid Alammari

MULTIFUNCTIONAL TEST BENCH FOR THE EMULATION AND TESTING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLE FAST-CHARGING FROM URBAN RAILWAY POWER LINES......................................................... 1081

Pablo Moreno-Torres, Gustavo Navarro, Marcos Blanco, Marcos Lafoz

MULTIPHASE RESONANT CONVERTER FOR BATTERY CHARGER APPLICATIONS.............................. 1088Christian Brañas, Juan C. Viera, Roberto Sánchez, Francisco J. Azcondo, Manuela González

OPERATING REGION AND CONTROL FOR POWER CONVERTERS CONNECTED TO A VARIABLE FREQUENCY AND AMPLITUDE VOLTAGE GRID SUPPLY ......................................................... 1094

Jaime Rohten, Jose Espinoza, Jose Silva, Javier Muñoz, Daniel Sbarbaro, Carlos Baier, Eduardo Espinosa

OPTIMAL DESIGN OF A BOOST-TYPE DC-DC CONVERTER FOR PV POWER-SUPPLIED WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS ............................................................................................................................. 1100

Ioannis Mandourarakis, Eftichios Koutroulis

OPTIMIZATION APPROACH TO POWER CONTROL OF GRID SIDE CONVERTERS DURING VOLTAGE SAGS............................................................................................................................................................ 1106

Tamara Hadjina, Mato Baotic

OUTPUT VOLTAGE SENSOR BASED MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING FOR PV SYSTEM USING SEPIC ................................................................................................................................................ 1112

Muralidhar Killi, Susovon Samanta

POST FAULT OPERATION OF A DUAL MATRIX CONVERTER FED OPEN-END LOAD ............................ 1117Atif Iqbal, Khaliqur Rahman, Rashid Al-Ammari, Haitham Abu-Rub

POWER LOSSES ANALYSIS OF TWO-LEVELS AND THREE-LEVELS PWM INVERTERS HANDLING REACTIVE POWER ............................................................................................................................... 1123

Francesco Antonio Gervasio, Rosa Anna Mastromauro, Marco Liserre

PREDICTIVE CONTROL ALGORITHM TECHNIQUE WITH REDUCED NUMBER OF CALCULATION FOR ASYMMETRIC MULTILEVEL CONVERTER WITH FLOATING CELLS ................. 1129

Marcelo Vasquez, Jorge Pontt, Juan Vargas

REDUCING CIRCULATING CURRENTS IN INTERLEAVED CONVERTER LEGS UNDER SELECTIVE HARMONIC ELIMINATION PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION...................................................... 1136

Georgios Konstantinou, Josep Pou, Gabriel Jose Capella, Salvador Ceballos, Vassilios Agelidis

RESONANCE ASSESSMENT IN ELECTRIFIED RAILWAY SYSTEMS USING COMPREHENSIVE MODEL OF TRAIN AND OVERHEAD CATENARY SYSTEM.......................................... 1142

Hossein Mahdinia, Alireza Jalilian, Sadegh Jamali

ROBUST CONTROL FOR THREE-PHASE GRID CONNECTED POWER CONVERTERS VIA SECOND ORDER SLIDING MODE ............................................................................................................................ 1149

Jianxing Liu, Sergio Vazquez, Huijun Gao, Leopoldo G. Franquelo

ROTOR FLUX ESTIMATION METHOD FOR CAGE INDUCTION GENERATORS USED IN WIND POWER APPLICATIONS ................................................................................................................................. 1155

Martina Kutija, Damir Sumina, Igor Colovic, Tomislav Idzotic

SERIES-SERIES ASSOCIATION OF TWO DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGE (DAB) CONVERTERS .......................... 1161Antonio Bottion, Ivo Barbi

SHE FORMULATION FOR FIVE LEVEL INVERTERS WITH UNEQUAL DC SOURCES .............................. 1167Concettina Buccella, Carlo Cecati, M. Gabriella Cimoroni

SPACE VECTOR PULSE WIDTH MODULATION TECHNIQUES FOR A FIVE- PHASE IMPEDANCE SOURCE AND QUAZI IMPEDEANCE SOURCE INVERTERS .................................................... 1173

Ahmad A. Abduallah, Atif Iqbal, Lazhar Ben-Brahim

SPACE VECTOR PWM FOR A THREE-PHASE TO SIX-PHASE DIRECT AC/AC CONVERTER.................. 1179Atif Iqbal, Khaliqur Rahman, Rashid Alammari, Haitham Aburub

STATE OF CHARGE ESTIMATION MODEL FOR NI-CD BATTERIES CONSIDERING CAPACITY AND EFFICIENCY ................................................................................................................................... 1185

Manuel Garcia-Plaza, Joaquin Eloy-Garcia, Jaime Alonso-Martinez

STATE OF CHARGE, HYSTERESIS AND ROOM TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON THE NI-CD BATTERY MODELING ................................................................................................................................................ 1191

Manuel Garcia-Plaza, Daniel Serrano-Jimenez, Joaquin Eloy-Garcia, Jaime Alonso-Martinez

SWITCHING LOSS REDUCTION OF MOSFET USING SWITCHING ASSIST CIRCUIT ................................ 1198Toshihiko Noguchi, Munehiro Murata

SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES OPERATING WITH PARTIALLY SATURATED INDUCTORS ................ 1205Giulia Di Capua, Nicola Femia

THREE PHASE CURRENT SOURCE SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER WITH SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC GRID INTERFACE....................................................................................................................... 1211

Bruno Exposto, Vítor Monteiro, J.G. Pinto, Delfim Pedrosa, Andrés A. Nogueiras Meléndez, João L. Afonso

THYRISTOR WORKING AS ARC ELIMINATOR PROTECTING ELECTRICAL APPARATUS IN LOW VOLTAGE POWER SYSTEM ...................................................................................................................... 1216

Zichi Zhang, Bin Ma, Andreas Friberg

USING VIRTUAL IMPEDANCE TO ANALYZE THE STABILITY OF LCL-FILTERED GRID-CONNECTED INVERTERS.......................................................................................................................................... 1220

Jianguo Wang, Jiu Dun Yan

VARIABLE FREQUENCY DIGITAL PWM CONTROLLER FOR LOW-POWER BUCK CONVERTERS ............................................................................................................................................................... 1226

Markus Krug, Fabian Nuber, Georg Bretthauer

POWER SYSTEMS AND SMART GRIDS A DATA MINING APPROACH FOR PRODUCING SMALL AREA STATISTICS-BASED LOAD PROFILES FOR DISTRIBUTION NETWORK PLANNING.................................................................................... 1236

Jukka Saarenpää, Mikko Kolehmainen, Matti Mononen, Harri Niska

A MOBILE APP FOR REPORTING DAMAGED ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.................................................. 1241Olivier Steiger, Mauricio Garcia Avendano, Yannick Maret

A REAL-TIME HOME POWER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ............................................................ 1245Hanife Apayd n Özkan

A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FRAMEWORK: REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL MICROGRIDS ........................................................................................................... 1251

Wesley Doorsamy, Willem Cronje, Lorinda Lakay-Doorsamy

ANALYSIS OF DRIVE-TRAIN RESONANCE AND TORQUE RIPPLE SMOOTHING OF A 50KW VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE ............................................................................................................................ 1263

Akram Bati, Patrick Luk

ANALYSIS OF WIDE AREA MONITORING SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES ....................................................... 1269Rahul Gore, Mallikarjun Kande

APPLICATION OF BIRD-MATING OPTIMIZATION TO PHASE ADJUSTMENT OF OPEN-WYE/OPEN-DELTA TRANSFORMERS IN A POWER GRID ................................................................................ 1275

Shyh-Jier Huang, Te-Yu Tai, Xian-Zong Liu, Wei-Fu Su, Pei-Hong Gu

APPLICATION OF FLOWER POLLINATION ALGORITHM FOR PLACEMENT OF DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS IN A LOW-VOLTAGE GRID ....................................................................... 1280

Shyh-Jier Huang, Pei-Hong Gu, Wei-Fu Su, Xian-Zong Liu, Te-Yu Tai

DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT IN PV/DIESEL STAND-ALONE SYSTEM WITH REAL-TIME MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF THE CONSUMER ELECTRICAL BEHAVIOUR...................................... 1286

Yaël Thiaux, Thu Thuy Dang, Bernard Multon, Hamid Ben Ahmed, Seddik Bacha, Quoc Tuan Tran

DYNAMIC FORMULATION OF THE UNIT COMMITMENT AND ECONOMIC DISPATCH PROBLEMS..................................................................................................................................................................... 1294

Mutaz Tuffaha, Jan Tommy Gravdahl

ENHANCED LOAD FORECASTING METHODOLOGY BY MEANS OF PROBABILISTIC PREDICTION INTERVALS ESTIMATION ............................................................................................................... 1299

Enric Sala Cardoso, Daniel Zurita Millan, Konstantinos Kampouropoulos, Miguel Delgado Prieto, Jose Luis Romeral

ESTIMATION OF BATTERY INTERNAL PARAMETERS .................................................................................... 1305Joya Zeitouny, Jihad Bou Merhi, Jana Chalak, Sami Karaki

EVALUATION OF DATA COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMON DEMAND RESPONSE MODELS .................................................................................................................................................... 1311

Judith Schwarzer, Dominik Engel

HYBRIDIZATION OF ENERGY STORAGES WITH DIFFERENT RAMP RATES IN DC MICROGRIDS ................................................................................................................................................................ 1317

Leonardy Setyawan, Xiao Jianfang, Wang Peng, Choo Fook Hoong

LIGHTWEIGHT ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF ISLANDED OPERATED MICROGRIDS FOR PROSUMER COMMUNITIES...................................................................................................................................... 1323

Riccardo Bonetto, Tommaso Caldognetto, Simone Buso, Michele Rossi, Stefano Tomasin, Paolo Tenti

MARKOV CHAIN ANALYSIS FOR FAILURE PREDICTION OF POWER CONVERTERS ............................ 1336Lorenzo Giuntini, Massimiliano Brioschi

MAXIMIZING THE PROFIT OF A LOAD AGGREGATOR BY OPTIMAL SCHEDULING OF DAY AHEAD LOAD WITH EVS .................................................................................................................................. 1342

Md Shafiullah, Ali T. Al-Awami

MULTIFUNCTIONAL CURRENT-CONTROLLED DSTATCOM WITH HARMONIC MITIGATION THROUGH VOLTAGE DETECTION .............................................................................................. 1348

Jean Carlo da Cunha, Sérgio Vidal G. Oliveira, Leandro Michels, Marcello Mezaroba

NONEXISTENT HARMONICS GENERATION PHENOMENON CAUSED BY THE PROCESSING OF DQ TRANSFORMATION IN POWER QUALITY APPLICATIONS ..................................... 1355

Mario González, Víctor Cárdenas, Ricardo ÁLvarez

OPTIMAL FILTERING OF SYNCHRONIZED CURRENT PHASOR MEASUREMENTS IN A STEADY STATE ............................................................................................................................................................. 1362

Igor Ivanov, Andrey Murzin

OPTIMIZATION OF SHORT-CIRCUIT TESTS BASED ON FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS .......................... 1368Francesca Capelli, Jordi-Roger Riba, David González

PERFORMANCE STUDY OF POWER SYSTEM STABILIZER OF THE FORM OF STATE FEEDBACK CONTROL WITH STATE ESTIMATOR............................................................................................. 1375

Mou Das Mahapatra, Jayati Dey, Saradindu Ghosh

PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF WAVEFORM RELAXATION METHOD FOR TESTING REMOTE PROTECTIVE RELAYS ............................................................................................................................. 1381

Mohammad Goulkhah, Aniruddha M. Gole

PRIVACY-RELEVANT SMART METERING USE CASES ..................................................................................... 1387Günther Eibl, Dominik Engel, Christian Neureiter

SMARTPLUG: REDUCING ENERGY COSTS WITH PRICE-AWARE SCHEDULING OF ELECTRICAL DEVICES .............................................................................................................................................. 1393

Steffen Vaupel, Lineth Lisandra Osorio Segura, Herbert Vaupel

THREE-PHASE THREE-LEVEL CURRENT-SOURCE CONVERTER FOR EVS FAST BATTERY CHARGING SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................. 1401

Vitor Monteiro, Bruno Exposto, J. G. Pinto, M. J. Sepúlveda, Andrés A. Nogueiras Meléndez, João Afonso

UNBALANCE IN POWER SYSTEMS ......................................................................................................................... 1407Mohammed Albadi, Amer Al Hinai, Abdullah Al-Badi, Masoud Al Riyami, Salem Al-Hinai, Rashid Al-Abri

SENSORS, ACTUATORS AND MICRO-NANOTECHNOLOGY A LOW-COST CAPACITIVE SENSOR FOR WATER LEVEL MONITORING IN LARGE-SCALE STORAGE TANKS ......................................................................................................................................................... 1416

Konstantinos Loizou, Eftichios Koutroulis, Dimitrios Zalikas, Georgios Liontas

CONDUCTANCE SENSOR FOR MICROMACHINING. A CASE STUDY ON MONITORING TOOL-WORKPIECE CONTACT. ............................................................................................................................... 1422

Fernando Castano, Raúl M. del Toro, Rodolfo E. Haber, Gerardo Beruvides

DESIGN OF A MUSCLE ACTIVITY MONITOR FOR REHABILITATION OF POST-STROKE PATIENTS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1427

Roberto Fernández-Molanes, José Fariña, Juan J. Rodriguez-Andina, Manuel Portela

DIELECTROPHORETIC FABRICATION AND CHACTERIZATION OF ZNO NANOWIRE-BASED ACETYLENE GAS SENSOR .......................................................................................................................... 1433

Yuki Kawabe, Li Li, Michihiko Nakano, Junya Suehiro

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS WITH ENHANCED LINEARITY AND TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION .......................................................................................................................................................... 1438

Zhan Su, Bogdan M. Wilamowski

DIGITALLY ASSISTED LOW NOISE AND FAST SIGNAL PROCESSING CHARGE SENSITIVE AMPLIFIER FOR SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING SYSTEMS ............................................................................... 1445

Pawel Grybos, Aleksandra Drozd, Rafal Kleczek, Piotr Maj, Robert Szczygiel

ELECTRO-THERMAL VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING OF A ROGOWSKI COIL SENSOR SYSTEM ................. 1451Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupiñán, Alain Vachoux, Joris Pascal

FINITE ELEMENT RE-DESIGN OF A COMPOSITE PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR..................................... 1457Gaston M'boungui, Aa Jimoh, Betty Semail

FRICTIONAL FORCE MEASUREMENT DURING STICK-SLIP MOTION OF A PIEZOELECTRIC WALKER ....................................................................................................................................... 1463

V Shrikanth, K R Y Simha, M S Bobji

IN-SITU MEASUREMENT OF NON-STEADY FLOWS USING OPTICAL FEEDBACK INTERFEROMETRY..................................................................................................................................................... 1469

E.E. Ramírez-Miquet, A. Luna Arriaga, A. Quotb, O. Sotolongo-Costa, J. Perchoux

PRECISION OF VOLATILE COMPOUND ANALYSIS IN EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL: THE INFLUENCE OF MOS ELECTRONIC NOSE ACQUISITION FACTORS ............................................................ 1482

Julio Beltrán Ortega, Javier Gamez García, Juan Gomez Ortega

THE EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE GRADIENT ON TRANSIENT BEHAVIOR OF LOW-RANGE DIFFERENTIAL AIR PRESSURE CALIBRATION SETUP ..................................................................... 1488

Muhammad Nazar Ul Islam, Peng Cheng, Bengt Oelmann

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK FAULT DETECTION VIA SEMI-SUPERVISED LOCAL KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION ............................................................................................................................. 1495

Mingbo Zhao, T. W. S. Chow

CLOUD COMPUTING, BIG DATA AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ACCESS CONTROL IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS USING STEGANOGRAPHY AND DIGITAL SIGNATURES ............................................................................................................................................... 1504

Laura Vegh, Liviu Miclea

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING RECOMMENDATION ALGORITHM BASED ON HADOOP AND SPARK .................................................................................................................................................................... 1510

Bartosz Kupisz, Olgierd Unold

CRYPTPGRAPHY AND MULTIPLICATIVE ARITHMETIC FUNCTIONS ........................................................ 1515Aura Conci, Trueman MacHenry

FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION OF CLOUD-BASED ENGINEERING SERVICES USING SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES........................................................................................................................................................... 1520

Christian Stahl, Christian Altenhofen, Efstratios Bellos, Jon Hjelmervik

IMPROVEMENT OF MLP MODELS FOR FORECASTING ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION USING OBD AND OBS METHODS .............................................................................................. 1526

Jaroslaw Protasiewicz, Jakub S. Sowinski

MOBILE APPLICATIONS, CLOUD AND BIGDATA ON SHIPS AND SHORE STATIONS FOR INCREASED SAFETY ON MARINE TRAFFIC; A SMART SHIP PROJECT ...................................................... 1532

Alejandro García-Domínguez

ODATA FOR SERVICE-ORIENTED BUSINESS APPLICATIONS ....................................................................... 1538Rafal Cupek, Lukasz Huczala

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR CYBER-PHYSICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS WITH FLEXIBLE APPLICATION OF THE SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE AND ON-PREMISES MODEL................ 1544

Maximilian Engelsberger, Thomas Greiner

ELECTRONIC SYSTEM ON CHIP AND EMBEDDED CONTROL A FINGERPRINT BIOMETRIC CRYPTOSYSTEM IN FPGA ................................................................................ 1554

Rosario Arjona, Iluminada Baturone

A RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE PLATFORM FOR POWER CONVERTER CONTROL SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1560

Paulo Ricardo Cechelero Villa, Eduardo Augusto Bezerra, Djones Vinicius Lettnin, Samir Ahmad Mussa

DISTRIBUTED CONTROLLERS MODELING THROUGH PETRI NETS WITH MULTI-ASYNCHRONOUS-CHANNELS .................................................................................................................................. 1564

Filipe Moutinho, José Ribeiro, Luís Gomes

EVALUATION OF THE NEW GENERATION OF SYSTEM-ON-CHIP PLATFORMS FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS .............................................................................................................. 1570

Jean Sawma, Flavia Khatounian, Eric Monmasson, Ragi Ghosn, Lahoucine Idkhajine

FPGA-BASED MIMICKING OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC DEVICE HACKING THROUGH FAULT INJECTION ATTACKS ................................................................................................................................................. 1576

José M. Martín-Valencia, Hipólito Guzmán-Miranda, Miguel A. Aguirre

LOGIC SYNTHESIS OF ASSERTIONS FOR SAFTEY-CRITICAL APPLICATIONS ........................................ 1581Matthias Wenzl, Christian Fibich, Peter Roessler, Herbert Taucher, Martin Matschnig

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS IN A MODERN HARDWARE DESIGN ENVIRONMENT FOR CONTROL APPLICATIONS............................................................................................................................... 1587

Christoforos Economakos, Maria Tzamtzi, Michael Skarpetis, George Economakos

PROGRAMMABLE ASICS FOR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL ................................................................... 1593Macarena Cristina Martínez-Rodríguez, Piedad Brox, Erica Tena, Antonio José Acosta, Iluminada Baturone

SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE 3D SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS BASED ON A GEOMETRIC-FEATURED VOXEL MAP.................................................................................................................. 1602

Victoria Plaza, Fakhr-Eddine Ababsa, Alfonso José Garcia-Cerezo, Jose Antonio Gomez-Ruiz

ACCURACY OF POSITIONING SPHERICAL OBJECTS WITH A STEREO CAMERA SYSTEM .................. 1608Martin Pongratz, Konstantin Mironov

ACCURATE LASER TRIANGULATION USING A PERPENDICULAR CAMERA SETUP TO ASSESS THE HEIGHT PROFILE OF PCBS .............................................................................................................. 1613

Matthias Breier, Philipp Möller, Wei Li, Marcel Bosling, Thomas Pretz, Dorit Merhof

AN ADAPTIVE SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO APPROACH TO NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING....................................................................................................................................................................... 1619

Yiming Zhang, Bo Hu

AN ASSISTANT FOR AN INCREMENTAL LEARNING BASED IMAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM ................ 1624Yongheng Wang, Michael Weyrich

AN IMPERCEPTIBLE AND ROBUST AUDIO STEGANOGRAPHY EMPLOYING BIT MODIFICATION ............................................................................................................................................................ 1635

Kaliappan Gopalan, Jiajun Fu

APPLICATION OF NEUROMORPHIC VISUAL PROCESSING IN RAILWAY ENVIRONMENT .................. 1639Il-Song Han, Woo-Sup Han

APPROXIMATIVE ISO-VALUES ESTIMATION IN THE MARCHING CUBES BASED 3D THERMAL MODEL RECONSTRUCTION OF INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS....................................................... 1644

Dinko Osmankovic, Jasmin Velagic

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OF OLIVES FOR OIL PRODUCTION USING COMPUTER VISION ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1651

Diego Manuel Martínez Gila, Daniel Aguilera Puerto, Javier Gámez García, Juan Gómez Ortega

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS FOR ULTRA-SHORT-TERM WIND FORECASTING ........................................ 1657Mladen Dalto, Jadranko Matusko, Mario Vasak

EFFICIENCY COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN TWO SEARCH ALGORITHMS USING DT CWT FOR CONTENT-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL ....................................................................................... 1664

Stella Vetova, Ivan Ivanov

EVOLVING GMMS FOR ROAD TYPE CLASSIFICATION ................................................................................... 1670Mahmud Mohammad, Ioannis Kaloskampis, Yulia Hicks

FPGA ACCELERATED VIDEO-COMPRESSION FOR CLOUD-BASED VISION SENSORS ........................... 1674Andreas Schwenk, Lothar Thieling, Georg Hartung, Gregor Büchel

HAND POSITION TRACKING USING A DEPTH IMAGE FROM A RGB-D CAMERA .................................... 1680Daniel Leonardo Marino Lizarazo, Jose Antonio Tumialan Borja

HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF A BACKGROUND SUBSTRACTION ALGORITHM IN FPGA-BASED PLATFORMS ........................................................................................................................................ 1688

Elisa Calvo-Gallego, Piedad Brox, Santiago Sánchez-Solano

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE CO-DESIGN OF VIDEO PROCESSING APPLICATIONS ON A RECONFIGURABLE PLATFORM.............................................................................................................................. 1694

Javier Cerezuela-Mora, Elisa Calvo-Gallego, Santiago Sánchez-Solano

HYBRID EMG CLASSIFIER BASED ON HMM AND SVM FOR HAND GESTURE RECOGNITION IN PROSTHETICS ........................................................................................................................... 1700

Matteo Rossi, Simone Benatti, Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini

IMAGE-PROCESSING ASSISTED CHARACTERIZATION OF SPRAY INJECTION SYSTEMS ................... 1706Enrico Baccaglini, Marco Gavelli, Michele Morello, Nadir Raimondo, Riccardo Scopigno

K-GLASS: REAL-TIME MARKERLESS AUGMENTED REALITY SMART GLASSES PLATFORM .................................................................................................................................................................... 1712

Gyeonghoon Kim, Sungpill Choi, Hoi-Jun Yoo

LASER SCANNER BASED HEADING ANGLE AND DISTANCE ESTIMATION ............................................... 1718Danilo Cáceres Hernández, Alexander Filonenko, Dongwook Seo, Kang Hyun Jo

NEURO-FUZZY STATE VARIABLES ESTIMATORS OF A TWO-MASS DRIVE SYSTEM ............................ 1723Marcin Kaminski, Krzysztof Szabat

NEW ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BASED TIRE SIZE IDENTIFICATION FOR FAST AND SAFE INFLATING CYCLE........................................................................................................................................... 1729

Gayan Kahandawa, Tanveer Choudhury, Yousef Ibrahim, Pavel Dzitac, Abdul Md Mazid

PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGY AND ITS FEATURE VISUALIZATION FOR COGNITIVE STIMULATION ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................... 1735

Tuan Pham, Mayumi Oyama-Higa

PROPOSAL OF ANALYTICS SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE WITH DATA PREPARATION LAYER FOR FAST EVENT IDENTIFICATION IN WIDE-AREA SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ................... 1741

Mika Takata, Yasushi Miyata, Norifumi Nishikawa

RATE-DISTORTION PERFORMANCE OF COMPRESSIVE SENSING IN SINGLE PIXEL CAMERA ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1747

Mihai-Alexandru Petrovici, Daniela Coltuc, Mihai Datcu, Tiberius Vasile

REMAINING USEFUL LIFE ESTIMATION OF BALL BEARINGS BY MEANS OF MONOTONIC SCORE CALIBRATION ..................................................................................................................... 1752

Jesus A. Carino, Daniel Zurita, Miguel Delgado, Juan A. Ortega, Rene J. Romero-Troncoso

RETINAL VESSEL SEGMENTATION BASED ON PHASE CONGRUENCE AND GLCM SUM-ENTROPY........................................................................................................................................................................ 1759

Temitope Mapayi, Serestina Viriri, Jules-Raymond Tapamo

SEGMENTATION OF INFRARED IMAGES: A NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST DISEASES........................................................................................................................ 1765

Aura Conci, João Paulo Scoralick de Oliveira, María G. Pérez, Victor H. Andaluz

TIME SERIES FORECASTING BY MEANS OF SOM AIDED NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................... 1772

Daniel Zurita, Jesus A. Carino, Enric Sala, Miguel Delgado, Juan A. Ortega

TOWARDS THE AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION OF EPICARDIAL AND MEDIASTINAL FATS................................................................................................................................................................................. 1779

Erick Rodrigues, Aura Conci, Felipe Moraes, María Pérez

USING WAVELETS ON DENOISING INFRARED MEDICAL IMAGES.............................................................. 1791Marcel De Moraes, Tiago Borchartt, Trueman MacHenry, Aura Conci

INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION, COMMUNICATION, NETWORKING AND INFORMATICS A DISTRIBUTED MULTI-AGENT APPROACH FOR RESILIENT SUPERVISION OVER A IPV6 WSAN INFRASTRUCTURE ......................................................................................................................................... 1802

Fábio Januário, Amâncio Santos, Luis Palma, Alberto Cardoso, Paulo Gil

A FAST AND SAFETY INDUSTRIAL WLAN PROTOCOL FOR FACTORY COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1808

Duc Khai Lam, Yasuhiro Shinozaki, Keishi Yamaguchi, Satoshi Morita, Yuhei Nagao, Masayuki Kurosaki, Hiroshi Ochi

A FUZZY LOGIC BASED DECISION ALGORITHM FOR A HETEROGENEOUS TELESCOPE NETWORK...................................................................................................................................................................... 1814

Carmen López-Casado, Carlos Pérez del Pulgar, Juan Cabello-Castillo, Víctor Muñoz, Oscar Lara, Alberto Castro-Tirado, Jan Strobl, Eduardo Maureira, Francisco Sánchez, Esteban González

A NEW MULTILEVEL APPROACH FOR PROGRAMMABLE LOGICAL CONTROLLERS (PLCS) .............................................................................................................................................................................. 1820

Angel Sapena-Bano, Jordi Burriel-Valencia, Javier Martinez-Roman, Manuel Pineda-Sánchez, Juan Pérez-Cruz, Rubén Puche-Panadero, José Roger-Folch

ADVANCED GATEWAY SERVICES FOR REAL-TIME IN-VEHICLE ETHERNET NETWORKS................. 1826Michele Selvatici, Massimiliano Ruggeri, Luca Dariz

AN EFFICIENT RESOURCE NAMING FOR ENABLING CONSTRAINED DEVICES IN SMARTM2M ARCHITECTURE .................................................................................................................................. 1832

Elvis Vogli, Mahdi Ben Alaya, Thierry Monteil, Luigi Alfredo Grieco, Khalil Drira

ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR NETWORKED MEDICAL SENSOR APPLICATIONS......................... 1838Odd Nordland, Floor Koornneef, Mark-Alexander Sujan, Karin Bernsmed

AUTOMATIC MODEL SEPARATION AND APPLICATION TO DIAGNOSIS IN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................... 1845

Stefan Windmann, Oliver Niggemann

COHART: A P2P-BASED DETERMINISTIC TRANSMISSION OF LARGE DATA AMOUNTS USING COAP .................................................................................................................................................................. 1851

Jan Skodzik, Peter Danielis, Vlado Altmann, Bjoern Konieczek, Eike Bjoern Schweissguth, Frank Golatowski, Dirk Timmermann

DETECTION OF MITM ATTACK IN LAN ENVIRONMENT USING PAYLOAD MATCHING ...................... 1857Dawood Al Abri

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ON-LINE SYSTEM FOR PRECISION DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENTS IN ELECTRICAL STEELS USING APPROACH TO FERROMAGNETIC SATURATION................................................................................................................................................................. 1863

Gholamhossein Shirkoohi

EVALUATION OF CONTEXT MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURES ................................................................... 1870Fabian Hämmerle, Patrick Nickel, Michael Doering, Johannes Merkert, Marcos Rates Crippa, Marcus Mueller, Christian Mannweiler

FUNCTION BLOCKS FOR THE DESIGN OF CONTROL APPLICATIONS BASED ON ETHERCAT FIELDBUS ................................................................................................................................................ 1876

Alfonso Blesa, Carla Larrea, Carlos Catalan, José Manuel Colom, Félix Serna, Josep Maria Rams

HIGHLY FLEXIBLE CONNECTION UNIT FOR ELECTRICAL MACHINES WITH CONCENTRATED WINDINGS ................................................................................................................................... 1884

Jan Richnow, Rolf Graef, Philipp Uhlmann, Peer Stenzel, Dieter Gerling

IMPACT OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES UTILIZATION ON MANUFACTURING FIRMS´ EFFICIENCY IN TIMES OF ECONOMIC DECLINE .............................................................................................. 1891

Vaclav Janecek, Josef Hynek

INFRASTRUCTURE-SUPPORTED MOBILITY IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS - A CASE STUDY ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1895

Ricardo Silva, Jorge Sá Silva, Fernando Boavida

MODELING PRODUCTION WORKFLOWS IN A MASS CUSTOMIZATION ERA .......................................... 1901Nadine Keddis, Gerd Kainz, Alois Zoitl, Alois Knoll

MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL OF BOILER AND TURBINE-GENERATOR UNITS OF A THERMOELECTRIC POWER PLANT WITH MULTIPLE OPERATING SET POINTS........................................................................................................................................... 1907

Bruno Sousa, Joyce Fonseca, André Lebedev, Webber Aguiar, Andre Lemos, Anísio Braga, Carmela Braga

RAINBOW PRODUCT RANKING BASED RELAY PLACEMENT AND ADAPTIVE RETRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR A RELIABLE 802.15.4E LLDN ..................................................................... 1914

Hem Kapil, Siva Ram Murthy

RANGE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF IEEE 802.11N DEVICES............................................................... 1920Pradnya Gaonkar, Deepaknath Tandur, Gulzaib Rafiq

RAPID PROTOTYPING OF A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK GATEWAY FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS USING OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS .................................................................... 1926

Carel Kruger, Adnan Abu-Mahfouz, Gerhard Hancke

RELIABILITY CENTERED MAINTENANCE USING SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH.............................. 1932Hadi Akbarzadeh Khorshidi, Indra Gunawan, Yousef Ibrahim

SYNTHESIZING SCHEDULES THROUGH HEURISTICS FOR HARD REAL-TIME WORKFLOWS................................................................................................................................................................ 1937

Thomas Kothmayr, Alfons Kemper, Andreas Scholz, Jörg Heuer

UNDERWATER WIRELESS IN-PIPE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM................................................................ 1945Giannis Kantaris, Nikos Makris

UNIDIRECTIONAL RING ETHERNET FOR LOW-COMPLEXITY IN-VEHICLE CONTROL NETWORK...................................................................................................................................................................... 1951

Injae Yoo, Mina Hwang, Jaehwan Jung, Suhyun Kim, In-Cheol Park

UNIFIED PLUG&PRODUCE ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTOMATIC INTEGRATION OF FIELD DEVICES IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS ........................................................................................................ 1956

Veit Hammerstingl, Gunther Reinhart

WI-FI-BASED HIERARCHICAL WIRELESS NETWORKED CONTROL SYSTEMS........................................ 1964Esraa Makled, Hassan Halawa, Ramez Daoud, Hassanein Amer, Tarek Refaat

ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS FOR AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS A HYBRID MORPHING NACA4412 AIRFOIL CONCEPT ..................................................................................... 1974

Johannes Scheller, Karl-Joseph Rizzo, Gurvan Jodin, Eric Duhayon, Jean-François Rouchon, Marianna Braza

ATTITUDE DETERMINATION MODULE FOR CUBESAT ................................................................................... 1979Daniel Martinez, Jose Manuel Quero, Juan Garcia, Laura Leon, Pedro Castro, Cristobal Nieto

CALIBRATION OF A MULTI-SENSOR INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT WITH MODIFIED SENSOR FRAME............................................................................................................................................................ 1984

Mushfiqul Alam, Martin Sipos, Jan Rohac, Jakub Simanek

DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF A SOFTWARE DATA LOADING APPLICATION FOR AVIONICS EQUIPMENT IN AFDX NETWORK USING COTS ETHERNET ................ 1990

Luis Miguel Parrilla Casquet, Enrique Sánchez Blanco, José María Caballero Béjar, Germán Soriano Rull, María Ángeles Martín Prats

DEVELOPING MODELS FOR FUTURE REAL-TIME PLATFORMS .................................................................. 1996Luis García-Hernández, Cristina Cuerno-Rejado, Fernando Gandía-Agüero, Ángel Antonio Rodríguez-Sevillano, Albert Cerveró, Miguel Ángel Barcala-Montejano, Alberto Peña-Rodríguez, Francisco José Estensoro-Astigarraga, Joseba Lasa-Aguirrebengoa, Alberto Pelayo-Rivera

FRIIDA - AN INTEGRATED FLIGHT DATA RECORDER ANALYSIS TOOL FOR AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE................................................................................................................................................. 2004

Zaida Cabrera Gómez, Emilio Miranda Lora, Antonio Barea Mestre

IMPLEMENTING THE UNSCENTED KALMAN FILTER ON AN EMBEDDED SYSTEM: A LESSON LEARNT .......................................................................................................................................................... 2010

Vito Mario Fico, César Pecharromán Arribas, ÁLvaro Ricca Soaje, María Ángeles Martin Prats, Sebastián Ramiro Utrera, Antonio Leopoldo Rodríguez Vázquez, Luis Miguel Parrilla Casquet

POWER MANAGEMENT OF DC AERONAUTICAL ELECTRICAL NETWORKS INCLUDING SUPERCAPACITORS.................................................................................................................................................... 2015

Alberto Cavallo, Beniamino Guida

DIGITAL CONTROL IN POWER CONVERTERS AND DRIVES A LOW COST RAPID PROTOTYPE PLATFORM FOR A THREE PHASE PFC RECTIFIER APPLICATION ............................................................................................................................................................... 2024

Frerk Haase, Alireza Kouchaki, Morten Nymand

A NOVEL LOSSLESS DIGITAL INDUCTOR CURRENT SENSING TECHNIQUE BASED CONTROL IMPLEMENTATION FOR SWITCHING DC/DC CONVERTER ...................................................... 2030

Rajeev Kumar Singh, Rishav Goel

A NOVEL MODULATION TECHNIQUE FOR SINGLE PHASE CURRENT SOURCE INVERTERS WITH ACTIVE BUFFERING ............................................................................................................... 2036

Pablo M. Cossutta, Miguel P. Aguirre, Andrés Cao, Santiago Raffo, María I. Valla

A PLATFORM FOR REAL-TIME FAULT-TOLERANT DISTRIBUTED CONTROL OF REPLICA-DETERMINATE INVERTERS .................................................................................................................. 2042

Jerónimo Quesada, Fernando Oterino-Echavarri, Jose Miguel Gil-García, Rafael Sebastián, Manuel Castro, Jose Antonio Sainz

AN ENCODERLESS HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTOR DRIVE ................ 2048ÁLvaro Oliveira, Diogo Cavaleiro, Ricardo Branco, Hazem Hadla, Sérgio Cruz

CCM FLYBACK CONVERTER USING AN OBSERVER-BASED DIGITAL CONTROLLER .......................... 2056Ya Zhang, Marcel Hendrix, Jorge Duarte

DCM DETECTION FOR ON-LINE ADAPTION OF CONTROL PARAMETERS FOR TOTEM-POLE PFC RECTIFIER................................................................................................................................................. 2062

Carsten Henkenius, Norbert Fröhleke, Joachim Böcker, Heiko Figge, Tobias Grote

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CHATTERING FREE SLIDING MODE CONTROL METHOD FOR PMSM SPEED REGULATION SYSTEM........................................................................................ 2069

Huiming Wang, Shihua Li, Zhenhua Zhao

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF LI-ION BATTERY CHARGER USING STATE-OF-CHARGE ESTIMATION WITH FUZZY TEMPERATURE CONTROL................................................................ 2075

Yu Shan Cheng, Chung Ming Young, Yi Hua Liu, Guan Jhu Chen, Zong Zhen Yang

DESIGN CONSIDERATION OF HIGH PERFORMANCE DIGITAL CONTROL DC-DC CONVERTER BASED ON FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS ........................................................................... 2080

Yudai Furukawa, Fujio Kurokawa

DYNAMIC CONTROL OF A DUAL ACTIVE BRIDGE FOR BIDIRECTIONAL AC CHARGING .................. 2085Martin Rosekeit, Christoph van der Broeck, Rik W. De Doncker

H-INFINITY SIMULTANEOUS ADMITTANCE AND TRACKING CURRENT CONTROLLER OF THREE-PHASE ACTIVE GRID FRONT-ENDS.................................................................................................. 2092

Jorge Pérez Morales, Santiago Cóbreces, Francisco Javier Rodríguez, Robert Griñó

IMPLEMENTATION OF A SPACE VECTOR MODULATION FOR AN ADVANCED ANPC THREE LEVEL INVERTER ......................................................................................................................................... 2098

Jan Fuhrmann, Hans-Guenter Eckel

MODEL-BASED LOSS MINIMIZATION CONTROL OF INTERIOR PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS.......................................................................................................................................... 2104

Chi Dung Nguyen, Wilfried Hofmann

MODERN DESIGN OF CLASSICAL CONTROLLERS: DIGITAL PI CONTROLLERS .................................... 2112Ivan D. Diaz-Rodriguez, Shankar P. Bhattacharyya

MULTISAMPLED AVERAGE CURRENT CONTROL OF SWITCHING POWER CONVERTERS................. 2120Javier Calvente, Harrynson Ramirez-Murillo, Enric Vidal-Idiarte, Carlos Restrepo, Roberto Giral

REAL TIME EFFICIENCY OBSERVOR OF INDUCTION MOTOR UNDER A MODEL CONSIDERING IRON LOSS ........................................................................................................................................ 2125

Xiaozhong Liao, Wenjun Zhu

ROBUST BACKSTEPPING TRACKING CONTROLLER FOR LOW SPEED PMSM POSITIONING SYSTEM: DESIGN, ANALYSIS, AND IMPLEMENTATION ...................................................... 2131

Jesús Linares-Flores, Carlos García-Rodríguez, Hebertt Sira-Ramírez, Oscar Ramírez-Cárdenas

VOLTAGE SATURATION ANTI-WINDUP FOR HARMONIC CONTROLLERS IN MULTIPLE REFERENCE FRAMES ................................................................................................................................................. 2139

Miguel Ochoa-Gimenez, Salvatore D'Arco, Jon Are Suul

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS FOR EMBEDDED INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS A COMPARISON BETWEEN CONFIGURATION STRATEGIES FOR IEEE 802.15.4 LOW-LATENCY NETWORKS ............................................................................................................................................... 2148

Luca Dariz, Massimiliano Ruggeri, Carlo Ferraresi

A NEW VEHICLE-TO-GRID SYSTEM FOR BATTERY CHARGING EXPLOITING IOT PROTOCOLS .................................................................................................................................................................. 2154

Peter Chu, Alessio Fachechi, Rajit Gadh, Luca Mainetti, Luca Palano, Luigi Patrono, Maria Laura Stefanizzi, Roberto Vergallo

A WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORK BASED ON DYNAMIC POWER CONTROL AND OPPORTUNISTIC PACKET SCHEDULING MECHANISMS ................................................................................ 2160

Duarte Fernandes, André Ferreira, José Mendes, Jorge Cabral

AN ENERGY AWARE DESIGN FLOW OF DISTRIBUTED INDUSTRIAL WIRELESS SENSOR AND ACTUATOR NETWORKS .................................................................................................................................. 2166

Reza Abrishambaf, Jorge Cabral, João Monteiro, Mert Bal

ASSESSMENT OF WIRELESSHART NETWORKS IN CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL SYSTEM........................ 2172Ivanovitch Silva, Anderson Silva, Daniel Lopes, Julio Cesar, Layon Luciano, Luiz Affonso Guedes, Adriao Neto

BLE LOCALIZATION USING RSSI MEASUREMENTS AND IRINGLA ............................................................. 2178Adel Thaljaoui, Thierry Val, Nejah Nasri, Damien Brulin

EFFICIENT I/O JOINING AND RELIABLE DATA PUBLICATION IN ENERGY HARVESTED ISA100.11A NETWORK ................................................................................................................................................ 2184

Kallol Das, Emi Mathews, Pouria Zand, Andrea Sanchez Ramirez, Paul Havinga

GREENMON: AN EFFICIENT WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK MONITORING SOLUTION FOR GREENHOUSES ................................................................................................................................................... 2192

Tiago Gomes, João Brito, Henrique Abreu, Hugo Gomes, Jorge Cabral

TOWARDS INDUSTRIAL INTERNET OF THINGS: AN EFFICIENT AND INTEROPERABLE COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK .......................................................................................................................... 2198

Jens Eliasson, Jerker Delsing, Hasan Derhamy, Zoran Salcic, Kevin Wang

WIRELESS PULSE ECHO INTERROGATION OF AN AC ELECTRIC POTENTIAL RESONATOR SENSOR ................................................................................................................................................. 2205

Mana Yazdani, Douglas Thomson, Behzad Kordi

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK-BASED REMOTE DIESEL-LEVEL MONITORING SYSTEM................... 2209Ijeoma Okeke, Abu Eyo Abu, Raphael Eze, Obianuju Ezeanyagu

PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR POWER CONVERTERS AND DRIVES A FINITE CONTROL SET MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL BASED HYBRID PWM TECHNIQUE................................................................................................................................................................... 2218

Martin Gendrin, Jean-Yves Gauthier, Xuefang Lin-Shi

A MODULATED MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL SCHEME FOR A TWO-LEVEL VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER..................................................................................................................................................... 2224

Marco Rivera, Fernando Morales, Luca Tarisciotti, Pericle Zanchetta, Patrick Wheeler, Carlos Baier, Javier Munoz

A PREDICTIVE DIRECT POWER CONTROL APPLIED TO THE DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR UNDER VOLTAGE DIP ...................................................................................................................... 2230

Rodrigo Andreoli de Marchi, Edson Bim

AN AC-DC CONVERTER WITH TRAPEZOIDAL PREDICTIVE CONTROLLER FOR WIRELESS ELECTRIC VEHICLE APPLICATIONS............................................................................................... 2236

Jazmin Ramirez-Hernandez, Ismael Araujo-Vargas, Marco-Esteban Rivera-Abarca

COMPENSATION OF DEAD TIME EFFECT FOR SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER.................................... 2241Artur Cichowski, Wojciech Sleszynski, Janusz Nieznanski, Pawel Szczepankowski

CONTROL OF SWITCHED-INDUCTOR QUASI Z-SOURCE INVERTER (SL-QZSI) BASED ON MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL TECHNIQUE (MPC)........................................................................................ 2248

Abualkasim B, Mohamed Ismeil, Mohamed Orabi, Ralph Kennel

DISCRETE-TIME SLIDING MODE CONTROL SYSTEM OF THE GRID-CONNECTED DOUBLY FED INDUCTION GENERATOR AT LOW SAMPLING FREQUENCY ............................................. 2254

Senad Huseinbegovic, Branislava Perunicic, Semsudin Masic, Dargo Dolinar

FINITE CONTROL SET MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL WITH REDUCED SWITCHING FREQUENCY APPLIED TO MULTI-CELL RECTIFIERS ..................................................................................... 2261

Eduardo Espinosa, Jose Espinoza, Jaime Rohten, Jose Silva, Javier Muñoz, Pedro Melin

HYBRID CURRENT CONTROL TECHNIQUE APPLIED TO GRID CONNECTED INVERTERS .................. 2268André Andreta, Marcio Ortmann, Marcelo Heldwein

INDIRECT POWER CONTROL OF A DFIG USING MODEL-BASED PREDICTIVE ROTOR CURRENT CONTROL WITH AN INDIRECT MATRIX CONVERTER ............................................................... 2275

Alejandro Olloqui, Jose Luis Elizondo, Marco Rivera, Manuel Macias, Osvaldo Micheloud, Ruben Pena, Patrick Wheeler

INVESTIGATION ON MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A FIVE-PHASE PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MACHINE UNDER VOLTAGE AND CURRENT LIMITS .................................... 2281

Xavier Kestelyn, Oleg Gomozov, Jérôme Buire, Frédéric Colas, NgacKy Nguyen, Eric Semail

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF FOUR-LEG THREE-LEVEL FLYING CAPACITOR CONVERTER OPERATING AS SHUNT ACTIVE POWER. ................................................................................... 2288

Kamil Antoniewicz, Marek Jasinski, Marian Piotr Kazmierkowski

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF INTERLEAVED BOOST CONVERTERS FOR SYNCHRONOUS GENERATOR WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS .................................................... 2295

Matias Aguirre, Samir Kouro, Jose Rodriguez, Haitham Abu-Rub

MODEL PREDICTIVE CURRENT CONTROL OF VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS WITH BACK-EMF ESTIMATION VIA SYNCHRONOUS REFERENCE FRAME OBSERVER ................................... 2302

Vlatko Miskovic, Vladimir Blasko, Thomas Jahns, Robert Lorenz

ONLINE MODEL PREDICTIVE TORQUE CONTROL FOR PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS.......................................................................................................................................... 2308

Gionata Cimini, Daniele Bernardini, Alberto Bemporad, Stephen Levijoki

OPTIMIZED CURRENT REFERENCE GENERATION FOR SYSTEM-LEVEL HARMONIC MITIGATION IN A DIESEL-ELECTRICSHIP USING NON-LINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL ....................................................................................................................................................................... 2314

Espen Skjong, Marta Molinas, Tor Arne Johansen

PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A THREE-PHASE POWER CONVERTER COUPLED WITH LCL FILTER ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2322

Julio Viola, Jose Restrepo, Flavio Quizhpi, José M. Aller

PREDICTIVE DIRECT POWER CONTROL FOR GRID CONNECTED POWER CONVERTERS WITH DC-LINK VOLTAGE DYNAMIC REFERENCE DESIGN ........................................................................... 2327

Sergio Vazquez, Abraham Marquez, Ricardo P. Aguilera, Daniel E. Quevedo, Jose I. Leon, Leopoldo G. Franquelo

PREDICTIVE FLUX AND TORQUE CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE UNDER POST-FAULT OPERATION OF TWO-LEVEL VOLTAGE INVERTER............................................................... 2333

Piotr Sobanski, Teresa Orlowska-Kowalska

PREDICTIVE SENSORLESS CONTROL OF INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES .................................................... 2339Yaman Zbede, Shady Gadoue, Dave Atkinson, Mohammed Elgendy

TRANSIENT TRAJECTORY CONTROL OF PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES WITH NONLINEAR MAGNETICS ...................................................................................................... 2345

Jan Richter, Philipp Bäuerle, Tobias Gemassmer, Martin Doppelbauer

VARIABLE SWITCHING POINT PREDICTIVE TORQUE CONTROL WITH EXTENDED PREDICTION HORIZON.............................................................................................................................................. 2352

Ilias Alevras, Petros Karamanakos, Stefanos Manias, Ralph Kennel

VOLTAGE PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR MICROGRIDS IN ISLANDED MODE BASED ON FOURIER TRANSFORM .............................................................................................................................................. 2358

Felix Garcia-Torres, Carlos Bordons, Sergio Vazquez

NEW TRENDS IN ELECTRICAL PROTECTION OVERCURRENT PROTECTION ADJUSTMENT WHEN CONNECTING SYNCHRONOUS GENERATION TO POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS...................................................................................................... 2368

Vladislav Samoylenko, Olga Korkunova, Andrew Pazderin, Nicolas Novikov

TOWARD AN ADAPTIVE PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR THE DISTRIBUTION GRID BY USING THE IEC 61850................................................................................................................................................................ 2374

Davide Della Giustina, Amelia Alvarez de Sotomayor, Francisco Ramos, Alessio Dedè

SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION A SYNTHESIS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF EXPERT SYSTEMS IN INVENTORY MANAGEMENT ............................................................................................................................................................. 2382

Claudiu L. Stoia, Ioan M. Achim

ENERGY BIDDING IN A DAY-AHEAD ELECTRICITY MARKET USING FUZZY OPTIMIZATION ............................................................................................................................................................ 2388

Muhammad Ijaz, Muhammad Faraz Sahito, Ali T. Al-Awami

IMPROVING ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION PERFORMANCE THROUGH PREDICTION OF BEST TERMINATION CONDITION .......................................................................................................................... 2394

Marco Veluscek

MIXED INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR INTEGRATING CELL FORMATION, GROUP LAYOUT AND GROUP SCHEDULING ........................................................................... 2403

Sherif Fahmy

UBIQUITOUS AND PERVASIVE INDUSTRIES A DEVELOPER AND A REFERENCE BOARD FOR DISTRIBUTED MOTION EVALUATION IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS ............................................................................................................................. 2412

Marco Ziegert, Norman Dziengel, Martin Seiffert, Stefan Pfeiffer, Jochen Schiller

GEOLOCATION AND MONITORING PLATFORM FOR EXTENSIVE FARMING IN MOUNTAIN PASTURES ............................................................................................................................................... 2420

Alvaro Llaria, Guillaume Terrasson, Harbil Arregui, Amélie Hacala

KALIMUCHO FOR SMART-* ONE STEP TOWARDS ETERNAL APPLICATIONS......................................... 2426Riadh Karchoud, Philippe Roose, Marc Dalmau, Inès De Courchelle, Pierre Dibon

REACTOR: A MIDDLEWARE AS A SERVICE TO INTERACT WITH OBJECTS REMOTELY .................... 2433Diogo Telmo Neves, Mário Santos, Mário Pinto

INTEROPERABILITY OF SMART GRIDS SYSTEMS ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR NOVEL DIGITAL PID CONTROL SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY ........................................................................................................................................................................... 2444

Yudai Furukawa, Fujio Kurokawa

ENHANCEMENT OF OPENADR COMMUNICATION FOR FLEXIBLE FAST ADR AGGREGATION USING TRAP MECHANISM OF IEEE1888 PROTOCOL ........................................................ 2450

Chuzo Ninagawa, Takahiro Iwahara, Keita Suzuki

EVALUATION OF OSGI-BASED ARCHITECTURES FOR CUSTOMER ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS.......................................................................................................................................... 2455

Mike Pichler, Armin Veichtlbauer, Dominik Engel

IEC 61850 BASED SMART GRID SECURITY ........................................................................................................... 2461Ahmed Elgargouri, Reino Virrankoski, Mohammed Elmusrati

WAVE AND TIDAL ELECTRICAL ENERGY PRODUCTION ADVANCING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER ARRAY-TO-GRID TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS .................... 2476

Annette von Jouanne, Ted Brekken, Eduardo Cotilla-Sanchez, Ean Amon, Alex Yokochi

COMPARISON OF PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS AND INDUCTION GENERATOR FOR A TIDAL CURRENT CONVERSION SYSTEM WITH ONSHORE CONVERTERS .................................. 2481

Marios Charilaos Sousounis, Jonathan K.H. Shek, Richard Crozier, Markus A. Mueller

DEVELOPMENT OF A LABORATORY TEST BENCH FOR THE EMULATION OF WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS.............................................................................................................................................. 2487

Marcos Blanco, Pablo Moreno-Torres, Marcos Lafoz, Maria Beloqui, Ana Castiella

LABORATORY TESTS BEFORE SEA TRIALS OF A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER .................................... 2493Marcos Lafoz, Marcos Blanco, Gustavo Navarro, Pablo Moreno-Torres, Cristina Vázquez, Antonio Lázaro

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF THE FULL SCALE ISWEC SYSTEM........................................................ 2499Giovanni Bracco, Ermanno Giorcelli, Giuseppe Giorgi, Giuliana Mattiazzo, Biagio Passione, Mattia Raffero, Giacomo Vissio

SEA WAVE GENERATION: GENERATOR ARRAYS COMBINED WITH VOC CONVERTER FOR EFFICIENT ENERGY CONVERSION IN ITALIAN SEAS ............................................................................ 2506

Giambattista Gruosso, Qi Zhou, Silvia Bozzi, Giuseppe Passoni

MODELING AND MODEL-BASED CONTROL DESIGN OF SWITCH-MODE CONVERTERS A NEW 7L-PUC MULTI-CELLS MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER FOR AC-AC AND AC-DC APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................... 2514

Mohammad Sleiman, Handy Fortin Blanchette, Kamal Al-Haddad, Luc-André Grégoire, Hadi Kanaan

ENHANCED AVERAGE MODEL FOR CURRENT SOURCE CONVERTER HYBRID SIMULATIONS............................................................................................................................................................... 2520

Juan Manuel Mauricio, Miguel Torres, Carlos Baier, José Silva

HARMONIC MITIGATION USING THREE LEVEL BIDIRECTIONAL NEUTRAL POINT CLAMPED (BNPC) BASED THREE PHASE SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER ............................................... 2526

Mohamed Haddad, Salem Rahmani, Abdelhamid Hamadi, Alireza Javadi, Kamal Al-Haddad

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL OF A VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER WITH COMPENSATION OF DEAD TIME EFFECTS ......................................................................................................... 2532

Alexander Kuznietsov, Sebastian Wolf, Tilman Happek

NUMERICAL STABILITY OF MULTI-RATE SYSTEM USING LYAPUNOV’S THEOREM: APPLIED TO REAL-TIME ........................................................................................................................................... 2537

Luc-André Grégoire, Handy Fortin Blanchette, Mohammad Sleiman, Kamal Al-Haddad

REDUCED-ORDER MODEL OF A HALF-BRIDGE SERIES RESONANT INVERTER FOR POWER CONTROL IN DOMESTIC INDUCTION HEATING APPLICATIONS................................................. 2542

Alberto Dominguez, Luis Angel Barragan, Jose Ignacio Artigas, Aranzazu Otin, Isidro Urriza, Denis Navarro

ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS FOR POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEMS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FOUR BIDIRECTIONAL SPARSE MATRIX CONVERTER TOPOLOGIES FOR WIND POWER APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................ 2552

Catherine Nasr El-Khoury, Hadi Y. Kanaan, Imad Mougharbel, Kamal Al-Haddad

A NEW FIVE-LEVEL BUCK-BOOST ACTIVE RECTIFIER .................................................................................. 2559Hani Vahedi, Philippe-Alexandre Labbé, Hadi Kanaan, Handy Fortin Blanchette, Kamal Al-Haddad

A NOVEL HYBRID DETECTION APPROACH FOR SERIES COMPENSATION UNDER GRID PERTURBATION ........................................................................................................................................................... 2565

Alireza Javadi, Abdelhamid Hamadi, Mohamed Haddad, Salem Rahmani, Kamal Al-Haddad

A REDUCED VOLTAGE TRANSFORMER BASED SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER TOPOLOGY .................................................................................................................................................................... 2571

Anirban Sinha Ray, Avik Bhattacharya

ADVANCED POWER DEVICES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY DAC TO MITIGATE THE EFFECT OF PERIODIC DISTURBANCES ON DRIVE TRAIN USING COLLECTIVE PITCH FOR VARIABLE SPEED WIND TURBINE ....................................................................... 2588

M. Imran Raja, D. M. Akbar Hussain, Mohsen Soltani

E-MAINTENANCE FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEM IN ALGERIA.................................................... 2594Nadia Zenati, Mahfoud Hamidia

GRID INTERACTIVE COMBINED SUPERCAPACITOR/BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM WITH POWER QUALITY FEATURES ..................................................................................................... 2600

Tummuru Narsa Reddy, Mahesh K. Mishra, S. Srinivas

ON A DC MICRO-GRID INCORPORATING WITH ELECTRIC VEHICLE AS MOVABLE ENERGY STORAGE SOURCE .................................................................................................................................... 2606

Chang-Ming Liaw, Kai-Wei Hu

PMSM DRIVE USING SILICON CARBIDE INVERTER: DESIGN,DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ............................................................................................................ 2612

Santosh K Singh, Naresh K Pilli, Florent Guedon, Richard McMahon

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES A HYBRID GENETIC ALGORITHM WITH FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER FOR WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES.......................................................................... 2622

Wei-Cheng Wang, Cheng-Chi Tai, Sheng-Jie Wu, Zih-Yi Liu

ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC PROFIT OF A VEHICLE-TO-GRID STRATEGY FOR CURRENT UNBALANCE MINIMIZATION .................................................................................................................................. 2628

Julian-Alberto Fernandez, Ahmad Hably, Antoneta Iuliana Bratcu

COMPARISON OF A NOVEL MODULAR AND COMPLEMENTARY LINEAR FLUX-SWITCHING PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR WITH DIFFERENT PHASE ARRANGEMENTS................. 2636

Dehong Zhu, Chenpu Shen, Yi Du, T.W. Ching

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE NEEDLE WINDING TECHNOLOGY REGARDING THE INFLUENCE OF THE WIRE GUIDE GEOMETRY ON THE TENSILE WIRE FORCE ............................................................................................................................................................................. 2642

Peer Stenzel, Peter Dollinger, Jan Richnow, Tobias Bader, Joerg Franke, Christian Endisch

MODELING AND TORQUE CONTROL FOR A 4-WHEEL-DRIVE ELECTRIC VEHICLE............................. 2650Carlos Montero, David Marcos, Carlos Bordons, Miguel Ángel Ridao, Eduardo Fernández Camacho, Elena González, Alejandro Oliva

MULTI-PHYSICS OPTIMIZATION OF HIGH POWER DENSITY INDUCTION MACHINES FOR RAILWAY TRACTION DRIVES ........................................................................................................................ 2656

Jan Buschbeck, Markus Vogelsberger, Erich Schmidt, Alexander Orellano, Martin Bazant

NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THE EFFECTS OF PARALLEL INDUCTIVE COILS AND DISTANCE VARIATION ON WIRELESS POWER TRANSFER SYSTEMS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES ....................................................................................................................... 2662

Chia-Jung Chang, Chia-Ming Hung, Cheng-Chi Tai

ON A BATTERY/SUPERCAPACITOR POWERED SRM DRIVE FOR EV WITH INTEGRATED ON-BOARD CHARGER ................................................................................................................................................ 2667

Chang-Ming Liaw, Jr-Jia He, Kai-Wei Hu

OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT AND INTEGRATION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES TO THE GRID: DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING AND GAME THEORY APPROACH ...................................................................... 2673

Andres Ovalle, Ahmad Hably, Seddik Bacha

OPTIMAL SITING AND SIZING OF STATIONARY SUPERCAPACITORS IN A METRO NETWORK USING PSO................................................................................................................................................ 2680

Vito Calderaro, Vincenzo Galdi, Giuseppe Graber, Antonio Piccolo

PLUG-IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE COLLABORATIVE CHARGING FOR CURRENT UNBALANCE MINIMIZATION: ANT SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION APPLICATION .......................................... 2686

Julian-Alberto Fernandez, Seddik Bacha, Delphine Riu, Ahmad Hably

FACTS AND HVDC APPLICATIONS GENERALIZED POWER TRANSMISSION CONTROL OF VSC-BASED MULTI-TERMINAL HVDC SYSTEMS FOR OFFSHORE WIND FARMS INTEGRATION ................................................................... 2696

Hasan Khader, Ahmed Massoud

GENERALIZED SWITCHING FUNCTION MODEL OF MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER.................................................................................................................................................................. 2702

G.P. Adam, B.W Williams

IMPROVEMENT OF SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER COMPENSATION THROUGH SWITCHING OUTPUT REACTANCES...................................................................................................................... 2708

Jesus R. Vazquez, Aranzazu D. Martin, Nicolas M. Garrido

IMPROVEMENT OF THE HVDC LINK PERFORMANCES BASED ON THE PROTECTION FUNCTIONS.................................................................................................................................................................... 2714

Abdelhadi Hameuyrlaine, Zidi S-A, Kouzou Abdellah, Djehaf M A

IMPROVING THE WIND ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM DYNAMICS DURING FAULT RIDE THROUGH: UPFC VERSUS STATCOM ......................................................................................................... 2721

Mohammad Ferdosian, Hamdi Abdi, Ali Bazaei

STUDY OF A STATE-OF-THE ART M-STATCOM ................................................................................................. 2733Syed Ali Kamran, Javier Muñoz

RESILIENT AND STABLE GRID: HOW TO MITIGATE THE INTERMITTENCY OF DISTRIBUTED AND RENEWABLE GENERATION A COMPARISON OF DAY-AHEAD WHOLESALE MARKET: SOCIAL WELFARE VS INDUSTRIAL DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT ...................................................................................................... 2742

Bo Jiang, Amro Farid, Kamal Youcef-Toumi

ANALYSIS OF HEAT STORAGE WITH A THERMOCLINE TANK FOR CONCENTRATED SOLAR PLANTS: APPLICATION TO ANDASOL I ................................................................................................. 2750

Albert Graells Vilella, Serhat Yesilyurt

COST EFFECTIVE SOLAR-BIOGAS HYBRID POWER GENERATION SYSTEM ........................................... 2756Joan D' Rozario, Sabrina Shams, Shahinur Rahman, Ahmed Sharif, Enamul Basher

REAL-TIME CONTROL OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES TO SMOOTH THE PV PRODUCTION FLUCTUATIONS IN A DISTRIBUTION NETWORK .............................................................................................. 2761

Van Linh Nguyen, Tuan Tran-Quoc, Seddik Bacha, Ngoc-An Luu

POWER CONVERSION, CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY A SIMPLIFIED AND UNIFIED SPACE VECTOR PWM ALGORITHM FOR MULTI-LEVEL DIODE CLAMPED VSI ................................................................................................................................................. 2770

Chengzhu Piao, John Y. Hung

ESTIMATION OF PV MODULE PARAMETERS FROM DATASHEET INFORMATION USING OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES ................................................................................................................................. 2777

Mohamed Awadallah, Bala Venkatesh

INVESTMENT RISK ANALYSIS FOR EOLIC POWER PLANTS IN THE FREE CONTRACTING ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................................................................ 2783

Daywes Pinheiro Neto, Elder Geraldo Domingues, Wesley Pacheco Calixto, Aylton José Alves, Rodrigo Alves Lima

MULTIOBJECTIVE SWITCHING DEVICES PLACEMENT CONSIDERING ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINS IN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS WITH DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES ................................................................................................................................................. 2789

António Pombo, João Murta-Pina, Victor Pires

NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE SPEED TRACKING CONTROLLER FOR WIND TURBINES....................................................................................................................................................................... 2794

M. Bin Thabit, Z. Al-Hamouz, H. Al-Duwaish

RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION FOR A BETTER INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES AND THE IMPROVED QUALITY OF ENERGY SUPPLY THROUGH STORAGE IN ISOLATED POWER SYSTEMS......................................................................................................................................................... 2806

Juan Fernando Figueras Torres, Leopoldo Acosta Sánchez

SIMULATION OF A RECTIFIER MALFUNCTION ON A OFFSHORE WIND SYSTEM WITH HVDC TRANSMISSION................................................................................................................................................ 2812

Rui Melício, Mafalda Seixas, Victor Mendes, Carlos Couto

THE DC BEHAVIOURAL ELECTROTHERMAL MODEL OF SILICON CARBIDE POWER MOSFETS UNDER SPICE ............................................................................................................................................ 2818

Abderrazak Lakrim, Driss Tahri

GRID-CONNECTED PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS A HYBRID ACTIVE ISLANDING DETECTION TECHNIQUE FOR SINGLE-PHASE INVERTER-BASED DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEM. ............................................................................. 2828

Nimish Kothari, B. G. Fernandes

A TRANSFORMERLESS GRID CONNECTED INVERTER FOR SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS HAVING CAPABILITY TO NEGOTIATE DC LOADS......................................................................... 2835

Dipankar Debnath, Kishore Chatterjee

MPPT ALGORITHMS COMPARISON IN PV SYSTEMS. P&O, PI, NEURO-FUZZY AND BACKSTEPPING CONTROLS..................................................................................................................................... 2841

Aranzazu D. Martin, Jesus R. Vazquez

MULTILEVEL OPERATION OF A PV FED GRID CONNECTED CURRENT FED INVERTER UNDER EQUAL AND UNEQUAL DC LINK CURRENTS ....................................................................................... 2848

Chakravartula Anandababu, T. Chakridhar Reddy, B. G. Fernandes

NON-LINEAR CONTROL OF A GRID-CONNECTED MULTI-CELL PHOTOVOLTAIC INVERTER THAT OPERATES UNDER VARIABLE TEMPERATURE AND IRRADIANCE ........................... 2855

Miguel Torres, Carlos Baier, Juan M. Mauricio, José Silva

ONLINE MONITORING OF POWER EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY FOR MINIMIZING PAYBACK PERIOD OF SOLAR PV SYSTEM .......................................................................................................... 2863

Abhinav Arya, Waseem Ahmad, Sandeep Anand

OPTIMAL SIZING OF A GRID-CONNECTED MICROGRID................................................................................ 2869LUU Ngoc An, TRAN Quoc Tuan, Seddik Bacha, NGUYEN Van Linh

VOLTAGE UNBALANCE MITIGATION IN LV NETWORKS USING THREE-PHASE PV SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2875

Cristina García Bajo, Seyedmostafa Hashemi, Kjar Soren Bakhoj, Guangya Yang, Jacob ØStergaard

INTEGRATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES INTO SMART GRIDS ANALYSIS OF VARIATIONS ON PV PRODUCTION FOCUSED ON STORAGE AND DISPATCHABILITY DECISIONS ............................................................................................................................... 2884

Isabel Santiago Chiquero, David Trillo Montero, Juan Jesús Luna Rodríguez, Rafael Jesús Real Calvo, Antonio Moreno Muñoz

CODE DEVELOPMENT OF A DSP-FPGA BASED CONTROL PLATFORM FOR POWER ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................... 2890

Víctor Miñambres-Marcos, Indrek Roasto, Pawe- Szczepankowski, Enrique Romero-Cadaval, Dmitri Vinnikov, Fermín Barrero-González

GALVANICALLY ISOLATED QUASI-Z-SOURCE DC-DC CONVERTERS WITH COMBINED ENERGY TRANSFER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES INTEGRATION............................................. 2896

Andrii Chub, Dmitri Vinnikov, Tanel Jalakas

GRID-CONNECTED PV ARRAY WITH SUPERCAPACITOR ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR FAULT RIDE THROUGH.................................................................................................................................... 2901

Muhammed Y. Worku, Mohammad A. Abido

HARDWARE METHODS FOR DETECTING GLOBAL MAXIMUM POWER POINT IN A PV POWER PLANT.............................................................................................................................................................. 2907

Radoslaw Kot, Sebastian Stynski, Mariusz Malinowski

IMPLEMENTATION OF A REAL TIME MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A GRID-CONNECTED PV PARK ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2915

Isabel María Moreno, Víctor Pallarés López, Miguel Jesús González Redondo, Jesús Manuel López-López, Marta Varo Martínez, Isabel Santiago Chiquero

MULTI-VARIABLE H-INFINITY ROBUST CONTROL APPLIED TO PRIMARY FREQUENCY REGULATION IN MICRO-GRIDS WITH LARGE INTEGRATION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY SOURCE ........................................................................................................................................................ 2921

Quang Linh Lam, Delphine Riu, Antoneta Iuliana Bratcu, Jiravan Mongkoltanatas

PHOTOVOLTAIC GRID-CONNECTED OUTDOOR LED LIGHTING WITH ZERO ENERGY CONSUMPTION............................................................................................................................................................. 2929

Yevgen Sokol, Aleksandr Eresko, Vladimir Zamaruiev, Sergey Krivosheev, Vladimir Ivakhno, Ievgen Maliarenko

QUASI-Z-SOURCE HALF-BRIDGE DC-DC CONVERTER FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 2935

Dmitri Vinnikov, Andrii Chub, Oleksandr Husev, Janis Zakis

SECOND LIFE BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM FOR RESIDENTIAL DEMAND RESPONSE SERVICE ................................................................................................................................................... 2941

Andoni Saez-de-Ibarra, Egoitz Martinez-Laserna, Cosmin Koch-Ciobotaru, Pedro Rodriguez, Daniel-Ioan Stroe, Maciej Swierczynski

SIMULATION STUDY OF THE GRID-CONNECTED SINGLE-PHASE IMPEDANCE SOURCE NPC INVERTER WITH DIFFERENT CONTROL METHODS ............................................................................... 2949

Carlos Roncero-Clemente, Oleksandr Husev, Enrique Romero-Cadaval, Janis Zakis, Dmitri Vinnikov, María Isabel Milanés-Montero

SMART GRIDS POWER QUALITY ANALYSIS BASED IN CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUES AND HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICS: PROPOSAL FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS ................................... 2955

José Carlos Palomares-Salas, Juan José González de la Rosa, Agustín Agüera-Pérez, José María Sierra-Fernández

SERVICE-ORIENTED AND AGENT-BASED APPROACHES IN INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION A SERVICE-ORIENTED APPROACH TO EMBEDDED COMPONENT-BASED MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION.......................................................................................................................... 2964

Navjot Kaur, Robert Harrison, Andrew A. West

APPLYING PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS CONCEPTS FOR EVENT-BASED INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................................................................... 2970

Petr Kadera, Pavel Vrba, Stefan Biffl, Filip Andrén, Thomas Strasser

RUNTIME INTEGRATION OF INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION SYSTEM TOOLS BASED ON ENGINEERING SERVICE BUS ................................................................................................................................... 2976

Petr Novak, Richard Mordinyi

SIMULATING SMART GRID USING A TWO-LAYER MULTI-AGENT FRAMEWORK ................................. 2982Adriano Ferreira, Paulo Leitão, Pavel Vrba

STANDARDIZATION IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS: THE ARUM CASE ................................................... 2988Paulo Leitao, José Barbosa, Maria-Eleftheria Ch. Papadopoulou, Iakovos S. Venieris

TOOL FOR VISUAL DIFFERENCE DISPLAY OF PROGRAMS IN IEC 61131-3 LADDER DIAGRAMS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2994

Miroslav Nedved, Pavel Vrba, Marek Obitko

UNIFIED REST-API FOR SUPPORTING THE UI INTEGRATION IN THE ESB-BASED ENVIRONMENT FOR PRODUCTION PLANNING AND SCHEDULING ............................................................ 3000

Pavel Vrba, Ondrej Harcuba

MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS: TOPOLOGIES, CONTROL, MODULATION AND APPLICATIONS A HYBRID MULTILEVEL INVERTER SCHEME FOR INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES AND GRID-TIED APPLICATIONS USING A SINGLE DC-LINK ................................................................................... 3010

Sudharshan Kaarthik, Gopakumar K, Roshan Kumar, Jose Leon, Leopoldo Franquelo

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE ESTIMATION IN MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS USING A KALMAN FILTER ALGORITHM ........................................................................................................................... 3016

Osama Abushafa, Shady Gadoue, Mohamed Dahidah, David Aktinson

CAPACITOR VOLTAGE RIPPLE MINIMIZATION IN MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS ............................................................................................................................................................... 3022

Marcelo A. Perez, Steffen Bernet

CARRIER OVERLAPPED PWM SWITCHING SCHEMES FOR A CASCADED THREE LEVEL VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER ................................................................................................................................ 3028

Hridya I, Srirama Srinivas

COMMUNICATIONS SCHEME OF A MODULAR POWER CONVERSION SYSTEM ..................................... 3034Abraham Marquez, Jose I. Leon, Sergio Vazquez, Leopoldo G. Franquelo

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THREE-LEVEL CONVERTERS USING 4.5 KV, 1.2 KA IGBT MODULES. ........................................................................................................................................................... 3040

Alan Wilson, Steffen Bernet

CONTROL OF HVDC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM BASED ON MMC WITH THREE LEVEL FLYING CAPACITOR SUBMODULE ........................................................................................................................ 3046

Ricardo Lizana, Apparao Dekka, Bin Wu, Marcelo Perez

DEFINING THE EXACT NUMBER OF TRANSITIONS IN FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY MODULATED MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTERS................................................................................... 3052

Georgios Konstantinou, Rosheila Darus, Josep Pou, Salvador Ceballos, Vassilios Agelidis

EFFICIENCY COMPARISON BETWEEN SIC- AND SI-BASED ACTIVE NEUTRAL-POINT CLAMPED CONVERTERS .......................................................................................................................................... 3058

Joan Nicolas-Apruzzese, Enrique Maset, Sergio Busquets-Monge, Vicente Esteve, Josep Bordonau, Alejandro Calle-Prado, José Jordán

IMPLEMENTATION OF FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL FOR MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERTER USING ETHERCAT COMMUNICATION........................................................................................ 3064

Paul Dan Burlacu, Laszlo Mathe, Marcos Rejas, Heverton Pereira, Ariya Sangwongwanich, Remus Teodorescu

MODULAR MULTILEVEL CONVERRTER PASSIVITY-BASED PI CONTROL SUITED FOR BALANCED AND UNBALANCED GRID CONDITIONS......................................................................................... 3072

Gilbert Bergna, Matteo Pirro, Erik Berne, Amir Arzande, Marta Molinas, Romeo Ortega

NONLINEAR CONTROL STRATEGY FOR CURRENT SOURCE CASCADED H-BRIDGE INVERTERS - AN APPROACH CONSIDERING SINGLE-PHASE DQ COMPONENTS.................................... 3079

Carlos R. Baier, Miguel Torres, Javier A. Muñoz, Juan Manuel Mauricio, Marco Rivera, Jaime Rohten

REVIEW OF CURRENT CONTROL TECHNIQUES FOR A CASCADED H-BRIDGE STATCOM ................. 3085Javier Muñoz, Jaime Rohten, Jose Espinoza, Pedro Melin, Carlos Baier, Marco Rivera

SCALAR MODULATION TECHNIQUE APPLIED TO A THREE-LEVEL/-PHASE/-WIRE BACK-TO-BACK CONVERTER SYSTEM WITH REDUCED DC-LINK CAPACITANCE FOR AC DRIVES ............................................................................................................................................................................ 3091

Joabel Moia, Marcelo Heldwein

THE TRANSITION ARM MULTILEVEL CONVERTER - A CONCEPT FOR MEDIUM AND HIGH VOLTAGE DC-DC TRANSFORMERS............................................................................................................ 3099

I. A. Gowaid, G. P. Adam, Barry Williams, A. M. Massoud, S. Ahmed

SMART GREEN SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES ENERGETIC ISLAND DESIGN OPTIMIZATION. A CASE STUDY USING SWEEP PARAMETER SEARCH AND VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH TECHNIQUES ................................. 3108

Manuel Rubio-del-Solar, María Botón-Fernández, Guillermo Díaz-Herrero

ENERGY INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MULTICAST AND CONTENT DISTRIBUTION WITHIN DATA COMMUNICATION NETWORKS .................................................................................................................. 3114

Lisa Durbeck, Peter Athanas, Nicholas Macias

ENERGY-EFFICIENT SIMULATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LARGE-SCALE DATA CENTERS .............................................................................................................................................. 3121

Fotios Liotopoulos, Petros Lampsas

NEAR-OPTIMAL SCHEDULING OF RESIDENTIAL SMART HOME APPLIANCES USING HEURISTIC APPROACH ............................................................................................................................................. 3128

Chris Ogwumike, Michael Short, Mouloud Denai

USING KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY FOR AUTONOMOUS DECISION MAKING IN SMART GRID NODES .................................................................................................................................................................. 3134

Pragya Kirti Gupta, Ann-Katrin Gibtner, Markus Duchon, Dagmar Koss, Bernhard Schaetz

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR NETWORK-BASED CONTROL SYSTEMS EVENT LIFE TIME IN DETECTION OF SEQUENCES OF EVENTS ................................................................... 3144

Rogerio Campos-Rebelo, Anikó Costa, Luis Gomes

RELIABILITY MODELING OF NETWORK FABRIC FAULT-TOLERANT INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................... 3150

Hassan Halawa, Hassanein Amer, Ramez Daoud

ROBOTICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS FOR MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE A FORCE-CONTROLLED PORTRAIT DRAWING ROBOT.................................................................................. 3160

Shubham Jain, Prashant Gupta, Vikash Kumar, Kamal Sharma

A MODULAR AIR-GAP CRAWLER FOR MOTOR AND GENERATOR IN-SITU INSPECTION.................... 3166George Zhang, Greg Rossano, Will Eakins, Tom Fuhlbrigge, Sang Choi, Hetal Lakhani, Cajetan Pinto

AUTOMATED 3D VISION GUIDED BIN PICKING PROCESS FOR RANDOMLY LOCATED INDUSTRIAL PARTS .................................................................................................................................................... 3172

Carlos Martinez, Heping Chen, Remus Boca

BENCHMARK OF ADVANCED STRUCTURAL MATERIALS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN OF INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS .......................................................................................................................................... 3178

Mohammadali Honarpardaz, Arne Trangärd, Boris Shoykhet, Jeroen Derkx, Xiaolong Feng

CABLE ROBOT FOR NON-STANDARD ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION: A DYNAMIC POSITIONING SYSTEM .......................................................................................................................... 3184

Eduardo Moreira, Andry Pinto, Paulo Costa, António Moreira, Germano Veiga, José Lima, José Sousa, Pedro Costa

FORMATION ADAPTATION CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................................................................ 3190

Anh Duc Dang, Joachim Horn

PIECEWISE KINEMATICALLY REDUNDANT PLANAR PARALLEL MANIPULATOR FOR A HYBRID MACHINE TOOL .......................................................................................................................................... 3196

Samy Assal

RESEARCH ON KEY TECHNOLOGY OF FREESTYLE SKIING ROBOT IN THE AID-SLIPPERY STAGE ......................................................................................................................................................... 3202

Zhenyu Wang, Baichun Li, Tianbiao Yu, Wanshan Wang, Jian Li

ROBOT LEARNING FOR COMPLEX MANUFACTURING PROCESS ............................................................... 3207Heping Chen, Binbin Li, Dave Gravel, George Zhang, Biao Zhang

TOWARDS HIGH PERFORMANCE IN PRESS AUTOMATION ........................................................................... 3212Ramon Casanelles, Peter Weber, Diego Vilacoba

FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHODS IN ELECTRIC DRIVES COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT WAVELET FAMILIES FOR BROKEN BAR DETECTION IN INDUCTION MOTORS ................................................................................................................................................. 3220

Jesus Corral-Hernandez, José Antonino-Daviu, Felix Martínez-Giménez, Alfredo Peris-Manguillot

CURRENT VECTOR TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS FOR DIP VOLTAGE FAULT DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION: APPLICATION TO WIND GENERATOR TURBINE ................................................. 3226

Amel Adouni, Demba Diallo, Lassaad Sbita

DIP FAULT DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION TO IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF WIND GENERATOR SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................................ 3232

Amel Adouni, Demba Diallo, Lassaad Sbita

MULTIPLE TRANSISTOR OPEN-CIRCUIT FAULTS DIAGNOSIS IN A VECTOR-CONTROLLED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE......................................................................................................... 3238

Piotr Sobanski, Teresa Orlowska-Kowalska, Czeslaw T. Kowalski

SYMBOLIC TIME SERIES ANALYSIS OF THE SOFT STARTING TRANSIENT IN INDUCTION MACHINES ..................................................................................................................................................................... 3243

Petros Karvelis, George Georgoulas, Chrysostomos Stylios, Jose Alfonso Antonino-Daviu, Ioannis Tsoumas, Jesus Corral Hernandez, George Nikolakopoulos

LIFELONG LEARNING TECHNOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENTS IN ENGINEERING AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGIES ATTRACTING STUDENTS TO ENGINEERING THROUGH AUTONOMOUS SAILING YACHT DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................................................................................ 3252

Luis Gomes, Aniko Costa, Filipe Moutinho, Ricardo Mota

CONTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL FACTORS FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENDER EFFECTS OF FRESHMEN IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING.......................................................... 3258

Denise Gramß, Birgit Vogel-Heuser

DEVELOPMENT AND EXPERIENCE WITH ICT BASED EDUCATION IN SUSTAINABLY ENERGY .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3264

Andreja Rojko, Pavol Bauer, Ondrej Vitek, Petr Prochazka, Ivo Pazdera

ICUE AN OPEN LOW-COST PLATFORM FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION ................................................ 3270Francisco Lopez-Hernandez, Miguel Angel Martinez-Lopez

IMPLEMENTATION OF A LABVIEW-BASED VIRTUAL LABORATORY........................................................ 3274Miquel Àngel Amer Boixareu, Maria Montserrat Cortina Puig, Víctor Martínez Junza, Jordi Cruz Sánchez, Joan Morral Ventura

MOBILE MANIPULATORS FOR MANUFACTURING AUTONOMOUS VIEWING AND GUIDANCE FOR MOBILE PIN WELDING INSIDE A SHIP BLOCK............................................................................................................................................................................. 3282

Iago Vaamonde, Anton Garcia-Diaz, Diego Perez-Losada, ÁLvaro Souto-López

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF A SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR AUTONOMOUS MOBILE MANIPULATORS IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS ........................................................................ 3288

Francesco Rovida, Volker Krüger

DEVELOPMENT OF A 3D MODEL BASED PART RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS: MAIN CHALLENGES ................................................................................................................... 3296

Luis F. Rocha, Pedro Malaca, João Silva, A. Paulo Moreira, Germano Veiga

INTUITIVE TASK PROGRAMMING OF STUD WELDING ROBOTS FOR SHIP CONSTRUCTION........................................................................................................................................................... 3302

Rasmus Skovgaard Andersen, Simon Bøgh, Thomas B. Moeslund, Ole Madsen

ROBUST AND ACCURATE LOCALIZATION SYSTEM FOR MOBILE MANIPULATORS IN CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS................................................................................................................................. 3308

Carlos M. Costa, Héber M. Sobreira, Armando J. Sousa, Germano M. Veiga

TIME ENHANCED A*: TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW APPROACH FOR MULTI-ROBOT COORDINATION ............................................................................................................................. 3314

Joana Santos, Pedro Costa, Luís Rocha, A. Paulo Moreira, Germano Veiga

TOWARDS AN ORIENTATION ENHANCED ASTAR ALGORITHM FOR ROBOTIC NAVIGATION................................................................................................................................................................. 3320

Elisabete Fernandes, Pedro Costa, José Lima, Germano Veiga

MICROSYSTEMS AND MICROFLUIDICS APPLICATIONS A FREQUENCY-OUTPUT TEMPERATURE SENSOR WITH SUPPLY VOLTAGE INSENSITIVITY FOR BATTERY OPERATED SYSTEMS ..................................................................................... 3330

Cristina Azcona, Belén Calvo, Nicolás Medrano, Santiago Celma, Daniel García-Romeo

CONCENTRATION OF BACTERIA IN HIGH CONDUCTIVE MEDIUM USING NEGATIVE DIELECTROPHORESIS ............................................................................................................................................... 3336

Yuki Inoue, Ryoji Obara, Michihiko Nakano, Junya Suehiro

EFFECT OF DNA LENGTH ON DIELECTROPHORETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DNA-LABELED MICROBEADS ............................................................................................................................................ 3341

Hiromichi Kasahara, Zhenhao Ding, Michihiko Nakano, Junya Suehiro

LOW COST MICROFLUIDIC DEVICE FOR PARTIAL CELL SEPARATION: MICROMILLING APPROACH .................................................................................................................................................................... 3347

Raquel Lopes, Raquel Rodrigues, Diana Pinho, Valdemar Garcia, Helmut Schütte, Rui Lima, Stefan Gassmann

MAGNETICALLY-ASSEMBLED IMMUNOISOLATIVE POLYMERIC CELL TRANSPLANTATION DEVICE................................................................................................................................... 3351

Jeong Bong Lee, Joonbum Kwon

MICROFLUIDIC CAPACITIVE TILT SENSOR USING PCB-MEMS ................................................................... 3356Blas Salvador Domínguez, Antonio Luque Estepa, José M. Quero Reboul

MULTIPHYSICS MODELLING OF A RESISTIVE POLYMERIC SENSOR FOR VOC..................................... 3361Jesús García-Guzmán, Adriana Mendoza-Gutiérrez, Jorge A. Vélez-Enríquez, Farah Villa-López, Alfredo Ramirez-Ramirez

PCB BASED MICRO FLUIDIC SYSTEM FOR THERMAL CYCLING OF SEAWATER SAMPLES ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3365

Stefan Gassmann, Alina Trozjuk, Jaron Singhal, Helmut Schuette, Mario L. Miranda, Oliver Zielinski

STABILITY CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE PUREB SI-PHOTODIODES UNDER AGGRESSIVE CLEANING TREATMENT IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS ................................... 3370

Vahid Mohammadi, Lei Shi, Udo Kroth, Christian Laubis, Stoyan Nihtianov

SUB-MA CURRENT MEASUREMENT BY MEANS OF GMR SENSORS AND STATE OF THE ART LOCK-IN AMPLIFIERS ...................................................................................................................................... 3377

Daniel García-Romeo, Nicolás Medrano, Belén Calvo, Pedro A. Martínez, María Dolores Cubells-Beltrán, Candid Reig, Susana Cardoso, Paulo de Freitas

LOCAL POSITIONING AND ACTIVITY MONITORING IN MANUFACTURING ENVIRONMENTS A ROBUST UWB INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR HIGHLY COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 3386

Enrique García, Pablo Poudereux, ÁLvaro Hernández, Jesús Ureña, David Gualda

AN OPTIMIZATION ALGORTIHM FOR RELATIVE POSITIONING SYSTEMS BASED ON HARMONY SEARCH .................................................................................................................................................... 3392

Carlos De Marziani, Romulo Alcoleas, Santiago Murano, Martin Colombo, José Gallardo, Alejandro Colombo, Jorge Pires

ANALYSIS OF THE PERCEPTUAL IMPACT OF HIGH FREQUENCY AUDIO PULSES IN SMARTPHONE-BASED POSITIONING SYSTEMS ................................................................................................. 3398

Sérgio I. Lopes, José M. N. Vieira, Daniel F. Albuquerque

CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NEAR-FAR PROBLEM IN A CDMA-BASED ACOUSTIC LOCALIZATION SYSTEM .......................................................................................................................................... 3404

Teodoro Aguilera, Fernando J. ÁLvarez, Almudena Sánchez, Daniel F. Albuquerque, Jose M. N. Vieira, Sérgio I. Lopes

EVALUATION OF AHRS ALGORITHMS FOR INERTIAL PERSONAL LOCALIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS ................................................................................................................................ 3412

Estefania Muñoz Díaz, Antonio R. Jimenez Ruiz, Fabian de Ponte Muller, Francisco Zampella Mendez

FINE-GRAINED ACOUSTIC POSITIONING WITH COMPENSATION OF CDMA INTERFERENCE ........................................................................................................................................................... 3418

Fernando Seco, Antonio R. Jiménez, Francisco Zampella

LOCATION AWARE WEB: CONCEPT, PROTOCOL AND SYSTEM .................................................................. 3424Santiago Tapia-Fernández, Fernando Seco, Antonio R. Jiménez, Eduardo Rodríguez, Juan Velázquez

LOW-COST BLUETOOTH FOOT-MOUNTED IMU FOR PEDESTRIAN TRACKING IN INDUSTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS ................................................................................................................................ 3430

Alfonso Bahillo, Ignacio Angulo, Enrique Onieva, Asier Perallos, Patricia Fernández

SENSOR DEPLOYMENT FOR MOTION TRAJECTORY TRACKING WITH A GENETIC ALGORITHM ................................................................................................................................................................. 3435

Francisco Domingo-Perez, Jose-Luis Lazaro-Galilea, Ernesto Martin-Gorostiza, Ignacio Bravo, David Salido-Monzu, Felix Govaers, Alvaro Llana

ULTRASONIC LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEM FOR MOBILE ROBOT NAVIGATION: FROM LOW TO HIGH LEVEL PROCESSING...................................................................................................................... 3440

Jesús Ureña, ÁLvaro Hernández, David Gualda, Enrique García, José M. Villadangos, M. Carmen Pérez, Juan C. García, J. Jesús García, Ana Jiménez

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